The Holly chieftain., 1897-11-26
MISCELLANEOUS,

'O thN MENI 1 oInCerS captured 10 IL
licit distillcrs in Scott county, Ark,
the other day and destroyed four stills
and about 1000 gallons of whisky and
beer.
TIE Thcosuphists of San Francisco
a tenet of the faith of whom is that
capital punishment is wrong, are get
ting up petition praying Gov. Budd
to commute the punishment of TheO-
dore Durrant, under sentence of death
for the murder of Blanche Lamont, to
life imprisonment
A SPECIAL from WilIiamsport. Pa,
on the I'D said that the American
Wood Working Machinery company
had been organized which would CON
troll IA concerns manufacturing seven
eights of the wood working machinery
produced in the United States. The
capital Of the organization is S.. 500, 900
Mr. JoHS BURsEMAS, his wife and u
child were driving across the Nickel
Plate railway at C!aypool, Ind, when
they were run down by train and
killed
THE postmaster general Is receiving
many letters regarding his proposition
for postal savings banks. AS a whole,
they indicate a general commcndation
of the plan.
An outbreak seems imminent at the
Atlantic mine, near IIoughton, Mich.
The company has - Italians on the
ground ready TO take the places of the
striking Fins and the latter announce
that bloodshed will ensue at the first
attempt TO set them at work
THE Methodist Episcopal church
congress began a six days session at
Pittsburgh, Pa, ON the 2lst. The
meeting was called to consider mo-
mentous questions of religion.
FOKrY-EIGHT men from the interior
of Austria, who were arrested in the
swamps of Mississippi on the charge of
violating the alien labor contract law,
were taken to baltimore, Md. on the
2lst to be sent back to Bremen on the
first ship.
AT Mount Vernon, N. Y, place OF
5000 inhabitants, the gas company
sent unrefned gas through its mains
the other night which permeated many
houses and dozens of people became
unconscious and were revived with
difficulty.
THE widow of Alexander Coudot. one
of the men lynched at Williamsport,
\. D., u short time ago, has brought
suit for $50, 900 in the federal court
against Emmons county for the lynch
ing of her husband. The widow is
full blooded Indian.
Is the football game between the
Pennsylvania and Harvard university
teams at Philadelphia on the Goth the
score was: Pennsylvania, Is; lIar-
ward, 9.
A FARMER who had recently sold ont
and was on his way to Missouri in a
wagon was held up by two women on
horseback near Hay Springs, Neb.
While they were parleying with him a
man crept up behind the farmer,
knocked him insensible and robbed
him of $500.
A DESPERATE fight occurred at Ba-
you Lacombe, La, between Arthur and
Edward Jolie on one side and Law
renee and Edward Cousin on the
other. which resulted in the killing of
all the parties concerned. The cause
of the difficulty was an old family
fcud.
JOHN BEATTY, wealthy farmer near
Oklahoma City, Ok, was found dead
in his bed, having been choled to
death. The murder was supposed to
have been the result of feud engen-
dered over a contest for n homestead.
For the brutal murder of his para
mour, Venie Bell, George Western,
alias Devil Winston, colored, was
hanged at Paducah, Ky, on the 10Th.
He met his death without quiver,
warning all people, black and white,
to beware of bad company and whisky.
A MOST disastrous confiagration oc.
Cured in London on the 10th, 80 large
warehouses being gutted, according to
the official report. The damage was
estimated at s25, ,00o, 900 Nearly all
the British insurance companies were
involved in the fire and fire insurance
shares were practically unstable on
the stock exchange on the 10th.
COMBINATION of enameled ware
plants has been formed with capital
of SIS, 200, OOo f. G. Niedringhaus, OF
st. Louis, will be president of the huge
concern.
THE conferences of the general Off
GERS of the national w. C. Z. u. held Mt
Chicago have been closed. The key
note of the work for this year, it was
announced, is statutory prohibition
in the states"
The boiler in Milton Artley's wood
working factory at Carleton, Mich,
exploded the other morning, killing
the fireman and iniuring three other
men. The explosion wrecked the fac.
tory and shook every building in town.
THE Anchor line steamer Buff City,
which left st. Louis for New Orleans
with 40 passengers and 1000 tons OF
freight on board, was burned to the
waters ndge at Chester, Ill. All the
passengers and crew escaped to land
without injury, but nothing on board
was saved. The loss will aggregate
100000. A number of valuable race
horses were burned on board the boat.
Two brothers. George and Homer
Brewer. aged II and l3, respectively,
were drowned while skating on Big
Stone lake, near Horton, MINI. One
broke through the ice and the other
was dragged under while trying te
save him.