The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-23

lagos OF Cuban pacihcos are coming to
Havana from every province. The
rainy season has begun and the cond,
tion of the people is pitiable. Gen.
Weyler has directed that the crops in
the military zone of Sancti Spiritus be
torn up and there is nothing else for
the people to eat. Yellow fever is said
to exist in several places in the inte-
rior and there is no doubt that a great
epidemic of that disease will soon sweep
over Cuba
| ALTA N. JONES, the cyclist, who made
some sensational rides during the re-
cent indoor tournament at San Fran
cisco, Is matched for a mile run on the
e4th sgainst Flying Jib, the great
PAGER, at Pleasanton, Cal. The race is
| creating unusual interest among horse
| nens,9
THE deep water committees from
Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma met
with like committee appointed by
Gov. Culberson at Austin, Tex, on
the 18th. Gov. Lcedy, of Kansas, ad-
dressed the meeting and said that the
people of his state were in need of re-
duced freight rates and that, If they
could not get them, they proposed to
build state road from Kansas to the
gulf.
| THE Blakeslee family of misers at
Findlay. o., were robbed of 81, 900 by
~ masked men, who broke into the
house, bound the two men and two
women, burned their feet and tortured
them until they revealed where their
money was hidden.
WILLIAM HARRISON. an employe in
the coal mines, near Harrison, KY, at
tempted to commit suicide by shooting
himself through the breast with q
pistol, after trying to kill his wife and
her father-in-law, who escaped and hid
themselves. He was Jealous of his
wife.
| ONE of the most picturesque struc-
lures in New Orleans, known as the
Moresque block, was totally destroyed
by fire on the 18th. Its walls were
built entirely of iron, in Moorish de-
sign.
THE conference OF the Epworth
league Of the Indian and Oklahoma
territories met at Oklahoma City re-
Gently with large attendance.
A PROPOSITION has been made to the
Cuban junta Mt Washington by rep.
resentative of the American Volunteer
league, an organization with branches
in Kansas, Missouri, Texas and at least
20 western states. mostly composed Of
the militia, to put 1900 American sol
diers in Cuba within 90 days, "to
march from one end of the island to
| the other and to lick every Spanish
| force in the way" The offer was being
considered.
The st. Louis Dairy Co. was found
| guilty in the United States district
court at st. Louis of having imported
contract labor and will have to pay
$1,000, the penalty provided by INV.
| The complaint in the case charged that
on May IA, 1902, the defendant COM
pany contracted with one Edward 7.
Nulls, then resident of Worcester,
Eng, to come to st. Louis and engage
in its service as dairyman, and that
the sum of 500 was advanced Nulls Ia
enable him to pay for his passage.
BECAUSE he could not write William
Mitchell was arrested in East ST. Louis
and taken to the Chester. ILL.,, peniten-
tiary. Mitchell was a paroled convict
under the new Illinois law and prison
ers taking advantage Of the law must
report by mail once month to the
warden. Mitchell relied upon friend
to write to the warden, but the friend
| forgot his promise.
| A DISPATCH from New Haven. Conn.,,
said that Clarence verrill had broken
the strength record made by Charles
/ Chadwick, of Yale, recently. Chad.
wick's total was 1,63s kilos. Verrill'a
was 1875. Verrill is a scientific school
freshman. He weighs only las pounds.
Mrs. ELIZABETH Il. TMToN, the wife
of Henry Ward Bcccher's accuser, died
recently at her home in Brooklyn.
Since the famous Beecher trial she had
lived In strict retirement. Theodore
Tilton, her husband, is in Paris, where
he has lived ever since the Beecher
trial.
| The hill Immediately over the mouth
| of the Yorkville mines, near Bellaire,
O., gave way the other morning and
1000 tons of dirt and rock crashed
down completely closing up the en-
trance and breaking the archway 100
feet. A driver named Jeffrey was en-
| tombed and was not rescued until sew
eral hours afterward.
The 2lst and decisive game of the
Pillsbury-Showalter chess match at
New York was won by Pillsbury. The
final score was: Pillsbury, 10; Sho.
walter. s; drawn, 8.
| CASHIER STicKSEY, Of the Great Falls
national bank at Somersworth, N. H.,
was brutally murdered by two desper-
ADDE'S, who robbed the bank and es-
capped with nearly all the cash.
A FIRE at Lindsey, village eight
miles west of Fremont, O., on the 18th
destroyed the post Office, drug store,
a grocery, meat market, the new
produce exchange building, town hall
and q. A. R. hall The villagers fought
the fire heroically with hand engines.
A HORRIBLE tragedy was enacted on
the 18th at the home OF Edward Rey.
nolds in Oakland. RI. Mrs. Reynolds,
her husband and adopted daughter,
Servilla, were brutally murdered and
the house set on fire, presumably by
Martin Mowery, the hired man, who
is undoubtedly raving maniac, and
was afterwards found hiding in barn
near Oaklnnd'and placed under arrest.
In a drunken fight on shanty boat
| at Bellaire. O., Jim Williams, the own
er, killed his wife and Charles Horner
with n club and then floated down the
river with the dead bodies. The story
was told by one Of the combatants who
escaped.
THE coal miners employed by the
Essen Coal Co., on the Panhandle road,
in Pennsylvania, struck for an advance
of six cents per ton in the mining rate.
Three mines and 600 men were iSle on
l t1n