The Holly chieftain., 1897-10-01
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WARRINGTON NOTES.
THE necessity of increasing the per-
sonnel of the navy will be presented
to congress in the forthcoming reports
of the bureau chief Of the navy depart
nent Both officers and men are need
ed to man the large number Of ships
now in commission.
The interstate commerce commission
has requested all the railroads to re-
port by the first of next month ms to
the number of cars equipped with au-
tomato couplers and air brakeA -
AT the session Of 1he sxesp tive coun-
Gil Of the American FexAration OF La,
Dor on the .Sd At Washington It was
determined that measures in the inter,
est of labor shouIa ne sfEfmalafed. md
sent to President Mckinley with .
view OF having him incorporate them
in his next message d congress
IT was reported ~ WsshiARton that
the sugar trust would have a,powerful
lobby to fight the annexation OF
Hawaii. The ground upon which the
treaty will be fought will be that 1t
would commit the United States to a
policy Of colonial government and that
such departure would necessitate the
establishm OF great navy.
AN order has been issued by Maj. A.
G. Sharpe, at the instance of the bureau
OF Indian affairs in Washington, that
all those who rent lands in the Otoe
reservation in the Indian territory
must vacate them before noon on Oc-
tober 90 and get all their chattels off
the reservation under penalty of the
law, which provides 8, 900 fine and i'm
prisonment
Two companies Of cavalry have been
sent to the Fort Hall Indian agency at
Rossfork, Ida. to quell the anti-school
riot there. The young bucks are
hostile to the girls going to school and
are backed up by the old squaws.
POSTMASTER GENERAL GARY has au-
thorized the announcement that all
mails leaving New Orleans, where yell
low fever is raging, are thoroughly
fumigated.
A RECENT special to the New York
Herald from Washington Aaid that the
possibility of rupture between the
United States and Spain growing out
of the representations recently made
to the Madrid authorities by Minister
Woodford was regarded as very remote
by state department officials "
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The huge British tanker Batoum,
which sailed from Philadeiphia for
England with 1.782, ,61O gallons OF re-
fined oil, collided with and sunk an
unknown barge in the Delaware, of
the mouth of Wilmington creek.
JOHN SxEILEY fell from train near
Blue Mound, Ill, and whiie he laid
stunned the grass at the roadside took
IRE and he was probably fatally burned.
TERRIBIE suffering was reported re-
Gently on the SkaguAy and Dyea trails
In consequence Of winter winds
Storms have desa Dyed many gold
hunters provisions and some are left
with scarcely enough dry food for
another meal and without money to re-
turn home.
JOHN BoEcKERr, prosperous Ger
man farmer near Carroll, Ia, shot his
wife and his sig children ON the night
of the 26th and then committed sui
eide. No motive for the terrible trag-
,dy was known, as the family lived
happily together. %
CAPT. QUISroN CAMPBELL, one Of the
best known newspaper men Of the west,
H~11 AS~ht 0f~ ~k~t, 4
recently and suffered probably fatal In
jur1es He had been connected with
the old Topek. (Ksn) Commonwealth
and Kansas City, Mo-, newspapers.
N. MUNsEN, Of Vincent, Ia, was made
SO mad by being twitted q the supper
table about his love for Miss Peterson
that he arose and shot Osborn Peterson.
her brother, and then wounded Fred
Larson. A crowd then went after Mum
sen, and when they found him he blew
his brains out. .s. /. ....s,. I.
THE steamer Admiral Gervais, while
lying on Ufa. in southern Russia, took
fire while its 200 passengers were
asleep A terrible panic ensued and
many jumped overheard TO escape the
flames and were drowned and others
were burned to death.
As Thomas Sackett, Of Wright, Ok,
WAS taking q load Of cotton to Guthrie
he fell of the wagon and the wheels
passed over his body, fatally crushing
him.
AT Roberts schoolhouse. ten miles
from Huntsville, Ark. Willard Wall,
the teacher, attempted to correct .
pupil named Stearns, when the boy In
aicted terrible wounds upon Wall with
. knife.
NlaHT trains ON the railroads In Tex
~ have been taken on and the day
service largely curtailed ON account Of
the yellow fever scare. Travel over
the state was said to be slmost para
lysed.
A RxPoRr was brought to Port Town
send, WASH, by the tug Pioneer that
landslide struck the northern part Of
Sheep camp, Alaska. where all the
packers were quartersd in tents and
asleep. and carried It away. 1t was
impossible to learn the names of the
killed. rs they were known ~ Jack,
Jim, Dick and the like. The Skaguay
trail was literally obliterated.
A rHREE-DAys celebration Of the
completion Of the new steelarch bridge
over the Niagara gorge ut NiAgars, N.
X. begun ON the 23d with . burst OF
music from $50 musicians Of four Of the
finest military bands in the United
States and Canada. A salute Of 81
gums was fred from the bridge.
EIGHT new cases OF yellow fever were