The Holly chieftain., 1897-06-11

mond mine At Monong.hela, Pa, oc-
CURED At seven \ m. ON the 1th. A
rescuing party Immediately went into
the mine and the men were got out,
but only after thev had been overcome
by the deadly after damp. The gas
was said to have been ignited by an
open lamp and the escape of the 800
miners was remarkable.
Mrs HoLcoNB, living on farm near
West Franklin, Ind, beheaded her
four-year-old daughter while laboring
under the delusion that God required
it Of her. The woman was suffering
from cancer of the brain.
AT Saunemin. ILL.,. grain elevator
containing 500 bushels of oats was
burned to the ground.
A BOILER exploded recently in the
printworks of Norisg1 bros. inf usbla,
Mex, which caused the death Of over
90 persons.
FIVE men were killed and four badly
injured by collision on the Omaha
railroad near Hudson junction, Wis.
on the 7th. The accident was caused
by the engineer and conductor of one
train disobeying orders
FIvy two-story frame dwellings were
badly damaged and nine families made
homeless by Ere which started at a0l
jefferson street, Chicago, on the even
ing Of the 7th.
In q family quarrel at Shelby, Miss. !.
the other afternoon, Martin Pascoe, q
negro, killed Sandy and Fannie Dom
aid and then attempted suicide, but
will recover.
Snow fell in Grange, n. j., on the
eth. ~
The queen regent of Spain has con-
6rmed Senior Canovas, the premier, in
his ministerial powers and the old cab
met will remain in power with the old
policy unchanged.
A CLOUDBURsr in the province of Iser,
France, caused the destruction of q
number Of paper mills and silk facto-
ries One person was drowned and the
property loss was estimated at 3, ,0OO,-
600. Four thousand operatives were
thrown out of work.
MILE. BURNETT fell headlong from a
trapeze the other night at the Howard
Athenmum at Boston and landed upon
the heads of the audience seriously in
| juring several and probably fatally
hurting herself.
THE empress Of Germany was report
ed as being i'll from the nervous shock
received when number of angry men
at Berlin threw petition into the
royal carriage which struck her in the
face.
DURING quarrel at Charles City. Ia,
between Frank Wiltse and jerome Dow,
brothers-in-law, Wiltse threw q stone
at Dow. missing him and instantly kill
ing Mira Dow. his sister, who was rum
ming away. The murderer gave him
The Con gregat tionai Home Missionary
society held their list annual meeting
at Saratoga, n. Y.
Rock Island, ILL.,, was selected as the
permanent headquarters by the order
of Modern Woodmen on the ed and j.
H. Fratt, Of Racine, Wis, was elected
head banker. Kansas City was chosen
~ the next place Of meeting Of the
head camp.
SoME men became involved In . omar.
rel in . saloon at Brooklyn and were
ordered out and they began shooting
It one another. As q result five men
were wounded, one perhaps fatally. At
least 20 shots were fared.
The Springfield company of militia
Was sent to Urbana. o.. on the 4th by
the governor to protect the negro who
had been sentenced to 90 years impris-
onment the day before for criminal as
sault, but they seemed to excite the
mob so much that they were ordered
to return to the depot. Immediately
/ o&f &fov ho iut tv1t. nd <6u
| negro brute was soon in the hands OF
the mob and hanging from tree.
SOME time ago ]. p. Crocker was
found dead in his front yard at At
lanta. Ga, with bullet hole in his
temple, and the case was passed over
as one of suicide. The administrators
on the I'D found in the cellar Of his
house an iron safe, the locks of which
were rusty with age. Inside was S20.-
600 in gold, beside valuable papers.
The theory of death now is murder ut
the hands of burglars
FARMERS in Shelby county, ILL.,, be-
~ail the ravages Of the cutworm In
their young crops, making it neces-
sary to replant many acres. Chinch
bugs have also appeared In the oat
| fields
DETECTIVES recently searched the
trains leaving Chicago for two or three
days in hopes OF capturing George
Taylor, who escaped FROM jail At Car
rollton, Mo-, while under sentence Of
death for the murder of the Meekl
family. They had received informa,
ti4n that he had arrived in the city
and was going to leays for Rock Island.
Their search proved unsvailing.
The tug Andrew H. Green wsa
blown to atoms at 1:45 q m. on the 5th
1t Chicago by the explosion Of her
boiler and no trace of her crew could
be found and there seemed TO be nc
doubt that the five men known to have
been on board had perished.
A DKLE6ArIoS of full-blood Cherokee
Indians, representing l2,0o0 full
bloods, recently left TahlequAh, !. T.,
for Washington to protest against
4 pending changes about to be made by
the Dawes commission which would
do away with tribal government.
THERE were 1877 business failures
throughout the United States for the
week ended the 4th. according to Brad
streets report. against s36 for the cor.
responding week last year.
i The entire plant of Jones 4 Laugh
lin at Pittsburgh, Pa, has been closed
down on account Of the strike and 81
500 men are idle. The strikers re-
solved to stand firm for their demands.
THE head camp Of Modern Woodmen
had parade at Dubuque, Ia, On the
I'd, 1000 being in line, and It was wit
nessed by big crowd, 81 special trsins
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