The Holly chieftain., 1898-12-02

TIE engineer and nreman oil BOs-
ton K Maine locomotive driving a snow
pillow were killed by the engine plunc-
ing over an en- bank ment near SO tn
Berwyck. Me.
The Franklin stamp mill at Hancock,
Mich, was destroyed by fire, the loss
being $3.50. 900 Six hundred men were
thrown out of employment for six
months
\ SEVERE earthquake shock recently
occurred at Patras, Greece, causing the
Inhabitants to become panic-stricken.
Soon after second shock was expe-
ricnced. No fatalities were reported
THE battleship Wisconsin was
launched on the 2Gth at San Francisco.
Mtss Elizabeth Stephenson, of Wiscon-
sin. christened the vessel.
The steamer +. c. Walker, running
between San Francisco and Stockton,
Cal, had one Of her boilers blown up
and six persons were killed, Il dan
gcrouslv in iured and - others more
or less badly hurt. The majority of
the passengers we're in bed when the
explosion occurred and they rushed on
deck in their night clothes. The cleo
trio lights had been put out, which
added 70 the awful confusion.
4 STREET fight occurred at Hughes
Springs. on the line between Marrs
and Cass counties in Texas, in which
Constable Driver and his son were
killed ard Ben Boone, a prominent
resident, was mortally wounded. The
affair resulted from a trivial matter.
THE vault Of the Wrcntham Mass }
national bank was blown open BY
burglars and rob bed Of g, 600 in cash
and notes valued at S65 900.
AT Wcathcrford. OK, on the 2sth
there were two banks ready for busi-
ness. two newspapers, 40 or more busi-
ness houses and 1000 people where
four months ago there was corntield.
THE Hutchinson 4 Southern railroad
will be extended from Blackwell, Ok,
to Ponca-
JomS H. SHAW was hanged at Gle
burne, Tex, on the 18th for murder.
THE cornerstone Of the confederate
monument that is to mark the final
resting place of the 40 unknown con-
fcderate dead buried in the cemetery
at Van Buren,, Ark, was laid on the
2ith. Arkansas, Missouri Texas, Lou
isiana and the Indian territory were
represented. Fully 50 per cent of
those Inferred at the place are Nilsson
rians-
A WAsHISGroS dispatch stated that
- of the principal peanut concerns in
the country have agreed to combine
or consolidation. There are about 30
cleaning houses for peanuts. These
handle a crop which is valued at about
81. 900. 600 a year. They represent an
investment of 81, 900 600. 1t is through
the com oination of the cleaning houses
that the attempt will be made to handle
the crop hereafter, maintain prices and
prevent ruinous competition.
EVERY soldier in the Seventh corps
at Savannah, Ga, was made to feel
that the cath was Thanksgiving day.
All drills were abandoned for the day,
and at two o'clock each man received
ration of turkey, fruit and cake
over 1000 turkeys and several wagon
loads OF fruit and cake were sent to
camp in the morning. The feast for
Gen. Lees men was provided by the
ladies of Charleston.
A TRAIN was derailed on the Bur
| lington. Cedar Rapids & Northern
road while rounding a curve near Bur
| lington, la. The day coach, contain.
ing 20 passengers, rolled over twice
and landed right side up in a ditch, 90
| feet away. Two persons were fatally
| injured and several others received
| bruises.
SIMON GUGGESHErM. who was married
on the cath in New York city to Miss
| Olga ii.rsh, commemorated the event
by giving Thanksgiving dinner to 4,
600 children in Denver. Col, where he
! lives. The tickets were distributed by
| Parson Tom Uzzell of the Peo pie 5
tabernacle, to whom Mr.. Guggenheim m
entrusted the management of the feast.
A DISPATCH from Perry, Ok, said
| that prairie fires had played havoc in
| Oklahoma and the Indian territory.
One farmer had lost hay, cotton and
| live stock to the amount of $50, 900.
| In the kiowa Indian reservation a
strip of land so by 10 miles wide was
| burned over, causing great damage.
Mrs. WILLIAM SASrENLo, wife of a
farmer in Paine county, Ok, after a
| WIN hNl hiAA'' hNi
en-mon tbs old baby and threw it in to
a well and then committed suicide by
jumping into the well head first
THE crown sheet of the boiler Of q
! Denver & Rio Grande locomotive BILE Nv
out a. Swallows, Col The fireman
was killed and the engineer and brake
men seriously injured. Eighteen load
ed freight cars were burned.
Mrs. THOMAS STEPHENS was burned
to death and Alex Ross was fatally
burned during fire in the woman's
house at Elkton, Mich, caused by the
explosion of an oil stove.
The postmaster general makes an
interesting report on his department
in establishing post offices in our new
territorial acquisitions and calls at
tention to the amazing growth of the
postal business in all its branches.
ACCORDING to oriental advices the
number of houses destroyed by the re
cent fire at Haukow, China, was more
than $4,000 and $500 persons were
burned to death.
CHIEF DEPUTY WARNoCK, in trying
to arrest an escaped negro convict in
Birmingham, Ala, YVES shot and in
stantly killed. The town turned oht
to hunt the murderer and his capture
meant certain lynching.
REPORTS reached Meridian, Miss, or
the 27th that three negroes had beer
lynched in Newton county, Miss, anc
the farmers of that section were or
the trail of others implicated in an as
sauIt on white man. The trouble
arose over the ownership of hog.
A STORY was brought to Port Town
send, Wash, that the passengers an6
crew of the steamer Jessie were MOI