The Holly chieftain., 1898-10-14

II was estimated that the Illinois
Central railroad was losing SIS, 900 a
day on its southern business as re-
suit of the stringent yellow fever
quarantine Other railroads running
into New Orleans were hampered much
the same way.
A MOST heinous crime was committed
at La Tour, a station on the Iron
Mountain railroad, eight miles north
west of Helena. Ark. Frank Dubarry,
a prominent planter, was assassinated
in his own home by a trusted negro
employe, Charley Mum, for the pur-
pose of robbery, and the murderer,
after securing all the money about the
house, deliberately poured coal oil
over his victims body and about the
house and set fire to it to cover his
crime. The murderer was landed in
Jail.
NAVAL Constructor HoBsoS has
abandoned his attempt to save the
Spanish battlc7hip Nizcaya at Santi-
ago
AN unknown white man was found
sick in a negro church in lie Flore
county, Miss, and the case was re-
ported to u doctor who said that he
thought the man had yellow fever.
Soon after the doctor left the church
was burned down and the man ere
mated by the negroes, showing the
fearful panic existing in the state.
THE village OF Grand Blanc, Mich,
was raided the other night by bur
glars and nearly every business house
s..,fF.a Hha
sheriff placed Ia men under arrest on
suspicion of having committed the bur
glaries.
THE annual report OF Commissioner
of Indian Affairs Jones shows gen
eral advancement in the condition of
the nations wards. The report spe-
cially praises the school system, which
is engaged in the educat tion of 90, 952
Indian pupils.
THE Coffee county courthouse was
burned to the ground at Willacoochee,
Ga. the other night The charge was
made that the work was that of incen-
diary populists, whose motive was to
destroy the ballots deposited in the
building and bring on another cleo
tion, as they had recently been de-
feated by the democrats and were, in
consequence, bitter against them.
expecting an attack any time.
FRANK BUTLER was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for the murder of
Dan Grayson at Selma, Ala. The pc
culiarIty about the case was that he
began serving his life sentence two
weeks from the day of the murder.
IT was stated that United States Sc.
cret officers had discovered that large
number of counterfeit 500 silver certi-
fcates had been produced in San Fran
cisco. The Call asserted that ., 600 of
these spurious bills were sent into the
klondike district and were readily ex-
changed for gold dust and their falsitv
was not discovered until the returning
miners tried to pass them in Portland,
Ore.
IL the recent battle with Indians at
the southwest corner of Leech lake, in
Minnesota, company + of the Third
infantry put up gallant fight While
the 50 soldiers Gen. Bacon had were
unable 10 aiEloagc the 200 and odd In
dians from their strong position, they
made il rerr hot far- them ai-Hl.
kinson, five soldiers and two Indian
police were killed. The loss of the In
d!ans was not known, but mum Der
were killed and many wounded. The
rumorcd massacre of Gen. Bacon's
troops was unfounded.
GEN. BACON sent dispatch from
Walker, Mimi, on the 7th stating that
the Indians had been badly whipped
and had left the country adjacent to
the recent fight The settlers in the
neig borhood, however, felt very I'M
easy and were by no means assured
that the trouble with the redskins was
over.
DR. o. f. MESTzER shot and killed
his wife at Telluride, Col, and then
tried to shoot his wife's brother but
in the struggle which ensued DIR. Mentz-
er had his skull fractured and it was
believed that he would die from it. 1t
was thought the doctors mind was
affected from the use Of opiates.
In Saline county, Ark, Joe McKin.
ney, young farmer. accompanied by
his brother and friend. eloped with
the daughter of Charles Tay lor, anot ther
farmer. Taylor overlook the party
and opened fire with a gun without
effect Mckinney returned the fire
with a revolver, killing Taylor. The
party then drove on to Redfeld, where
the elopers We're married. After the
ceremoney all four surrendered them
selves to the police.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the 7th num-
bered 1853, according to Bradstreets
commercial report against 237 in the
corresponding week of last year.
THE annual parade of the Karnival
krewe in Kansas City, Mo-, on the 9th
was glittering success. The crowds
along the line of march were the
largest ever seen. Handsome floats
and elaborate costumes were the fea.
lures of every division. The police
preserved the best of order and every
person caught masked was taken to
the police station.
HENRY C. MURRAY was burned to
death early the other morning in the
Vale (ore.) calaboose, in which he was
locked up for disorderly conduct.
While intoxicated, it was supposed,
he set the building on fire from the
inside.
PILGRIMS while returning from the
shrine of Hong Kung Shul in boat on
the river near Canton, China, had their
vessel blown over by squall and $50
Cinnamon were drowned in the hold
like rats.
A FIRE at Hankow, China, destroyed
overia square mile of the city, includ-
ing the government buildings and tenn
Pile. and it was feared that 900 lives
were lost.