The Holly chieftain., 1898-12-23
PEOPLE of the southern part of Monte

| aid Their petition presented ue-
| plorabIe state of affairs The inhab-
! itants have been compelled to shoot
their stock. owing to lack of feed, and
many of the people have been living
| for month"; on bran and shorts.
! A SUCCESSFUL raid was recently made
on moonshIners in Cass county, Tex,
by Deputy McCamptell. He discov-
cred fake stands, mash tubs and mash
and arrested three men, who were
taken TO jefferson and bound over to
wait federal grand jury action.
TERgE UAUTE, Ind, had one of the
worst TRES in the history of the city
on the 10Th. The blaze started in the
show windows of the Havens &
Geddes' dry goods house and burned
out several other concerns, causing
loss of more than 81, 900, 600.
The convention of the A. F. of l.. at
Kansas City adopted a resolution on
the nth against Sunday work and de-
nanding that all employers grant
their workmen one days rest in seven.
Socialism was turned down by vote
OF !, ,sJ7 to i20
THOMAS JOKES, living near Greer, w.
Va, attempted to light a fire with
7 crude oil. An eAplosiuu occurred, /,
wreckiup the room, and the dresses of
his twin daughters, aged four years,
Iirnited. He was too badly burned to
assist them and they were so badly
burned that both of them died shortly
Afterwards
IHE GhjGago 4 Ne5taaeTestepn is5aeG at n Kaii; 10
the effect that women employees shall
not remain in the service of the cor
poration after January l.
FIGHT in ball room at Beaver
Creek, KY, the other night took place
between Joe Collins and VILLA IN John
son. They were both suitors of Miss
Susan Smith and tried to obtain her
favor at the dance The men quar-
relied and began firing at one another
When it ceased Collins was dead and
johnson probably fatally wounded.
ABNER TAYLOR, n white man, was
hanged at Macon. Ga, on the 10th for
the murder of his wife
! The executive council OF the Grand
Army of the Republic met at Phila-
delphia recently with Col. James A.
Sexton, the national commander in
the chair, The only work done was
for the encampment The Woman's
Relief corps, of the Grand Army, also
met to arrange the preliminaries of
the woman's end of the encam pment.
WAGON containing eight persons
was struck by train at the Allenwood
On. j. crossing and four were killed.
two fatally injured and two others se-
riously injured.
The navy department has not abau-
ioned the hope of rescuing the battle
ship Maine from Havana harbor and
bringing the wreck back to this coun-
try for bilitation.
a PASSENGER train on the Florida
Central &c Peninsular railroad was
wrecked near Madison, Fla, caused by
a collision with cattle on the track
Six persons were killed.
GAME WARDEN LovEJoY, of Illinois,
swooped down upon East st. Louis.
ILL.,, recently and went through ex-
press and fast freight packages con
signed to St Louis commission mer-
chants He found $1,000 quail, which
were contiscated, according to the
laws of Illinois The open season on
quail closed in Illinois on Dece IN Der l.
-aA Ppbs9N5 i9 a hola GaEeh.eE IA ,JA Ams5i sss
reached at mass meeting of business
men, bankers and professional men in
that city on the 18th. Over SlO5, 900
was subscribed for the project a
petition to congress in favor of the ex-
position for 1899 has 50, 900 names at
| tached.
1T was reliably reported that the
Rock Island will at once build spur
from Chickasha, /. T., west to Anadar-
ko. l. T., which will give them COM
mand of the cattle business of the
western part of the territory as well
as large Indian business. Surveyors
were cross-sectioning the route and
ties have been received at Chickasha.
The people of Havana, Spanish and
Cuban, long for American occupation,
the Cubans because they live in unrest
and fear, the Spanish residents be-
cause they are to stay there after the
Spanish soldiers depart and they do
not wish the Cubans to become further
EN- bittered.
THE northbound passenger train on
Ihe Gulf road, due to arrive in Denver,
Col., on the evening of the 18th, was
iitched by a broken rail at a point
about three miles south of Barela, a
small station 90 miles south of Trini-
lad, Col, making bad wreck and in
iuring several passengers and members
of the train crew.
The Iowa State Horticultural society
.ndorsed Charles Bell, of Boonville.
Mo, for one of the 10 United States
| .OmmissiOnera in charpe of the mari
IAN horticultural and agricultural in
terests at the Paris exposition and
President Mckinley was asked to ap-
| point him.
ORDERS have been received for the
immediate movement of the Twentieth
United States infantry from Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, to Manila. Ac-
.ording to the orders the men are to
De fitted out with supplies for three
'ears' stay in the Philippines. All
married privates and all whose terms
| If enlistment expire within three
months and will not signify their
uillingness to rc-cnlist are to be left
behind.
e. w. BUCKLEY, Texas & Pacific
'witchman, fell under the cars in the
Texas & Pacific yards at Fort Worth,
Tex, and was killed. The body was
horribly mangled.
A soUTHBouSD engine on tho Pom
lac, Oxford e Northern railroad near
inlay City, Mich, struck sleigh con-
aiming five people, throwing them
out, seriously injuring two and killing
three outright.
THE annual convention of the HUI
name association bepan at WASHINGTON