The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-21

tai loss was about 500, O00 well in
sured.
The Koenig Luise collicry n;
Zaborzc, Silesia, caught fire the other
day and of Is men brought to the sur,
face seven died soon afterwards. II
was feared also that % others, whose
escape was cut off, had perished.
Col WILLIAM kITK, an ex-union
soldier of Wood county, Va, has pub
lished q card in which he criticises
what he calls the assaults made upon
the pension rolls, denouncing Commits
sioner of Pensions Evans especially,
and announces that he will pay sl0I
for each case of a fraudulent pension
now being paid By the United States
TO n civil war soldier.
PAUL MErCALF, a refugee from Mon
tana with 30-years' murder sentence
hanging over him, was fatally wound.
ed while resisting arrest near Win
chester Ok.
A LARGE Office building at McKees.
port, Pa, was totally destroyed by fire
on the nth. 1t cost sl0O, 600 to erect
two years ago. The loss on the con-
tents was $50, 900.
The treasurer Of Poweshieli county,
Ia, recently received an express pack
age Of $1,000 from Chester a. Rowe.
who fled to Mexico year ago with
s35, 900 of the county's money. Accom-.
panying the remittance was a letter
saying he would pay the full amount
back and then he wanted to come home
BURGLARS looted Glenn Scigler's store
at st. James, Neb., the other night
The stock consisted of dry goods,
clothing, shoes. hardware and jewelry,
worth about $40, 900. and, us the bur
glars took most of 1t. it was thought
they must have had more than one
wagon and have made several trips.
NEAR BRENNAN, Tex. the four.year-
old son of Dudley Williams. n school
penter was at work on a house and
had small fire near, around which
the child was playing when his clothes
became ignited.
FRED GILBEgT. of Spirit Lake, la
defeated J. A. r. Elliott, of Kansas
City, Mo, in the match race OF 100
birds at Dexter Park, l.. l., on the 18th
for the Dupont championship trophy.
The score was 90 to OIL.
Music hall, the largest auditorium
in Cleveland, o., was burned to the
ground on the night of the 18th. There
were panics in the apartment houses
ad djoining, which were badly damaged
by fire and water Several frcmeu
also had narrow escapes Loss, about
$3.50. 900.
THERE was n wholesale Jail delivery
at Bentonvillc, Ark, on the night OF
the 18th. Prisoners battered down
one of the doors and dozen inmates
made their escape. n
An agreement has been reached by
the house committee on rules, of which
Speaker Reed IS chairman and Mr..
Dingley is a member, to give appro-
priation bills the right OF way, SO as
to get the bills before the senate as
soon as possible, in order that the ses-
sion may be brought to an early close.
A PERRY, Ok, dispatch stated that
the allotment of the lands of the Otter
and Missouri Indians had begun and
would be completed in two months.
The allotting agent assigned to this
work is Miss Helen p. Clark, who is
one-cighth Blackfoot Indian. These
Indians always have opposed aliot-
ment, but Miss Clark, who is the only
woman who has ever been assigned to
such a work, has gained their conf
deuce and is proceeding with the
work. This spring the allotted lands
will be opened to white settlement.
IS fire at Roberts hotel in New
York Leslie Stanley and his wife were
suffocated by smoke.
WHEN the bells in the towers on %
cotton mills of New Bedford, Mass.
ran out at seven o'clock on the nth,
the hour for the operators to take their
places at the looms and spindles, 5000
operatives refused to enter the mill
yards. The strike was the result of a
cut in wages Of ten per cent.
OFFICERS of l50 German societies in
Chicago mailed an extensively signed
circular to every member of congress,
protesting against any legislation
which will restrict immigration. The
circular was also signed by the editors
of number of German, Irish, Swedish
Italian and other newspapers in that
city.
Az official dispatch from batavia an
nounced that the capital of Amboyra
one of the Molucca islands. in the
Malay archipelago, had been complete
ly demolished by an earthquake. Fifty
persons were L.lled and 300 injured.
A TERRIFIC tornado. accompanied by
heavy rain and hail, passed across Pot
tawatomie county, Ok, on the evening
Of the 18th. Timber was blown down
and other damage done. but no one
was killed.
THE failures in the United States for
the week ended the l4th, according to
Bradstreets report, were 32S. against
iT9 in the corresponding week of last
year.
MOSES GAINES, q negro, 20 years old,
was stabbed to death at the Armour
packing house in Kansas City, Kan.
on the 18th. The murderer's name was
Joseph Williams. The stabbing was
the result of trifling quarrel about
standing room.
LOUIS ALFELD, a compositor at the
Cincinnati Enquirer office. shot his
sweetheart, Minnie Pacliner, at her
home, infiicting fatal wound, and
then killed himself. Jealousy was sup.
posed to have been the cause.
THE walls of two new houses being
erected at baltimore, Md, fell the
other afternoon and seven men were
injured, two probably fatally.
The Stevenson block at Russellville,
Ky, was burned the other day and
George Collins, fireman, was crushed
to death. Loss, 100000; partially in.
sured.
AT the convention held in Kingfisher,
Ok. on the 18th delegates were present
from every county in the territory.