The Holly chieftain., 1898-02-25

IHE court Of inquiry got down TO
work at Havana on the 2lst for the in
gcstigation into the cause of the dis
8ster TO the batticship Maine, Capt.
Sigs bee being the first witness. Capt
sampson, the president of the court.
has announced that nothing of i'm
portance will be made public until all
the testimony has been received and
the finding, considered. The divers
brought up Capt. SiFsbee's state docu-
nents and the keys to the magazine.
COBALT has been discovered at Grand
Encampment, Wyo., by the French
mineralogist, Charles Poulet 1t is the
irst discovery of cobalt in America.
Cobalt is more valuable than gold.
a SEVERE snowstorm recently caused
the collision of two passenger trains
IN the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
railroad in deep cut six miles south
Df Rockford, Ill. Both engines were
demolished. EGgineer Tilden was in
,tantIy killed and a score OF persons
injured.
Al the conference of the leaders of
the Creek Indians at Okmulgee, / T.,
resolutions were passed declaring that
As Il nation they opposed the allotment
If their lands in seycralty and asking
the principal chief TO have a vote taken
by the chiefs in their respective towns
on the subject and forward it to their
delegates in congress. As soon as the
conference had adjourned Chief lspar-
hecher issued a letter TO all Creek
| Judges to enforce the nations laws and
| to oppose the recent legislation of con-
| gres, abolishing their courts,
| The ships Of the American navy
went out of mourning for the victims
Of the Maine disaster at sunset on the
| 18th. The official funeral having taken
place at Havana, the government at
Washington considered that the log
ical end Of the mourning period and
gave orders to that effect
The Burbank block and its contents
at Pittsficld Mass, were destroyed by
fire. Loss, 500, GOO, with insurance of
about $4,000.
NEAR Clifton, Ok, George Sawyer,
aged Il, was killed by the accidental
discharge of gun in his brothers
hands.
THE naval court of inquiry into the
AIdllt hlNdNltT Sdlltil lOI II a. Ia bli
the Goth. Capt Sigsbee telegraphed
to Washington from Havana that he
had not expressed any opinion on the
cause of the disaster. Secretary Long
of the navy department. said that
there was nothing new to communicate
about the wreck. A report from Key
| West, Fla, said that the Maine
wounded were doing well.
GIN. LEW WALLACE has been chaI
lenged to duel by George +. Oakcs
Of indianapolis, Ind. Wallace, in an
address delivered at Lebanon, Ind, on
Lincoln day, told an unpublished story
rejecting on Gen. McClellan's courage
and Oalies denounced it as false and
challenged Wallace to a meeting on
the field of honor. The affair has
caused much excitement throughout
Indiana.
NEAR Gushing. Ok, Ambrose Georgia,
a farmer, quarreled with his tenant,
John White, over a crop settlement
and Georgia was fatally stabbed.
| IL the Gown coal mine, of the Choc
taw Coal company at Hnrtshorne. !. T.,
Maron Betras, Syrian cmploye of the
company, let n mule escape from him.
| He went in pursuit of the mule, which
ran into a condemned room full of gas,
which Betras' lamp ignited. The mule
was incinerated and Betras himself
was badly burned about the back,
breast, neck and arms. His recovery
was considered doubtful.
| 5. p. WINsLow. agent for an en-
broidering machine, whose home is at
Springfield, ILL.,, tasted Is days at a no
tel at Guthrie, Ok, in order that he
might be forgiven for sin. 1t was
thought that he was insane.
| THE annual meeting of the Dauyh
ters of the American Revolution
opened at Washington on the 2lst. A
hot fight was in prospect over the Office
of president general.
THE deaths at st. Louis for the week
ended the 10Th were lss. 40 of them be-
ing caused by pneumonia and other
diseases of the respiratory organs
During the corresponding week in 1891
PA deaths occurred.
The attorney general of Colorado
has furnished an opinion that there is
no law for women in that state drop
| ping their maiden name on the simple
excuse of wedding. The man is
nothing more than u party to a con-
tract, he says, and cannot demonstrate
his mental superiority by forcing his
family name on the bride. The opin.
ion is sweeping.
The official order for a retiring board
to pass upon Col. William A. Elderkin,
commissary of the department OF the
| Missouri, was issued. Col. Elderliin
resists retirement, although he is in
bad health, in order not to cut his wife
out of n pension after his death.
| EVERY policeman in New York city
was on duty or held in reserve on the
18th in compliance with the request
made to the police department by Mr.
1 Roosevelt, assistant secretary OF the
navy, that precautions be taken against
the possibility of hostile demonstra-
| tions upon the arrival of the Spanish
cruiser Vizcaya.
SECRETARY BLISS is in receipt of re-
cent letter from Gov. Brady, of Alaska,
| descriptive of the lawless condition of
affairs at Skaguay and Dyea. 1t was
considered sufficient justification for
the immediate dispatch of the addi.
tional military force already author.
lied to be sent to Alaskan territory.
| THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 18th
were 269, according to Bradstreet's
commercial report, against 325 for the
corresponding week of last year.
Two thousand Dunkards from Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas and other western
states will join the Dunkard settle.
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