The Holly chieftain., 1898-12-02
MISJ ELE.ANEOJs.

THE United States supreme court on
the 18th announced the new bank
ruptcv rules which it was authorized
to frame and pronulgate under the
national bankruptcy act of July !,
1895.
FIRE at the Robert Keith Furniture
and Carpet company's store at Kansas
City. Mo, on the 2Sth. burned out the
sixth and seventh stories of the cnor-
nous building ard the remaining five
stories and basement were drenched
with water. Loss, estimated at $3.50, 900.
Crossed electric wires were thought to
have been the cause of the fire.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Chicago to
form milk trust.
MOgE than 30 skaters narrowly es-
capped death in the Semple avenue
pond, st. Louis, the other afternoon.
Two modest heroes risked their lives
to save their fcllowmcn. One, II boy,
Joseph H. Lang, paid the hazard with
his life and the companion whom he
died to save survived. The other, a
man of 80, dragged two drowning
strangers from imminent death and
lives. Both deeds followed the break
ing of thin ice beneath skating parties.
a FEHEYDoAT full OF workmen was
capsized while crossing the Volga at
kiucssma, Russia, drowning 30 of the
passengers.
GALLOWAY COLLEGE, located at
Searcy, Ark, was destroyed by fire
yesterday. The fire originated in the
fourth story and in less than one hour
the building and contents were total
loss. Two hundred people, of which
Eumber l75 were young lady students,
were asleep at the time, but not one
person was injured.
a BOX of dynamite exploded the
other morning near the Reina battery
at Havana, killing and injuring IS per-
sons.
MoRE than 20 lives were lost in the
wrecks OF tugs, schooners and barges
along the New England coast in the
recent storm and over 100 vessels were
driven ashore or sunk beneath the
waves,
New YORK and the New England
coast had one of the sevcrest billiards
ever experienced on the 27th. Thirty
five vessels were driven ashore in
Boston harbor and nearly all trains
were stalled.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the 45th
numbered rs, according to Brad
streets commercial report, against 23G
for the corresp spending week last year.
THE first assistant postmaster gen.
cral in his animal report SAYS that the
business of the department shows an
increase OF Sc, 900, 600 during the fiscal
year. There were %, 7gS. O7S domestic
money orders issued for the year.
amounting to Si9l. G5i, lei Mr.. Heath
recommends that post Office clerks be
classified and placed upon a fixed scale
of salaries; that small post offices be
consolidated; that clerk hire appro
priation be made to apply to third
class post offices; that another form ot
money order be issued, and that $500.
600 be set aside for extending rural
free delivery.
SECRETARY Bliss, OF the interior de
partment, made public on the cath his
annual report reviewing in detail pen
sion, Indian. land, patent, educational
and territorial affairs. The Indians
are declared to have made substantial
progress during the past year. The
workings of the Curtis act in the In
dian territory are praised. The secre
tary reports 637, 900 pension claims
pending and recommends u commits
sion TO revise pension laws. Early
legislative enactment for taking tn,
twelfth census is urged.
WHILE party of l2 people were re
turning from n ball at Otis, O., early
on the 25th on two hand cars they
were struck by the Lake Shore fas
mail east of Charleston, William Sea
benski and William Kempler being
killed outright, while William Sea
benski's two daughters. aged 10 and /!
respectively, were probably fatally in
jured.
THE soap factory OF the Allen B
Wrislew company at Chicago was com
pletely destroyed by fire the Other
evening. 1t was generally supposed
that spon taneous com bustion was the
cause of the fre. Loss estimated a.
sI0j, ,000; we'll insured.