The Holly chieftain., 1898-10-07

vas excellent The day was children
lay and the schools were closed to en-.
able the pupils TO attend and more
than 20, 600 turned out
FRED GIER tried to light fire with
ilcohol at Hokah, MINI, and was
burned to death.
TIE large mill and grain elevator al
Bismarck, n. D., was burned. Loss,
$50. 600.
GOV. STEPHENS, Police Commissioners
Hawes and Chief of Police Campbell
have inaugurated war on the usurers
OF St. LouiS For years employees OF
the telegraph companies, railroad and
other concerns in that city have suf.
fered from the eNor bitant interest
charges made by the so-called money
sharks for loans, and more than one
man has given up trying to pay accu.
mulated interest and committed sui.
eide.
A MAN named John Hollingsworth,
of Cannon county. Tenn, killed man
by the name OF Higgins about n year
ago. Suit was brought against Hol.
/ !ingsworth by the Higgins family and
d judgment was rendered for s., 600
and there was to be an auction sale OF
1 his property to satisfy the Judgment
/ When the time arrived for the auction
I IIollingsworth and few friends con-
cealed themselves in barn and after
wards fred upon the people assembled,
. killing five men. and then escaped
/ InE business portion Of Ipswich :.
| D., was recently destroyed by fire.
/ FOE - hours on the 2i the coasts of
/ Georgia and South Carolina were in
the grasp Of West Indian hurricane,
the wind blowing from 80 TO 70 miles
an hour. The rice crop was practi
| cully destroyed and the damage to
l shipping considerable All the low
lands along the rivers we're submerged
and it was feared that much loss Of
/ life had occurred.
A EoUGH estimate placed the aggre
gate loss by the recent forest fires in
Wisconsin at s., 900, 900 to 81, 900, 900.
| ACCORDING to Dun's commercial re-
port there were 1876 failures in the
| United States for the week ended the
| 3Oth against 1914 for the corresponding
week of last year.
! JEREMIAH CASEY, lineman for the
/ Bell Telephone company at st Louis,
was shocked to death the other after
noon. While standing at the foot Of a
| pole reeliug some old wires cut from
the cross arms the one which he was
| handling must have crossed live high
tension circuit. for suddenly he gave u
shriek and fell. His partner quickly
cut the wire, but could not revive him.
/ The people of Pana, ILL.,, had ter
rorizing time the other night In some
cases the residents of block spent the
night in one house, expecting an at
tack to be made on them by Alabama
negroes, imported to take the place of
( striking white miners The train con-
veying the imported negroes was, how
ever, held up by the strikers and the
negroes at the point of guns were
taken from the train and afterwards
started on an eastbound train to In
diana. The militia were sent to Pana
| by Gov. Tanner.
SNOW and rain on the I'd checked the
progress OF the forest fires on the main
range in Colorado and it was believed
| that further destruction of timber was
stopped.
FIVE members of the family of Green
Harris at 0din, Ill We're poisoned by
some unknown poison. The deadly
/ drug " as in the food 1T dinner. Mrs,
Green Harris and three children and
her mother, Mrs Hankin, all partools
of the meal and We're all taken sick.
AT night they were reported out OF
| danger.
a FIRE at Colorado Springs, COL,
started probably from the sparks from
an engine, exploded a carload OF pow.
der and pieces were hurled through
the air distance of ~ blocks into
a lumber yard and set fire to it. A
strong wind carried the flames to
another lumber yard and then took
the Antlers hotel. Before the fire was
subdued the c., Z. i. & P. and the d. &
r. G. freight and passenger depots, a
| iioar mill, grain warehouses, dozen
restaurants, 90 blaclsmiths' shops, six
or eight clothing stores, etc, alto
gether between l50 and 200 buildings,
were burned and over $1,000, OG0 worth
Of property destroyed.
| Mrs. WILLIAMS, white, near Sheri-
dan, Kingtsher county, Ok, while
alone with her two children, boy of
six years and girl of four, cut off the
girls head, ripped open her abdomen
and removed the viscera and then
threw them into a nearby pond.
where they were found soon after by
passing strangers. The mother has
been quite melancholy for three years,
bnt was thon ght to be harmless.
Four miners were burned to death
in the Lehigh slope at Midvale Pa, re-
Gently, the fire being caused by a
miners open lamp. At the time there
were 15O men in the mine, but all es-
capped except the four.
THE Sweet Home turnpike bridge,
an iron structure 25a feet long across
the Fourche at Little Rock, Ark, was
totally destroyed by dynamite on the
Both. The courts recently enjoned
men from building Il road in the vicn-
ity of the bridge, which is owned by
the county. and it is believed that
spite work caused the wreckage
Mrs SAMUEL SwARTwooD, wife of
railroad brakeman. residing at Noun
tain Top, Pa, gave birth to her TWEEN
ty-fifth child the other night. OF the
large number of children born only
two sets were twins Three OF the
children died. The rest are In good
health.
NEARLY 1900 carpet weavers have
been thrown out of employment in
Philadelphia because of the action of
the ingram carpet yarn spinners in
shutting down this branch of their
business. For some time the spinners
have been turning out yarn about
twice as fast as weavers could con-
sumo it, and this forced the price