The Holly chieftain., 1898-11-11
MISC ELLANEOJs

ALL the buildings on both sides. of
Main street, from Fourth street to
Fifth, at Pitthin, Col, 40 in number,
we're destroyed by "A fire, believed to
have been of inccudiary origin, which
started early on the morning of the
eth. The loss was estimated at s 90, 600.
THE imrr grafton officials on the 9Th
passed through the barge office at New
York 1000 immigrants
ALLEN DAY, Is years old, was knocked
down and run over by Citizens line
car at St Louis Two wheels passed
over him and his skull was fractured
and his left arm crushed at the elbow
so that amputation was necessary. He
was in n dangerous condition.
To Judge William NJ. Springer be-
longs the credit of clearing the civil
docket of cases ready for trial in the
United States court at Muscogee, |. T.,
for the first time since the court has
been established. He opened court
there and began work on the civil
docket September 2G and since that
date he has disposed of 1s9 civil cases.
a CROWD of negroes at st. Louis in
vaded the Jewish district in Morgan
street and bombarded the buildings
with stones, injuring two or three per-
sons. detachment Of police dis.
pcrsed the rioters. Politics was the
cause.
DAVID KAHSwEILER, the inventor of
the cork jacket life preserver, died at
New York on the eth.
SEVEN men were killed and three ia
tally injured at the Exeter colliery at
West Pittston, Pa, by three cars tum.
bling into the shaft and falling on the
cage, wE:"b was carrying the ten men.
The accident was caused by the en-
gineer disobeying orders
FIRE destroyed the Cameron sawmill
at Richland, Tex. Loss S35,O
ARTHUR WILLIAMS, a negro under ar
rest at Wellborne, Fla, for the mur-
der of Miss Elina Ogden, was taken
from the jail by n crowd of incensed
citizens and his body riddled with bul.
let's and then burned.
The Nebraska university football
team won the Western Intercollegiate
league championship again by defeat
ing the Kansas university football
team at Lawrence, Kan, by a score of
is too.
A CURFEw bill to compel children
under Is years of age to be off the
streets at eight o'clock at night in the
winter and nine o'clock in the summer
has been passed by the ST. Louis city
council.
HUNDRED miners from Toluca, ILL.,,
broke into the county Jail at Lacon
n nd tool II w ~,
negro, and hanged him to tree. Stew.
arts crime was an assault upon a
daughter OF one of the miners.
THE new hve.story Wonderland
theater at Detroit, Mich, collapsed on
the 5th while some 50 men were at
work on the structure. The roof fell
| in, carrying the men into the pit te.
| low. Eleven dead bodies were recov-
cred, three more men We're believed to
| be laying dead under the debris and
the others We're badly injured.
| PATRICK MURPuY was burned to
death in his blacksmith shop at De-
troit, Mich.
| THE cruiser Maria Teresa, the Span.
ish vessel which was raised by Con-
structor ilobson off Santiago a short
time ago, was sunk off the Bahamas in
n storm while on her way to New York.
/ No lives were lost.
| The Sixth Missouri has been ordered
to Savannah, Ga, from Jacksonville,
| Fla.
LARGE colony of Missouri farmers
/ is to be established near Cuautitlau.
/ Mex. Representatives have concluded
deal for the purchase of a rich haci-
| anda, which includes 5000 acres of
land, which will be divided into tracts
Of 100 acres each. 1t was stated that
the colonists would come from the vi
cinity of Moberly and Sedalia.
An accident occurred near Brown
field, in Pope county, Ill, resulting in
the death of one man aud lserious If
not fatal injury to three others. A
portable engine used in sawmill ex.
ploded and the machinery was blown
100 yards.
JoHS BAILEY, a prominent farmer
residing eight miles north Of Muncie. |
Ind, was shot to death oy Mrs. Levi
Black, neighbor Some days ago
Mrs. Black had Bailey arres ted on
charge of criminal assault The trial |
resulted in an acquittal Sfpce that |
time Mrs. Black had been th9 butt OF |
much talk. This preyed uton her
mind and the tragedy was the result