The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-28

TdclA 10 lnc various states were up
md their consideration by the commit
ee was commenced.
Four fires occurred the other night
1t MahanOy City, Pa. three of which
we're believed to be incendiary
EUGENE V. DEBs has issued n plea
o the public in behalf of Salter T.
Norden under sentence of death for
rain wrecking near Sacramento, Cal,
Turing the railroad strike of 1894. Mr..
Debs saws that Worden is the victim of
conspiracy of railroad detectives.
JUAS SALAs, a boy. was thrown from
/. runaway horse at san Antonio, Tex,
md his foot hung fast in the stirrup.
He was dragged eight blocks, his head
being frightfully mutilated.
A PIRE at Spokane, Wash, on the
18th destroyed the Great Eastern
block. The upper floors were occupied
by roomers and 1t was feared that ten
% fifteen of them had pcrished in the
lanes.
SENTENCE of death for matricide has
1een pronounced on Virgil Gallagher,
u young medical student of Galveston,
Tex.
STEPS win be taken. il was said, By
he Humane society of Denver, Col, to
prosecute the officials of the state in
lustrial school for incorrigible girls
'or the alleged inhuman treatment of
i've of the inmates. 1t was stated that
i've girls disobeyed an order and were
placed in cold, damp Dungeons and fed
IN bread and water for ten days to
break their spirits.
OFFICIALS of the land department of
he Rock Island railroad state that the
lumber of ''soonersr encampcd on the
Wichita reservation in oklahoma is
constantly increasing and there is sure
% be big rush for that section before
ong.
TIE Lick Observatory party, under
Prof. Campbell, wired that the obserya-
tions taken in India Of the eclipse Of
he sun on the ED were successful and
the results obtained were most valua-
ole.
REroRTs to the war department at
Washington indicate great scarcity of
food in the klondike gold country in
Alaska, with prospects Of worse TO
come.
THE funeral of Joseph Handley took
place at Philadelphia on the 22d.
Ilandley weighed $50 pounds and was
four feet broad across the shoulders.
The coffin, together with the corpse
weighed 1900 pounds
Two farmers near Charlottesville,
Ind, were swindled recently on the
gold brick game, paying $1,000 for
gildcd brass brick.
PROF. WILLIAM EBRIGHr, ex-super-
Inteudcnt of the Institute for the
Blind at Nebraska City, Neb., has been
arrested for alleged misappropriation
Of funds.
RICHARD J. HALLoRAS, a policeman,
was shot at St Louis in wine room
by Miss Nellie Mangan, and some one
then shot the woman. They had been
engaged, but had q quarrel, Miss Man
gan being jealous OF another woman.
Both of them will die of their wounds.
THE towboat Job Williams, with
tow of 60 coal boats was caught in
storm near Leavenworth, Ind, and IA
Of the coal boats were sunk and two of
the steamers crew were washed over
board and drowned.
POLICE found So, 600 worth of coun.
terfeit money in the chimney of
vacant house in West Hoboken, n. j.,
recently. 1t was all in Sl00 notes on
the Bank of Montreal The United
States treasury department was no.
titled and the secret service men took
10 find the plates.
BLACKLEG in Beaver county. Ok,
which is 300 miles long and so miles
wide and con tains many large ranches,
was causing much alarm among cat
great numbers of cattle having
died from the complaint
BY the explosion of an engine boiler
On the farm of Mrs Meadows, 81 miles
sou thwest of Abingdon. Ill, Oscar An
ierson and his stepson were killed and
Lloyd and Willis Meadows were seri.
ously, il not fatally, injured.
CHRIS MERRY, the peddler charged
with wife-murder at Chicago, was
found guilty by the jury. Smith, his
alleged accomplice, was found not
guilty.
the other night washed away three of
the five bridges over Little Blue river.
Fifty persons on one bridge were
saved with difficulty by old citizens
when it went down. Many horses and
cattle were drowned and many of the
houses in the low grounds were four
and five feet deep in water.
JOHN MCGOWAN, who taught school
in Alexander county, ILL.,, whipped
Henry and Scott Jordan for disobedi-
ence. The brothers afterwards way
laid the teacher and beat him SO that
he died. They were jailed at Jones.
boro and an attempt at lynching was
feared.
EDWIN A. DUFF shot and killed his
wife and sister-in-law while they were
walking on the street at New Haven,
Conn. The shooting took place about
six o'clock, just after dark. Duff was
at once arrested.
KID" Mccoy has deposited $1,000
with a sporting paper in New York as
u forfeit to fight either Corbett or Fitz.
simmons for the heavyweight cham.
pionship of the world.
FIFTEEN Cherokee convicts. includ.
ing some desperate characters, escaped
from the national prison at Tahleguah,
|. T., by tunneling through the base
ment wall the other night The sher-
iff was absent.
DR. NJ. o. TERRY, surgeon general of
the national guard of New York. ad.
vocates the use of cathartics and sweet
oil in the treatment of appendicitis,
and declares that of 81 cases under his
personal supervision 40 were success
fully handled without operation.
IS the trial of the whitecaps at De.
catur, Ind, in which James Parrish,