The Holly chieftain., 1898-12-16

movement among the German manu-
facturers to com bine against American
steel producers. They have become
much alarmed at the development of
American capacity to com pete with
them in their own German markets
A BAND of 20 Indians of the Arapahoe
tribe in Oklahoma have formed CO.
operative colony and will leave soon
for the Philippine islands. where they
hope to purchase land and reside per-
nanentlv.
~ mine No. OF the Indianola &
Railway Coal company. near Poteau,
l. T. terrible explosion took place
soon after nine o'clock on the night of
the 18th by which five men lost their
lives and about % others were buried
in the shaft The ignition of coal dust
caused the explosion and the mine took
fire and there seemed to be little hope
Of rescuing the entombed miners
NATURAL gas exploded in the shoe
store of Henry Lukens at Connors-
Vile Ind, instantly killing two men
and injuring several others
THE great water main at Hobart
street and Central avenue. New York,
| burst at FIVE o'clock on the morning of
. the lIth and an area OF 20 blocks was
/ inundated, foundations OF houses be-
ing washed out, trolley and telegraph
ooles torn down and many persons
nearly drowned and made homeless.
| The damage NAV reach $500, 600.
! a REAR-ESD collision occurred on the
| Oregon railway. /? miles east OF PEN
] dletou. Ore. between fast mail and
a freight train and four men were se-
! riously injured.
THE great six-dav, or rather Ii2-hour
bicycle race at Madison Square
garden. New York. came to an end on
the night of the 10th. The score was
as follows: Miller, 9, ,OO7 miles; Waller,
| !,9sj; Pierce. i9)G; Albert, !,s22;
| Gimm, 1,Ts2; Lawson, L757; Aaronson,
| LEG; Nawn, l.72!; Forster. 1865;
Stevens, 1919; Hale, 1902; Julius, l.!G6
Miss REEL superintendent of Indian
| schools. in her annual report to the
secretary Of the interior makes a strong
plea for the industrial feature OF edu-
catiOnal work among the Indians.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the
| Continental Tobacco company were
| filed with the secretary of state at
| Trenton. y. ]. The capital stock is
s75, 900. 900.
The national convention OF the
American F 'eration of Labor met in
Kansas City, No, on the eth Samuel
GomDers, president of the federation,
presided.
ROBERT MOORE, farmer living five
miles east of Hazleton, Pa, shot and
mortally wounded Charles and Paris
Decker, brothers. at the village church
door on the night of the lfth. The
trouble arose over the question of fenc-
ing the church property.
FoE L. years and more George Ogle
had worn convicts stripes in Sing
| Sing prison in New York and faced
the horrors of life sentence without
promise of release. The other day
pardon reached him. In 1887 man
named James Brown was stabbed to
death in a saloon at New York. Two
men swore Ogle was the assailant and
he was convicted and sent up for life
| Recently one of the men confessed
that he had committed perjury.
THE explosion of q gasoline stove in
| Tabitha hos spital at Lincoln. Neb.. the
aker, nurse being burned to death
| and Dr. Wiimeth and medical student
| being badly burned.
The steamer John n. Harbin, plying
between Memphis, Tenn, and Pine
| Bluff, Ark. struck snag near Swan
lake and sunk before landing could
be made. All on board were safely
landed in skiffs. Most of the cargo
was also saved.
The river Neva suddenly rose nine
feet the other night, flooding the lower
| quarters of St Petersburg. and com.
munication was carried on by boats.
| The inhabitants were panic-stricken
and there was great loss of life and
property.
THREE men were killed and eight
| injured, three of them probably
fatally, by the explosion of q press
mill and four grinding mills in the
| Haglcy yard OF the Dupont powder
works at Wilmington, Del.
| THE total loss by recent fire in the
works of the Standard Oil company at
Los Angeles, Cal, amounted to $685.
| 900.
THE Farmers National congress at
oIt lts-, pu Tue OIL duOplcu
resolutions favoring aid in construct
ing the Nicaragua canal; government
control of the same; favoring the de-
vclopment Of the beet sugar industry;
recommending the passage of laws pro.
viding that grain be separated from
seeds of noxious weeds before being
put on the market; favoring the lease
or sale of arid lands, SO as to make
them taxable, and asking congress for
increased appropriations for rural free
mail delivery.
REPORTS received at Dallas, Tex. on
the 9th stated that severe blizzard
ragged all over Texas.
THE post office at Clifton, 90 miles
south of Fresno, Cal, was robbed the
other night by two masked men who
held up A. T. Wilkinson, the postmas.
ter, and secured everything of value
in the place.
The United States transport New
port, bearing the Twentieth Kansas
regiment, under Lieut.. Col Little with
the Wyoming light battery, which left
San Francisco November s, arrived at
Manila on the 7th.
POINT PARK, on Lookout mountain.
in Tennessee, has been transferred to
the government as part of the Chicka-
mauga-Chattanooga national military
park.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 9th
were 237, according to Bradstreets
commercial report. against 29a for the
corresponding week in last wear