The Holly chieftain., 1898-12-30


money untouched. The affair was a
mystery.
A FAMINE is threatened in the Brit
ish bahamas.
The Episcopal church of the Ascen.
sion at Chicago was damaged $40, 600 by
a fire which started from an over
heated furnace.
AT Oakland, Wis, Mrs. william Tan
ger killed her rsix-months-old babe with
strychnine and took some of the poison
herself and cut her own throat Tenn
porary insanity was thought tp have
caused the tragedy.
Two boys were drowned at Woon-
socket, r. L, while skating on a pond.
THREE brothers-Russell, Edward
and George Sizemore-haye been ar
rested at Onawa, Ia, charged with
the murder of Charles Beck, of Deca-
tur, Neb., for robbery seven years ago.
MARION TYLER, who was recently
jailed at Scottsburg, Ind, for an at
tempt to murder his wife, was hanged
| by a mob, who had prev iously got the
keys from the sheriff.
A CROWD of several thousand whites
and blacks, gathered by the burning
of a saloon building, became involved
in a race riot at Dallas. Tex, and
when the battle was ended two per-
sons had been killed, five were seri-
ously injured and a dozen others
slightly injured. In addition, Que man
| fell dead on the sidewalk during the
fire and woman was fatally njured
in jumping from window CT the
/ burning building.
] A Eupfrrl Indian pnrpn5 Il oil ~ hot
| his cousin Morris at church social at
| Garland, l. r, and fed. He afterwards
returned and, pushing his way through
the crowd, cut the dying mans throat
and then escaped. The two men quar-
| relied over a woman.
| AFTER nearly 80 years imprisonment
in the Columbus (O.) penitentiary for
murder John Taborn refused Christ
mas pardon offered him by the gov
! ernor.
A FREIGHT train on the Cotton Belt
road was wrecked near Murchison sta
tion, some ten miles east of Athens,
Tex. Twelve cars were thrown down
a steep embankment One was loaded
with government horses, only one of
which was killed.
THE work of completing the combi-
nation of the pottery companies of the
United States, to be known as the
American Pottery company, with a
capital of S2T, 900, 0O0 is expected to be
consummated in New York within a
short time.
ARMED men guarded every entrance
to Stroud, Ok, On the 23d. At the depot
no one was allowed to leave trains for
fear of bringing smallpox into town.
Men with Winchesters and shotguns
were stationed at the depot and no
packages from the places where the
disease was known to exist were al.
lowed to be taken to the town.
THE Cincinnati Commercial Tri bune
has published an interview with Gen.
Miles in which the general declared
that he was Investigating the scandal
in which 32T tons of refrigerator beef
and l9s, 900 pounds of canned fresh
beef, unfit for food was sent to one
town in Porto Rico alone for the SOL
| diers.
| A NEW counterfeit 81 silver certifi-
cate has been discovered by the author
tiles at Washington. 1t is of the se-
ries of 1896, Bruce, register; Roberts,
treasurer, and apparently printed from
photo-etched plates on heavy bond
paper. No attempt has been made to
initiate the silk fiber. The execution
is poor and the work would deceive
only the most careless handlers.
MIKE lENNEssEY, one of the best.
known mining men in the Black hills,
and John O'Connell, blacksmith,
were burned to death in cabin few
miles from Deadwood, s. D., in which
they had been stopping.
The blowers at the SwayZee Fruit
Jar company's plant at Marion, Ind,
walked out because of reduction in
the wage scale. About $50 men and
boys were affected.
| TWELVE acres, containing IL, 600, 900
feet OF lumber, planning mill, with
sheds and a large quantity of machin-
cry, were swept by fire at Burlington,
VT, the other day, causing loss esti-
mated at $3.50, 600.
THE Tacoma sailed on the 22d from
San Francisco with lot of army
mules for the use of the United States
troops stationed at Manila In addi-
ton to the live stock the Tacoma
carried large assortment of wagons,
carts, grading plows and other things
the roads in the Philippines.
THE body of Miss Desmondia Law
ton. who with her brother and sisters
went to Chicago from Kansas City n
few weeks ago, was found in her room
on the esd. She had taken chloroform
and had apparently been dead for two
days. She had been suffering recently
from i'll health.
AN epidemic of grip was reported as
prevailing in New York. In Philadel-
phia about 10000 people were suffer
ing from the disease on the 22d. In
Washington many of the governmen I
departments and large commercial
houses were said to be seriously incon-
venienced by so many employees being
absent with the complaint Physi.
clans were busy fighting the disease
in Toledo, o., and other places.
HERMAN GRUSBERG died on the 23d
at the Pacific Hebrew home at San
Francisco, aged 102 years, Nineteen
years ago he bought coffin and had a
shroud made and selected his pail.
bearers.
GEN. LEE has been directed by Sec.
retary of War Alger to distribute ra.
tions and to make systematic efforts
to feed the starving in Havana, thou.
sands of persons, it was reported, be.
ing in want of food.
: SEVENTEEN of the brewing compa.
nies of Baltimore, Md, have consoli
dated under the name Of the Maryland
Brewing company and negotiations