The Holly chieftain., 1898-07-22

the war department governing the en-
listmcnt Of army cooks, under the pro-
visions of the act Of congress of July I.
Candidates are required to give prac-
tical exhibitions of their ability to
cook. Only one cook is authorized By
law FOR each company, troop or bat
terry.
AT Cypress, Tex, a negro, named
Peter Burton, murdered Hen y Meyer,
white farmer his wife aud infant
child. Robbery was thought to have
been the motive. The crime was com
mitted with hatchet. Posses were
put after the murderer.
A PASSENGER train on the Louisville,
Evansville IL st. Louis Air line col
lided with an engine near Georgetown,
Ind, and the engineer and two tramps
were killed.
NEWT WHITE and Sam Yarbrough,
two young men of Washita county,
Ok, fought duel with knives over
their sweetheart Both were engaged
TO the girl. They met at n dance,
quarrel ensued and the men agreed 10
20 out in the road and settle their diff
fereuccs. Yarbrough made u mum Der
of gashes in Whites breast from which
he cannot live. Yarbrough's throat
was cut from ear to ear
THE three regiments camped at
Charleston, 5. C., were ordered out on
the 10th Tor a ten-nile tramp in heavy
marching order Before they returned
to camp some companies had lost near
ly half their men from exhaustion.
The trouble seemed TO be that they
had not had proper food for some time
to sustain them in a march All they
had had for breakfast on the 10th was
hardtacIS. coffee and tomatoes
SAMUEL II. TAYLOR, travelling sales.
man, shot j. j. Saniys 10 death on
the street at St Louis for abducting
his child. Taylor had separated from
his wife and placed his child in an
orphans home. Recently the mother
and Sandys had met the child on the
street and had got away with it
THE Cudahys at Omaha, Neb., grant.
ed the increase of wages demanded by
their striking packers
SEVERAL counties in northern Texas
were recently swept by a terrific wind
and hailstorm end great damage was
Na'AN ~ NAAN RRhlu dll' ''NA'A - ups
Several persons were also reported
killed.
a TRAIN on the Peoria Il Northern
division of the Wabash ran into n
buggy crossing the track at brooklyn,
H., the other night and killed Ted
Rawlcy and wife.
Is the opinion of Washington postal
authorities. the prevalence of yellow
fever at Santiago makes it necessary
to disinfcct the mails coming from
that point
News of the sinking Of the Chinese
torpedo boat Hee Ching at Port Arthur
few days ago was published at Kobe,
Japan. 1t was stated that there were
lis men on board, not one of whom
was saved.
The final report OF casualties in the
army since it landed in Cuba has been
| forwarded to Washington. 1t shows
an aggregate of 1914 officers and men
killed, wounded and missing. The
killed number 2i6, of whom 81 We're
officers; wounded, LISA. of whom 9s
we're officers, and missing, 81, of whom
none were officers. OF the wounded
| only IS have Cicd.
| Two engineers. fireman and a
brakeman were killed in n head-end
collision n few miles south of Decatur,
| Ala. on the Louisville Il Nashville
railroad. The two trains met with Il
terrible crash that demolished both
engines and reduced many cars To
| splinters.
| THE marble and granite dealers of
Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri,
| Kansas and South Dakota at the con-
vention at Council Bluffs, Ia, organ
! lied the National Marble and Granite
| Dealers Association of the United
States. with James A. Graham, of Des
Moines, Ia, president and j. \. Kill
dew, of York, Neb.. secretary and
treasurer.
AT Coaling, Ala, the other morn.
| ing, Sid johnson, a negro, was lynched
for assaulting n respectable widow
and attempting to assault a l6-year-
old girl. The frenzied citizens hung
him to tree, after which they liter
ally filed his body with lead.
RAILWAY officials report that the
heat on the Colorado desert has never
before been SO intense as this summer
| The thermometer has gone away above
100 degrees. There have been numerous
fatalities. Near Indio a few days age
freight car on u side track caught
fire from the heat of the sun and was
/ blazing before il was discovered and
eNtinguished.
f. ID. ROWLAND, after eating dinner
at a hotel in Chicago. gave a $500 bill
to n waiter in payment The waiter
was unable TO obtain change for the
bill from the cashier and went to the
elevator and thence out of the hotel
building. He has not been seen since.
A RECENT special from Mansfield, o..
stated that Is prisoners in the state re-
.ormatory were strung up by their
thumbs in dungeons and given only
one scant meal day, having gone on
strike" because their tobacco sup
ply was cut off. There were a5 Others
implicated but they returned to work
when informed what the punishment
would be.
| AT Pierceton, Ind, the other night
whitecaps marched to the residence OF
William Keller, pulled him from his
bed, out of the house, barred his back
and with blacksnake whip gave him
50 lashes Keller was in the habit of
getting drunk and whipping his wife.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 18th mum
bered aSs, according to Bradstreets
report against 2+7 for the correspond
ing week in last year.
The City of Puebla and the Peru, car.
rying the fourth military expedition to
Manila, left San Francisco on the 18th.
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