The Holly chieftain., 1898-11-18

Tt-DE mine a. EcscpLtr -ATlLr III
which Superintendent Murphy was
nortally wounded. q man named
B-uncr killed and two Others wounded
The trouble was over boundary lines
OF claims
AS iucendiary ire burned four blocks
at Tifin, o. Loss, SIS,
PRIVATE JACKSON and Corporal Bar
rett. OF the Tenth cavalry, were killed
by Horse" Douglas. a negro tough, at
Huntsville, Ala
A MASKED mob at Seymour. Ind,
took out ot Jail a colored democratic
stump speakcr-who had been i'm
D-isoHei on the charge Of obtaining
money by false p-etenses and severe
IL beat him
THREE persons were burned TO death
in a Ere at Perry, Mich.
AT a meeting OF about 500 OF the
most prominent colDred citizens OF st
Louis resolutions we-e passed for
committee TO draft "a address TO Presi-
dent Mckinley, ca ir- his attention
to the deteuseless con tion of colored
citizens, who are subjected in the
states in which they We to all forms
o: violence. and asking him to inter
veue N behalf of humanity and good
circulated throu -hout the United
states for the purpose Of securing sig
natures aud cooperation of the col
ored citizens Of the entire country.
THE Eighth cavalry sailed from
Savannah. Ga, for Cuba on the 18th.
PAYNAsrEE GENERAL STEWART made
his annual report TO the secretary OF
the navy of the important part the
pay department of the navy played in
the war, in which, beside the disburse-
ment of funds, il was charged with the
procurement of all supplies for the
navy. In the mater of clothing the
/ department had to supply in haste
| ..0OO. 600 garments 10 meet the needs
| OF the naval militia alone
A TRAIN on the Leh gh Valley road
/ crashed into anothcr train going the
. opposite way on the same rails, be-
/ tween Newport and Fairview, Pa, and
/ Eve trainmen were killed and four
others badly injured. One Of the
! trains had orders 10 take a switch, but
the breaks refused TO work and the
engineer lost control of the train.
. The passengers were badly shaken up.
/ WRECKEBs who arrived at Nassau, y.
P, on the llth brought with them
stores from the stranded vessel off Cat
island, which established beyond a
doubt that she is the lnfanta Maria
Teresa. AS the vessel is looked upon
as being a derelirt the wreckers
claimed the right to seize the stores
which can be saved The vessel lies
between two reefs, on smooth bottom.
EIGHT negroes were killed and three
white men wounded on the 10th in this
riots at Wilmington, y. C. A commit
tee of white citizens-who had ordered
the negro publisher of the Record u
leave town because he had printed al
editorial defama tory Of white women -
proceeded in a body and demolished
the printing plant and burned dowr
the office. All the colored munici
pal officers were made to resign ant
white men were selected to fill thei
places.
The worlds ten-shot pistol recor,
was broken in Philadelphia on the 9tl
by C. II. Taylor, of the MGssachusett
Rife association. He made the limi
score OF 100 and placed ten CONSECUTIVE
shots within ~ inches of the bull
eye at 52iG yards, The previous rec
ord, which has stood since 1855. was 9g
by E J. Darlington, of Whining ton
Del
The interior department has pre-
pared the rules and regulations u
carry the Curtis bill into effect in gov
crning mineral leases, collection AM
disbursement OF revenues and super
vision of schools, in the Indian terri
tory.
NEGROES at Pana, Ill, where tn
mining trouble is, were stated to b
continually shooting off their gun
and soaring the women and children
and things were in such a state that /
was dangerous for any one to go out a
night in the mining district Citize n
said If something was not done 500
there would be au outbreak and ever
negro and operator would be killed.
COMPARATIVE quiet reigned at Wi
mington, y. C.. on the 18th, but
movement was begun by the new whit
municipal officers to rid the town o
turbulent negro leaders and severa
, were taken to the trains and sen
away with instructions not TO return
AN overturned kettle of greas
caught fire in the Great Western Tin
. plate company's mill at Joliet, ILL.,, Of
, the 10th and owing to the hurrican
. blowing the plant was in ashes in 5
minutes. The mill employed 275 skille,
workmen. Loss, SEQ, 600; insurance
$4,000.
Il HUNDREDS of people were report
. sick and many cattle have died through
drinking the water from the Roarinl
Fork river. which has been mad
poisonous through the concentrator
at Aspen, Col. in which zinc ores ar
treated, dumping the tailings into tn
,, , river. Ranchers are taking steps /
stop the pollution of the stream.
THE fourth assistant postmaste
general on the 10th made his report o
the work of his bureau for the fisca
year ended June so, 1895. 1t contane,
much general information to those in
terested in postal matters.
LAKE MIcHIeAS. swept by north
east gale, was tearing great holes Il
l the sea wall and the paved teach alon
: the lake front at Chicago on the 10th
The Lincoln park commissioners ha,
repaired the damage Of the storm o
October IS. but the action of the wave
undermined the outer driveway il
Lincoln park, after displacing tn
E heavy granite blocks with which tn
leach was paved.
, The bottom of the Pacific between
S Hawaii and California is said to be S,
level that a railroad could be laid fo
. 500 miles without grading anywhere