The Holly chieftain., 1898-03-11

1uest Anchor line boats on the Missis-
I,ippi river until the tornado of May ~,
SEQ. when its upper works were de-
nolished, has been bought for the ST.
L.ouis naval reserves, to be remodelled
nto gunboat. II viii cost SIS. 600 to
'cmodcl the boat. which will be armed
With rapid fire guns from the navy de-
1artment.
lT was stated at 1T. Louis on the tn
hat another strike of Illinois coal
miners was probable as a result of the
'ut in wages by the Big Muddy Coal
company of Cartersville, other compa-
lies stating that they will have to cut
likewise
Ar Mentor o., Mr. aud Mrs. Justin
Alexander, an aged couple. were found
lsphyxiated in their home through es.
,aping gas from hard coal stove.
a Bi6 gathering OF lrish-Americans
assembled in Denver. Col, on the 9Th,
he occasion being the celebration of
he centennial anniversary of the Irish
-ebellion of l5gs. Delegates were pres
"a. from all the Irish-American organ
cations in the state.
The steam tug Dauntless was libeled
1t Jacksonville, Fla, on the eth by the
government, charged with filibuster-
ng. The vessel was put in charge of
| deputy marshal
EVERY man employed in the Erie
anal work between Utica and Rome,
y. y, quit work on the eth. There
we're about 900 of them. They de-
handed that the pay for laborers be
Increased from ~ to II cents an hour.
4 committee waited on the contractors
and it was said that the Increase will
be granted.
The students OF the veterinary col
lege at Kansas City. Mo, on the 9TH
gave banquet of horse meat to the
members OF the faculty Of that insti-
tuition.
The secretary OF agriculture has
suspended the order requiring sheep
in transit to be dipped at the Kansas
City stock yards.
! A FIERCE street battle took place in
Texarkana, Ark, ON the 9Th between
l five BARRIERS in which one was killed
outright another mortally wounded
and a third seriously injured.
THEE Thousand people saw Michaels
exhibition of speed on his wheel at II.
Louis on the 9TH. lie rode five miles
IN lO:4l.
| THE torpedo boat Mckee was
launched at Baltimore. Md. on the
jth, Miss Belle Wordwcll, of that city,
acting as sponsor.
! Mrs. SELvASIA Ross, widow. was
| burned to death by her clothes catch.
| ing fire while encampcd with her par,
] =, ~ h., HErSg,.,
sion in Lincoln county, Ok. She hailed
from Kansas City.
] TnE steel steamer William T. Lynn
was launched at Chicago on the 5th.
She is 420 feet long over all and can
accommodate 204, 900 bushels of corn.
! A NEGRO named viii Jones was
/ lynched by a mob at Lake Cormorant,
Miss, on the 9Th for assaulting a col
\ bred woman.
The strike of the $500 cotton mill
operatives at Biddeford, Me, against
ten per cent reduction in wages has
been declared off. The operatives
have lost s.lO, 600 in wages since the
struck and the business in the town
has been paralyzed
SHEr Woop, prominent young farm
| tt dN 'olitItE pd, sHDt anu
brother Thomas. On seeing the result
Of his shot, he turned the gun on him
self and sent bullet through his
brain. The brothers quarreled over
business matters
THE steamer William Ernest struck
a rock al Brownstone. w. Va. and
sank Immediately, the water rushing
in SO rapidly that the crew and pas
scngers barely escaped alive.
The Hotel Graham ut Graham, Va,
wns destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000
| JAMES w. BELL, president of the St
Louis Safe Deposit company. recently
appeared before the house post office
committee at the invitation of Con-
gresham Bartholdt and made an elab-
crate argument in favor of postal saw
ings banks,
Is tenement house fire at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 9th one woman was
sutfocated and five other people were
so badly burned that three will prob
ably die from their injuries.
| A FIRE recently occurred in the Sa-
turn and Sozenowice mine at Breslau.
Prussia. Twenty dead miners were
got out and there were said to be
many more in the mine.
The Chicago Daily News on the Sd
said that n financial corporation.
TO be known as the international
American bank, with branches
throughout this country, Cuba and
South America, and with offices in Lon
don and possibly Paris, will soon be
doing business on capital of SIS O0O,-
| 900.
LORENZO BARNES was hanged n,
East Cambridge, Mass, on the 9Th for
the murder of John Dean. an aged
farmer. The motive was robbery.
FOUR tramps were found dead in a
refrigerator ear at Fort Worth, Tex,
on the 4th. Death resulted by gas
from fire built with coal.
NEAR Payne Center, Ok, the twin
children of Thomas Ziegler, aged two
years, slipped out of the house and
| fell into u well and were drowned be-
| fore the mother could rescue them.
TROUBLE was reported brewing in
the northern coal district of Colorado
on the 4th. The trust ordered shut
ened to shut down the entire district
reached at once.
WHILE out walking on the 9th at
Cedar Rapids, Ia., Alfred $. Healy,
aged %, shot and instantly killed Miss
Libbic Brauschand. aged IL, and then
sent u bullet through his own head.
| A LARGE steam dry kiln AT the Cen.
tral coal and coke sawmill at Tcxar.
kama, Ark, tumbled in the other aft.