The Holly chieftain., 1898-04-01

l4Nf I've pr phtat4 IT,
Tar lcvee on the Wabash river at
sullivan, Ind, gave way on the night
II the 2sth. Twenty thousand acres
II land were ovcrflowed and hundreds
1f families were rendered homeless
and destitute,
WHILE insane from drink Marion
Sadler ut Cedar Rapids, la, attempted
to kill his wife and son. After firing
four shots without effect the son shot
his father in the stomach. fatally
Hounding him. Sympathy was with
the son.
a CONDENSATION train, made up of a
chair coach and six ore cars, on the
south Park * Hill Top railroad in
Colorado. was blown from the track
On the 2Gth and rolled down an en-
bankment Eight persons sustained
severe cuts and bruises.
The steamer Greenland returned
from the seal fisheries to St. Johns, y.
+, on the 2Gth and reported terrible
disaster. While mem bers of the crew
were travelling among the icefiocs in
search of seals Il blizzard arose and
many of them could not regain the
NG7@'4 i VI y -Nl X II iAfLl 4ShNAi slhAi
between 80 and go were so badly frost.
bitten that the amputation of one or
more of their limbs will have to be
undergone by all of them. 1t was
feared thatother steamers had suffered
in like manner
ADvICEs from Port-auPriucc, Hayti,
on the 10Th reported n terrible fiuan.
cial condition existing there. The
premium on gold was go per cent, the
greatest misery and starvation pre-
vailed in the interior and flour cost so
barrel.
NEBRASKA was struck by one OF the
worst storms of the season, an Omaha
dispatch OF the 27th stated. Ten inches
Of snow fell throughout the state.
Sheepmcu were apprehensive about
their stock. but the wheat fields were
safe, being covered with thick blan-
Ecct of snow.
The house Of Edward Hansman. al
Kent, Mimi, was burned early the
other morning and all the family per.
ished in the flames, including Mr.
Hansman, his wife and five children.
The bodies were afterwards recovered,
burned DtEOnu recognition.
THE astronomers of the University
Of California at Berkeley on the 25th
had completed their computation of
the comet recently discovered by Prof.
Pcrrine, OF the Lick observatory, and,
according to them, it will become
brighter and remain in sight for some
time. 1t was said to be travelling to-
ward the earth at the rate of l, 900. 900
miles a day. 1t is visible about four
o'clock in the morning.
AT least IA people were killed and
much loss Of property resulted from a
tornado that struck Lehigh and Coal
Gate on the night OF the 2Gth and
moved n path TO South McAlester, !.
T. The dead, SO far as known, are
James Seafoam, wife and three chill.
dren; Alex Pcndergrass and family. and
Samuel Stinson, wife and five children.
The homes of several farmers were
picked up and carried away.
Two tramps built coal fire in an
old basin the other night, put it into a
refrigerator ear in the Frisco yards at
FayetteS lille, Ark, and went to sleep
by it A third tramp climbed into the
car. shut the door and also went to
sleep. In the morning another tramp
entered the car. He noticed the coal
smoke but thought nothing of it and
fell asleep An hour later tramp,
who slept in another car, went to
wake his friends, and found two OF
them dead and the other two uncon.
scious
A CHICAGO dispatch stated that
George T. Nicholson had been appointed
general passenger and traffic manager
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway to succeed ". F. White, who
died recently. The appointment is to
take effect May /.
BURT WALSH, farm hand in the
employ OF Mrs Emma Slower, near
Brownsville, Wis, quarreled with her
and shot her twice with revolver and
then killed himself.
A sHASTY boat, occupied by George
Harding and family, was capsized by
the flood short distance below Colum-
bus, o., and Harding and five children
were drowned.
HEAVY floods were reported on the
23d in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Vir.
ginia and Indiana Nearly all the
railroads in central and southern Ohio
were said to be crippled or totally dis.
abled because of washouts. Around
Pittsburgh, Pa. manufacturing con,
Germs were severely inconvenienced
from the freshets. At Wheeling. w
Va, various manufacturing establish
ments, employing from 10, 1000 to $1,000
men, have shut down because of floods.
The business failures in the United
States for the week ended tn. 25th were
2l5, according to Bradstreet's report
against aal in the corresponding weel
of last year
+. Wooding, of Denver, Col, were en-
rolling 500 young men, experts in TIL,
use of the rifle, who will offer theii
services to President Mckinley in cas-,
of war. The organization will bt
known as the Rocky mountain sharp
shooters"
The Nebraska state board Of trans
portation has announced it's intention
of enforcing reduction in loca
freight rates on all roads in Nebraska
The reduction will amount to from il
to 10 per cent The action is the resul
of the supreme court decision at Wash
ing ton declaring the maximum freigh
rate law inoperative.
GEN. JOSEPH TorMAN. Names famou
Lilliputian, recently died ut Lewiston
Me. 1t was supposed that he died o
apoplexy or heart disease. He wa
born December Is. 1861, and was sym
metrically formed. His height was a
inches and when weighed last he tippe,