The Holly chieftain., 1898-09-23

| burned to the ground on the 10Th and
two men, Frank Harvey and George
Straus, were burned to death. The
men were guests of the Sheppard hotel
The party of Missouri and Illinois
prOspectors who started for far away
kotze buc sound a few months ago in
the schooner Merrill, has had 4 serious
split-up and are now going up differ
ent rivers in the north. They left
Capt Louis Bernhardt, who sailed the
schooner north, dangerously i'll in his
cabin. Reports of gold strikes 900
miles up the kowak river in Alaska
caused him to be deserted in a day.
SICKNESS among the troops of Gen.
Lawton's command at Santiago was
reported on the 18th as increasing,
nearly one sixth of his force being on
the sick list, although the number of
deaths was not great
a STATEMENT was given out at the
war department on the 18th that vol
unteers, instead Of going TO their sem
ators and congressman to secure their
discharges, must apply for them in q
proper manner by sending a letter to
the adjutant general, stating their rca.
sons for wanting to be discharged.
PRIVATE advices received in New
| York stated that Lieut.. Peary had
made a most auspicious start on his
| journey TO the north pole He was at
/ Etah. near the entrance to Smith sound
on August IS and was planning to
make a winter camp far up on the
northwestern coast of Greenland
| MINERS who arrived at Seattle.
] l. II 4 T..
prevailing at Dawson, Alaska Hun.
/ drcds of persons were said to be i'll and
/ the deaths averaged about a dozen
daily.
/ ALARMED by the spread of typhoid
| fever in the Iowa camp, Surgeon Rof.
| ter had all the tents OF the Kansas
/ regiment at Camp Merriam, San Fran
cisco, taken down, the floors moved
and everything disinfeCtcd.
! THE Leroh Lake Indians held a coun-
ell at Walker, Mimi, with Indian
| Agent Sutherland and informed him
that they would ignore the authority
OF the United States in their tribal
matters and resist any interference
| by the government in the disposal Of
the pine lands of the reservation.
. "a i%'H'A A''-' ts5 y" NNit va hHc lchi Suli
| that the drought in England was as.
suming most serious aspect and the
extreme heat continued. In East Lon
don 1000, 900 people have water sup.
| ply only four hours day.
| A DISPATCH from Camp Meade, Pa. i,
said a majority of the men are bccom-
/ ing more and more restless and unless
the war department acts promptly
there may be mutiny in some of the
/ commands.
THE third and last day of the ma
| tiOnal currency convention at Omaha,
| Seb., began with a paper in support
OF an unlimited issue of irrcdeemable
currency by the government by Gen.
A. j. Warner, president of the Ameri-
can Bimetallic union. A reply was
made to him by Congressman Fowler,
of New Jersey, who supported bank
currency. Mr.. Fowler said the only
logical position the silver men could
take was that of Gen. Warner; that If
they could legislate value into silver
they could legislate value into paper
and make it redeem itself
SECRETARY LoSG on the 10th issued
an important order reorganizing the
North Atlantic squadron. The fleet is
reduced from force of about 100 ves-
sells to 81. The fleet as reorganized
will consist of the Indiana, Massa-
chusetts, Texas, New York, Brooklyn,
and vessels of less prominence
A POLISH christening at Banning,
Pa, a mining settlement, ended in a
free-for-all fight, in which knives, pis-
| tN1R Il n. H.,
man was killed and five others injured.
WILLIAM FREEDMAN, bachelor liv-
ing alone on a claim eight miles west
of Nowata, l. r., was assassinated
while in bed. A man formerly in
| Freedman's employ was arrested on
| suspicion.
| THREE young men, while rowing
home from church on the Connecticut
river off Moramus, Conn, had their
boat capsized by squall and they
were drowned in sight of some of their
| relatives on shore.
LEE MILLER was legally hanged at
| Heber, Ark, on the 10Th for the muir
der of Hugh Patterson for his money.
| The execution was witnessed by a
| large crowd.
In the issue raised by the Second
Texas infantry, which refused to be
paid by colored paymaster, it was
! given out at Washington that the
president had given orders that Maj.
Lynch, the colored paymaster, was to
be supported by the authorities and if
the Texas or any other soldiers de-
clined to be paid by him they were
| likely to wait a long time for their
money.
ALL free soup houses in Havana,
which had been feeding the needy over
$4,000 rations daily, were closed by
order of the governor general. 1t was
predicted that additional distress
would follow the closing.
The final contracts granting the con.
cession for an American railroad from
Canton to Hankow, China, were signed
in Washington by the Chinese minis.
ter and representatives of the Ameri.
can company, of which ex-senator Cal.
win S. Brice is at the head. This gives
the American company concession
for building and controlling a railroad
nearly 500 miles in length through the
richest and most populous part Of
China.
THE yacht Emily was struck and
sunk by squall in the narrows at
Newburyport Mass. on the 18th and
two men out of the five on board were
| drowned.
| DETAILS of the hurricane that visited
the West Indies recently show that it
was the worst of the century. In St
Vincent ont of n popul "a tiop of Al 0On