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The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

/ TrRsoNAL AND I'DIITECAL.-
WoKD was received nt the office OF
Georg. Gould in New York that
/ Conutes> Castellanc, formerly Anna
/ Gunld. gave birth to Il son on the Goth
/ in France.
GEN. GoMEz. the Cuban insurgent
general, was recently Interviewed and
SAID that for Spain to offer autonomy
to the insurgents was an insult; that
the insurgents were fighting for inie.
! pcndcucc and, although they would
welcome the intervention of the United
States. they can, If let alone. achieve
their in icpcndence unaided
THE next development in the rela.
tions of the United States government
with Spain will be instructions to
Minister Woodfori To insist on the pay
Tlcnt of the Ruiz claim. The case has
been put in readiness in the state
department and the note relating to it
will 20 in within Il few davs. The
sum OF ST5. 600 was first asked by the
widow OF the man who was murdered
in Cuban jail but this was sealed
down to 81 900 by the government.
toSGEI.sSNiAN Mt'ULLOCH. Of Arkan-
sas, advocates legislation by congress
to establish in ST. Louis "A depository of
all the surplus gold and silver in the
United States treasury. He thinks it
possible, although improbable, that
New York and Washington might be
captured by combination of European
powers, but that all the land forces Of
the United States could be modified
at St Louis before an invading force
could reach there and the wealth of
the government would thus not be in
50 much danger.
TuE New York journal said that il
was probable that Secretary Sherman
wouid retire soon and that Ambassa-
dor Hay would succeed him as s,cre-
tary Of state, as President Mckinley
had been CORES ponding with Mr.. Hay
on the matter.
TnE West side Single Tax club Of
Chicago has memorialized President
Mckinley. asking him to settle the
Indian question by applying the single
tax principle to the Indian territory.
BESJAMIS RUTrERwoRTH, the patent
commissioner. was reported seriously
i'll on the 81 at Thomasville. Ga, OF
kidney trouble and grave fears were
t"It tor MS recovery.
InE opponents OF Mark Hanna cap
turcd the Ohio legislature on the Sd
The anti-llanna speaker was elected
by a vote OF sc to 81 and the senate
was democratic by one
SECRETARY ALGER is sanguine that
the bill providing for an increase in
the standing army of two additional
regiments of artillery will pass con.
gress. He has information that an
agreement has been reached between
the leaders of the senate and the housu
on the measure
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
American Economic Co,v,n,,o,

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 31.-The conven
tion OF the American Economic asso
citation opened yesterday in the Cham
Der OF Commerce building with an ad
dress OF welcome by Prof F. II. Gid
dings, of Columbia university, who
presided. He thought the association
should give close attention to purel,
economic subjects in sociologica
sense rather than to physiological the
cries. Carroll d. Wright, United
States commissioner of labor, told O,
the progress of the labor bureau In
vestigation of the municipal distribu.
ton OF water, gas and electric light.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
HANNA SHORT rwO VOTES.
Republican Committee. and Clubs at tn,
HUNG. nf nnuhffni Memher. EnIIstsd

Republican Committees and Ciuh> at the
Homes of Doubtful Member. Enlisted.
COLUMBUS, o.. Jan. 5.-Marcus A.
Hanna and his followers claimed this
morning to have secured pledges OF
support from Joyce, of Carroll. and
Griffith, of Union, the latter of whom
was forced by his wife to leave the
Hanna headquarters and vote for
Mason. the combine candidate for
speaker. With these two doubtful ac-
cessions, the Hanna men were still two
votes short of enough to insure his
election in the joint session of the leg
islature January II, and the republican
county committees, clubs and other
organizations at the homes of the
doubtful republican members have
hepn enlisted
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
SEVERAL mAsons WITHDRAW.
EyaupeiIst,. D~uupcIstion OF the Order at

Evangeiist's Denuncistion OF the order AZ
Chelsea, L. T.. Proves Effective.
CHELSEA, l. T., Dec. 3i.-Last night
the masons of this place held meet
ing to accept the resignation from
their order of p. d. Henry, Sr.. Rev.
Richard Parks. DIR. Dickson and Gibbs
Henry, all prominent and wealthy
citizens of this place. The cause
for their wishing to withdraw
from the order is said to be that the
seeding masons think no man can be
mason and Christian. They were
enthused to the action by the lectures
of Rev. j. Z. Wolfe, an evangelist, who
has been exposing the secret work OF
the order here. for the past week.
Wolfe. it is claimed, was a mason at
one time and was expelled from the
order either for misconduct or other
wise
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
TO BE MORE EXACT.

CroD Reports by Uncle sam Will Herea fter
Contain More Facts and Less spceuia.
tion.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3l.-When the reg
ular crop bulletins of the department t
of agriculture shall be resumed next
spring, the trade will discover that
more mention will be paid in them to
the fundamentals and less to the spec
ulative features. In other words, the
energiesofth statistical bureau will be
centered more largely upon the collec-
tion and dissemination of exact facts re-
garding crop areas than it will in
guesses on conditions, thereby revers-
ing the practice which has prevailed
for many years. The reports will be
calculated to have less disturbing in
fuence upon the speculative markets
than formerly, but they will be of
more real value to the trade and to
producers
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
DID you evER7

Did you ever know a lodging house
Iandlady who would own to bugs?
Did you ever know dancing mas.
ter's daughter who was not to excel
-agl.oni?
Did you ever know a man who did
not think he could poke the FIRE better
than you could?
Did you ever Know housemaid who.
on your discovering fracture 10 val.
liable China jnr. did not tell you II was
"done long time ago." or thpt II was
Cracked before Burton's Cyclope.
dia of Wit and Humor.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Ag.in.t sunday tuner.ls.

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 81 Bishop
Hortsmann. Catholic, is about to ex.
tend his recent anti-Sunday funeral
order throughout northern Ohio and
has already notified Father Huth-
macher. of Upper Sandusky, to hold
no more funerals on sundays If, by
reason Of death from contagious dis
ease. it is necessary to permit burial
on Sunday. only hearse or wagon
and not more than three carriages or
other vehicles, are to be allowed to
enter the cemetery, according to the
bishops ruling.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Indis,a Coprre.. n. Grnt.,Dl

BOMBAY, Dec. 3l.-The Indian ma
tional congress came to a conclusion
yesterday. amid much enthusiasm and
cheers for the queen empress. Resolu,
tions were adopted thanking the peo
pie Of the United Kingdom. the British
colonies and the United States for gen
erous aid during the famine. 1t was
decided to erect, at a cost of 81. 600. a
memorial of gratitude in London.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Crimin.l Band Uo,,rth.d

PorrsvriLE, Pa, Dec. 3i.-Nine for
eigners were arrested here yesterday
for wrecking saloon. They were
held In bail for trial. The arrest a,
these men has brought to light the
existence of an organized band of for
eiRners Tor the purpose Of self.pro
lection and the punishment of enc.
mics, II need be by murder. oue
branch at New Philadelphia. mining
village, has 30 members. Nearly ail
the members are foreign mine labor.
ers. Weekly dues arc paid for d..
tense fund. The society has sirna
grips and pass words
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
FOR DEEPER WATER.

Chicago Petitions Congress to Improve and
Deepen the Chicago River
I CHICAGO, Dec. 3i.-A memorial to
congress asking for the improvement
of the Chicago river was adopted yes
terday by the joint committee repre-.
senting the municipal government and
the commercial government of the
city. The federal government is asked
to extend the channel from deep water
on Lake Michigan to the docks and
wharves along the Chicago river. with
a uniform depth of 81 feet, for the pur.
pose of affording better facilities for
transhipment between the railroads
and the great lake carriers
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
AnTl-PoLlTIcAL RESOLUTIONS.

Illinois Pedagoguea Want Radical Innova-
tions In Pre- .ent Management of Schools
SPRrSGFfELD, Ill, Dec. 31.-At the
annual meeting of the Illinois State
Teachers association the following
resolutions were adopted:
Petitioning the governor to give teachers
representation on the boards Of normal schools;
indorsing the move OF the Lincoln Monument
association to ma ;e February ia national Lin
coin day; eliminating all regard for politics
especially in county superintendents Office;
favortng any movement for better schools and
urging the legislature committee to formulate
a plan to bring the matter before the next gen.
eral assembly; favoring oh nge in the state
amendment
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

THE Rainy Day club of Syracuse, n
Y. which was organized with flour,
ish Of short skirts last spring. has col.
lapsed, owing to the sensItivcncss of
the members to criticism, a news
paper cartoon broke the spirit of the
girls. This represented that the club
had been formed for vulgar display
rather than for the promotion Of dress
reform, and was so pointed that the
members concluded to abandon the
object lesson promenades on rainy
duvs
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
AsLEkP IN HIS CAB.
An Engineer Causes CoiiI.ion In the santa
Fe Ynrd. at Argentine

~
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. 5.-While
James Scott. Santa Fc railway en-
gineer, slept in his engine cab this
morning, his engine, drawing long
string of freight and stock ears. bore
down upon another freight train,
moving in on a side track in the Santa
Fe railway yards in Argentine. A col
lision resulted in the death of Charles
X. Landers, stockman, 40 years old,
Brazilton, Kan. Four others were
hurt, namely: NJ. L. Meairs, stockman,
Waverly. Kan. side and chest injured,
slightly injured internally; A. C. Olin,
stockman, Brazilton, Kan, right leg
bruised and sprained; John C. Myers,
stockman, Brazilton Kan, side in.
jured; j, NJ. Meadow. liveryman, OF.
tawa, Kan, right hip bruised.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
BEST SHOWING SINCE 's7.
Only ls Railroads. All of Them Short
Line, Turned Over to Court. Thi. Year.

only lS Railroads, All OF Them Short
Line. Turned Over to Courts Thi. Year.
CHICAGO. Dec. Sl.-The Railway Age
will make the following statement OF
the receiverships and foreclosures for
1897:
No year since 1887 has shown SO few roads or
so small mileage confessing insolvency. Com
pared with the record for any one OF the five
years Immediately preceding isg7. the list OF
new recclverships In the last year is surpris-
ingy small, In respect to the number OF lines.
mileage and capital involved. In 1898 no IS
than "a companies. with 29.34I miles
of road and II l.7si,0Jot0o OF bonds and stocks.
defaulted in their obligations and were turned
over TO the control OF the courts In ls9! the
number OF similarly unfortunate roads was Is,
their mileage was 1877 and their capitalization
was less than 93o0000o. In 1875 the number
OF roads was "a. the mileage Al and he capi.
tallzation .2i5. .Sg7 90
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Must he without Means.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3l.-The post of.
fee department has ruled that an ex-
union soldier drawing n pension under
the dependent pension law may be re.
instated in position he formerly oc.
cupied in the service. The case arose
in connection with the application OF
veteran employed in the Philadelphia
post office. In order to obtain pen
sion under the dependent act he must
swear that he is without means of sup.
port and unable to do manual labor.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Hello AN AcclpENT POLICY
A Cyclists DisEust At Net Being M,
in . CollislOn.

~ OOtlhDh0As
This is the story Of a somewhat uuur,,u
accident 1t happened on the Conduit rosi
one evening early in the fall, and the mss
who told me about it was an eyewitnes,
1t is singularly appropriate, by the way.
that he should be an eyewitness, for Ne e
an oculist by profession. A man on 4.
cycle was scorching cheerily along ON the wv
to town, when suddenly there doomed q
out of the darkness in front Of him heavv
wagon and team headed straight for III:
There was no time to turn out. The whei
crashed into the wagon pole. and the ridsr
was thrown completely over the horses, IN.
ing between them and the wagon. The o..
list ran to the rescue, expecting to ~ I
limp mass OF bleeding and unconscious In
manity. Instead, he saw kicking ana
swearing person who was apparently unip.
jured. The bicycle was o Chinese puzzle q
twisted wire.
Are you hurt:' asked the oculist.
The swearing person picked himself m
and stopped swearing. He. gazed at what
had once been fair young bicycle.
"Hurti" he said in tone of deepest dis.
gust "Hurts Me? Of course amt hut.
I've got an accident policy. "-Washingtos
Post.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

CAPT WILLIAM c. OLDRIEvE, of Bos.
ton, has planned to walk across the
Atlantic ocean. lie will begin his
journey July i. accompanied in boat
by Capt. Andrews, famous by reason OF
his voyage across the Atlantic in n
small boat. The sca-going shoes of
Capt Oldrieve are really pair OF
cedar boxes five feet long, with fins on
the bottom and sides. They are very
light and capable of sustaining 40
pounds. but. as Oldrieve weighs only
$50, they are as good to him as a steam.
er's deck
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
GOV. ADAMS is UNsELFlsH.
Although President of - Colorado Savings
Iiank. He Faxors Postal Savings Ranks.

Iians. He FaSors Postal Savings Banks.
DENVER, Col, Dec 31.-Gov. Adams.
who is president of the Pueblo savings
bank, received letter yesterday from
Bradford, Rhodes x Co, banking pub
fishers, of New York, regarding the
efforts to be made by savings bank of
ticials to prevent :he establishment of
postal savings banks The governor
Immediately wrote reply in which
he said:
While have some objections to postal saw
ing> banks. the bulk of the argument seems to
me TO be in favor OF their establishment Tn
intere Is OF the people appear to demand that
the government should give them place of
deposit that Is. beyond question secure. Be-
lievlng this, overlook my interes, as an in
weston in a savings bank for the larger interest
of those who would be interested in postal sav.
tnps
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
AN INTERSTATE "AFFAIR."

Two Governor. to Attend the New Years
Cak--walk nt Wichita
WICHITA Kan, Dec BIB. l.. Eaton,
of the committee on arrangements OF
the interstate cake-walk which is to be
given in this city on New Years night,
has received a telegram asking that
seats be reserved for Gov. John W..
Leedy, Attorney General Boyle and
Assistant Secretary of State Ross.
Gov. Barnes, of Oklahoma, and his
staff have also had seats reserved. Fiji.
teen hundred seats have already been
sold. There have been 90 colored cou.
ples entered
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Irnnt,u. Douue,ly TO Wnrry.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 5.-The an.
houncement was made to-day tina,
lpnatius Donnelly. aged 66, the noted
populist leader, famous also as an
author and upholder Of the Baconiau
authorship of Shakespeare. will in siA
weeks marry Miss Marian Hansen,
aged 20, who has been stenographer in
the office of his newspaper.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
In oIden Times

People overlooked the Importance Of per.
manently beneficial effects and were satia.
lied with transient action; but now that Il
is generally known that Syrup Of Figs win
ton peone w not eon'tp
other laxatives, which act for time, but
finally injure the system. Buy the genuine.
made by the California Fig Syrup Co.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Nav Remove "A Man. stom.ch

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 3l.-Dr. p o.
Walker will probably remove a mans
stomach rs a last effort to save his
life some day within the next week.
The patient is suffering from can
cerous growth in the stomach and
unless it is cut out the man will die
Should the doctor find when he per-
forms the operation that the entire
stomach is affected by the growth, he
will remove that organ entirely. as
was done recently with woman in
Switzerland
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
weyI-r May he pro.ecuted.

MADRID, Dec. 3L.-Several newspa
pers that have published Gen. Wey.
ler's protest against President McKin
ley's message will be prosecuted. The
publication had been prohibited on in.
ternational grounds. 1t is rumored
that Gen. Weyler will be prosecuted
The authorities refuse to transmit the
protest to the queen regent through
the war office
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
No Rnlirf Tor Crn..le..

AsHISGToN. Jan. 5.-George ID.
Crossley was railroad rioter in Cali
fornia in 1898 and was convicted and
sentenced for the death of an engineer
in the derailment of a train. He ap-
pealed to the circuit court for the
district of California on the
ground that the train had carried
mails, but was unsuccessful. Yester-
gay the supreme court of the United
States upheld the circuit court
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

BIG international health exposi-
tion will open in New York on April
25. The promoters propose to make
their show practical, scientific and ed
ucational, covering everything that re.
lates to health, indoors and outdoors,
and showing all the sanitary and
hygienic progress of the century in
house heating, ventilation, plumbing.
and SO on, and also comparative ex-
hibits of new and primitive hospital
arrangements, systems of sewerage for
cities and villages, modern school
room and the other kind. model tene.
ments, health food and many other
things.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Civil wi,ne.se. at Naval Court.- Martial

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3l.-The naval
authorities have long regarded the
provisions OF existing laws relating to
the administration of justice as defec-
tive in that naval courts-martial are
not empowered to secure the attend
ance and testimony Of civilian wit
nesses. 1t often happens that impor-
tant facts are exclusively known by
civilians and their testimony is re-
quired before almost every important
court-martial. Secretary Long has
submitted to the house naval commit
tee draft of bill to remedy this
evil without giving the naval courts
undue authority.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Main. MIL. to ca. w...,.

LEWISTON, Me-, Dec. Silt is con-
ceded that the cotton mills in Maine
win fall into line with the other New
England mills early next month and
reduce the wages OF the operatives.
Twelve thousand employees will be
af7acfad
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
pn.,I,r of OId New y,r..

NEW YORK, Dec. 3i.-To-day will be
the last day of the old city of New
York. The last meetings of many OF
the official boards of the city have
been held. Others will meet for the
last time to-day. When the birth of
another year has been announced by
the booming of cannon, the Ginning
of church bells. blowing of horns and
footing of whistles, the dawn of a
grander, Greater New York will be o
fact
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Dnrrant'. Parents sue a Juror.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31.-The mother
and father of Theodore Durrant have
brought suit for slander against
smythe, one of the jurors at the trial
CT Durrant, and demand $50. 900 dam.
ages from him. The suit grows out OF
remarks made by Smythe about Dur
rant, whom he accused of being moral
monster
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

IS Philadelphia hospital is blind,
crippled, nine-vear.oldg girl undergoing
treatment for hip disease, who has in
few weeks come to be known rs n
human photograph. She is said by
the doctors and nurses to have the
most marvellous memory of any human
being that ever came under scientific
examination. Whatever is repeated
to her seems to become fixed in her
memory as steadfastly rs the records
of the photograph are taken on the
wax cylinder, and days afterward she
can repeat poems. speeches and stories
word for word as they were read. Her
name is Josephine Brenner.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

THE figures compiled by the Rail-
road Gazette show that the new rail
roads built in the United States in the
year 1897 amounted to about l,93s
miles. These figures are partly esti.
mated and are subject to small correc'
tion. The number of miles OF new
railroads built in the year 1896 was
1897, and in the year 1895 lee miles.
California built more track than any
other state in 1897, namely, 100 miles,
and the largest amount built by any
one railroad was 2G9.5, by the Kansas
City, Pittsburg e. Gulf Missouri built
10 miles of new track, but in Kansas
not mile was laid.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

THE Chicago * Northwestern Rail
way company recently gave a mortgage
for siG5 vOD,ODO It covers 3,7s2 90 miles
of road in actual operation, and rail-
way Il miles long under construction
from Big Suamico, Wis. a point on the
MIchigan-W Wisconsin boundary.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
sumciently stunea Alr~.ay

did you say" inquired the cannibal
rheftain, that the captive had just been
graduated from college,"
He so stated. l believe replied the head
chef, deferentially
''lf that is the case" continued the dusky
potentate. Il think you may dispense With
the stufiing. N. Y. Press.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
FITz NAMES HIS TERMS.

Conditions Upon Which the Champion VIII
Meet orbctt and Mccoy.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3l.-Tom O'Rourke.
has wired to the Associated press from
Fort Wayne, Ind. as follows:
Julian and Fiizsimmons have named Joe
Walcott at the middewcight limit 10 meet
Mccoy. and Peter Maher to meet Corbetf. l!
Mccoy and Corbett win from Walcott and
Mnher, Fitz,immon, will meet both of them
nfterward These are the oniy conditions Fitz-
simmons Will make with Mccoy and Corbett
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

EAELY in the spring DR.. Zicgfcli
will begin the building Of the Chicago
Musical college. the estimated cost OF
which will be $500, 600. 1t is his ayowcd
intention to make Chicago the musical
center Of the United StAtes.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Mortc.re an n. st,lwrll Road.

QUINCY. ILL.,, Jan. IA first mort
gage for sl4, 600, 900 on the new Omaha,
Kansas City & Eastern railroad wa.
filed yesterday. Bonds at Ave per cent
for 30 years are to be issued. and the
mortgage covers new u ,0oO, 600 bridge
TO be built at Quincy.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

President IALI.kWAT. of the Lake
Shore & Michigan southern railway,
in an interview at Cleveland. o.. said
that the long-d,>tancc telephone was
cutting into the passenger business of
the railroads in Il serious manner. bus.-
ness men ng it more and more in
stead of travelling
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

GES. MuEs has recommended, it was
reported, that the uniform Of the
United States army be changed to cor
respond with the more gorgeous uni.
forms Of European armies, but Sccre-
tary AIEer does not think fuvorably OF
the recommendation
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

PARIS police statistics Just published
cffcctually prove that murder does not
pay from financial point of view
They enumerate Il murders by which
the assassius averaged SIC, and all the
criminals were guillotined. The sta
tistics also cite cases of over 100 more
or less famous murders yielding in
many cases but few cents. The big.
gest haul was SGj.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

TIE apple crop of 1896 on this
continent, the New York Sun saws.
was by far the greatest ever known.
1t is now estimated to have amounted
to 10000, ,0JO barrels. The apple crop
Of the present wear will he, it is said
about one-third as large as that of last
year; it is now estimated at 90 900 ODO
barrels. This, however, is more than
an average crop.
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07

MoEE states will elect governors or
other state officers in 1895 than were
chosen in 1891, legislatures which will
choose United States senator's will be
elected in many state, and Il house of
representatives. of &57 members will be
renewed
The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-07
Pl... ser . nls wh.. 81 roo,.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 81 -Leading
Kentucky distillers have inaugurated
a movement for pool of the big stocks
Of past years. 1t is claimed that 500,
900 barrels Of whisky will be put into
the pool