The Holly chieftain., 1898-01-14

murdered in their beds by neigh bors
on the 10th. The three had been
/ killed with an ax and missing hired
man was suspected of the crime.
TuE Western Union Beef company
recently sold 5000 steers off its West
Texas ranch. the consideration being
sl75. 900. The company is disposing of
all its stock in Texas. Colorado, New
! Mexico and Montana and Will retire
! from business. 1t is the largest cattle
I company in the United States.
A FIRE destroyed one of Christian
| Peppers tobacco warehouses on Mar
| ket street, St Louis, and 1000 hogs
| heads of tobacco were consumed. The
| loss was estimated at $3.50, 900; fully
| insured.
| A DISPATCH from the City of Mexico
stated that the Mexican government
I will refuse to permit the colonization
| of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians
| in that country, the law strictly pro-
! hibiting the establishment of colony
| composed OF only one nationality.
AN engineer on the Mexican Nation
| al railroad vas shot and killed in his
| cab for the purpose Of robbery and
] tlBhl heSlCtuS, living AZ s'hidEhir H'A Y
arrested for the crime and condemned
/ to Ice shot.
Up to the 9TH no cemetery in San
| Francisco had consented TO receive the
| body of Theodore Dnrrant, hanged for
| the murder Of Blanche Lamont, and all
| the crematories had re fused to burn it.
| 1t was expected that the body would
! have to be cast into the ocean.
GEORGE CARROLL, u l3-ycar-old boy,
was playing about the trains Mt Ihir-
tieth street and Southwest boulevard
at Kansas City, Mo. on the 9th and at
tempted to get ride on an NJ, X. &
T. freight train when he missed his
hold and fell under the wheels. His
head was cut off and the lower part Of
his body and legs cut to pieces.
The towboat Percy Kelsey blew up
while going down the Ohio river. near
Glcnfield, o., and four men lost their
lives and several others were injured
The boat was literally blown to pieces
and the cargo lost The boat was
valued at S25,0
THE secretary of the interior has is
sued advertisements inviting bids for
the leasing of the grazing lands of the
Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Ind an
reservations in Oklahoma for three
years from April |, and for lands On
the Wichita reservation in Oklahoma
for one year from April l.
THE Missouri, Oklahoma Il Texas
Railroad company has been chartered.
The road is to run from Henrietta,
Tex, northeasterly through oklahoma
and the Indian territory to point on
the Southern Kansas line east of Che
topa, a distance of 200 miles.
Two negroes, named Jim Watts and
Sam Cole, who were paying visit TO
relatives at Pea Ridge, Miss, were
lynched by other negroes for being too
thick with their kinsmen's wives.
lS the Portland saloon at Colorado
City, Col, II. r. Fleetwood and George
Huston, colored, were drunk and went
to sleep on the floor. Some one poured
alcohol on the drunken mems feet and
lighted it. Fleetwood died in h orrible
| agony, but Huston may recover
RECENT arrivals at San Antonio,
Tex, from the Indian creek gold fields
in Uvalde county reported that pros
| pector had struck n vein of ore which
assayed sI,2UU TO the ton. There were
said to be hundreds of prospectors in
the new fields and the late find has
added to the excitement.
| IT was stated on what was consid
cred good authority that some 80 men
on the police force of st. Louis are
drawing disability pensions from the
| government and at the same time
| drawing their salaries as able bodied
| policemen.
The military committee OF the house
recently returned to Washington from
trip to the Vicksburg battlefield and
| agreed to favorably report a bill for
making it a national military park.
A MAMMOTH ice house in course OF
construction at Whitmore Lake, Mich,
collapsed the other day and two men
were instantly killed, five others prob
ably fatally injured and dozen more
badly hurt.
AT $3.50 p. IN. on the 9th a cyclone
struck Morganfield, KY, unrooting the
Methodist church and the Parsons ho-
tel aud demolishing several business
houses. Harry Sellers, the city mar
shall, was killed by falling walls.
SENATOR MASON will soon prepare
and introduce bill in the senate for
q special appropriation for corn ex-
hibit at the Paris exposition. He
hopes by this means to second the ef-
forts of our representatives in Europe
in widening the markets for this
| cereal. In the fiscal year ended June,
1897, the United States exported 54,.
900, 900 bushels of corn and / 900, 900
barrels of corn meal.
A. c. TANNER, acting commissioner
of Indian affairs, has recommended a
deficiency appropriation of s4,1oo for
the revision OF allotments on the Otoe
reservation. Oklahoma. The work is
being done by Helen ?. Clarke.
BURGLARS broke into the Office of
the Standard Oil company near Alton,
ILL.,. the other night and blew up the
safe with dynamite. The explosion
was terrific, the safe door being blown
open and almost the entire office
wrecked. There was only $50 in the
safe and this was all the robbers got.
THE American Express company in
New York was robbed on the 9th OF
s!o.5so, and Clark Braden, Jr.. a trusted
employee, is missing. The theft gave
rise to wild report, which was tele-
graphed over the country, to the effect
that the company had been robbed of
$1,000, 900 which had been given it for
transportation.
AN explosion Of / 500quarts of nitro
glycerine near Booth, an oil town near
Toledo, o., killed an oil well shooter
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