The Holly chieftain., 1898-03-25

llG was hdlu 10 Dc SuUtfinE from DlDON
poisoning, resulting from his training
for fights, and the doctors have found
il necessary to use the knife.
FIRE destroyed the Schoneman
building at Chicago on the 2.st, about
a dozen firms being burned out The
loss on the building was said to be
s2a5. 600.
The Hale house at Butte, Mont, used
as lodging aud boarding house by
miners, was burned the other night
So far as known two men were dead
from jumping ont of windows, another
was dying and 90 were missing and
fears were entertained that they had
lost their lives and were in the ruins
Mrs. IDA b. WELLS BARNETT pre-
sented to President Mckinley on the
2lst set of resolutions adopted at a
mass meeting in Chicago, denouncing
the recent murder of a colored post
master in South Carolina. The presi-
dent informed Mrs Barnett that the
authorities were doing all in their
power to ferret ont and punish the
members of the mob who committed
the crime.
TnE other night Mt WcllsvIlle, o.,
Oliver Reed asked Sarah Walton to
marry him and upon her refusal he
drew revolver and shot her through
the heart He then turned the weapon
on himself and blew out his brains,
dying in short time
MOVED by the eloqucnce of Dwight
l.. Moody, the evangelist, more than
5000 people at the Grand Central pail
ace at New York the other afternoon
poured silver. gold and bills into the
collection baskets To aid the starving
Cubans.
A PERFORMANCE for the benefit of the
Maine monument fund at the Metro
pOlitan opera house in New York on
the Goth netted over $4,000. AT its
conclusion there were tremendous
cheers and patriotic hymns were sung
by the great audience.
SOCIETY young women in St Louis
have started plan to form a regiment.
They will wear military dress and
carry little swords. The regiment
will not 90 to the front, but is intend
ed TO imbue the men with patriotism.
The girls say II there is war and the
male leaders of society in ST. Louis do
not offer their services they will os-
tracise them.
An international celebration OF the
jubilee of modern spiritualism is to be
held at Rochester, y. Y. on June TO 5.
AN explosion in a mine at Pratt
City, Ala, resulted in the death of six
men. The men were state convicts
and were working /, 300 feet below the
e..
either by fire damp or powder.
EUGENE DEBs was said to be figuring
on starting his first socialist colony in
Kansas In an interview in the east
recently he said he thought Kansas
was the most hopeful state in the
union for the furtherance Of his work.
TIE great packing house of Ramirez
* Iepeda. in Mexico City, Mex, was
destroyed by TIRE. Loss, 81. 800, 900,
The New York Electrical Review inn
parts this information concerning the
proposed electric railway between Kan
sas City and Topeka: "Ex-Senator Cal.
win $. Brice is said to be interested in
a scheme TO run au electric road up the
Kaw valley, from Kansas City to To-
pelta, a distance of fully 80 miles"
The 2o-round glove contest between
Australian" Jimmy Ryan and Jim
Watts tcolorcd), champion middle
weight of the south, took place at Louis
Vile, Ky. on the 18th. Ryan weighed
1856 and Watts l5s pounds 1t was a
most vicious fight Ryan winning in
the twentieth round.
AT Wybark. /. T., Ed Chalmers, a
negro, who recently married white
woman, was visited at night by "A mob
of white men. Chalmers and his wife
were shot and killed and one of the
white men was nortally wounded by
Chalmers.
An Ell Paso, Tex, dispatch stated
that the Black Jack gang of American
outlaws and train robbers had been
wiped out in Mexico by avenging
angels of Mormon colony.
Ar Clarcmore, l. T.. Deputy Marshal
Bill Arnold tried to arrest a man
named johnson, when the latter opened
fire. Bullets We're freely exchanged
and both men We're killed.
JEFFERSON TAYLOR, q well-to-do
farmer at Alton, Ark, who has for
some time been mentally unbalanced,
found an old pistol. and shot his grown
daughter, killing her instantly. Then
he killed himself
A CALL has been issued for "A meeting
of all those interested in horse breed
ing to be held at the Palmer house.
Chicago, March SO. to form u national
organization.
TnE monster fywhcel in the Arliug-
ton Heights Street Car company's
powerhouse at Fort Worth, Tex, burst
into pieces the other night, badly
wrecking the building aud injur;n.
Roy Griffin, boy.
TERRIBLE explosion took place on
the 18th in the Santa Isabel mine, at
Belmaz Spain. Seventy corpscS were
recovered, five miners have since died
and many others were unaccouuted for
EARLY on the nth fire broke out in
the fifth story of the large furniture
warehouse of May, Stern a Co, ut st.
Louis. The building was gutted, the
loss being estimated at $50, 900
NEAR Beaver City. Ok, deadly duel
was fought on the highway by Bill
Scrugsby and Jim Newlin. cow boys,
who were before fast friends. Both
were found dead and the six-shooter
of each man lay near his body, with
one chamber empty.
THE ao-round 90 between Kid La
rignc and Jack DAILY for the light
weight championship of the world at
Cleveland, o., on the 18th resulted in n
draw. The fighting was fast and furi-
Gus from the start, but the contest
ants were SO evenly matched that
neither gained an advantage over the
other.