The Holly chieftain., 1898-08-19

n its path was swept away. Eight
people were killed at that place and
many others were known to have lost
.heir lives in the adjacent territory.
THE mortality was reported on the
18th TO be so great in the camp of the
Spanish prisoners at Santiago de Cuba
hat the dead were no longer buried,
put funeral piles of a dozen bodies
were made, then saturated with kero'
seue, set fire to and cremated.
CHAPLAIN r. 7. KEgLIS, of the Third
regiment, Missouri volunteers, has
written letter from Thoroughfare
Sap. Va, exposing the mismanage-
nent prevailing in the Second army
corps. Thirteen hundred gallant sons
Of Missouri are in that corps. Accord
ing to the chaplain many of them go
barefooted, many are ragged, all are
hungry and their health is being un-
ierInined by the inefficient care which
Uncle Sam takes Of them.
A SPECIAL from Candy, Mimi, on
the 18th reported a tornado IL miles
vest Seven persons were killed and
,even were missing.
WITH the coming Of peace the com
y VI Ght army mas
oeen ordered by the administration at
Washington to supply rations to the
troops which have been under Gems
Gomez and Garcia, as well as to any
surviving reconcentrados- The prob
lem of the Cuban insurgent soldiers is
| recognized as being serious, as many
Of them have no homes to return to
and for time there will be little
prospect of their making living.
THE chaplain OF the Fifth Missouri
1t Chickamauga park. Ca, has sent
put TO the citizens of Kansas City and
/ Missouri an appeal for funds TO relieve
the sick and suffering soldiers of the
regiment, caused through the alarm
ing increase Of typhoid and malarial
fever.
The yacht Leona, with Il men on
| board, was run into by barge off BOs-
ton and five men were swept from the
deck, three lost their lives and two
sustained injuries.
TWENTY-FIVE picnickers returning
from the country to Duluth, Mimi,
were thrown out of draw and two
mem bers of the party were killed and
the Others were more or less injured.
| The brake refused to work while GO
ing down hill.
a DIG fire devastated large area in
the raisin packing district in Fresno,
Cal, on the lith, the aggregate loss
being estimated at $500, 900 to $3.50. 900.
Many warehouses and strings of
freight cars standing alongside of
! them were destroyed.
RAMON GOMEZ and Antonio Valarde
fought duel with pistols al Ell Paso,
Tex, until one fell with his leg shat
between them, caused by Gomez hav-
ing eloped with Valarde's sister. The
luel was pre-arranged and they had
their seconds
The manufacturing plant of the
American Cutlery company at Chicago
on the 18th was damaged s75, 600 by
fire. Five hundred employees were in
the building, but all were rescued.
CHOLERA is epidemic at Madras.
The managers of the transmits.
sissippi exposition at Omaha, Neb., an.
nouuced that a grand peace jubilee
will be held on the exposition grounds
| hht "Nth Va otlopCI ~ W -.
A cLoUDBuRsr at Beach Creek, near
Rogersyilie, Tenn, caused the loss OF
at least 90 lives. The torrent of water
fell in the vicinity of the home of vii.
liam Figan, farmer, and his entire
family-wife and five children-was
washed away by the flood and drowned,
but Figan escaped. Many others in
the neighborhood were carried away
and homes end crops destroyed by tn.
deluge.
THE two-masted Spanish schooner
Salve Maria, of about 80 tons wa.
wrecked on the shoals near Key West
Fla, on the 18th. She was total loss
Her crew was saved.
WOLFE CooSE a full blood, and Wat
Duncan, half-breed, were nominated
for principal and assistant chiefs o.
the Cherokees at Tahlequah. L T. The
nominations mean that the full-blood!
will bitterly resist any changes pro
posed by the United States
IL freight collision on the Wabasf
near Churubusco. c. ii. Truck, o
Bloomfield, Ind, was killed and Brake
man Shelliner, OF Peru. was badly in
jured. Five cars were demolished.
A DISPATCH from Fort Worth, Tex.
stated that it was admitted that there
was a most noticeable shortage Of cat
tie in Texas among what is known a.
the aged steer class and that feeder,
this fall will fall short in their calcu
lations il they anticipate filing VI
their feed lots from Texas ranges
AT New York Policeman Henry Haw
ley, while in n drunken rage, shot hi
wife, his mother, his four-year-olt
son, his six-year-old daughter anc
then himself.
ALTHOUGH the war lasted only IL
days it is estimated that it has COS
the United States government, so ia
$3.50, 900, 600.
AT an early hour on the 1ith 25
masked men went to the county Jail a
Corinth, Miss, and demanded the per
son of Mullock Walker, negro, VIII,
was charged with fatally assaultin,
Charles Dazelle with sandbag. n,
resistance was made and Walker wa
taken to the most central part Of tow
and hanged to the guard arm of one o
the telegraph poles
ED SHANNON at Central City, n. D.
shot Judge Giddings and Jack Wear
beat his wife over the head with re
volve! until he thought she was deaf
and then committed suicide. Th
trouble was caused by his being jealou
of his wife.
THE floods in the Scioto valley hav
covered over 1o, 1000 acres of corn Ian,
in the Scioto bottoms in the immediat
vicinity of Portsmouth, o., causing
loss of over 5000, 900.