The Holly chieftain., 1898-11-25
MISIE IELIANEOJS,

"a blHlsFHN nj lyI lItAI III AnAN N.llh g
Mo, and surrounding country on the
9lst. Reports from Kansas, Missouri,
Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska and other
places stated that there was a big drop
in the temperature and that severe
snow and windstorms generally pre-
vailed.
GOLD was discovered at Steu bcnville,
o., while digging pole holes.
GEN. JAMES LoSGsTREEr. the com.
missioner of railroads, in his annual
report made public on the 2ist, calls
attention to the general prosperity of
railroads and recommends the govern
ment construction and operation of a
tirst-class double track railway from
Kansas City, Mo. to San Diego, Cal, ,
by air line route. This would open
the shortest line, measured by the
map. from Boston. New York aud
Philadelphia to the Pacific coast and
make the most direct line from our
great commercial centers to the Sand.
wich islands and the Philippines.
Two freight trains collided on the
Kansas City. Pittsburg & Gulf railroad
one mile north of Jansen, Ark. An
engine and several cars were totally
wrecked. Three trainmen were in.
jured.
Two Chinese highbinders were pre-
vented by the approach of u person
from numbering another Chinaman at
San Francisco. As it was their victim
had his skull fractured and will prob
ably die.
TIE grand jury at Philadelphia pre-
sented true bills OF Indictment against
United States Senator QUAY, his son
Richard 5, Quay and cx-State Treas.
urer benjamin j. Haywood. charged
with conspiracy to unlawfully use pub
lie moneys deposited in the Peoples
national bank of Philadelphia,
CITIZENS of Omaha, Neb, decided to
hold another exposition next yea.
JAMES y. SouTHALL, chief clerk in
the office of the engineer department
of the army at st. Paul Mimi, was
convicted of swindling by means of
bogus time checks. His swindling was
said to aggregate nearly 500, 600
DAN GROUNDS, who drew the pension
money of Norris Il. English for several
years, was convicted of violating the
pension law at Texarkana, Ark, and
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment
at Fort Leavenworth.
THE Forthcoming annual report OF
the attorney general embraces re.
view of the operations of the national
bankruptcy law OF July i, 1898 Al.
though the act has been in force only
II little over three months over l.7UC
petitions of voluntary bankruptcy
have been filed. OF this mum Der Kan.
sas furnished 65 and Missouri Ga.
ABOUT 200 lepers escaped from con,
tinement at Manila through the neg.
lect of Spanish officers unbeknown to
the American officials ORDERS have
been issued to the effect that all lepers
will be arrested and sent to one of the
uninhabited islands in the Philippine
groups and fed and cared for at the ex.
pense of the government
DESPERATE attempt was made by
two convicts to escape from the peni,
tentiary at Columbus, o.. on the 18th
In the battle which ensued one guard
was killed and the two convicts re
ceived injuries of serious nature.
A BIG fire occurred at the Merrill
Chemical companyHs building at Louis
Vile, KY, on the 18th.
The national quarant tine convention
asse IN bled at Memphis, Tenn, on the
18th. A majority of the delegates
were from the southern states, more
affected by the visitation of yellow
fever, as they were asked to send {
larger representation than the othel
sections. The subject with which the
convention was to deal with was how
to provide an efficient quarantine tc
protect the states from invasions o
infectious and contagious diseases.
ADvIcEs by steamship Empress o
China tell OF terrible disaster in tn,
China sea on October rs, when tn,
steamer Kinshui Maru came into col
lision with the steamer MagawE Mar,
off Takami. sinking the latter in thre,
minutes. 1t is reported that ITO per
sons were saved and that 10 wer,
drowned.
j. Il. GRoNSlNGER, u wealthy ranch
man of Terry, Mont, was found dea,
on the Big Four tracks at Delaware
U. There seemed strong evideuc,
that he was murdered. He had shor
time before received q large sum o
money for big lot Of cattle, none O
which was found.