The Holly chieftain., 1898-06-17


Four boys-named Johnnie Whit
aker, Erwin Wilson. Ray Letter and
| Fred Jepsen-were on a raft on pond
| at Ottumwa, Ia, when it capsized and
/ they fell in the water and were
drowned before help could arrive.
| THE British steamer Twickenham
was captured by the United States
| cruiser st. Louis off the Jamaica coast
| She had on board 5000 tons of coal for
| Admiral Cervera's feet The Twick-
| enham was sent as a prize to Key
| West. Fla
| THE business part of Spar tansburg,
Pa, was wiped out by fire early on the
| morning of the 18th. Loss, $3.50. 600.
Most of the buildings burned were
| wooden and the fire burned itself out,
as there were no facilities for fight
ingit.
The Milwaukee brewers have decid.
| ed to increase the cost OF beer at the
/ rate Of 81 barrel as an offset to the
| increased impost on beer by the war
| tax law.
| A COMET has just been discovered by
| Mr.. Coddington, OF the Lick observa.
tory in California II is in the CON
stellation of Scorpio, about one de.
| gree north of the star Antares.
A MORTGAGE, securing bonds of ST.
! 500 900 given by the kcokuk & West
ern railway, was placed on record at
Des Moines, la. the other afternoon.
The money will be used TO extend the
road from Gainesville to Pattonsburg.
! Mo, the extension furnishing the
Pittsburg &s Gulf. which now owns
half the keokuk * Western, a through
line from Port Arthur, Tex, to Ues
Moincs, Ia
REAR ADMIRAL SANPsoS's acqpisi-
tion of base for cOaling and sup
plies at Guantanamo is recognized by
military circles in London as prac-
ticaIly settling the fate OF Santiago
de Cuba, although the Spaniapls may
make Il show of fight
IL a freight wreck near Sugar Grove,
H., on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad, A. L. Spencer, en-
gineer, of Chicago, was killed and
Fernando Jacobs, 4 stocISnan from
Sterling, H., was fatally injured.
Five other men were more. or less in
jured.
SEVEN cases of yellow fever have ap.
peared ut McIienry, Miss, and the
state board of health has declared the
town quarantined.
a TERRIFIC hailstorm visited Canton,
o., on the 10th. Wheat was hammered
down and fruit trees stripped, entail
ing heavy loss Mrs. Durfeer wa,
struck by lightning and killed.
GREAT excitement prevailed on Blue
stone river, near Hinton, W. Va, re-
Gently on account of the mysterious
poisoning of the fish in that stream.
Three men died from eating some fish
caught from the river. number of
persons and cattle have also died from
the effects of drinking the water.
EVERY indication pointed to heavy
! er-subscription for the three per
cent war bond issue to be offered by
the government, a recent New York
| dispatch stated. A bank officer said
that while the bonds would be offered
at par, he thought after they had
been distributed, they would soon be
selling at ,o4 or io5.
THE convention of the American
| Medical association closed at Denver
| Col, on the 10th with the installation
of the officers. Dr. L. j. Happen. of
| Trenton, n. j., made a speech intro
ducing the new president DIR. Joseph
| Mcdowell Matthews, of Louisville,
Ky. The convention adjourned to meet
at Columbus, O., June next year.
MEASLES, it was reported on the 12th,
threatened to become epidemic among
the soldiers at Camp Merritt, San Fran.
cisco, so cases being under the care Of
| the doctors.
THE Case Power building in Detroit,
| Mich, was burned recently and some
other fine business structures dam
aged. Loss, $500, 600 Six fremen
were severely burned and cut by glass
THE sash, door and blind factory of
the Cedar Valley Manufacturing com
pany at Waterloo Ia, was destroyed
by fire the other morning. Loss, s2o,-
600; insurance, $1,000. The fire was
thought to have been of incendiary
origin.
The monster vats Of the Carthage
straw board works at Shelbyville
| Ind, gave way the other morning and
tons of poisonous matter were emptied d
into the Blue river, the result being
that millions of fish were killed and
much stock lost through drinking the
water.
A DISASTROUS explosion took place
at the smelling plant Of the Texas &
Arkansas Milling company near Hat
| field, Ark, in which il men were in
jured, eight of them SO seriously that
some cannot recover. A defective
water jacket allowed the water to run
| into an ore pot, causing the explosion
asd wrecking the smelter.
A CAR containing soldiers from Iowa
caught fire on the desert and the sol.
diers lost all their clothes. They
passed through Reno, New, on de-
layed passenger train, clad in their
underclothes. Several were quite
badly burned about the head.
THE report reached Key West Fla,
on the 9th that United States auxil-
iary gunboat sighted four Spanish
warships in ST. Nicholas channel head
ing in the direction OF Havana Naval
officers thought that there was much
speculation as to whether the ships
were part of Cervera's fleet which
did not enter Santiago or some of the
ships from CadiZ-
Ten thousand people ut Cincinnati
on the 9th cheered Han Dor as he
came down the stretch like a wild
horse, doing the * miles OF the LIZ
tonia derby in e:3aK and defeating
Plaudit, the greatest three-year-old
colt of the presently
A wATER-LADEN barge and her crew
of five men, in tow of the steamer
Leonidas, were lost The Leonidas