The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-21
ANpKEw CARNEeIE has given $50, OoS

toward public library building a,
East Liverpool, o.
Two banners were awarded TO Kan
sas at the Christian union convention
at Lyn1, Mass, for showing the larges,
proportional increase Of mem bership
during the year and for collecting the
largest proportional amount for the
missionary fund
| CAPT. WILLIAM A. ANDREWS, who
Ief, Atlantic City, N j., on June Is in
little craft IL feet in length to cross
the Atlantic, was picked up in an ex-
hausted condition about 700 miles from
the Irish coast by the British steamer
| Holbein. His boat was left adrift.
WILLIAM j. BRYAN has been appoint
ed by the governor of Nebraska one OF
the delegates to represent his state at
the conference on trusts to be held in
Chicago September 1916. Mr.. Bryan
will speak on the evil results of indus
trial and financial commissions.
j. REICHMAS killed the wife of a
neighbor at 81. Louis on the night OF
the 18th by striking her on the head
with a hammer and the husband of the
murdered woman gathered n number
of neighbors and attacked the house OF
Reichman on Etzel avenue. A platoon
of police had to hold back the moi
which had swelled to 200 or more by
midnight to prevent the murderer from
being lynched.
THE big Texas cattle syndicate being
formed for the purpose of controlling
the cattle market in Texas is not sail
ing in smooth water at present.
Rumors that the organization of the
syndicate would be in viol alton of the
Texas antitrust law caused all the
New York capitalists to back off from
the proposition.
GEORGE NJ. VALENTINE, cashier of n
bank at Perth Amboy, y. j.. which
was closed ON the li.h, was jailed on
account of a shortage in the bank :
funds, variously estimated all the way
up to Sl65, 900. The affair caused con-
sternation to the residents.
Two lynchings occurred in Texas on
the l4th. Abe Brown. a negro. who
assaulted and murdered woman, was
shot to death at Gilead and an unknown
negro was put to death near lola for
numbering white boy.
GEORGE A. OUTCALr of Tecum seh
Ok, has been appointed census super
visor for the district of Oklahoma.
The French celebrated on the 1it,
the 10th anniversary of the destruc-
ton of the Bastile. The buildings in
Paris were decorated with flags.
The delegates to the Young Peoples
Baptist Union of America held state
rallies at Richmond, Va, on the 18th.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, John II.
Chapman, Chicago; recording secre-
tary, Rev. W. Reed. Wisconsin: treas
urer, Frank Moody.
Mrs. CATHERINE MEYERS, a widow,
residing on farm five miles southwest
of Centralia, ILL.,, was burned to death
while attempting to remove horse
from burning barn. She had re-
moved one horse and returned for an
other. when the building fell in, kill
ing her and the horse.
WILLIE JONES, the negro who muir
dered his wife by cutting her throat
from ear to ear, was found guilty of
mont, Tex. and the death penalty was
assessed by the jury. This was the first
extreme penalty assessed by Jeffer-
son county jury in 10 years.
APOSTLE BRIGHAM You've, of Salt
Lake City, the eldest son of the former
head of the Mormon church, was at
Chicago the other day and among other
things he said the Mormon church ex-
pected. within comparatively few
years, to begin the erection of mag
niticent city of the faith at Independ-
ence, Mo-, which would be its head
quarters.
Four bombs were exploded in Bar
celona, Spain. on the 18th, causing
great excitement.
The coal breaker at Plymouth, Pa,
was destroyed by fire the other day.
Loss, 500, 1000. 1t was supposed it was
struck by lightning.
The organization of the United
American Glue company, with capi-
tai of SS5, 000, 900, was completed at P
meeting in New York the other day
The company announced that it viii
invade Canada and endeavor to get p
monopoly of the glue business in Brit.
ish America
A DISPATCH was received from Gen.
Otis requesting that there be sent to
the Philippines $500 horses in order
that a brigade of cavalry may be organ.
lied for use at the end of the rainy
season. 1t is the intention of Secretary
Alger to have the mounts carefully
selected, and he thinks that animals
from the southern states will be the
best.
VAST clouds of grasshoppers recently
alighted on wheat fields near Rolla,
\. D., from the Turtle mountain re-
gions.