The Holly chieftain., 1899-06-16

| at San Francisco, has broken the Amer
lean 200-mile road record by making a
, double century around San Francisco
bay in IL hours and - minutes This
is said to be four minutes better than
is credited to any rider in this country.
| PATRICK BARRY and George Norton
waiter and cook respectively. at n
| restaurant at Paris, Tex, had a bloody
encounter in the kitchen. Barry seized
n butcher-lSnife and Norton grabbed a
large cleayer. Norton was stabbed in
the abdomen and Barry had his arm
almost chopped off and bled nearly to
death.
BRowS RESAEER and Charles Camp
bell, negroes, fought duel with knives
at St Louis the other morning. The
men slashed and cut each other until
both were covered with blood. An am
bulance took Renaker to the city hos
pital in dangerous condition. Camp
bell managed to get away.
A FIRE at the ordnance works at New
castle, Eng, did 81, ZOO, 900 damage.
| As the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific
westbound express train pulled into
Geneseo, ILL.,, the other night, three cars
left the track and crashed into stock
train standing on siding. Fifteen
persons were injured and three passen-
ger cars demolished.
TIE French cabinet resigned on the
| l2th.
FIRE destroyed the grain elevator at
Perryville. Ind. The town was saved
with difficulty.
HUDSON and New Richmond, Wis,
were reported to have been wiped out
of existence by tornado on the lath,
Hundreds were reported TO have been
killed and wounded Viola, Sparta,
La Crosse and other towns in Wiscon-
sin also suffered severely and bridges
and dams were washed away in all the
surrounding country.
The yacht Columbia. the Americas
cup defender of 1899, was successfully
launched at s:i5 p. m. on the 10th at
Bristol, K. l. The launching was
marred by an accident caused by the
wild eagerness of a photographer to
get ilashlight picture. a charge of
magnesia exploded, which killed one
boy, fatally injured another boy and
severely hurt six other persons.
DISPATCH from Chicago on the 1Ith
stated Senator John NJ. Thurston. of
Nebraska, viii make the race in the
republican party for vice president of
the United States on account of the i'll
health of Vice President Hobart.
SAMUEL RoBERTs shot his wife and
his mother-in-law and then committed
suicide at Canon City, Col. Domestic
quarrels the cause.
ST kvpSJr la horars ora ranor,.J o.,
coming in great numbers to South Chi
cago and the majority are promptly
given employment by the Illinois Steel
company. United States immigration
inspectors are convinced that there
have been many violations of the con-
tract labor laws.
RECENT waterspout near Wagner,
/. T., did considerable damage to prop
erty. At Leliaetta 800 feet of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas s. Texas railroad track
was washed out.
WHILE attempting to cross the Quad
alupe, river near kerrville, Tex. Ho-
bart Virgins and a companion named
baltimore were drowned. The two
men came from Kansas about two
months ago for their health and were
travelling about the mountainous coun-
try around Kerrville in light wagon
and camping out in tents
REPORTS from San Saba and Manard-
vile. Tex, stated that they had been
devastated by floods and about 25 lives
Were lost.
LANDSLIDE occurred at Ross Hol-
low. Ark, while graders were at work
and IS men were engulfed, all of whom
were supposed to have been killed.
CHIEF OF POLICE CLAY, of Hamilton,
o., with his wife and daughter, at
tempted to cross the Cincinnati. Ham
ilton Il Dayton railroads track near
that city the other day in carriage.
A locomotive struck the vehicle, dashed
it to pieces, killing the chief imme-
diately and so injured the child that
she died in the hospital few hours
later and fatally injured the wife and
mother.
THE Cunard liner Campania. while
passing up the North river on her way
to her pier at New York, ran into the
immigrant transfer boat William
Fletcher and sunk it. No lives were
lost.
A SPECIAL to the Kansas City Star on
the sth from Hong Kong said "Peti-
tions signed by nine-tenths of the Off
GERS and men of the Twentieth Kansas
regiment. urging muster out and dis
charge from the service in San Fran
cisco. have been forwarded to Senator
Baker,
MucH excitement was caused by the
discovery of phosphate the other day
near Thompson station, Tenn, and all
the farmers in that section were en-
gagged in digging for deposits. Repre-
sentatives of fertilizer factories from