The Holly chieftain., 1899-03-31


ng section Of Nebraska showed TIA,
he plant has been badly winter kilIed
armers estimating the damage in
ome localities as high as so per cen t.
IN average for the state would place
me damage at from a5 to s3k per cent.
MONEY Is being collected from ne.
sroes throughout Texas and sent 70
'ertaln parties in Washington for the
uieged purpose of helping to get a
'ilt through congress for the pension
u ex-slavea The attention of Con.
FRESHMAN s B. Cooper was called to
me matter, an Austin dispatch said.
and ne stated that all persons who had
"aue contributions had been robbed.
hALPH HoYr succeeded in tracing
'hree men who had burglarized the
post pffice and store at North Fair.
he!d' o., TO barn 81 miles away and
found them asleep. He awoke them
ana mace them march back at the
poiEt OF his Winchester. They were
handed over to the authorities and
Hoyt will receive 5000 reward.
FIRE at Smiths livery stable a,
tostoria, O., caused the death of 4s
horses and the loss of over 50 wagons
and buggiea
IN quarrel over dice throwing be-
tween Charles Prietsch and a barroon
porter at Cincinnati the other night,
the latter cut the formers throat
killing him instantly.
FRANK KIsAHAS. an electrician, was
killed in street duel at Chicago with
two unknown men. Over 90 shots were
exchanged.
CONDUCTOR UNDERWOOD, running on
the NJ! X. 7. road between Hillsboro
and Denison. Tex, was arrested q,
Dallas charged with killing George
Franklin. who was found dead beside
the tracks of the road near Dallas with
two bullet holes in his head The
man had attempted to steal a ride.
IHE Port Arthur (Tex) canal was
formally thrown open to the world on
the 18th.
The Montezuma university at Bes.
emer, Ala, was burned. The pupils
escaped
TIE ordnance bureau OF the war de.
)artment has sent circular to the
governor OF each state stating that the
rms and ordnance stores furnished to
folunteers during the Spanish war
WI be returned to the state in kind.
The Dangler stove works and the
,leveland machine screw plant a,
leveland, O.. were DESTROYED by fire
IN the oath, the loss on the former
oeing 100000 and on the latter $50.
700. fireman was killed by n falling
wall and 700 men were thrown out oi
Employment.
A BAD prairie fire ragged in the
.icinity OF haywood, Neb., on the
Ath. Many stacks of unthreshed
yrain and hundreds of tons of hay
serc burned.
Four more bodies were recovered
rom the ruins Of the Windsor hotel
ire at New York, making 23 dead and
10 still missing.
fs a fire at Mrs. Nolen's boarding
1ouse at Memphis. Tenn, on the Gath
four persons lost their lives and six
others were more or less injured
KID MCCoY was awarded the decision
over Joe Choynski at the end of the 90.
eound contest at San Francisco on the
cath.
PATE BURTON, the murderer of Harry
Meyer. his wife and baby. was hanged
at Houston, Tex. on the cath. He died
with curses on his lips
MARY McEIRoY, ,T-year-old girl,
was burned to death near Jennings
Ok, the other morning. She was lean
ing over campfire when her dres.
caught fire.
AUNT KATY" SSopsRAss died a,
Milford Center, O., ON the esd of the
grip, aged lo3 years She was the
oldes. woman in the Woman's Reliei
corps of the United States
REPORTS reached Paris from Algiers
of the massacre of another French ex
petition in the Sahara by the Tuariks
the most fierce of all the fanatic Arat
tribes which infest that vast desert
The little town of Liberty, in De
Dalb county, Tenn, was almost wiped
off the map the other night, furious
cyclone sweeping over it, wrenchini
trees from their roots and telling
houses in all directions The damage
to property was enormous, but no fa
talities were reported.
THREE river steamers, the Owens
Flint and Ray City. were destroyed by
fire at Columbus, Ga, together with
two barges.
Mrs. MoLTER, Of La Grange, Ind. il
Il fit of dependency administered NOR
phine to her two children and ther
took dose herself The children died
the woman will recover.
SIX HUNDRED employees of the Fo!
Pressed Steel company at Pittsburgh
Pa, quit work on the 23d because tn,
firm refused TO grant an advance OF II
per cent In their wages
REV. /. L HICKS. the weather prog
nosticator, . Guthrie, Ok, disPatcl
stated, has made the prediction tina
the coming summer will bring fire
quent cyclones to Oklahoma and tn,
people of the territory are preparing
their cyclone cellars accordingly.
MRS FRANK wILsIcK, of Oliver, Pa.
used kerosene to kindle fire and as
result she and her two little children
were fatally burned.
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