The Holly chieftain., 1899-06-09

tin, Tex. on the 5th TO all the govern
ors and attorney generals of the SOUTH
ern states eall for an antitrust
convention to meet IN 81. Lcuis Sep
ttember 20 for the purpose OF securing
concerted action against trusts
NEAR Montcalm, Tex, James Carter
was thrown from a horse in front of a
reaper and the sickle bars cut his body
and limbs. He was picked mp uncon-
seious and was in a serious condition.
| MoUNTAIN VIEw Ok. had a rival
town about ~ miles west and the for
mer deemed it advisable that both
towns should BE- one SO Mountain
View went to work and bought up
Oakdale and the latter was moved to
the former on wheels
| DURING a thunderstorm lightning
struck the residence of Henry Vaughn,
near Pawnee. Ok, passing through
the ceiling and striking Mrs. Vaughn
entirely through her body, killing her
| instantly.
4 NUMBER of horses were killed in
Chicago by the heat on the 5th.
Owing to aquarrel with her husband
Mrs Johanna Schilling turned on the
gas and asphyxiated herself and her
two children in a tenement house in
New York
a TORNADO swept the country west OF
\ Dyersyille, Ia, on the evening of the
ith. AT some points the path of the
storm was mile wide. The operator
at Thorpe. Ia, reported buildings and
cars blown over. The neighborhoodo of
Kellogg, Ia, also suffered.
Ar meeting of travelling men in
Kansas City. No. an association was
formed to build a home and sanitarium
for sick and INDECENT travelling men to
be called the Interstate Commercial
Travellers home. Il viii be built for
the drummers OF Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa and Nebraska
a EEPoRT from Union Pacific sources
on the 4th was to the effect that the
Albany count sheriff's posse had cap
tured three of the Union Pacific train
robbers six miles from Casper. Wyo.,
and that one Of them had made a con-
fession. The rest Of the gang We're be-
ing pursued in the direction of Glen
Rock.
THE Ely dry goods store at Paducah,
KY. was burned BY an incendiary fire.
The new iron bridge over the Colo
rado river at Wharton. Tex, was to-
tally wrecked through fire. The east
bound train on the Southern Pacific
came near dashing into the burning
wreck. Loss, $40, 900.
The freight handlers strike at Buff
falo. n. Y. which originated at the
Lehigh freight house and spread to
other freight houses, threatening to
involve 1000 men, was checked by an
agreement reached at conference and
the men voted to return to work on the
I'd.
JOHN LIND and his four-mont ths-old
son Raymond were attacked by horse
in his barn at Chicago the other day.
The child was trampled to death and
Lind received injuries which. it was
thought, will prove fatal. The horse
attacked them when Lind, carrying the
baby in his arms, entered the stall.
JAMES f. TowyLEY, aged - put gas
oline on his bed at Kansas City. Mo,
to kill bugs and in little while went
to see what effect the fluid had had.
He carried lamp and held it close to
the bed, which burst into blaze and
envelopcd him in flame. His cries
brought help and the flames were ex-
tinguished, but not until Townley was
perhaps fatally burned.
uSIoS Pacific train was held up
near Wilcox. Wyo., early on the I'd.
The express ear was completely
wrecked by dynamite. The safe was
blown open and the contents were
taken. The robbers then escaped to
| the mountains.
LIGHTNING killed ten head of fine
COWS owned by Paul Wood. a dairy
man. living near Carrollton, Ill. They
were found dead near wire fence
THE Physicians National Reform
league was organized in Toledo, o.. the
other day with DR.. A. E. Kahlkoff as
president. The league will be national
in scope and will be for mutual benefit.
IL is understood TO be an association of
so-called advertising doctors"
The London Chronicle has got a writ
ten confession from Maj. Comte Ferdi-
nand Walsin Esterhazy that it was he
who wrote the bordereau by which Capt
Dreyfus was wrongfully convicted of
| treason.
An attempted rescue of prisoners in
the Jail at Leadville, Col, was frus-
trated by the vigilance of the officers,
who had been forwarned. A man. who
is supposed to be ]. w. Breath, of San
Bernardo, Cal, was seen in the dark
ness to scale the high fence about the
Jail. When captured he fought like a
tiger and was shot through the heart
by Deputy Lechmere
THE Chicago & Northwestern limited
train the other evening crashed into
the engine of suburban train at Des-
olaineS n miles uxaSf nf Chioa do