The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-07

pathinR IN the Cedar river at Waterloo,
Ia. on the I'd.
GAUrLY. a numbering village in Que
bee, was nearly wiped out by fire, so of
the 60 houses being destroyed, as well
as large quantity of lumber.
AS result of street car collision at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the I'd two people
are dead, five seriously injured and ten
| others more or less hurt.
WILLIAM CODY ineman living at
Hinsdale, ILL.,. shot and killed his wife
and then committed suicide.
HARRY GRIMES and Fate Watson, col
ored- engaged in duel on the steamer
Gertrude near Evansville, Ind. on the
I'd and the former was instantly killed
and the latter fatally wounded. The
men had been drinking and quarreled
over a woman.
ADMIRAL SAMPSON will take the
North Atlantic squadron to Fayal. in
the Azores, and await Admiral Dewey,
receive and salute him in the name of
the president and people of the United
States and then escort him home across
| the ocean.
JAMES r. SOVEREIGN, ex-general
master workman of the Knights of
Labor. denounced the action of Gen.
Merriam in the Cpur d'Alene trouble
before the Central Federated union at
New York and declared that ma
tional issue would be made of Gen.
Merriam's conduct.
PAcKING-HoUsE employees at Chicago
on the I'd held a meeting and decided
that the time was not ripe for strike.
THERE is war among the big tobacco
trust men, New York dispatch states.
and talk of the formation of rival
trust.
DELUaE at Lake Station, Tex.
washed away 80 houses.
The blast furnacemen at Sharpsyille.
Pa, struck on the LIST for an advance
in wages. About 700 men were affected.
The naphtha launch Dandy, with
seven men, four women and a child
aboard, which left Roclaway beach.
N. y. on the Cd to go out into the
ocean to fish, was believed to have sunk
with all on board.
A GANG of toughs quarreled over a
game of cards at Elmwood, Neb.. and
George Jones, of st. Joseph, No., was
shot and instantly killed and two
others were seriously wounded.
SEVERAL blocks of buildings were
burned at Summit, y. j., by an incen-
diary fire. About 100 people who lived
in the rooms over the stores burned
lost nearly everything.
The annual saengerfest of the North
western Arbiter Saengerbund opened
at Milwaukee on the I'd.
ENGLISH capitalists have bought the
Elkton gold mine at Cripple Creek,
Col, for s1,s75,00
CHARBoN is raising havoc in Claiborne
county, Miss. One farmer lost nine
mules in one night and another lost
eight. 1t still seems to be spreading.
North DAKorA's glory as a divorce
Mecca is thing OF the past, as on the
lst the new law requiring years resi-
dence before fling suit for divorce
went into effect.
THE Greater American exposition at
Omaha. Neb., was opened on the 1st.
INDIANA's wheat crop will be the
lowest in 90 years. In February it was
estimated that it would be 55, 900, 900
bushels, but now it is reported that it
will not exceed II 1000, 900.
A STRIKE was inaugurated at the
Homestead Steel works at Pittsburgh,
Pa. on the S0th through the discharge
of some men belonging to the Anal
gamated association. The fear was ex-
pressed that it would assume huge pro-
portions. b
JUDGE MOORE, of the Eighth circuit,
decided the 13 liquor cases of Sturgis,
S. D., in favor of the saloonkeepers.
The grand jury recently brought in
dictments against the saloon men for
violating the prohibitory liquor law.
The decision practically leaves that
part of South Dakota without a liquor
law of any sort that can be enforced.
Bob SMITH, colored, was convicted of
the murder of ARIA Taylor, white
woman, in Sherman, Tex, and his pun
ishment was assessed by the jury at
death by hanging.
ARTHUR f. CARY reached Lynn, Mass.
| on the 30th after tour around the
world on wheel. He wheeled from
Lynn to San Francisco, through Japan
and China, Australia, Egypt, Italy,
Switzerland, France, England. Ireland
and Scotland. Hss record shows IL, SOC
miles ridden on one wheel and $4,000
miles covered by sea.
The recent heavy rains in Texas
have done an immense amount of dam
age. AT Calvert the rise was SO sudden
that when the water went through the
town several negroes were drowned
1t was rumored that many farmers
white and colored, living in the Brazo.
bottoms, were also drowned, one fam
lily of six persons perishing. The los.
in cotton and corn alone will reach 81.
600. 900, while another million will mo-