The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-07

| among the american troops at santiago
| Gov. PISGREE addressed letter to
Secretary Alger denying recently
published interview and saying that he
voted for President Mckinley and will
do so again if he is candidate.
| CALL has been issued for meeting
Of the national democratic committee
to take place July 90 at Chicago.
a BULLETIN from Calvert, Tex, stated
that from 30 to so lives were lost in
that town and vicinity by the recent
\ hood in the Brazos river. The esti-
! mated damage to the country tribu-
tary to the Brazos valley is 81, 900, 600.
| PROF. ScHURMAN. of the United States
peace commission in the Philippines,
returned TO Manila on the I'd from a
three weeks tour of the southern is
lands. He says the citizens desire an
American protectorate but are await
ng the settlement of the war in Luzon
oefore declaring themselves.
JAMES REDMOND was killed by light
| iing while blowing near Dubuque. la.
The steamship Mariposa arrived at
san Francisco on the 30th and reported
everything quiet in the Samoan islands
WILLIAM KELLY shot and killed his
wife while she was passing along the
street at Lowell. Mass, because she re-
fused to live with him.
Miss HALLE PEgRISE shot the seven
5ear-old son of Mr.. Henshaw through
he breast and then shot herself through
he heart on Henshaw's farm near Ra-
eigh, Ky. No motive for the murder
and suicide was known.
The Asphalt Company of America has
oeen Incorporated in New Jersey with
capital of $50, 600, 900 and will proba-
oily be known as the asphalt trust"
The main business of the concern will
oe carried on in Philadelphia.
Al the national social and political
conference at Buffalo. n. Y. on the
18th Rev ii. w. Thomas, of Chicago,
in speaking of the war in the Philip
pines, declared it the saddest thing in
the history of the United States. Dur
ng DIR. Thomas remarks not syllable
Of applause greeted Admiral Dewey's
name.
Mrs. A. C. ABBOTT, of Huntington,
Ind, gave birth to three boys the other
lay. Her husband is freight con-
iuctor on the Erie road
AT New London, Conn, on the 29th
Harvard's university eight won from
Yale over the four-mile course by 81
lengths in 20 minutes and 50 seconds.
ALLEN RIGGS and Deacon Daniel Her
rim were jailed for killing Paul Gilbert
over game of euchre at Bobtown. Ky.
They were all church members.
AFTER an unsuccessful strike of II
days duration the freight handlers at
buffalo. n. Y, returned to work on
the 2sth at the old rates.
The annual commencement of Yale
university at New Haven, Conn, was
celebrated on the 2sth by comforting
5l5 degrees.
SAMUEL OWENS quarreled with his
sweetheart, Sadie B. Matthewson, at
Foster, X. l., and drove her into the
yard, knocked her down, split her head
open with an AK, stabbed her twice
with carving knife, poured oil on her
and then set fire to her, burning her to
crisp.
A REcEST dispatch from Pawhuska
said that Oklahoma's greatest wheat
harvest had just ended. The wheat
area included /, $50, 900 acres, the largest
in the history of the territory. The
product of the great crop is safely esti-
mated at 10000, 900 bushels. In some
of the counties the yield was 40 bushels
per acre, but in others not so large,
making Is bushels per acre a conserva-
tive estimate for the territory.
THE feature of Milwaukee's great
midsummer carnival on the 3Oth was
the gorgeous pageant of 90 floats, the
subjects being nature and the elements,
the emotions and stories of myth and
fable.
ELEVEN lives We're lost by the foun-
dering of the steam barge Margaret
Olwill in Lake Erie in a gale on the
Goth. Duncan Coyle, deckhand, was
the only survivor SO far as known He
was rescued from the wreckage after
being in the water for over four hours.
MAJ. GEN. NELSON A. MILES was in
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 3Oth as the
guest of ''all organized labor" The
general spoke to two immense audi
ences during the day and also took
part in parade.
prisoner, arrived at the prison at
Rennes, France, on the 30th without
| incident.
NEARLY all the white puddlers EN-.
ployed at Moorehead Bros. & Co. IS
iron works at Sharpsburg, Pa, have
been replaced by negroes because the
former affiliated with the Amalgamated
association. There was no trouble.
GRAssHorPERs were reported as de.
stroying the cotton in the Hickory creek
bottom, southwest of Denton, Tex,
and leaving apath behind them utterly
destitute of anything green.
EARLY the other morning whitecaps