The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-28

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The plague Is increasing in Proona
India
The convention of the Harrison
family of gypsies> which was TO have
been held near Scotch Plains, y. j., on
the Esd was postponed until the s0th.
The convention Is TO choose a successor
TO Snake Mary. the present queen.
Mary is now % years old. but as spry
and active as a woman of 80.
The Chicago. Hamilton x DAYTON
elevator at East Toledo. o.. was de.
struved by FIRE the other night. The
loss was estimated at nearly 81. 600. oO0
Az explosion on board the torpedo
boat destroyer Bullfnch. of the Eng
lish coast, killed seven and injured II
OF those on board.
GOV. PISGREE gave to the Associated
press prepared. signed statement on
the 2lst containing what the governor
asserted to De facts which are absolute
ly reliable, bearing upon the relations
between Gen. Alger and President Nc
kinley. The governor of Michigan de-
nounced the course pursued by the
president in the matter as little less
than cowardly. The governor said tina.
Alger's sacrifice was compelled by
the demands of New York politicians,
backed by the ''unscrupulous and heart
less press
ROBERT g. lSGERsoLL- the noted ag.
nostic and lecturer. suddenly died at
his summer home in Dobbs Ferry, y.
Y, of apoplexy on the elst-
at Ayondale, Tex. Mrs. C. Il. Cauthorn
was burned to death. As she stood
with her back to the fire the wind swept
her skirts into the blaze and in an in
stant she was mass of flames
GEORGE CULLKY was hanged in the
jail yard AZ Muscogee, l. T., on the 2lst-
He was desperate and confessed "a
having killed two persons
The opening of the Dreyfus trial in
France has been fixed for August Ii.
ALICE SMITH was fatally burned at
killeen, Tex, in. trying 10 light fire
with coal oil
The board of equalization report on
the assessment of Oklahoma counties 70,
the present year shows total valua.
tion, including railroad property, of
Si2, es2, ii4, a gain of S. SIS, 59s over las,
year.
THE Western Electric Cable com.
pany's establishment at WooIwich,
Eng, was burned the other morning.
The loss was s250,00 An American
plant recently fitted up a; the works
was totally destroyed.
CLAY FoRp. a negro, was hanged a, La
Grange Tex. for the murder of his wife.
The sub-com mittee on the mines OF
the United States industrial commits
sion closed its labors at Denver. Col.
Ex-senator Hill, in his testimony
before it, declared his strong opposi-
tion TO trusts of all kinds He thought
they were detrimental to the public
welfare He said he favored labor or
ganizations as means of maintaining
wages
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CLAY. Clerk Tay-
lor and Sheriff Wolfe had hearing be-
fore Commissioner Hackett at Antlers,
|. T, on the charge of murder in allow
ing the execution of William Going
The defendants were discharged. the
court holding that the case was begun
in the Choctaw courts prior to the pas
sage of law by congress conferring
jurisdiction on United States authors
ties and the United States had no ju-
risdiction in the matter
FRANK ExsgEg, a negro charged with
criminal assault, was taken from the
officers on train at Steinmetz. Mo-,
by mob, whipped for half an hour
and then hanged
\ REVOLUTIONARY party has been es-
tablished. with headquarters in Ha-
vana, to excite Cubans throughout the
entire country This party has agents
in every large city, and also junta in
Mexico. All this is perfectly well
known TO the American authorities,
but it is generally considered that it
would work harm TO arrest the leaders
of The movement, who would undoubt-
edly pose as martyrs, which is SEEM
ingly their desire
GEoReg WRIGHT shot and killed Mrs
Joseph Crippen at Muscatine. Ia on
the sd and then attempted to kill her
husband hut was overpowered The
act was due to jealousy.
FoUR thousand people crowded into
the Auditorium at Chicago on the a0th.
to attend the political meeting given
under the auspices of the Chicago plat
form democrats II was from first to
last silver meeting. an Al,geld meet
ing, an antitrust and anti-eSpansion
meeting. All Of the speakers save eS-
Cos. Stone, Of Missouri, who was Ill,
and talked for less than two minutes
declared in favor of sixteen TO one and
against The war in the Philippine is
| lands
BES STUMP. deputy marshal. killed
two men while trying to arrest tramp
there's in the Missouri Pacific yards at
Falls City, Neb.
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