The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

! 10th for the recognition of the union
As a result every department of the
plant was stopped and 500 men made
idle. The trust manager in charge of
the mill announced that it would never
/ be run as a union mill.
GRAND DUKE GEORGE, brother of the
car and heir apparent to the throne of
| Russia, is dead, according to a dispatch
| from St. Petersburg on the 10th. He
was 2s years old and had been in deli
cate health for wears
TWELVE stores were burned Mt Nom
tello, Wis. by fire caused by gasoline.
! A BURLINGTON special train of nine
coaches. on the way from st. Louis TO
Los Angeles, Cal, loaded with teachers
to attend the National Educational as
sociation convention, crushed into
freight train at Newman, Cal, on the
10th with the result that two ladies
were killed and Is passengers injured.
The section hands of the Chicago
Junction railway struck for an advance
in wages on the 10th. About 200 were
out.
THE eighteenth International con-
vention of Christian Endeavorers closed
at Detroit, Mich, on the 10th.
THE kissing bug caused the death of
two-year-old Helen Leersch at Trenton,
n. j.. the other day.
FIVE men We're injured, two fatally,
by an explosion of gas in the Loughman
mine at Ehrenfeld, Pa. The explosion
was caused by defective miners
lamp.
ANGT-s NJ n,..Silnr- Of di-
vision of the Mormon church at Salt
Lake City. was arrested at the instiga-
tion of a New York newspaper on the
charge of unlawfully living with his
fourth plural wife 1t is understood
that other cases will be brought against
high Mormon church officials.
THE news from Austin. Tex, on the
9th r, garding the food in the lone star
state was that IS people were known to
be dead, 25, 900 refugees were herded in
towns, that 10000 10 Ii, 900 square miles
of fertile farming country were under
water and that the property losses ex-
ceeded ss,5O0,O00. The worst was
thought to be over and the sufferers
were being rescued by boats and relief
distributed.
CHARLES KNAUss, aged is, shot and
seriously wounded Mrs. Dieffenderfer.
aged 26, at Allentown, Pa, and then
killed himself. The youth was infatu-
ated with the woman.
THE American soldiers, in dispatch
on the 10th, were said to be suffering
much discomfort from the rain in the
Philippines. In many cases the soldiers
were sleeping with three feet of water
under their hunks and the company
cooks, when preparing meals, stand
knee deep in water.
GALE on Lake Erie on the night of
the Sth caused the schooners Warming
ton and Minch and the steamer Sequin
to go ashore near Ashtabula, o.
HERBERT NJ. HARTMAN, of Long Is
land, won the amateur golf champion
ship of America at the Onwentsia links
at Lake Forest, Ill, on the sth.
HANS Brown. 60 years old, and his
son-ir-law. Thomas Nilsson, SO, at
tempted to drive a team of horses and
dairy wagon through Turkey creek,
near Kansas City, Mo-, early on the
7th and both men and horses were
swept away in the raging torrent of
water ana drowned.
GEORGE w. JULIAN, the famous abo-
litionist, died at his home in Irvington,
Ind, on the 7th. In 1859 he was a can
didate for the vice presidency on the
free soil ticket and was delegate to
the first republican convention at Pitts
burgh in 1859. He served several terms
in congress.
THE Mohawks, democratic orgaui-
zation said to comprise 900 wigwams
and over $4,000 active members, was in
secret session at Buffalo, N. Y. recent
ly and elected officers and adjourned
to meet next year in the city selected
for the national democratic conven-
ton, one week prior to that conven-
ton. Steps were taken to begin i'm
uediately the work of organizing new
wigwams. The resolutions adopted
denounced trusts and monopolies, in
dorsed Bryan and free silver, and op-
pose militarism.
THE events of the Christian Endeavor
convention at Detroit, Mich, on the 9th
were the addresses of the president
and the secretary. 1t was estimated
that upward of 10000 accredited dele
gates had arrived, aside from visitors
who We're not endeavorers. Secretary
Baer in his report said: 'The official
enrolment is 55,sl3 societies, with a
total membership of 3,50O,O0O. The
Christian Endeavor Tenth Legion now
numbers Il, 700 members, who are Civ
ing not less than one-tenth of their in.
comes to Cod
PANIC was narrowly averted among
500 people, of whom $50 were women,
employed in the factory of the Illinois
Can company at Chicago, which was
burned ON the 9TH Elames hroka ont