The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

of water in the kitchen and was
drowned while its mother was tenn
porarily absent.
A sHEEIFP's posse shot and killed Abb
ner Calhoun. a negro, near Oak Grove,
! Ga. in mistake for AN escaped irebug.
The average condition of cotton on
the 10th was given by the department
Of agriculture as SIS, as compared with
gl.2 for the corresponding date of 1898.
A FATAL tragedy occurred just at
the close of services at the Baptist
church at Caney creek, near West
Liberty, KY, on the 9th. The two
Fugate brothers and Jesse Day, a
young farmer, met in the church, and
as soon as the bencdiction was pro-
nounced began shooting at each other.
Day was killed and one member of the
congregation. who had no hand in the
trouble, was shot in the arm.
DELEGATIONS of Indians from the
Omaha reservation and from some of
the South Dakota tribes held pow
WOW at Decatur, Neb., on the 9th.
They had great time with Aaeir in
.antations and dances.
CALIFORNIA experienced an earth
quake shock on the 9th.
THE Atoka Coal Mining company is
importing many negroes to work in its
mines at Lehigh, I. T.
THE committee of the peace dele
gates at The Hague discussed on the
7th, the scheme for mediation and
arbitration drawn up by the comite
fexamine, but as many of the dele
gates had not heard from their respec-
i've governments an adjournment was
AIKEN for a week.
The Burlington's Omaha night ex-
press from Kansas City was wrecked
n the Missouri river bottoms about 90
niles from Kansas City, near Waldron,
and the fireman, Charles Weltz was
Silled and several passengers were in
iured. a cloudburst had washed away
about 80 feet of track.
MAJ. HEATwoLE, chief commissary.
died at Santiago de Cuba on the 9th of
yellow fever.
PHiLASDEg JESTER, of Muncie, Ind,
4 brother of Alexander Jester, who
was arrested in Oklahoma and taken
to Mexico, Mo-. to answer for an
alleged murder committed in 1871, de-
,lared that the sister who caused
Alexandcr's arrest was of unsound
mind.
DETROIT, Mich, was said to be sore
because there Were only about 10000
Christian Endeavorers when they had
reason to expect $4,000.
Two hundred negroes from the mines
and quarries in and about Birmingham,
Ala, left there the other night for Weir
City, Kan, to take the place of strikers
in the coal mines at that place. Areg-
ular movement of these negroes has
been going on for some time and 500 of
them have already been sent thither.
REPoRTs from special correspond
ent of the Galveston News indicated
that, while the property loss by the re-
cent floods has been enormous, the loss
of life has been greatly exaggerated.
According to the News only two lives
have been lost in the lower Brazos
flood in Texas,
TWENTY of the largest cigar factories
in Tampa, Fla, have instituted gem
eral lockout which will result in in
definitely cutting off 65 per cent of the
total United States output of clear
Havana cigars. Five thousand Cubans
were thrown out of employment.
a FIRE broke ont in the house of Mrs.
Bogolios at Coiilterville, CAL. and
spread to the entire business portion
of the town. Altogether 81 buildings
were destroyed. The loss was esti-
mated at $4,000
FRED ROBERTS was shot by his BROTH
er-in-law, Frank Fouts, near Lead
vile, Col, for abusing his wife, Fouts'
sister.
THE Christian Endeavor convention
at Detroit, Mich, on the Tth suffered
much discomfort from the rain. Reso-
lutions were authorized protesting
against opening national expositions
on Sunday and against the seating of
Congressman-elect Brigham II. Roberts,
of Utah. a plan was also under con-
sideration to charter steamships to
carry endeavorers to England at a
straight fare.
HOWELL, the American oarsman of
Trinity hall, Cambridge, beat Black
staff, of the Vesta Rowing club, in the
final heat at the Henley royal regatta
in England on the 7th for the diamond
sculls, of which Howell is the holder.
PRESIDENT w. n. BYERs, of the Colo
RADIO state board of arbitration, said at
Denver on the 9th that everything
looked favorable for an early settle
ment of the differences between the
smelter trust and its employees.
Ex. Gov. w. j. STONE denied in an
interview at st. Louis that he would
succeed Senator Jones as chairman of
the democratic national committee and
said that Chairman Jones was not going
to resign.
AT meeting of the citizens in KAN
sas City. Mn on the ninhf of tho 81 h