The Holly chieftain., 1899-06-02

A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone visited Ham
ilton county, Neb., on the e7th and
destroyed property to the amount of
about SlOO. 600.
The Texas legislature adjourned sine
die on the 2Tth.
LOUIS E. BERT. farmer of Oxford
township, o., was killed by lightning
the other night at barn warming
near his home. About 80 persons were
in the barn and all were prostrated.
AMID the booming of cannon and the
screaming of steam whistles the Span
ish cruiser Reina Mercedes arrived at
Portsmouth, Va, on the 27th. She
was accompanied by tiotilla of tugs,
profusely decorated. Thousands wit
messed the procession through the
harbOr.
RECENT advices from Moscow were
to the effect that the starving peasants
in Russia mum bercd 20, 600. 600. Nopos-
sible estimate of the number of deaths
could be made.
DIR. RICHMOND CORNWALL committed
suicide at Kansas City. Mo, on the
2Sth. financial revcrses being the cause.
The doctor had led an eventful life. He
killed his brother two years ago in st.
Louis and his name was connected with
the mysterious disappearance of Miss
Maud Belle Bonesteel. Kansas City
girl.
A SPECIAL from Muscogee, |. T.. said
that the Creek Indians had ratified the
Dawes treaty by Il maiority of 4s5 votes
and that Chief Isparhecber had selected
his allotment.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the Goth num-
bered 15s, according to Bradstreet's
commercial report, against 23l for the
corresponding week in last year.
AT the international Y. NJ. C. A. CON
ference at Grand Rapids, Mich, on the
26th Anthony Comstock made an ad-
dress in the interest of his work for the
suppression of immoral literature.
Mrs. Ruin HOWARD has been sub
pmnaed by Mr. Moss to appear before
the Mazet committee at New York
The committee will direct its attention
10 the Tombs prison. Mrs. Howard
was released the other day after having
spent several months in the Tombs
She told story of happenings in the
Tombs which Mr.. Moss said would
stir the people of New York as few
cities have been stirred since Charles
Dickens revealed the shames and out
RACES suffered i'll London prisons.
TWENTY acres in the heart of Coney
island, n. Y, the summer resort. were
swept by flames on the Goth. In all
there We're 200 buildings burned, in
,luding the Hygeia hotel, theatcrs.
concert halls, dancing pavilions, etc.
The fire made shelterless for IA time
about $500 persons. The value of the
property burned was estimated at near
ly sl,000,0 900.
THE Samoan commission arrived at
Apia the other day and held sitting.
Nothing was disclosed regarding the
deliberations, but it was reported that
they upheld the action of Admiral
kautz, the American naval commander
THE fertilizing plant of Walker,
Stratman * Co., at Pittsburgh, Pa.
was destroyed by fire. Edward Probst,
an employe, was missing and it was
feared that he was burned to death.
The loss was about 100000.
SENIOR DoN EMILIO CASTELAR,, the dis
tinguishcd Spanish republican orator
and statesman, who had been suffering
from an attack of pulmonary catarrh
contracted last winter, is dead. He
was 67 years old.
TWENTY thousand people attended
the sham battle at the state G. A. II.
encampment Mt Terre Haute. Ind, the
Fatt, ln. -
militia and two light batteries partici-
patcd. A fort had been constructed
and part of the militia We're ordered
to defend it. They were supposed to
be Spaniards. The invading forces
s.ormed the brcastworks and tore the
Spanish flag from the fort, while the
old veterans shouted themselves hoarse.
THE tuberculosis congress opened at
Berlin on the cath with 1000 members
present, of whom 200 were delegates
from Germany and foreign govern
ments. Surgeon Boyd, who represents
the medical corps of the United States
navy at the congress, made an address
and was elected chairman of the Amer
lean delegation.
JoHN 7. Roach, of Montreal, Can.
was arrested at Boston on the charge
of being implicated in the robbery of
the Dominion bank, Napanee, Ont, on
August IS, 1897, when S32. 200 in cash
and notes We're taken.
QUEEN NIcToRIA's eightieth birth
day was celebrated throughout the
British empire on the a4th and Presi-
dent Mckinley was among those who
sent her congratulatory kilograms.
The Mexican Central depot, which
was built across the Rio Grande at Ell
Paso, Tex, 10 years ago at a cost of
$4,000, was entirely destroyed by fire
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