The Holly chieftain., 1899-06-16

SIX Thousand members of the chill
dren's Jacketmakers and Knee
Breechesnakers' union went on strike
at New York on the 18th.
AT Fairport- O.. 400 elevator men
struck for an increase OF five cents per
hour.
WHILE attempting to arrest three
men whom he caught in the act of rob
bing W. A Shaughnessy at Chicago, Po-
liceman Victor Stromberg shot and IA
tally injured Mrs Nellie Lceman. who
was on the opposite side of the street.
The officer seized one OF the robbers
and when the other started to run he
drew his revolver and commen ced fir
ing. In his struggle to hold on to one
of the robbers, however, his shots went
wild.
SAMUEL DAVIS and Joseph Hopper,
two wealthy farmers in Grant county,
Ark, were talking together when Hop
per suddenly became insane and. pick
ing up an AK, split Davis head wide
open. Death resulted instantly. Hop
per then attacked several others, badly
wounding them, but he was finally
overpowered and lodged in jail. Hop
per said that he was called of God to
kill his friends"
A TORNADO struck Salix. Ia. at $50
p. m. on the lith and killed three mem
bers of the Malloy family and fatally
injured another. Several houses were
demolished. Much damage was also
done at Whiting.
TERRIFIC rains have washed bridges
and dams away in the section around
Winona. Mimi, and railroad travel
was completely at Il standstill on the
llth.
a PANIc was reported at Vera Cruz,
Mex, over the outbreak of yellow fever.
SIMON Brooks, colored, was lynched
by mob of 500 negroes near Sardis,
Miss, having been taken from the jail
during the night. The victim had as
saulted 4 negress- The white men had
nothing to do with the lynching.
THE Filipino occupation of the prov
ince of Cavite has been broken and the
Americans now control the coast towns
of Paranaque and Las Pinas. The mon
itor Monadnock shelled both places.
AT meeting of the trades and labor
assembly at st. Louis on the 18th a
resolution was adopted rendering the
support of organized labor to the strik-
ing architectural ironworlers for
shorter day and higher wages.
SIX large open air meetings under
the auspices of the Chicago Single Tax
club We're held in the lake city on the
11th
THE Usage Indian country in okla
homa is overrun by horse thieves.
The lighthouse and buildings of the
new United States training station on
Goat island, near San Francisco, were
threatened with destruction on the
night of the 11th by the grass becoming
ignitcd. but large force of men turned
out and saved the buildings from de-
struction.
THE attorney general of Indiana will
soon move against trusts in that state.
TwENTY-THREE manufacturers of
glass tableware, including representa-
tives of the United States Glass COM
pany, owning 30 plants, were repre-
sented at meeting held at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 9th. 1t was announced
that 90 per cent. ot the output favored
a combination.
THE Kansas City. Pittsburg & Gulf
passenger train, which left Kansas City
at $50 p. m. on the sth filed with peo-
pie who had been in Kansas City to see
the woodmen's parade, was wrecked
at Grandview, Mo-, two hours later
More than so passengers We're injured.
but only two will probably die. The
cause of the wreck, according to the
railroad officials was the spreading of
the rails at a curve, the roadbed having
been made soft by the recent heavy
rains.
JAMES j. JEFFRIEs knocked out Rob
ert Fitzsimmons in the eleventh round
in the fight for the championship at
the Coney Island Athletic club in New
York on the 9th. Jeffries had Fitz-
simmons whipped from the ninth round
and was never at any time in serious
danger.
NINETEEN persons died of the heat in
New York on the Sth and 20 others
were prostrated.
DESPITE the drizzling rain which at
times swelled into downpour. the
Modern Woodmen of America gave
parade on the sth at Kansas City, Mo-,
which was a credit to the order. The
parade was one hour and ten minutes
passing II given point. There were SO
bands in the line, dozens of Forester
teams, scores of carriages and hundreds
of men. w. J. Bryan made a speech
on "Woodcraft" in the afternoon, be.
ing brought from Liberty ON special
train. William A. Northcott, of Green.
vile, Ill. was reelected head consul.
AT Alexandria, Egypt, it was stated
on the 9th, there had been 81 cases OF
the plague and seven deaths from that
disease.
ROCHESTER,, n. Y, on the 9th dedica-