The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-21
GEy. D. & STANLEY, acting president

of the Society of the Army of the Gum
berland, has announced the next an
| nual reunion at Detroit, Mich, sep
tenn Der 25-2f. The last annual meeting
was postponed because so many OF the
prominent members of the society en-
tered the army with the war with Spain.
IN attempting to board a switch en-
gine at the National stock yards at St
Louis John v. Benito was run over and
killed.
| A DISPATCH from Tulsa, /. T., on the
nth stated that the execution of Will
liam Going, the Choctaw Indian. in de-
fiance of writ of habeas corpus issued
by United States Judge John K.
Thomas, will be made the direct cause
for bringing those implicated to trial
for murder,
| THE Germania state bank at st. Paul,
Mimi, has closed it doors
WHILE attempting to alight from
moving freight train at St. Louis an
unknown colored man fell beneath the
wheels and was ground to pieces
WILLIAM CRUksHANK, wealthy
farmer near Heyworth, H., was lead
ing pair of mules and while fastening
a gate threw the halters, tied together,
around his neck. The mules started
and ran, dragging Cruikshank and
| breaking his neck.
THE Colorado supreme court on the
18th decided that the eight-hour law
| was unconstitutional
A STATEMENT of newspaper corre-
spondents in the Philippines has been
made public in which they protest
against the censorship of the press by
| zen. Otis at Manila. They declare that
the news is doctored and dispatches
from the Philippines give wrong i'm
| preston of the situation in the islands
THE United States district attorney
| at Jacksonville, Fla, has been warned
from Washington to look out for fill
clustering expeditions from the Florida
coast for Honduras, Nicaragua and
| other Central American countries.
THE American tin plate factory at
| Elwood, Ind, has resumed, giving en-
| ployment to 1000 persons.
A STRANGE insect is damaging the
| wheat in Clarke county, S. d.
THREE men and woman playfully
jumped into boat in tow of a naphtha
lunch at Cincinnati on the 10th when
it sank and only one man was saved.
THE Tompkins opera house block
at Gallatin, Tenn, was burned.
HEAVY windstorm did considerable
| damage at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
10th.
A STRIKE was inaugurated on all the
street ear lines Of Brooklyn on the 10th.
GREwsoME stories come from the Bra
EOS valley in Texas Outbreaks of sick
| ness were reported from many points,
and. owing to the scarcity of nour-
ishing foods and medicines and the
impediments to transportation, it
was feared the mortality will be large.
John Carlisle. who. owns large plan
tation at Chappell Hill, near Brennan.
| reported four deaths among his people
since the flood. The waters washed
the carcasses of ESQ animals into the
fence corners on his plantation and
portions of his fields were 80 feet under
water.
WILLIAM GOING, whose Indian name
was Walla Tonaka, was shot at Alilschi,
I. T., on the 18th under sentence of
the Choctaw court for murder. The
execution was a horribly sickeuing
| affair. The sheriff's bullet entered the
victims breast, just missing the right
spot. Going fell backward and moaned
piteously for an hour before expiring.
Water was poured down his throat
| number of times to hasten death by
strangulation.
TwESTY-sEvES business houses, the
pumping station of the waterworks
the fire engine house and the Jail at
Bainbridge, Ga, were destroyed by fire
on the 10th.
A FREIGHT train on the Chicago & Al
ton railroad was wrecked early on the
18th near Glendale, Mo. Ten persons
were stealing ride in the cars and
three of them We're killed and seven ter
ribly injured. 1t was believed the ac-
| cident was through broken fiange,
causing one of the cars to jump the
track and the indiscriminate piling up
of the other cars followed. The train
consisted of ten cars of merchandise,
coal. hogs and cattle.
SEVERAL hundred wood caryers in
the factories at Shelbyville, Ind, went
| on strike the other day, demanding a
raise of wages of Is cents per hour.
They now receive 25 cents.
o. I. CoRsoS, of Columbus. O.. was
elected president of the National Edu.
| cational association by a unanimous
vote at the meeting at Los Angeles,
Cal. Mrs. CASTOR Boyd. of Kansas. was
chosen as one of the vice presidents
ONE thousand laborers were thrown
out of employment on the 18th by the
closing down of the Schwarzschild l.
Sulzberger packing plant in Armour
dale. Kan. The plant was closed as
result of disagreement between the
management and the butchers union