The Holly chieftain., 1899-05-12

7 arthur ON the ith after n strong resist
ance by the Filipino rebels Col. Fun
ston, of the Twentieth Kansas, was
| wounded in the hand Gen Lawton
captured $4,000 bushels of rice from
the rebels.
The powder mill plant located in the
Indian Run valley, near Pottsyille, Pa,
blew up on the 18th, destroying is tons
of powder. Fortunately no workmen
were about the plant at the time. A
gang of tramps, it was believed, set
fire to the magazine.
A VIOLENT windstorm swept through
the western part Of st. Louis on the
evening of the 9TH and unroofed num-
Der of houses, blew down circus tent
and delayed street car traffic.
A TORNADO struck Chickasha, /. T.,
on the evening OF the 9th denolishing
81 buildings and doing considerable
other damage. Most of the people es-
capped injury by taking refuge in storm
cellars, although II persons were re-
ported as being more or less hurt. The
windstorm was preceded by hail and
followed by flood of rain.
The business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 9Th num-
bered l64, according to Bradstreet's
commercial report, against ls4 in the
corresponding week a year ago.
WHITE river, from Chesterfield to An
derson, Ind, a distance of five miles,
was reported filled with dead and dy-
ing fish, killed by the dumping of the
refuse of the Yorktown straw board
plant.
JUDGE MCMAsTER. at indianapolis.
Ind, has instructed the secretary of
the Order of the Iron Hall to pay the
final dividend-one-tifth of five per
cent. This will close the recervership
which has existed seven years and
which involved the collection and dis
tribution of $1,000. COO. OF the 63, 900
members throughout the country 40, 900
proved their claims. The total dividend
has been IS 1-5 per cent.
THE opening OF that portion OF the
Ute reservation located in Colorado oc-
CURED at noon on the 4th according to
the proclamation of President Mckin-
ley. Buffalo" Jones appeared near
lgnacio with 500 followers from Guth-
rie, Ok, and was met by Dr. f. d. Allen,
who was prominent in the opening of
the famous Cherokee strip. They will
start "A town near Ignacio, to be called
Tabor.
The first train over the South Park
into Dillon, Col, for four months ran
through solid walls of snow on the 4th
and steamed into the town amid the
blowing of whistles and the ringing of
bells The snow blockade had been
broken.
The federal authorities of the West
ern district of Texas have received in
formation that gigantic plot is now
under way to smuggle Chinese into
this country from Mexico. A few
months ago the Mexican Central Rail-
way company imported about LOCO
Chinese to work on extensions of that
line and soon after their arrival a pro-
fessional American Chinese smuggler
got among them and they are making
their way toward the Rio Grande
frontier in small bands.
Two men were killed and one in iured
while excavating for the foundation of
a new building in New York. A cave
in occurred and several other worl<men
narrowly escaped.
TWENTY thousand barrels of oil have
been destroyed by fire from lightning
striking an oil tank near Morgantown,
w. Va, the other day. Loss, $50. 900. |
BURIED treasure in the shape of IL
81 900 bonds, bearing unclipped coupons,
which add several thousand dollars to
their value, was found by Thomas Law
son negro laborcr, while digging in |
the cellar of department store in Gin
cc!nnati. He claims it as treasure |
troye.
ForB hundred United States troops
were on guard in the Cnur d'Alene |
mining district and martial law was in |
full force in Shoshone county, Ida, on |
the 4th. Gen. Merriam. who arrived |
from Denver, decided, if possible, to |
arrest all the striking miners impli- |
Gated in blowing up the Bunker Hill |
and Sullivan mines.
Mrs. EUNIcE j. BROWN was burned |
to death in her room at Kansas City, |
Mo-, on the 4th. She was ironing |
and in lifting a gallon can of gasoline |
from table the can, which was glass, |
struck the gasoline stove and broke. |
The liquid was ignited and enveloped |
her in flames.
KEoKuK, chief of the Sac and Fox In |
dians, recently died of smallpox, ac-
cording to n dispatch from Guthrie,
Ok, on the 4th.
AT Mechanicsville, N. Y, James Will |
liams, aged 65 years, murdered his |
wife, with whom he had not lived foI |
years, and then mortally wounded him.
self.
A pAPAL bull proclaims holy jubilee
for the year 1900.
Mrs. JOANNA DEvERS, widow 6t |