The Holly chieftain., 1899-04-28


ture of Manila by the Americans, ran
his two gunboats into the Mangrove
swamps, where they arenow lying.
JUDGE ROOMS, of the federal court
at Fort Smith, Ark, has issued an in
junction restraining the striking min
ers at untingtou, Ark, from intcrfer-
ing with the Kansas & Texas Coal com
pany, who are importing negro miners
from kentucky to take the place of the
strikers. Gov. Jones has instructed
the sheriff of Sebastian county to stop
the importation of negroes. and not let
the company unload them in the state,
and Judge Rogers instructed the United
States marshal TO serve the Injunction
on the sheriff.
TIE body of Mrs. Henry Temper was
found on the 18th in the Cedar river,
almost in the heart of Waterloo, Ia.
The body had been in plain sight of
hundreds daily and boys had pelted it
with stones, supposing it to be only a
bundle of rags. The police believe the
woman was murdered.
GEN. OTIS is making determined eff
fort to prevent the spread of disaffec-
tion among volunteers under his com
dispatches sent to them by opponents
of the policy of expansion of the ad-
ministration in the United States, es-
pecially in Boston. The dispatches
which the general has suppressed de
clare that the volunteers are entitled
to immediate return home and make
the volunteers feel unwilling to re-en-
list or TO stop until they can be spared.
OK the night of the 2Sd the Missouri
river was "A raging torrent at Omaha,
Neb., the flood conditions being more
alarming at this point than for IS
years. Over 200 people were driven
from inundated homes, little of their
household goods being saved.
Four men and a boy lost their lives
by an explosion in coal mine at Mad
rid, n. NJ, on the 2ist.
ARMED with pitchforlls, Horace Scott,
colored, and Edward ZilImond, young
white man, fought duel to death in
the alley at the rear of 1850 Indiana
avenue, Chicago, on the 2ist. Scott
was stabbed in the breast and died
after a few minutes Zikmond surren-
dcred to the police.
HIRsCII CoPPELMAS. who pleaded
guilty month ago to swindling Jacob
Bernstein, of Cincinnati, out of si3, 600
by means of the gold brick scheme, was
sentenced by Judge Newberger at New
York to four years and ten months in
the penitentiary. Saul Jacobs is now
serving a sentence of ~ years in Sing
Sing for the crime committed by Cop
pelman.
IL the presence of nearly 1000 people
Sam Hose, negro who had killed
man and assaulted his wife, was burned
at the stake near Newman, Ga, ON the
Esd Before the torch was applied to
the pyre the negro was deprived of his
ears, fingers and other portions of his
anatomy, which the mob eagerly seized
as souvenirs.
The British university chess players
defeated the American university chess
players, the score being 81 to ~. The
game was played by cable.
THE steamer Gen. Whitney sank 80
miles east of Cape Canaveral, Fla, on the
22d. One boat with 10 men in it at
tempted TO make landing and it up
set, IL of the men being drowned
Fifteen men in another boat were
afterwards picked up near st. Angus
tine, Fla.
AT Maxwell. La, crowd of white
men made an attack upon the negro
quarter, which resulted in the death of
one negro and the wounding of two
others. There had been trouble be
tween the races Mt that point before.
The whites ordered the blacks to leave.
MANY cigar dealers throughout the
country will be innocent sufferers as a
result of the operation of the counter
feiting gang arrested at Philadelphia
and Lancaster, Pa, as all cigars in
boxes bearing the bogus stamps will be
seized and the dealers who have them
will be liable to fine and imprisonment.
Is a shooting affray near Treval in
Trinity county. Tex, Edward Harding
and James Trcbathan were killed and
/. c. Harding fatally wounded. The
cause of the trouble was not known.
Gov. LIND, of Minnesota. received the
following cablcgran from Manila on
the Goth: The regiment must be or
dered home and mustered out of the
service at once.-Ofiicers of Regiment.
Gov. Lind said he was unadyised as to
the eNigencies at Manila and was wholly
III tHe ufTh Us 10 lHt Teili sipnlI1csiI1ce
of the message.
JOHN FLORA. whose trial was set for
the Goth for the murder of Jessie Bur
ton, was fatally injured in the Jail at
Paoli, Ind, the previous night by
crazy prisoner named Wall. Wall sud
denly became mad and, seizing poker,
beat Flora SO that he cannot recover.
THE national society of the Sons of
the Revolution accomplished all the
business of the triennial meeting at