The Holly chieftain., 1899-01-27

ing season. Dr. Walter Wyman, the
surgeon general will go to Cuba in a
few weeks 90 give his personal atten,
ton TO the extension.
A FIRE br1ze out in 5000 bales ot
cotton lying On the wharf of Genoa,
Italy, whicu had been discharged from
the steamer barbara, from Galveston
Tex. Two thousand bales were de,
stroyed.
RoBBERs entered the store of o. K.
Skidmore q son at Oolagah, /. T., blew
open the safe with dynamite and Sc.
cured the contents, amount ting to sew,
eral thousand dollars
SOME 400 representative citizens Of
Detroit Mich. met n the chamber ot
commerce and laid the foundation for
the propose biceHtenary celebration
in 1901 of tn founding of Detroit, com.
bined with a mammoth exposition. A
committee Of 80 reported articles o.
association With a capital stock to be
81, 900, 600
CoSsfDEgA uiE damage was done BY
freight tran wreck near Alto Pass
Ill
GEORGE ". E AYES shot and killed
his wife at Philadelphia, wounded a
boarder named John Wilson and then
committed suicide Jealousy caused
the tragedy.
The capita of the Italian steame,
Orirne, wh .ch recently arrived a,
Genoa, Italy, reported that while com.
ing from Brazil a woman on board. in
lit of insauIy, threw her three lit.
tie sons ovcrbOarI and then leaped
after them and ali four were drowned.
Two days lal-r the wOman's husband
and daughtcr Jumped ito the sea and
were lost
THE order from the authorities in
Havana direcling the authorities a,
santiago not TO cXpend the customs
receipts withoGt permission from the
governor gencral and directing tina,
sanitary work shall be done for rations
and not money pay has been received
with bad graz by the people at San.
tiago and threats were being made
that many would take to the noun.
tains and turn br!Eauds
TWENTY persons lost their lives in
recent fire near san Sebastian.
Spain.
FIRE broke out in the Maury dry
goods store a, Columbia. Tenn, on the
I'D and In q short time four of the
handsomest stores in the place were
in ruins. Los. SIS 600. partly insured
JoHs DIETHLoFF fatally shot his wifi.
at Chicago aud then committed sui.
rtdc. They had not been living to.
gether for some time.
AN earthquaHe shock was felt al
I;ichvicw, Ill, on the 4'st
AT Joint Conference at Kansas City,
Mo-, Of the live stock sanitary boards
If Missouri and Kansas / was agreed
hat each state board would honor
permits issued bv the other in the
movement of southern or infected cat
lie; that the Quarantine regulations to
he formulated By the secre taries are to
be as near uniform as the conditions
will warrant. and that the two boards
cooperate for the protection OF the
.attle industry in each state.
An earthquake was recently felt in
Jamaica. II lasted ten seconds
The Sherwood house at Cincinnati
look fire early on the 2Oth, probably
rom an overheated furnace, and in n
Fery brief time the house was so filled
With smoke IS to endanger the lives of
The 60 or more sleeping guests VERY
'oon the upper corridors were filled
With shriekinp and hysterical women
n night robes The male guests had
iItficulty in restraining the women
rom jumping from the windows They
we're all finally rescued.
The ninety-third anniversary OF the
birth of Gen. Robert E Lee was cele
,ra,ed u, Waco. Tex, by Pat Cleburne
amp, United Confederate Veterans
5v invitation OF the camp the Grand
Army post and the Woman's Relief
.orps attended the exercises Confed.
rate and Grand Army badges ap.
)eared about half and half in the au.
!ence.
Is an editorial on the 10Th the Kan.
as City Mol Times, which has been
stanch supporter of William J. BRYAN.
urged the candidacy of United States
senator Francis Marion Cockrell. OF
Missouri. for the democratic presiden-
ial nomination in 1900
FRANK NJ. DORSEY formerly cashier
" the failed First national bank of
'onca, Neb.. was found guilty in the
ederal court on the 10Th on I3 counts
charging making false reports to the
comptroller.
CAPT. EZRA b FULLER. United States
mastering of3cer for South Carolina,
sas recently at Camp Wetherill, Green.
lille, s. c., arranging for the muster
nut of the Fourth Missouri.
The westbound Sunse, limited pas
enger train ran into an engine at La
;oste, 80 miles west of San Antonio
iex.. demolishing both engines and
dlling Fireman Miller and fatally
calding Engineer Nicholson.
The three children of Charles Hager.
nan were playing on the ice off Wells
sland. N. Y. 10 the St Lawrence river
when it broke and they fell in. The
mother rushed to their rescue and the
whole four lost their lives
In the state fiscal court at Frank.
'ort, KY, 81 insurance companies
ioing business in the state were fined
25O each for alleged conspiracy to
combine and control and fix insurance
'ateS
BUSINESS failures in the United States
or the week ended the Goth mum bered
''s, according to buns commercial re-
,ort, against 374 in the same week las,
rear.
THE executive committee of tn.
merican Hereford Breeders associa.
ion, at a meeting held at Kansas
ity, Mo, practically decided to hold
!. big Hereford cattle show in that
ity next fall in connection with Il
breeders sale. 1t will be the first dis
e;