The Holly chieftain., 1899-03-10

as e3itor of the Omaha Herald were
crs.royed, among hem being letters
from the late Gov seymour and Til
den. Of New York
TIE boiler in Pa .ay's mill al Owens
bo-o, ky., explo5-5 the other day.
killing one man aad fatally iniuriug
two others
TIE kanawha alley was visited on
the 5.h by one of tie worst floods in
The history of thzt section Charles
ton. ". Va, was n-st entirely under
wa'e-, causing cls.derable damage
10 property and ci>lress among the
poor. The city Va also in total dark
aess at night, as ne gas plants and
.lectr.c light wl-zs had been shut
down.
THEE small G. d-en of Mr. and
N-s Rhinehart, q, Walkers Valley.
Wash, were burr TO death They
mad been locked 70 the house while
the parents were 2: EOrl; in the woods
i FAST newspar-r rain was wrecked
Iear huntington a, by q landslide
saEseG bv heaEg -l.n- The engineer
"a. l-eman were .zntly killed.
A FrBE occurred the Laekawanna
Valley house bio zt Scranton, Pa,
..r.g The other D.-1 ny which en5au-
-rred the lives o. l-ariy 100 guests,
bat they were al l74-ly got out safely,
cad n their nigh: othes
TEE naval pos leg magazine a: La
Goa ran, Franc -Lploded a. two
o'clock on the mo- ~ of the 9Th, kill
r all the sold --. on duty at the
place. a numbe- O.. the inhabitants
7t the surround district also fell
rc;.ms through ,ae- buildings being
.~ug. shed. TIL -- u5er of killed
vas beiieved to b -=-rly leo.
= BAKIsG powG-- --ust was iBeor-
oo-a'ed at Trento- = J., with cap
10 alton of $50. 10
TIE san Bruno ag.el, an old land
mark near San F. sco. was burned
on the goth and t. 79rter.of the hotel
per.shed in the faz->
uUEISG the mon 20 O: February there
were coined at the United States mint
10 Phi!adelphia s.. I'D dou ole eagles.
20 900 dollars and - 900 half-dollars
10 silver, 4i5. 1000 arr-cent pieces and
I.l5- 900 pennies The total number
o. pieces coined va, 29l, IsJ and their
total values sio.I6g go
Two women we turned TO death
and a man was ss-r-e.y injured u
fire n a tenemeut r-cs al Boston.
The farm houz= 7t Joshua McGee
near Onawa. la, wzs burned and his
two Young chilGrea were burned to
death and their NJ her fatally in j1red.
News was brou -ai 70 Victoria, Il c,
from the north tha, q number of min
ers were frozen 10 L-atE on the Atlin
trail during a rece1. ;crribly cold snap.
The mercury fell TO 3, degrees below,
and no less thar eight unfortunates
were said to have slccum bed to the
cold, Several othe-s we're badly frozen.
TEE Mobile & Ohio train bearing
homeward the second battalion Of
the Second Missoa-i voluuteers from
Albany. Ga, who had been mustered
out Of the service. was wrecked Two
miles south of Tupe.o. Miss, on the
ID. Four cars In which the soldiers
were seated jumDeI the track and
| were hurled down q 91-foot mbank.
ment Sixteen Of the volunteers were
more or less seriously injured, but
| there was no immeG ate loss of life.
THE psice Of wire. steel and wrought
uails mas been advanced ten per cent
THE charred remains of Partbenia
Smith and two uuknown women were
found in the ruins OF a shack near Wa
tonga, Ok. oficers investigated and
reported that the three persons were
murde red and the house burned after
ward.
The residence Of John Haines at
West Salisbury, Pa, was burned aud
two children. aged two months and
twoyears, were cremated- Mrs Haines
was also dangerously burned and Mr.
Haiues slightly injured.
CARBoY Of benziue exploded in a
frst-class railway carriage near ST
Petersburg and thS carriage was
burned and seven persons were killed
and I6 others injured.
OVER 200 boxes, containing i,76i gold
bricks valued At Sl2 l2l. .624.0l were re-
ceived at the Philadelphia mint on the
ID from the United States assay office
in New York. The gold will be coined
into $40 and $40 pieces.
HARRY HUTcHIsoN. aged is years,
was arrested At Corinth, Ky. charged
with wrecking An express train on the
] southern RAILWAY tue OkntE NlElL
| Other arrests were to be made.
The Oklahoma secretary of state
granted q charter to the Shawnee,
Oklahoma & Missouri Coal & Railway
company; capital stock, 81. 600, 600 The
company is chartered to construct,
operate and maintain q line of rail.
road from Purcell, / T., $50 miles
/ through the con . ties of Pottawatomie
and Cleveland, Ok. and Seminole,
Creek and Cherokee nation, /. T, to
] Seneca, Mo-; also to develop and oper.
/ ate coal mines
THE work Of allotting lands TO the
/ Otoe Indians in Oklahoma has been
| completed and the allotting agent.
/ Miss Helen p. Clarb, viii make her re-
[ port 10 Washing ton in few days
The former Spanish cruiser Reina
Mercedes, which was sunk in the chan.
mel OF San tiago harbor during the
| bonbardment b. the American aeet
has been raised and pumped ont
JoHS w. KfSG, paymaster for the
Missouri Pacifc railway, committed
suicide at ST Louis on the I'd by hang
ing himself to a rafter in the cellar
I He was 50 years old. It was a matter
almost nuaccor table to his friends
/ why he should hare taken his own life.
IL head-eud collision between
passenger train and a double-header,
near White Plan, New, four persons
were killed outr ght and one seriously
injured.
The three children of Charles Hager-