The Holly chieftain., 1899-03-24
A p1sAsrno,.s fire broke out In the

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houses was reduced TO a heap of brick
and mortar, but all the occupants were
got out Octave Pelloux, fireman,
fell three storie with faliin g floor,
but was not seriously injured.
LuGI LuCcHIyI. the murderer of the
Empress Elizabeth it was reported,
as broken down under the rigors
of solitary confinement ut Geneva,
Switzerland. He has attempted sui
eide on three occasions
THE Brooklawn hotel at Cleveland,
O., was partly destroyed by fire early
the other morning. Some bedroom
doors had to be broken in to arouse the
sleeping gues,s but all were finally
| got ont in safety
| The southwestern limited on the
Lake Shore road was wrecked at West
Seneca, N. Y, Dy an ice-clogged switch.
Engineer Shu,tack was killed and
brakeman Roberts severely injured.
THREE freient trains were wrecked
at Ada, Va. b. one breaking in two
and crashing down the mountain a
| fireman, brakcmnn and tramp were
| killed and sevcral other trainmen were
more or less injured.
a FREIGHT train struck n horse on
the track neur Clipper Gap Cal, and
the engine was ditched. the engineer
and fireman were scalded to death and
another man was badly burned.
AT Guthrie, Ok, a woman by the
name OF Gree uhcId shot and killed
Merit Hickey, man we'll known in
| sporting circle IN Oklahoma, Kansas
and Missouri jealousy was the cause.
| A TORNADO struc.. CisDurre county.
Ala. on the r.vLt Of .he 18th and
swept houses uHar, uproUtcd trees and
| lcveled everytiur in its path. The
house OF Levi .ptTse was demolished d
among others and ten members of the
family were X led. a woman in an
other house at lIuflin also lost her life.
a great numb 1f people were injured
and dozens of grain mills demolished.
A RAFT of logs from the mountains
:pr Chattanoopa Tenn, went to pieces
near the Cincinnati Southern bridge
in the Tennessrr river and two RATS.
men were drow ned and four others had
thrilling eX0rricnce in getting ont
OF the water w lh their lives.
EAsTBoUSp passenger train No. g
/ jumped the trars Just west of Noliand,
Kan, on the i7tn on the Rock Island
road, throwing he tank, baggage car
and smoker dow bank and leavin Q
the chair car an baggage car partly
tipped over. The train caught fire,
the flames destroytng the combination
baggage and mail car, two coaches
and chair car Twenty-six passeu-
gers were injured, two seriously. Ex-
press Mcssengcr Freeman was ere
mated.
FLAMES broke out in the Windsor
hotel at New York on the afternoon
OF the 18th and sDread with such rap
idity that the means of escape for the
guests were soon cut off and there was
wild scene OF excitement Many of
the panic-stricKcu women threw them
selves from the windows and some
died from their injuries. Soon two of
the walls colla7>ci and several per
sons were und duubtedly buried in the
debris 1t was estimated that about
80 persons werc injured and Is lives
lost, with the proba of the death
list increasing. The loss on hotel was
about 100000.
ANDREW HATESSY, a maltster, NOR.
tally wounded his recently-divorced
wife on the street at Peoria, ILL.,, and
then killed himself
IS the United States court at Atoka,
l. T., Judge Clayton granted an in.
junction restraining striking miners
in the territory from interfering with
other miners who wanted to work
with federal protection.
ORDERS have been issued by the war
department for the transport Rou.
mania to sail from Santiago with its
cargo of soldier dead, on Thursday,
March %, and II is expected to reach
New York the following Monday. Ii,
was intended At first that there should
be but one trip OF the Roumnnia. Now
1t is thought best to have two trips.
SERIOUS conflicts between the police
and people have occurred recently a,
Havana, resulting in several deaths
on both sides and the wounding OF
many. The police are in bad favor
with the people, owing to the inter.
ference with the demonstration in
honor Of Gen. Gomez.
The murderer of Mrs. Anthony Steig
Ter, Of Mount Lookout, O.. whose dead
body was found in her home by her son
on the 18th. has been found in Albert
Luken, boy OF l6, living with his
widowed mother in Clifton. Luken
was arrested on the 10th and made a
full CO N fession, saying his motive was
robbery. He got about $40.
The failures in the United States for
the week ended the nth were lss
(Dun's reportl against aOs for the same
week last year.
FIVE men were killed and one mar
seriously wounded in a riot that oc,
Cured at Hot Springs. Ark, over the
local political campaign.
THE Nicaragua canal commission i,
hard at work upon its final report to
the president and Admiral Walker
hopes to submit it within another
month. The engineering work ha,
been SO complete that it is said little
can be added in this direction by the
new comm ission which was authorized
by the last congress
Mrs. ELIZA PoPE, aged rs years, wa.
found dead in her room at Springfield
H., her body burned to crisp. She
had made it q practice for years of set
ting lighted candle near her bed
when she retired, and the bedclo thing
had evidently become ignited from
that
THERE was meeting Of knit good
manufacturers. representing plants il
all sections of the country. at New
York the other day to consider plan.
for a consolidation of interests 1t IL
the scheme to issue s25, coo, 900 pre-