The Holly chieftain., 1899-04-21

DeIIntiDg company and the Aurora
/ CASTOR Oil Manufacturing company at
Little Rock. Ark. was destroyed by
| ire the other night The cause of the
| Gre was unknown
Is fit of jealousy at Cleveland, o.
William Beatty shot and killed John
Madden and sent bullet through the
forehead of Mabel Day, over whom the
men had quarreled. The woman will
recover.
GES. LAwToS's expedition has been
recalled to Manila and all the towns
captured from the Filipinos have been
abandoned. The general stated that
it would require 100. 900 men to subdue
the isldnds. He could force his way
from one end of the islands to the
other. but leaving garrisons at the
places captured would eat up his
whole force
THE engineering department o! the
Burlington has completed plans for
the seasons work along the road.
Thirtyf five miles of double track viii
be laid in Iowa and 4 new line will be
built from Grant City to Albany, Mo.
a new bridge will also be built across
the Des Moines river.
HARRISON FLETcHRE's sawmill at OF.
tumwa, Ia, was blown to pieces by
boiler explosion on the nth. The pro-
prietor's son was killed and several
employees were injured.
A DISPATCH from Niobrara, Neb, on
the 18th stated that the Missouri river
was out of its banks in that section
and lowlands were submerged.
THREE fishermen who left Deseronto,
Ont, in n small boat for their home
near Howless ferry have been
drowned. Their skiff was found float.
ing bottom upward.
L. w. GRINsTEAD, cashier of the bank
in humboldt, Neb., committed suicide.
lie was short in his accounts
The Chicago platform dinner for
democrats at New York on the 18th
was success. The speeches indicated
that the policy for 1900 would be
campaign against trusts. William J.
Bryan declared he stood by the Chi
cago platform, denounced the policy
Of the administration in the Philip
pines and urged the need of an income
tax
ELI THAYER, member of congress in
,s56-6O and originator of the Kansas
crusade, died. at Worcester, Mass, on
the 18th. He organized the Emigrant
Aid society, to send abolitionists to
Kansas, and 1t was under this society
that Topeka, Lawrence, Manhattan
and osawatomie were settled.
TEXAS was visited by terrific wind
and hailstorm on the 10th. At Lytle
building on the y. l.. ranch was de-
molished and a cowboy killed. At Wei
mer the house of City Marshal Insall
was blown down and his wife and two
children were injured. At Medina the
schoolhouse was overturned and the
teacher and two pupils seriously hurt
The coast country around Rockport
and Corpus Christi was also flooded
and damage reported at other places.
ELEVATORS Nos. / and of the Hay
exchange at St Louis were destroyed
by fire on the 10th. Loss, 100000
WILL Turr, q negro, who murdered
his wife, expiated the crime at May
field. KY, on the gallows.
Ton MARSHALL, mayor of Keithsburg,
ILL.,, for the second time won the Grand
American handicap at Elkwood park,
n. j., beating ont 263 competitors for
the wipg-shot championship honors OF
America. Seven men were tied for
first place with "a straight kills, each,
but in the shoot-off Marshall was the
only one of the seven who shot 33
straight
JonS SHAW and Andrew Yancy quar-
relied at Buffalo, Tex. over farm mat
To nd fha lat sar h,t lril 1nl
and the former was dangerously
stabbed with knife.
GEN. PoLAvIEJA, the Spanish minis.
ter of war, has instructed Gen. Rios,
the Spanish commander in the Philip
pines, to evacuate the archipelago inn
mediately, now that the ratifications
of the treaty of peace have been ex-
changed.
GEN. LAwToN was continuing his
march north and arrived at the town
of Longas on the l4th but found it de-
serted. At sunset the American troops
entered San Antonio without meeting
any resistance.
A TRAGEDY took place at Deview.
Ark, between a number of citizens of
that place, in which b. C. Ashburn
was instantly killed; A. J. Black and
his son, Lee, were fatally wounded.
and several Others were more or less
seriously wounded. The trouble arose
over perjury trial.
CAPT. NATHANIEL w. PARKER, the
oldest river man and pilot in the west.
died at the residence of his daughter
in st. Louis, aged 81 years. He is sur
vived by seven children, "a grandchil-
dren and IA great-grandchildre
The Boston museum on fremont
street, the oldest playhouse in that
city. was badly damnned hv fire the