The Holly chieftain., 1899-05-26
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their lives in the recent hurricane OF
the North Queensland coast.
THE thirteenth annual convention o.
the American section of the Theosophi
cal society was opened at Chicago OF
the 2lst by Alexander Fullerton. o
New York, general secretary. Abou
30 delegates outside Of Chicago were il
attendan ce-
PoRosow, Poland. was DESTROYED b.
fire and IL lives were lost and 3,Ooi
people made homeless.
Two military and two civil Filipin,
commissioners appointed to cooperate,
with three citizens OF Manila in nego-
tating terms of peace, arrived at that
city on the Goth. They submitted no
new proposition, bnt wanted an armis-
tice pending the session of the Filipino
congress Gen. Otis refused to enter
tain the proposal.
RoBERr GILLIAN, general manager
OF the Pittsburg & Gulf railroad, died
at Kansas City, Mo. on the 10Th of a
complication of pneumonia and appen-
dicitis
GEN WADE HAMPTON has written a
card to the people OF South Carolina in
which he feelingly and gratefully de-
clined to accept the home that it was
proposed to build for him to replace his
residence recently destroyed by fire.
THE negro cake walk in the opera
house at Enid, Ok the other night
broke up in riot. The difficulty oc-
CURED between the whites and blacks
and more than so shots We're fred.
The negroes shot first into a crowd of
white men, wounding three men, all
innocent bystanders The whites fired
and fatally wounded four negroes and
several Others slightly.
AS the result of a meeting of the
coal mine operators. the state board of
arbitration and United Mine Workers
officials, an agreement was reached
which will settle the long drawn out
struggle at Pana, H., between the
union miners and operators. The
agreement gives the union recognition
and provides that all negro miners
shall leave the city and only union men
be employed.
RESOLUTIONS petitioning the peace
conference at The Hague to take initial
steps in establishing supreme court
of nations and asking the senate to
ratify an arbitration treaty with Great
Britain Were adopted at public meet
ing held at Philadelphia on the 18th
under the auspices of the Evangelical
alliance and the National Reform
league.
AT Long Acres curve three miles be-
low Tamaqua, Pa. a passenger en-
gine jumped the track and collided
with a coal train. Samuel Grier, en-
gineer of the Passenger train, was
killed, and Lot Kershuer. his fireman,
was 50 badly hurt that there was little
hope for his recovery. The fireman of
the coal train and several passengers
also suffered severe injuries.
THE first annual reunion of the So
ciety of Rough Riders will be held at
Las Vegas, N. NJ, June 81 Gov.
Roosevelt and staff will be present.
Free entertainment will be given the
rough riders.
A MISSOURI requisition was honored
for William Lowry, alias Ross, con-
fined at Moorhead, Mimi, under in
dictment for completely in the Great
-NcA i'Nih iuSt oClobcIs liz
was identified as William Lockridge, a
Missouri convict. who escaped while
out on bail pending supreme court
decision on his appeal. He was con-
victed of bank robbery at Savannah,
Mo-, in February, 1896.
JAMES CLEMMER was hanged at Nor.
ristown, Pa, for the murder of Mrs.
Emma Kaiser, at the instance of her
husband, to get her life insurance
money. Kaiser committed suicide in
Jail afterwards
In spite of the fact that steady rain
was falling when the train bearing
Rear Admiral Schley arrived in oma-
ha, Neb., on the 10Th, there was
large crowd at the Burlington depot to
greet him. He hurried into carriage
and was driven to the residence of ex-
Senator Henderson, whose guest he
will be while in the city.
The schooner Ganges was sunk in
Lake Erie by collision with the
steamer Presque Isle, about eight miles
IF Colchester. Ont. Her whole side
vas smashed in and she went down in
N minutes after being struck The
crew of eight men was taken off and
landed in Detroit, Mich.
The latest consolidation of business
interests to be announced is that of the
wholesale drug houses. Ninety-one
jobbers in the drug trade, east of the
Rocky mountains and north of and in
cluding Memphis and Richmond. whose
invested interests are estimated at
ST., 900, 900 and whose annual sales ag-
gregate s60.0OO 900 have been invited
to join. Seventy-ive per cent. of these
favor the project and have promised to
come in.
THOMAS EVANS was driven out of
Northville, Mich. by INDIGNANT citi.