The Holly chieftain., 1899-06-30

totally consumed b. fire the other day.
Their ni.e-year-old daughter was in
bed aad all efforts to save her were
futile
THE czarina gave birth to daughter
at ST. Petersburg on the 25th. She was
named Maria This is the third child
born to the czar and his wife since
their marriage FIVE years ago, all girls.
FIRE broke out in the freight house
of the Michigan Central at Toledo, o.,
on the Goth and then spread to the Gin
cinnati & Dayton freight house, de-
stroying both places. One hundred
loaded freight cars were burned. Loss,
estimated at 100000.
The international Council of Women
opened at London on the Goth with
large attendance of distinguished
women.
THE Bowery and concert hall at
Coney Island. n. Y, were burned on
the 25th.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY left Adams,
Mass, for Washington on the 26th-
DISTINCT earthquake shocks were felt
n towns along the Connecticut river
on the Goth, according to a Hartford
dispatch, but no damage was done.
The boilers of the electric light plant
at Fairview, ILL.,, blew up the other
night, injuring three persons, one OF
whom will die. The building was com
pletely wrecked and the place was left
in darkness.
REPORTS from the northern part of
Gila county, Ariz.. were to the effect
that the tension between the stock and
sheepmen had about reached its limit
and that hostilities may soon break
out. The sheepmen cause the grass to
be eaten to the ground and cattle are
starving in sections where ordinarily
they are fat.
The Union Pacitic's Denver passen-
ger train was wrecked at Ogdensburg,
Kan. at 9:45 p. m. on the oath. Mail
Clerk Root, of Kansas City. was re-
ported dangerously injured. Two
other persons were slightly hurt. The
mail. express, baggage and all coaches.
except the sleepers, left the track.
The cause of the accident was an open
switch.
AT the suggestion of Col. II. b. Case,
of Chattanooga, Tenn, a strong sup
porter of Commissioner Evans, the
members of the pension committee of
the national encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic will meet in
Washington on July IL and visit the
pension Office, examine the records, etc,
and ascertain the merits of all the
charges made against Commissioner
Evans.
DISPATCH from Adams, Mass, to
the New York World on the 25th said
that long cipher message from Gen.
Otis, sent to Washington and thence
relayed to Adams without the usual
official editing, has caused President
Mckinley much uneasiness- Gen. Otis
plainly intimated his inability to con-
quer the Filipinos with the present
fighting strength at his command and
gave the impression that he would be
forced to abandon the ground already
taken unless reinforcements were
quickly sent.
l.. Nj. aRoGAS, a member of the Tex
as Legislature, made the statement at
Austin that an English syndicate with
a capital of 500, 900, 900 has started in
to purchase all of the cattle in Texas
with view of cornering the cattle
market of this country. The statement
was confirmed by other cattlemen.
The great street car strike at Cleve-
land, o., was settled on the night of
the cath. The big Consolidated" com.
pany clearly won the fight, but it lost
Sl00, 900. The no strikers lost about
$50 apiece in wages.
ABRAHAM GOULD, brother of Jay
Gould, died at Salem, n Y, on the 22d
He was for many years purchasing
agent for the Missouri Pacitic-Iron
Mountain Railroad company.
Two fishing smacks We're capsized off
Brest, France, and IL persons drowned.
DESPERATE attempt to break Jail
was made on the night of the 22d at
Hartville. Mo-, by the Macomb train
robbers, but it was frustrated by the
guards All the prisoners were after
wards handcuffed.
NAIL train was stopped by cater
pillars at st. Johnsbury, Vt.
A SMALL twister passed near Beaver
City, Neb., on the 22d. 1t wrenched
barns, sheds and windmills and seat
tered hay stacks in ali directions The
wind was accompanied by deluge of
rain and hail, the latter being foot
deep in some places. Crops were dam
aged considerably.
MANILA dispatches recently received
at Madrid stated that the American sit
uatiou was becoming critical, through
losses and disability from disease. The
dispatches said fresh troops were badly
needed.
A SPECIAL to the Chicago Record
from Austin. Tex, said that Gov. Say
ers had received letter from Gov. j.
Hoge Tyler, of Virginia, indorsing the
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