The Holly chieftain., 1899-06-09

posed, was fayorably disposed toward
the United States, has imported large
quantity of arms from Singapore with
view of resisting the Americans
These arms he has stored on the island
sepoys at Singapore.
THE officers and executive board of
the National Congress of Mothers have
decided upon Des Moines. Ia, May as,
1900, as the place and date for the next
congress-
THE opening session of the twelfth
annual convention of the National As
sociation of Steam and Hot Water Fit
ters and Helpers of America was held
at Chicago on the 5th.
THE National Civil Service Reform
league has issued statement at New
York denouncing President Mckinley
because of his modification of the civil
service rules The claim IS made that
the order removes from civil service
positions in various departments 9.aio
men.
FARNRRs and retail dealers in agri
cultural implements will have to pay
more for plows, harrows. seeders and
implements of kindred nature in the
future. At meeting of manufactur-
ers of these implements of farm indus
try. held at Chicago on the 5th, it was
decided TO make general raise in theiI
prices
FRANZ p. MILLIONS feed and grain
store, was destroyed by fire at Phila-
delphia on the 5th and six tiremen were
hurt. Loss, about SIS, 600. Years ago
the feed store was famous dramatic
hall known as the Drawing Roof, in
which many prominent actors and ac-
tresses made their first appearance.
SEVERAL thousand dollars damage
was done by the heavy rainstorm. ac-
companied by strong wind, which
swept over Oskaloosa, la. on the ith.
The east wing OF Penn college was un-
rooted and the building flooded. Many
small buildings throughout the city
were also demolished.
JOHANN STRAUSS. the waltz king"
died at Vienna on the Sd. aged "A.
a TERRIBLE accident occurred where
by 80 Indians met death by drowning
near Laggan. B. C., in the Rocky noun
tains, on the line of the Canadian Pa
cific railway. They were crossing the
famous Lake of the Clouds when two
canoes, filed with half tipsy Indians,
were upset and all their occupants sank.
A DISPATCH from Louisville, KY. on
the ith asserted that eN-Gov. John F.
Altgeld, of Illinois, will be William ].
Bryan's political manager in the com
ing campaign.
The court of cassation at Paris
rendered a verdict in favor of re-
vision of the Dreyfus case. 1t ordered
a new court-martial to sit at Rennes
for the trial of the prisoner.
Two men were killed while crossing
the railroad at Newark. o., on the ith.
The famous old st. Charles theater
in New Orleans was destroyed by fire
the other night
MEMBERS of the United States coast
and geodetic survey corps were recent
ly taking observations for the purpose
of determining the longitude of Mar
low, |. T., in order to run the official
boundary line between the Indian ter
ritory and Oklahoma territory. This
boundary line is to be the ninety-eighth
meridian, and, while ii has been ap-
proximately fixed, the official line has
never been established.
The British steamer Banffshire, from
Wellington, n. L., was burned in the
Victoria dock, London. on the I'd. A
man on board was killed.
GEORGE X. NASH. the favorite of SEN
ator Hanna, was nominated for gov
ernor at the republican state conven-
tion at Columbus, O., on the I'd
GES. FUNSTON will be relieved from
duty in the Philippines and ordered
home for muster out with the volun-
teers
THE Christian colored people of
knoxville, Tenn, observed the I'd as a
day of fasting and prayer. Supplica-
tons were offered for freedom from mob
violence and for the lessening of crime
throughout the land.
RINGING resolutions were adopted at
the Transmississippi congress at Wieh-
ita, Kan, on the I'd indorsing the
Louisiana purchase faiE free homes"
and the opening of Indian reservation
lands, statehood for all the territories.
| establishment of two new cabinet
offices-mines and mining and com
merce and industry, and the establish
ment of a national academy for train
| ing consular officers, taking their
appointment out of politics. Houston.
Tex, was selected as the next place of
meeting.
| GEORGE STALKER, aged es, shot his
father and mother and then sent bull
let into his own head at Mayville,
Mich 1t was thought the parents will
recover. Stalker died half an hour after
shooting himself. Young Stalker had
been drinking and his parents remon-
strated with him.