The Holly chieftain., 1899-02-24

bhNhCa nOfIAs VI ou hHINes-
The dead MAJ was stabbed twice in
the heart Both brothers were ar.
rested.
PHILIP d. AE4UUR has given S75O. o0t
more to the p1dowment fund of the
Armour institute of Chicago This
makes his tolal gift to the institute
81, $50. 900.
A SPECIAL. from South McAlester, l.
T, on the 2O,h stated that smallpo
was spreading in the Creek nation and
quite a number Of persons were dying
from the disease Nearly all of the
railroad towns had quarautined
against anythng coming or going to
the infected district
The war dsoartment on the Goth
issued an order formally mastering
out all voluu.eer troops now in the
United STATE
MACK OIrHNN, negro teamster,
shot and kill Ida Fields a mulatto,
with whom be- was infatuated, in a
cabin at Indrnendence, Mo, and then
put bullet through his own heart
lS the six-5ag bicycle race at San
Francisco, wH.rh ended on the 18th,
the score wa Miller, 2.l92 miles;
Aaronson, oL.5. Fredericks. 1000;
Hale, 2.Osa; ,lmu, 2,O6O; Nawn, 2,Ol2;
Al Der :. l,s2- Barnaby, /, 792; Pilking-
ton, ], I29; Lawson, LOSS: Julius, l,5Ol;
Ashinger, ITO
ALBERT HEs -lEi., who murdered his
wife and ste piaughter at Burkettville,
Me-, few daya ago, committed sui
/ sItp nv fal ru-.S
Mrs CHAR fAHRESKAMr, her two
children and an Unknown won were
found dead lar formers home at
rhiladelphia They were asphyxiated
by the gas bang ,Irned on.
The Unite safes army trans po ri
Sheridan pu.eI out from New York
IN the 10Th for Manila, by way of the
>ucz canal. having nearly ., 900 regular
,Oldiers on board.
a TREMESI,,rs snowslide came down
the side OF Yellow mountain, near
| Ophir. Col, on tine 10Th and killed one
man and practically destroyed the
-aribou Concentrating plant
FRANK VAIUyz and his brother were
found murdercd near Floresville. Tex.
The milk trust is trying to freeze
out the sma, dealers in Austin, H..
md if the experiment is successful it
will be INTRODUCED in Chicago. Here
tofore the price Of milk has been !6
| Iuarts for ST. but the milk trust is
JtTer.ng as high as 10 or 80 quarts
| Tor 81.
CRAcKsMES gained an entrance into
the vault OF the Oberlin tO.) Banking
,ompany by shattrring the walls with
powder, but did not secure any money,
as they failed to get into the big safe,
,vidently from lack of time.
The Arkausas state board of health
is active In the appointment of sani-
tary boards in various parts OF the
state where smallpox is prevalent,
hoping Thereby to DO much toward the
Elective stamping out of the disease.
PRIVATE joins NoFwIT company Ii,
seventh volunteer infantry (negrol,
having been tried and found guilty of
murder by a general court martial
convened at Camp Haskell, Macon, Ga,
was sentence TO suffer death by be-
ing shot" The president commuted
the sentence OF death to Imprisonment
for life in the United States peniten-
.iary at Fort Leavclworth, Kan.
TIE George state entom oloyist said
that the peach crop in that state had
been utterly destroyed and in all prob
ability the growers will be so discour-
aged that they will abandon the bust
ness. There will be none at all this
year and probably none for three years
70 come
The contract for the construction of
an irrigation canal has been let 1t
will be 80 miles long and will pene-
trate the country that is tributary to
Albuquerque y. NJ The canal will
receive its water from the Rio Graude
aud will open up for cultivation thou
,ands of acres that are now an arid
waste.
Cow-AH-SCHENCK. a leading member
If the wealthy Usage tribe of Indians,
was found dead at Salt Creek, Ok. He
got into trouble with several young
Indians in the Indian dance there and
they beat him over the head until in
sensible and let him lie where he fell
and he froze to death.
WHILE Ulys,e, e bson, a Chicago &
Alton check clerk, was walking by the
Rex mill at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
18th, inspecting string OF ears,
lake of ice fell from the roof of the
mill nd struck him on the head, kill
ng hi m instantly
A FIRE the other night DESTROYED
the immense plants and office building
IF the Thomas Building and Lumber
company at Akron, o. The property
loss amounted to 500, 900, largely in.
sured. The entire business portion of
the city was threatened for a time.
sparks and burning embers were ear
red for several miles. Millions of
feet of lum her were destroyed.
J. w. JoRGE ENsoY, or Jack the Hair
Clipper" as he has been known for the
last four years, was arrested the other
night at Chicago while in the act of
cutting braid from the head of Erna
Fransky. Jorgenson confessed that
he had cut the hair from the heads of
300 girls and women and said that his
strange mania took hold of him four
years ago after an illness
AN express train crashed into an
other train standing at a station near
Brussels aud 80 persons were killed
outright and 50 Injured. The coll-
sion was owing to fog and was
terrific and several cars were smashed
to pieces.
Mrs. MoLLIE HILL, of Kansas City,
Mo-, who recently went to Leadville,
Col. claimed She was held up on an
unfrequented street in Leadville the
other night chloroforned and robbed
of S7S0