The Holly chieftain., 1899-01-20

by the United State, with The custom.
houses Of Cuba as security for its re.
payment.
| A FIRE at Rood house, Ill, destroyed
four building on the public square.
THE farm house Of Fayrttc Meacham,
near Pittsville, Wis, was blown to
atoms by dynamite, killing Meacham
and fatally injnring his wife and four
children. How the dynamite became
| iguited was not known,
THE inhabitants Of sau'ander, Spain.
we're thrown into a pane by a strong
earthquake shock at one o'clock on the
morning Of the 1871.
THERE was intense excitement in
| Mountain Home, Ark, on the 10th
over the sudden deaths OF SIX men. In
very case there were unmistakable
| evidences Of poison NJ. BeS!des those
who died a nun brr Of others were
taken i'll, but were saved y prompt
medical attendaucr The POISON was
believed TO be in whisky which the
Tictims had swallowrJ-
THE residence O! Charles Null in
Kokomo, Ind, was wrecked by II
natural gas explos 1u and three women
we're badly burneG. one fatally.
A BROKEN rail Urrrlp.a'rd into
hitch near Noble. I.. tEuroaches and
a sleeper OF a fas, mail tram on the
Baltimore & Ohio southwestern rail-
-oad. Many passsugr-s were more or
| css injured, but none 5a'a..E,
SOUTHERN Caiif1-n s reported as
being overrun win tramD- The San
Diego, San Bernnr limo. lied ands and
other jails are Il ed to uErrhowing
With them. In many iH,.auces they
are vicious and tu-rateu.l- going in
% houses where women are alone and
demanding food.
THE New York sun sag, there is a
plan on foot to ogrt eN-G0T William j.
Stone, Of Missour nominated for pres
ident in 1900,
THREE comm ssionrrs arrived at
Vast, nrton from Gla>gnw Scotland,
to lay before President Mckinley and
hi, cabinet particular, reglrding the
exhibition to be held in 1871 at Glas-
gov.
TIE British sh p AndailHa capsized
in a terrific squall at Tacoma, Wash,
iuh htF captain anu Il EEt" VI 40 uicH
we're lost ri
THE gun boat Yorktown sailed from
San Francisco to Manila on the l3th.
ASAToLE DEIBIER has been appoint
I'd to succeed his father as official exc
:utioner of Paris The father had
-ccord OF 800 heals,
Miss ANNA MAY HoEK SCuLEY, 70
years old, daugh ter OF the late Col.
William Louis Schley, poet, lawyer
and veteran oftwo wars, and second
cousin of Rear Admiral Schley, com
nitted surcidein her home at Balti-
more, Md. Since the death OF her
father month ago Miss Schley had
been inconsoiable.
GREAT interest Is being manifested
throughout the west over the coming
meeting of stocsmen at Dc1ver. Col,
during the week of January %. Be
sides the national live stock conven-
tion, a range cattle exhibition is to be
held at the stock yards, the first ex-
htbition of its kind ever held in the
country. These cattle are range-bred
and have never tasted any feed but
grass and hay.
SAMUEL SLEINER, a farmer of Pleas
ant Valley township. Ia, went to
West Union and surrendered himself
to the authorities. He said that his
brother John and himself, with a
neighbor named Hunsberger. were to.
gether and drank freely of home made
rel arose between them, in which
Samuel shot his brother, killing him
instantly.
No homeseekers' excursions will be
run after February by the roads in
the territory of the Central Passenger
association. At recent meeting of
the association held in Chicago, at
which 40 of the roads were represented,
all of them. with four exceptions,
decided to discontinue homeseekers'
excursions and in lieu thereof to sell
after this month regular winter tourist
tickets
A SERIOUS freight wreck occurred on
the Pennsylvania railroad near Rich
mond, Ind, on the 18th. Two trains
collided and both engines were
wrecked and much merchandise de.
stroved
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
created by rich gold discoveries IS
miles east of Vernal, Utah. in the Blue
mountains, near the Colorado line.
A CONFERENCE between the Canadian
Pacific railway and the western roads
of the United States has been arranged
for January II at Chicago and it is ex-
pected that II will result in an arrange
NJ tho trnp hi Ia,
pally to the immigrant traffic
A TRAIN on the Illinois Central had
a head-end collision with switch
engine at Champaign, Ill. and the
fireman OF the passenger train was
killed. The passengers were badly
shaken up.
FIRE broke out early the other morn.
ing in the five-story Menkin building
Mt Memphis, Tenn, and DESTROYED the
building and contents, valued at $780,
900. The insurance was S345, 600.
EARLY the other morning burglars
broke into the main building of the
Iowa State university at Iowa CITY
and blew up the safe with dynamite.
The burglars looted the safe and es.
caped. 1t was not known how much
they got
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 18th
numbered 394. according to Brad streets
report, against 1923 for the CORES pond.
ing week last year.
Two negro murderers, Nolen and
Bias, who had been sentenced to hang
at noon on the 18th at Ardmore. l. r.
were granteda a STAY of execution until
next June. The scaffold had been built.
The three children of Charles Hapcr.
man were playing on the ice off Wells