The Holly chieftain., 1900-03-02
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.


Butter makers and representatives OF
creamery and dairy interests held Z
convention at Lincoln, beginning ON
the 18th
The attorney general for Ireland, A.
]. Atkinson, says the case Of evicted
tenants In Dublin is fast diminish
ing evil. The evictions Of the past
year were only 454, the lowest in thirty
years. r r
fully tried a German experiment In
amputating woman's leg. BY inject
ing cocaine in the vertebral cavity,
which rendered the lower part Of her
body insensible to pain.
Theodore Moss, Marcus Mayer and
Olga Nethersole, the actress, have been
arrested at New York for the produc-
ton of .'Sappho," now on at Wallack'A
The charge is the violation of the stat
ute against ''offenses against public de-
cency.
Some of band of Cree Indians
camped near Butte, Montana. went to
the city TO get quantity of alcohol.
By mistake they were given wood alco-
hol. Three of the band, two bucks and
squaw. drank 1t. They all three died
in great agony.
Last Saturday the Court Of. Private
Land Claims concluded its session at
Tucson, and is about ready to dissolve,
under the law. 1t is reported that an
act Of Congress is to be passed con-
tinuing the existence Of the court to
adjudicate land claims in Puerto Rico
y
The Spanish ministry has decided to
make an appropriation to pay q debt Of
ninety-six years standing. This Is to
cover the hitherto unpaid salaries of
the Swiss mercenaries employed in
Spain by the Bourbon dynasty during
the Napoleonic wars and disbanded in
Spain in 1904.
The present week will probably wit
ness the completion of negotiations for
the combination of the electrictl vehicle
company that is controlled by the
Whitney Widener Elkins syndicate
and the Anglo-American Vehicle Com
pany. of which William w. Gibbs is
president The capitalization is ex-
pected to be S5O,OO0,OOO.
The farmers in Dickinson county.
Kansas, who have been contributing
to the relief of the famine sufferers in
India, to-day shipped the third car of
corn TO Bombay. Over $500 has been
gathered in cash. Railroads carry the
corn free and steamship lines at half
rates, making it cost 20 cents bushel
freight from Abilene to Bombay
An American syndicate with capt.,
tai of $10OO0OO0 will Immediately be-f
gin the construction of a great steel
plant in Monterey, Mexico. Ground
has been purchased. The plant will
make specially Of manufacturing
steel rails, and will be the first indus
try of the kind to be established in
Mexico. 1t will employ about 1000
men.
The New York World publishes poll
OF the State Senate, showing that thir-
ty senators favor repeal of the Horton
prize fighting law, and twenty oppose
1t The opposition to the law through
out the state is astonishingly general
and 1t Is growing. Petitions for its re-
peal. with its thousands of signers.
are still coming in from all parts of
the state.
William FL. Beard, the artist, is dead.
He was famous as n. painter of ami
mails. He was born at Painesville,
Ohio, In 1925. He began his profess 4
sional career about 1876 Ten years
after he studied and painted in Eu-
rope. His wife was the daughter OF
Thomas Leclaire. the portrait painter.
He was elected member of the Acad.
emy in 1862
An exciting scene took place at the
Crystal Palace, London, last Sunday
afternoon. Two large elephants be-
longing to the circus ran amuck, killed
their keepers and gored another man.
There was a terrible panic in the audi
ence attending the concert In the place.
One animal was captured after great
damage to property. The other escaped
through the grounds, bnt was captured
late this evening in the suburb of
Breckenham.
From the beginning of the war with
Spain to the present time the total ex-
pendttures of the government on ac-
count of that war and on account of
the hostillties in the Philippines
amount to ah0nt S355, 100000, as fol- /,
lows: War Department, $255, 900 OOO;rs
Navy Department, 500, 600 900; paid to
Spain for Philippines, $50 900, 600; in
terest on war loan to date. $9.OOO, 600;
increased expenses in departmental
service in Washing, $2,O0O,0OO.
The contests over the Kentucky srate
offices are very much simplified by an
agreement entered into between the at
torneys for ,the Republicans and the
Democrats, representing both sides.
and Strengthening out the legal tangle
over the multiciplicity of Injunction ,
suits for the title to the governorship.
The agreement is that there will be a