The Holly chieftain., 1903-07-24
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

thunGer and nail storms July l5th.
Six boys have died Of lockjaw at
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, since July
Ah. All were victims of the toy
pistol.
Hartford, Connecticut, will enter
tain the next national gathering of the
Young Peoples Union of the Univer-
salist Church
All arrangements have been COM
pleted for holding the general confer
ence OF the Methodist Church at Los
Angeles in May, 1904.
Thirty lives have been lost in a
flood which destroyed ffty houses at
Graeffenberg, village of Austria in
the valley of Friewalda.
Robert Shaw Oliver of Albany will
succeed William Carey Sanger as as
sistant secretary of war, the latter re-
firing soon on account of the i'll health
Of his wife.
The Great Western Railway Com
pany claims to have made worlds
record for its train to-day. The train
ran from London to Plymouth, dis
tance of 246 miles, in 233A minutes.
| The magnificent new La Sale street
station of the Lake Shore, Rock Island
anu lut A>lChel ldte lbdus NJ SAiCd6o,
| just completed at cost of about So
100000 was opened for business July
llth.
| Miss Lavinia Wheeler died at Oak
land, California, July 18th, at the age
of 102. She was in full possession OF
her faculties almost up to the moment
of hes death. She was born In New
York in 1901.
Justice Sir John Douglas Armour of
the Supreme Court of Canada and
member of the Alaskan boundary COM
mission, who had been i'll for some
time and recently suffered relapse,
died at the London residence OF his
son July 18th.
| A Vienna dispatch says that as re-
suit of urgent representations from
Austria and Hungary Prince Ferdinand
has given the strongest assurances
that Bulgaria will make no further
military preparations against Turkey.
Commissioner Jones of the Indian
! office has formulated an entirely new
set of regulations governing the aliena
tipn and leasing By Indians of lands
allotted to them by Congress. The
change in the rules is designed to pro-
tect the Indians against fraud
Mrs Mary j. Piercy. said TO have
been one of the smallest women In the
world, died July l4th at Baycnne, New
Jersey She was thirty-one inches
tall, weighed nifty pounds and was
forty years OF age. The recent hot
weather caused her fatal illness.
At Belfast, Ireland July 18th the
customary procession of the Orange
men was attacked by Nationalists and
a serious riot ensued. Many windows
were broken and number of police
men and civilians were injured. About
100000 men participated in the cele-
bration.
Secretary Hay has invited the Car
of Russia to name and appoint from
! the members of the permanent court
of The Hague three arbtrators to con-
stitute the tribunal which is to de-
| termine and settle the questions sub
mitted to it under the Venezuelan
claims treaty.
Figures on Irish immigration for the
! fiscal year ended June 80 have been
compiled by the Ellie Island officials
| at New York and show that about s.,
600 more persons arrived from the
| e
ing 1901-02. The total for the former
period was "a 1856.
| 1t is reported that beginning at an
early date the army transports plying
between San Francisco and Manila
will follow The route of the new trans
Pacific cable. passing within signal
distance, and possibly stopping at Mid
way island and Guam, where are re-
| peating stations of the cable.
J. ]. Frey, formerly general mana
ger of the Santa Fe railway, died at
Sedalia. Missouri July 18th at the age
of fifty-five years Mr.. Frey was one
of the most prominent railway men in
| the country and was well known in
Colorado. having been president of
the Florence & Cripple Creek road.
| United States Minister Wilson makes
| from Santiago, Chilli long report by
cable to the State Department, touch
ing the plague. He says the disease
has spread to nearly all Chilean ports;
that the postal service is disorgan-
ized, and that no American mail has
| been received at Santiago for nine
weeks.
Fitz William Guerin, who died at
San Francisco July 14th, was a vet
eran of the Civil War and one of the
best-known photographers in this
county. Guerin won fifteen gold and
four silver medals in nineteen exhi-
bitons, and in 1900 he was the presi-