The Holly chieftain., 1904-07-08
CONDENSED TELEGRAAS

Daniel Emmett. the old-time min
srTel. famous as the composer OF
Dixie" died suddenly at Mount Ver-
non, Ohio, June 2Sth. aged S5 years.
The total attendance at the ST Louis
Worlds Fair for the week ending June
18th was $40, 4s5. gain Of 5000 over
the previous week and an average OF
80 600 day
During the parade of a circus al
Findlay. Ohio, June 9th. four specta-
tors, were prostrated by heat Twelve
horses in the procession fel4 and seven
Of TIE animals died.
The glove cutters strike al Glovers-
vile. New York. proved to be failure
and has been declared on after lasting
for six months. The strike was iuaug-
urated as d protest against the open
chop.
Secretary Hay has instructed General
Porter. American ambassador TO Paris.
10 thank the French government for its
services in assisting in the negotiations
for the release of Perdicaris, Raisuli's
American captive.
Mrs W N Macmillan of ST. Louis
reached London June 27th after
tiayersing Abyssinia at the head Of her
own caravan. She is the first white
woman TO cross Emperor Menelik's
country from west to east.
While the laDdlady of the Bell inn at
Totwell. England, was al dinner The
other day, an aerolite crashed through
the chimney. spun around the room
and exploded. Though the house was
considerably damaged the landlady es-
capped.
Benjamin and Edwin Coshkey, broth
eres, were electrocuted few days ago,
al their home, near Wabank, Pennsyl-
vania. while picking cherries. coming
in contact with a wire that fed the arc
lights and which ran through the
branches.
The Navy Department has been noti-
fed that Grace Herreld, daughter of
Gov Charles Herreld of South Dakota,
has been invited by the Union Iron
Works. San Francisco. to christen the
armored cruiser South Dakota, now
building at that place.
Attorney Samuel p. Hayden OF
Washington is now in England making
plans 10 bring Mrs. Florence Maybrick
to her home in America. 1t Is expect
ed that she will be released from the
home of the Sisters of the Epiphany at
Truro some time in July.
America and the infant republic
OF Panama formally Joined hands June
25th, when President Roosevelt re-
ceiyed Senior Don ID. ]. De Obalda, the
recently appointed minister of the re-
public. The exchange of greetings, Of
fetal and formal though they were,
we:e felicitous and hearty.
The Pope has expressed himself aa
highly pleased with the very cordial
reception given in the United States
to Cardinal .-atoli. Speaking to Cardi-
nal Merry Del Val, the paDal secretary
OF state, his holiness said: The Amer
lean Catholics surpass all my expecta-
tons in loyalty to the church"
The steamer Beaver, the first to cross
the Pacific ocean under her own steam.
in 1885, lying wrecked at the mouth OF
Vancouver harbor for twelve years, is
to be raised by the city OF Vancouver
and placed on exhibition at Stanley
park, with placard reciting the his
torical event in which she took part.
Blaine w. Taylor of West Virginia.
chief clerk of the Postoffice Depart
ment, will resign that Office on July
goth to take effect August goth. and
will be succeeded by Merritt o. Chance
OF Illinois, now chief Of the division
of postoffice supplies and recently pri-
vate secretary Of the secretary of war.
The Supreme Court of Montana unan-
imously held that the fair trials bill
enacted at special session OF the Leg
islature last December is constitutional.
The law was attacked in the case Of the
Anaconda company against the Montana
Ore Purchasing Company, and much
litigation between the copper interests
is involved.
A Philadelphia dispatch says that
1000 more men will be discharged from
the Baldwin locomotive shop works
within the next few days. Six thou
sand have already been dropped from
the company's service and the working
force will soon be reduced to 5000
men. The greatest number ever en-
ployed is about 10000.
Walter Scott of New York reported
to the police at Philadelphia that he
had been robbed of $4,000 in gold
while on pullman car between Pitts
burg and Harrisburg. Scott said he
had been in Dawson City, Alaska, for
several years and acquired fortune
there by mining He thinks the money
was stolen while he was asleep.
What pnrports to be we'll founded
report from Ottawa is that the terminus
for the Grand Trunk Pacific On the Pa
cific coast will be at Kitimat, B. c., and
that the terminus will be officially
named in about three months. Hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars were
spent in Port Simpson by spectators
who believed it would be the terminus
A dispatch from Lisbon says that a