The Holly chieftain., 1908-11-20

All grades OF refined sugar were re-
duced 10 cents hundred pounds at
New York on the 18th inst. This fol-
lows a recent reduction of SO cents
hundred pounds.
DR.. Wilfred T. Grenfell the noted
Labrador medical missionary and ex-
plorer. discredits the report of the find
ing of Andree's body on the coast Of
Labrador by Captain Chalker.
The Park theater at Brooklyn. N. Y.
historic playhouse, was burned on
the night OF the 18th inst only an hour
after large audience had left the
building, where the Spooner stock COM
pany was playing.
The American Anti-Saloon League
will inaugurate pledge signing move
ment early next year throughout the
United States. Dr. Russell, at pres
ent superintendent of the league work
In New York, will have charge.
Edward M. Morgan, postmaster of
New York City. was seriously wounded
in the abdomen Monday morning by
bullet fired by E. H. B. Mackey, an
eccentric English stenographer, who
then committed suicide.
An explosion on the Steamer Tennis
kaming at Temiskaming, Ontario.
Monday night caused the death of at
least five persons by the explosion or
by drowning, one being an American
hunter named Mcbride. Six badly
burned men may die.
An encounter Tuesday between two
warning factions of students attend
ing the university of Vienna resulted
in injury to about 100 of the young
men. The conflict is attributed to the
smouldering antagonism between the
Pan-German and the Jewish students.
The council chamber of the Dublin
city hall was gutted by fire Wednes-
day and the city hall itself had a mar
row escape from destruction. All the
paintings in the room of the council
chamber, many of which were Of his
toric interest, including the well
known picture of Daniel O'Connell,
were destroyed.
Several hundred employees, many Of
them young women, witnessed the kill
ing of Francis Embriana by Pietro
D.sconti near large factory in Harri-
son, N. j.. Tuesday, and pursued the
slayer They captured the man and
were using him roughly when an Of
| ficer interfered and carried him off to
Jail In a wagon.
Governor Hughes Of New York has
filed his certificate of election ex-
penses with the secretary of state,
giving his total expenditures at
$369.65. OF this sum he spent $260.16
for travelling and incidental expenses,
$96.71 for hotel bills, including tele-
| phone and messenger charges, and
| $12.7S for kilograms.
Augustine Birrell, chief secretary for
Ireland, while addressing meeting in
favor of dis-establishment at the City
Temple in London, was subjected to
disgraceful Interruptions by suffra-
| gettes. Nearly q score Of the adher-
ents of the suffragette movement, men
and women, were elected from the
building amid uproarous scenes of
struggling and violence.
In the German Reichstag Tuesday
Emperor William was severely criti-
cised during the debate on the inter-
pellations concerning the conversa
tions published with the permission of
the Emperor in the London Telegraph
October 2Sth. Chancellor Won Buelow's 8
defense seemed to be halfhearted and
person high In his confidence is au-
thority for the statement that he also
had told the Emperor that neither him
self nor his successors could remain in
Office unless his majesty was more re-
served.