The Holly chieftain., 1912-07-12
FOREIGN.
GENE RAJ.

GENERAL.
The Independent Telephone Compa
ny's plant (automatic) at Omaha, was
sold at receivers sale for $995, 900.
Seven dead and many prostrations
was the summary in Chicago at the
close of the hottest day this year.
July s.
Damage aggregating 100000 was
caused by an electrical storm which
swept over Chicago. Lightning struck
twelve houses.
-Four men were killed and four seri-
usly wounded in a pitched battle be-
tween Union and non-union workers
and guards at Lake Charles, La.
]. Henry Alexandra, vice president
of the National Hunt and Steeple-
chase Association and a member OF
many sporting clubs, died in New
York recently.
The existence of bubonic plague in
Havana has been definitely deter
mined. A special board of physicians
mas hospital true bubonic.
James N. Hill, son. of ]. j. Hill, and
vice president Of the Northern Pacific
railway. has retired from the vice
presidency Of that road. He will be
succeeded by Col. William H. Clough.
Harriet Quimby, the woman aviator,
who was flying with a passenger. w.
A. P. Willard. in the aviation meet at
Atlantic, Mass. fell from a height OF
1000 feet into Dorchester bay. Both
were killed.
Gen. r. F. Hoke. Confederate Off
Ger, said to have been the personal
choice OF General Lee to succeed him
in case he was killed in battle, died
at his home in Lincolnton, North
Carolina. recently.
Thomas Moore of Jacksonville. Fla.
one of the most widely know balloon
lists in the country, while making q
triple parachute drop over Hillside
Pleasure park at Belleville, N. j.. was
instantly killed by fall of 800 feet.
Realizing their determination to as
tonish the natives of the Olympic sta
dium, Stockholm, the American team
signalized the second days athletic
tournament by {. clean sweep of the
100-metre race, and hamper crop of
other notable victories.
A call to the people of the United
States who are in sympathy with the
National Progressive movement" to
send delegates to national conven-
ton to open in Chicago August 5th
has been given out by United States
Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon OF Montana,
Theodore Roosevelt's campaign man
ager.
Deluged with threatening letters
warning of danger and demands for
money, William Vincent Astor of New
York, youthful head of the Astor fam.
lily, has armed himself with revol-
yer, stationed guards about his home
in Fifth avenue and at Rhinebeck, and
is constantly trailed by an armed
guard when he goes about the city or
to the country.
Twenty-seven persons were killed
and thirty injured, number fatally,
as result of wreck on the Lgonier
Valley railroad at Wilpen. Pa. An
overloaded passenger coach pushed
by an engine was struck by double
header freight train of coal cars,
crushing the coach like paper and
spreading death and injury to all but
one aboard the train
The national convention of the
Roosevelt third party will be held in
Chicago, beginning August 1. Almost
simultaneously with the announce.
ment OF the nomination of Woodrow
Wilson Of New Jersey by the Demo.
cratic national convention, Senator
Joseph Dixon. acting on behalf OF
Roosevelt, announced that the call
was being made.
1t is estimated that the total ex-
pense Of holding the Democratic ma.
itional convention at Baltimore was $4.
941, 400, divided as follows: $115,00O
raised by Baltimore and spent on con-
vention hall, corps of assistants, ETC.;
$326.40O estimated amount spent by
delegates and alternates; $4,000, 900
estimated amount spent by visitors t.