The Holly chieftain., 1912-07-26
GEN ERAl.

GENERAL.
All grades Of refined sugar have
been advanced 10c hundred pounds
in the New York market.
A light sprinkle of snow fell at Carp
Lake, Michigan, thirty miles northeast
of Petoskey. Crops were damaged.
Robert Harris. a drug crazed negro,
went on rampage in Tampa, Fla.
and killed four negroes before he was
slain.
Farmers from the surrounding coun-
try brought reports of frost into Chi
cago. declaring early vegetables had
suffered.
Shoes Of all grades are to be raised
in price. and according to Chicago
dealers the automobile is to blame for
the increase.
Reports from all parts Of the coun-
try indicate that the apple crop for
1912 is likely to be one of the larg.
est ever harvested.
Two white men and four negroes
were killed IN an explosion in the
mines of the Gayton Coal Company
near Richmond, Va, recently.
William D. Washburn, former sena-
tor from Minnesota and pioneer in the
building Of the Northwest, has arrived
from Europe in a dying condition.
The shuberts have lost one of their
best theaters in Chicago, the Lyric, al
thought they may be able to hold the
lease for the two years it still has to
run.
Clifford Pinchot has added about 5000
to his taxes in the District Of Colum.
bia by calling attention to the fact
that his Washington home is under
assessed by $43.793. or forty-nine per
cent.
After chase that covered several
states and lasted many weeks, Samuel
Isen, Russian immigrant suffering
from what is declared to be leprosy,
was found at Buffalo, N. Y. He has
been isolated.
The cost of the discovery of Amer
lea was $1,000, according to ledgers
just found at Palos. Spain. containing
facts concerning the outlay made by
Christopher Columbus on his expedi-
tion to the new world.
The last gap in the construction of
the Mississippi Power Company's dam
across the river at Keokuk, Iowa, has
been closed and for the first time in
its history the Mississippi is throttled
at one of its widest points.
Joseph Epstein. an attorney, and an
uncle of the lawyer who conducted the
winning fight for the freedom Of Mrs.
Rene B. Morrow, is made the defend
ant in charges before the Chicago Bar
Association duplicating him in a con-
fidence game.
Philadelphia's new city public bath
house at Tacony is completed and
ready to be turned over to the authori-
ties, but 1t cannot be used for year
because in the construction Of tho
building somebody forgot to make pro.
vision for water supply.
A prisoner in chains for twenty
years, with his parents his jailers, is
said to be the strange experience OF
an insane man who was received as 3
patient at the Dixmont asylum in
Pittsburg from Indiana, Pa The au
thorities Of the asylum admit that he
was shipped to them in rough pine
box from his home in Indiana county.
The woolen firm of Goodman Broth
ers, New York, found shortage OF
100000 in their books thirteen years
ago and swore out warrant against
their bookkeeper, James Fisher, who
had the power to sign checks and had
much to do with the firms finances.
They have never caught the man for
he left his house by the back door
without coat or collar as a detective
called at the front entrance and from
then the police got no trail of him
until few days ago, when the two
Goodman brothers. riding in Broad
way street car, saw man whom they
decided was their missing bookkeeper.
They had him arrested. The prisoner
said he was Thomas Fisher, liquor
dealer. He admitted that he had
worked for Goodman brothers, but
said that he was brother Of the man
for whom the police were looking. A
detective, however, positively identi-
fled him from photograph as the
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