The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-12-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

A Rock ISLAND freight collided with
n special train near Brooklyn, Ia, and
James Dyer, the engineer, was killed
and a number of both crews seriously
hurt. Both engines and 25 cars were
wrecked. The wreck was due to mis-
take by Operator Howell, of GrinnelL
HIRAM JEPPEsoS, James Christianson,
Sr., and his son James were buried in
a snowslide on the Sd in Logan canyon,
Utah. Jeppeson finally extricated
himself. but the father and son were
both killed.
CASPER HARrLEIN was hanged in the
state prison at Wethersfield, Conn, on
the Sd for murder The hanging was
the second held in the state by the au-
tomato gallows, and proved TO be a
complete success
Two men were killed at fire at At
lantic, City, n. j., which destroyed n
church valued at $50, 900 and another
man was reported missing and was
thought to be buried beneath the walls
Of the church.
THE Dawes commission in session a
Fort Smith, Ark, on the I'd rejected
the claim for citizenship in the Chero-
kce nation of w. j. Watts, known as
the prince OF Intruders." Watts is
the head of the Cherokee Citizenship
association, with $500 members. His
case is the most noted one before the
Dawes commission. 1t had been con.
tested before the Cherokee courts and
councils for 80 years.
In the fight at San Francisco between
Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharlsey the
latter was given the decision by
Referee carp on an alleged foul. 1t
was Fitzsimmons' fight from start to
inish. In the eighth round Fitzsim-
mons knocked Sharkey out and while
ne was falling the referee claimed that
Fitzsimmons struck Sharkey in the
groin with his knee. Sharkey was car
ried unconscious from the ring. The
decision was received with Kisses and
groans
THE poisoning case at the silver we'd
| ding anniversary of A. B. Stewart, in
Frankstown township, Pa, has turned
out 20 be n serious affair, as arsenic
was found in the chicken salad. Sixty
persons were taken sick on the occa-
sion. The victims were reported TO be
slowly recovering.
| Four persons were killed at Nan
lerre, France, as the result of boiler
explosion in a carbon factory.
/ A SEVERE shock of earthquake was
felt at 1910 p, m. ON the LIST at Cairo, III.
THE little town OF Breeden, w. Va,
I was wiped out OF existence by fire on
the lst, only one house being left,
WILLIAM SrEINwAY, the noted piano
manufacturer, died at his home in
New York of typhoid fever on the
/ sOth.
THE register of the treasury, in his
annual report, gives n condensed his
tory OF all the loans of the United
States from l776 to 1898
! A TELEGRAM received at the war de-
partment stated that the quarters of
/ The post chaplain at Fort Ringgold,
/ Tex, were burned on the night OF the
/ 10Th and Post Chaplain NJ. c. Blaine
/ and his daughter were burned to death.
The chaplain missed his daughter and
sntered the building to rescue her and
perished with the child.
?. j. KELLEY, a jeweler at San Jose
,al, and his W, ;e were fatally wound
I'd, and one of his children got a bullet
her arm, caused by Kelley's attempt
20 murder his family through jealousy.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Co. have reduced the hours OF
!he large force working in their shops
1t Galesburg, Ill, To 80 a week and
aid off some men in each department
Is South Boston II. IL. Holmes shot
". II. Jordan, proprietor of a fruit
store, three times, and the latter sue
.eeded In cutting a deep cash IN
Holmes throat The trouble resulted
rom u quarrel over an unpaid bill II
J was believed both men would die.