The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-08-27

DraEEed IRON their beds and forcf blr
carrie out Of doors
/ Az order will soon be issued from the
I poet Office department at Washington
for a material reduction of the carrier
forces in large rites This is to bring
the cost of the aervice within the ap-
I preparation made by the late congress
A CLoUDBURsr struck Mogollon, n.
/ NJ, recently. drowning John knight
I and an unknown Mexican, rendering
/ about 100 families homeless and badly
damsging the property Of several min
I ing companies. Hardly business
house in town escaped damage.
ATELEeRAM from Tarrisa. Greece. said
that the Turkish troops had massaered
80 old men, women and children in the
[ villages of Tram buno and Komino
Macedonia. The troops carried of the
crops and burned both villages.
The secretary Of agriculture was re-
l ported ready to let contracts for seeds
10 be distributed under congressional
frank during 1897. To facilitate work
the United States has been divided into
six districts. District two. for which
the sum Of sl7. .044 Is available, includes
Missouri, Kansas. oklahoma, Texas,
4 Arkansas and Louisiana.
ISCESDIARIEs fred the Cartwright
house at Creston, Ia. and the building
was totally destroyed. Several guests
had narrow escapes from suffocation.
Or the Geosirio sugar estate in Cuba
20 peacesble Cubans were shot and
bayoneted In cold blood by Spanish
troops. The authorities suspected
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to the insurgents to be allowed the
privilege of operating.
A TERRIFIC boiler explosion took
place on the 18th in Rockland park.
New York. where a new sewer was
being constructed. The contractor
was blown 100 feet and probably
fatally injured, and some 20 others
were more or less injured. All the
houses in the neighborhood were
shaken.
FARMERS In Brookfield township. Ill,
were reported greatly exercised over
new cattle disease which had broken
out among their herds, the animals GO
ing blind.
HENRY WILL. peddlcr at Louisville,
KY, shot and killed his wife and then
tried to shoot his son. but missed him.
The woman was pleading with her
drunken husband to go home.
SIX hundred employees of the Adams
Express Co in New York and Jersey
| City went on strike on the 18th.
IN Clark county. Ky, the boiler of a
thresher exploded and killed four
boys. The engineer had gone TO din
ner and the water got too low.
FIRE at Lancaster, Ky, on the 18th
destroyed all the buildings OF the east
side OF the public square, including
the post Office.
The Newbanks oil well at Sisters
vile. w. Va, took fire and burned the
derrick and several thousand barrels
of oil. There Is no way to put out the
fire and the loss to the owners will be
enormous, as the well was doing 200
barrels a day.
The hard times have caused no fall
ing off in the number of passports is
sued by the state department at Wash
ington to Americans to go abroad.
The Great Falls IN. " Milling Co.
has shut down mills and for a short
time, throwing 1000 hands out of
work.
IL the country near Charlottesville,
Ind, hogs and cattle were reported dy.
ing by the hundreds from the poison.
Gus bites of flies.
THoUeH the gravediRgers worked
night and day at New York the supply
of graves could not fill the demand on
the 10th. There was also a shortage
of hearses and it was necessary to Dor
row 80 from New Jersey and l2 from
Philadelphia. There were 400 funer.
ais in New York during the day and
200 in Brooklyn, being mostly heat
victims.
IN fit of jealousy Charles Nelson
shot and killed his wife in their home
at Chicago on the 18th. After sending
two bullets into the woman's breast
the murderer fired shot at his three
year-old daughter. innicting slight
wound. The murderer was arrested.
The chemical laboratory building OF
the University of Illinois at Champaign
wss almost destroyed by fire on the
10th, the result of a stroke of light
ming The building was damaged SEQ.
900 and the contents about $50, 900
TnE big general maps of the United
states have just been issued by the gen
eral land office for this year. The fea
ture is the division of the country into
ections, marking various cessions and
purchases from other governments
EUGENE BURT was arrested at Chi
cago, charged with numbering his wife
and two babies at Dallas, Tex, a few
weeks ago. The bodies were discov
cred in cistern.
SPREADING rails, caused by the in
tense heat, wrecked the second section
Of the California express on the Den
yer a. Rio Grande railroad near Pue bio,
Col, on the 18th. The engineer and
fireman were killed. None OF the pas.
sengers were hurt, though the train
turned on it's side.
THREE men were killed and over o
/ dozen injured, several fatally, by the
collapse OF four-story building at
Eau Claire, Wis. on the 18th. The
men were engaged in pulling it down.
OSCAR REED. a love-sick boy. Ii years
old, shot himself at Fort Worth, Tex,
because his parents told him he was
too young to get married.
THE feature of the second day of the
national eneampment of the Union
| Veterans union at Binghamton, n.
! V. on the 10Th was the parade of the
veterans, about 500 being in line.
IL a head-end collision on the Balti.
more & Ohio at Torch Hill, o., Engi-