The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

failure and numbers of farmers are
| destitute.
THE town of Kuroff. In Russian
l Poland, was almost totally destroyed
by fire and 5000 persons made home
/ less
/ Ton CoorER, of Detroit, Mich,
smashed bicycle record at Memphis,
l Tenn. on the 2ed. lie lowered the
I worlds unpaced quarter mile record
one.ffth of second, making IL 10
&c 2.5 seconds.
! AT a fire at Brooklyn on the 22d In a
/ factory situated on seventh street, in
which was stored large quantity of
| paints, oils and other infiammablc ma
terials, one fireman was burned TO
! death, several others were injured and
property destroyed TO the value Of
sa50,o
JoHs GLENN, a miner, was caught be-
meath a fall of rock in the mines near
| South McAlester. !. T., on the 22d. His
back and neck were broken, causing
l death instantly.
The national convention of musi.
/ clans, in session az indianapolis. Ind,
effected a complete affiliation with the
/ American Federation of Labor. Owen
i Muller, of st. Louis was elected presi.
/ dent
THE principal event at the sesqui-
| centennial of the university at Prince.
ton, y. j., on the e9d was an address
! by President Cleveland on the duties
and responsibilities that college men
owe to the cause of good government
THE Bank Of Englands rate of dis
count was advanced from two per cent.
to four per cent. on the 2sd.
A NEGRO who had killed a white man
was hanged by posse near Sunny
side, Miss, recently. The negroes aft
erwards challenged the whites to a
fight and a number left Sunuyside for
the scene and there was every prospect
of n riot taking place
IT was alleged at New York that
there was a gigantic deal in wheat, the
crop being cornered by western syn
dicate representing $780, 600. 0co of cap
ital, and that those interested had al
ready made fortunes ON the rise in the
price of the cereal
The First Baptist church and the
Masonic temple at Laurel. Md, were
burned. The fire was believed to have
been of incendiary origin.
ALMOST the entire business portion
of Lancaster, n. Y, was burned on the
2lst
A NEWSPAPER writer, named Eulen
berg, at Blacewitz, Germany, killed
his wife, three children and himself by
putting poison in the food. He had
become despondent through want oi
employment.
Mrs SHELBY HENDERSON, of Decatur
Ind, became suddenly insane and sat
urated a bed with coal oil and attempt
ed to burn her two-year-old child on it,
but her husband rescued IL. She next
threw the child into the cistern, but il
was saved. The crazy woman then ran
through the streets in a scantily y-attired
condition.
THE sale of the Tomboy gold mine al
Telluride Col, has been made to a
London syndicate for s2,C0o,00 II
was bought year ago for a compare.
lively small sum.
Mrs. Con REARDoN and her nine-year
old son were burned to death at Potts,
Vile, Pa, on the Goth. The mother
had escaped from the burning build
J ]
the house she rushed back to rescue
him
The frst car load of Californis
oranges was shipped to Chicago from
Los Angeles on the 10th, four week:
earlier than usual
The fourth annual convention of the
National Spiritualists' association be
gan at Washington on the Goth.
J. u. PISKERToS, master of transpor
tation of the Kansas City, Memphis &
birmingham railroad, attempted tC
board moving train AT Suiligent
Ala, on the goth. missed his footing
fell beneath Pullman sleeper and wa:
killed.
C II. SMITH, at San Jose. Cal, took
81 2-5 seconds OF the worlds tive-milt
bicycle road record, setting the new
mark at 1920.
SUPERINTENDENT RUSH, in charge o.
the publication of the naval war rec
ords at Washington, in his annual re
port stated the second and third vol
ume had been published and the fourth
was in the hands of the printer.
RICHARD HAYES and his sister, whC
resided on a farm near St Mary's
] out., WtTc ON a VI
while driving over crossing near theil
place.
THE National Oil Co. IS mill at Corsi
cana, Tex. was recently destroyed by
fire. together with large quantity o
cotton seed.
The big distributing reservoir a
Oakland, ., broke its wallis on tn,
Goth and 1000, 900 gallons Of water wer,
let loose, Beyond flooding the stree 1
! no great damage was done. The Off
, cials suspect the walls of the reser
! voir were blown up by dynamite by
. malicious persons
MARION kESNARD, of Wise county
w. Va, went home drunk after hi
family had retired. He awakened hi
, wife. quarreled with her and then al
, most severed her head from her bodl
| with a corn knife lie afterward
killed his boy and tried 10 kill hi
I daughter, but she escaped. Afte
, sleeping off his drunken fit he told hi
: neigh bors that a tramp had murdere,
his wife aud child.
II. j. SCHJLIISG, a wholesale fee,
merchant of Kansas City, arrived a
Tacoma, Wash. on the 18th, complet
ing journey of J. 900 miles from Kan
sas City on a wheel. lie started ol
June 80.
IN a fight between two colorel me-