The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-12-03


mitiee has decided not 10 investigate
the accounts Of Librarian Spofford.
The discrepancy in his accounts was
$50, 600. but It was thought to be an
error Of bookkeeping only.
A TORNADO passed Mart post Office,
near Marlin, Tex, recently and several
houses were blown down and a child OF
! A. B. Douglas was killed.
A DISPATCH from Breslau said that 30
persons were killed in a colliery explo.
sion at Zengorze, Russian Poland.
NEARLY the entire business portion
I Of the town of Leavenworth, Wash.
I the headquarters OF the Cascade divi.
sion of the Great Northern railroad,
was burned on the 26th. The fire orig
mated in the Office of the forks hotel
and the dodgers had a narrow escape
from cremation.
SHORTLY after nine o'clock on the
26th fire was discovered on the third
floor Of the Peoria house, the oldest
hotel in Peoria. III. The 6remen, after
a fight of nearly three hours, were
forced 10 turn in a general alarm
when the fire commenced spreading
No fatilities occurred. though there
were number Of narrow escapes
Many Of the guests lost their bagga ge.
The barn of W. w. Morton at Au.
Rusta, Ga, burned on the 25th and Is
head Of milch cows, ten horses and
three mules were burned to crisp
Some of the cows were registered
stock.
The board of publication of war
records, in its report to the secretary
Of war, states that the whole series
will probably be ready for the printer
by the end of next June.
A DISPATCH from Oklahoma City, Ok.
on the 25th said that the story sent out
about the burning of l6 people in the
Seminole nation by prairie fire wal
a fake.
A COMMITTEE OF business men, ap
pointed by the governor of Louisiana
was at St Louis on the 25th TO sc,
about getting special freight rates or
corn as there was a great scarcity o.
the cereal in Louisiana amounting al
most TO a famine. They estimated
that Louisiana would have to purchase
500, 900 or 600, 600 bushels of corn in
western markets.
THRoUGH a broken axle the rear end
OF freight train was wrecked near
New Brunswick, n. j., on the 25th.
An express train soon after dashed in
to the wreckage and the engine, mail
and baggage cars and two sleepers
were derailed. The passengers escaped
with few bruises, but the engineer
and fireman were pinned under the en-
gine and were slowly scalded to death
in full view Of every one.
FIRE at Atlanta, Tex, destroyed five
of the best business houses and about
Is smaller concerns.
The glass-workers' strike at Pitts
burgh, Pa, has ended, the men agree
ing to accept last seasons scale, instead
of the advance wanted, and the fac
tories will start at midnight Sunday,
December l3
FIVE men boarded Chicago street
car at $50 a. m. on the 24th and two
men were held up and robbed After
n cry of "Robbersl" was raised the car
was stopped and the robbers jumped
off, followed by some passengers and
two policemen who were on board, but
the robbers escaped.
Mrs ANNIE McCAUBRIE was burned
to death at Philadelphia by the explo-
sion of lamp.
THOMAS CASEY and Hoppy Hopkins
were lodged in Jail at Mena, Ark,
charged with disorderly conduct and
on the afternoon of the odd the Jail was
discovered to be on fire and the two
men were burned to death. 1t was be-
lieved they set fire TO the jail, hoping
to escape
AT Meridian, Miss, Wallace Smith
and j. T. Jemison had duel on the
street and the latter was shot dead
and the former had his wrist shattered
by bullet. The tragedy was due to a
gambling debt.
Mrs. CASPER LABoY, of Susquehon-
ing, Pa, was stabbed to death and Her
husband seriously injured by robbers
who broke into their house. Three
Hungarians. covered with blood, were
arrested for the crime.
IN the face of high wind at Denver,
Col, on the 23d Swanbrough rode five
miles, flying start, unpaced, on n tan
dem, lowering the professional record
10 seconds to 1887.
PATRICK MEAGHER and his mother
were found dead 1T their home at Gill
bcrs, suburb of Elgin, Ill, on the
23d. Their deaths were caused by
asphyNiation from coal gas
AN unknown man and woman were
found dead in their room at the Stand
ard hotel at New York on the 22d, !,av
ing been suffoeated by illuminating
gas, which was flowing from an open
and unlighted burner in the apart
ment.
DIPHTHrRIA was reported as spread
ing alarmingly in the section around
Monticello, H., and many schools and
churches had been closed and public
gatherings prohibited.
DURING a drunken riot at n dance at
the residence of Charles Johnson, near
Lebanon, Ind, three men were prob.
ably fatally wounded and several 9TH
ers were more or less injured. Every
window in the house was broken.
DAWSON BOYD, a farmer of Eufaula,
Ala, had a quarrel with Bill Bowling
and Jesse Sheap over their line fence,
when the two latter advanced on Boyd
with knives and he shot them dead.
A CABoosE attached TO a work train
on the Licking Valley railroad, in Bath
county, Ky, jumped the track and
rolled down a steep i0-foot embank-
ment Thirty employees were in the
car aud were more or less injured.
REPORTS stated that there was great
excitement at Henrietta, Tex, over
soma rich liSgnvarieS of gold in the