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

AN otuaHa, Nto., ulspdtCu sdlu tnht
the freight car famine was assuming
alarming proportions in the west The
roads need cars for extra freight, for
all the wheat In the country was being
rushed to market during the present
high price.
JOHN HoLLiNGsHEAD, of Washington
county, Ala, a farmer, who partici.
pated in the lynching of Christopher
Chambliss several months ago, then
turned states evidence. was assassin.
ated in the roadway, being shot from
ambush by dozen men.
4 BEsIKeED by infuriated negroes, ].
M. Criglar, manager of Hage-man's
lumber mills. near Chipley, Fla, de-
Tended himself with such effect that he
killed two of his assailants and wound.
ed four Others Criglar became in
volved in quarrel with one of his EN-
ployes and the other negroes drew pis-
tolls and began firing At the manager.
For an hour the battle continued. and
the negroes were preparing to set fire
to the office in which Criglar had talk
en- refuge and cremate him, when o
train crew and passengers rushed to
Criglar's aid and dispersed the negroes.
A DISPATCH on the 2lst said that Mrs
Ellen McKirdy, OF Allegheny, Pa, had
been lying in a trance for eight days.
She has been kept alive with milk
punches forced down her throat
A MAN named Hairne was driving
across the Illinois Central tracks near
Newall, la, when n train struck the
wagon, killing the man and one of the
horses
SPARKS from an engine burned the
ear sheds of the Powel's Valley rail-
way at Bigstone Gap, Va.
The stoneware works of Whitmore,
Robinson & Co., at Akron, o., were de.
s,royed by fire. Loss $500, 900; insur
ance, half a. much. Two men per.
ished in the flames.
A FARMER named Butka, who has a
large income from oil leases. was mur
dered on his farm, about II miles south
of Toledo, o., by robbers and his wife
was seriously injured. All the robbers
got was a watch and few dollars
The cornerstone of the hall of his
tory, the first of the buildings to com.
! prise the American university, was laid
on the 2lst at Washington by Bishor
/ Bowman, of the Methodist church, as
| sisted by the officers OF the district
grand lodge of masons
SEVERAL arrests OF street car con.
| ductors have been made in New York
( for passing bogus coin. A boarding
| house keeper, rs years of age, in whose
/ house a complete set of counterfeiting
/ implements was found and a large
/ quantity of bad coin, has also been ar.
rested.
ROBERT NOE, farmer near Harlan,
| KY, became violently insane and at.
/ tempted TO kill his family. One OF his
/ children was beaten into insensibility
and viii die. The man was committed
I to the insane asylum.
PROF. BEHRISG and Herr Knorr, of
I Berlin, have announced the discovery
I of tetanus anti-ioxine which is ex-
! pected to greatly reduce the number
I OF deaths from traumatic teianuS
THE steamer Arago was driven on
I the rocks of the ietty at Cooshead,
/ Ore, on the Goth and while a boat
with load of passengers and crew az
l tempted TO land il was capsized and IA
/ pcIsous NcFc uEONucu- i ne 1cclNCul
/ occurred during a heavy fog.
/ OVER 10, O0O rail way employees parad
ed in Cincinnati on the 18th, with pres,
idents, vice presidents, general man
ayers and other general officers in line.
I The demonstration was in favor oi
sound money"
THREE masked highwaymen held uI
Z the stage between Rock Springs, wyo.,
I and Hopkins on the evening of the
I 18th, but got nothing for their trou bic.
TWENTY-FIVE freight cars, with con
Z tents, were destroyed in a wreck on
Z the Big Four railroad, near Welling
| ton. O. The loss will reach 500, 900.
FIVE men called Lord Z. T. Brook,
10 his door at his ranch near Tonkawa
Ok, at three o'clock on the morning
Of the 10Th and ordered him TO hold uE
his hands, and he began firing at III,
band. killing two and wounding two
others A posse started afterwards OF
the trail OF the gang. Robbery wa
the motive as the gang thought ther,
WAS large sam IN the house.
By decision Of the court of appeals
the San Francisco & California railroad
has secured the title 10 roo, 900 acres o
land near Portland. Ore. The yictory
means q clear gain to the railroad and
a corresponding loss on the part Of tbs
government