The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

A RECENT rainstorm in Oklahoma
did considerable damage by washouts,
carrying Off crops, etc. Twenty miles
west of Guthrie tornado destroyed
the house OF William Toby and fatally
injured him. The Mitchell post Office
was demolished and the postmaster and
his wife were found dead At Krebs
five people were reported killed.
A CYCLONE visited Louisiana on the
Goth and did much damage in New Or
leans and in Tensas parish. In the lat
ter place many cabins were demolished
and several colored people were blown
into the lake.
IN Lincoln county, w. Va, Ira Saw
yer went coon hunting with some com
panions, got separated, made fire
against tree and went to sleep. The
tree was burned through and fell on
him, pinioning him and he was burned
so badly that he died soon after his
friends found him.
A MEDAL of honor has been awarded
by the government to Milton l.. Haney,
late chaplain of the Fifty Fifth Illi-
nois volunteers for bravery at the bat
tie of Atlanta on July %, 1864. A
medal has also just been presented to
Frederick w. Fout, late sergeant Fiji
teenth Indiana light artillery, for
bravery at Harper's Ferry, Va, on
September 10, 1862.
A SEVERE storm prevailed along the
coast of Portugal on the Goth and
fishing boat was lost near Setubal and
IA fishermen were drowned.
Two unknown tramps were killed
aud 81 cars and an engine ditched in
wreck on the Mobile & Ohio railroad
GO miles south of Meridian, Miss.
A REPORT reached Paris, Tex, re-
Gently that three men had been MUIR
dered on u boat on Red river, a few
miles below Arthur City.
MRS. j. w. ALLEN shot and accident
ally killed her ten-year-old son and
fatally shot her husband at Marys-
vile, Mont, on the Goth. He was
whipping the boy and she iuterfered,
when he turned on her She took a
rifle and shot at him, but killed the
child by accident. She then shot him
in the head. He may die.
The schooner Sandill, loaded with
lumber was reported At ST. Thomas
Ont, as having foundered in Lake Erie
and all OF her crew of six drowned.
The barn adjoining feed mill at
Aurora, H., was burned and several
fine horses perished in the flames
The fire was thought To have been in
cendiary.
ABOUT ten miles southwest of Sher-
man, Tex, in Squirrel creek bottom, a
tornado on the 2sth did considerable
damage in uprooting trees and demol.
ishing things in its path. Every mem.
ber Of the Hayes family was hurt
DIR w. w. PALMER and his grand
daughter were killed and another man
fatally hnrt by railway train near
keyport, n. j., on the eth.
By the running away of a mine car
on the Mid-Valley Colliery railroad at
shamokin, Pa, on the Goth one miner
had his brains dashed out against a
telegraph pole and four others sus.
tanned injuries that may prove fatal.
PETER MAHER and Joe Choyn ski will
meet in 20-round contest before the
Broadway Athletic club at New York
on November II.
FIRE destroyed the First national
bank and three other business houses
at Ladonia, Tex. Loss, 500, 200.
News was brought TO Colombo, Cey-
ION, by the survivors, of the foundering
Of the British steamer Taft at sea, in
which II persons, all natives of India,
were drowned.
THE United States commissioners to
the Brussels international exposition
of 1897 acting under the state depart.
ment at Washing ton, have appealed to
American manufacturers and produ.
GERS to seize the opportunity for intro
ducing their products in a foreign mar
Set. Applications for space will be re-
ceived until January / and exhibits
must be in place by April Is
JosEPHUs CLEMENS, the oldest pilot
in the United States, lost his footing
on his tug in the bay at Mobile, Ala,
and was thrown violently against the
railing and died soon after He was
nearly so years old and had done pilot
work ou the Mobile bar for 90 years.