The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-08

taius. in Washington. was urging 5000
sheep toward the snow line TO get
grass when they stampeded and
knocked him down aud i.iOO Of the
sheep were smothered and trampled to
death and their bodies piled on top Of
the herder's corpse.
AN explosion Of ammonia occurred
at the schmidt brewery at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, which completely wrecked
the cold storage plant and badly in
, iured eight men.
The Minneapolis Basel bali club de-
fcated the Indianapolis on the lst and
won the Detroit Free Press cup, after
having captured the pennant The
score was IS to II.
Mrs. JoHS Filler, wife Of a farmer
near State Center. la. was found by
the roadside burned 70 a crisp. Il was
supposed her clothing was ignitei
from a pipe she had been smoking.
NEAR Holgate. o. Nathan Spellman.
drunken boarder in the home of
Mrs Kicker. widow, attacked Anna
Kicker, girl Il years old,an crushed
her skull Spellman afterwards com.
mitted suicide BY severing his jugular
vein with a razor.
THE public debt statement issued at
Washington on the lst showed net
Increase in the public debt, less cash
in the treasury, during September Of
81, s06,O34 Total cash 10 the treasury,
$3.50. .Gie, 7T2.
PART OF Benson. Ariz, was washed
away and six persons drowned in a
flood from a cloudburst in the Whet-
stone mountains. IL was expected that
great loss of life and dcitruc,ion of
property viii be reported from all
along the San Pedro river, a wall OF
water at least Il miles long being
poured into the river.
A MALIGNANT fever. similar to that
which appeared in 1898, has ravsged
Turkestan for the past two months.
Ten thousand persons have died from
the fever, most of the victims being
children.
HEAVY damage has been done TO the
farmers on the low lands along the
Juniata river in Blair county. Pa. by
the severe rains, many farms being
Submerged by lakes of water and out
buildings swept down the stream
Several bridges on the Martinsbure
branch of the Pennsylvania railroad
were also demolished.
THE large barge Sumatra foundered
off Milwaukee on the 3Oth and -four
men were drowned. She had load OF
railroad iron and the sea ran high.
THE Alamo hotel at Hot Springs,
Ark, was destroyed by fire on the
30th, the guests barely escaping with
their lives and losing all their personal
property.
MoUSr HoLYoKE woman's college at
South Hadley. Mass, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, about sl50,000. None of
the 400 students were injured.
CTS CARLSON. a farmer of Woodbury
county, Ia, fell in front of a cornstalk
cutter and one leg was cut off below
the knee. He cannot live.
ARTHUR J. KING, head of the firm of
r. q. Dun & Co. of New York, died at
Bloomfield. n. j., on the 2sth, aged 20
years.
An EN- bankmeuto of earth caved in on
Fifth avenue, New York, killing one
man and injuring two others who were
digging trench.
JAMES l. NEWTON at Houston, Tex,
shot his wife's father, her mother and
her brother. The wounds of the old
lady and her son will probably result
fatally. Family quarrels were the
cause.
THE money value Of army horses
condemned during the past year is
placed at $50, 900, and Secretary La
mont has issued an order looking to a
more economical administration in this
direction. His instruction is that in
spection reports, condemning cavalry
horses for being vicious and unman.
ageable in ranks, are not TO be APP
proved, except in rare cases. The
number of cavalry horses condemned
last year for various causes was go.
WILEY HAYES shot and fatally
wounded Nathan Washington at Mon
ticello, Ark. Both men are negroes
and the difficulty arose over
woman.
Miss FRANCES E WILLARD, of the
Worlds w. C. T. u, has sent out an
appeal to the local unions in the Unit
ed States to organize meetings to pro-
test against the Armenian massacres
and also TO raise money for the suffer
ers and send it TO Mrs. Helen NJ. Barker
at Chicago.
A woMAN's pool room was discovered
and raided by the police at Chicago on
the 2sth- Seventeen society ladies
were caught placing bets on horses and
they were taken in a patrol wagon to
the police station, but were afterwards
bailed out Some of the women
screamed and tainted and others tied
handxerchiefs over their faces.
A HEAVY dOwnpour OF rain on the
2Bth washed away the south part of
San Marcos. Tex. The houses gener-
ally were fimsy and fioated away as
IL they were boats The NJ, X. & T.
lost about ! = miles of track.
JONI REEVES and his brother George
escaped from the penitentiary at
Frank Fort, XIV, by scaling the walls
They were sentenced to 81 years each
for burning half the town of Tomp-
kinsyille.
GOLD has been found in paying
quantities on the farm of Bahne
Luecke, at Camanche, near Clinton. la
An assay shows gold ami silver of an
aggregate value Of SIS TO the ton.
r. C. kRAgTs and George Dixon at
San Francisco lowered the worlds
fve-mile tandem road record by nearly
two minutes, placing the figures at
lO:22 as.
The big textile factories at Man
chester. y. H., Waltham, Mass. Troy.
" Y, Hollidaysburg, Pa. and Ames-