The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-09-17
Tar cotton report Of the department,

vious calendar month OF 1919 points TO
64.2, being the lowest Septem Der con.
dition in the last q years.
THE Lake Shore through express
4 carrying mails and express from New
/ York TO Chicago. caught fire near
! Goshen, Ind, on the night OF the 10th
and thousands of dollars worth of
goods, with much mail matter. were
destroyed. The origin of the flames
was supposed to have been spontane'
Dus combustion.
ROBERT j. FITZsMMoNs issued chal-
Ienge at New York on the 10th to fight
James j. Corbett and placed s., 900 for.
feit in the hands of a stakeholder. Cor
oett, when notified of the challenge,
said Fitzsimmons was blufiing, but
that the challenge was accepted, al
though he was confident Fitzsimm ons
would never enter the ring with him.
AT a wedding at Bondurant, Ia, on
the 10th 25 persons were poisoned from
zee cream. None of the cases proved
fatal, although several were seriously
Ill.
TBE Sons of Veterans in convention
At Louisville, Ky, elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year: James
l.. Rake, of Pennsylvania, commander
in-chief; L. p. Buckley, Jr., of Louis
Ville, junior vice commander; council
n-chief L. p. Kennedy, ex-ofiicio pres
lden; +. W. Heine, of Nebraska; Fred
Meyers, of Colorado. Indianapolis
was selected as the next place of meet
ing.
WARREN ID. WHITEHEAD and wife
and Mrs. Patrick Kearney were recent.
" drinking beer at Whitehead's house
In Denver, Col Mrs. Whitehead de.
lined glassful and soon afterward
the other two showed signs of poison.
Both died later in agony. Mrs. White
head has been arrested.
THE September report of the statis-
tcian OF the department of agricul-.
turc showed decline in the condition
Of corn from the August statement of
six points, or from 90 per cent in
August to 81 per cent in September.
FIRE destroyed the Mcclure Manu-
featuring Co. S plant at Chicago on the
10th, causing loss of $50, 900. Flames
from the burning building endangered
a lot of cottages near by and drove the
tenants into the street.
IT was reported that n company had
been organizing claimants to right
to Choctaw citizenship and that Ger.
tain members of the council had been
fixed TO rush claims through and there
was n likelihood of trouble and Mar
shall McAlester had sent deputies to
Tushkahomma, l. T., to be on hand.
A SLIGHT earthquake shock was felt
at four o'clock in the afternoon of the
| 9th at Red Bud Ill
THE United Typothete of America
began It's tenth annual convention at
Rochester, N. ", on the sth,
JOHN FRoHI, n bartender in n Du.
buque, Ia, saloon, dropped dead while
drawing u glass of beer.
GEORGE J. WHITAKER, the champion
swimmer at Milwaukee, lowered the
worlds record for loo yards from 1909
3-5 to 100 fat.
TIE Ohio republican editorial asso.
citation assembled ut Canton, o. on the
sth and listened to an address by
Charles Emory Smith, of the Philadel.
phia Press, on the Campaign OF Educa-
tion," after which the association
marched in n body TO the Mckinley
home and the republican nominee for
president made speech.
Mr.. JosEPH HERMAN, his wife and
seven-year-old daughter, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, were found in their home
weak from hunger The woman was
removed TO the hospital, where she
died in few hours The man was a
converted Jew and could not get work
on account of turning Christian.
THE single scull race for the cham
Al. a 1.
Gaudaur, of Canada, and James STAINS.
bury, of Australia, was rowed over the
four-mile course from Putney to Mort.
lake in England on the nth and was
won by Gaudaur.
TwENTY-FoUR anarchists have heen
arrested at Barcelona, Spain, for the
throwing of a bomb into crowd OF
people witnessing the recent Corpus
Christi procession whereby eight per-
sons were killed and 30 injured.
1T is said that the disclosures of cor.
ruptiou in connection with the admin.
istration of the dispensary law in South
Carolina meant the doom of the system.
MANY persons in the congregation
took offense Mt Rev. Thomas Dixon S
red-hot denunciation OF Bryan and his
supporters at New York on the 9th and
gave vent to their disapproval by
catcalls and noisy demonstrations and
the outlook became so threatening at
one time that it was feared ii would be
necessary to call for the police.
LABOR day was observed in all cities
throughout the United States as a
holiday and given up to parades and
speeches and picnics in the parks.
+. L. Brown, n ieweler of Hubbard,
o., was fatally shot by tripping over
the string of n trap that he had ar
ranged in his store for burglars.
The recent Indian scare, which
caused many of the settlers west OF
0xarche, Ok, to leave their homes and
go to the towns for protection, was
caused by ugly Cheyennes who were
incensed at the government order that
in the future all beeves to be doled out
to them by rations should be butchered
by the agency butcher, instead of be-
ing turned over To them alive, To be
run down and eaten while hot and
bleeding.
ISAAC CABYL was shot down by viii
liam Doling, coachman, at Allendale
n. j.. ana the murderer then sent q
bullet through his own heart No mo
tive was known for the crime.
| THE bicycle racers which left Sar
! Francisco on August 25 at IL o'clock
arrived at the Journal Office in New
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