The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-08-13
MIsCEIIANEous.

THH Park theater. Tugby's museum
and other buildings at Niagara Falls,
N. Y, were destroyed by fire early on
the 9Th. The international hotel was
on fire several times, and the guests
fed to the streets. The loss will reach
$3.50, 900.
An incendiary fire at Knightsville,
Ind, originating in Salliday's grocery
store, completely destroyed three large
business rooms and considerable mer.
chandise.
FOURTEEN hundred employees of the
South Chicago Shipbuilding Co have
struck because the boys who heated
rivets were cut from sl.5o to sl25 u
day.
THE Whoelmen's National Mckinley
and Hobart club has been organized at
Chicago republican national headquar-
tiers. Two hundred business men were
enthusiastic over the project to organ
ize an army OF cyclists. AS soon as the
organization is well under way, local
clubs will be organized all over the
country.
THREE cars were derailed by u
burned tree which had fallen across
the track near Rockland, Tex, and a
man was instantly killed.
FRANK c. ARMSTRONG, who was in
Washington on the 5th and who is a
member of the Dawes Indian comglis-
sion, stated that the prospects for a
reorganization of the government of
the Indians, through a division of their
lands in severalty and other measures,
was never more favorable than now
and expressed the belief that at the
coming session of the tribal council
some definite step will be taken.
| FIRE started in the telephone ex.
change at Concord, village Is miles
from Knoxville, Tenn, on the 5th and
/ destroyed dozen business houses.
Loss, 2o,ooO; insurance, $4,000
/ THE tramp who robbed and shot
Thomas Hall and his son at Hunter.
town, Ind, and then escaped to a big
swamp was caught by the posse who
went after him and lodged in Jail
The secretary of the interior ha,
approved the swamp land list No. "a,
| consisting of 40 acres in the Spring
/ 6eld (Mo.) district.
/ Mrs ANDREW JOHNSON, of South
Moline, H., poured coal oil on her
gitchen stove and the can in her hand:
exploded. She was fatally burned.
AN attempt was made at Berea, o., a
three o'clock on the morning of the 4tf
to burn the homes of two quarry con
tractors who employed non-union men.
| A wire screen was torn from the win
low of one house and IN unoccupied
bed saturated with oil and lighted. Th,
house was burned to the ground. Th'
other house was saturated with oil
but was not fired.
REPORTS from West Virginia on tho
4th indicated an almost complete de
struction of the wheat and oat cropi
by incessant rains.
THE Christian brothers, the noteC
bandits who escaped from the Jail a
Oklahoma City, Ok, about a year ago
were recaptured on the 4th near Loco
J. T. Hunger had driven them from
their retreat and they stole some pro
visions and officers followed after then
and took them off their guard.
FoREsr fires were doing much dam
age in the vicinity of Sault Ste. Marie
I nv pAuNiSs N eAAeAh oNahlOh W
the South Shore railroad, the resident
had TO fee for their lives, the place be
ing completely wiped out. Scores o
farmers have lost their homes.
BOLT of lightning killed 10 hea,
of horses belonging to j. A. Bradley
at Edinburg, Ind.
A DESPERATE state OF affairs exist
on the Gogebic range in northerl
Michigan, all the mines, with two eX
eeptions, having shut down and tn
unemployed being on the verge o
starvation.
The seventh Day Adventists' camp
meeting and conference at Island park
Guthrie, Ok, has grown TO mammot
proportions. over 900 people being er
,amped on the ground on the Sd.
REV. j. T. SCOTT, the Methods
clergyman who recently eloped fror
Waterloo, la, with a l5-year-old gin
mas been adjudged insane by the CON
missioners after three days hearing
BECAUSE of some difficulty betwee
owners and lessees the ice plant u
Eureka Springs. Ark, was tied up b
legal process and the sweltering citi
sens were suffering for want of ice, be
.ng unable To get any from surroundin
towns on account of shortage.