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


Iowa's statehood opened at Burlington
on the LIST. At an early hour cannon,
doomed from the bluffs. bells rang and
whistles blew. The parade, the grand
est ever seen there, started at IL a. m
and was witnessed by IS. 600 people
Gov. Drake and Vice President Steven
son rode near the head of the column.
Brass bands from all over the state
were in line. Floats representing the
progress of Iowa from ls46 to 1896 were
also in line.
THOMAS NEwKIRK and Henry Ash
croft, who lived on Long Fork, neai
Lexington, Ky, quarreled over Miss
Mary Dean and decided to settle their
differences with Winchesters at 80
PAGES. They stood up before each 9TH
er's unerring fire until both fell dead
GEORGE BARSUM an old hermit and
brother to the late Snowman, p. I. Bar
mum, was found in his hut in the wood $
near Harrison, Mich. with his pockets
turned inside out. his money gone and
his head crushed in.
AS result of having eaten tainted
fish, 25 students of Concordia college
at Milwaukee were made dangerously
Ill on the lst
Two freight trains collided on the b
g. o. railroad at Philson, l24 miles east
Of Pittsburgh, Pa, and 10 tramps were
taken from the wreck, six of whom
were dead aud the rest in a serious con-
dition. Many of the trainmen were
also seriously injured. 1t was thought
that there were some others still under
the wreck.
A FERRY boat while crossing the river
Tyne, near Shields, Eng, sank aud
seven persons were drowned.
FIFTEEN horses, including a roadster
with record of 2:l5, were burned to
death in fire ut livery stable in
Evansville, Ind, recently, caused by
the crossing of electric wires.
THE comparative statement of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of the United
States government for the month Of
Septem showed the total receipts
To have been SEA, 5s4, ,2i4 and the ex-
penditures $50, $40, SIS, leaving deficit
for the month of 81, ,905, ,e9l.
A HoUsroS, Tex, dispatch stated
that nearly every passenger conductor
on the main line OF the Houston &
Texas Central railway had been dis
charged. Some of the men discharged
had been in the employ of the com.
pany for 2s years, and the least had
seen ten years service.
The steam gin of ]. l.. Moorehead at
Grapevine, Tex, with loo bales of
cotton, was destroyed by fire.
THE war department has turned over
to the interior department for disposi-
tion, under the abandoned reservation
act, all of the Fort Robinson (Neb.D
military reservation lying east OF the
line marked as the eastern boundary
of the reservation ia the survey OF the
adjacent public land.
\ HURRICANE swept over Savannah,
Ga, on the s9th doing damage to the
amount of s75O,OOO and causing the
loss of nine lives
DURING severe gale at Chicago on
the 3Oth the schooner Seaman broke
from her mOorings and, while being
hurled about by the wind, wrecked and
sunk five yachts and two house boats.
THE Denver Coli Pharmaceutica
association, including all the druggist;
Of the city, has adopted resolution,
practically declaring boycott on east
ern wholesale and manufacturing
firms, whom they accuse Of trying u
cOerce their employees in political mat
tiers.
Two fishing boats and - fishermen
were lost in a recent storm on the coast
of France near Brest
FRED BARSARo, the artis; Of Back
and White, was burned 10 death in bed
10 London II was supposed that the
bed clothing caught fire while he was
smoking.
FOUR boilers at the Hardwood col
liery al HazeltOn. Pa, exploded on ths
2sth with terrific force, instantly kill
ing Peter Parker and fatally injuring
Michael and Andrew Harguard-
SCORE Of people were ehloroformed
the other night in the Hotel Norman
al Wallis station, village on the
Pennsylvauia road, IA miles east of
Pittsburgh, Pa. and the hotel safe
was blown open with dynamite and
Al the money and valasbles secured