The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

0 Ills race recDru j. -suA4. lie ~ -.
hands, foaled in lss9, bred by G.. II.
roler, at Wichita. Kan. His sire is
Ashland Wilkes. dam Dame Wood, by
Wedgewood.
RAILROAD train was blown up be.
tween Punta Brava and Candelaria, in
Pinar del Rio, Cuba Gen Weyler was
I it Candelaria for a short time on the
10Th. and il was believed the author.
If the explosion supposed him to be on
.he train which was blown up. but he
1ad left several hours before the explo-
I sion. The engineer, fireman and con-
I iuctor OF the train. six soldiers and
several passengers were wounded
Two Lehigh Valley engines. drawing
I neavy trains, collided on the curve in
Mud Run, Pa, on the 10Th. The train
men escaped by jumping. Both en-.
zines tumbied down an embankment
into the Lehigh river and were com.
plete wrecks. A dozen cars were de-
nolished and the track torn up for a
[ considerable distance
PRAIRIE fires have done extensive
damage in northeastern Lincoln and
Payne counties, Ok. and destroyed
many thousands Of acres Of pasturage,
,ausing loss of hay, corn and buildings
90 many farmers and fatally burning
two persons.
The British steamer Memphis was
wrecked in D1nlough bay, on the south
,oast Of Ireland, on the night of the
18th. Her crew took to the rigging
and 81 were rescued the next morning
in an exhausted condition by means of
life line. Ten of the ships company
perished.
WESLEY GARLAND. aged Il, and VIII
Lee, a colored boy, went hunting
around Greenville, H., and disputed
about their workmanship. Garland
stepped off 30 PAGES and, turning his
back, bautered Lee to shoot. Lee fired
and fatally wounded Garland.
IL celebrating McKinley's victory at
Chiutwood, Va, an anvil exploded,
killing Pelham Colley and Preston Null
Tins. and frightfully injuring three
other men.
MRs MARY STEVENS chaplain OF the
Illinois grand lodge. Daughters of Re-
Dekah, while conducting the de vo tiona1
exercises of the grand lodge at Spring
Geld, H., on the 18th was stricken
with heart failure and died ia ten miu-
dbeN Sne WAS OO years Ola.
FoUR prisoners confined in the coun-
ty jail at Pomeroy, o., for various
,rimes dug their way out and escaped.
Bloodhounds were put on their trail.
A DISPATCH from Wallace, Ida, on
fhe 18th said that ruin was king in the
,9ur d'Alenes. Floods have created
lavoc oceverywhere. Buildings have been
Iwept away and many miles Of railway
rack washed out The town of Kings
con was also reported as being afloat.
The American Congress of Liberal
Religious societies convened at In.
lianapolis, Ind, on the 18th.
FIRE destroyed the home OF Mrs.
John Olson, near Varna, H., and hei
remains were afterwards found among
the ashes.
Born oil and natural gas have been
struck by the Standard Oil Co. in the
test wells put down east of the Sac
and Fox agency in Indian territory.
AT the fourth days session of the w.
c. T. U. at St. Louis on the 10th the re-
port of the executive committee to re-
sumo giving w. c. Il. u medals was
adopted. The subcommittee fnan-
cial plan for a voluntary contribution
of So from each union was adopted.
II was announced that 5000 in cash and
$500 in pledges had been raised the pre-
vious day for the benefit of Armenians.
Mrs. CARO- submitted a report about
the temple. She had raised Sl4l, 3gS of
the $500, 900 needed TO buy trust bonds
ard would try to secure the balance
this year.
THE supreme court OF the United
States adjourned on the 10th for the
Thanksgiving recess. Its next session
will he on the 30th.
CARROLL ID. WRIGHT, commissioner
Of labor, has transmitted to the secre.
tary of the interior a specia! report on
the statistics of occupations lie says
there were 22,735, 6Gl persons engaged
In gainful occupations in 1890, and of
these 3,523, 7SO were unemployed dur
ing some part of the year, or, approx
imately, l,l30,6 ,672 persons were unem-
ployed at their occupations during the
entire IL months, representing 5. .Ol per
cent. of the total number OF persons
engaged in gainful occupations
SAMUEL STRAUsE, a patient at the in
sane asylum at indianapolis, Ind., com
mitted suicide by hang ing himself with
his suspenders. He was formerly
clothing merchant OF Hannibal, Mo,
and was driven insane by the use Of
cocaine and morphine.
UNITED STATES letter carriers must
not smoke in the streets when in uni.
form. This is the edict of First Assist
ant Postmaster-General Jones.
WHITECAPs went to "A hut near Cow
ington, KY, at midnight and seized
Harry Hamlin and Mrs. Alice IIarri-
son, who had left her husband, and,
after stripping the couple, lashed them
with heavy switches into insensibility.
HENRY BLASKINsHIP, the oldest man
in Kentucky, died at his home near
Fairview on the 18th OF a complication
If diseases, aged 100 years. lie was
the father of Is children, IL of whom
are still living, the eldest being past
30 years of age.
THE report of Paymaster-General
stanton, made public on the 10th,
stated that the cost of the United
states army for the last year was sl6,-
J744SS.
A PARTY of men went TO the Jail at
Farmville, Va, and attempted to lynch
Elisha johnson, charged with high
way robbery. The prisoner was badly
wounded.
The stable of Mrs. w. +. ID. Stokes
near Lexington, KY, was destroyed by
ire and Josie h., the worlds record