The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-12-24

the building was n mass Of ruins. The
loss on the building will reach S75, 900,
partly insured.
THE big prize in the Panama lotIery,
at Paris, amounting TO 100000 has
been won by Marseilles market wom-
an, the widow Boissiere.
The interstate commerce commits
sioners made public their annual re-
| port on the 18th. II recommends "that
| 1t be made penal offense for any per-
son TO engage in the business OF selling
interstate passenger tickets unless he
! is an authorized agent of the carrier,
duly constituted such by written ap.
pointment" Free passes are also de.
nounced. A number of technical
amendments to the interstate com.
merce law are also urged.
An ammonia cylinder in the Casino
skating rink and summer theater in
Schenly park at Pittsburgh, Pa, ex.
ploded at 2:i5 a. m. on the 18th and the
whole handsom G structure was soon in
flames The losses were placed at
sl00, 900, with S75, 600 insurance.
TwENTY-EfGHT of the anarchists inn
plicated in the throwing of bomb in
the religious procession at Barcelona
on June Z, whereby six persons were
killed and so others injured, have been
sentenced to death and SO others TO
penal servitude.
MAIRED HATFIELD, a relative of the
notorious Hatfelds of Kentucky and
West Virginia, was hanged at Sneed-
vile, Tenn, on the 10th for numbering
Jonas Trail, dealer in illicit whisky.
LAWRENCE II. COURTNEY, a telegraph
operator, fell under train at Colum-
bus, o., and was cut to pieces.
DISPATCH from Denison on the 10th
said that mass meetings were being
held over north Texas in sympathy
with Cuba and that the war spirit was
rampant
WILLIAM ALEXANDER and William
Nield, miners near Buffalo, Wyo., at
tempted to thaw out frozen giant pow
der by placing it in the flames of can
die. The powder caught fire and one
of the men plunged 1t in cold water
An explosion followed and Nield was
killed and Alexander had his sight de-
stroyed.
In match shoot at live birds at Mil
waukee to settle tie in n match for
medal and $500 side between DR.. J. L.
Williamson and George l.. Deiler, Will
Hanson shot 19l out of a possible 200,
beating the worlds record, which was
lSS. Deiler's score was 1Ss.
A RESOLUTION was adopted at the ses-
sion of the A. Il. of L. at Cincinnati on
the 10th reafiirming the Armour boy.
cott and special committee was ap-
pointed to report plans for pushing it
A resolution was also passed calling
upon President Cleveland and congress
to recognize the Cubans as belligerents.
DAVID BOYD and his daughter Min
ME, who had been travelling in a COW
cred wagon, were found lying in pool
of blood on the roadside in Lincoln
county, Ok. They had been hacked to
death with an ak. A mob of 100 white
men dragged negro named Clemens
to the woods with the intention of
lynching him and Sheriff Painter had
gone with posse to the scene.
WILLIAM STEVENS, of Porter. O., put
some giant power near the fire to dry
when his children began playing with
it and set the place on fire. The moth
er and father rushed out of the build
ing and the father, not discovering his
three children, went back and found
them burned To crisp.
PATRICK CoUGHLIN was executed in
Rich county, Utah, on the 18th for the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Dawes and
Constable Stagg. Coughlin was blind
folded and piece of white paper was
fastened over his heart and six deputies
fred at the mark, killing him instantly.
THE French coasting steamer Marie
Fanny has been lost in the British
channel and her crew of IA men
drowned.
AT the session of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor at Cincinnati on the
18th stormy time was had over the
credentials of President Pomeroy, of
the Chicago Walters union, and they
were finally rejected by an overwhelm-
ing vote.
CLAY II. COOPER, convict charged
with larceny, who was shackled to
another convict, slipped his shaclles
unknown to the guard and dived
through the window of car and
escaped near South McAlester, |. r.
FRED KRUECHENBERGER and George
Sturm, two schoolboys living near Fort
Wayne, Ind, quarreled and the former
severed the latter's jugular vein with o
knife.
THE American Federation of Labor
convened at Cincinnati on the 14th.
Outside of the appointment of commit
tees the address of President Gompers
was the only feature of the session.
SETTLEMENTS in the river country in
southwestern Washington have been
nearly wiped out by floods, many fami-
lies escaping on RATS after their dwell.
ings had been carried away. Nine
inches of rain have fallen in IL days
and many people have been drowned.
THOMAS STARKEY, junior member of
the firm of Starkey Il Son. proprietors
of the city roller mills at North Bend,
Neb., met instant death, by being
wound around a shaft in the mill.
Sharkey was placing n belt. when his
clothing caught in "A cog-wheel.
NORRIS PoPE and J. Ii. Keithline got
into n quarrel over family matters at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, when the former
drew a revolver and shot Keithline and
then blew out his own brains.
A CALL has been issued for gather,
ing of the temperance people of Iowa
at Des Moines on December 20 to take
action toward the better enforcement
of the liquor laws.
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