The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-12-31

and killed two of his assaiiauts and
wounded seven others. Twenty of the
men have been arrested and will prob
ably be shot.
THE officers of the steamer Belgic,
which recently arrived at San Francis.
90 from Japan, reported that the small.
! pox epidemic was raging in Kobe and
! Toxic. All the hospitals in both cities
mad beer changed into pest houses
and many deaths had occurred, the
disease defying all attempts to stop it.
The bank of West Superior, Wis,
closed its doors on the 93d. IL was a
deposition in the suspended Bank OF
| Illinois at Chicago.
AN attempt was made to rob a pas.
seuger train near birmingham, Ala.
by removing n rail on the trestle
The train ran off on TO the Tim bers,
but fortunately did not turn over, else
not a soul would have escaped. The
sheriff and posse, with dogs, were
after the scoundrels.
A SAN DIEGO, Cal, dispatch stated
that the bark Jamaica had been lost in
the gulf OF Campeche and l2 passen-
gers and most of the crewwere drowned.
cu.
The bark encountered terrible storm.
MILL belonging to the Southern
Pine Co. at Nichols, Ga, has been
burned and 175 employees thrown out
of work. 1t was estimated that the
loss would amount to SIS, 900 or $780,
600.
A CROWD of 40 persons was passing
over the wire suspension bridge at
Littleton, w. Va, on the night of the
2lst, having attended "a revival service,
when the bridge gave way and they
were precipitatcd into the creek below.
One man was killed, another man and
woman dangerously injured and sew
eral others were more or less hurt.
A MOB attacked the house of Thomas
Chambers, colored, at Mayfield KY, on
into the place with Winchesters, but
Chambers escaped. This enraged the
mob and they set the house on fire and
three adjoining were also burned. The
mob had warned him to leave town.
THE Walbridge & Co.'S hardware and
house furnishing establishment and the
Jewett building adjoining at Buffalo,
N. Y, were damaged by fire to the ex-
tent of sl5O.OO0; fully insured.
THE comptroller of the currency has
called on the national banks for re-
port of their condition at the close OF
business on December IL.
The Texas state health officer wants
consumptives quarantined ana bill
to that effect will probably be intro.
duced in the forthcoming legislature.
BY an explosion of fire damp at col
liery at Reschitza, Hungary, 40 miners
were killed and % more were reported
missing.
The veterans town of Fitzgerald,
Ga, had all the business blocks on
Grant street, from Pine to Magnolia,
destroyed by fire. Loss, SIS, 900; in.
surance. SOS, 900.
THE National Bank of Illinois at
Chicago, with assets amounting to SIS
000, 600, has suspended. The causes, as
given by the clearing house committee,
were "unwarrantable and injudicious
loans" through which the capital and
surplus had been imperiled.
AN explosion occurred in confec-
tionery manufactory at Casino. Italy,
on the 2lst which killed seven people.
ABOUT 500 masked men broke into
the Jail at Mayfeld, Ky. on the night
of the Goth and hanged, Jim Stone, a
negro brute, in the courthouse yard
and then riddled his body with bullets.
A WAGON was struck while crossing
the track of the Chicago & Northwest.
ern road at Denison, Ia, and Mr..
Krual, a farmer, was fatally hurt and
his wife was killed.
A WRECK occurred on the b. & O.
Southwestern railroad at Hamden, o.,
on the 18th and n postal clerk was
killed outright and the conductor, fire.
man and another postal clerk were
fatally injured. Some passengers were
also reported killed and injured. The
train ran into some cattle and several
ears were derailed.
IN n railroad collision on the Texas
& Pacific road near Sodus, La, three
men were killed and seven badly in
jured.
The failure was announced Of the
Roseland Savings bank at Chicago on
the 2ist, The bank did business with
the National Bank of Illinois.
THE Choctaws have signed an agree
ment with the Dawes commission to
take lands in severalty, for the sale of
town lots and for the transfer of crimi-
oal jurisdiction to the federal courts.
Officials at Washington say that the
treaty with the Choctaws is very inn
portant, as it is the entering wedge
which will dispose of the whole Indian
problem.
A TERRIFIC explosion of gas occurr ed
tn a mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the
slst and over 20 miners were impris on
ed in the earth, but IA were afterwards
rescued and hopes were entertained of
getting the others before the deadly
ifter-damp claimed them as victims.
AT the convention at Cincinnati on
the 10Th the headquarters of the Amer
can Federation of Labor were changed
from indianapolis to Washington by a
sote of 1884 to 730. II was also or
Tered that an assessment of one cent
oer capita be imposed to secure an
.ight-hour law.
The American Federation of Labor
At Cincinnati on the 2lst appointed
John Fernseth. of the Seamen's Inter
national union, as a committee of one,
with headquarters at Washington, to
ook after labor interests in the ma
tion's capital. After some routine
business the convention then ad-
iourned sine die.
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