The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-08-20

AT a meeting between the executive
committee of the Kaights of Labor
and committee representing the.
glass workers, at Washington. form.
al separation took place between the
Knights of Labor and the Window
Glass Workers association of the
United States The action was mostly
due to politics.
Miss CELIA RosE, aged "a years, was
jailed at Mansfield o.. on the charge
OF killing her father, her mother and
her brother with poison. All three
died recently within a few days of one
another and il was evident that they
had been poisoned. young woman
gained the confidence OF the daughter
and il was claimed Celia made con-
fession To her.
THE dead from heat at New York on
the 13th numbered "a and prossrations
i29. There were 374 death certificates
isIued by the health board for the -
hours ended at noon. OF these, l5s
were for people who died from the eff
fects of the heat. The horses killed
by heat numbered more than on any
former day Of the hot spell.
The barns of the Texas Brewing Co,
at Fort Worth, Tex, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th cntailing a loss of
SEQ, 600. Forty head of horses were
rescued from the flames.
The fusses with the Salvation army
at Belleville, III. eliminated in a riot
on the night of the lltk. For two
/ hours the soldiers held their position
on the courthouse steps against the re-
I peated rushes of the moo. Their flags
were torn and many were roughly
I handled. Finally the police drove the
l crowd away and compelled the army
| 10 go to their barracks Threats of re-
newed violence have been freely made.
OVER 5000 pounds of black bass were
I taken out of the Salomonie river near
/ Huntington, Ind, with buckets, the
/ fish having been driven TO shore by a
| recent freshet which covered the water
with oil.
FRANK POWERS and his wife went to
work in their field in Pender county,
/ n. C., and left their two infant chill
dren in the care OF a neighbor named
/ Mills. who afterwards left his teu-year-
old son to look after the two children.
The Powers heard cries from Mills
house and FASTENED there and found
! one of their children dead and the
! other dying. Young Mills had stabbed
/ both with a table knife To make them
sop crying, he said.
! The richest gold placer mines OF
I Alaska have been found TO be in Cana
dian territory, and now miners are
! paying tax to the British authorities
The body of A. II. Pile, secretary Of
/ the silver party, was found in the
/ Po' omac river near Washington on the
10th. How he came TO be drowned
was mystery and there were reasons
for suspecting foul play.
MARION CHAPMAN and John Booth
were instantly killed on the Lexington
Il Eastern railroad, 60 miles east CT
Lexington, Ky. They were on a hand
car when it ran off high trestle.
Three other men escaped by jumping,
but were severely injured.
FIVE persons were drowned in the
Delaware river near Philadelphia on
the 9th by the overturning of their
boat during gale
JORDAN, KY, was destroyed by FIRE
on the 9th, not business house being
left standing.
tHAhIEs JpHNsON anu TSuWhIu 'tuu'
bel were drowned in the lake near Chi.
cago by the capsizing of their boat
through two companions jumping
from it's side to have swim in the
water.
Ten persons returning from picnic
in a wagon were run down by Fort
Wayne passenger train near Chicago.
All were hurt, one seriously. That
they We're not all killed was due TO the
train going at slow speed
The boiler of a saw mill near Cabot,
Ark, exploded on the 10th and one
man was killed and another seriously
injured. The mill was demolished.
THE August returns to the stats
tician of the department. of agriculture
showed reduction in the condition of
cotton during July from o., 3 to so. l or
la.4 per cent.
THIRTY fatal cases of sunstrolle were
reported at Chicago on the 18th and
about so prostrations. Many persons
were also driven insane by the heat
There were about 500 dead horses still
unremoved on the streets, the city be-
ing unable to cart them away as quick
ly as the animals succumb.
A TORNADO struck Winona park, near
Warsaw, Ind, on the 10th and demol-
ished the amphitheater and desolated
the assembly grounds. Two persons
were injured.
IL. J. WuI6HAM, of Chicago. won the
amateur golf championship of America
at Southampton, l.. l., defeating Cham
pion Mcdonald, of Chicago.
JUDGE Il. II. WEST, of Ardmore, |. T.,
has preferred serious charges against
Hon c. H. Kilgore, judge of the south
ern district of the Indian territory,
The nature of the charges are reported
to be general incompetency and high
handed methods in dispensing with
the business of his court.
JOE CHoI SsKI and Joe McAuliffe have
been matched to fight eight rounds
before the Occidental club, at San
Francisco, August IS.
THE long continued dry weather has
produced water famine around Paris,
Tex. and in the vicinity of Ben Frank
lin an epidemic of typhoid fever has
broken out, on account of people be-
ing forced to drink stagnant water.
The Lehiyh Valley Coal and Iron
, Co. S mammoth Logan colliery breaker
at Centralia, Pa, valned at 500, 600, was
, destroyed by fire on the sth. About 30