The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-01
EfIsCFLLANEOUs.


THE oil mills at Ennis, Tex, were re.
Gently blown up with some explosive,
supposed to have been dynamite. Loss,
500, 900; Insurance, $4,000
YALE students broke up n meeting
at New Haven, Conn, William J. Bryan
being obliged to quit speaking in con-
sequence OF their yells.
AT the 24-hour bicycle race at the
Coliseum at Chicago on the cath C. w.
Miller did so miles in the remarkable
time of l:54:25 3-5, the previous record
being 2:ll:6 As.
The celebration of the fifth anniver.
sary of the opening of the Sac and Fox
reservation to settlement was cele.
brated at Chandler, Ok, on the cath by
barbecue in which so beeves were
eaten and several barrels OF bean soup
consumed. At night grand camp fire
was held.
Gov. RESFRow, of Oklahoma, has
fled with the secretary of the interior
his annual report for the year ended
June 80, 1896. 1t contains lengthy
statement as to the agricultural inter.
ests of the territory.
The American Humane association
Optutu III COuNtHblOn w tltNt-
land, o., on the ED, nearly all the
principal cities of the country being
I represented.
THE grand session of the Select
Knights of America opened at Peoria,
H., on the ED, 400 delegates being
present.
JOHN r. GENTRY, at Rigley park,
Portland, Me-, paced the fastest mile
ever made in harness and placed the
worlds record at 2:O0H. twas believed
that had he not had to contend with
the wind in his teeth in the last quar-
ter he would have made the mile in
two minutes. The time for the quar-.
ters were 29A, 30A, 30A, 30A.
The 22d annual convention of tho
American Bankers association closed
at ST. Louis on the cath. Robert j.
Lowry, of Atlanta, Ga, was elected
president.
LOUIS BuTTERFlELD, aged ten, was
cut in two by a freight car at Pales-
tine, Tex, while in play trying to
board the train.
GEORGE LEEPER, a livery stable man
Mt Paducah, KY, was in a drunken
stupor and the rats ate the soles Off
his naked feet and left him cripple
for life.
Mrs. JULIA BRADLEY, of Peoria, ILL.,,
has bestowed all her fortune, estimated
at 81, 900, upon the university OF
Chicago on condition that a branch
school shall be built at Peoria.
THE Dublin Express said on the 22d
that the police had discovered large
quantities of dynamite and n pile of
detonators at Marline park, near Gal.
way, in a disused house.
REPORTS to the marine hospital at
Washington on the 22d showed no
abatement of yellow fever in Cuba, but
smallpox was steadily decreasing iu
the island
EDsoN KEITH committed suicide by
jumping in the lake at Chicago. He
was the head of probably the larges,
millinery establishment in the United
States.
The United States commissioner OF
pensions made his annual report on
the 2lst. The number of pensioners on
the roll June 80, 1896, was 970,G The
amount of money asked for the pay
ment of pensions for the next fiscal
year Is Sl40, 600, 900. There were 1875
664 pension claims pending at the CLOSE
OF the fiscal year, Pa, a37 being applica
tions for increases.
LADY HENRY SOMERSET has appealed
TO the London Daily News to collect
funds to send the refugee Armenians t.
America. The Daily News printed an
appeal on the 2lst from Mrs. Frances
Willard to her sisters in America on
the same subject
A BRUSSELS dispatch to the London
Chronicle on the Goth said that the
authorities of Rotterdam had received
an anonymous letter threatening TO
blow up all the public buildings there
unless the Irish prisoners, Kearney and
Haines, were liberated.
john COINS was recently sentenced
at Franklin, Ind, To four years i'm.
prisonment for stealing five chickens
The people of Washington county,
Ky, have risen in rebellion and torn
down about all the toll gates in the
county.
A PASSENGER train was derailed early
On the 2lst near Grayling, Mich, by
train wreckers, but fortunately no one
was injured. The wreckers had
chopped off the ties and pried in the
rails. Three men have been arrested.
AT the games of the KnickerboclSe,
Athletic club at New York on the 10th
three worlds records were broken. II.
Sheldon, of Yale, threw the discus III
feet inches, the previous record be
Ing lol feet 8 inches; Thomas f. Burke,
of Boston, ran 600 yards in l:l1, and
Jerome Buck won the $40 yards hurdle
race, ten hurdles. in Sc 2-5 seconds.
WmrEcAPs near Toledo, o.. whipped
a farmer named Huntsman and then
buried him alive, dug him up, and then
administered another whipping. The
farmer and his children were accused
of stealing pocket-book. Hunts man
was reported a. respectable well 10
do farmer.