The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-12-17

| Pa three of their children. aged four
months, four and six years, played
with an oil can in front OF the CRATE
and all caught fire and were burned to
death.
BRAKEMAN ScHoGLE put a tramp off
a train of the Chicago & Erie at Gal
/ ion, o., and was shot dead. Officers
were trying to trail the murderer by
| bloodhounds.
THE principal manufacturers Of
white paper used by newspapers have
/ held a conference at New York and
have agreed to pool interests and to
deal with consumers only through a
general agency. Thirty companies are
interested in the movement and they
are said TO control the industry in this
country.
The steamship Salier, with 2lO pas
sengers and crew of Gj men, was sunk
in recent gale off the coast of Spain
and all on board perished.
j. X. EMMETT, the actor, has been
granted a divorce at New York from
his wife, whom he married in 1894.
In the Fitzsimmons.Sha conspir-
acy trial at San Francisco on the 10th
George Allen. assistant trainer for
Sharkey, testified that when he helped
to carry Sharkey into the dressing
room there were no marks on Sharkey's
groin, but IL was afterwards doctored.
THE interstate commerce commission
has issued n preliminary report on the
income and expenditures OF the rail-
ways in the United States for the year
ended June 80, 1896, prepared by its
statistician.
PosTMAsTER.GENERAL WILSON has
made his annual report, which shows
an excess of expenditures over receipts
of ss,127,Os for the last fiscal year.
He characterizes the loss sustained by
the franking privilege as indefensible
and shows that of 34s, ,9ss, Gas pounds of
second-class matter handled, over 81
S4s 800 pounds were county free" He
makes many recommendations, but
says the United States is behind no
other country in their postal facilities.
A NEW comet was discovered on the
sth by C. ID. Perrine, of the Lick OBJ
servatory in California. 1t is in the
constellation of Pisces.
JIM DAVIS, the negro who recently
killed the two Williams boys, sons of
his employer, was captured in the
woods near Memphis, Tenn. His cap
tors took Davis in a southerly direc-
tion and it was almost certain that the
mob had hanged their prisoner.
THE bubonic plague was reported as
spreading rapidly at Bombay and on
the Sth there were 55 new cases and 35
| deaths.
Coz. KowALsKI. the legal representa-
tive of Bob Fitzsimmons the puCilist,
has brought suit against Tom Sharkey
at San Francisco to recover the $40. 600
purse for the recent fight. Col. Ko-
walslsi said there was conspiracy to
rob Fitzsimmons of the $40, 600 and the
evidence in his possession to prove it
was overwhelming.
| The plant of the Brown Bros To-
bacco Co. at Winston, n. c., was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing loss of $780,
900, with SIS, 900 insurance.
! A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9th
said that Delegate Flynn has had n
number of interviews with the secre-
tary of the interior regarding the
| opening of the Wichita reservation and
! felt confident that the allotting agents
would be appo inted within few days
and that the reservation would be soon
thrown open to settlers
The barn of j. l.. Roberts at Corinth,
H., was burned and eight horses were
cremated.
The tollgate raiders again broke out
in Mercer county, KY, and chopped
! down six pixies.
The ffve-year-old boy of Joseph Was.
kasli, an employee of the Cotton Belt
shops at Pine Bluff, Ark, got hold of n
pint flask of whisky and drank the
entire contents. He died after l2 hours
OF agony.
The Michigan wooden pipe works,
the Salt block and sawmill at Bay
! City. Mich, were destroyed by an in
cendiary fire. Loss sos, 900; insurance,
! $40, 900.
ABRAM ECKERT, who was to have
been hanged at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on
the sth for murder, cheated the hang
man by taking u dose of morphine and
! dying from its effects on the day set
! for his execution.
A COLLISION occurred on the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern railroad at
! SeudIuSVllle, W., beINeen an aCcOHlnO'
dation eastbound and special inspec
tion train in which three persons were
killed and several injured. 1t was
caused by u misunderstanding of or
| ders
! GUIsEPPI DEsARIo killed Francesca
and James Garriulla at New York in a
quarrel caused through jealousy. All
! are Italians.
! TOMMY WEST, of Boston, fought q
! l0-round draw with Joe Walcott, the
! famous colored welterweight, at the
Marlborough Athletic club at New
| York on the 9th.
! The powder and dynamite magazines
at Los Galliuas, Mex. exploded recent
| ly and six men and several horses were
| blown to atoms. Not fragment of
the buildings larger than a cigar box
| remained.
THE story circulat ted from Blu ffalo
! n. Y, that the Addicbs and Standard
| Oil forces were going to com bine and
form great corporation, with n capi.
tai of $3.50, 900. 900, TO control the gas
! interests in Buffalo and other cities, is
| denied.
A BOILER in the mill of the Wilcox
! Lumber Co. at Seville, Ga, exploded
on the Sth and killed two white men
and four negroes
AT secret meeting at Cincinnati all
the Woodworking machinery manu-
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