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

JoHN FITCH, colored, was lynched
near Chapel Hill, Charleston county,
| Ala. He had broken into the room OF
! Miss Harrington n few evenings ago,
but was driven away. He was after.
wards arrested and was taken by
masked mob and lynched while en-
route to Jail.
MASKED men broke into the Gretna
Jail, near New Orleans, and took out
Jim Hawkins-a negro who had been
confined on a charge of assault and
battery on a little white boy-gave
him brief time to pray and then
hanged him. The cause of che lynch
ing was his generally bad reputation,
the people having dread of him.
CLEVELAND on the 23d secured
the right to defend the Temple cup
with baltimore by defeating Louis
Vile. The end of the National league
season will see Baltimore in first place.
Cleveland second and Cincinnati third
The boiler of cotton ten-wheel loco
motive on the Big Four burst at Pelxin
o., burling the enormous engine over
100 feet killing the fireman, breaking
all the glass within quarter of mile
OF the scene and partially demolishing
factory.
A NEW rule is to become operative on
the Wabash railroad on and after DC.
tober l. A record will be kept of the
offenses of any employe and when six
have occurred the employe will be dis.
charged and his situation be given to
the man who has earned the highest
number of white marks by attention
TO his duties.
THE Clyde line steamer Frederick de
Barry, from New York to Jacksonville,
N. c., was wrecked at Kitty Hawk, N.
C., on the 23d. The crew were taken
off by life savers.
CHARLES PFEIFFER, of Brightwood.
Ind, cut his baby's throat from ear to
ear, almost severed his wife's head
from her body and then hanged him
self. Temporary insanity was thought
to have been the cause.
THE free turnpike fever has spread
to Anderson county, Ky. A mob of "a
mounted men rode through that coun.
,y on the night of the 2lst and three
fourths of the gates were leveled to
the ground.
ANTONIO CUAZE shot and killed his
wife and mother-in-law at a ranch l2
miles from Aspen, Col. Jealousy was
the cause.
THE fourth assistant postmaster.
general has made his annual report for
the year ended June 30, 1896 1t shows
that the number of post offices in op.
GRAFTON in the United States is 20, 800
During the year 2,O46 post offices we've
IN 1fSh HiCnnnttnna1 Z
THE big sugar refinery at Moncton.
n. b., was destroyed by fire. Loss,
over S300,0 ,000
FELIX HALE, a negro blacksmith at
Ambia, Tex, shot and fatally wounded
his wife and killed himself. His wife
had separated from him and he tried
to induce her to live with him again
and her refusal caused the tragedy.
THE oed annual convention of the
American Bankers association opened
Mt st. Louis on the 22d with delegates
present from all parts of the country.
Mr. Pullen delivered the address, which
was Sound money" one. He also
praised the national banking system
and hoped the days of grace would be
abolished. The executive committee
IL
dollar and declared that free coinage
meant monometallism with gold at
premium.
! LEADvILLE, Col, was reported quiet
on the 2lst, the city being full of state
troops and practically under military
rule. Five dead bodies were lying at
the morgue and half a dozen persons
were reported wounded as the result
] of the previous nights lawlessness.
! The property damaged by the dynamite
amounted 10 Sos. 900. The back bone OF
the strike was thought to have been
! broken.
The city aldermen of Bellefontaine,
o., have released all the prisoners in
the Jail for want of money to pay the
sheriff for their keep, The entire
police force was also discharged for
the same reason.
AT n mass meeting called by Evan.
gelist ID. L. Moody at Chicago on the
2lst resolution was adopted appeal.
ing 20 the Christian citizens of the
United States to observe October
as a day of fasting and prayer to AL.
mighty God to interpose and allay
passion in the throes OF the great con.
tlct which the nation is undergoing.
The sawmill of Smalley Bros. &
Woodworth at Bay City, Mich, was
destroyed by fire on the esd.
A SPECIAL from Pittsburgh, Pa, de
MED the story that the Russian gov.
ernment had stolen tho secrets of the
arnor-plate business of the Carnegie
company.
GEORGE LEWIS, a colored bootblack,
hot 4. Mt
on the 22d, The shooting appeared &c
have been done without provocatiop
by two white men who had been drink.
ing.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is
making war on tramps and one even
ing landed 90 in Jail. Ii was estimated
that 1000 tramps were in camp be.
tween Greensburg and Altoona, Pa.
THE steamer Doric brought the news
10 San Francisco on the 22d of a series
of floods, storms and earthquakes in
northern Japan which recently caused
the destruction of millions of dollars
worth of property,
BEFORE adjourning its special session
on the 10th at McAlester, /. T., the
Choctaw council passed bill to enroll
all citizens, including the citizens by
blood, intermarried citizens and freed
men.
HOMER CHASE, a farmer living near
k.L ~,