The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-01-21

car in pittsburgh, IA, running away
down a steep grade and dashing into 1
telegraph pole.
EUGENE RERo NsoN and wife entered
police headquarters at Detro IL, Mich
ON the 14th and confessed that Beron
son had in 1894 embezzled 81, 900 from
the Akron & Canton Stone CO., whose
Chicago manager he then was. The
woman tainted during her husban DIS
recital.
THE administration at Washington
has concluded 10 name allotting agents
at once for the Wichita reservation, bu
II was expressly stated that no attempt
would be made TO open the reservation,
as that was going to be left for the in
coming administration to do.
WILLIAM FERGUSON and James Nc,
Kenna were found dead in room of a
| New York hotel on the 14th, having
been asphyxiated by Eliminating gas.
INTERNAL revenue officers captured q
! complete underground distilling plant
on the 14th at a Jewish settlement in
Cumberland county. n. j. Two moon
sinners were arrested and the whisky
confiscated.
to the evening of the 18th there were
1884 cases of the bubonic plague in
Bombay and 1880 deaths from the dis
ease Many corpses have been found in
the streets and there was often diff
Guilty in burying the dead, through
want of help.
THE Tom Boy gold mine of San
Miguel county, Col, has passed into
he hands of the Rothschild syndicate.
Z is recognized as one of the richest
gold mines in the United States.
A PATTY of masked men went TO the
iome of n merchant near Macon. Ga.
md demanded his money. He at
tempted to defend himself and the
vould-be robbers fired at him and
Silled his wife.
THE president of the Trades and La
DOR union at st. Louis recently esti-
mated that fully 10000 men were out
II work in that city.
A PITTsBURGH, Pa, dispatch stated
hat the strike of the coal miners on
.he Wheeling Lewiston of the B. tG O.
abroad had ended, the men agreeing
% accept the 54-cent rate offered.
Four men were blown to pieces at
Ward, small mining camp 90 miles
rom Boulder, Col. They had been
irilling some holes and were proceed
.ng to fill them with giant powder
when the explosion happened. 1t was
thought they must have dropped the
oox containing the powder. 1t was
impossible to join the remains of the
'ictims, as they were in shreds and un-
ecognizable.
A CHICAGO dispatch of the 18th stated
hat express and railroad managers
lad sent letters to train guards in
itruction them to shoot and kill in
every case where robbery was the in
,ent OF any one interfering with the
'uuning of a train and a reward of $500
was held out for every robber shot but
,ot killed and 81, 600 for every robber
xilled.
Torpedo Co. near Shamokin, Pa, was
blown up on the 18th and completely
demolished. Two men and two women
were torn to pieces, one of the men be-
ng the superintendent The build.
ngs in the immediate vicinity were
badly shattered.
A FIGHT in which a large number of
persons were more or less injured took
place at Milwaukee on the 1lth be-
tween 100 employees of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway and those of the
Milwaukee, Racine Il kenosho electric
line. The former employees wanted to
prevent the electric road from con-
structing a crossing over their track.
hl aI nd %
lice deputies were sworn in.
JOHN SEER, cripple, was burned to
death at Pittsburgh, Pa, and Lizzie
Robinson was so badly injured from
jumping out of n second-story window
that she cannot recover. Seer at
tempted to fill n lamp with oil while it
was burning and an explosion followed
and the house and contents were
burned.
AT McAdoe, Pa, an officer attempted
40 arrest a drunken man when he was
set upon by n dozen of his companions
Pistols, stones and knives were freely
used and the officer was frightfully in.
jured and three others were critically
wounded. The ringleaders were ar.
rested.
DESTRUCTIVE fire ragged in King
Usher, Ok, on the 18th and the loss of
nine buildings, valued between $50, 900
and $40, ,000 was reported. The fire
originated in the meat market of A.
Morawitz, and all of the buildings con-
sumed were located on the main street
of the city. Firebugs were supposed
to have started the conflagration.
THE police were called to quell riot
at wedding among the foreign miners
in Shenandoah, Pa, and they found 60
men fighting like demons. Two of the
foreigners were dangerously injured
and policeman had an arm fractured.
Twenty -four of the miners sere ar
rested.
"KID" LAvIGNE, the lightweight
champion of the world, bested Owen
Zeigler in the sixth round at Philadel-
phia on the llth.
WHILE attending a dance in Rowan
county, Ky, Gus Springer and Mack
Mullen got drunk and engaged in a
fight with knives. Both men were ter
ribly mutilated. Fifty-nine stitches
were required to sew up Springer. 1t
was thought both would die,
SPIDER" ED GARRETY, OF New York,
knocked out Tom White, of Houston,
Tex, in four ROUNDS at the Houston
Athletic club. The fight had been
booked for six rounds. "Spider"
weighed in at lis and White at lS0
Ara colored revival meeting at Vel
low Bayou, Ark, the pastor made re
mark to the negro who passed the hat
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