The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-01-28

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rolled the flames without disturbing
ehem. Many valuable records and in
,truments were destroyed and l3 cada.
GERS were cremated.
1T was reported as being almost GER
tain that big miners strike would be
inaugurated in the Des Moines, Ia,
district. Miners have been asked u
accept so cents for all coal taken out
instead of the old scale of 80 cents
The miners declare that they cannot
live at the reduced rate.
THE German savings bank at Des
Moines, Ia, closed its doors on the 21st.
GEN. WYMAN recently received n tel
gram from Havana stating that there
were 1000 cases of smallpox among
the residents of that city.
LYMAN j. GAGE, of Chicago, was men
toned on the 2lst as the latest addi.
tion to the presidcnt-clccts official
family. lie may be secretary of the
treasury.
JOHN IIoCH was executed by cleo
tricity in the state prison at Auburn,
n. Y. July TO- 1895, he murdered Min.
nie lngersoll, 10 years of age.
THE three-masted schooner Nahum
Chaplin went ashore near Quogue, l.. l.,
Turing fierce gale and her crew of
nine men was drowned.
THE first snow of the season struck
Oklahoma on the night of The 10th.
THE trial of Edward j. Ivory, the
alleged dynamite conspirator, came to
a sudden conclusion in London, the
government withdrawing from the
prosecution. Ivory was discharged.
A MOB of colored women rescued n
notorious negro who was being taken
to Jail at Tallahassee, Fla, from Cen
terville. The women disarmed the two
officers who had the negro in charge,
tied them to trees, gagged and beat
them with sticks until they were insen
sible and then left them. At last ac
counts the women and the negro were
surrounded in house by shcriff's
posse and it was hoped they would be
captured without any bloodshed.
SECRETARY FRANCIS is preparing an
order for the election from the Chero-
kee country of all intruders who have
not complied with the provisions of the
law by giving satisfactory proof TO the
Dawes commission.
THE final proposition of the mine
managers to the striking miners of the
Leadville, Col, district, which was ap-
proved by Gov. Adams and +. V. Debs,
was rejected by the miners. This end
ed all negotiations so far as the govern
or was concerned. The miners insisted
on arbitration.
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN, the former ex
champion pugilist, was ut Bedford
Mass, on the 10Th in seriously
sick condition. lie had contracted n
severe cold and with an attack of his
old throat trouble-tonsilitis. His
throat was lanced and the operation
gave relief and the dangerous symp-
toms disappeared.
AN earthquake occurred at Delvino,
Turkish Epirus. Several villages,
mostly inhabited by Christians, have
been destroyed, and.it was feared many
people have perished.
TIE Missouri and Kansas Association
of Lumber Dealers in session at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the Goth elected the follow
ing officers to serve during the ensuing
year: ii. C. Taylor, of Lyons, Kan,
president; Jesse Childs, of Richmond,
Mo-, vice president; George ID. Hope, of
Kansas City, treasurer. The directors
reelected Harry Gorsuch secretary and
made j. l.. Lane honorary secretary.
AN earthquake occurred recently at
Kishma, an island in the Persian gulf,
attended by an enormous loss of life.
The island is populated chiefly by
Arabs.
ANTONIO ANGELO, n contractors la
borer at Greenwich, Conn, placed
some frozen dynamite cartridges near
the stove in his dwelling to thaw them
out and soon after his ten-year-old son,
who was playing with one, placed it on
the stove for fun, when it exploded,
killing the boy and fatally ipjuring
his father ard mother and another
man.
The boilers of the French steamer
Saghalien exploded while off the Chi
nese coast and IL stobers and an en-
gineer were instantly killed and sew
cral other men died soon after from
their injuries. The passengers were
panic-striclen for time.
A FIRE destroyed the Farnham block
in Edgerton, Ind. 1t burned for four
hours and for time threatened the
entire town.
THE Chicago city council has passed
an ordinance creating Greater Chi
cago" commission. The commission is
to draw up bill abolishing township
organizations in Cook county and eN-
tending the Chicago city limits so as
to take in all Cook county. The bill
will be presented To the Legislature.
INTERNAL revenue officers discovered
an immense cave on Crooked creek in
Rockcastle county, Ky, and found two
good-sized moonshine distilleries, which
they destroyed. o..
A REJECTED suitor caused riot and
bloodshed at the wedding of Agnes
Hafri ut New York ON the 18th. While
the feast was at its height some one
ioked John Ornis about his ill luck In
not winning the bride, when the dis
appointed lover drew u clasp knife and
rushed at the groom and two other
men and a woman whom he stabbed,
Ornis was arrested.
GAMEKEEPERs ordered off some young
men who were poaching on the pre-
serves of the Tolleston club, of Chi
cago, near Crown Point, Ind, and
there was pitched battle between
them in which five men were shot
three fatally.
WHILE attempting to arrest two des
peradoes, named Frank Morgan and