The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-10-14

against sec. 6S9. 1881 for August, 1895.
COMMISSIONER or PENSIONS EvANi
has issued the following order: Here
after no attorney shall bc permitted
TO examine the reports of examining
surgeons in any pension claim except
upon the personal order of the com
missioner, or one of the deputy com
missioners of this bureau" The object
of this order is TO stop the growing
custom of searching these reports tc
lind material for working up new
claims, largely ON the basis OF rating,
that have not been allowed.
THE application for hearing of the
Kansas City stock yards case was ar.
gued on the eth before Judge sanborn.
! OF the United States circuit court at
! 81 Paul, Mimi, and the LAWYERS
| agreed upon n stipulation for a hear.
! ing about October Is before Judges
/ Foster and Thayer and the motion for
! a hearing before Judge Sanborn was
( withdrawn.
THE Priests of Pallas opened the au.
! tumn carnival at Kansas City, Mo-, on
the night of the 9th by grand pag
cant of 20 floats, representing subjects
from Andersen's fairy tales. The mum
Der of spectators which viewed the
procession was estimated at 800 600.
Mrs. ELLEN MCGINTY died in great
agony of hydrophobia, at Decatur, Ill, d,
on the 5th. Last November she was
treating a pet dog for the mango. when
he bit her on the left forearm, tearing
out piece of flesh about three inches
square.
FIRE broke out in the rear of Rob
ing's hardware store at Medora, Ill,
early the other morning and in two
hours had destroyed that building and
II others adjoining, practically wiping
out the business portion of the town.
Several persons were seriously burned
in trying TO rescue goods from the
stores.
THE girls college at the state indus.
trial school at Plankinton, s. d.,
burned at midnight and six girls per-
ished in the flames Twenty-Five Others
escaped only in their night clothes.
The fire was probably caused by
lamp exploding.
CoMNussARY GENERAL SULLIVAN has
made his annual report to the secre-
tary OF war. The expenditures for the
year amounted to 81, 1875, 20q, of which
si,972, 702 was for the subsistence of
the army and the balance for the set
tlement Of claims and other purposes.
a PORTION of the platform of the
Kansas City & Independence Rapid
Transit railway depot at Kansas City,
Mo-, gave way, on the evening of the
9th, owing to the rotten piling, and
fell 20 feet, carrying 80 people down
Of these 81 were known to have been
injured and four deaths at least NAV
result from the accident.
The Flower parade took place at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 9th. 1t con-
sisted of handsomely decorated equip
ages filed with beautiful women. The
Priests OF Pallas ball took place at
night.
FIVE hundred thousand acres of fine
land along the Big Piney, La Barge
and Fontanelle creeks and Green river,
Wyoming, which have recently been
surveyed, will be thrown open to Sc (
tlement under the United States land
laws after November |.
THE Orange Judd Farmer, of Chica-
go, in its final estimate OF the years |
wheat crop, said that figures based on
actual thrashipg returns indicated
total yield of $50, 900, 900 bushels, of |
which 373, $50, 600 bushels was winter |
md 5,47O, 900 bushels spring wheat
The state of Kansas won every inn |
portant point In the Kansas City stock |
Yards case, which was decided by
United States Judge Foster at Topeka,
l., Ia. 4
down was: The law governing stock
yards charges was regularly passed by
the Kansas legislature; the stock yards
company is only an incident of COM
merce and in the absence of action by
congress is subject to the state laws:
the charges fixed by the Legislature
would give reasonable return on the
capital invested.
The Mondamin carnival opened al
Sioux City, Ia, on the 4th to continue
one week.
THE ST. Louis and Chicago expires.
on the Chicago a Alton railroad was
held up near Kansas City, Mo-, on the
night OF the 9th by eight masked men.
The bandits made some OF the train
men hand over their own money.
freight train came up soon afterward
and frightened the robbers off. Eight
sticks of dynamite We're found in the
express car and fuse which had failed
to work. Nothing of much value was
taken in the express ear.
The pecan crop in north Texas and
the Indian territory will be the largest
In the memory of the Oldest inhabit.
ant The crop is estimated at 1,OOO,.
BOO bushels.
AT the recent convention of the Ne.
braska Woman's Christian Temperance
union at Lincoln Mrs, Caroline Wood
ward, the president, urged women OF
the Me thodist denomination to with
draw from active church work until
the general conference should recog.
nize them as delegates The idea was
lpplauded.
The police discovered n counterfeit
,rs' den at Chicago the other day. Rot.
Ties of acids, smelling furnace and
small quantities of silver and other
metals were found scattered about tho
room, together with a cigar box full of
counterfeit silver dollars, half dollars,
quarters and dimes.
THE plethora of the gold in the New
York banks and in the treasury and
he scarcity of greenbacks is causing
banks difficulty in making payments
u the clearing house in bills.
FRANK STARBUCK, at Philadelphia.
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