The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-09-30

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The strike on all the school build
ings Of Chicago has ended the board
adopting the report % the arbitration
committee Inserting the union labor
clause IN all building contracts
THE annual entry of King Ak-sar-
Ben into Omaha was made in the pres
ence Of 25.Ooo people on the night Of
the I'D. The parade was the most pre-
tentiOus yet given by the Knights Of
Ak-sar- Ben IL contained 20 floats.
depicting scenes in the history Of the
Kingdom Of Quivera-
TIE saw mill boiler OF T. g. Dex.
near Livermore. Ky, blew up and
three men were killed and ten injured.
Cold water run into the boiler caused
the accident The mill was totally
wrecked.
A DIsAsTEOU-s fire occurred AZ Balm
bridge, o, on the 2sd- An entire
square-con tanning the principal busi-
ness houses. several handsome resi-
deDces and the Methodist church--was
destroyed. The FIRE started IN a barn
and when IL reached Beardsiey's drug
stOr, an explosion took place and the
lives
President McKryLEr has cOmmuted
10 imprisonment for life the death sen
tence imposed upon c. l. Addington in
western Texas for murder.
THE works Of the Youngstown iO.l
Bridge Co. were destroyed BY fire the
other morning. Loss. siO0. 900. About
200 men were thrown out Of employ
ment
THE Clyde line steamer Oneida.
which sank in her sip z: New York,
was raised on the 22d and her cargo
removed.
A ToEPEDo boat eapsized and sank of
the Ham burg coast and eight Of ner
crew were drowned. including her
commander. Duke Frederick William
Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
CONPLAIyT has been made 20 the sec
retary of agriculture. at Washington.
that infected cattle are being shipped
from Tennessee, and he has been asked
10 quarantine the entire country
against that state.
Two men held up the cashier of the
Merchants bank OF Wooster. Ind.
while he was working at night over
the books, and took s4SO in hills and
escaped
BY the bursting of hywheei at the
Providence r. H. Rubber shoe Co
two men were killed and several
others were injured
A TORNADO swept over Sava, Oria
and Latiano. Italy. the other day.
Forty persons were killed. - people
were wounded. 20 houses were de-
stroyed and telegraphic communica-
tion with the scene was cut of.
THE executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor met at Wash
ington on the 2sd to discuss the mining
situation. Several officers of miners
associations were also present. An ad-
dress was issued calling on trades
unions TO still contribute money to
help the miners until they were able
10 take care of themselves and advis-
ing unions not to send delegates to the
Chicago meeting on the 27th, as condi-
tions had changed since the call for il
was MADE.
NJ. ID. RATCHFoRD, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, gave
out statement at Washington con-
cerning the miners strike. He said.
while miners have done the striking,
trades unions and organized bodies
have supplied the necessaries, without
which the miners could not possibly
have succeeded, and so IL was a victory
for organized labor and not tor any
particular trade.
The Austrian steamer Ika collided
with the British steamer Tiria in the
port of Fiume, Austria, and the former
vessel was sunk and most OF the pas
sengerS were drowned In full view Of
thousands who crowded the pier in the
greatest excitement
ANDY SMITH aud his wife, colored, liv-
ing in the country near Donalds, ). c.,
locked in the house six children while
tkcy went to church. An hour later
oeighbors heard frightful screams COM
ing from Smiths house, the interior of
which was in flames, but it was impos-
sible To reach the children and all per-
ished. 1t is supposed an oil lamp left
burning was overturned.
As a result of the carelessness of
John Morris, a coal miner of Cecil, w.
Va, in leaving a can OF powder at his
house, two children were killed, one
was reported dying and a fourth so
badly injured that its recovery is i'm
| possible. The children played with the
/ powder, then struck a match TO eX-
anime il and there was an explosion.
| Is the federal court at Topeka, Kan.
on the 2Oth Judge Foster handed down
| his decision dissolving the organiza.
| tion of the Kansas City Live Stock eX.
chsnge and prohibiting it from con.
! tinuing in business. He held that it,
! operation was in violation of the Sher-
| man federal antitrust law.
The largest number of yellow fever
cases since the plague first made its
I appearance was reported at New Or
/ leans on the Goth. being IS in all. Not
1 "a single death for the day was report
| ed. Eleven new cases were registered
at Edwards, Miss, making the total 81.
| THE Belle Ellen coal mine at Block,
/ ton, Ala, caught fire on the 2Oth and
rescue parties were at once formed 10
get the miners out Many of those go,
out were found To be overcome by the
smoke Five miners working at a
I place which could not be reached were
thought To have perished Women and
children gathered at the mines mouth
and there was wild excitement.
AHUMADA, Tex, was visited by one
of the worst floods the other night II
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