The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-01-14

daughter. He made full confession
Of the crime.
Fire destroyed property on the north
side of the public square at Athens
Tex, on the 7th, estimated in value n,
from s75, 900 TO 500 900.
In the Benwood oil field near Woods
field, D., boiler exploded with terrifl,
force, instantly killing two men ant
badly injuring three others.
THE Brighton elevator, near Mime
apolis. Mimi, was burned with its con
tents, 100, 900 bushels of oats and wheat.
The total loss on elevator and contents
was 100000; fully insured. Five box
cars loaded for shipment we're also de-
stroved
OFFICERS were ejecting 'sooners" on
the 9TH holding claims on the lines of
tho Ponca, Otoe and Missouri and
Usage Indian reservations in accord
ance with decision of secretary ID. r..
Francis in which he reversed ex-Sec
retary Smith. II was feared trouble
would result.
SIMON COOPER, the negro outlaw,
who shot and killed another negro and
wounded several others at Magnolia.
3 G., few days ago, entered the house
OF Ben Wilson, at Maysville, about sun
rise on the 9Th aud demanded the use
OF Mr.. Wilson's buggy and on being re-
fused he picked up an ax and split Mr..
Wilson's head open. He then murdered
Wilson's son and wife with the same
weapon, after which he struck down
n negro and left the AK sticking in the
negroes head. A sheritf's posse was
after the fiend.
A BOILER exploded at Sisterville, w.
Va, from some unknown cause and
two men were killed outright and two
Others were seriously injured.
THE Omaha (Neb.) Savings bank,
which failed recently, has given an ap.
proved bond to pay dollar for dollar
within four years and its officers are
again in charge to wind up its affairs.
THE convent at Roberval, Que, was
destroyed by fire on the 5th and the
mother superior and seven of the nuns
were missing and had undoubtedly
perished in the flames. The fire was
caused by the upsetting of lamp.
THE steamer Howard collided with
the tug Job Wilson in the Patapsco
river, near Baltimore, Md, on the 9th.
The tug was sunk and the engineer
and steward were drowned. The cap
tain and five others were picked up by
the Howard.
Cruz, Mex, recently, destroying fac
tories and business blocks to the value
of 5000, 200.
OVER 1000 invitations have been
issued to telegraphers all over the
country Tor national ball at Chicago
on February B.
LAWRENCE BARRETT, OF Baltimore,
Md, who was recently bitten by mad
dog, died of hydrophobia on the 5th.
He was the fourth boy to die from the
effects of the dogs bite, all of the BOYS
having been sent to the Pasteur insti-
tute in New York.
The wife of George Suttera returned
to her home at York. Pa, after a short
absence to find it burning. Rushing
in she rescued, as she thought, her
three living children, but when she
brought out the last one she found
they were all dead.
SECRETARY FRANCIS has inaugurated
policy of giving full qualifications
for homestead rights to those indi-
Niuua'o "ho III pOOu laltu entered
the Cherokee outlet from Indian re-
servations on the east side, thus re-
versing the policy of his predecessor in
Office.
AN explosion took place in the ALI
son mines at South McAlester, l. T.,
on the 4th and five men lost their lives.
IN an alteration over n game of
cards st Odessa, La, William Foster
shot and killed j, C. Whtworth. Both
men were section foremen on the Kan
sas City Il Pittsburg railroad.
A BOY threw a nowball against the
door of George Neff's house at Sykes
Vile, Pa, and Neff ran after the lad
He had gone but half a square when
he fell dead in front OF church door.
Doctors said his anger and exertion
caused heart failure.
THE passenger train on the Burling-
ton jumped the trestle entering the
city OF Carson, Ia, on the 5th. Five
persons were badly injured, one of
them fatally.
AT Carthage Landing, n. Y, Will
liam CatslSill, colored, and Daniel
Flanagan, white, had prize fight In
the ninth round Flanagan was knocked
senseless and was re ported to be dying.
TOBACCO and manufactures thereof,
being schedule L of the existing tariff
law, was the subject of the hearing be-
fore the house committee on ways and
means on the 4th.
A CHICAGO dispatch stated that near
ly every oatmeal and cereal mill in the
United States had entered into an
agreement that amounted to n trust to
regulate the output and prices of oat-
meal, rolled oats and other breakfast
cereals.
THE tilibustering steamer Commo-
dore, which recently left Jacksonville,
Fla, for Cuba, foundered off New
smyrna on the morning of the ed.
Twenty-eight men were on board and
so far as known on the night of the Sd
II were saved. The steamer struck the
bar at the mouth of the river on going
out and was soon found to be leaking,
but the pumps refused TO work,
GEORGE DUFFY, who recently coll
iapsed after fighting ten rounds with
George Justice in the Broadway Ath-
letic club, OF New York, died on the
4th from blood vessel in his brain
having been ruptured by the concus-
sion of blows on his head.
The United States supreme court has
sustained the constitutionality OF the
law of Missouri which gives property