The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-03
AN AWFUL ACT.
a Woman Places Her Grandson in a
Sack and He Is Found Roasted.
ARSENIC USED FOR BAKING.
One Man Dead. Another Dying and Several
Dangerously III Through an Error In
the Kitcben--A Double Hanging
-Mutiny of Convicts.

SELMA, La, May 29.-One of the most
horrible crimes ever chronicled in Dal-
las county occurred four miles from
Selma yesterday. Early in the fore
noon a child Of Bill Griffin, only four
years of age, went over to the home Of
its grandmother, Millie Griffin, and.
seeing hoecake on the gridiron,
helped itself 20 a piece without the
knowledge of the grandmother. This
act on the part OF the child enraged
the old woman, who promised, II il
should be her last act on earth, TO pun
ish the child for its rudeness. She pro-
cured an empty oat sack and, putting
the child into IL, tied up the sack and
hung IL on pair Of pot hooks up the
chimney. The woman, who is 20 years
old, then gave positive instructions
that the child should not be released
by other hands than her own and went
to the field TO work About two hours
later an uncle of the child heard groans
in the cabin and went to investigate.
To his surprise he found that the sack
had caught fire and the child had been
literally roasted alive. Neighbors
gathered, and it was with great diff
Guilty that they were prevented from
lynching the perpetrator of the terri.
BILE crime.
Arsenic for Baking Powder.
OAKLAND, Cal, May 29.-Fred Bee
son, an employe on the ranch of Harry
Morse. at Sunol, used arsenic instead
Of baking powder in making batch
of bread yesterday. Beeson is dead,
another man is dying and several 9TH
ers are dangerously i'll. Beeson was
new hand on the ranch. 1t was found
necessary to secure a cook and Bee
son was put to work in the kitchen.
II first work was to bake bread and
biscuits for the evening meal. When
looking around the kitchen for soda he
found some white powder in baking
powder can. He assumed that it was
soda and added three heaping spoon
fuls to the dough! The dinner was
served and Beeson and one other man
partook heartily of the biscuits. The
others ate more sparingly. An investi-
cation proved that the powder used
was arsenic.
A Double Hanging.
CHICAGO, May 29.-William T. Powers
and John baltimore, both colored,
were hanged in the county Jail to-day
the first double execution since the
hanging of the anarchists in 1887 and
the first double colored execution ever
held in Chicago. Both men were cool
and walked unassisted to the scaffold
Neither had anything to say. The
drop fell at Is seconds past IL. Powers
hung perfectly motionless after the
drop, his, neck having been broken.
baltimore, however, drew his legs up
convulsively several times.
Mutiny of Convicts.
SAN QUENTIN, Cal, May 29.-Seven
hundred convicts, comprising the jute
mill force, rebelled at the prison fare
and refused to resume work unless an
improvement in the menu was prom
ised. The warden and Prison Director
wilkins investigated the food question
and pronounced the complaint to be
without cause. The prisoners still re-
fusing to work, all of the rebellious
700 were ordered placed in solitary con-
finement on bread and water until they
agreed to conform to prison rules