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

THREE masked men held up "A train
on the Southern railway near Perry
station, 20 miles west of Birmingham,
Ala, on the night of the 21st and the
safe in the express ear was looted of
its contents. This was the second time
that II train had been held up in that
neigh hborhood within month
RUSSIA fears that the bubonic plague
now raging in India will reach her
country and the newspapers are calling
for every precaution to be taken. One
newspaper said that the world should
unite to form Gordon around the
devastated plague districts.
A SPECIAL on the 2lst from Teheran,
the capital of Persia, stated that $500
persons perished as a result of the
earthquake which occurred recently
on Kisham island.
A SPARK from dynamo in the To-
ronto, (Ont.) Electric Light Co. build
ing started IA fire which resulted in the
total destruction of the plant and bust
ness dependent on electric power must
shut down until new dynamos can be
installed. The loss was $3.50, 900; fully
covered by insurance.
TELEGaAMs have been sent by the
citizens committee, of San Francisco,
to the governors of Oregon, Washing
ton. Kansas. Nebraska and Iowa, ask
ing the people of those states To unite
with California in sending ship load
of grain to the starving people of India.
THE bradshaw block ut WaNnhachie,
Tex, was destroyed by fire. The block
/ l.. a ~
The loss will reach S65,000.
THE secretary of the interior has is
sued IA requisition on the treasury for
! Sl3, ,l50, 900 for next months quarterly
payment of pensions. The amount for
Topeka, Kan, is ST., SD, 900.
A NOR of 200 men broke into the Jail
at Amite City, La, early on'the morn
! ing of the Goth and took out three ne
gro murdererS-,lohn johnson, Archie
Joiner and Gus Williams. The mol
took them to the woods and hanged
them and riddled the bodies with bull
lets. 1t was Mt first proposed To burn
Johnson at the stake, but this was pre-
vented by the leaders.
IT was reported that a syndicate
backed by j. Pierpont Morgan and the
Vanderbilts, had made proposition tC
the government, which had been ac
cepted by Attorney-General Harmon
that il the government would foreclost
ON the Union Pacific railroad the syndi
cate guaranteed To bid on the property
sum to net the government Si5, ,00O, 00I
plus the sinking fund. Under tn,
proposition the government would lost
s24, ,OOO, 900 of its debt,
THE supreme court of the United
States formally ratified the report %
the special commission on the boun
Diary line between Missouri and Iowa
Mercer county, Mo-, gains about ZOO
acres of land formerly supposed To be
long To Decatur county, la.
SAM PAIATKA, an. ill-loolIing negro
was arrested i'm Putnam county, Ga.
and confessed that he WAS the tien'
who perpetrated the recent great Ca
haha bridge disaster in Alabama
whereby 20 persons lost their lives an,
many others were manned and wound
ed by tAc wrecking OF a passenger train
PAYMENg has been stopped by llhnoi
ON nearly everything except the eS
penses of the legislature, the stat
treasury being empty.
LoT GRIMsIEY, a l4-year-old son OF
farmer living arGuthrie, Ok, was r.
Gently killed by two-ton stone fallin
on him.
AT FL Paso, Tex, United States qua
antine inspectors directed the killin
of 5000 "scabby" sheep that had bee
brought across the line from Mexico.
THE explosion of powder magazir
at Magazine Point, Ala, ON the lpt
wrecked every house within a radi'
| of quarter of a mile. No one WI
killed, on, several were hurt