The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-08-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

II WIS sdiu On tue lotn tnat the OH
.ers of the United Mine Workers pro-
posed to call a conference of all feder-
ated unions to secure their co-opera-
tion in plan TO tie up traffic on rail
roads, SO that the supply of coal would
be cut off and the operators be forced
TO negotiate for settlement of the
coal strike.
ABOUT 10000 people lined the broad
boulevards over which the great flower
parade of the Colorado Springs, Col,
carnival passed on the 10th. The pa
rade, in which $500 people took part,
was ~ miles long and the turnouts
were particularly gorgeous.
ST. LOUIS spectators in wheat
cleared upward of $1,000, 900 on Sep
tember options during the recent
bulge. Ex-Seoretary of the Interior
D. r. Francis was said to have netted
$500, 900.
THE commissioner of pensions has
nad n statement prepared on the num-
oer Of applications for pensions filed
since July, 1895. The comparison
shows that in July, 1896, applications
for pensions aggregated 2,s9s, while
in June, 1895, there were 40, i69, largely
for increases and for widows and
minor children.
Rev. II. ii. BuReERiNE, aged go, a
highly-respected Methodist minister of
Hulings, w. Va, was stoned TO death
because he was unable to pay bill
due TO Coleman Pitzer, a day laborer
Pitzer and his brother Lewis were
jailed, charged with the crime.
HARVEY DE BERRY, colored, was
hanged in the Jail at Memphis, Tenn,
On the 10th for attempting to rape n
seven-year-old girl on October s, 1896.
The Pittsburg < Gulf railway will
have Its own rails into Port Arthur,
Tex, by September 10,
In the Indian creek oil region near
Parxersburg. w. Va, a boiler exploded
and killed five men and wounded six
others.
THE elevator of the Davenport ia, J
glucose works was the scene of two
terrific dust explosions ON the 10th, as
a result of which four lives were lost
and two persons seriously injured.
SIX hundred striking miners, eight
abreast, marched into Coffeen, ILL.,, on
the nth, despite the amazed deputies.
The guards were ordered not TO shoot,
but they began to make arrests as fast
as possible. The invasion was for the
purpose of inducing the men at work
in the mines there to join the strikers.
Much damage was reported on the
18th as being done around Wilmot, :,
d., from a snowstorm which had ragged
for several days and terrific wind
which accompanied it, standing grain
and garden stuff being blown down.
Heating stoves were in full blast
By the breaking of a coupling pin on
chain of cars in the mine of the
Wapello company at Hiteman, la, 20
men were more or less badly injured,
three of them fatally.
THE town of ostrow, in the province
of Seidloe, Russia, was destroyed by
fire, 400 houses being burned and 400
people made homeless. Four person,
lost their lives and many children
were reported missing and thought to
have perished in the flames.
AN explosion of fire damp in a Goa
mine near Pennington, ILL.,, oD tn,
18th resulted in the killing of on,
miner. Thomas Martin, and the serious
injury of two others.
THE steamer Belgica left Antwerp OF
the 10th with the Gerlaehe antarcti,
expedition ON board. The crew of tn,
Belgica numbered 81 men and she haS
Cd koard provisions for two years.