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

arb of Chicago, and seeing only her
and the children round, struck her
over the head with a,revolver and at
tempted TO assault her. The children
ran screaming out of the house and
gave an alarm and a posse, with Mr..
Fenske, chased the rascal through
cornfields and woods, both sides ex'
changing shots. Finally the man fell
and his pursuers then literally riddled
him with bullets.
The post Office department is extend.
ing the long-distance telephone service,
and on the Goth 5000 cities throughout
the country secured long-distance con-
,ection directly with the department.
A New YORK telegram said Steinway
4 Sons. piano manufacturers, had sold
their business TO an English syndicate
for 50, 900, 900.
THE coal operators of the Pittsburgh,
Pa, district formed an organization on
the 10th for the special purpose OF
breaking up the strike of the miners.
rhey proposed to operate their mines
even IL they had to employ force TO do 1t.
ALBERT VOTERS, under sentence TO be
hanged at Fayetteville. w. Va, on the
,4th, broke Jail just before daylight
ON the 10Th. A posse went after him.
AT the second days session Of the
American bankers convention at De.
troit, Mich. the principal address was
made by Comptroller of the Currency
Eckels. He declared that in the end
we would be possessed of banking
and currency system so strong as 10
make impregnable the country's credit,
but its coming might be attained at a
terrible loss to capital and injury TO
labor.
THE Italians recently celebrated st.
Rocco's day at Newark, N. j., with a
pyrotechnic display. The next day
Pasquale Parmiere, aged three years,
whilo playing in the street, picked up
bomb and began biting it, when IL
exploded and the little fellows head
was blown TO pieces.
THE Utica mine at Angels camp, the
largest gold-producing property in
California, was on fire on the 18th. sup
posed TO be from spontaneous combus-
tion. II produced 100000 worth OF
gold month.
POLICE raided the pool rooms at st.
Louis on the 18th and arrested about
200 men and boys.
NEAR Barton, Ark, negro made
an assault on a colored woman, and
Afterwards on colored girl. AS soon
as the news was known a posse got
after him, overlook him and, on his re.
fusal to surrender, another negro shot
and killed him. The negro who did
the shooting surrendered to magis'
trate, was examined and acquitted.
THE report of the United States
commissioner of education for the year
ended July 1, 1896, has just been com
pleted. 1t shows n total enrolment in
that year in the schools and colleges,
both public and private, of 15,997, 1917
pupils. The number in public institu-
tions was 4,465, 371 and in private in
stitutions 1851 ,S28. In addition "a
these there were 4ls,00 pupils in va.
rious special schools, making the
grand total enrolment for the whole
country 16,4l5,197.
FABULOUS reports of gold finds in
Trinity county, CAL, are attracting
thousands Of fortune hunters.
THE department of agriculture
through its bureau of animal industry
has prepared vaccine for the cattle
disease known as "blackleg" and has
issued circular containing direction,
| for using it.
THE demand for stockers and feeder:
in Nebraska has become so heavy since
the new corn crop was assured thai
unheard of prices have been reached
for that class of cattle and for the first
/ AZ T.. A. -. L. Isct.~ =
of cattle was shipped west from Buf
falo, N Y, for the Nebraska market.
MICHEL ANGIoLuLo, alias "Golli,
the anarchist who assassinated the
| Spanish premier, Canovas del Castillo
was tried by court-martial at Vergara
found guilty and sentenced to death
lie will he garroted within the prison
On account of the low price of silver
many operators will stop mining foi
silver in Colorado and will turn theil
attention to the working of gold-bear
ing lodes.
! A DISPATCH from Berlin stated tina
ferry steamer at Dresden was cap
sized by the wash of large steamel
and so persons were thrown into tn,
water and it was feared the loss of lif,
would turn out to be heavy.
The headless body of man name,
;. Picken was found in clump o
bushes near the roadside in Ston,
county, Ark, where there was evidence
If a desperate struggle. A close searcl
tailed to reveal the whereabouts of tn,
murdered mans head.
THE excitement oyer the Klondik,
yold discoveries, which for tim,
aged at Memphis, Tenn, has been al
together eclipsed and superseded there
ibouts by the remarkable finds o
pearls in apparently inexhaustibl
numbers in the lakes and bayous o
western Arkansas. The extent o
.hese pearl deposits cannot be esti
mated.
THIRTY-FIvE houses on the mail
street of Jellico, Tenn, were swep
away in a destructive confiagration
and over 100 people were made home
less. A lamp overturned in gam
bling den started the fire. The dam
age aggregated 100000.
A PASSENGER train was held up be
tween Edmond and Oklahoma City
Ok, at 1913 a. IN. on the 18th by six o
eight masked men and the express ca
looted. The passengers were not me
| Tested.
DIR. j. NJ. BLEYER, New York ply
sician, announced that he had discoy
.red new cure for consumption b.
electricity.
Nrw yoRK telegram said leadin,