The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-02-25


ously injuring ten others.
AT the meeting Of the executi ve coun-
ell Of the Baptist Young Peoples Union
Of America, recently held in Chicago.
IL was decided TO hold the next inter
national union in Chattanooga, Tenn,
on July l5 isg7.
The iith annual convention of the
I Newspaper Publishers association be-
gan at New York on the 18th. the at
tendance being unusually large.
THH seventh annual convention of
/ the National Alliance Aid association
was called TO order at Dallas, Tex. on
I the 18th by President Wardell About
30 delegates and members, represent
ing six states, were present. The fol-
I lowing officers were elected to serve
/ the ensuing year: President, A. War
/ dell, Of Topeka, Kan; vice president,
( Evan Jones, of Dublin. Tex; second
vice president, Helen ;. johnson, Of
I Pennsylvania; secretary, 5. ID. Cooley,
of Topeka, Kan.
THE First Baptist church at Wash
| ington was crowded on the 18th BY at
tendants at the mothers congress.
Mrs Ballington Booth conducted the
devc'! nal exercises Many prominent
woman discussed the best way TO bring
up children.
The national congress of mothers
opened at Washington on the 18th.
After organizing and accomplishing
some routine business a recess was
taken by the members to call on Mrs.
Cleveland. who had rendered them a
formal reception.
IL bombay alone 1885 deaths oc-
CURED during the week ended Febru-
airy l2, of which sl3 were due to bu-
bonic plague.
THE towboat John ID. Lewis was
burned to the waters edge on the 18th
while lying alongside the dock at Pa
ducah, Ky. The fire was caused by
the overturning OF a stove.
A SPECIAL from st. Louis on the 18th
stated that trust was forming with
J. II. Rothenhamel, president of the
Columbia Incandescent Lamp Co. ,as its
promoter, to regulate the price of in
candescent lamps all over the country
by a series OF suits for infringement of
patents against lesser concerns
The motormen and conductors on the
street railways at Galveston, Tex,
struck on the 18th for an increase in
wages.
+. l.. HARTwELL, ex-treasurer of the
| League OF American Wheelmen, on his
return from Albany, n. Y, to Denver,
! Col, started the ball rolling, at a meet
| ing OF members, for the secession of
the western states i;om the league,
the proposed split being on the rock OF
| Sunday racing.
| Gov. BRADLEY has fixed Saturday,
March 20, as the date for the execution
of jackson and Walling, who murdered
| Pearl Bryan near Newport, Ky.
ARTHUR Question:, the millionaire
who murdered his wife and child at
| st. Louis on February l3, 1894, while
in drunken frenzy, was hanged at
! Union, Mo-, on the 10th. The prisoner
for short interval apparently real
lied his end.
The city council of Springfield, H.,
passed II curfew ordinance providing
that boys and girls under Is years of
age must be off the streets by nine
o'clock at night.
AT Clayton, Mo, suburb of st.
Louis, Peter Schmidt, an ls-year-old
lad and Samuel Foster, a burly negro
Of 30 years, were hanged in the Jail
yard on the 10th for the murder OF
Bertram Atwater. an artist, on jan
uary 30, 1896.
II. T.. Kn.PATRIcK, n brakeman, was
killed by the cars at Shawnee, |. T..
He was coupling and caught his foot
in frog.
RAIDERS shivered the tollgate TO
pieces by dynamite near Frankfort,
Ky, and aroused the citizens from
their slumbers early on the 14th by the
tremendous explosion.
Ar BROOKS was captured near Tay-
lor, Tex, recently. He murdered his
stepfather over l3 years ago and a mob
shortly afterward captured a man sup
posed to be Brooks and burned him To
death Brooks admitted that IL was an
innocent man that suffered and that he
is the original Brooks
ALFRED Son was convicted at III
Reno, Ok, of the murder of Fred Hotf.
man, Wells Fargo detective, and sen
fenced TO 90 years in prison
The federal supreme court on the
18TH decided the case of Joseph K. Dun.
lop, editor of the Chicago Dispatch,
charged with sending improper matter
| through tnt mails. ne NclulCl Oh lnt
district court, which was against Dun
lop, was affirmed.
A DISPATCH from Louisville, KY. on
the 18th stated that it was expected
that there would be division of the
bicycle racing interests of America
into two separate bodies within the
next month on account of the adverse
decision of the national assembly OF
the League of American Wheelmen on
the Sunday racing divisional opinion
of the question.
FRANK WALLER, 1.-The Flying Dutch
man." as he calls himself, won the re.
cent six-day bicycle race at Pittsburgh
Pa, beating Louis Gimm, the Cleve
land rider, by two miles. The score
was: waller, 1910; Gimm, l,2l4
Schoch, l,l99; Hall, l,lsl; Forster, l.,
III, and Ruckett, !, l03 miles.
PETER MAHER fought six rounds with
G. c. Smith, the "black thunderbolt,'
at the Empire Athletic club at New
York on the 18th and had a narrow es
cape from defeat. The referee CAV,
the decision To Maher, but il was tn,
general opinion that the big lrishmaI
would have been out in couple NOR,
rounds.
PRoF. J. EDWARDS was arrested neal
Waco, Tex, on the charge of having
murdered ID. Lucas and John Day neal