The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-12-23

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be operated from the roads Texas gem
eral Office located in Dallas. A. A. Al
! len, vice pres dent and general man
ager Of the Katy" and his entire Of
fee force will go there from St Louis.
| The change is due to an order from the
| Texas railroad commissioner, which
made the residence in Texas of an active
vice president of the road a necessity.
A NOR lynched Tom Waller, a negro,
near Bankston Ferry, Miss, for being
an accomplice of Charley Lewis-who
had been hanged day or two before -
in the murder of Mrs Smith and her
four children.
a RECENT dispatch from Bayou, La.
stated that the steamboat Pargoud
sank in the Mississippi river just above
the mouth of Red river. The boat and
cargo were in bad shape and the loss
was heavy.
Mrs. ANNIE We'll stepped on par
lor match at st. Louis. causing it TO
ignite. The blaze caught her under
skirt and she was fatally burned.
JOHN MORGAN was executed before a
crowd of 10000 people at Ripley, w.
Va. for numbering three members OF
the Green family.
THE advance guard of 10, 900 Croatian
colonists arrived in Denver the other
day. The colony will locate in the
Shenandoah valley of southwe stern
Colorado, where houses, schools.
churches and various industrial insti-
tutions will be erected, the Rio Grande
railroad promising TO construct a
branch into the country.
FIRE destroyed the United States
courthouse at Ardmore, /. T.. on the
10th. The records were safe in the
vault, but valuable papers in the offices
OF the marshal. clerk and commission
er were lost. Only the bare walls were
left standing. The fire also DESTROYED
the Cobb house, Arch Matthew'S feed
store and 60 bales of cotton in com
press yard. The blaze was believed to
have been of incendiary origin.
THEODORE DuRRANr was sentenced
to death on the 18th for the fourth
time for the murder of Blanche La
mont at San Francisco. One OF his at
torneys intended to go to Washington
and make n final technical fight based
on questions of federal and state law.
into IN air hole in the Mississippi at
Dubuque, Ia, and was drowned. His
body was not recovered.
Mrs. MARGARET HOGAN, aged 65, was
found murdered in her store at Mo-
bile, Ala. The place had been robbed.
A CONTRACT was being signed by
many Indians around Chelsea, l. T.,
authorizing Attorney r. c. Adams to
get permission of the government and
sell the Cherokee land in the territory
at not less than S1.50 per acre and pur
chase land in Mexico et not over go
cents an acre, the purpose being for.
the Indians to emigrate by January /,
$685.
THE schooner Susan p. Thurlow,
bound for Hillsboro, n. b.. from New
York, with cargo OF plaster rock,
went to pieces near Portland, Me-, and
the captain and five of the crew were
drowned.
AT house party given by X. l..
Califf at Jetfersonville, Ga, the other
night, the conduct of Shaw Griffin,
who was drunk, became offensive and
he was requested to withdraw, when
he opened iire on his host and in the
fusillade of shots both principals were
killed, besides another man, and two
women were fatally wounded.
JEWISH congregations in Cleveland,
O., were much exercised over a sermon
preached by Rabbi Cries in that city
in which he urged the adoption of
Sunday as the Jewish Sabbath. The
attendance at the Saturday services in
the Jewish temple for "A long time has
been very small.
The threatened strike of the New
York printers for nine-hour day has
been compromised, a a9lG-hour day be.
ing offered by the proprietors and the
printers accepting IL.
A TERRIBLE sandstorm ragged the
other day Mt Pearsall, Tex, and sur
rounding territory causing all houses
and stores to be closed and the suspen-
sion of business.
SPARKS from "a burning livery stable
at Daingerfeld, Tex, set fire to a cot
ton warehouse 300 yards distant, and
between 300 and l 900 bales of cotton
were burned. Much of the cotton be-
longed to farmers, none OF whom had
any insurance.
THE agricultural department at
Washington on the 18th issued the fol-
lowing: The special wheat investiga-
ton instituted by the department of
agriculture indicates a crop of $50, 000,-
900 bushels. These figures are subject
to slight modification in the final re-
port
THE bishop of Havana is gathering
all the authoritative reports of deaths
in Cuba for the past year. The patriot
priests of all the parishes are report
ing TO him the number of persons who
have died in their districts. Accord
ing to trustworthy information, the
priests had found that 500, 900 persons
had died in Cuba in this short time.
PETER MIX, a butcher of Aurora, Ill,
slaughtered a calf which had in its
stomach, when killed, silver spoon,
a table fork, a small salt cellar and an
ordinary curling iron, such as school
girls use.
THE controversy at Omaha, Neb., re-
garding the best method of calculat-
ing freight rates on shipments of live
stock has been solved by the freight
department of the Burlington & Mis-
souri, River announcing that il will
change its live stock rates from cents
a hundred wounds back 20 dollars
carload ON the 18th. The Missouri
Pacific also followed with a similar an
nouncement.
TUE IS mines of the Consolidated
and Madison Coal companies, in the
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