The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-03-04

by the high water coming in contact
with lot of unslaked lime, which set
FIRE to some chemicals.
a SoRTHBOUND train on the Chica~o
4 Eastern Illinois road and the Colum-
bia Heights race train on the same
road collided with Calumet electric
car at street crossing at Chicago on
the 25th. The motorman and two pas
sengers were instantly killed, two
other passengers probably fatally in
jured and the car smashed into kind
ling wood.
The capitol at Wheeling, w. Va. on
the e5th was entirely surrounded by
water and accessible only by boat.
The legislature was in session three
hours with the temperature at 40 de-
grees, the members keeping their hats
on and oyercoats buttoned
DEPUTY United states mhrshals on
the 25th raided large gambling tent
at Hayden. !. T., the place of payment
of the Cherokee freedmen, and captured
80 men. The tent contained nearly 100
men.
Az incendiary fire at Palmer, Tex,
destroyed II frame business houses. oc-
cupied by - firms The business dis
I ~ ANN a. "lDtu 0hIs
Ar Little Rock. Ark, on the 25th
Robert Cox, convicted of rape, and a
negro known as Crazy jim" convicted
of murder, were hanged.
1T was estimated on the 25th that
5000 workmen in Cincinnati and the
Kentucky towns and cities opposite
had been thrown out of employment
by the stoppage Of inundated factories,
to say nothing of those kept from work
by inundated homes.
THE cornerstone OF the Theosophical
temple, or school for the revival of
the lost mysteries of antiquity" was
laid at Point Lomax, Cal, with impos-
ing ceremonies, under the charge of
Mrs. Katherine Tingley, the leader of
the movement, and prominent theoso-
phists from all parts of the world.
Col. j. NJ. BAKER was endeavoring to
arrest q negro near Helena, Ark, on a
warrant, when the negro felled him
with fence rail and beat him to
death. Feeling ran high against the
negro.
AN explosion took place in factory
devoted to explosives in Ayrshire, Scot
land on the cath and six men were
killed. The men were washing nitro
glycerine and the explosion was heard
Is miles.
EDWARD BAILEY was driving in a
buggy at Williamsport, Pa, and had
rope around his body tied to two
horses behind when he was jerked out
of the buggy and dragged over a preci-
pice and the man and two horses were
found dead on the railroad tracks be-
low the roadway.
THE Park Gate hotel at Chicago was
damaged by fire at seven O'clock on the
morning of the cath to the extent of
s25, 900. The blaze started in the boiler
room and ran up the elevator shaft.
Many of the guests who were in bed
narrowly escaped suffocation.
In vetoing the bill granting pen
sion to Maria Somerlat, President
Cleveland said the rule which forfeits
a widows pension on marriage ought
to be strictly maintained. He also said
he had examined ll5 out OF 206 special
pension bills and many of them were
not based on justice.
LoRESZ HABER, n cooper at Dubuque
Ia, was choked to death by piece of
beefsteak sticking in his throat.
SIX negroes were instantly killed and
several others fatally injured by an ex-
plosion of dynamite at Murray, KY,
on the esd. They were endeavoring to
thaw out some of the stuff.
JAMES ASHTON, brakeman, tried to
dislodge tramp, who was stealing n
ride on freight train near Hawkins,
Tex, and desperate fight ensued and
Ashton was killed.
MICHAEL GLEASON, aged IS, residing
AZ Ialanu Ind gturtaH 10 t,ar gfa n
flock of 40 sheep from one lot to an
other, and was letting down the bars
of fence, when a ram dashed at him
and butted him to the ground. While
lying PROSTATE, the other sheep fol
lowed and trampled him to death.
SMALLPOX is spreading in Cuba, there
being 1000 to 1900 cases in Havana
alone, according to dispatch on the
22d.
NINE peasons were recently bitten by
n rabid dog at Valley Dale, a lumber
camp so miles northwest Of Muscogee,
l. T. The victims and their friends
were said to be anxiously awaiting for
symptoms of hydrophobia to appear.
A SECTION of the elevated seats at n
circus Mt Brownsville, Tex, collapsed
and precipitated 800 persons to the
ground. Six persons may die. Many
others were badly bruised.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made at Louis
Vile, Ky, of deal by which 5l5 dis
tilleries had entered into combine.
August Belmont, of New York, has
agreed to finance the combine with Sl5,.
600 900.
The president has issued Is procla-
nations setting aside certain timber
lands in South Dakota, Wyoming,
Montana, Idaho, Washington, Califor-
MIA and Utah as forest reservations.
The postmasters and the patrons at
every one of the ~ post offices where
rural free delivery has been in opera
ton have indorsed the plan aud the
postmaster general will make a specia'
report to congress concerning the eN-
pertinent.
BY the explosion of natural gas in
the press room of the Chicago Chroni-
Gle six persons were burned, two Of
them dangerously. The explosion was
caused by leak in the pipes.
The acknowledgement of Nebraska
has rendered an opinion declaring that
the curfew law in force in a number OF
towns in the state is unconstitutional.
A MON of about $50 colored men as
sembled at the Guthrie Ok, depot for
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