The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-10

thousands of tons OF debris. The con-
tractor, architect and nspector were
arrested charged with homicide. The
mortar used was said TO have been mud.
EDGAR HABBIs. letter-carrier at
Baltimore, Md, shot and killed his IL
year-old son and his youngest daugh-
ter, wounded his l4-year-old daughter
and then turned the pistol on himself,
infictag fatal wound. He fired at
his nine-yesr-old son, but the little fell
low escaped. Harris was thought TO
have been mentally unbalanced by the
recent death of his wife.
THE English Derby for three-year-
old horses was run at EPSON on the I'd,
J. Gubbins' Galtee More being first.
Lord Rosebery's velasquez second, and
J. $. Harrison's History third.
The strike at Jones & Laughlins
iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa, spread
10 all the departments on the I'd. The
engineers, polishers and shippers went
out, swelling the number of strikers TO
1900
LEROY BBowN, i5 years old, met his
death at Peoria, Ill, as the result of
removing the insulation from a live
electric light wire. lie was in tree
at the time, and after receiving the
shock fell to the ground, his head
striking upon the curbing and being
split open.
AT Philadelphia on the cd the inter-
national commercial congress was
opened by President Mckinley, $50
delegates being present. In the even
ing banquet was given, nearly l,500
persons participating. Mr.. Mckinley
answered to the toast of 1.-The Presi-
dent of the United States"
A SPECIAL to the Chicago Chronicle
from Washington on the I'd stated that
the republican managers would at
tempt TO pass a currency reform meas
ure as soon as the tariff bill is out of
the way.
THE Kiowa and Comanche Indians
recently had an old-fasbioned camp
meeting in the Saddle mountains west
of Perry, Ok. Hundreds of bucks
and squaws were said to have beea
converted.
THE judge in the court at Washing.
ton on the lst ordered the jury to bring
in verdict of acquittal in the case of
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ness, holding that the questions asked
by the senate committee were not with
in the jurisdiction of the committee
THE plant of the Utica Packing Co.
In Deerfield, N. Y, was burned the
other day. Loss, $4,000
NERBARD Goss, lately assistant clerk
at the sherman house, Chicago, left
that place the other evening without "a
cent for a tour around the world by
the way of Australia. He is to be back
within one year.
PtETRo ACCIRITo, the anarchist who
attempted to stab King Humbert at
Rome, has been sentenced to the gal
leys for life.
MANY of the striking tailors at New
York went to work on the 1st, all their
demands having been conceded by the
contractors.
WHITEcAPs in Lamar county, Ark,
recently whipped two negro women
within an inch of their lives and shot
to death negro named John Hayden,
whom they mistook for another negro
who had incurred their displeasure.
GEN. DANIEL RUGGLEs died at his
home in fredericksburg, Va, on the
LIST, aged 81 years.
DECORATION day was observed in
Kansas City, Mo-, and surrounding
cities in an appropriate manner, the
graves of the dead veterans in the
different cemeteries being decorated
with flowers and the day given up to
parades by the &. A. X. posts.
A TERRIBLE race war between whites
-,
Pope county, Ark, on the 1st, in which
three men had already been killed or
fatally wounded and further outbreaks
were expected at any time.
A COLLISION between Miss Annie
Hunter, a society girl, and Charles
Tate, a negro, while on their bicycles
at Atlanta, Ca, resulted in the death
of the negro apd the probably fatal
injury of Miss Hunter.
NoficE was received at the stock
yards at Kansas City that the recently
enacted sheep dipping order had been
rescinded and commission men and
shippers were greatly pleased.
A FIRE broke out in Kings ware
house at Charlottesville, Va, on the
3lst and a dozen people rushed in to
save what property they could, when
keg of powder exploded, demolishing
the building and catching several per-
sons under the falling timbers. One
man was killed and several others
badly Injured.
DIVINE HEALER ScHRAEDER was
stoned out of Clayton, IA suburb of st.
Louis. by crowd of men and boys
A REDUCTION of ten per cent. was or
dered in the wages of certain men at
Jones a Laughlin's American iron
works at Pittsburgh, Pa, and the men
] refused to go to work.
! MEMORIAL day was generally oh
served at Washington. There was a
| parade of the G. A. Il. and imposing
ceremonies were held at the national
cemetery at Arlington. President Nc
kinley was present.
THE Cheyenne Indians at the Lame
! Deer agency in Montana were said TO
be making threatening demonstrations
against the white settlers and the
ranchmen were anxious to avenge the
murder of sheep herder by the In
dians. Trouble was expected.
The coal miners of the Baldwin, Col
mines resumed work on the 1st, the
differences having been adjusted by
the state board of arbitration.
The pope has just completed Latin
poem of so stanzas, pointing out the
duties of frugality and the evil of
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