The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-11-18

| tue have entered into an agreement
not to carry passengers on freight
trains. This new rule was adopted at
the recent meeting in St. Louis. The
Kansas City Transportation bureau
has taken up the matter in behalf of
the merchants and will make a hard
fight TO induce the railroads to rescind
)r modify their order.
EDWARD HAWKINS, white, was hanged
At Danville, Va, on the IL tn for murder.
| A PASSENGER train on the Louisville,
Henderson Il st. Louis road struck a
freight car which had been blown on
% the main track at Lewisport, KY,
and the engine, tender and combina-
ion car were overturned. The stove
m the combination car set fire to the
,nflammable matter around IL and be-
fore the trainmen could remove the
cars the other coaches were destroyed.
The passengers escaped.
THREE hundred cloakmakers in
Freedman Bros shops at New York
went on strike on the l1th by order
of the union. Fifteen hundred opera
tives in outside shops supplying Freed
man Bros. also struck.
A MAN named Ingles quarreled with
James Singleton In Leslie county, KY,
and fred his gun at him, shooting him
dead and fatally wounding his daugh-
ter, Marie Ingles, from the same bull.
let, which passed through Singleton's
body and then struck Miss Ingles.
MISS ALICE +. LowREY, of Noble
county, Ind, the organizer of ma
tional society for the suppression of
the tobacco habit, is going to wage
war against the weed in Missouri She
will form organizations in the state,
composed of young women pledged
against tobacco and sworn that they
will never marry a man addicted to its
use.
ALFRED n. PHILLIPS, an inmate OF
the Iowa insane asylum, threw himself
in front of "a train at Dubuque.
CHARLES GELBARTH, a cigarmaker at
Philadelphia, the other day shot and
fatally wounded his father-in-law,
Frederick Fritz, Sr., and his son, Fred.
erick Fritz, Jr., and then shot himself
in the head. 1t was thought all three
would die. The shooting was the re-
suit of family quarrel.
THE Middlesboro (Ky.) foundry, one
of the largest plants in the south, was
destroyed by fire on the 10th. The
plant employed $50 ulen. The loss will
reach $500, 1000.
BREWERY representatives held a con.
ference at Kansas City, Mo-, to discuss
a plan of attack on the prohibitory
laws of Kansas at the next session of
the legislature.
The general assembly of the knights
of Labor was called to order at Louis
vile, KY, on the 9th by General Mas
ter Workman Sovereign.
THE National Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry, convened at Harrisburg,
Pa, on the 10th with a. good attend
ance. The report of the treasurer
factory state and Worthy Master
Brigham made an address.
THE session of the general assembly
of the Knights of Labor at Louisville,
KY, on the 10th was taken up with
hearing contested delegations and re-
ports of committees.
c. p. JOHNSON, president of the In.
terstate Association of Live Stock San.
itary boards, has called conference
of live stock sanitary boards and state
veterinarians of Kansas, Nebraska
Missouri, Iowa and other states at st
Louis December . for the purpose oi
agreeing upon quarantine line with
reference to Arkansas and Tennessee.
A LARGE stock barn near Lebanon
Ind, belonging to Albert Coleman
was consumed by fire the other nigh
and six head of thoroughbred horses
among them the celebrated PAGER Min
ME Blackfoot, perished in the flames.
A CONFERENCE of managers of smelt
era, from Texas to British Columbia
was held at Denver, Col, recently will
a view of devising some means to ge
a better market price for theii
products.
THE commissioner of Indian affairi
has made his annual report. The en-
rollment in the government schools
the past year was ls,603, an increas'
Of Sl4 over last year The enrolment
in contract schools was 3,l5s, de
crease of 1,2sl. There were in opera
tion during the past fiscal year 2ss In
dian schools, of which 234 were unde
the exclusive control of the govern
ment.
| blsftIf over DuSlutSS thdttcTS oc
Cured between George jackson and L
V. Yongue, publishers of the Aberdeen
Miss Ledger, and the former wa
fatally shot by the latter.
THE gas generator in the factory O
the Piqua (O.) Hosiery company eS
ploded the other morning, causing
panic among the 100 girls on the floor
The building was wrecked and tw
girls were terribly injured.
JOHN ii. MOONEY, his wife and hi
brother-in-law were found dead i
their beds at San Francisco, havin
been asphyxiated by gas. 1t was be
ieved the gas jet had been left ope
accidentally.
INSTEAD of building new soldier
homes for the accommodation of thos
veterans who cannot get into the pre-
ant ones because of their crowded cor
iition, Inspector General Breckinridg
will recommend an allotment of SIS O
$40 n month for those old soldiers VIII
would prefer to live with their fam
! lies.
THE United States supreme court o
che Sth affirmed the decision of the ci
,uit court for California in the case
William Henry Theodore Durrant, III
> Ter sentence for the murder of Blancf
Lamont in San Francisco. This dec
e sion permits the law to take its cour'
with the condemned man.
THE annual session of the church e
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