The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-11-25
MISCELLANEOUs.

HENRY CLAY JOHNSON, colored, was
hanged at St Louis on the 18th for the
murder of William Amend, a newsboy,
whom he shot on the night of August
1, 1896. The murder was the result
of game of craps. Amend was not
playing, but johnson, for some un-
known reason, claimed he was cheat
ing and shot him.
A PASSENGER train on the Kansas
City, Fort Scott & Memphis railroad
was wrecked near Williford, Ark,
early on the morning of the 18th.
Three cars were derailed and went
over the bank into the Spring river.
j. l.. Hoover, of Pleasant Hill, Mo-,
was killed and 90 others were injured,
some seriously.
THE Anchor line steamer Buff City,
which left st. Louis for New Orleans
with 40 passengers and 1000 tons of
freight on board, was burned to the
waters edge at Chester, Ill. All the
passengers and crew escaped to land
without injury, but nothing on board
was saved. The loss will aggregate
500, 900. A number of valuable race
horses were burned on board the boat.
BoyDELL's paint factory at Detroit,
Mich, was gutted by fire on the nth
Loss, 500, Spontaneous combus-
tion was supposed to have caused the
| fire.
Two brothers, George and Homer
Brewer, aged II and l3, respectively,
were drowned while skating on Big
Stone lake, near Horton, MINI. One
| h,.nl oh hn nd hs, Ath
was dragged under while trying to
save him.
julius EGGERT shot and killed his
father, Joachim Eggert, and then shot
himself in the temple at Saginaw,
Mich. The trouble arose over trifling
matter, but the young man had furi-
GUS temper.
ALL the officials of the state press as
sociations of Missouri, Kansas and
Arkansas met in conference at Eureka
Springs, Ark, and adopted a plan To
hold joint meeting of all three states
at that place May 25, 20 and 81.
THE Ohio supreme court has decided
that the Clark law passed by the last
legislature, requiring that in filing
appointive county and city offices pref
erence should be given to honorably
discharged union soldiers, is invalid.
PASSENGERS on the westbound Texa:
& Pacific train the other night report
ed n destructive fire in the big pine
forests in Van Zandt and Wood coun
ties, Tex. Vast stretches of fine tim
Der were destroyed, as well as mucl
fencing, live stock and many dwell
ings
COLORADO college vanquished the OF
tawa Qian.) university football team
by the score of five to four at Colorad,
Springs, Col, on the 10th. There wa
a binding snowstorm and the mercur,
was down to freezing
THE October postal receipts at ST
Louis amounted to STAT, ,042, being al
increase of ST., ,S44 over the same montl
last year. Kansas City's increase owe
last year for the same month was IS,
ass, being a gain OF IA per cent
A CONVENTION of horse, sheep an,
swine growers and breeders of fin
stock all over the United States ha
been called TO meet at Denver, Col, ol
January 25-27, 1898, for the purpose G
organizing a national stock growers
the betterment of the stock industry.
: lr was reported that plan Is o
foot to secure 20, 900 boomers" to SCI
tie in the Wichita country in the Ii
dian territory before January l an
compel congress to open the countr
TO settlement Men are said to be no'
out making a. systematic canvass
Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas fo
D the boomers" and the movemer
promises to surpass Capt. Payne's Il
nous colony expedition into Oklahoma
Two negro boys set fire 10 the Jail /
Waycross, Ga, in which they We're col
fined and managed TO escape, but al
, other inmate was fatally burned.
. BERLIN newspapers assert that Ge
!, many is ON the verge of famine. III
price of meat is SO high that poor pc
pie cannot buy IL, and the price
cereals is moving upward and ms
soon give rise To bread rioting.
ASA HoDGMAS, secretary-treasur
, of the Building Trades council, of CT
cago, and secretary of the distri
council of the brotherhood of Carpe
: ters and Joiners of America, was I
ported missing with the funds of d
: ] two associations.