The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-03

THE tollpnte warfare has spread into
Robertson county, Ky. A band of
raiders the other night swept over the
county and cut down every tollgate
except those on Falmouth and Walford
roads The raiders sent note to the
county judge stating they would have
their rights or die.
HEAD-END collision between a
freight and passenger train at Amer
lean Falls, % miles west of Pocatello,
Ida, caused the death so far as was
known of nine men and the serious in
jury of eight others. Two of the lat
ter will die
THE low districts of El Paso, Tex.
were again flooded on the 27th and
many of the adobe houses of laboring
men were melted away by the water,
their household goods floating awayi in
all directions. There were reported
400 homeless families on the streets, Q.
large number of them being without
the necessaries Of life.
REPRESENTATIVES of Independent
telephone companies throughout the
central and western states met in Chi
cago recently for the purpose of effect
ing national organization of all the
independent telephone companies in
the United States to combat the Bell
Telephone Co., and To protect the
smaller exchanges against any action
that might be taken in the courts by
the Bell company in reference to the
recent Berliner decision by the United
States supreme court.
MANY of the New England cotton
mills are talking about shutting down
during the summer because of the
present unsatisfactory state of the
market.
THREE employees We're injured as the
result of panic which followed the
breaking out OF fire at the jefferson
Chair Co.'S place in Chicago. The fire
caused a loss of $4,000.
A FIREMAN and another man were
killed and the proprietor and two 9th
ers injured by the explosion of boiler
in Haney's sawmill at Glen Hazel, Pa,
the other day.
CHICAGo's annual census taken by
the directory company is nearly com
pleted and will show population of
| l.s00, 900, an increase of 100000 since
| 1890.
MAY CAMPBELL, IA variety actress of
st. Louis, overheard her husband and
a woman planning to elope together.
She then emerged from the clothes
closet in which she had hidden and
shot both her husband and the woman,
The man was fatally woanded, but the
woman was only slightly hurt
PERRY NEALE, aged IL, quarreled
with his brother, aged IL, over pet
bird at Mingo, Ia, and got gun and
shot him. He then got cloth and
wiped up the blood and went on the
street and played. No clew could be
obtained to the matter for some time
after, when Perry confessed his crime.
WHILE returning home from fishing
near Smithland, Ky, James, Edward
and Park Ghenes were drowned by the
overturning of their slliff.
THE Thompson house and two bust
ness buildings at Marseilles, H., were
destroyed early the other morning by
an incendiary fire.
| Four police officers and the driver of
patrol wagon were seriously injured
at Chicago by a collision between the
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was attached to either side.
The expected decision of the United
States supreme court in what is known
as the Nebraska maximum freight case
was not rendered ON the cath, and, as
the court adjourned for the term, u de-
cision cannot be announced before
next autumn.
THE man Crawford, who killed Dick
Whitsell near Pleasanton, Tex, a lew
weeks ago, committed suicide in Jail
here by swallowing broken glass and
! phosphorus
ONE thousand miners at the Milford,
Fraser 4 Lehigh coal camps near
Boone. Ia, struck ON the cath because
of an attempt TO give them a5 cents a
ton for mine run coal instead of 81
cents for screened coal, as has been the
rule.
HIRAM WARREN and wife were killed
and James Warren badly injured b,
being struck by Union Pacific trair
near Kersey, Col. They were crossing
the track in wagon.