The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-17
MfSCELLANEOUS.

MOB of 200 men boarded freight
train at Decatur, Ala, on the 10th to
ride to Huntsville to lynch two negroes
who had assaulted 12-year-old white
girl at Decatur and had been taken to
Huntsville for safety. The conductor.
when ten miles out sidetraclSed the
train and refused to go any farther un-
til the mob left and walked back to
Decatur. The mob swore they would
carry out their purpose some time and
militia have been sent TO guard the
prisoners. 90
MANY ALLEN, aged 65 years, was
found in heap of straw in her shanty
at st. Louis starved to death.
THE June government crop report
issued on the 10th makes the general
condition of winter wheat 1875; spring
wheat, S9.6; acreage of winter wheat in
Kansas, 07; in Missouri, 90; condition
Of winter wheat in Kansas, So; in Mis-
souri,, IS.
A CYCLONE struck Lyle, Mimi, on
the 10th and demolished 20 houses,
killed one man and injured 20 others.
All the telegraph lines were struck
down and box cars on sidings were
SinuSneu INTO klnullnR.
THE jury in the case of John Powell,
the member of the Cleveland baseball
club, charged with playing baseball on
Sunday and exhibiting the same, re-
turned a verdict of guilty in both
counts. This settles the fate of Sum
day baseball in Cleveland, o.
THE great mill and elevator at Car
line, H., together with several stores
and residences, were destroyed by fire
on the 9th. The total loss was about
5000, 900; insurance, Sos, 900.
WILLIAM ANDREWS, colored, alias
''Cuba," was taken from the officer at
the door of the courthouse at Princess
Anne, Nd. on the 9th and lynched by
mob. Andrews had been tried, con.
victed and sentenced TO death for felo-
niously assaulting Mrs. Benjamin l..
Kelley.
Two women and one man committed
suicide at Chicago before six a. IN. on
the 9th. Marie Mora, an Italian,
stabbed herself; Charles Il. Shaw shot
himself through jealousy of his wife,
and an unknown woman at a boarding
house took poison.
elevator at David City, the largest in
Nebraska outside of Omaha, and the
city electric light plant Loss, sS7, 900.
AT Yelvington, KY, Jerome Smeath-
ers, his wife ard seven children were
poisoned by paris green. The poison
was on shelf and mice got at il and
some of IL got into bucket of water
below. One child was reported dead,
two others dying and IL was thought
none of the others would recover
The annual conference of the Amer
lean Baptist church, otherwise known
as the Dunkards, began at Frederick,
Md, on the 9TH, bringing together no
less than 1000 persons from points out.
side of Maryland.
THE officers of the steamer Hupeb,
which arrived at Vancouver, IL. C., on
the 9TH from the Orient, stated that
when in the Philippine islands on their
last trip IL was learned that the Span
ish government had captured IS Roman
Catholic priests, supposed To be in sym
pathy with the rebels, and had roasted
them.
A DESTRUCTIVE hailstorm completely
destroyed crops Of all kinds north of
Rogers, Tex, on the 7th. At Granger
Bryan Farris' house was blown to
pieces and the members of his family
were more or less seriously injured.
Al Waelder Wayne Miller was struck
by lightning and killed. At Holland
two churches were wrecked and sew
eral houses damaged.
SIXTY cyclists started in a fve-mile
road race at Passaie, n. j., and 20 of
them got punched together in going
down a hill and lost control of their
wheels They were dashed into a
stone quarry and were all hurt, some
seriously, and their wheels wrecked