The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-10-28

ing trades will come up at the meet
ing.
CHARLES j. PETERSON. an aeronaut
and high diver jumped from Brooklyn
bridge the other day lie wore pair
of parachute wings and he sailed away
for fully 1000 feet before the water
was struck. lie was picked up by a
waiting boat and said he could have
gone any distance.
The secretary of agriculture pro-
poses to consolidate the weather bu.
reau with the crop bureau and operate
them next year in conjunction. He
also proposes to reorganize the crop
reporting bureau and to increase its
| efficiency.
THE Cherokee full bloods are bitterly
! opposed TO. the Dawes treaty and are
said to have been secretly arming
! themselves and securing large quanti-
| ties of ammunition to resist any at
! tempt to change their tribal govern
ment. A prominent man sounded the
note of warning at Fort Smith Ark,
and said that no immediate outbreak
was anticipated, but good deal de-
pended upon the action of the coming
council
THE Pittsburg & Gulf met with its
first serious accident to a passenger
train on the 2lst, when the Port Arthur
express, which left Kansas City the
previous night, ran into a north bound
freight train which was standing on a
siding at sulphur Springs, Ark. Both
engines were wrecked, and the en-
gineer, fireman and mail clerk slightly
in iured
THE American Association of Gen.
eral Passenger Agents, in session at
st. Louis, adopted resolutions calling
attention to the necessity for state and
national legislation against the ticket
scaiping evil.
fnpMAs Y. REYNOLDS, for many years
court reporter for newspaper, shot
cad killed Joseph Kirby, clerk, at st.
Louis on the 18th. The shooting was
said to have been the result of a quar-.
rel. Reynolds gave himself up.
CARL KoEBLE, n florist at Chic5.
despondent because he had receive
word that his father had died in Ger
many, took carbolic acid, slashed his
throat with razor and then kicked
over barrel and was cholxed to death
by wire moose.
FIRE broke out in the coal supply of
the Boston Il Albany railroad in Wor-
cester, Mass, the other day. There
were %, 200 tons of soft coal in the
supply, valued at about 500, 900, and it
was thought that it would all be lost
FIRE on the Goth destroyed the busi-
ness portion of Osceola, Ark
JACK McACIIFFE was defeated by
Jack Stelzner in l5-round contest at
Los Angeles, Cal, on the 10th.
THE ten.day conference and camp
meeting of the Seventh Day Advent
lists closed at Guthrie, Ok, with the
largest meeting held during the con-
ference. Arrangements were complet-
ed for starting IA school in the terri.
tory
GRACE CLARK, a 14-year-old school
girl of New Brunswick, n. j., by the
death of her grand uncle, finds herself
heiress to the greater part of fortune
made in the gold mines of Australia
over 20 years ago and estimated at S25,-
900, 900.
A HEAD-END collision of freight
trains occurred near Springdale, Ark,
and two men were killed and five dan
gerously injured. The two engines
and 10 cars were completely wrecked
and the freight scattered over the
place.
WOMAN and aChinaman were killed
by an explosion at the Colma (Cal.)
fuse works the ether evening.
THE annual report of Third Assist
ant Postmaster General John A. Mer-
ritt for the fiscal year just closed has
l.. LII Il
from all sources was Ss2, ,665, 482; the
total expenditures, S94, ,O77, PAP; excess
of expenditures over receipts, Sill
AL, 770. The total number of postal
cards issued was 523, sos, $50
ARCHBISHOP CoRRIGAN, of New York,
is said to be negotiating with the SUI
perintendent of public schools to turn
over to the municipal authorities the
Catholic parochial schools, with their
20, 900 children, provided priests be al
lowed to give Catholic children an
hours instruction each day.
"PEDDLER" PALMER, the bantam
weight champion of England, and
Dave Sullivan, of Boston, competed
for the bantam championship of the
world at London on the 18th. The
contest was won by Palmer in 20
rounds.
ALI. the Chinese at Kansas City, Mo,
were rounded up on the 10th and
taken to the federal building to see
whether they had all been properly
| registered by document and photo
graphed under the Chinese labor law
Of 1898. Several were held for further
examination, claiming to have lost
their papers emitting them To be in
this country.
| REV. A. B. SIMPSON, OF the Christian
| alliance, stood on the stage of the
| American theater at New York, on the
morning, afternoon and evening of
the 18th and prevailed upon his audi
ence to give SIS, 900 for the support of
800 missionaries abroad.
THREE thousand ragpickers in the
| employ of kaplan n Grossman at New
York struck work for higher wages
and the recognition of their union.
Five thousand more threatened to fol-
low suit.
OSCAR GARDNER, the Omaha Kid"
knocked out Luke Stevens, of Buffalo,
in the sixth round at Rochester, n. ",
the other night.
The body of Albert Hammers, an Of
fetal of the Modern Woodmen, who
disappeared some weeks ago and for
whom all woodmen camps had been
searching, was found in an abandoned
mill, n few miles north of Elgin, Ill