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

| Hk tuesapedke u OulO eN press train
from Cincinnati to Washington was
wrecked near Charlottesville. Va. on
the 4th and four persons were killed
and Il injured An axle broke on the
locomotive track.
The three-story wooden block occu.
pied by the Central hotel at Marlboro.
Ind, and block adjoining were com
pletely destroyed by ERE. causing a
loss Of nearly sISO, 900. All the guests
in the hotel escaped
PETER CREwPER. his infant daughter
/ Anna and John Stohlma wese asphyxi.
a;ed BY coal gas at Chewper's home on
the outskirts of LAnsford, Pa Mrs
/ Chewper and a boarder named Simon
were found unconscious and were no,
expected to live
EDvAKD HAMILTON at Worcester.
Mass. shot and killed his wife and
7 young daughter, wounded his infant
son and then fatally shot himself He
had been suffering from neuralgia and
E had practically lived on opiates for
many weeks and was supposed To have
gone insane
A NAN rang the doOr-bell at the resi-.
I dence of Thomas Hoebler. a contractor
q, Naneeburg. Ky, the other night
and when Mr. Hoebler came to the
/ door the man broke bottle of vitriol
over Mr.. Hoebler's head. terribly cut
ting him and burning his eyes out.
The villain escaped
As the Buffalo. New York and Bos-
ton limited express on the Wabash
l railroad left Litchfeld. Ill. the other
night two men without masks boarded
the chair car and AT the mukzles of
cooked revolvers demanded that the
passengers give up their valuables
The robbers got between $40 and $50
and a gold watch and then escaped.
WHILE Mrs John Henry. a wealthy
woman, was alone in her home in
Clifton. q, the other morning. Lind
say Neighbert, a gardener whom she
had recently discharged. entered the
room and began firing Neighbert
then fed 10 the woods. where later he
was found dead with bullet through
his head.
The bodies of three men who had
died by violence in lonely places. far
separated from each other. were found
few hours apart in Chicago suburbs
the other day. Murder or suicide
caused their deaths
IL Jackson county. W. Va. an adopt
ed son beat out the brains OF Mrs
Green with a club. killed the eldest
daughter, dangerously injured the
youngest daughter and beat the son
to death and then ransackcd the house
for money and fed. He was caught
afterwards and confessed. A mob was
out to lynch him.
JUDGMENT was rendered in the dis
trict court at Fort Dodge, Ia, against
Thomas Reedy for 81 900 for playing a
practical joke on Randolph Reynolds
In 1Sa5 Reedy, for joke, induced
Reynolds to go to the railroad tracks to
see the body of a man supposed to have
been killed, when the corpse, which
was really a hired man. Allen johnson.
jumped up in his winding sheet and
chased Reynolds until he was frantic
with fear and he has been pronounced
| incurable-
The free state employment bureau,
recently inaugurated at ST. Louis by
Labor Commissioner Rozelle, has ac-
complished much good work during
the last month in the way of finding
employment for those out OF work.
There were 5s7 demands for employees.
of which sci desired male help, while
the remaining 266 were for females.
| Situations were secured for SOC per-
sons, of whom 2SS were males and 223
were females.
Two masked robbers attempted TO
hold up Frank Wilson's gambling
house at Sioux City, la, at two o'clock
the other morning. but one of the pair
lost his nerve, owing to the cry of po-
/ lice, and skipped down the stairs and
the other soon followed.
An aeronaut employed in a winter
circus at Chicago drifted far out over
the lake on the Sd and was supposed
to have been drowned, as the life
saving crew was unable to find any
| trace of him
FIVE desperadoes, confined in the
| Jail at Deadwood. :. d., overpowered
the jailer, assaulted his wife and es-
capped. y
The gold reserve in the national
treasury at the end of October amount
ed to sl5S, 55l, ,sll, which was the high
est recorded since November. 1890.
| The deficit for October was 81, S22, G5S;
| the total receipts, ss4, 800. 547.
CARL GERBER, four years old, died at
/ New York from the effects of eating
jimson weed or thorn apple and Will
liam Roth. six years old, who also ate
/ some of the poisonous stuff, was in a
| precarious condition.
JAMES II. JORDAN, postmaster of Den
yer, Col. died from the effects of an
| overdose of morphine pills, which he
had taken, supPOsing them to be ca
thartic pills.
THE Union Pacific railroad proper.
including the buildings and all that
/ goes to operate the system, was sold at
! the freight depot at Omaha, Neb.. ON
I the lst To the reorganization commit
tee for SIS, ,52S, 532. 76. The amount
does not include the sinking fund in
the hands OF the government, and. TAX
/ ing this To be 81, 036, 400. the amount
stated in the government decree cover
7 ing the sale of the road. the total paid
/ for the property was So, ,S64, ,9Sa. 20.
ONE man was fatally injured and i've
/ persons severely bruised by collision
on the Panhandle road at Hartsdale.
7 Ind. Both engines were wrecked and
smoker and baggage car telescoped.
JACOB ii. AMOS and Henry Bergen
I keiger, cigarmakers at ST. Paul, Mimi,
bet 25 cents with friends that they
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