The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-11-04

Kansas CITY stock yards case was read
by Judge Foster at Topeka, Kan. on
he 2sth. IL sustains Judge Fosters
iecisioD and is a sweeping victory for
Attorney General Boyle and the state
u Kansas on every single point in
ssue. Judge Thayer declares that the
tate has right to legjslate to control
he stock yards company. The Ittor-
icy for the stock yards company gave
notice of an appeal to the supreme
! sourt
! 4 CROSS tie was recently placed on
I the Cotton Belt railroad near Waco
/ Tex. and the locomotive of a passen-
/ ger train was derailed. No other dam
I a &c was done.
JUDsE JoHN X. THOMAS. of the
nited states court recently in ses-
sion at Ninita, !. T.. ruled that the
publication Of warning notices TO non
resident defendants in divorce proceed
ings were null aud void. and that
actual service must be had on such de
PENDANTS. The decision. IL sustained
in the higher courts. to which an ap-
peal will be taken. will set aside any
number of marriages contracted by
parties who have obtained DEGREES OF
divorce from the courts on the default
of nonresident defendants
4 DISPATCH from San Francisco on
the 27th said that nearly all the whal-
ing vessels / ad been caught in the ice
and that wholesale disaster threatened
them. Fourteen vessels were known
TO be in the pack and provisions on
board were short
Mrs. ANNIE c. MEYERS. chairman of
the board of lady managers Of the
worlds fair, was brought before JUS
tice Martin at Chicago the other day
on the charge of stealing some stenog-
raphers' purses. She is slave to CO.
caine and begged TO be exiled from tine
city. Judge Martin said be would hold
her to the grand jury.
Two Great Northern freight trains
collided near Glasgow. Mont, and the
engineer and fireman were killed and
three other men badly injured. Twenty
ears were also consumed by fire
which followed.
AUNT NANCY DANIELS. a colored
woman, recently died at Sacramento.
Cal, at the age of ll9 years. She was
a native of Virginia
A LIGHTED cigarette dropped by
clerk was supposed TO have caused
fire which gutted the building at St
Louis occupied by the general offices
of the Wabash railroad. Every record
in the chief engineers office was de
stroyed. An officer of the Wabash
company estimated their loss at $780,
600 and real estate men placed the val
uation Of the building at s4OO, 900.
MAT aud Jennie Blakely, indicted at
Princeton, KY, for attempting TO poi
son the family of l.. Y. Pollard by
throwing poison in the well, pleaded
guilty and were given two years each
in the penitentiary. One has a young
baby and a very pathetic scene oc-
Cured when the mother and baby
were separated.
THOMAS MoNomAN, while crazed with
drink, shot and killed Joseph Gautheir
and probably fatally wounded Select
man Gates, at Gorham, n. j. Another
body was also found which was be-
lieved to be another victim of Mono
hans fury. Tbs murderer was arrested.
THE commissioner of the general
land office has submitted his annual
report To the secre tary of the interior.
lie estimates the number of acres of
vacant public lands at the close of the
fiscal year for the different states and
territories the amount in Kansas be-
ing l,O46, $50; in Missouri, 497, 764; in
Nebraska, 10, 600, S53, and in Oklahoma,
s,l05, ,23s. The commissioner also
touches on many other subjects be-
longing to his department and wants
ample appropriations for protecting
forest reservations.
MAYOR JONES has signed the ordi-
nance creating Greater Kansas City
and the measure now awaits only the
sanction of the people TO become oper-
ative. BY the extension of its limits
to the boundaries fixed by the annex
alton ordinance Kansas City will an.
mex l3 square miles of territory to its
present area and add almost 20, 900 peo-
Pile to its population. The city's pres
ent area is about II square miles
A RIOT occurred in the mining village
of Brodericks, Pa, on the a5th between
the friends of the proprietors of two
boarding houses. One man was killed
and several others suffered wounds
NlOntS, dAts anu
WILLIAM FUTILE and his two
nephews, while crossing the Big Four
tracks, IA miles north of Indianapolis
Ind, were struck by a freight train
and instantly killed. They were on
log wagon.
Two cattlemen, named A. j. Chap
man and Vernon Wilkinson, quarreled
over pasture fence near Curtis, Ok,
and exchanged shots, with the result
that Wilkinson was killed and Chap
man wounded. Chapman was arrested.
THE Turgis elevator al Buffalo, n.
Y, was totally destroyed by fire on the
27th. The value of the grain lost was
slO6, 900 and that of the building and
machinery 500, ,O0O
FIVE bodies, four OF men and one of
womau-paupers at the asylum at
Dunning, III. were stolen from the
morgue there by men who forced open
the doors of the building. The bodies
were undoubtedly wanted for medical
use.
FIRE started in a livery stable at
Baxter, la, the other night and before
IL was controlled almost the entire
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