The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-03-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

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dontsky, his wife and baby were fa-
tally burned by an explosion of gaso-
line in an emigrant wagon at Omaha,
Neb., on the 10Th. They were about
To start for Kansas.
THREE men were fatally burned at
the Emma blast furnace at Cleveland,
D., by series of explosions of molten
metal.
CHARCOAL, the Indian murderer of u
mounted policeman, was hanged at Me
Leod, Man. The Indian gave three
whoops as he went up the scaffold
stairs and died game.
FREDERICK FRANKS, at Philadelphia,
shot and killed his son, dangerously
wounded his daughter and then in
fiicted "A fatal wound upon himself
The cause was a jealous quarrel with
his wife.
TIE big fight between Corbett and
Fitzsimmons came off at Carson, New,
on the 18th. The contest was fierce
and lasted for IA rounds, when Fitz-
simmons got in IA blow over the heart
on Corbett and knocked him down.
Corbett was unable to rise on time on
account of the pain and Referee Siler
counted him out and decided that Fit2'
simmons had won the fight.
A PORTION of the tunnel of the st.
Louis & San Francisco railroad through
the Boston mountain caved in recently
and all traffic was stopped. This is the
longest tunnel in Arkansas.
THE United States court of appeals
has affirmed the verdict of lower
court awarding the government 50, S47
against Francis NJ. Rhodes, of llanni-
bal, Mo The government, ii is alleged,
had been induced to pay him this sum
as pension for disease of the eyes
thought to have been contracted in the
army, when he really suffered from
the disease before he entered the serv-
ice. Rhodes was private in company
X, Forty-Sccond Missouri volunteer in.
! fantry.
The interstate commerce committee
had meeting at New York TO invcsti.
gate charges preferred against A rail
roads, forming the Joint Traffic asso
| citation, for alleged discrimination
/ against New York.
! w. +. CoLERICK, a young lawyer, was
| found dead and his aflianccd, Miss Mae
| Hall, was found unconscious in room
/ of the young womau's house at Fort
! Wayne, Ind. They were soon to have
/ been married.
A CHURCH with a seating capacity oi
| 5000 persons, heated by three fur
naces and lighted with electric lamps,
| was built between daylight and mid
night of the 18th at Ravenswood, H.,
and was dedicated ON the l4th by Rev.
/ NJ. Il. Williams, of Atlanta, Ga. as
sisted by nearly every clergyman in
/ Ravenswood.
A MEAT train jumped the track anC
was ditched at La Grange, H., anc
! five men sustained serious injuries, tw,
probably fatal.
GROVE HUNTLEY. convicted of tn,
murder of Dell Manning, was sentenced
by Judge Dale at Guthrie, Ok, 10 th'
penitentiary for life.
WILLIAM DRuRY, died on the l4th a
his magnificent home, Nerdurett, nea
Keithsburg, Ill. lie was the largest in
dividual landowner in the Unite'
States, having hundreds of thousand
of acres in Colorado, Nebraska, Kan
sas and Texas, beside q, 600 acres of tn,
richest farming land in Mercer county
| III. He was 81 years old.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Ia.
said that the towboat Hawk was re-
Gently capsized by the wind on tn
Ohio river near Jacks run and II mel
were thrown into the water and ha'
10 swim for their lives The pilot wa
unable 10 get ont of the pilot hous
and was drowned like rat in trap.