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

the population had perished from
starvation and the fever that follows
in its wake. Along the route 20 smaller
towns, numbers of bodies laid decom
/ posed in the streets while the sky wa.
black with vultures. Smallpox was
prevalent also in Tochege.
ASyI-CHRIsTIAN riots have broken ou,
at Lin Ching, China A Catholic
priests residence was attacked, three
Christians killed outright, among
them Rev. Father Mazelie, eight
wounded and four captured.
Miss LEoSA GOODMAN, a popular so.
ciety belle, was killed in most shocl;-
ing manner at Rover, Ark. The other
night party of young men and wom-
en- were out serenading and went to a
house where young teacher named
Lipp was stopping. When awakened
by the serenaders Lipp deliberately
fired pistol shot into the party and
the bullet struck Miss Goodman IN the
neck, causing instant death.
WHILE making test near Washing
ton of a gun-cotton shell, the invention
of Chicago man, in 2O-inch breech-
loading rifle weighing 10l, 900 pounds,
the cartridge prematurely exploded
and the big gun and carriage were
wrecked and pieces thrown mile down
the Potomac river. The gun was worth
SIS, 900.
DESPERATE battle took place at
Whiting, Ind, the other day between
eight tramps, who had taken posses
sion of Michigan Southern freight
house, and two police officers, during
which two of the tramps were wound
ed. The tramps had refused to vacate
the building when requested.
The hotel at Montrose, Col, and a
block of stores were burned early on
the 9th and Robert II. Mead, a guest,
was burned to death. The other guests
escaped. The fire was believed TO be
incendiary.
THE establishment of the Udell
Woodenware Co. at St Louis was com
pletely destroyed by, fire the other
night The loss on the stock, which
was valued at 100000, was complete,
and the building was entirely con-
sumed. 1t was valued at about s35, 900.
The loss was covered by insurance.
Snow fell in Orange, n. j., on the
9TH.
TAcoPo FERRARI stabbed and shot
Mrs. Guiliani at Washington and then
shot himself through the head. Fer
rari had been paying so much atten-
tion to Mrs. Guiliani that he made
himself offensive TO the woman and
her husband and had been recently
warned not to visit the house. The
woman may recover.
BATES SoPER, who murdered his wife
and two children at Archie, Cass
county, Mo-, six years ago, has been
arrested at Ashland, Ore. He has made
full confession of the crime.
PETER MAHER and Tom Sharkey
fought at New York on the night of
the 9th for a Sis. 900 purse, but at the
end OF the seventh round the police in
terfered and the contest resulted in a
most unsatisfactory draw, the relative
merits of the men being as much puz-
zle as ever.
AN elevator in the building at 95
Dearborn street, Chicago, fell and the
four occupants were considerably in.
jured.
A MORTGAGE for $50. .OOO, 900 was given
ern railway and placed on record in
Cook county, Ill.
THE supreme lodge A. o. u. w. met
at Milwaukee on the sth with 100 dele
gates present The session will con-
tihue for week or ten days
REV. SAM JONES recently began
three weeks crusade against the evils
Of Des Moines, la, Audiences of 5000
to 1000 crowd his tent at night.
A MATCH dropped by workman at
the fireworks factory of NJ Shure at
Chicago caused terrific explosion the
other evening. Many people were
badly hurt on the street by flying
rockets, but fortunately most of the
workmen had gone home and there
were no lives lost The building and
contents were entirely destroyed.
Loss, $50, 200.
Two men named Henry Foster and
John Shootman quarreled at Albany
Ky, and Foster stabbed Shootmau. A
man named Redell went to Shootman's
assistance and shot Foster. Both men
were fatally wounded. The men had
long been at outs.
An explosion of gas in the Black Dia-
mond mine at Monongahela, Pa, oc-
Cured at seven a. m. on the 7th.
rescuing party Immediately went into
the mine and the men were got out,
but only after they had been overcome
by the deadly after damp. The gas
was said to have been ignited by an
open lamp and the escape of the 800
miners was remarkable.
News was brought by the steamer
Empress of Japan TO Vancouver, b. c.,
of a disaster to fishermen of the Chu-
san archipelago in which 500 men lost
their lives by a sudden squall springing
up while they were out in their boats
off the coast of China.
FIVE two-story frame dwellings were
badly damaged and nine families made
homeless by fire which started at 2Ol
Jefferson street, Chicago, on the even
ing of the 9TH.
STRIKING coal miners at Minopk, H.,
attacked the superintendent and a
boss, who were escorting a scab to
work, and fight ensued, in which one
striker was killed and another wounded
and the two officials were seriously in
jured by clubs and stones.
BECAUSE his sweetheart, Mrs. Willie
Smith, would not marry him, Thomas
Hays shot and instantly killed her and
then blew out his own brains at Kan
sas City, Mo. Both were colored.
IN family quarrel at Shelby, Miss,