The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-04-01

L HE clllHt'lS Ttlltl cOlnlnltltc Ut
Memphis, Tenn, gave out an official
statement notifying the outside world
that that city was taking care of over
5000 pauper negro food refugees and
half as many head of stock. This step
was taken in order to show that out.
side aid was necessary.
WHILE the British cruiser Thcscus
was practicing outside the harbor of
Malta with torpedoes one exploded as
1t was being thrown To the ships
launch, ipjuring 80 men, two probably
fatally
THE United States internal revenue
department ut Washington has been
notified of new ruling in the treas
nry department which permits tobacco
manufacturers TO attach pipes to their
tobacco packages as an inducement for
sale. This was frequently done until
4 rule was made prohibiting it.
MARSHAL RUSSELL, Maria Snowden
and Maggie Short were boat riding ON
pond at Allensvillc, Ky, when the
boat capsizcd. The cries of the drown
ing people were not heard by anyone
and their plunge to death was not
known until late.
AN engine and five cars of mixed
freight and passenger train, crashed
through II bridge across the Big Muddy
"A miles south of Murphysboro, H.,
and the engineer and fireman were
! drowned.
Al ENGLISH, a mine engineer, was in
stantly killed at liartshorne, |. r., by
falling from the shaft cage. He fell
| 100 feet to the bottom.
NORTH TENAs and the Indian terri
tory was visited by n heavy frost on the
night of the 2Gd and it was reported
that the fruit crop was almost entirely
ruined.
GEORGE KELLY, convicted of murder
in the first degree for killing Edward
Paul and Jacob Hayes at Wyoming
while trying to rob them, and DIR. Fos.
ter, of st. Paul, was hanged ut 12:3G
o'clock on the morning of the 23d on II
scatfold erected in an old shed adjoin,
ing the courthouse at Center city,
Minn.
JUsT as Francisco Borrego, Antonio
Borrego, Lauriano Alarid and Patriciu
Talencia were on the march to the gal
lows at Santa Ee, n. NJ, To be hanged
| for the murder of Sheriff Chavez, dis,
patch arrived stating that President
Mckinley had respited them for ten
days To look more fully into the ease.
The building in Huron, 5. d., occu,
pied by the United States weather bu'
reau and the government land office
was burned on the 22d. The land office
i Of srg IL h,rN Ia.
weather bureau lost all its instru-
ments and most of the records for the
/ last II years
| TuE national W. c. Il. u. has sent an
appeal TO President Mckinley, entreat.
| ing him to call upon congress to pro,
hibit in the District of Columbia and
/ the territories the reproduction by
means of the kinetoscope of the Corbctt'
! Ftzsimmons fight. A similar appeal
has also been sent to each of the gov,
ernors of the various states, asking for
| legislative action.
A MATCH was said to have been ar
ranged by the Greater New York
Athletic club in Brooklyn for fight
between Maher and Sharkey. 1t VIII
probably be brought OFF in May for !
purse of about $4,000.
AT the recent meeting of the Contra
Labor union at New York n delegat,
| from the BARRIERS union offered a reso
luton urging congress to impose a tas
on whisllers. The resolution would
have been adopted but for the interfer
ence of the chairman, who advised
| against such action.
JAMsoN MCCLURE, n Chickasaw In
dian, threw himself in front OF a train
at Perry, Ok, and was killed. Thre,
years ago he killed Joe Paul on account
Of the latter's wife, and the deed droy,
| Mcclure to insanity.
DAVID j. SACHsEI, the treasurer ot
the Christopher Columbus Building
and Loan association at Chicago, wa'
reported missing ON the 22d and his
accounts were being investigated.
FRED LoUGHEAD, the Canadian, al
the indoor bicycle tournament at Sar
Francisco, lowered the worlds recorC
to 4:24 in the two-mile professional
race aud defeated Mcfarland, Eator
and Jones.