The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-05-20

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REPORT reached Guthrie, Ok, from
Lincoln county that two travelling men
attempted TO ford the Deep Fork river
and were carried down in the swollen
current and drowned.
A NoRrHRoUND cattle train jumped
the track mile north of Eufaula, l.
r.. on the 18th, the engine turning bot
tom up and ten cars of cattle being de-
called. Four men were injured and n
,olored boy killed. There were prob
ably 80 head of cattle killed and others
so badly hurt that they had TO be killed.
A sAwMfIL boiler exploded on Reels
river, near Tiptonville, Ky, killing
Ed Patterson and Dink Hodges, white,
and two colored men, whose names
could not be learned. Three other
men will die.
STELLA, Neb., was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire on the 13th. The loss
was about $4,000.
A WASHINGTON dispatch stated that
the heads of departments were seri-
ously embarrassed by the number of
old soldiers presenting themselves for
reins tatement in positions, from which
they had been removed by the previous
administration, being incapacitated
for properly performing their duties
on account of feebleness and other
| causes.
! RAIN fell in torrents during the
night of the l1th at Purkersburg, w.
Va, and no trains were run on the Il.
& O. railroad, owing TO the bridges be-
ing washed away at Cairo.
| FIRE broke out in the antitrust
strawboard and paper mill at Tama
| City, Ia, and the portion of the mills
known as the straw cutting and beat
ing rooms was destroyed. Over 100
men were thrown out of employment.
THE tenth annual meeting of the
Funeral Directors association of Mis-
souri, was held at st. Louis The pres
ident of the association said that their
efforts were to bring the funeral to as
near stage of absolute simplicity
as possible.
THREE more persons died at Pike
vile, KY, on the l2th from drinking
poisoned spring water and three 9TH
ers were reported i'll from the same
cause. No clew has been obtained as
to who put the poison in the spring.
TyPHooN III. won the Kentucky Derby
at Louisville on the 12th, Ornament,
the favorite, taking second place, and
DR. Catlett finishing third.
ELMER CLAwsoN was hanged in the
county Jail at Somerville, N. j., on the
18th for the murder of Harry Hodgett,
farmer. The victim was shot be-
cause he refused to re-employ Claw
son, which caused a quarrel.
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of Mollie Smith and Amanda Franks,
two negro girls, were found hanging
on trees on the side of the road lead
ing from JEFF, Ala, to Huntsville,
Tenn. They had been lynched during
the night. The girls were suspected
of poisoning the family of Joseph
OKelly at jeff. Amanda Franks is
said to have made confession.
A DECREE from Pope Leo condemn
ing the cremation of bodies is antici-
pated in Catholic circles. 1t is said
that the church will forbid the crema-
tion on pain of accommodation.
THE fourth annual convention of the
National Association of Chiefs of Po-
lice of the United States and Canada
opened ut Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th
with about 200 delegates, representing
nearly every large city in the country.
WHILE playing in the kitchen the
three-year-old daughter of Nels Copen-
haver, of Luton, Ia, fell foremost into
u tub of boiling water. Both eyes
were destroyed and she was so badly
injured that she died in few hours.
The ninth annual convention of rail
road commissioners was called to or
| der at st. Louis on the 1lth, delegates
being present from nearly every state.
ALETTER from Stuart to business
associate was received in Dallas, Tex.
the other day in which Stuart says the
pictu res of the Carson City fight be-
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons taken
by the verascope are perfect. They
will be ready for exhibition in New
York city by June 10 or 10.
A FIRE at Quincy, H., destroyed the
J. X. Dayton Tablet Co.'S plant, the
Valk-Jones and the McMein job print
ing Offices and the Brumbaugh book
store Loss, $4,000.
AN order of the district court to open
Il street in Auburn, Neb., was appealed
and the mayor ordered the town mar
shal and street commissioner to remove
the wire fences inclosing the street
and the property owners had the three
city officers arrested for destroying
private property. The officers refused
to give bond and said they would re-
main in Jail until the court convened
in June.
The tea importers at New York have
not waited for the passage of the tariff
bill, with its proposed duty of ten
cents pound upon that commodity,
but have advanced all grades of tea
from three To five cents a pound.
IN thunderstorm at San Antonio,
Tex, Robert Dannenberger and wife
were killed while working in field
and Wesley Dairs, negro, was struck
dead under tree.
The May returns of the department
of agriculture show decline from the
April condition of wheat of IL points.
The average in Missouri is "a; in Kan
SaS, IS.
TuE Mississippi Valley Cottonwood
association, in session at St Louis, de-
cided to advance the price of all grades
! of cottonwood lumber s. per 1000 feet,
! owing to the destruction of cotton
wood the lower Mississippi floods had
! caused.
A SENSATIONAL shooting affray, in
| which woman shot and seriously
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