The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-10-21

| Jourden. respectable farmers, when
one shot Joe through the heart. John
| then shot both strangers dead.
CHESTER SHEw, painter, was paint
| ing q telegraph and electric light pole
at 81. Louis when his right arm came
| in contact with live electric light
! wire and for 10 minutes he was sus-
| pended in midair and as near eternity
as he ever will oe again and miss maxi
ing the through journey. He was res
cued badly burned by some fremen.
THE Toronto express on the Canadian
Pacific collided with freight and an
engineer, one mail clerk and two
tramps were killed besides many other
people being injured.
WHILE Ruth Turner, five years old.
and her cousin, Howard Bagby, aged
five, were playing at Newkirk. Ok,
the other day, the boy shot and i'm
stantly killed the girl with a revolver.
The American Humane association
had a meeting at Nashville, Tenn, in
which resolution was passed de-
nouncing DIR. Sanarelli's incubation
of healthy human beings with the
germ culture of yellow fever as legal
lied murder, as many of the unsus-
pecting victims had died with all the
symptoms accompanying the dread
disease.
AT the Baptist church under con-
struction at Plano, Tex, a scaffold
gave way and five men were killed.
DURHAM, ~ C., was visited by the
most destructive fire in its history.
Seven four-story wooden houses, filed
with tobacco, and eight dwellings were
destroyed. Loss, $3.50. 900.
Miss SARAH +. BACKUs was killed
the other night by being smothered in
a folding bed at Rochester, n. Y.
CHARLES POLLOCK started in balloon
from Eastbourne, Eng, one morning
in an attempt to cross the English
channel. The balloon descended safely
in the afternoon near Domart, in
France. The trip was great success.
TREASURY officials regard IL as prob
able that the gold reserve will touch
Sl60, 600, 900 by the end of the present
crop season and before the demand for
small notes comes To an end
THE Union Protective association, of
Chelsea, |. T., has been incorporated
under the laws of Kansas with capi-
tai stock of $4,000. The whole pur-
pose of this company is to punish cat
tie and horse thieves. All the promi-
ncnt stockmen of the nation are mem
bers
FIRE the other evening damaged the
United States steam mills in st. Louis
to the extent of SIS, 900.
THE interstate commerce commission
has made a report for the year ended
June 80, 1896, concerning the mileage,
equipment, number of employees, capi-
talization and valuation, accidents and
earnings and expenses of the railways
in the United States.
A REGISTERED package containing
$4,000, sent by Chicago bank, was
lost between Omaha, Neb., and Den
yer, Col. The package was traced TO
Omaha.
THE annual meeting of the Western
Union Telegraph company was held
on the 13th at New York. Nearly all
the old directors were reelected. Pres
ident Eckert gave the amount of capi.
tai stock outstanding as S97, ,370, 900.
The revenues for the year were S22,
63S, $50. 16; expenses. Sl6, 906, ,658.0S. The
assets and liabilities were placed AT
SIPS, 41O, 49s. ~ each.
THE Il emple cup" has again been
won by the baltimore baseball team.
II they win it again next year it will
be theirs absolutely.
THE Creek council has convened a,
Okmulgee, l. r., to consider the treaty
signed by the Dawes and Creek com
missions.
A RECENT New York dispatch said
that whisky trust of tremendous pro
portions was about to be formed. II
all the distillers who have been asked
to join it do SO, it will represent more
than $50, 900, 900 capital and will in the
future be in position to dictate prices
of all the whiskies made in Kentucky
and all of the higher class brands made
in other states.
A WIDOW, named Mrs. Emma Vane
and her daughter were shot and killed
by burglars at Camden, N. j., early
the other morning. A son was sick in
bed with typhoid fever and it wa.
feared that the shock will have fata
termination.
A NEGRO named Bob Carter killed
James Burch in saloon at BRENNAN
Tex, the other night and then wen
towards the Jail To surrender, but was
overtaken by u mob and riddled will
bullets before he got there.
A CAR on the Cedar Falls & Waterloo
Electric railway jumped the tract
near Waterloo, Ia, and rolled dowI
an embankment. The IA passenger
were badly shaken up and it wal
thought one was fatally injured.
THE National Horseshoers' Protec
tive association convened at st. Loui
on the nth, l4l cities east of the Mis-
sissippi river and ~ west being repre-
sented.
The race war in the Alton, Ill.
schools broke out afresh on the nth
the colored children with a rush a
one white school overpowered the jani
tor, struck the lady principal and tool
their seats. The police were sun
moned and elected them, Seriou
trou BILE seemed imminent
WHILE Robert Ingle was hunting il
the woods near Holgate, o., he raj
across an eagle in the act of carrying
off young child who had become sepa
rated from his older brothers. lngl
struck the bird over the head an,
stunned il and then took il into town
1t measured nine feet four inches fror
tip to tip.
In his message to the Creek council
at okmulgee, |. T., Chief lsparheche