The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-05-13

| John Drabenstott stole some alcoho
from Yoos' drug store at Huntington
| Ill, and a short time after swallowing
the drug they all became violently ii
and Kaufman and Davis lied and Ora
benscott was said TO be at the point o
death. The stuff was found to %,
pyroxylic alcohol, deadly poison.
WHITEcAPs went TO the house oi
Walter Price, a negro, in GreenvillC
county, S. c., and forcibly dragged hin
out and Mary Rochester, n white wo
man, and gave them AN unmercifu
whipping.
THE fight for the 126-pound cham
pionship at birmingham, Eng, be.
tween Larry Burns, of New York, and
Harry Greenfield, the Englishman
was won by Greenfield, who fioored
Burns in the eighth round by blow
on the jaw.
THE annual convention of the Ma.
tional Association of Railway Surgeons
began at Chicago on the 4th An ad.
dress was delivered by the president,
DIR. Lutz, of st. Louis.
MAYOR STRONG has stored away in
the basement of the city hall at New
York 1000 bricks from the old tomb OF
Gen. Grant which he thinks Grand
Army posts will want as souvenirs.
THE engine of n c. a. A. freight train
blew up at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
4th and Engineer Roberts was killed
and Fireman Pardoner fatally In iured.
ABOUT 1000 plumbers went on a
strike at Chicago on the Sd and nearly
every building in course of construc.
ton in that city was at a standstill.
IL an attempt should be made to hire
non-union men to fill the places of the
strikers a general strike of all unions
affiliated with the building trades will
result.
THE treasury figures for April con
firm Chairman Dingley's statement,
made a short time ago, that there was
likely to be nearly a years supply of
foreign goods in the country when the
new tariff bill goes into effect.
THE town of Pulaski, Va, and vicin-
ity was shaken by an earthquake soon
after noon on the Sd. No damage re.
suited, but the people were terribly
frightened.
JOHN NoLIN, his two little daughters
anu another man whose name could
not be learned were drowned in the
river above Gallatin, Tenn, on the 3D.
The skiff was overturned and the
father tried to take his children to
shore but the swift current swept all
four of them under.
THE Atlantic g. Pacific railway was
sold at Gallup, N. NJ, on the Sd for
hn A
dace f. Walker, chairman of the board
of directors of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe railway.
News from Hancock county Tenn,
stated that Mary, Lulu and John Hat
field were burned to death in noun.
tain cabin about five miles from Snead-
vile. Their mother, who is n widow,
had gone to a neighbor's house, locking
the children in the house.
JOHN V. CRUM, the famous sprinter,
died at Des Moines, Ia, on the Sd as
the result of an operation for appen-
dicitis
WILLIAM ScnUTTE was found dead in
lumber yard at the foot of Sixth
street, New York, from starvation and
exposure. He kept the record of his
privations in an old Bible, which was
found on him.
ATERRE HAUrE, Ind, dispatch stated
that there was no truth in the report
that the Debs cooperative common
wealth idea is TO be put into practical
test by starting marching army to
Utah this year. 1t is true that Debs
desires to establish cooperative com
monwealth in some one of the western
states and that he looks favorably on
Utah, but it is not the purpose to get
men there by CoXey sort of move
ment
THE Tennessee Centennial exposition
was formally opened at Nashville on
the LIST. There was parade through
the city TO the grounds, where, after
prayer by Bishop Gailor and speeches
by President Thomas and Gov. Taylor,
at a given signal President Mckinley,
at Washington, touched an electric
button, and as the band played Hail
Columbia" the machinery began to
move and the exposition was opened to
the world.
THERE were 244 business failures in
the United States, according to Brad
streets report, for the week ended the
S0th, against 254 for the same week
last year.
SIX negroes were lynched by mob
nj Sunnyside, Tex, on the night of the
10Th for the murder of an old man,
'hild and young woman. The
ynchers were mostly colored men.
The victims had been tracked from the !
,cene of the crime by bloodhounds. !
When caught they made confession. |
MORAL reformers in Weston, w. Va,
vent to the house of two women whom |
hey suspected of not being of good |
character, broke open the doors and |
hen stripped them and smeared their |
naked bodies with hot tar. One of the |
will die from the outrage and |
he other was reported in serious
condition.
Mrs, SHOCK, an aged woman living |
L Adonis, w. Va, was tortured by a
legro and white man to make her
ell where her money was. They
,urned her feet to crisp with candles,
,urned her hair off and roasted one
ar The woman will probably die.
he tieuds secured $500 and escaped.
GEORGE LAvIGNE, of Saginaw, Mich,
5 still the lightweight champion of
he world. He fought Ed Connolly, of
4 i. A l. L.