The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-03-25


Missouri and other rivers the settlers
were fleeing. An Omaha. Ncb.. dis
patch said that the Platte river was
rushing into the Missouri. carrying
with IL the debris OF wrecked bridges
and farm yards in its valley. From
Iowa came stories of ice gorges on the
Dcs Moincs river at Fort Dodge and
Madrid. flooding miles of the bottoms
and doing great damage.
NEAR Marion. Ark, Eta Liz and her
four children were trying TO make
their way TO Marion for shelter, and
while attempting To cross u railroad
trestle the strong current caused by
The great flood overwhelmed the party
and all perished The oldest child was
girl aged 10 and the youngest an i'm
'ant of eight months.
4 COLLISION between two engines on
The Denver & Gulf took place at Den
yer Col. ON the 18th. One of them
was completely wrecked. The collision
caused an escape of steam and two
men. Hugh Mcbride and Patrick Casey,
were caught in the escaping steam and
found literally parboiled when their
lead bodies were taken out few min
iteS later.
DETECTIVES killed Walter Hughes as
he was in the act of entering the house
Of Frank Dunn. wealthy resident of
Houston, Tex. The police received in
formation that a scheme was on foot to
kidnap Dunn's little daughter, keep
the little girl in captivity and then de-
mand $40, 900 for restoring her To her
parents.
HEART disease caused the death of
Iohn Parshall. of indianapolis. Ind,
IN the nth lie was one of the six
men dcputcd and sworn to dispose of
the remains of John Wilkes Booth. the
murderer of Abraham Lincoln. in such
4 manner that the secret of their rest
ing place should never be known.
THE Washington Times ON the 18th
stated that Judge LamoreauX may
make reply to the structures passed
upon his action in the Chicago lake
front cases.
The compress at Sheffield. Ala. was
burned with 700 bales of cotton. Loss,
900. Boys smoking about the
place caused the fire.
SEVERAL men on II family boat near
Vanceburg. Ky, were run down by IA
lowboat ON the 18th and all were
, drowned
Ar Dover. Tenn, the Jail was de-
,troyed by fire early on the morning of
the 18th and two men and woman,
all Colored. were burned to death.
Isaac :. dement,, of Chicago cham
pion shorthand writer. broke his pre-
yious record of 397 words by writing
i02 words in one minute at Quincy.
FIVE more tollgates were destroyed
IN Garrard county, KY, on the night
If the 10th by "a mob of masked riders.
Az explosion of natural gas blew
out the front of house at Muncic,
Ind, and Mrs Null had her lower
limbs burned to n crisp. She pleaded
With the fremen To kill her.
4 NOR got hold of another negro
who was implicated in the murder OF
Postmaster Barfield and his clerk at
Iulicttc, Fla, and it was said they had
drowned him. Three other negroes
lad been hanged by the mob for the
same crime "A few days before.
FRANK y. SHELTON was adiudged
guilty of murder in the first degree for
killing his wife in Brutus, n. v, and
was sentenced to be electrocutcd in
Auburn prison during the week COM
ncncing April 25.
"SoLLY" SMITH, the clever little boxer
from Los Angeles, Cal, gained the de-
,isioH over Oscar Gardner, the Omaha
Kid" after 20 rounds of good fighting
1t the Broadway Athletic club at New
York
REroRTs from Wyoming stated that
hc recent cold weather had been very
disastrous to stock and that wolves
we're very troublesome and killed even
'ull-grown steers. Reports from Mon
ana also stated that stock were hay-
ny hard time and heavy losses to
= ,attlemen were certain.
Polly LEWIS, of Letchcr county. Ky,
olighted her troth to both Henry
Frazier and Eli lSom. The two met
, n combat and Frazier killed lsom.
THE city council of Springfield, H.,
+ las passed curfew ordinance forbid
I ling children under Is years of age
' rom PLAYING on the streets after nine
4 o'clock ut night.
T. TWENTY boats are being constructed
: 1t Blackburn, Usage City, Ralston and
other small towns in Oklahoma on the
!. Arkansas river to haul corn tn New
d Orleans The builders figure that each
y boat win carry 1000 bushels of corn,
e for which they expect To get good
price in New Orleans.
5 THE big dry goods firm of the Ely
+ Walker company at st. Louis was
: burned out ON the 18TH. throwing 200
: persons out of employment. The loss
/. by fire was roughly estimated at ST.
n 1900 4 falling wall killed George
: .iutewald, fireman, and fatally in
. iured Patrick Cardmore and Jerry Me
, Iahan. two other tiremcn.
!. 4 COLLISION occurred on the Chicago
=. & Eastern Illinois railroad near Shel-
. byyillc, H., between two engines and
an engineer and fireman were killed
- and switchman probably fatally in
jured. Running without orders was
/ he cause.
4 BUGGY containing man and a
, woman, while crossing the Erie rail
road tracks at Bath, y. V, on the 18TH,
was struck by train and the woman
Vas killed
TnE main building of the county
" poor farm at Chester, H., was burned
to the ground. The fire was caused
: by defective fiue. None of the in
mates were injured
u Two negroes were drowned on the
: Green river near Congleton, Ky, their