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

A DISPATCH from Auxerre, France,
the center of the wine-growing dis
trict, says general frost on the 18th
destroyed crops and vines, fruits and
vegetables TO the amount of 81, 900, 900.
The inhabitants were in CONSERVATION.
THE tipple at the Pinlney, Tenn,
ore mines on the 18th fell and killed
seven men and badly wounded several
others.
The annual show of pet dogs and
eats, under the auspices of the Woman's
Humane society, opened at st. Louis
on the 18th with several hundred en-
tries, some of them being the choicest
pets owned by prominent society peo-
pie.
THE movement TO secure the adoption
of n universal postage stamp by the
postal congress at Washington has col
lapsed. There were too many difficult
ties (the chief being that of currency
tluctuations) in the way of adopting
such stamp, and the general commit
tee, after considering the subject,
abandoned it as impracticable.
AN Omaha dispatch stated that the
Nebraska grand lodge Ancient Order of
United Workmen has exonerated SUI
preme Master Workman Tate from
charges of malfeasance in office, pre-
ferred by his local lodge.
A CONSTABLE left Jackson, La, for
Clinton, La, having in custody negro
named Charles jackson, charged with
attempting to wreck a train, when he
was surrounded by an armed body Of
men and the prisoner taken away. The
next day the negro was found dangling
from i tree
EARTHQUAKES occurred recently in
the Leeward islands, in the West In
dies, killing many colored people by
burying them in the ruins of their
houses. In IA brick church the congre-
cation was caught by the collapse of
the walls and 80 were crushed To
death.
THE fourth volume of "The Messages
and Papers of the Presidents is ready
to be issued from the government
printing office. 1t presents the history
of our government from lS4l to ls49,
WHILE an ice cream festival was in
progress at church at Longstrath,
o., "A drunken man entered and raised
n disturbance. Upon being ordered to
leave he pulled his revolver and fatally
shot two men and then escaped. A
posse was after him TO lynch him.
Tue Chicago board of trade has
voted To discontinue the use of No ,
spring wheat as a contract grade, thus
leaving only two contract grades of
wheat for future delivery, No. / north.
ern spring and No. red winter.
lN the United States supreme court
on the 10th the Bell Telephone Co. won
the case brought against it by the
United States TO annul the last Ber-
liner patent. This decision will have
the effect of continuing the control of
the telephone business by the Bell
company for II years from the date of
the last patent, which was granted in
1891.
THE 20-roupd bout between Joe
Choynski, of California, and Denver
Ed Smith at New York on the 10th
was cut short by the referee, who
stopped the bout i'm the fourth round,
owing to the foul tactics of Smith.
The fight was awarded To Choynsl<i
Two masked robbers at one o'clock
on the morning of the 10th entered the
home of Father Joseph Flache, the
Catholic priest at Dyer, Ind, and
struck the cook on the head, inhicting
dangerous wounds. The priest at
tempted TO shoot, but his revolver
failed To work, and he was roughly
handled. The house was ransaclled.
The engine, tender and baggage ear
of the limited express on the A., T. q
5. sc railway just east of Lamar, Col,
plunged into the stream that had be-
come swollen from n cloudburst. The
engineer was buried under the engine
and two tramps We're fatally hurt. No
passengers were injured.