The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-24


made large purchases in China and
Japan for immediate delivery and
were having IL hurried across the Pa
cifc In order TO enter IL before the
Dingley bill goes into effect.
A LITTLE whirlwind the other day in
New Orleans blew the roof off pub
lie market, damaged about 30 houses
and spent itself in about six squares.
Nobody was seriously hurt.
An attempt was recently made to
wreck q Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern passenger train near Salem, Ill.
The track was piled high with tim
bers. One of the miscreants was ia
tally shot.
The sixth annual convention of the
Interstate Sheriffs' association took
place recently at Omaha, Neb., dele
gates from nine states being present.
THE steamer Sultan, bound from
Jeddah for Calcutta with large num-
Der of Mecca pilgrims, foundered near
! the island of Socotra, 100 miles east of
Cape Guardifa, the eastern extremity
of Africa. The natives we're drowned,
but all the crew Of the Sultan and the,
remainder of the pilgrims were saved.
A FREIGHT wreck occurred on the,
Texas e. Pacific railroad, near Texar-
kama, Ark, caused by an open switch.i
Seven cars of stock were completely
demolished. Fireman James Tate was.
thrown under the cars and killed.
| FoJR women returning from a pici
mic in a carriage were struck by train
at Logansport, Ind, and two of them
were instantly killed and the other
two were fatally injured. All had
been drinking and they were reckless
ly driving.
| ALL the business part of Morenci,
Ariz.. was recently destroyed by fire.
THE sixth annual convention of the
National Association of Railway Post
al clerks opened in Philadelphia on
the 10th.
THE steamer collier Susannah
! 0'Kelly foundered in a hurricane on
Belfast Tough, Ireland, and ten of the
crew were drowned.
| AT Chicago on the 10th there was
one death and one prostration from
the hot weather.
The senate committee on Pacific rail-
roads has decided to investigate the
issuance of patents to the Pacific rail
roads and has appointed Senators For
aker, Stewart and Harris, of Kansas,
for that purpose.
FIRE started in the main business
block of Georgetown, Col, and burned
the larger part of the business section,
including 15 stores. just before the
fire had run its course there was an
explosion of giant powder in a general
store. Mrs. William Newell was in
stantly killed and Mrs. McLain seri-
ously INJURED. The shock ruined the
business houses that had escaped the
fire, and the center of the town is a
waste. The losses were placed at
$500, 900.
ARMOUR & Co. will remove their Chi.
cago butterine plant to Kansas City as
a result of Gov. Tanners signing the
bill forbidding coloring of the product.
THE Universal Postal congress fin.
ished its labcrs Mt Washington on. the
10Th by formally signing the general
treaty and the detailed articles and
then adjourned to meet at Rome in
February, 1903.
A GOLD strike of fabulous richnes.
has been made $50 feet below the sur
face in the Gregory -Bobtail mine a
Central City, Col.
CHARLES REPsoN and William Taylo
were drowned while bathing near st
Louis
The management of the Reading
Pa.) iron works has decided to clos
down its tube mill indie finitely, throw
ing out over 1000 men.
EDWARD S. EDWARDS, of the Centur,
Wheelmen of New York, raised tn
American record for "a hours of roa,
riding to $40 2-5 miles yesterday. Tn
best previous record, 3li miles, wa
made by Smith, at Baltimore, Md.
FIRE destroyed the large livery stabl
of j. X. Dendingor at Dallas, Tex, re
Gently. Fourteen horses were ere
mated and large quantity of feed
;, harness, implements and vehicles wer
burned.
The national w. C. T. U. officers hav
issued report at Chicago regarding
!. the work of the various state legisla
lures this year in the line of w. c. !
u. work.
WHEN the firemen extinguished fir
: at the home of Frank Prestel. a lahore
I at Dayton, O., they found the badl
charred bodies of Rosa, aged six, an
, Albert, aged two years. The childre
l had played with matches and set fir
7 to the house.
: ALBERT benson and Thomas Olso
got into friendly wrestling match !
r Brooklyn and Olsen lifted Benson o
Z his feet and threw him backwar,
a breaking his neck.
. The Cheyennes recently sent deli
A CATION TO importune the governor {
: oklahoma to suspend the law recentl
passed by the legislature which denie
i them plurality of wives.
a The Lutheran synod in session {
4 Baltimore, Md, on the 12th was offere
e IA lots in Omaha, Neb,, by, DIR. ii. v
Kuhns, of Omaha, for the constructio
@ of an orphans home and ex-MayC
n Schieren, of Omaha, offered to dona'
e the money for the building. A cor
= mission was appointed TO take I'll
|, project under adyisement
= While four young ladies named Mi
ME MeGuire, Alpa Taylor, Fam
White and Sarah Bohring, each abol
;, 10 years old, were walking home fro
!, church at Jacobsburg, o., on the lS
they were struck by lightning and u
three former were killed aud the latt
> was stunned.
II THE breeding stables of HiggiI
v RroS nj MiSSnula Mont were burn,