The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-11-18
MIsCELIANEOy-H.

MISCELLANEOUS.
JOHN BREWER, apparently dropped
dead in front of grocery store at
Henderson, KY, and was carried into
a back room and the coroner summoned.
While the inquest was in progress
Brewer sat up and suggested that
further proceedings be stopped.
Brewer said he had been seized with
an attack of heart disease.
A MEXICAN boy named Bernardo
Salazar shot and probably fatally
wounded two old women and two lit
tie girls at Brownsville, Tex. There
was no cause assigned for the deed.
WEDDING party of 80 persons, re-
turning from church at Bielostok,
Russian Poland, in a huge wagon
drawn by eight horses, was struck by
a train while crossing a track and not
a member escaped death.
FIRE destroyed the department store
of w. A. c. Boldt & Co., at Chicago,
known as "The Lion" causing sl6O, 900
loss Several small cottages were
crushed by falling walls, causing an
additional loss of S., 900.
j. c. DARRAeH, former president of
the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Saw
ings bank, which failed on July II,
1898, was found guilty on the l1th of
receiving deposits when he knew the
bank was insolvent and his punish
ment was fixed at two years in the
penitentiary.
SECRETARY ALGER has approved the
estimates for coast defense work sub
mitted by Gen. Miles and they will be
submitted to Chairman Cannon, of the
house committee on appropriations,
some day before the opening of the
] session.
lT was rumored at st. Louis that
d cal is on hand whereby the Wander
bilts will acquire the Toledo, st. Louis
& Kansas City railroad, commonly
known as the Glover Leaf"
JAMES SIMPSON, engineer and John
Robinson, fireman of freight engine
on the Burlington & Missouri river
railroad, were blown from their cab,
near Crawford, Neb., by the explosion
of the engine boiler and both instantly
killed. The engine, which was pulling
out n ''double-header," was completely
wrecked
THE New York Herald stated the
other day that one of the biggest COM
binations in the country was being
| quietly organized, namely, an alliance
of the companies engaged in manu-
featuring insulated wires and cables
for electrical purposes.
THERE was an uproarious scene in
the lower branch of the Philadelphia
city council the other night when the
| of 20, 10.
away for 30 years the gas works, worth
$40, 900, 900. Cries came from the audi
ence in the gallery of shame, ""bribe-
takers robbers" "perjurers," etc,
and there was n storm of Misses such rs
had never before been heard in the
chamber. The police were called on,
but they We're powerless to stop the
demonstration ag ainst the councilmen.
AN association composed of business
and professional men all over Iowa
has been for,ued TO present a great pc
tition to the state legislature for d
change in the exemption laws relating
To married men, so that bills may be
collectble from every man, whether
he is the head of a family or not
AT Norman, Ok, the nine-year-olC
son of Thomas Il. Berry, while leading
a COW to water, tied the rope arounC
his waist, and the COW ran away anC
dragged him to death.
THE state lunatic asylum at Milledg
Vile, Ca, was burned on the 9th. Tn,
700 patients in the building were save,
/, by the heroic work of the citizens an,
, hremen.
CHARLES JOHNSON and Frank Kaui
man. bakers, were suffocated in thei
beds, and Clara Erhart, aged IL, wa
found dead at the rear stairs in fir
. at Erharts bakery at Hot Springs, Arb
A FIRE at Louisville, Ky, on the stl
destroyed the wholesale stores of Bar
v ford s. Lawson, milliners and Benja
a min $. Allen, boots aud shoes. Th
n losses aggregated Sl50,000.
q THERE was $4,000 deficit on tn
5 recent horse show in Chicago.
THE notorious desperado Charlie
Q Clifton, alias Dynamite Dick" wa
a shot to death by posse of deput
Q marshals near Checotah, /. T., Will
i resisting arrest
}. A NEGRO named Burrell Shears, liz
o ing about i2 miles from LuflSin, Tex
II shot his wife three times fatal
IS wounding her. He then blew his ow
Is brains out dying Immediately. n
cause for the crime could be assigned
In a football game at Pittsburgh
u Pa, Robert Grange suffered cerebr,
l. conclusion from which he was reporte
!, as lying in preearious condition, an
e Bert Richie received possibly fat'
IS injuries
5. TERRIBLE famine is raging in th
II province of Archangel, Russia. III
e people are said TO wander about r,
n duced almost To skeletons.
l. EDDIE MAcKIS, the champion walt
3 er of the Bowery, while dancing wit
n a fat woman at Webster hall, Ne
% York, slipped and fell and the Il
:. woman crashed upon his chest. Mack
II was carried away internally injurs
O. and died the next day.