The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-09-09

suit there is such stringency at Duluth
that one-third of the police force has
been dismissed, park and other iE-
provemen.s are stopped, five fire en-
gine houses will be boarded up and
those municipal employees who retain
their places will be paid in orders for
many pay days.
THE principal point brought out in
the trial on the I'd OF Luetgert, the
Chicago sausage maker accused of
making away with his wife in one of
his vats, was his indifference at her
disappearance and his not having re-
ported anything to the police or as
sisted them in any way in clearing up
the mystery.
A DISPATCH from Montreux, Switzer-
land. announced that an asylum for
the insane, which was in course of
erection there, had collapsed, burying
a number of workmen in the ruins.
Seven dead bodies had been recovered
and seven men seriously wounded had
been removed from the wrecked build
ing.
THE surface of the Mississinewa
river at Somerset, Ind. was reported
to be covered with dead fish, the
stencil from which was almost unen-
durable The mortality among the
fish was supposed to be due to paper
mill refuse dumped into the stream
above.
DIEHLE & LORDS wholesale beer,
cider and soda works at Nashville.
Tenn, were almost totally destroyed
by fire the other night An explosion
of several. soda founts. carbonic acid
and gas drums occurred, injuring
several persons The loss was about
$40. 600.
FRANK MUELLER was electrocuted In
the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus on
the I'd for the murder of Mrs. Saluds
Miller, the wife of his employer.
THE family of Henry Miller. farm.
er near Metropolis, H., was recently
poisoned at breakfast by rough on
rats being administered in the scram
bled eggs. The baby died, the father
and mother were not expected to live,
and four other children and a servant
girl were dangerously sick. Nora,
daughter by a former wife, was the
only one not taken sick, and she was
suspected of the crime, as she did not
get along well with her step mother.
LIGHTNING struck Mrs. Guthrie, OF
Walnut Grove, Ga. while she had one
of her children in her arms. killing
her instantly and badly burning the
child.
FRANZ HALL, brakeman, was killed
at 81. Louis by being crushed between
two cars.
ts.ta 1t h.. fnlA
ury showed a deficit of S14, ,35l, ,T94. OF
for the month of August. The total
receipts for the month were. but SIS,
943, nos. 90; while the expenditures were
s33, 295, 900.
JAMES BoGGs and James Ray wert
hunting near Vandalia, Ill, recently
and Boggs laid down in clump
weeds and was brushing away mosqui
toes when Ray mistook him for a tur
key and fired, infiicting a probably
| fatal wound.
! TWELVE hundred trousers maker.
struck at Philadelphia on the 3Oth for
higher pay.
FIVE Finlanders were drowned at
Gladstone, Mich, by the capsizing of
| a boat.
|
! 60, has brought suit at Pawnee, Ok ,
for divorce from his wife, Wailasha,
aged 20, charging her with neglecting
his wigwam to run around with GER
tain young braves of the tribe.
! JACOB PESNER and Cornelius Rich
arts have been jailed at Cloud Chief,
ok, on charge of arson, having, it is
alleged, burned out settlers whose
claims they were contesting.
| LUTHER Brown. liveryman, died the
other morning ut Ottumwa, Ia, from
the result OF an operation. His aged
| father then looked at the remains,
walked down to the river and com.
mitted suicide by drowning.
! On the 10Th there was a riot at St
Louis between whites and blacks. The
former were playing baseball on some
vacant ground and the latter tried TO
get possession of it, missiles being
thrown and revolvers fired off. Rev
Father Joseph Shields, of st. Mat
thew's church, stepped in between the
combatants and drove the blacks back
| at the point of revolver, Just as the
police appeared in response to riot
call. Several persons were hurt
AN unknown man was shot on the
Skaguay trail in Alaska by commit
tee of vigilantes and his bones are now
rotting beneath pile OF rocks near
the pass. He had stolen a sack of -four
A CATTLE train on the Clover Leaf
road took fire from hot box at Rus.
siaviile, Ind, and before the flames
\ could be eNtinguished several cars
were burned and a number of Texas
| steers en- route from Kansas City to
| Buffalo perished in the flames. The
/ remainder were turned loose in the
streets of the village, creating panic
among the inhabitants.
THREE of the most notorious crimi-
nails in the west managed 70 escape
from the St Louis Jail on the evening
of the S0th. They were "Skippy7
| Rowan, charged with murder: Buck"
/ OMaly, horse and buggy thief, and
sport Hefferman, a daylight crook
SEVERE earthquakes recently oc-
/ curred in Japan and China, followed
/ by tidal wave and great floods. A
! thousand houses were inundated in
/ japan and 200 perSons were killed and
| injured. SiNty-fve Chinese villages
were also inundated and many people
] drowned.
AT the session of the Zionist congress
at Basle, Switzerland, a programme
I for re-establishing the Jews in Pales-
/ tine, with publicly recognized rights,
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