The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-07-01

on the 24th To hRbt 10 hnish. The
articles call for bout TO take place
within three months after the second
. and final deposit Is made on August 2.
A POLICY which will affect many
pension claims HIS been adopted by
, the interior department in ruling
, just made by Assistant Secretary Web
stcr Davis. holding that the showing
of the inclusion of mans name on
the pension rolls is equivalent to the
production of an honorable discharge.
CRAzED with drink Fred Burgen ran
amuck in Harvey, near Chicago, stab
bing right and left. Policeman Healy
was stabbed three times. Police Chief
Bates saved his own life only by put
ting a bullet into Burgen.
II was reported at Paducah, KY,
that Miller, who had assaulted five-
year-old girl at Eddyville and was
taken to Princeton for safe keeping,
was secretly lynched at the latter place.
The princess of Wales jubilee din
ners TO the poor of London on the gath
were very successful, about $4,000 dem
izens of the slums being entertained
at various centers. At the Peoples
palace about 1000 crippled children
were served with good things to eat.
At the Central hall. Holborn, about
1900 poor people partook of the ban
guet served.
JAMES WEST, q prominent citizen of
Montevallo, Ala, was under the hal
lucination that negroes were accusing
him of arson, and he determined to
kill them. He shot George Smith, an
inoffensive negro, but was disarmed
before killing any others.
AN Italian laborers' shanty near
Brilliant station, Pa, on the Allegheny
Valley railroad, was blown up by
dynamite early on the 23d and one
Italian was instantly killed, another
fatally injured and several others re-
eeived more or less serious injuries.
Thirteen Italians have been arrested
on suspicion of being concerned in the
matter.
LITTLE daughter of Mr.. Edward
Dunning, of St. Louis, got hold of 13
poisonous pills and ate them for candy.
She died soon afterwards.
AN eagle swooped down from the
clouds in Pottawatomie county, Ia,
and attempted to carry off Mrs. Nor
tensen, who weighs 100 pounds and
was hoeing in her garden. The woman
fought the eagle as best she could and
finally sank down unconscious, when
the bird sailed maiestically away.
Mrs. Mortensen's shoulders and face
were badly lacerated and tufts of her
hair were torn out by the roots. Her
condition was said to be critical.
THERE is deficit of SO, 500, 900 in the
state treasury of Pennsylvania.
THREE colored men were drowned
xear Clarendon. Ark. They were in a
small boat and 1t ran against bridge
and upset.
A POSSE, who had been after George
Bradley, negro murderer of Monroe
county, Ala, surrounded him after
four days chase in the woods, when he
deliberately fred bullet into his
breast and died soon after.
The boiler in a sawmill at Rockville,
Ind, exploded the other day and Solon
Ferguson, the proprietor, was in
stantly killed, Edward Straughn
fatally injured and Walter Ferguson
seriously hurt.
A GLUCOSE trust has been formed, a
Chicago dispatch stated, that included
every big company in the United States
except two.
ALBERT Il. ELsToN paymaster of the
+. Il. Aver Post & Tie Co., was at
tackled by four robbers at Chicago the
other night, beaten with revolvers.
robbed of S45S and left unconscious be-
side his buggy.
CHRISTIAN X. Ross died of heart dis
ease at his home, Germantown, Pa He
was the father of Charley Ross, the
famous stolen boy, and up to his last
illness he never gave up the search for
his missing son, whose abduction star
tied Philadelphia on July /, 1874, and
became an unsolved mystery the world
over.
AN elevator at the c. j. Baker Tent
and Awning Co. at Kansas City, Mo-,
got beyond control on the 23d and fell
As feet with great velocity while eight
women and one man were in it. AL
though no one was killed there were
broken bones, sprains and serious
shocks in plenty.
The jury at Omaha, Neb.. before
which was tried the case OF the state of
Nebraska against ex-State Treasurer
j. S. Bartley, returned verdict finding
the defendant guilty of embezzling the
sum of Sl5l, 900. He was remanded to
Jail to await sentence.
SECRETARY WILSON, of the agricul-
tural department., has issued to the
railroads and transportation com
panies, stockmen and others, a circular
notifying them that the disease known
as scab exists among sheep in the
United States, and that IL is viola
tion of the law TO transport any stock
affected with disease from one state or
territory to another
THE great tailors' strike at New
York, which at one time involved
about 30, 900 hands, has ended, the last
of the contractors having surrendered
to the men.
c. ii. ANDERSON, of the Arapahoe
Wheel club at Denver, Col, has low
cred the road record for 100 miles from
6;3l to 6:S0;S0. Herode from Denver to
Evans and return, making his ride
actually l02 miles.
THE creamery proprietors, butter
dealers and dairy farmers of the big
butter producing states are being
formed into an organization to work
for legislation that will prevent the
coloring of butterine.
THE library building of the state
university at Iowa City, Ia, was struck
by lightning on the 10th and destroyed