The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-02-11

FTKg destroyed ths businesa portion
Of the town Of PIezs1revl!le. IN Henri
eO1nty. ~.
THE British steamer Jason. which
arrived al NerS York from Jamaica
picked up the crew Of ten usen of ID.
shaking schooner Mzry sprzgue Dez'
Crooked island passage aud broughi
them 20 View York
& The FIRST national bank. Of Grisuoid
Ia, hzs failed Aseets. sif7. 900, lisblI.
I ities. 50. .ooo.
IHg recent wreck 81 the G-ez,
Northern passenger train near We
nz.ehse, Wash. came near being one
I Of the zsoa; DISASTROUS Of railroad cas-
rzlties- a iOgrist car containing -
. p.ersOns. taeiBding II babes. caHgh;
Z sre- The car wa hurled into an en-
bznk1nen; q snDN. IL was only after
the greatest sNertlOns saat the in
mates liberated themselves by break
ing THE windows.
PEEsfDExT CLEVELAND has approved
the sc, relative % mortgages in the In
dian territory.
JoHS LAsg. Of Grand Rapids. Mich.
IN consideration Of SIS has, under writ
ten sgreement. sold and released his
wife 20 James n. Hurst All con
oerned were celebrating the event on
the 4th
A VETcE occurred on the Northwest
ern railway - Arlington. s. D.. IN
which four persons were killed and .
large number Of Others were In turpd-
One train eO1ld not get On tO a switch
On aceO9nt Of ice and The other ran in
~ a.
Tng house Of Seeiey wskely. near
Grsyling. Mich. was destroyed by fire
and two children were burned to death.
They were in the house alone at the
time N the fire and its origin il un-
known.
TIM strike at the factory Of Norton
Bros. at May1oOd, III, was settled BY
a compromise reducing the cut in
wages 20 five per cent and the coo en-
plOycs returned 70 work.
JOHSEON HAEEIs and William Lit
tling. white men, fought duel near
Arbeka, Ok, over the affections Of
half-breed Indian girl, and both were
killed.
THE bureau Of labor at Washington
has sent out blanks 10 state officers 70
ascertain the extent to which munich
pal ownership Of gas, electric light,
water works and other enterprises
have been carried in this country and
the information will be tabulatcd and
embodied la a special report 20 con
Rrcss
THE safe Of Bradley'S bank at Eldon.
a.. ~ al .f.l
nitro-glycerine and all the funds stolen.
losgrH l.. RAwLISs was elected at
Salt Lake City ON the I'd on the SD
ballot as United States Senator for
Utah.
SHERIYY LEWIS, OF Carrollton, Mo.
has telegraphed to the California Off
GERS 10 release the man they suspected
Of being George Taylor, the escaped
murderer OF the Meeks family, as the
photograph received OF the man looks
a. much like Taylor as any quarter
breed Indian would look.
TnE Brussels court has granted de-
cree Of absolute divorce To the prince
of Cbimay from the princess, who eloped
from Paris with a Hungarian gypsy
fiddler
TON YEARGAN, a negro in Lamar
county, Tex, In quarrel, knocked his
father down with an iron wedge and
afterwards cut the old mans throat
and then covered the body with hay,
setting fire 10 IL and burning the house
down.
GEORGE r. BUTLER was arrested on
the ship Swanhilda which arrived at
San Francisco on the I'd by officers
from Australia. He Is credited by the
Australian police with having mur.
dered II men by cnticing them one at a
time into the interior To examine a
mining claim.
TnE boilers Of the large sawmills at
Brogue Chitto, Miss, exploded on the
cd and three men were killed and four
men and woman were terribly
scalded.
IT was currently reported at Canton,
o., on the I'd that there were over 100
eases OF fever in that city due TO the
bad water supply.
THE wcll-tnown bantam weights,
Sammy Kelly, OF New York, and Jimmy
Barry, Of Chicago, had 20-round bout
at New York on the 30th, the referee
declaring the bout a draw.
Ex-Gov. CoLMAS, OF st. Louis, was
before the senate post Office committee
on the 30th and spoke against the Loud
bill. He said that the clause prohibit
ing the sample copy privilege would
work great hardship To many.
A LETTER received In Boston from
London stated that Charley Mitchell,
the pugilist, was coming to this coun.
try with the inteation To challenge the
winner in the ett-Fitzsimmons
fight
TnE Kalamazoo, Mich, high school
was destroyed by fire on the LIST, Sew.
eral tiremen were more or less hurt
by the breaking OF a ladder.
llESRY HAUGH was found in the
ruins Of the Hotel Switzerland at
Nashota, Wis, with a revolver with
two empty chambers by his side lie
had previously written 10 his wife,
from whom he was separated, that no
intended to burn the hotel and perish
in the flames.
Tur residence OF Charles Russell at
North baltimore, o., caught fire and
Russell was burned To crisp and his
wife was so badly burned that she can
not recover
Miss OLLIE SULLIVAN was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Frank
Lauer at one a. IN. on the LIST at Chica-
go. Lauer then fed from the house
and his dead body was afterwards
found in the street. The shooting was
the resul OF jealous quarrel.