The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-11-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

on the same track several weeks ago.
BEULAH PRESTON, an eight-year-old
daughter Of Charles Preston. farmer
living 20 miles northwest Of Enid. Ok.
was returning on horse'sackfrom school
when the horse threw her and her
foot caught in the stirrup. The horse
dragged her TO her home. running
through several barbed wire fences.
When the parents found the child she
was simply a mass of lacerated flesh
and broken bones
An attempt was made the other
night TO hold up the northbound Chi
cago, Rock Island & Texas passenger
train near Boyd, Wise county. Tex.
Ties were placed on the track. but the
engine pushed them off and proceeded.
The engineer noticed two men at the
point with Winchesters. and two sticks
Of dynamite were afterwards found at
the spot
THE manufacturing plant of the
Woelfel Leather company, at Morris,
ILL.,, was partly burned. the loss
amounting TO about s22O, 900.
A DAUGHTER, aged three. and one.
year-old girl belonging TO John
Kuhne. of Miltona, Mimi. were left in
the house while the rest of the family
were working in a field. when the
house was burned down and the two
children were cremated.
Mrs. LAURA HUNTER. living near
Ebert, Col. visited neighbor and in
returning home lost her way and was
frozen TO death in a blizzard. Her
body was found only 800 yards from
home.
FLOODS have washed away every
building in Ahumada, Mex. The town
had population of |, 200 persons and
they are all homeless and suffering
Eduardo Linss, wealthy merchant
and grain buyer of the place, lost s4O,-
900 worth of property, including 5000
bushels of wheat.
ELLA BARNES and Bessie Thomas,
two l6-year-old cotton factory opera
tives, met at friends house at Bir-
mingham, Ala, the other night and
9uarreled over their mutual regard for
the same youth. The Thomas girl ad-
vanced on the Barnes girl with pair
of scissors Miss Barnes threw a
lighted lamp at her adversary. The
lamp exploded and Miss Thomas was
burned to death before rescue came.
BozENAS, Mont, was recently great
ly stirred up by the fatal poisoning of
a man named Garlock and an attempt
to destroy the lives of two other men
by the same means The three men
had camped close to the city with an
other man and, as the victims had some
money, il was thought to have been a
plot to kill them off and get it,
OLIVE RosE, aged 3, was burned to
death and her sister, Everett, aged :,
was badly injured by an explosion of
a gasoline stove at Danville, Ill.
The First national bank at New Al
bany, Ind, will go out of business be-
cause there is no profit in it, owing to
the glut of money. The banks de-
posits amounted TO over s400. 900.
POLICEMAN FREDERICK SMITH was
shot and killed by burglar who was
robbing the poor box in the Church of
the Holy Redeemer at New York on
the Goth. A large crowd soon gath
cred who struck the prisoner with
stones and other missiles and 100 po-
licemen had all they could do to pre-
vent the mob from iynching the cul-
prit while he was being taken to Jail.
Will. service was in progress at a
church at Khnielef, Russia, an alarm
Of fire was raised and in the stampede
which ensued 81 persons were killed
and 80 others seriously injured
AT Chicago on the Goth, Chief of Po-
lice Ripley issued an order discharg-
ing from the force asa policemen and
appointing in their places like mum
ber of democratic eX-policemen who
had been discharged under the pre-
vious republican administration. 1t
was the biggest so-called general
order" issued since ex-Chief Badenoch
(rep.) issued his famous order in 1895,
discharging 5s7 men.
THERE were seven new cases OF vel
low fever reported in Memphis, Tenn.
on the 26th; SO new cases and seven
deaths at New Orleans, and ten new
cases and one death at Montgomery,
Ala. IL was also officially announced
that the fever had broken out at New
Albany, Miss, and that the town was
almost depopulated by the people GO
ing away.
News of phenomenal mineral strike
which has set the community wild
with excitement comes from George
town, Col. An ore was encountered
which, twas claimed, averaged as high
as SIS, 900 10 the ton through a vein
three TO four feet wide.
THE first annual horse show OF the
St Louis exposition was opened in the
new Coliseum on the 25th.
In fire at Stevens Point Wis, Mrs
Zeberowski returned into her house 10
get S35 and was burned TO death. A
sister of the woman also rushed into
the bsrning house for some clothes
and was frightfully burned.
THE casiSet holding the remains of
George NJ. Pullman, the dead million.
aire, has been encased in the heart OF
a solid rock at Chicago banded by
bars of steel, and impregnable to the
attack of vandals with picks, or even
dynamite itself.
Two hunters, named Andrew John
son aud Oscar Peterson, were drowned
in the Missouri river near Mandan, n.
d., by their boat capsizing.