The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-11-03

)hia- For three hours President Nc
Sinley watched the IS, 900 soldiers and
,ailors march past his stand. Gen.
Miles was the chief marshal and the
pageant was a brilliant success. Al
light banquet was rendered MIR. Nc
kinley by the Glover club aud later an
Informal reception took place at the
Academy of Music. The president
Afterwards took the train for Wash.
ington
The Society of the Army OF the Ten.
nessee in convention at Toledo. o.,
elected Gen. Grenville NJ. Dodge presi-
lent Among the vice presi dents
,hosen were Col Charles Parsons OF
st. Louis, and Secretary of War Alger.
The steamer II. A. Tuttle, grain
aden, from Chicago, was sunk in the
mouth of the river, near Michigan
| City. Ind. The crew was taken off bv
the life-savers after "a hours of extreme
peril.
The schooner St Peter sank on
Lake Ontario, near Sodus, and all on
board perished with the exception OF
she captain, who was picked up by a
llife-saving crew in an unconscious con-
dition. Eight persons at least went
down with the vessel.
The Episcopal Triennial Council at
Washington adjourned on the 25th.
THE Japanese steamer Mijagala was
sunk in a collision at Kobe and 60
Japanese were drowned.
LARGE sawmill at Vancouver, b.
c., was burned on the Goth and $50 me n
were thrown out Unemployment OF The
loss amounted to several hundred
thousand dollars.
THERE was boiler explosion in the
sawmill at West Marion, Ind, which
completely wrecked the plant and
fatally injured three men.
COMPTROLLER DAWES, who is treas
urer of the Lafayette monument fund,
is deluged with contributions from the
school children OF the country. He
has opened a special office at i407 +
street, Washington, and ex-Congress-
man Walter Butler, OF Iowa, is in
charge, with an assistant The con-
tribution of each school Is entered in
the name of the teacher, to whom the
receipt is sent.
Union painters at indianapolis, Ind,
we're locked out by the Master Paint
ers' association on the Goth because
the men would not withdraw a boycott
against n certain firm.
OFFICIALS at Washington were ex.
| srcised on the Goth over warning
from the Canadian authorities that
several people with pronounced cases
of leprosy had successfully eluded the
American immigration inspectors and
had crossed the line into the United
States.
A REAR-ESD collision occurred on the
Union Pacific sidetrack at Omaha,
Neb., between two freight trains, re-
sulting in the death of three train
men and the serious injury of another.
THE college at Ryan, l. T., was burned
On the Goth. All the pupils escaped.
The United States steam barge
Lloyd Porter, bound for Detroit,
struck and was sunk at St Croix,
about 30 miles above Quebec, Can.
The crew were saved.
The commissioner of Indian affairs,
who has been for week investi eating
the Indian trouble In Minnesota, made
a verbal report to Secretary Bliss at
Washington ON his work. He attrib-
| uted the recent outbreak to methods
of the whites, who take gross advan-
tages of the Indians, many of the red
skins being dragged 100 miles from
their agency as witnesses in trivial
| cases in order to swell deputies fees.
The Indians are then turned adrift,
without any means, to get home as
best they can. They are also wronged
in regard to timber sales on their
lands.
WHILE walking on the tracks of the
Denver IL Rio Grande railroad at
Leadville, Col, Mrs. Cornelius Shea
and her daughter Margaret were
struck by passenger train and killed.
DURING the progress of church fes,
tival at BRENNAN, Tex, triangular
row occurred in which John Cole was
killed and Archie Cole and Dan Jenlx.
ins were wounded. The weapons used
were pocket-knives.
RAIN interfered with the peace cele-
bration at Philadelphia on the Goth
and the civic parade was postponed.
President Mckinley arrived at noon
and was rendered dinner and recep.
tion at the Union league in the evening.
MAJ. STARR and Maj Brooks, after
returning to Santiago from trip TO
Baracoa, Sagua and other places, re-
ported that there was no destitute ton
at those places among the Cubans but
the distribution of free rations was
having a demoralizing effect upon the
people, as they would not go to work,
although the sugar estates and other
industries were in need of laborers.
AT recent meeting of the wire and
nail manufacturers, held at Pittsburgh,
Pa, IL was decided to reduce the price
of wire nails five cents per keg and 70
advance the price of galvanized wire,
both smooth and barbed, five cents per
100 pounds.
No freight trains ran on the east
division of the Colorado Midland rail.
road on the cath in consequence of a
strike of about so men, who all refused
to take out three-engiue train from
Colorado Springs, claiming that the
company had agreed not TO run any
three-engine trains. Ii was believed
the trouble would be adjusted.
SECRETARY WILSON has awarded tc
.ae New York Market Gardeners as.
sociation the contract for furnishing
all the seeds to the agricultural de-
partment for the current fiscal year.
The contract price is S70,97S and Ia
2Ss. l6s packages of seed are to be fur
nished.
Miss PEARL VoGAN died at Sharon
Do nf ~ Il