The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-03-31

were drowned
THE Nebraska state board Of trans
portation has announced its intention
Of enforcing a reduction in local
I freight rates on all roads 10 Nebraska
I The reduction win amount TO from ie
! TO ! 5 per cent The action is the result
of the supreme court decision at Wash
I ington declaring the maximum freight
rate law imperative.
/ THE Consolidated Elevator company
I at ST Louis closed a deal for ]. 600. 600
Z bushels Of corn for export and for i'm
mediate delivery at baltimore, Nd.
Z The belief was that the corn was for
/ Spain and that she was rushing the
I order because. in event Of declara-
I tion Of war. she would be shut out of
+ the purchase.
Col FRANZ u. BARTLETT and DIR. Il.
=, WoOding, of Denver, Col. were en-
rolling 500 young men, experts in the
l use Of the rife, who will offer their
/ services to President Mckinley in case
I Of war. The organization will be
known as the Rocky mountain sharp
/ shooters"
GEy. JosEPH ToTMAS. Names famous
Lilliputian, recently died at Lewiston.
Me. IL was supposed that he died Of
I Apoplexy or heart disease. He was
/ born December IS. 1861. and was sym
metrically formed. Ills height was 40
inches and when weighed last he tipped
the scales at 40 pounds
HEAVY floods have done great dam
age at Richmond. Ind. The bridge
over the Whitewater river was de-
stroyed. the city electric light plant
was drowned out. the streets were
badly damaged and many people were
driven from their homes.
REPRESENTATIVES, PAYNE introduced
a joint resolution in the Ohio general
assembly memorializing congress 20
pay all pension claims, and TO accrue,
in irredcemable scrip. In the aggre-
gate, this would mean the floating of
81. 600. 600, 600 Of scrip
WALTER MANNING was killed at
the y. Y. u. tile works at Eldora, Ia
the other afternoon. His overcoat be-
came entangled in the cogwheels and
his back and neck were broken and his
head was severed from his body.
HEAVY floods were reported on the
Esd in Ohio, Pennsylvania. West Vir-
ginia and Indiana. Nearly all the
railroads in central and southern Ohio
were said to be crippled or totally dis
abled because of washouts. Around
| Pittsburgh, Pa, manufacturing con-
Germs were severely inconvenienced
| from the freshets. At Wheeling, w.
Va, various manufacturing establish
nents, employing from 10, 900 to $1,000
men, have shut down because of floods.
JIM JEFFRIEs, of Los Angeles, Cal,
easily defeated Peter Jackson. the
negro in the third round at San Fran
cisco on the 22d.
/ A TRAIN consisting of a passenger
coach, caboose and locomotive, with a
wrecking crew of "a men aboard, was
wrecked near Columbus. Ind, on the
93d through a flood. The engineer
could not be found and the fireman
was washed away and swan to a tree
NEGROES living along the Red river
bottoms in Texas were said to be in a
state of terror over the advent of
whitecaps and large numbers of them
have left their homes and sought asy-
lums in the towns of New Boston and
Dekalb.
I0Neill, Neb., on the 22d from Chain
lake soLth, distance of so miles by 30
miles wide. Everything was destroyed
except a few ranchers' homes, which
were protected by fire banks. Dozens
Of families were forced to leave their
homes and flee for safety with nothing
but the clothes on their backs.
The other night at Wellsville, o.,
I0liver Reed asked Sarah Walton 10
marry him and upon her refusal he
drew a revolver and shot her through
the heart He then turned the weapon
on himself and blew out his brains,
dying in a short time.
FIRE destroyed the Schoneman
building at Chicago on the 2ist about
u dozen firms being burned out. The
loss on the building was said to be
s225, 200.
SAM ELLIS, "A negro, was recently
hanged to n limb of a tree near Polk,
Ala, for attempting to assasstnate
Hendrix A. Hardy on the night of Oc-
tober 90. He confessed his crime.
THE New York Electrical Review i'm.
parts this information concerning the
proposed electric railway between Kan.
| NuS WY toi'
win s. Brice is said to be interested in
a scheme to run an electric road up the
kaw valley, from Kansas City TO To-
pexa, distance of fully go miles"
The stea mer Santa Rosa, bound for
Alaska, was found at the mouth of the
Golden Gate, on the Pacific coast, bot
tom side up. 1t was feared that 40
persons had lost their lives. Among
the passengers were about "A dozen
coal miners from Coalgate, l. r., who
bad started for the Klondike gold
fields with their savings
Ar Wybark, |. T., Ed Chalmers a
negro, who recently married a white
woman. was visited at night by mob
of white men. Chalmers and his wife
were shot and killed and one of the
white men was mortally wounded by
Chalmers.
AN I'll Paso Tex, dispatch stated
that the Black Jack gang of American
outlaws and train robbers had been
wiped out in Mexico by avenging
angels of n Mormon colony.
A CALL has been issued for a meeting
of all those interested in horse breed.
ing to be held al the Palmer house,
Chicago, March 80, to form national
organization
Tina monster hywheel in the Arling.
ton Heights Street Car company's
powerhouse at Fort Worth. Tex, burst