The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-01-06

tne Olner morning WIN nttcr Oh
young amounting to nearly 100.
THE other night fire broke out at
Port au Prince, IIayti, and destroyed
500 houses. including n number of ware
houses. About 5000 people were rem
dered homeless
THERE was much excitement the
other day among the people OF Brown
county, Tex, over the reported discov-
cry of pot of gold, which IL was
claimed Is only small part of large
fortune that lies buried near the same
spot by colony of Spaniards who
were afterward massacred by the In
diaus
THE office of the Texas independent,
n populist paper published at Green.
Vile, Tex, was destroyed by an incen
diary FIRE.
THE busincss portion of Cantril, la. 4,
was destroyed by fire.
II. CLAY EVANS, the commissi oner OF
pensions, created n sensation by de
nouncing pension attorneys. He
charges that they are alone to blame
for frauds on the roll OF honor.
A NEGRO domestic named Nellie
johnson was hacked with hatchet so
fearfully at Kansas City. Mo-, on the
night OF the Goth that she died n few
hours after. The murderer escaped,
but the police were convinced that the
crime was committed by the woman's
husband, n negro teamster.
MAY wheat will sell for S2-some
time" This was the sensational
prophecy made by John p. Grier, who
represents the concern that is doing
Levi H. Letter a. Sons business on the
Chicago change. Grier refused to
elaborate his prediction when pressed.
THE three-vear-old child of j. w.
Hodges. of saltwater, Ok, was burned
to death. His clothing caught fire
from Goals in a bucket of ashes.
FIFTEEN Indians, convicted of vari-
GUS violations of tribal laws, were pub
licly whipped at the recent term of
court at Alikchi. l. T.
THE plant OF the Austin Manufacture
ing company, makers of agricultural
implements, at Chicago was destroyed
by fire on the night of the 2ath and
Frank Sutton, an employe, was caught
in the flames and burned to death.
Loss, 500, 900; covered by insurance.
THE Arcade building at Detroit,
Mich, burned on the 2Sth and the
structure to the west of it, occupied by
the Detroit Free Press Printing com
pany, was also nearly ruined. The
loss on the two buildings and contents
will reach s125,000.
A NEW bridge across the Cimarron
river at Perkins, Ok, was dedicated
recently. The last nail, of solid silver,
was driven by Miss Maud Devaul.
CHARLES A. MCDANIEL was accident
ally shot and killed by his eight-year-
old son. They lived near Tyler, Tex.
SECRETARY WILSON, of the depart
ment of agriculture, will try to get
from congress enough money to estab-
lish inspection by microscopists on an
elaborate scale of all butter, fruits and
other farm products going abroad.
MRS. WILLIAM KLIE was burned TO
death at st. Louis by her clothes ignit-
ing from the explosion of coal oil
lamp.
THE non-partisan w. C. T. U. will
hold its annual convention in Colum
bus, o., January I'll.
THE Hastings (Neb.) electric light
plant was destroyed by fire on the
cath. The loss was about 500, 900.
OVER 100 representatives of the
United States secret service are cen
tering on n gang of counterfeiters,
now in Colorado, who are believed to
make their headquarters in Kansas
City, Mo. They are passing two dan
gerous counterfeits of the denomina.
tion of SIS and $40. The gang has flood
ed Colorado with the bogus bills.
WHILE Christmas salute was being
fred from an old cannon at Asheville,
n. c., Joseph Finch carelessly brought
a can containing 80 pounds of gunpow-
der into contact with the heated gun.
The explosion which followed severely
INJURED Finch and knocked down be-
tween so and 40 of the spectators, all
of whom were more or less hurt.
THE business houses in the center Of
ST. Louis were shaken to their fornda-
tions on the 2sth by a terrific explosion
of a charge of dynamite used in trying
to raise the sunken tug boat Dolphin,
which went down in the Mississippi
during the tornado. The attempt
proved futile.
AN agent Of the interior department
uds occh ihNts'iRa'ihB ehD iepoi ecu
invasion of the Wichita country in the
Indian territory and says there are no
people camped or gathering along the
line at certain points and the whole
scheme is to get dupes to pay 81 50 for
IA certificate of membership in myth
ical colonization company.
REV. DIR. SHELDON JACKSON sailed
from New York on the 35th for Nor
way and Lapland with power from the
United States government to purchase
800 reindeer, harness and other equip
ments for use in transporting supplies
to the Yukon miners and to hire 80
Laplanders to drive the outfits.
INDIANAPOLIS veterans are signing a
petition To congress to pay all pension
ers 20 years pension money in lump
sum at once and abolish the pension
department and have the government
get out of the pension business per-
manently.
THE wife of Jacob Peyer, living near
Park River, N. d., poisoned her four
| little children with strychnine and
then took poison herself. All are dead.
A quarrel with her husband was the
| cause.
NEAR Pulaski, Va, a freight train