The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-01-20


which viii restrict immigration. The
circular was also signed by the editors
of a number of German, Irish, Swedish.
Italian and other newspapers in that
city.
PERRY, Ok, dispatch stated that
the allotment of the lands OF the otter
and Missour, Indians had begun and
would be completed in two months
The allottinR agent assigned 10 this
work is Miss Helen r. Clark, who is
one-eighth Blackfoot Indian. These
Indians always have opposed allot-
ment, but Miss Clark, who is the only
woman who has ever been assigned to
such work, has gained their conf
dence and is proceeding with the
work. This spring the allotted lands
will be opened TO white settlement
DISPATCH from Washington on
the 10th stated that the board of ord
nance and fortification had recon-
mended the immediate building of a
! government powder factory as, after
the warships of Uncle Sam had fired
away all their powder. which they
would do in "A ten hours battle, there
would not be enough in the country
To supply them for 3O-minute COM
bat, and 1t would take year. with
the present facilities, to produce
enough for another ten-hour battle
FoR the first time in "a days Helen
Coppage tasted food on the 10th at New
York. 1t was her intention 70 fast so
Jay, but her doctors forbade her To
continue it any longer on account of
a bad cold which she contracted. This
sua9 gaA A..- -.
1t was feared that it might result in
pneumonia
ADvIcEs from the orient stated that
the japanese transport steamer
Mara, bound to the Peccadores, was
wrecked and about so lives lost. Only
five seamen survived and they were
picked up by a steamer. The vessel
struck upon an uncharted rock.
EDWARD TooMEY was shot through
the brain by Edward billiard, an ex-
bartender, at St Louis. The murder
was n cowardly one and was caused by
Toomey happening to be in the com
pany OF a man day or two previous
ly who had had fuss with billiard.
JAMES ENGLAND was asphyxiated by
coal gas in his home at ST. Louis on
the 18th. His wife was reported dying
at n hospital and his two children
were in n serious condition as a result
OF the fumes from a small coal stove.
AN official dispatch from Batavia an
nounced that the capital of Amboyna,
one of the Molucca islands, in the
Malay archipelago. had been complete
ly demolished by an earthquake. Fifty
persons were killed and 200 Injured.
Tn 4 T.. n. ~
line made an assignment at St Louis
on the 11th to Archibald Woods of all
steamboats,, barges, elevators and
other property for the ben eft of cred
itors.
The New York Herald on the lith
said that Thomas A. Edison had acci-
dentally discovered what he believed
10 be a new metal which will do away
with the slow and costly process of
making malleable iron.
FRANCIS d. NEWTON, a prosperous
farmer of Brookfieid Mass, his wife
and an adopted daughter were found
murdered in their beds by neiehbors
on the 10th. The three had been
killed with an AK and n missing hired
man was suspected of the crime.
Mrs. CHRISTOPHER WoLLERr con-
fessed that she had killed Louise VOL
lert, her tS-year-o!d stepdaughter, who
was at first thought TO have teen mur-
dered by a tramp at Algonquin, Ill.
Investigation by the police upset the
tramp theory and the woman was ar.
rested and confessed The killing re.
suited from quarrel
The reported massacre of white set
tiers at Earlsboro, Ok. by Seminole
Indians in revenge for the recent burn
ing of two of their tribe by enraged
white settlers turned out to be un-
founded. Mr. Springer. Judge OF the
United States court in the district,
wired on the 18th, however, that many
people were leaving the border towns
for fear of the Indians and that the |
Indians were collecting for some un-
lawful purpose.
The post Office department Mt Wash |
ington has determined that the stamps |
to commemorate the international ex- |
position at Omaha, Neb., shall be illus
trated by western scenes
INcESDIARIEs set fire to frame |
building at Shawnee, Ok, the other /
night and In an hours time IA business |
houses were in ashes. Several families |
living on the upper floors of the build |
ings had narrow escapes in trying TO |
save their household goods. The mer-
chants saved a larger portion of their
goods. The town is without fire pro-
lection and II took heroic work to save
the business section. The losses will |
reach SEQ, 600.
A DISPATCH on the 18th from Bonn /
bay. India, said that during the past /
Is hours there had been l54 deaths in |
that city from the plague and IG7 fresh
cases reported.
A TORNADO struck Fort Smith, Ark,
on the night OF the llth and scores of
people were dragged from buildings
wrecked by the storm. To add TO the
horrors of the storm fire broke out in
aumber of places and the department
was unable TO cope with the new dan
ger. The latest reports put the mum
Der of people killed at 4S.
THE Western Union Beef company
recently sold 5000 steers off its West
Texas ranch, the consideration being
si75, Oo0 The company is disposing of
all its stock in Texas, Colorado, New
Mexico and Montana aud will retire
from business IL is the largest cattle
company in the United States.
The towboat Percy Kelsey blew NJ
while going down the Ohio river. near
Glentield, o., and four men loat their