The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-12-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

HE explosion OF RaSOllne stove In
Tabitha hospital at Lincoln. Neb., the
other evening resulted in Mary Stein.
aker, a nurse being burned TO death
and DIR. Wilmeth and a medical studen t
being badly burned.
ARTICLES of agreement for "A 20-round
boxing contest between Tom Sharkey
and Kid Mccoy, to take place at the
LenoN Athletic club in New York on
January 10, were signed by both priE.
cipals. The men are to box for purse
of $50, 900 and 30 per cent. of all re-
ceipts exceeding $4,000 Tim Hurst
was mutually chosen as referee.
FoR IL years and more George Ogle
had worn a c)nvicts stripes in Sing
Sing prison in New York and faced
the horrors of life sentence without
a promise of release. The other day a
pardon reached him. In 1887 man
named James Brown was stabbed TO
death in a saloon at New York. Two
men swore 0gle was the assailant, aud
he was convicted and sent up for life
Recently one of the men confessed
that he had committed perjury.
THREE corn shelters and 1000 bush.
els Of corn, OF Mertens, Brandon &
Blums, were destroyed by fire in Hill
county, Tex.
LorTIE WILLIAMS, five years old, was
burned to death at Duquoin, H.. by
her clothing catching fire from an
open CRATE.
AN explosion of gas in the Zeneida
mines, IS miles south of Birmingham,
Ala, killed three men and perhaps IA.
tally injured three others.
MYSTERIOUS" BILLY SMITH met Joe
Wolcott the colored fighter, at the
Lenox Athletic club in New York, on
the night of the 9th, and, after fight
ing 20 hard rounds, was given the de.
cision.
Four men were killed and several
severely injured at Fort Indepen dence,
on Castle island, in Boston harbor, by
the explosion OF a mine which had
been removed from the channel by o
diver.
REPRESENTATIVES, OF SIS breweries
were to meet in New York to form a
protest to congress against the contin
uance of the beer tax.
AFTER an orderly trial by Benton,
La, citizens, IL was decided that two
negroes, Hearn and Richardson. were
guilty OF the murder of Henry Lance
and they were taken half a mile north
Of town and hanged by citizens
THE department OF justice at Wash.
ington has detailed a special attorney
to prosecute the mob who burned tive
Seminole Indians near Maude, Ok,
last January. 1t is claimed that one
OF the men burned at the stake was
innocent of the crime charged and
that there was no certainty of the
other ones guilt
THE Cherokee legislature at Table.
quah, |. T., on the 5th passed the bill
To pay off the Cherokee indie btedness,
amounting to about $500, 900. A great
part of this paper is held by Kansas
City capitalists
FRANK BRUSH murdered his wife al
Fort Madison, Ia, and then committed
suicide. They had lived unhappily to-
gether.
RECENT official dispatches from the
Indian territory received by Secretary
Bliss indicated that there was a change
of sentiment on the part OF some of
the Indian tribes notably the Chero-
KEGS and Creeks-and that the outlook
was more favorable as TO their making
a treaty with the Dawes commission.
The nitroglycerine house of the Hud.
son Powder company at Pinole, Cal,
blew up the other afternoon, killing
Superintendent Charles Kennedy and
four Chinese, the only workmen in the
building at the time. The explosion
was terrific one, four tons of nitro.
glyeerine blowing mp, completely dc
Dolishing the building.