The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-12-01

THE crown sheet OF the boiler OF
Denver a. Rio Graude locomotive blew
out at Swallows, Col. The fireman
was killed and the engineer and brake
men seriously injured. Eighteen load
ed freight cars we're burned.
TwRNTY-FoUR houses were burned al
Johnstown, mining camp in the In.
dian territory. The loss was caused by
prairie fire in the Choctaw nation.
SIMON GUGGENHE,M who was married
on the cath in New York city to Miss
Olga Hirsh, commemorated the event
by giving Thanksgiving dinner TO 4,
200 children in Denver. Col, where he
lives The tickets were distributed by
Parson TON" Uzzell of the People, s
tabernacle, TO whom Mr.. Guggenhei IN
entrusted the management of the feast.
Ar Kansas City, Mo-, the annual
Thanksgiving football game between
the universities of Kansas and Mis-
souri, resulted in victory for Kansas,
IL to
ED MERRTwEATHER was lynched at
Monticello, Ga, the other day. He
was taken from the Jail by a number
of citizens, carried short distance
and shot to death. The mob over
powered the sheriff and took the iai
keys as soon as the coroncr's jury found
the negro guilty of the murder of John
Pope.
THE coroner's inquest over the re-
mains of Lillian Brandes, the 13-year-
old girl who was supposed to have com
mitted suicide by hanging at Berkeley
Cal, resulted in n verdict charging
| f..s Al. "A
her stepmother as an accessory. The
evidence tended TO show that the child
had been beaten to death and hanged
to bed post by those responsible for
her death.
EARLY on the esd the Baldwin hotel
at San Francisco was destroyed by fire.
There were 800 guests and employees in
the hotel when the fire broke out, but
it was thought that only two persons
lost their lives. The hotel cost 81, 5O0,- :
900 to build.
ORRIN ID. LAW. indicted for murder
ing his father.in-law aad sister-in.law,
pleaded guilty of murder in the second
degree at Columbus, o., and was given
life sentence in the penitent tiary.
THE powder mill at Lamonte, Mo-,
blew up the other day, killing six men
and injuring several others. The ex-
plosion was SO terrific as to be heard
and felt at a distance of 25 miles and
the exact cause will probably never be
known.
THE Phi Delta Theta Greek letter
fraternity convened at Columbus, o.,
on the 21st, it being the centennial of
the organization.
A BOUNTY of Sc head for wolves is
offered by Bureau county, Ill.
THE Presbyte industrial school
(colored) at Arkadelphia, Ark, was
destroyed by fire On the 22d.
A LARGE barn of +. G. Jones was
burned at Galatia, ILL.,, and five horses,
including a splendid Kentucky stall
lion, were cremated.
Two Chinese highbinders were pre-
vented by the approach of n person
from numbering another Chinaman at
San Francisco. AS it was their victim
had his skull fractured and will prob
ably die.
JAMES n. SoUTHALL, chief clerk in
the Office of the engineer department
of the army at ST. Paul, Mimi, was
convicted of swindling by means of
bogus time checks His swindling was
said to aggregate nearly 500, 600.
DAN GROUNDS, who drew the pension
money of Norris b. English for several
years, was convicted of violating the
pension law at Texarkana, Ark. and
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment
at Fort Leavenworth.
The steamers Tampa and Arthur
Orr were wrecked on the north shore
of Lake Superior. They went on the
rocks in fearful gale and snowstor
on the 2ad. The crews were saved.
Mrs. THOMAS STEPHENS was burned
to death and Alex Ross was fatally
burned during fire in the woman's
house at Elkton, Mich, caused by the
explosion of an oil stove.
The Memphis New Orleans & Gin
cinnati Packet company's steamboat
John X. Speed sank just below Bayou
Goula, La. She was blown by the
wind on a cypress stump. The freight
above deck was saved and the vessel
will be raised.
ACCORDING to oriental advices the
number of houses destroyed by the re-
cent fire at Hankow, China, was more
tiuu lo,Ouo anu o,oVu peTsous WcTe
burned to death.
THE fight between Corbett and Shar-
| key at New York on the 22d ended in a
| tasco. In the ninth round, McVey,
Cor belts second, jumped into the ring
and Referee Kelley awarded the fight
to Sharkey on the foul and declared
all bets off. Corbett had all the worst
| of the encounter and when he realized
that McVey had lost him the fight he
was furious and rushed at his second,
but the police intervened between the
men.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred the
other afternoon in the Cafe de Cham
peaux, Paris, in which a woman was
killed outright and eight other per
sons were seriously injured. 1t was
| thought that the explosion was due 10
the ignited gas, but there were rumors
of an anarchist plot
A FIRE which broke out in the pork
packing establishment of John +.
Squire n CO., ut East Cambridge,
Mass, resulted in serious injury to IL
men, four of whom may die, and a
property loss estimated at $50, 900. The
watchman of the factory, it was
feared, had also lost his life in the
flames.
HARVEY w. RIDDLE, who shot his
wife and attempted suicide at Day ton,
o., died ON the 2lst His victim was
also reported dying. Riddles father