The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-07-07


and IL was believed that in moment
Of temporary alteration of mind she
committed suicide.
EDWARD FENDER. a prisoner in the
New York Tombs prison awaiting trial
for the killing of Richard Bennett in
April last, committed suicide on the
30th by hanging himself In his cell.
lie made rope of medical bandages
and carefully soaped II in order that
the moose should slip readily.
MAIL advices from Japan stated that
the tax on tea imposed by the United
States will cause 5000 tea flrers in Ja-
pan to be thrown out of employ ment
A terrible storm visited the district
surrounding Yokohama, washing away
hundreds of houses, drowning several
persons and damaging the wheat and
millet crops.
AT Cincinnati on the 30th Pink Coat
and Han dor, the two derby winners,
were defeated in the Himyar stakes
at Latonia by the three-year-old colt
John Bright. The race was l y miles
and was run In the remarkable time
of 1:531<.
FLOODS in the Trinity river washed
away 1000 feet of track of the Texas
Trunk railroad between Dallas and
Kaufman and stopped traffic. Several
buildings were submerged in East Dali
las and one OF the large sewers burst,
causing much damage
ALL the express companies at Kan.
sas City. Mo-, have united in circular
to their customers stating that after
July each receipt for package must
bear a one-cent revenue stamp The
companies further remark that this
stamp must be affixed and paid for by
the person sending the package.
THE statement of the government
on the 30th showed that the receipts
during June aggregated about ss3,-
500, 900 and for the present fiscal year
about S304, 500. 900. Up to June 80
the actual cash expenditures on ac-
count OF the war amounted to about
$50, 900, ,00C.
The third feet Of transports left
San Francisco on the 27th bound for
the Philippine islands The ships
carried about 1000 men, under COM,
mand Of Gen. Arthur Macarthur.
The navy department at Washing'
ton posted the following bulletin on
the 27th: Commodore Watson sails
to-day in the Newark to join Sampson,
when he will take under his command
an armored squadron with cruisers
and proceed at once off the Spanish
| coast"
| GAUNT want was reported stalking
about the streets of Madrid, and men,
women and children were said to be
| starving. The cause of this terrible
condition of affairs was attributed d.
rectly to the war with the United
States.
CHIEF MAHoMED ALI KHALIF and five
other ringleaders of the attack recent
| ly made by 1000 natives on Russian
post garrisoned by 300 infantry at the
town of Andijan, Turkestan, when 90
soldiers were killed and IS wounded,
have been publicly hanged.
A LETTER received recently at War.
rem, O., from John Muldoon, who is
now in the Alaskan gold fields, said
that of the lOl men who left Seattle
with him in March only four survived.
Two were drowned and the others per-
ished from cold and hunger
| ALLIE WALSH murdered his mother
near Lake City, Mimi, by crushing her
skull with an AK. The young man was
recently confined in the Rochester in
sane asylum, but was released as
cured. 1t is supposed that sudden
return of his mania was responsible
for the deed.
Two sharp earthquake shocks were
| fal, ha NJ ni ta1x ha
worst one was at one a. m. 1t lasted
nine seconds and number of build
ings were damaged. The Carbineer
barracks were rendered uninhabitabl BILE
and the whole population was panic
stricken. At Castel Franco a number
of people were injured and one child
was killed.
JOHNNIE ANDERSON, six-year- old
colored girl, was shot and killed at
Nacogdoches, Tex, by Garfield Jor.
dan, also colored, aged IL. The
mothers of the two children had dis
pute and the boy afterwards waylaid
the girl with a revolver.
THERE was a disastrous fire the 9TH
err morning in the building occupied
by Hysinger Il Rosenthaps department,
store at Peoria, Ill. The loss was al.
most total on the stock, which was
valued at SIS, 900 and was insured foi
50 per cent
WHILE poking her nose about the en-
trance to the harbor of Santiago ds
Cuba few nights ago, the Vesuviu,
discovered ample room in which to pas,
the wreck of the Merrimac As tn,
collier now lies, IL was said, the chan
mel was comparatively free of oh
struction. This will be of great ad
vantage TO Admiral Sampson when tn,
final attack ON Santiago begins.
A LARGE number of Missouri ant
Kansas newspaper men gathered il
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 27th and lef
for Omaha, Neb., to attend the exposi
tion as guests of the Missouri Pacifi
railway. All o! the newspaper mel
resided on the lines of the Missouri Pa
citic and the road courteously offered l.
take them to Omaha in special car.
A. A. LovELAcE left Kansas City
Mo-, on the 2sth for Oklahoma Cit
with 200 men, who will lay the rail
for new extension of the St Louis
San Francisco railroad. The exten
D sion will be 10 miles in length, eS
, tending from Sapulpa to Oklahom
, City.
WHILE crossing the Big Horn rive
e on the ferry at Thermopolis, Wyo
: Harry Beggs, wife and child, and
!. young woman and man whose name
| xvara unEnowu ware hrawnad