The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-01-13

| a MAMMOTH Ice mouse IN course VI
construction at Whitmore Lake, Mich,
collapsed the other day and two men
were instantly killed, five others prob
ably fatally injured and dozen more
badly hurt
TuE mission school building of the
| Presbyterian board OF home missions
at Tahlequah, /. T., was recently
burned by incendiaries.
PETER MAoNEs and his wife, OF Rose
dale, Col, were cruelty beaten by rob
bcrs, whose purpose IL was to get open
a large safe I'm Mr. Magnes' house in
which IL was thought he kept large
sums of money. A nephew, however,
summoned some neighbors and the
robbers ran Off.
THE i4-year-old daughter of Enos
Builderback, who lives near Morris
City. ILL.,, was burned to death by her
clothing catching lire from a fireplace
Ar Orlinda, Robertson county, Tenn,
Duke Brewer ives accidentally shot by
Alex Harmed while returning from u
rabbit hunt and bled to death before
medical aid could arrive.
THE commissioner of pensions has is
sued IA letter to special examiners to
watch pension attorneys and report
any solicitation for business before
the pension bureau on their part
Ar Bandana, KY, Henry Reed, u
wealthy farmer, and his wife went out
to dinper and left n seven-month ths-old
babe in the sitting room in a rocking
chair, covered with quilts near tire
place. The live Goals fell from the fire.
al L., H.. al
chair, burning the child To death.
THREE men were killed in the Avon
dale mine near Wilkcsbarre, Pa, on
the 9TH by an explosion OF gas
WILLIAM BAKER, who assassinatcd
his brother and his brothers wife at
Fairbury, Neb., few days ago, was
run down by bloodhounds, aud as the
crowd drew near To the barn in which
he had taken refuge the hunted man
shot himself to death.
SENATOR MASON will soon prepare
and introduce bill in the senate for
Especial appropriation for corn ex-
hibit at the Paris exposition. lie
hopes by this means to second the ef
forts of our representatives in Europe
in widening the mn-ixesS for this
cereal. In the fiscp, year ended June,
1897, the United States exported 54,-
900, 900 bushels OF corn and 1000, 900
barrels of cora meal.
A. c. TANNER, acting commissioner
of Indian affairs, has recommended a
deficiency appropriation of $4,000 for
the revision OF allotments on the 0toe
reservation. Oklahoma. The work Is
being done by Helen p. Clarke.
The battle of flowers and floral pro-
cession at Pasadena, Cal. on the LIST
was magnificent spectacle.
A BIG hunt was being arranged on
the 4th in the Choctaw nation in the
Indian territory. There was to be $50
deer and fox-hounds with the hunting
party. Charley Colbert, the famous
rifie-shot and scout, of old Fort Wa
shita. was to lead the party. Sports
men from Texas, Kansas and the ter
ritory were to participate in it.
Jusr as the Port Arthur express on
the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
railway pulled out of the depot at
Kansas City, Mo-. at 6:40 p. IN. on the
ith two men entered the express car
and covered Messenger Hyden, of the
II
bound him and robbed the local safe.
They then escaped from the train
while IL was within the city limits
IIyden was badly beaten because he
could not open the big safe.
WHEN the Hamilton. Tenn, county
court convened at Chattanooga on the
4th Esquires Springfield and Ralston
had some hot words and clinched. In
stantly the $50 men in the court start.
ed riot. Clubs, chairs, cuspidors and
knives were used aud every body fought
his neighbor. The whole city was
stirred up and more trouble was feared.
Wuu.E political meeting was being
held at the city hall at Lcndou. Ont
the floor give way and many persons
were precipitated to the floor below.
Following the crash there was a wild
rush to the doors Thirty persons
were killed and many others were seri.
ously injured.
FORTY roustabouts of the steamer
Bob Bali. while en- route on train
for Pittsburgh, Pa, got into fight
near Sisterville, W. Va. and two were
killed and another was probably fatal
ly wounded, Razors and knives were
used.
Tus Vandalia depot at Iogansport,
Ind. was burned to the ground the
other night. The Offices, books and
private papers OF the officials were all
destroyed.
BECAUSE her lover refused to keep
his promise to marry her, Mrs Florence
V. Akers, widow living in East 81.
Louis, ILL.,, shot herself through the
heart.
FIRE broke out in a storage ware
house at Farmville, Va, the other
night and before IL was subdued 81
buildings were destroyed. Among the
buildings burned We're Is tobacco fac
tories and il was estimated that l, 900,
600 pounds OF the finest tobacco were
| DESTROYED. Hundreds of men were
| thrown out of work by the disaster
Loss. $3.50, 900; insurance, about one
| third.
| AGENrs of the Spanish government
recently purchased over 5000 head o
horses in Texas for the use of the
spanish army in Cuba A shipmen
| of 1000 head was made to Havana OF
the I'd from Alice, Tex.
ALI of the sl0O silver certificates nov
in circulation in the United States
representing SD, 900, 0O0 in currency
have been called in by Secretary %
the Treasury Gage ON account of tn,
discovery of most dangerous conn
terfeit
Two counterfeit sl0O silver certiti
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