The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-05-05

cigar started the fire which caused the
explosion.
KID" MCFARLAND and Joe Walcott
! fought eight rounds on the 2sth at De.
troit, Mich. Tie result was draw.
The large and secure prison at Fort
Adams, r. l., which has been desig.
rated by the war department as ono
Of the prisons TO be used for Spanish
prisoners of war, has been thoroughly
overhauled and made ready for use.
J The prison behind the ramparts and
swamp is one OF the safest in the coun.
try. The Notifications are capable OF
holding over 1000 prisoners, the mum.
ber allotted during the late war. Not
once since its construction has a pris.
oncr escaped.
THE Golden Eagle Clothing com
pany's store at Kansas City, Mo, was
almost destroyed by fire early on the
29th. The loss was estimated at from
$50, 900 to.S40, 900 on the Golden Eagle
stock. The fire entered the store of
May Stern e. Co., which ad dioins on
the south, and did probably S4, 500
damage.
THE United States monitor Terror
captured the big Spanish steamer
Guido, bound from Corunna, Spain, for
Havana. The prize had on board a
large cargo of provisions and money
intended for the Spanish troops in
Cuba. The capture took place after a
desperate chase, during which the
Terror and the gunhoat Machias fred,
almost blowing the Spaniard's pilot.
house into the water. The prize was
taken To Key West.
ADvICEs from Manila said the Amer
can bark Saranac, which was captured
at lloilo, Philippine islands, by a
Spanish gunboat, was seized after she
had unloaded her cargo of coal at that
port, which was her destination.
FIFTEEN freight cars of an extra
train on the Flint & Pere Marquet
railroad were wrecked in collision at
Flint, Mich. Four tramps were be.
lieved to have been caught in the
wreck.
The fve-story building at % South
William street, New York, was de.
stroyed by fire, due presumably tc
spontaneous combustion in the liquor
store of c. II. Arnold. The Nile To
bocco company's plant was also burned
out in the same building. Loss, $500,
900.
The big steamship Panama, which
left New York for Havana with Span
Isl. refugees on board and very valu
able cargo, including stores for the
Spanish army, was captured about q
miles from Havana by the little light.
house tender Mangrove, belonging tc
the mosquito fleet The Panama lie
about $500 tons and "a very valuable
prize. The Spanish sloop Paquete and
the schooner Pireneo were also cap.
tured near Havana.
ALL the Bessemer pig iron producers
of the central west, dispatch from
o., on the Goth said, have
agreed to bank their furnaces for 80
days out of the three months of May,
June and July. A $500 assurance
has been given by the is furnaces af-
fected.
PROF. o, NJ. Woop, principal of Lon.
venture (colored) school at st. Louis,
has sent communication to Gov.
Stephens, rendering the services OF
himself and 1000 negroes for the vol.
unteer army. Wood is a brigadier
general of the colored knights of
Pythias of Missouri and Kansas.
AT Ishkooda, Ala, Jim Brooks,
miner. returned home in an intoxicated
condition. He pulled his wife's hair
and began beating her, when the WON
an pulled n pistol and shot him in the
abdomen, inilicting IA wound which
proved fatal a short while later. The
wife was not arrested.
AN official high in the war depart
ment at Washington was authority foi
the statement that the volunteers
called for will be held in their state
encampments indefinitely, to be or
ganized and hardened. 1t was init
mated in the same quarter that thu
volunteers might not get chance al
Cuba until after the rainy season, II
at all.
The New York, the Puritan and the
Cincinnati bombarded the forts at the
mouth of Matanzas harbor on the 27th.
The object of the attack YVES to pre- vent
the completion of the earthworks AT
Punta Gorda There were no casual
ties on our side.
THE Scioto savings bank of Ostran-
der, o., was entered by four burglars
the other night and the safe blown
open with dynamite and So, 200 and
lot of jewelry stolen. The men made
good their escape.
JOHN GoNeRoN paid the death pen.
atty at New Castle, Pa, the other day
for numbering his sweetheart, Jessie
THE board of supervisors of Frank
lin county, Ia, adopted resolution
to pay each wife or widow depend ent
for support upon II husband or son who
enlists in the army the sum of 81
a month, and to each child under 10,
whose father so enlists, the sum of s..
A NOTICE was posted on the bulletin
board of the Maritime exchange al
New York on the 25th announcing
that the Spanish battleship Pelayc
and three torpedo boats We're on theii
way to the north Atlantic coast
THREE explosions took place at the
powder works at Santa Cruz, Cal, on
the Goth and seven men We're killed
and four seriously injured.
The feeling between the Americans
and the Mexicans around San Angelo
Tex, was running high. 1t was re
ported that ls4 Mexieans were armed
and drilling l6 miles south of the city.
A mass meeting was called To organic,
a home guard.
Two brothers, John and James Rod
iy, were hanged at Somerset, Pa, on