The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-08-18


ley, while in drunken rage, shot his
wife, his mother, his four-year-old
son, his six-year-old daughter and
then himself
AT an early hour on the 1ith $50
masked men went TO the county Jail at
Corinth, Miss, and demanded the per-
son Of Mullock Walker, a negro, who
was charged with fatally assaulting
Charles Dazelle with a sandbag. No
resistance was made and Walker was
taken to the most central part of town
and hanged TO the guard arm of one of
the telegraph poles
JIMMY MICHAEL, the little Welsh
champion, and Fred Titus, of New
York, met at Baltimore, Nd, on the
lith in their 15-mile paced bicycle race.
Michael won easily by about 200 yards.
Time, 2s:4s is.
THE floods in the Scioto valley have
covered over Il, 1000 acres of corn land
in the Scioto bottoms in the immediate
vicinity of Portsmouth, o., causing q
loss of over $500, 600.
THREE hundred and sixty-seven
thousand acres of land will be restored
to the public domain in Minnesota
and on October next entries for
homestead titles can be made. The
land is a part of the Red Lake Indian
reservation. The area of ground in
volved comprises l6 townships.
THE coal in the bunkers of the trans
port Morgan City caught fire when
three days out from Honolulu on the
way TO Manila and the flames were
not put out until after the transport
arrived at Manila. The captain kept
the fact from the troops for fear of
precipitating a panic and day and
night the sailors fought the fire unbe-
known to the Idaho and Nebraska vol
unteers aboard, who were ignorant of
their peril.
THE Spanish hospital ship Alicante
sailed from Santiago on the 10th for
Spain with 1000 sick Spanish soldiers
on board.
FROM inquiries which reach the war
department il is evident a widespread
impression prevails that rapid dis
bandment of the volunteers will fol-
low the close of hostilities, but there
is no probability that single organ
ization will be mustered out before
winter The army in its present en-
tirety will be maintained until the
senate ratifies the treaty of peace,
which event may not occur until De-
cember or perhaps January.
THE reply of the Spanish government
to the peace conditions laid down by
the United States was received by the
French ambassador in Washington on
ha Inn tfan 81 nj tnh
the cipher in time to be laid be fore
President Mckinley and his cabinet
that day.
IN the midst of a raging typhoon
with n tremendous downpour of rain,
a Spanish force, estimated at 5000
men, attempted to surprise the Amer
lean camp near Malate, Philippine
islands, on the night of the 3lst Our
piclSets were driven in and the trenches
assaulted. Men ran right up to the
attacking Spaniards and moved them
down with regular volleys. The en-
emy was repulsed and retreated in dis
order. Gen. Merritt gives the casual
ties as nine killed, nine seriously
wounded and 3s slightly wounded.
The Spanish loss was 200 killed and 300
wounded.
FIVE negroes men and three
women-were hanged to trees at
Clarendon, Ark, by a mob and Mrs
John I. Orr committed suicide. 1t
was said that Mrs. Orr had hired the
negroes TO murder her husband. \
JUDGE CLAYToN's rule, at Muscogee,
l. T., requiring Chief Isparhecher, of
the Creek nation, to turn over 20 the
Dawes commission the rolls of citizen
ship of the Creek nation had the de-
sired effect and the commission is in
possession of the rolls.
THE regimentnl surgeon on duty at
| Camp Alger Falls Church, Va. report
ed typhoid fever as being pretty well
under control at that place.
THREE men were killed and a num-
ber of mail clerks were seriously in.
! jured at Canton junction, on the New
York, New Haven Il Hartford rail-
road, by an express mail jumping the
tracks. The accident was caused by IA
misplaced switch. The locomotive was
completely demolished and the for
ward car was telescoped
ADJT. GEN. Corbin mada public at
Washington on the 9TH the following
from Gen. Shafter: Sanitary report for
August G: Total number sick, 3,6sl;
total number fever cases, 2,6SS; total
number of new cases of fever, 49,; to-
tai number fever cases returned to
duty, 477.
Mrs. CAROLINE NJ WOODWARD, one
of the trustees of the proposed w. c.
! Il. u. temple, in an address before
the Epworth League assembly at Lin
coin, Neb., said that the edifice must
and will be built, if for nothing else
than the perpetuation of the memory
of Miss Frances Il. Willard.
A COLLISION on the Lorain & Cleve-
land electric railroad occurred II miles
west of Cleveland, o. People were
thrown forward in both cars, which
were stove in badly, and about IA of
the passengers were more or less in.
iured, though none of them fatally.
The crash came during a binding
rainstorm.
n. II. SCorT, commissioner of inter.
nal revenue, stated that the revenue
from the war tax approximated ST.
900, 900 daily, but that there would be
no effort made To have the war reve.
nue law repealed at the coming ses.
sion of congress, even If the war should
be over, as bigger naval force and a
larger standing army necessitated the
expenditure of millions more than
formerly by the government
WHILE officers were conveying ne
gro To Jail at Griffin, Ga, for an at