The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-20

THE United States Leather company
IT. was rumored at New York, will
sndeavor to lower the price of hides
and advance that of leather by clos.
ing many, II not all, its tanneries and
dependent industries, because the con.
| litions of the leather trade are uu.
favorable all over the world.
FIVE men were killed and II injured
oy an explosion of gas in colliery No.
8 at Coaldale, Pa, on the 18th.
! Two boilers in the state asylum for
the dangerous and criminally insane
At lonia. Mich, burst the other day,
Silling Harry Hanley, Of Saginaw, and
fatally wounding Jack Hogan, both
inmates. Two others, inmates were
also hurt
| Snow fell in Chicago on the night of
the 18th. 1t was the first this season
and the earliest in 90 years. A gale
accompanied the snowfall, making
navigation on Lake Michigan impossi.
ole.
THE navy department made public
| he findings and sentence of the court.
martial in the case Of Chaplain McIn.
tyre on the 18th. The accused was de-
,lared guilty and sentenced TO be dis.
missed from the naval service of the
United States The case will undergo
'eview by the department.
TIE candy and cracker factory of
the Winn-Johnson company and paint
store of Il. c. Burke, at Macon, Ga,
we're burned. Loss, Si25,00O
OFFICIALS in the service of the
United States weather bureau, repre-
senting nearly every state and terri
tory in the union, held a meeting at
Omaha, Neb., on the 18th, Prof Willis
L. Moore, chief of the bureau, being
the presiding officer.
CORA SMITH, who was serving a life
sentence at the Anamosa Qa.) peni-
tentiary for numbering her father, com
mitted suicide by swallowing spiders.
AS result of the killing of private
by Provost Guard Kitchen at Camp
Hamilton, Lexington, KY, a mob of
soldiers was formed on the night of
the 10th with the intention of raiding
the Jail and lynching Kitchen. While
the rioting was on corporal shot at
the captain and lieutenant of his regi-
ment and many of the enlisted men of
the Twelfth New York had to be
dubbed into submission.
AT the Indian council held at Bear
island, Mimi, on the 10th Gen. Bacon
told the redskins that II they would
give up the men for whom warrants
were out and come in they could go
home, but if not the government would
not rest until they had got the men
they wanted. Runners were then sent
out to tell the hostiles the terms.
THE stars and stripes were raised
over every public school building in
Little Rock, Ark, the other day. Pa
triotic hymns were sung by the chill
dren and other appropriate exercises
took place.
The expected clash between the
union miners and imported negroes
took place on the l2th at Virden, Ill.
When the G. & A. train arrived with
the negroes shots were fred from the
train and by those outside and the
battle was on. 1t was reported that
seven were killed and Is wounded
Gov. Tanner scored the mine operators
and declared them responsible for the
bloodshed. Troops were dispatched
to the scene.
A MOST heinous crime was committed
at La Tour, n station on the Iron
Mountain railroad, eight miles north
west of Helena, Ark. Frank Dubarry,
a prominent planter, was assassinated
in his own home by trusted negro
employe, Charley Mum, for the pur-
pose of, robbery, and the murderer,
after securing all the money about the
house, deliberately poured coal oil
over his victims body and about the
house and set fire to it to cover his
crime. The murderer was landed in
Jail.
NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR HoBsoN has
abandoned his attempt to save the
Spanish battleship Vizcaya at Santi
ago.
Ir was estimated that the Illinoi.
Central railroad was losing Sl5, 900 g
day on its southern business as re
suit of the stringent yellow fever
quarantine. Other railroads running
into New Orleans were hampered mucf
the same way.
Mrs ANNA Il. GEORGE, accused o
killing George ID. Saxton, the brothe
of Mrs. Mckinley, at Canton, o., wa
bound over on the charge of first de
gree murder, for the action of tn,
grand jury, which meets in January.
WHILE Jesse Merricls, of East Gales
burg, was driving across the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy tracks nea
Galesburg, H., he was struck by
passenger train. The lumber wagol
in which he was sitting was reduce,
to kindling wood and he was instant Il,
killed.
The reports to the marine hospita
service at Washington on the lit
showed that yellow fever in the sout
was steadily increasing. The official
stated that the increase in the feve
, list was likely to be continued till col
, weather sets in and this was though
/ still to be at least three weeks of i
the region most affected.
DIR. o. +. MENTZER shot and kille
his wife at Telluride, Col, and the
, tried to shoot his wife's brother, bu
in the struggle which ensued DIR. Ment,
, err had his skull fractured and il wa
believed that he would die from it.
was thought the doctors mind wa
affected from the use of opiates.
The British steamer Weehawken, o
laden, was burned in the Delawar
river, about 20 miles below Philade
, phia, on the 10th. The Weehawke
cleared from Philadelphia for Venic
with cargo of over 1000, 900 gallon
, Of oil. The vessel was total loss