The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-01-27

was causing much alarm among cat
tlemen. grea; numbers Of cattle having
died from the complaint
Iowa bank clerks 70 the number Of
200 have organized the Alaska Grub
stake Joint Stock association. for she
purpose of grub-staking competent
miners in Alaska Charles swanson.
Of Charlton. Ia. closed the first con-
tract on n five-year expedition.
Is the trial of the whitecaps at De
catur, Ind, in which James Parrish.
q constable. was whipped almost
I 90 death last September. evidence
brought 10 light the fact that Parrish's
I wife was one of the persons to make
l the arrangements to have her husband
I whipped, and visited the whitecaps at
secret meetings 10 accomplish her pur-
/ pose
The towboat Job Will ans, with a
tow Of 60 coal boats. was caught in a
storm near Leavenworth. Ind. aud u
I OF the coal boats were sunk and two of
I the steamers crew were washed over
I board Z ID drowned.
w. L. WICKER contracting freight
l agent OF the Chicago. Milwaukee & 81.
Paul railway. died some days ago and
his body was cremated- His ashes
were afterwards scattered to the four
/ winds Of heaven from a ferryboat at
i San Francisco. according to his in
siructions-
EDWIN A. DUFF shot aud killed his
/ wife and sister-in-law while they were
| walking on the street at New Haven.
Conn. The shooting took place about
six o'clock, just after dark. Duff was
| at once arrested.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred in the
business center of Mount Vernon, Ind,
early the other morning. destroying
about SS2, $50 worth of property.
FOgTY persons were killed and IS in
juned by an explosion OF gas in mine
| in the Tagenrog district, on the north
shore of the sea Of Azov. Russia
c. w. VosNER, of San Francisco. is
| planning to go to the Klondike gold
country by the big balloon made for
/ the Chicago worlds fair. He will be
accompanied by three other expert
eDced aeronauts
Gov. BLoxAM, of Florida, has issued
an invitation TO governors and com
mercial bodies OF southern and west
ern states to attend the session of the
commercial congress TO convene at
Tampa, Fla. February $40.
THE paper trust, with a capital. of
$50, 600. 600. acquired the big plant of
the Winnepiscogee Paper company,
Franklin Falls, N. H.. making 10 com
panies in the combination. The ag-
gregate outpu. Of the mills the trust
now controls is l,3s7 tons of news
paper day.
A hra,lra ont Uhnrs tft,,e. ~
Hong Cho Itome, Japan. during a gale
and 653 houses were destroyed in less
than two hours.
AMONG the ears which were wrecked
near Del Rio. Tex. few days ago
were five loaded with California wine.
Advices reached San Antcuio from the
scene of the accident that fully 200
tramps quickly scented the wine and
held high revelry at that plac. for sew
ersl days
BURGLARS looted Glenn Seigler's store
at st. James, Neb., the other night
The stock consisted of dry goods,
clothing. shoes. hardware and jewelry,
worth about $40, 900. and, as the bur
glars took most of 1t, it was though ut
they must have had more than one
wagon and have made several trips
WREN the bells in the towers on 22
cotton mills of New Bedford. Mass,
ran out at seven o'clock on the 18th,
the hour for the operators to take their
places at the looms and spindles, s, coo
operatives refused to enter the mill
yards. The strike was the result of a
cut in wages of ten per cent
An incendiary fire early the other
morning destroyed six of the best
brick business buildings and their con-
tents in Hillsboro, Tex. The loss on
the buildings was estimated at $50. 900;
insurance, about $4,000.
'EIGHT firms sustained heavy losses
by a fire that broke out in the build
ing at the northwest corner of Mark ct
and Quincy streets Chicago. The to-
tai loss was about $500, 900, well in
sured.
The fight between the newspapers
and department stores of Denver, Col. +,
regarding advertising rates has been
settled by the unconditional surrender
of the department stores.
WHILE attempting to extinguish a
fire in the johnson canyon tunnel on
the Santa Fe road near Ash Fork,
Ariz. Charles Mathews, superintend.
ent OF bridges. and Pat Lyons road
master, were fatally injured by falling
rock and two laboiers dangerously
hurt The tunnel was destroyed.
DIR CHARLES r. SIMMONS, a reputed
millionaire and president of "A patent
medicine company, attempted to kill
Emil Davidson. a boolSkeeper OF a
trust company, at St Louis ON the 18th.
Simmons. when he was placed under
arrest, said that he had avenged a
wrong done his daughter. This is said
to be simmons third deadly affray
Col. WILLIAM KIRK, an eX-union
soldier of Wood county, Va, has pub
lished a card in which he eritieises
what he calls the assaults made upon
the pension rolls, denouncing Commits
sioner of Pensions Evans especially,
and announces that he will pay SlO(
for each case OF fraudulent pension
now being paid by the United States
TO a civil war soldier.
The internecine strife within the
ranks of the Catholic Knights of Amer
lea has broken out anew. The fght
involves the Ohio, Illinois and Missouri
Communicates The trouble started
over the fight for n supreme medica
examiner at Indianapolis.
A LARGE office building at McKees
port Pa. was totally destroyed by fir'
ON the nth IL cost SiOO OOO TO cree