The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-06-16

C0Nn >eTer84 narrow e9GaE-. ron
death were reported
THR report reached Key West Fla-.
on the oth tha; Cn ed States auNil-
iary gunboss sighted four Spanish
warships in 81. Nicholas channel head
ing in the direction Of Havana Naval
ohosrs thought that there was much
speculation as 20 whether the ships
we're . part Of Cervera's feet which
did not enter Santiago or some Of the
ships from Cadiz
A wATER-LADEx barge and her crew
uf fve men. in a tow Of the steamer
Leonidas, were lost The Leonidzs
and her charge were en- route 10 Key
West, Fla, TO supply the army and
navy, when the vessel encountered a
severe storm of the coast Of North
Carolina, and during the gale the
hswsers parted and the barge went
down.
The sash. door and blind factory Of
the Cedar VALLEY Manufacturing com
pany al Waterloo, Ia, was destroyed
by Gre the other morning. Loss. S30,-
Jo0, Insurance. $1,000. The FIRE was
thought TO have been Of incendiary
origin.
THE eO-yezr penitentiary sentence of
ex-State Treasurer Joseph :. BARLEY
has been affirmed By the Nebraska su-
prsme court Bartiey was convicted
Of stealing 500, OO0 state funds
a CAR containing soldiers from Iowa
caught fire on the desert and the sol
diers lost all their clothes. They
passed through Reno. New. on a de-
layed passenger train, clad in their
underclotheS Several were quite
badly burned about the head.
TEs thousand people at Cincinnati
on the 9th cheered Han Dor as he
came down the stretch like a wild
horse, doing the ~ miles of the La
tonia derby in 2.S2jf and defeating
Plaudit, the greatest three-year-old
colt Of the present year.
SEVERAL large coal dealers in Phila.
delphia are accused of selling coal 70
Spain and the district attorney stated
that he had evidence that win send
several prominent dealers to Jail.
OS the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
six miles east of Parkersburg, o., a
freight train was derailed and pas.
senger train ran into il. The engi-
neer was killed aud several other per
sons were injured.
a SEVERE earthquake occurred in
northern Kentucky between two and
three a IN. on the 9th. At Paris sew
rrnl persons were thrown from theii
beds At Millersburg the people wer,
panic-stricken and many fed from
their homes. The shock was felt for
two minutes, spreading terror among
the people. Al Cynthia the shock wa,
accompanied by loud report, and a
owingsyille meteors fell during tn,
day.
THE wife and two children Of Georg,
Sliger. living near Comauche, Tex.
were burned to death. One of th'
children turned can of kerosene owe
near the fire and an explosion resulted
| The boy and baby girl were in
stantly in flames The mother made
an heroic effort to save them, but al
three soon died from their burns.
AUGUST SHRADER, the long-haire,
divine healer arrived in Terre Haute
Ind, recently on bicycle, hatless an'
shirtless and without money. HI
| claimed TO have been robbed of hi
money at Vincennes, and at Sullivan
he gave his shirt for a meal. His man
ager. he said, took all the proceeds o
their tour of the middle western state
a year ago.
| A GANG of crooks drove a buggy {,
the large jewelry store of ]. L. Coomb
a. Co, at Omaha, Neb., early the othe
morning and looted the place of every
thing Of value.
DURING an arrangements celebration
of the 9th at Belfast, Ireland, they at
tackled and overpowered the police
The troops were then called out Man,
civilians were injured and score o
arrests made.
OSCAR GARDNER put Jerry Marshall
of Australia, out in 70 rounds at Wheel
ing, w. Va. on the 9th. Gardner use,
his famous short-arm jabs in the wind
sending Marshall to the floor repeat
edly.
ADvICEs received on the 9th from tn
flagship New York said there was n
truth in the report of the Spanish tor
pedo boat destroyer Terror havinI
been sunk by the United States bat
tleship Oregon.
THIRTY-Two men were sentenced I
the Fort Leavenworth, Kan, peniten
tiary for terms ranging from IS month
TO 2l years at the criminal term JUS
closed of the United States court a
South McAlester, /. T..
A REPORT was current at Cape Hay
tien on the 9TH that the Spanish frs
class armored cruiser Maria Teres
was sunk by American ships at Santa
go de Cuba.
The grain dealers associations c
Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and low
will hold a joint meeting at Omaha
Neb., June i5-l7. L. ID. Coburn. seer,
tary OF the Kansas board of agricu
ture, has been invited TO address then
An international association of graf
dealers will probably be formed at tn
meeting.
AT the request of his mother Privat
Ronald Mcdonald, of the First Mi'
souri, volunteers, who was recent
drowned in Chickamauga creek, wa
given a soldiers funeral and wa
buried among the heroic dead in tn
national cemetery at Chattanooga
Tenn.
The ambulance ship Solace arrive
at New York on the 9th having o
board 81 wounded aud sick, some {
whom had been transferred from th
American warships in Cuban water
and others taken from the hospitals q
Key West.
A TERRIFIC explosion, causing III
ground % tremble and houses 10 shak