The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-06-09

| OF oats, nay and whisky. several men.
beating their way, were injured.
SOLDIERS and sailors are TO be al
lowed the franking privilege for let
ters mailed in the field.
A GENERATOR connected with the
residence of John Young, at Calves
ton, Tex, exploded with terrific force.
setting fire TO and partially destroying
the house. Miss Annie Young and two
! negro domestics were frightfullv
| burned and il was doubtful if they
/ would survive.
! Gov CULBRRsoS has issued a procla-
nation declaring that no cattle in
| Greer comfy, Ok, shall be moved into
/ any portion OF Texas west or north Of
vember Is, 1898
WoRrHISGToS Military academy
! (EpiscopaD near Lincoln, Neb,, was re-
Gently burned. Loss, S62. 900; insured
for about $4,000. The building was
Of brick and stone, 81 stories The
| fire caught in the attic, supposedly
from flue. and, being beyond the fire
limits, nothing could prevent the de-
| struction OF the building.
A RECENT conhagration at Peshawir.
which was not mastered for "a hours.
destroyed 1000 houses and did damage
TO the amount of about $40, 900. 900.
This was supposed 70 be the record fire
of India.
NEAR Muscatine, Cleburn county,
Ala, Kilgore and Barnes, two farm.
ers, who had been at war over line
fence, shot each other and IL was re.
/ aI Aas 4 4 u
was tearing the fence away when
Barnes shot Kilgore fell, but man.
aged TO reach his gun and shot Barnes
before he lost consciousness.
IN quarrel over 5O-cent pocket
knife at Galveston, Tex, Pete Peter
son shot and killed Henry Williams,
negro fisherman.
The tug Record, one of the stanchest
on the lakes, was run down and sunk
on Lake Superior, near Duluth, Mimi,
and three of her crew were drowned.
JUDGE SUTHERLAND of the Wisconsin
! superior court, decided that a specifi.
cation in a contract requiring the con.
tractor to use only union labor is void.
The Woman's National War Relief
association has been organized in New
York with Mrs. u. S. Grant as presi.
dent
A LONDON news agency on the 30th
asserted that the pope had forwarded
peace proposals to President Mckinley.
THE Spanish bark Maria Dolores was
captured off Porto Rico by an Ameri-
can cruiser. She was loaded with coal.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
railroad completed its line into Fort
Smith, Ark, on the lst.
JAMES UNDERWOOD, a travelling lew
elry salesman, met an awful death
while in the store of a customer at st.
Louis the other afternoon. Thinking
it was drinking water Mr.. Underwood
plunged a glass into two-gallon
crock containing cyanide of potassium
and drank 1T Off, In less than 10 min
utes he was dead.
The Kansas volunteers at San Fran.
cisco were happy on the 3Oth. Every
man in the regiment wore a new uni
form, new shoes and new undercloth-
ing and presented a very soldierly ap-
pearance when they held memorial
services in their camp in the afternoon.
A DISPATCH from Dallas, Tex, on the
Slst said that the harvesting of grain
had begun in north Texas. The crop,
believed to be the heaviest in the
history of the state, was in excellent
condition.
THE Transmississippi exposition was
opened at Omaha, Neb., on the ist
There was grand civic parade three
miles long. President Mckinley
touched an electric button at the white
house and started the machinery and
sent telegram of congratulation to
the president of the exposition. At
night a pyrotechnic display on the
most elaborate scale took place in the
exposition grounds.
The ear barn and 1870 cars of the
Consolidated Railway company at Bal
timore, Md, were burned, entailing a
loss of S250,000; fully covered by in.
surance.
MuTINY broke out among the con-
victs at the United States penitentiary
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, on the lst
and Ia escaped. Two hours later
James Musgrove, an Indian territory
desperado, who was the leader, was
shot down, struck by eight bullets.
A SPECIAL from Victoria, b. c., said
that the schooner Lady Jane Grey
foundered 90 miles west of Cape Flat.
terry on May %, Only % out of 0l pas
sengers were saved.
MEMORIAL services in honor of the
soldier dead were held in all the prin-
cipal cities of the country on the 30th,
veterans of both federal and confeder-
ate armies marching together to the
meteries in order to decorate the
graves
TERRIFIC explosion occurred in the
tar paper factory of Tobias, New &
Co, at New York, in which a number
of persons We're seriously injured, the
entire plant wrecked and thousands of
dollars of damage done. No one was
killed, but it was feared that some of
the injured may die. The firemen
think the explosion was caused by ac.
cumulation of tar gas
VETERANS of the union and the con-
federacy marched together in the pa.
rade at Denver, Col, on the 30th TO
decorate the soldiers graves in the
various city cemeteries Before the
parade the veterans assembled at the
capitol grounds, where they received
floral tributes from thousands of school
children.
SAMUEL JENKs aud his son William
were instantly killed b. an express
train near Wabash, Ind, while walk
ing on the track.