The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-03-17

FIRE which started from an over
turned pot of molten Stag entirely de-
stroyed the plant of the sr slter at
Deadwood. : D.. ON the 10th There
was little FIRE protection and the build.
ng burned without interruption. The
oss was put at $3.50. 600, with insuraHce
II siO0, 900. -Four hundred men were
thrown out of work.
a RECENT dispatch from Omaha.
Neb.. stated that maximum age
unit had been fixed by the new Union
Pacific management Sixty years is
he limit of employment: in the me
,hanicS3 department Not only are all
persons over that age in the shops be-
ng discharged but none will be em-
lployed in the future who are near that
period of life.
An organization to be known as the
Federation of American Railway Em-
lcloyes was perfected on the 10th at
'hieago. Ii is intended TO take the
place OF the A. II. u.
THE recruiting officer of the United
States army located in Chicago recent
" received a telegram from the adju-
tant general at Washington 20 enlist all
desirable applicants fitted for artiI-
iiery, heavy and light, and send them
TO Fort Sheridan. Within few hours
after the telegram had been posted on
the bulletin board over 800 men ap-
piled for enlistment
THREE small children of Mr.. and
Mrs William Conner, living at 1920
Clarence avenue. St Louis, were
burned to death on the 9th. They had
been left alone by the parents. who
were attending a funeral. and IL was
thought that the fire that burned
them was caused by an explosion of
kerosene.
THREE members of the Robbers
Roost" band of outlaws. who recently
murdered boy named William Strang
and Wyoming stockman named Val
entine Hoy, were captured in the
Henry mountains, near Cheyenne.
Wyo, by a posse of Hoy's friends and
lynched. They were Louis p. johnson,
J. Bemret and one unknown.
Two papers containing important
contributions TO the gold-bearing re.
yions of Alaska have just been issued
from the government printing Office.
ne each of these papers the geological
survey has about 1000 copies for gem
eral distribution.
News came from Melbourne, Aus
ltralia. on the sth of terrible suffering
in that place from the heat of the sun.
streams were dried up and men,
women and children gasped for
breath. In the country miles of farms
were burned by the sun and bush fires
started which blotted out whole
townships.
BURGLARS broke into the residence
Of Mrs Christie at Chicago and because
she screamed the miscreants severed
her windpipe.
Alexander, an aged couple. were found
asphyxiated in their home through cs-
Gaping gas from a hard coal stove.
EVERY man employed in the Erie
canal work between Utica and Rome,
" ", quit work on the 5th. There
were about 900 of them. They de-
manded that the pay for laborers be
increased from 1875 to i5 cents an hour.
A committee waited on the ontractors
and it was said that the increase viii
be granted.
, THE federal supreme court on the
sth rendered an opinion in the maxi
mum freight rate case. Justice Har-
, ian held the Nebraska law to be con-
trary to the l4th amendment in that il
authorized the taking of property
without due process of law and was
therefore invalid. The opinion was
favorable to the railroads.
MAJ, JOHN n. BURKE. the noted scout
..E Ia tulz
recently left Tampa, Neb., for Key
, West with 20 picked Cubans. The ex-
act mission of the party was unknown,
but il was believed the men would
leave an island near Key West for
Cuba and attempt some important
work which only veterans could be
trusted to do.
IT was stated at St Louis on the 9TH
/ that another strike of Illinois coal
, miners was probable as result of the
cut in wages by the Big Muddy Coal
company of Cartersville. other compa.
uies stating that they will have to cut
, likewise.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. school-childrcn are
to pioneer a monument movement foi
the sailors of the Maine who are
buried in Havana. Pennies are to be
contributed by every school and in this
way sufficient funds are to be collected
for the erection of shaft in the Ha
vana cemetery where the dead lie. |,
is proposed to have every child in the
public schools of the country contrib
ute one penny for this purpose.
Two Italian laborers were instantly
killed and two badly hurt, one OF
whom afterwards died, by dirt car
which fell upon them while they wer,
at work on the new East river bridg,
at New York.
A ne gathering of Irish Americans
assembled in Denver. Col, on the 9TH
the occasion being the celebration OF
the centennial anniversary OF the Irish
rebellion OF 1875. Delegates We're pres
ent from ali the lrish-American organ
I izations in the state
4 THE City of Nicksburg, one of the
finest Anchor line boats on the Missis
D sippi river until the tornado of May 27
d 1895, when its upper works We're de
1 molished, has been bought for the 81
+ Louis naval reserves, To be remodelled
= into a gunboat II will cost SIS, 900 tc
remodel the boat, which win be armed
{ with rapid tire guns from the navy de
partment
TUE steam tug Dauntless was libeled
E at Jacksonville, Fla, on the 9TH by the
government charged with flibuster
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