The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-02-24

AL records were broken at 81 f,ouii
On change on the 18th when May
wheat advanced TO si.Csx. ~ cent.
higher than the previoEs days close.
A TxEEfBIE explosion Of fredamp oe
CURED in the Verinigte CarOlinen
glueck eoliiery Ei Hammerly. Prussia.
on the 18th Thirty-seven boiies were
recovered. but IL was believed that %
persons had perished Many other
miners were seriously injured
II the Gown coal mine. of the Choc.
taw Coal company at Hartshorne. l. T.,
Maron Betras, . Syrian employe of the
company. let a mule escape from him
Tie wen, in pursuit Of the mule. which
ran into . condemned room full Of gas.
which BetrSs' lamp ignited. The mule
was incinerated and Betras himself
was badly burned about the back,
breast neck aud arms His recovery
was considered doubtfu
THE Burbank block and its contents
~ Pittstield, Mass. were destroyed by
FIRE Loss. slOo. OO0. with insurance of
about $50. OoO.
SNALL-POx has been declared epi-
demic in Middlesboro. Ky. All saloons
and the public schools have been
closed and no lettering on streets is al
lowed The nails are fumigated and
surrounding towns are closed against
the city
OwISs TO the money plethora the
Louisville (Ky.l Clearing House assoei-
alton has decided to reduce interest
paid country correspondents from ~
TO two per cent after March l. Two
wears ago the banks paid FIVE per cent.
KANSAS CITY. Mo. principals Of
schools went on record at the regular
meeting as favo-ing compulsory edu-
cation in the state of Missouri. The
resolutions recommended that a Law be
passed fixing the minimum annual at
tendance at some school by children of
age, and the passage of an anti-truancy
act. and of a truant school. to facilitate
the operation of the law.
Consul GENERAL LEE cabled from
Havana on the 10th that the number
OF dead from the battleship Maine dis
aster was 25O. with Officers Merritt,
and Jenkins still missing.
The corn convention began at Chica-
go on the 10th +. ID. Coburn. of Kan
sas, was chosen chairman. After a
speech BY Mr.. Coburn. Mr.. Murphy. of
Chicago. presented information regard
ing the corn movement J. Il. Rippey.
Of Missouri, and Col. Thomas w. Har-
rison, of Kansas, were named as two
of the members of the national execu-
tive committee Plans were outlined
for extensive exhibitions of corn at Che
Omaha and Buffalo expositions-
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patriotic demonstration in 1908 in
honor of the Louisiana purchase, of
which Colorado was part
The passenger and freight steam
boat Ericsson, which piled between
Philadelphia and Baltimore, Md. sank
in the Delaware river OFF Wilmington,
Del. on the 10th. The passengers
were all taken of.
AS result of deep snow and severe
cold the bluffs and forests in north
Wisconsin are populated with large
gray wolves, driven by hunger from
their homes, a circumstance unknown
since early days The woods are
strewn with carcasses of poultry,
sheep and rabbits ravaged by them
and attacks on pedestrians have been
reported
In was reported that the steamer
Clara Nevada, of Seattle, Wash. was
burned on Lynn canal and 40 men on
board were supposed to have perished.
The steamer was on her way 10
juneau. Alaska
THERE was peculiar demonstration
in the Academy of Music at New York
on the 18th. Rev. Thomas Dixon de-
nounced Senior de LONE and spoke
with warm feeling of the attitude of
Spain toward this country. His re
marks were cheered to the echo and
the audience that crowded the big
building shouted: Let us get at the
Spaniardsr' Let there be war;
Down with the woman slayerSr and
other remarks of similar strain.
THE steamer Flaehat, bound from
Marseilles to Colon, was totally
wrecked off the Canary islands and IS
Of the crew and 40 passengers were
lost.
The Oklahoma Live Stock assoeia-
ton has determined to exterminate IL
possible the wolves that infest the
ranges of Oklahoma and annually de-
stroy thousands of dollars worth of
cattle and offers $50 each for the scalps
Of full grown wolves and $40 for scalps
Of whelpS The total value of full
grown wolf scalp is se5. as the commits
sioners of Woodward county pay a pre-
MUM of s. and the scalp has a mar
ket value of 81
Mrs ADRIAN r ROBINSON and Edith
Schaffner were found in bed at Lyons.
y. H., nearly asphyxiated by coal gas
from the parlor stove. Neither was
expected TO recover.
The report of the civil service com
mission for the fiscal year ended June
so. 1897, has been presented 10 the pres
ident 1t states that after an expert
enee of nearly Is years the hopes OF |
the advocates of the civil service law
have been largely realized aud in prac-
tice the law has proved TO be au effec- !
tive force in the direction of economy. /
SECRETARY WILSON, OF the agrieul- /
tural department has returned TO |
Washington from his visit to Florida, |
where he went at the suggestion of /
the president To study the conditions /
of the country. He SAYS Florida is 1
reaching out for the tobacco trade 1
which formerly belonged TO Cuba
WILLIAM i. HALL president of the /
Hall Signal company and spoken Of as
the millionaire evangelist concluded /
a series OF meetings at New York at /
which 1000 persons professed conyer-