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

of the interior, directing the sub
treasurer of the United States at ST.
Louis not TO issue any more money TO
any OF the treasurers of the five tribes
on account of the invested fund held
in trust for the tribes. has caused a
sensation. IL has paralyzed the Chero-
kee government, because 30 per cent
of the funds used in the running of
the government are derived from the
fund.
os his return TO Waco, Tex. from
Kansas City, Mo, recently. w. G.
Brann. of the Iconoclast. was arrested
for criminal libel on four charges.
SECTION of floor of the Cudahy
packing plant at Omaha, Neb., fell the
other morning, carrying down several
workmen. j. Novak was killed and
two others injured.
KID MCCOY has deposited s., 900
with a sporting paper in New York as
a forfeit to fight either Corbettor Fitz-
simmons for the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world.
THREE advanced students of the
Western Theological seminary, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, were recently indef-
nitely suspended by the faculty for
gross immoral conduct
EAST Grand Forks. n. d., suffered
another severe fire on the 2oth. An ell
evator and the bridge approach are in
ruins and a number of stores burned.
RoBERT u. HAZLETT. leading citi-
zen of Youngstown, o., was engaged
in moving from one house TO another
when Ray ii. Lee, who was assisting,
picked up a target rife. The weapon
was accidentally discharged and Haz-
lett fell dead in his wite's arms.
FIVE masked men entered the resi-
dence OF Mrs Gratz. near Beaver Dam,
o., and bound and gagged the house
hold, consisting of Mrs Gratz, a daugh-
ter. three sons and two farm hands,
and then secured all the valuables in
the house. After cooking themselves
good breakfast the rob bers departed,
leaving the inmates still bound.
THE Western Retail Implement and
Vehicle Dealers association convened
at Kansas City, Mo, on the 10th with
about 500 representatives from Mis-
souri,, Kansas. Oklahoma, Nebraska,
Iowa and Arkansas present c, Il.
Bowling, of Columbia, Mo-, presided.
DIR NJ. o. TERRY. surgeon general of
the national guard of New York, ad-
vocates the use OF cathartics and sweet
oil in the treatment Of appendicitis,
and declares that of 81 cases uuder his
personal supervision ~ were success
fully handled without operation.
THE body of Rev. Father William
Kurtenbach, of Flint Hill. Mo-, was
found in the river at St Louis. The
trouser pockets were turned wrong
/ side out, but nothing further 10 indi-
cate violence was found.
Mrs JoHS McCAFFEBY, of Dubuque,
Ia. while pulling weeds poisoned her
hands and rubbed them on her eyes.
The result is total blindness.
The Nicaragua canal convention, in
session at Kansas City, Mo, adopted a
memorial 10 congress strongly urging
| legislation that will secure the early
and permanent construction of the
Nicaragua canal.
Miss MILDRED STEPHENSON was
crowned Queen Polaris at Omaha,
Neb.. on the 18th and the ice carnival
in that city formally opened, every
thing being there but the ice.
The surveyors who were engaged in
surveying for the proposed low-line ir'
rigation canal, 10 extend from Albu'
querque. n. NJ, to the Indian village
of San Felipe, a distance of so miles
were stopped at their work by about
800 native citizens who were opposed
to the construction of the canal.
THE bodies of John Matthews, his
wife aud two children were found dead
in their home at New York the Other
morning. H. was supposed tha'
Matthews had murdered his wife anC
children and then committed su icid'
by shooting.
EDWARD A. KNIGHT, confidential
clerk for DIR. j. y. Canning banker
and broker at Boston, was reported 4
the police as missing and with hin
were supposed To have gone diamonds
jewelry and cash amounting to some
where between S25, 1000 to $50, 600.
WHILE the fire department was ex
tinguishing fire in a dwelling hous
on Chouteau avenue, St Louis, on tn
18th the charred remains of a littl'
girl were discovered. The house wa
! occupied by August Bauer and hi
paramour, Mrs. Hilda Ersar, and he
little girl. Bauer was arrested. Tn
police think he killed the child an
J tired the building.