The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-06

| hbOub SVV utltRuLtS III htJenuance,
representing all parts of the United
States and some foreign countries.
ADvICEs from Mantanzas stated that
between January 1 and September IS
there were reported 33l births and 8,
901 deaths. OF the deaths 80 per cent
we're due to hunger and distress. The
conditions Mt Matanzas were described
as deplorable.
THE five-year-old son of James Ferry,
Of Morris, ILL.,, was burned to death
while playing with matches in a barn.
THE National Carriage Builders as.
sociation elected officers at it's recent
session in St Louis, ID. NJ. Perry, of In
| lianapolis, Ind, being chosen presi-
| dent and Henry C. Mclean, of will
mington, Del, secretary-treasurer l..
+. Tebbetts, of St. Louis, was made a
vice president.
REPORTS were being made to the Ok
lahoma live stock sanitary board of
horses dying suddenly of strange dis
ease veterinarians have not been able
to classify or control. Fully 300 horses
have died in the territory and many
farmers have lost most of their work
animals.
OCTOBER 10 has been agreed on for
Missouri and st. Louis day at the
rransmississippi exposition at Omaha,
Neb., with one cent n mile from all
points in Missouri.
THE Twenty-frst Kansas passed in
review before Secretary Alger at Camp
Hamilton, Lexington, KY, and he
was so well pleased with the regiment
that he has revoked the order grant
ing the regiment furlough.
FIVE men were in jured at the new
government dam at Neville island,
near Coraopolis, Pa, by the breaking
Of large travelling crane. Two of
the men are in a critical condition and
may die. The accident was caused bv
the breaking of a steel guy line, which
precipitated a large derrick, go feet
above the crane, to the ground.
A MUTINY broke out among the con-
victs at Cayenne, the capital of French
Guiana, and they overpowered and
murdered their guards, then stormed
the military store house and seized the
arms and ammunition there. They
afterwards besieged the principal
prison and IL was feared they would
succeed in freeing the 1900 convicts
confined in the building.
THE secretary of war inspected the
hospital and regimental quarters at
Camp Poland, Knoxville, Tenn, on the
9tst and reviewed the enlisted men.
He afterwards made a speech to the
officers, saying that the commanders
Of camps were responsible for the con-
| 1ition of thsir camps, and if the men
were not well cared for they would
have to answer for IL.
THE secretary of the treasury on the
Goth received letter signed "A Citi.
len," Topeka, Kan, containing a draft
for $500, which the sender stated
should be credited to the conscience
fund.
AT the Kansas City stock yards on
the Goth 1s,0S5 cattle were received,
sclipsing all previous records.
THE party of Missouri and Illinois
prospectors who started for far away
Kotzebue sound few months ago in
the schooner Merrill, has had serious
split-up and are now going up differ
ent rivers in the north. They left
Capt. Louis Bernhardt, who sailed the
schooner north, dangerously i'll in his
cabin. Reports of gold strikes SOC
miles up the Kowak river in Alaska
caused him to be deserted in day.
A STATEMENT was given out at the
war department on the 10th that vol
unteers, instead of going to their sen
ators and congressman to secure their
discharges, must apply for them in 9
proper manner by sending letter tc
the adjutant general, stating their rea
sons for wanting to be discharged.
A LONDON dispatch on the 18th said
that the drought in England was as
suming most serious aspect and the
extreme heat continued. In East Lon
don 1000, 900 people have water sup
ply only four hours a day.
SEVEN buildings in Elmwood, foul
miles from Syracuse, n. Y, were
burned to the ground on the 10th anC
two men, Frank Harvey and George
Straus, were burned to death. Tn,
men were guests of the Sheppard hotel
JENNIE HICKEY, a l3-year-old schoo
girl, was found murdered on the break
water at Thirty-sixth street, Chicago
the other morning An eXpressmar
was charged with the crime.
THE Leroh Lake Indians held a coun
Gil at Walker, Mimi, with lndiar
Agent Sutherland and informed hin
that they would ignore the authority
of the United States in their triba
matters and resist any interference
by the government in the disposal o
the pine lands of the reservation.
A POLISH christening at Banning
Pa, a mining settlement, ended in I
free for-all fight, in which knives, pis
tolls and clubs were freely used. On,
man was killed and five others injured
WILLIAM BLOOM shot and killet
Grace Harvey at indianapolis, Ind.
and then committed suicide. Reveng,
prompted the deed.
WILLIAM FREEDMAN, a bachelor liv
ing alone on a claim eight miles ives
of Nowata, /. T., was assassinate'
while in bed. A man formerly il
Freedman's employ was arrested ol
suspicion.
THREE young men, while rowinI
home from church ON the Connection
river off Moramus, Conn.,, had thei
boat capsized by squall and the
We're drowned in sight of some of thei
relatives on shore.
LEE MILLER was legally hanged a
Heber, Ark, on the 10Th for the mul
der of Hugh Patterson for his money
The execution was witnessed by
large crowd.
In the issue raised by the Secon
Texas infantry, which refused to b