The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-03-10

! THE Chicago Daily News on the q
said that a financial corporation.
TO be known a. the International
American bank. with branches
throughout this country. Cuba and
south America. and with Offices in Lon
don aud possibly Paris. will soon be
doing business on a capital Of ss5. O0e.-
600
As the BostOnia steamed out from
her wharf at Cincinnati the other
night eight colored rOustabouts were
thrown into the river. Four were res
cued and four were drowned The
gangplank broke.
SHEP WooD. prominent young farm
er a. Cordele. ia. shot and killed his
brother Thomas ON seeing the result
of his shot, he turned the gun on hiui-
self and sent bullet through his
brain. The brothers quarreled over
business matters
WARREs BEcKwrrH, who created no
toriety last winter by eloping with aud
marrying Miss Jessie. daughter of Rob
ert T. Lincoln. will this season pitch
for the ottumwa ua-) baseball team in
the Western association.
A NEw issue of a counterfeit 81 treas
ury note, discovered by the federal Sc
cret service. has made its appearance
The note bears check letter u aud
plate No. p.
JONI WycKLIyF. recently chief jus
tiee Of the supreme court of the Chero-
kee nation. with his son and several
other relatives. were recently jailed at
Ninita, l.. T.. on the charge of cattle
stealing.
A. REHCP and his wife. insane and
lacking food. were found By police
man barricaded behind the doors of
their home. sToo La salle street, Chi
cago. with the hallucination that enc
mics were seeking to enter aud kill
them For two months the couple
have existed in the almost unfurnished
rooms with evidently little food
PETER HoRS was hanged at Column
bus, Miss. for the murder of Anthony
Brown. committed over two years ago.
There were more than 5000 people
/ present to view the execution.
AT Mineral Wells. W. Va. two old
women, Edith and Linda Caplinper.
were burned TO death by their clothes
catching fire.
MEETINGS of subcommittee of the
American Maize propaganda were
held at Philadelphia on the Ist TO per-
feet the organization and mature
plans FOR further action. IL was
decided to secure the cooperation of
every farmer in the corn belt and also
the manufacturers who handle the
product. Great corn shows are to be
held at Paris and the Omaha and
Buffalo expositions and corn cooking
schools in all the principal cities of
the country.
SECRETARY WILSON, Of the agricul-
tnrai department, will soon distribute
about three car loads of rare and valu-
able seeds to state experiment stations
and others The seeds were brought
from eastern Europe and Asia by Prof
Hansen, who was sent out to that sec
tion of the world to ascertain what
the people there did to adapt plants to
their conditions. The seeds to be dis
tributed, it is expected, will be valu-
able TO the arid regions of this coun-
try.
THE remains of George W. q. Ferris,
the inventor of the Ferris wheel at the
Chicago worlds fair, are held at a
crcmatory in Pittsburgh, Pa, for the
unpaid funeral expenses, contracted
over year ago.
Ir has been decided TO extend the
time in which applications for space at
the Omaha tNeb.) exhibition will be
received until March IS.
THE assistant secretary OF the inte-
rior, Webster Davis, has issued an
order which will result In giving all
soldiers affected by the Bennett deci-
sion chance to be heard. The eases
referred to are those claims that were
taken from the files by board of re-
vision which had been allowed under
the act of June -, 1890, for re-exami.
nation.
THE National Pure Food and Drug
congress at Washington ON the I'd was
attended by 200 persons. Aaron Jones
master of the National Grange, in his
speech said that practically all the
farmers of the country were for the
pure food bill.
ABoUr 1000 negroes held mass
meeting at Chicago on the 2sth to
protest against the recent nssassina-
tion of a colored postmaster at Lake
City, 5. C., and memorialize President
Mckinley and congress 20 punish the
murderers The resolutions recited
that steps should be taken to stop
lyuching and protection be afforded 70
every citizen regardless of color.
FRED MOORE, the murderer Of Ton
Anderson. was taken from the county
Jail at senatobia. Miss, and shot Il
death by mob of so persons Ander
son and Moore had quarreled about
some trivial matter, when the latter
shot the former five times.
} Mrs. CELIE WALLACE, the wife of the
wealthy Chicago lumberman, has
added to her magnificent collection oi
jewels the second largest diamond in
the Uuited States. The price paid
was sal. 500.
THE five-year-old child of Mr.. Mes
sick, the owner of a restaurant in
Atoka, ]. T., was burned 10 death in
the absence of its mother. IL was
supposed that the child played with
matches
j. \. GRAHAM, janitor of the Chris
tian church of Cuba. Ill. drowned
himself in the baptistry. He was Il
years of age. No cause was assigned
for the suicide.
The British steamer Legislator wa
burned at sea the other day. A boai
capsized and five men were drowned
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