The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-12-01
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MISCELLANEOUS.
THE first assistant postmaster gen.
eral In his annual report says that the
business of the department shows an
increase of 81, 900, 900 during the fiscal
year. There were 27, ,79s, 07S domestic
money orders issued for the year,
amounting to SOL, 354, l2L Mr. Heath
recommends that post Office clerks be
classified and placed upon a fixed scale
of salaries; that small post offices be
consolidated; that clerk hire apprc-
priation be made to apply to third
class post Offices; that another form of
money order be issued, and that $780,
900 be set aside for extending rural
free delivery.
A TRAIN was derailed on the Bur
lington. Cedar Rapids & Northern
road while rounding a curve near Bur-
lington, In. The day coach. con ntain.
| ing 20 passengers, rolled over twice
and landed right side up in a ditch, so
feet away. Two persons were fatally
injured and several others received
bruises
Mrs. NANSIE STALEY and Minnie
France, her niece, were burned to
death at Huntington, w. Va May
Staley was also badly burned.
EVERY soldier in the Seventh corps
at Savannah, Ga, was made to feel
that the cath was Thanksgiving day.
! All drills were abandoned for the day,
and at two o'clock each man received
n ration of turkey, fruit and cake.
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loads of fruit and cake were sent to
camp in the morning. The feast for
| Gen. Lees men was provided by the
ladies of Charleston.
SECRETARY Bliss, of the interior de-
partment, made public on the Gath his
annual report reviewing in detail pen
sion, Indian. land, patent, educational
and territorial affairs The Indians
are declared to have made substantial
progress during the past year. The
workings of the Curtis act in the In
dian territory are praised. The secre-
tary reports 637, 900 pension claims
pending and recommends a commits
sion TO revise pension laws. Early
legislative enactment for taking the
twelfth census is urged.
GOLD was discovered at tSteubenville,
o., while digging pole holes.
FIRE in the wholesale district in Lou
isville, KY, gutted the millinery store
of David Baird X Son. A new stock
valued at between $50, 900 and 500, 900
was destroyed while the building suf-
fered $40, 900 damage. The fire was
thought to have started from an cleo
trio III otor. Employees had narrow es'
capes
MRS S. G. SMITH left baby boy
tied in chair at Averyville, Ill, with
a boy of four years and girl of two
years to watch. The two latter played
with fire and set the house on fire and
the baby was burned to death. The
mother returned while the house was
burning and tried to save her child
and was probably fatally burned. "
FIRE wiped out the large plant of
the Racine wis. malleable iron works
with the exception OF the blacks NTH
shop and offices. The plant covered
nearly three acres of ground. Loss,
$3.50, 900
WILLIAM +. ii. SCHROEDER, n wealthy
retired real estate dealer at ST. Louis,
aged 5s, reported to Chief of Police
Campbell on the 22d that his wife,
aged 80, whom he married is months
ago, had left home aud taken with her
money and papers valued at s27, 200.
THE court of inquiry appointed by
the secretary of the navy to ascertain
why the Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa
was abandoned and To fix the RESPONSE
bility began its labors ut Norfolk, Va,
on the 92d.
| A blizzard prevailed in Kansas City,
Mo, and surrounding country on the
2lst Reports from Kansas, Missouri,
Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska and other
places stated that there was big drop
in the temperature and that severe
snow and windstorms generally pre-
vailed.
GEN JAMES LoSGsTREEr, the com
missioner of railroads. in his annual
report made public on the 2isL calls
attention u the general prosperity oi
railroads and recommends the govern
ment construction and operation of :
drst-class double track railway from
Kansas City, Mo, to San Diego, Cal.
by air line route. This would oper
the shortest line, measured by tn,
map, from Boston, New York auc
Philadelphia to the Pacific coast anC
make the most direct line from oul
great commercial eenters to the Sand
wich islands and the Philippines.
THE forthcoming annual report o.
the attorney general embraces a re
view of the operations of the nationa
bankruptcy law of July /, ls9S. Al
though the act has been in force only
a little over three months over |. 5OI
petitions of voluntary bankruptc,
have been filed OF this number Kan
sas furnished 65 aud Missouri "a.
The grand jury at Philadelphia pre-
sented true bills Of indictment agains
United States Senator Quay, his sor
Richard 5. Quay and ex-State Treas
urer Benjamin j, Haywood, chargeC
with conspiracy to unlawfully use pub
J lie moneys deposited in the People,
national bank of Philadelphia