The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-22

held its sessions, and which contained
a magnificent organ. The loss was
estimated at $3.50, 900.
ANDREW 4. STEELE, fell pierced by
three pistol bullets at Versailles, Ky.
Merritt Hughes the slayer, is q
wealthy lumber merchant, about 80
years old. lie and Steele had been
enemies for some time. When they
met an the street they began quarrel
ing and shot at one another.
TIE Chicago limited" was wrecked
at Ingalls, crossing. four miles south
Of Fulton, n. Y, early on the 1st. The
wreck was doubtless due to the das-
tardly work of tramps who threw open
the switch. The engine was thrown
20 feet and blown to pieces. The ten
der was inverted. The trucks of the
baggage car were torn off and the
head coach telescoped the baggage
car. Three trainmen were killed and
several other persons were badly in
jured.
The national irrigation congress as
sembled at Cheyenne, Wyo., on the
/ lst Gov. Richards made the address
Of welcome and there were responses
/ by J. ). Emery, of Kansas, and others.
THE Empress of China brought the
news that the American ship Barring
| Brothers, from New York, burned in
the harbor at Kobe August 10. About
| 5000 tons of mating was also de-
stroyed. 1t is intimated that the fire
was of incendiary origin.
THE annual report of the governor
of Oklahoma to the secretary of the
interior was signed by Gov. Barnes and
mailed to the secretary, accompanied
| by correct map of the territory and
over 80 fine photographs showing col
lege and school buildings, farm scenes,
orchards, vineyards, fields of grain,
fruit and grain displays cotton fields,
etc. The report is the most complete
ever sent in from the territory.
NEAR Carthage, Tenn, Sam McKin-
ney and his son-in-law, Ira Grissirl,
met to settle an old trouble and Gris-
sim shot Mckinney through the abdo-
men and killed him.
The executive council of the Ma
| tional Association of Naval Veterans
has issued an invitation to the sur
vivors of the confederate army and
navy to parade with the veterans in
Cincinnati on September 6. 1t is the
purpose of the association to make a
reunion in the nature of a peace iu,
bilee
A BLOODY fight took place at Socorro,
a little settlement 16 miles below El
| Paso, Tex, between three cowboys
and two officers, and as a result of the
fight one of the officers is dead, the
other fatally wounded and the three
boys in jail.
SECRETARY ALGER on the 31st re.
ceived the report of Gen. Boynton on
the state of affairs at Camp Thomas.
The general stated that the hospitals
were in good condition though for a
time they were behind in obtaining
medical supplies and the attendants
were faithful workers. The general
concludes by expressing the opinion
that the newspaper reports abou,
Camp Thomas were reckless and false.
LIGHTNING recently struck the resi-
ience of Robert Edgington, neal
Heathsville, III. 1t entered the house
by way OF IL brick flue, tearing
1t down. 1t then struck Mr. Edg
ington on the hat, burning the tor
out of it, and taking a downward
course, tore his pants leg and his shoe
Then it hit two of his children, killing
one girl, eight years old.
DIR. SENN, the assistant surgeon gen
eral, stated that unless Camp Wikof
at Montauk point, N. Y, is abandoned
within six weeks it will be a horror
camp and n pesthole.
CAPT. LOUIS c. DUNCAN, surgeon @
the Twenty-second Kansas regiment
was arrested by the sheriff of Fairfa'
county, Va, to answer an indictmen
charging him with desecrating con
federate graves at Bull Run, nea,
Manassas His previous court-martia
sentence was lighter than reported
He got only two months confnemen
in camp instead of five years in tht
penitentiary.
FLAMES burst from lamp in Mrs
Rushs bedroom in Auburn, Ind, anC
she opened the door for her HUSBAND
to throw il out, but the screen wa
closed and the burning oil fell on her
charring her body from head to foot
4 SEVERAL company commanders a
Camp Hamilton, Lexington, KY, re
Gently polled their organizations wit
surprising results. The men were no
in favor of leaving the army. Tw
weeks before 90 per cent of them de
manded it. They realized after tina
they were out of employment, whic
few of them had when they enlisted.
THREE miles east of Alva, Ok, ther
was collision between a westboun
train and the eastbound passenger O
the Panhandle branch of the Santa FL
Eighteen or 90 people were injured
but none seriously Both engine
were badly damaged and the maj
cars injured some.
OWING to the failure of the harvest
in seven districts of the government {
Kazan and in the provinces of 81
maria, Saratof, Simbirik, ViatRa an
Perma, in Russia, where the crops ar
almost worthless, the government
adopting measures TO relieve the SUI
ferers. The peasants are denudin
their cottages of thatches in order I
feed their stock. In spite of all thH
can be done cattle aud horses are dyin
in great numbers aud the peasants al
exhausted from lack of food.
A GORGEOUS ball opened the bi
flower carnival at Colorado Spring
Col, on the night of the Goth. The fe
tivities were to continue for six day
A FIRE at New Kensington, Pa, d
stroyed the opera house, Barmo
black Jacobin's block and "A numb,