The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-10-27


| person caught masked was taken TO
the police station.
In the recent battle with In dians at
the southwest corner of Leech lake, in
Minnesota, company + of the Third
infantry put up gallant fight While
| the SO ,oldiers Gen. Bacon had were
unable TO dislodge the 200 and odd In.
| dians from their strong position, they
made IL very hot for them. Maj vii.
| kinson, five soldiers and two Indian
| police were killed. The loss Of the In.
| d!ans was not known, but number
were killed and many wounded. The
! rumored massacre of Gen. Bacon's
troops was unfounded.
In Saline county, Ark, Joe McKin-
ney, young farmer. accompanied by
| his brother and friend, eloped with
| the daughter of Charles Taylor, another
| farmer. Taylor overlook the party
and opened fire with gun without
| effect Mckinney returned the fire
with revolver, killing Taylor. The
party then drove on to Redheld, where
the elopers were married. After the
ceremoney all four surrendered them
selves to the police.
Two freight trains collided in the
| buTllHRlOh NdTus dI luhlullOldi ANtbss
the other night, causing loss of three
lives, slight injuries to four others and
damage TO railroad property amount
ing to many thousands. An eastbound
freight train standing on the main
track was run into by westbound
stock train. Both engines were to-
tally wrecked.
| Gov. COOKE, of Connecticut has is
sued extradition papers calling for the
return to America of DIR. Nancy Gull
ford who is now held in London, Eng,
as principal in the killing of Emma
Gill, the victim of the Yellow pond
murder in Bridgeport, Conn.
THERE were II new cases and eight
deaths from yellow fever in Louisiana
on the 4th.
JOSEPH MCMANUs, nine years old,
was instantly killed while running
after wagon in St. Louis by street
car approaching from an opposite di-
rection. He was frightfully mangled.
WRIGHT SMITH, colored, who at
tempted an assault on Mrs. Morrison,
the wife of Capt. James Morrison, at
Annapolis, Md, was taken from Jail
early the other morning by a lynch
ing party to Sanders lot, near the
cemetery, and his body riddled with
bullets. Smith begged for mercy.
THE motormen of the street railway
at Waco, Tex, recently struck fol
three hours reduction in days work
at the same rate of pay. The com
, pany declined to accede to it.
, A coLoREp girl named Ella Williams
was crushed between the elevator and
? the shafting at the Centropolis flats at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 5th She
{ was looking down the shaft when the
y elevator descended and struck her.
/ A BATTLE was said to have been
: fought between troops under Gen. Ba-
o con and the Pillager Indians near
= Walker, MINI. There were conflict
;. ing reports about the engagement,
G one stating that Gen. Bacon and his
: men had been massacred. Reinforce
v ments were ordered to the scene a:
g once by the war department.
;. THE flower parade took place at
g Kansas Cicy, Mo-, in the afternoon on
S the 5th and the Priests of Pallas ball
l. at night
J. ON the 9TH S67, 900 acres of land on
l. the Red Lake reservation in Minne-
p sofa were thrown open to settlement
u hE par anu val VI Ahe
Yelled Prophets took place at st. Louis
on the 4th.
FARMERS living ten miles north ot
{ Perry, Ok, told of a wonderful drove
q of chicken hawks that had come into
a a that country in the past few days. II
W was said the hawks were in one drove
i and numbered 5000.
o A SENSATIONAL murder and suicide
4 ~ ~ ~ al
u Richard Dickson, aged 66 years, the
J. keeper of repair shop, shot Mrs
s. Blanch Winship three times with 3s
n caliber revolver, then turned the
q weapon on himself and both he anC
r. the woman died almost instantly
e Dickson had been paying attention I,
% the woman and she decided to breal
off with him.
d THE thirty-eighth annual fair opened
l. at st. Louis on the Sd with a fine dis
L. play of horses, cattle, poultry anC
IS farm machinery and the usual side at
fractions. In floral hall the display o
e flowers, plants, vegetables and fruit'
was excellent The day was children
If day and the schools were closed to en-
h., able the pupils to attend and NOR
p. than 90, 900 turned out
IN y
= molder's apprentice, stabbed Johl
n- Kitchen to the heart in defense of hi
mothers honor at Mobile, Ala, on tn
r. 4th. Public feeling was on Connor'
. side, and IL was not expected that tn
. law would hold him.
e GOV. STEPHENS, Police COMMISSIONS
Hawes and Chief of Police Campbell
q have inaugurated a war on the Insurer
a of st. Louis For years employees o
- the telegraph companies, railroad an,
So other concerns in that city have sui
fered from the eXorbitant interes
charges made by the so-called "mone.
;o sharks for loans, and more than on
man has given up trying to pay accu
mulated interest and committed sui
u eide.
'.' JOSEPH SToERTzBACK, ~ years old
VI was robbed of SIS, 900 at Stevens Point
+ Wis, recently. They were the SAY
re ings of his lifetime and he kept theI
d. in a tin box buried in his woodshed.
es Snow and rain on the I'd checked III
SIS progress OF the forest fires on the mai
range in Colorado and it was believe
r, that further destruction of timber wa
90 stopped.
lg The building formerly known q
"Ye Tavern" located at Fifty-tir'