The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-02-17

isville a Nashville road. -Four men
were killed. one fatally hurt and sew
eral others received broken limbs and
cuts. The force Of the impact welded
the engines together and piled the cars
upon them TO the height OF 80 feet
The five-story building at 5l2 Locust
street st. Louis. occupied by the
Tamblin-Powers Clothing company.
was destroyed by fire and portion of
the $50, stock burned.
DURING a funeral service in the syn
sgogue at Idzienriol, Poland, the wom-
ems gallery collapsed. In the panic
that ensued 12 women, five men and
three children were crushed to death
and many others were seriously i'm
iured.
TwESTy-sIx of the boarders and
servants at 215 East Capitol street,
Washington. were made sick through
eating something poisonous at dinner
the other day. Representatives Bodine
and Lloyd, of Missouri, were among
the number poisoned.
IL an attempt at Bonham, Tex, to
arrest William Greene and Bob Hunter,
outlaws, both men were killed and Of
fcers Milstead and Bridges were so
badly injured that they will likely die.
THE black plague has broken out in
eastern Yunnan, China. At Chan Cheo
500 deaths occurred in two months.
The people were throwing dead bodies
to the dogs.
JOKES * McLAUGHLIN have notified
the employees of their steel mills at
Pittsburgh, Pa, and elsewhere that
beginning February 19 the men must
work on Sundays the same as the other
six days of the week. The desire of
the large steel manufacturers TO work
Sundays is caused by the Carnegie
company working their men seven
days per week.
The Port Arthur Channel & Dock
company have been enjoined from en-
tering upon the property of Latham
Davis in Texas for the purpose of
excavating its proposed ship canal.
The litigation will doubtless be in
court for a year or two.
ADoLPH LUETGERT, the sausage-mak-
err, was convicted at Chicago of muir
dering his wife and sentenced to life
| imprisonment.
| THREE men named Snyder, Cheno-
weth and Burton were lying dead at
Glenville, w. Va, as the result of a
protracted spree. They sent for big
| jug of whisky and when they had got
through with that they bought a case
of extract of lemon and some patent
medicine, composed of alcohol, ginger
and other hot ingredients, after drink
ing which they died in agony.
FIRE started the other evening in
| fha D1antAref ~ Il,
Tenn. The entire building and ma
chinery, together with 5000 bales of
cotton, were destroyed and also many
freight cars loaded with cotton. Loss,
s25, 900.
In all probability bill providing
for the taxation of bachelors will soon
make its appearance in the New Jer-
sey legislature.
Two thousand students Of the Rush
Medical college, the Chicago College of
Dentistry and the Marquette school
engaged In a desperate conflict with 40
policemen at Chicago on the sth. The
battle ragged from noon until evening.
The trouble began by the students en-
gaging in a SNOWFALL fight. Several
students were badly clubbed and two
or three policemen somewhat badly
injured. When the riot was over 25
students were under arrest
A BOAT containing five men went
over the falls at Oregon City, Ore, and
four were drowned.
A TREATISE, entitled the "Inspec-
tion of Meats for Animal Parasites, I"
has just been issued by the agricultur-
al department at Washington.
| "a.
$. C., was destroyed by FIRE early the
other morning. Loss, Sl40, 900; insur-
ance, SOS. 900 There were l6s guests
in the building, but they managed TO
save themselves aud their baggage.
ABOUT 5000 trousers makers of New
York, Brooklyn and Brownsville went
on a strike on the 9th for an advance
in wages. They claimed that they had
to work 10 hours day for from S. to
go a week as wages.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Virginia Legislature to incorporate n
Memorial Park association to care for
the Fredericksburg and adjacent bat
tlefelds.
A FIRE which originated in the Acad-
emy of Music at Atlantic City, n. j..
on the 9TH destroyed that building
and spread To confectionery store,
two furniture stores, the Bryn Mawr
hotel and the Gold Mine bath house,
doing damage to the amount of S65,-
600 before IL was controlled.
FIRE at an early hour on the 9TH de-
stroyed all the business houses on the
west side of Exeter, Neb., with the
exception of brick bank and one
frame structure. Fourteen business
houses were entirely consumed and
very little of the contents of the build
ings were saved. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, Sl2, 500.
NINETEEN Italian immigrants were
deported on the 5th on the steamer
Tartar Prince. When leaving the
barge Office at New York for the ves-
sell they lamented most dismally.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by sta
tistician Hyde, of the agricultural de-
partment at Washington, giving con-
siderable information concerning the
cotton crop of 1867, its value, amount
purchased by mills and the acreage
planted.
A CHARTER was granted on the 5th To
the Muskogee Coal & Railway com.
pany. The line will be 100 miles long
and will run from Red Rock in the
Creek nation to Guthrie, Ok
DISTINCT earthquake shocks were re-
Gently felt at Lynchburg ard other
| towns in Virginia but no damage was