The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-08-25

| austria, reported that 500 houses were
destroyed and 1,sOO persons made
homeless by fire there.
Two American ships, which sailed
/ from the Pacific coast early in the
spring, arrived at New York on the
18th, having been ali the intervening
time on the sea, without being report
ed and oblivious TO the fact of the war
waged between this country and Spain,
making their capture as prizes of war
| possible. The war began and was ter.
minated within the space of their voy-
/ age
FRANK GEKLL1NG, an expert miner
and mineralogist, went to the powder
house of the Eureka mine at Benton,
Wis, and set off 40 pounds of dyna-
mite, blowing the building and his
body 10 atoms
FIERCE fight occurred between the
Iroustabouts of Buffalo Bills show and
200 excursionists waiting for their
trains at Kewanee, Ill The fight
arose over dispute concerning a ten
cent ticket to the concert, one of the
eNcursionists claiming he had 10 pay
twice. After half an hours battle the
showmen proved victorious
JoHS BALE. aged II years, of Ash
land Heights, Montgomery county,
Pa, who recently shot and seriously
wounded Ida Brown, his sweetheart,
and then shot himself, has died. The
girl will recover. The shooting was
the result of a lovers quarrel
The American Bar association be-
I gan its annual session on the 18th at
Saratoga, n. Y. There was large
attendance Of distinguished members
of the bar from all parts of the coun-
try.
! IT was asserted that zoo workmen in
the allied building trades of St Louis
were out as the result OF a strike for
better wages inaugurated some time
ago and that the suspension of work
may spread.
EIGHT deaths from sunstroke &C.
Cured in Paris, France, on the 10th.
THE surgeon generals office has de-
cided to take all the well and conva-
iescent men away from Key West
Fla, SO that they will not be in
danger from the outbreak of yellow
fever at that point.
! A SPECIAL from Candy, Mimi, on
the 18th reported tornado IL miles
west Seven persons were killed and
seven were missing.
| SURGEON GENERAL STERNBERG has
| decided to send out scientific com
mitteo to investigate the cases of ty-
phoid fever in the army camps and re-
port upon a method TO prevent such
occurrences in the future.
/ Al.
thunderstorm at Wheeling, Ind, a bolt
of lightning struck a 90-foot tank in
the Standard Oil company's refinery,
completely demolishing the upper
portion of the tank and setting fire to
the oil stored therein, which consisted
of over 35 900 barrels of crude oil wait.
ing refinement The entire fire de-
partment was hurried to the scene and
every effort made to save adjoining
tanks The loss was over Sl0O, 900.
FIRE started in r. NJ. Bryan's drug
store at Buffalo, Tex, and destroyed
the entire block, nine buildings being
consumed eight a total loss, together
with their stocks. 1t was impossible
to estimate the loss.
=. j. CoRBETT, father of James J..
Corbett, the heavyweight pugilist,
shot and killed his wife at San Fran
cisco on the 10th and then turned the
weapon upon himself. 1t was believed
that the murderer was demented.
Death was instan taneous in both cases.
THE mortality was reported on the
18th TO be so great in the camp of the
Spanish prisoners at Santiago de Cuba
that the dead were no longer buried,
but funeral piles of dozen bodies
were made, then saturated with kero-
sene, set fire to and cremated.
LIGHTNING struck a large oil tank
belonging to the Buckeye Pipe Line
company at Findlav, o., completely
destroying $4,000 barrels of oil. A
terrific explosion occurred and the fire
spread TO outbuildings, track and
fences and destroyed IS cars belonging
to the Lake Erie & Western Railroad
company. The total loss was esti-
mated at $50, 900.
A GRAND review of the army at Camp
Thomas, at Chickamauga, Ga, was
held on the 18th by Gen. Breckenridge.
Fully "A, 900 soldiers passed by the re-
viewing stand. Experienced military
men thought it wonderful that such
well-trained soldiers could have been
made from raw men within three
months.
AT Garry Owen, Ia, AZ children went
TO picnic and when they had eaten
dinner they were one after the other
taken violently i'll. All the doctors in
the neighborhood were summoned,
and by the use of stomach pumps ali
were saved. 1t was thought they
were poisoned by eating canned meat.
CHAPLAIN r. T. KERLIN, of the Third
regiment, Missouri volunteers, has
written letter from Thoroughtare
Gap, Va, exposing the mismanage,
ment prevailing in the Second army
corps. Thirteen hundred gallant sons
of Missouri are in that corps Accord
ing to the chaplain many of them &c
bGrefooted, many are ragged, all are
hungry and their health is being un'
dermined by the inefficient care which
Uncle Sam takes of them
THE managers of the Transmits
sissippi exposition ut Omaha, Neb., an,
nounced that a grand peace jubilee
viii be held on the exposition grounds
the week of October 20 TO Il.
A CLoUDBURsr at Beach Creek, neaI
Rogersyille, Tenn, caused the loss OF
at least 20 lives. The torrent of water
fell in the vicinity of the home OF vii.
liam Figan, farmer and his entire
family-wife aud five children-was
washed away by the flood and drowned,