The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-06-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
THE navy department n laying in eX.
tensive new stocks OF naval ordnance.
One of the effects OF the recent war has
been TO build up large mum
ber of small factories capable
of producing war supplies. Fac
tories which have heretofore been
engaged in making bicycles, rivets,
castings and tubings learned
that the making of war materials was
profitable employment. BY slightly
adding TO their plants they are able to
make shells, proiectiles, etc.
ADJT GIN. CoRBIN on the 25th gave
Dut for publication the report of Col.
Fred Funston, of the Twentieth Kan
sas regiment, which was an appendix
to the report of Maj Gen. Macarthur,
The report deals with the operations Of
the Kansas regiment from the begin
ning of the outbreak February until
February 10.
The Samoan commission arrived at
Apia the other day and held sitting.
Nothing was disclosed regarding the
deliberations, but it was rePorted that
they upheld the action OF Admiral
kautz, the American naval commander.
NIGHTINGALE's silk mill at Peterson,
n. j., was burned on the 25th, the fac
.ory, three-story frame structure, and
It's contents, including silk and 200
looms, being destroyed. The loss was
estimated at $50, 900.
ADvICEs from Riga, capital of the
Baltic province of Livonia, says that
.he Russian soldiers, in suppressing the
recent rioting between worlmen at
hat place, killed IL persons and wound
| .d so.
Two persons, "A man and a woman,
perished in fire that DESTROYED a
.odging house in West Forty-seventh
street, New York. Mrs, John Roath-
berg, 81 years old, also was fatally
burned in trying TO escape from IA
burning tenement at Rivington and
Pitt streets, in the same city.
The fertilizing plant OF Walker,
Stratman ~ Co., at Pittsburgh, Pa.
was destroyed by fire. Edward Probst,
an employe, was missing and 1t was
| feared that he was burned to death.
The loss was about slOO, 900.
THREE white men, James Humphries
and his two sons, were lynched the
other night near the village of Alley,
Tex. The lIumphries were farmers
and We're accused of harboring a man
who had murdered "A constable The
mob was composed of l3 neighbors.
Two boys in passing IA tent on the
outskirts of Joplin, Mo-, the other day
discovered n man on the floor dead.
On bed nearby was the body of n
woman with her skull crushed in and
m another bed the dead bodies of a
boy of IL and a girl of ten, their heads
also being crushed Hurying out of
the tent the boys stumbled over the
headless body of a girl about four years
Did. The dead mans name was James
+. Moss and il was believed that he
had murdered his wife and children in
a fit of dependency.
| A FIRE at 81. Johns n. b.. burned
over an area of 10 blocks, DESTROYING
$50 houses and making about 1000 per-
sons homeless, mostly laboring people.
| The loss was estimated at $500. 600.
! THE circle of Gcrman-American Free
mason lodges, representing some 10, 900
maSons Of German birth or parcntage,
/ held its third annual convention at
Detroit, Mich, on the 21th. The scs-
/ sion was secret.
\ HURRICANE visited Hastings, Neb.
IN the 25th, demolishiug the IT. Joseph
& Grand Island railroad sheds and
blowing down 20 houses. No lives were
lost.
Ir was stated on coed authority at
| Chicago on the 25th that the Diamond
| Match consolidation with the indie
pendent factories win be accom- plishcd
within fortnight.
! THE first spike in the track OF the
Fort Dodge 4 Omaha railway WAS
driven at Council Bluffs, la, ON the
cath.
The national Baptist convention
opened at san Francisco on the Gath.
THE Texas house passed a bin legal.
izing strikes by labor organizations.
ADJT GEN. CoRBIS ON the gath pre-
pared this statement of the number of
deaths which have occurred in the
army since the beginning of the war
with Spain: In Cuba, /, 500; in Porto
Rico, 2s7; at Honolulu, ~; in the
Philippines, 6O6: in the United states,
8,S72; total, o. 6.209.
THE tifty-hfth annual meeting OF the
American Medico-Physicological asso-
citation began at New York on the 28d.
This body is composed of the medical
superintendents and assistants I'm in
sane asylums throughout the United
States and Canada.
THE United States supreme court has
adjourned for the term
CHARLES HALT was shot and fatally
wounded by am unknown negro at Tex
arkana, Ark, for refusing TO give him
I % cents.
SECTION men ON the Grand Trunk
railway system struck on the 22d. The
strike affected the system from Sarnia,
Ont, 10 Portland, Me.