The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-06-08

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close TO the bed. which burst into
blaze and enveloped him in flame. His
cries brought help and the flames were
eNtinguished, but not until Townley
was perhaps fntally burned.
THE monthly report OF the director
u the mint showed the total coinage at
the United States rnints during May
was ST. sO4. SO. as follows: Gold. s4,-
sos, 400 silver, s., $40. 416: minor coins.
| 1921. $50. The number of standard dol
lars coined was 2.2l4.OOO.
/ JoHS LIND and his four-months-old
son Raymond were attacked by horse
/ ia his barn at Chicago the other day.
| The child was trampled TO death and
| Lind received injuries which, it was
/ thought, will prove fatal The horse
attacked them when Lind. carrying the
I baby in his arms. entered the stall.
AFARNEB named Wells living near
| Thorntown. Ind. while insane, threw
/ his four boys into a well and then at
| tempted to drown himself in the river.
! lie was rescued and arrested Two Of
| the BOYS are dead. another will die. but
1 the fourth was not badly hurt
Az attempted rescue of prisoners in
| the jail at Leadyille. Col, was frus-
/ trated by the vigilance OF the officers,
| who had been forewarned. A man.
[ who is supposed to be J. w. Breath, of
| san Bernardo Cal. was seen in the
| darkness to scale the high fence about
| the Jail. When captured he fought
| like tiger and was shot through the
heart by Deputy Lechmere.
GEORGE STALKER, aged %, shot his
| father and mother and then sent a bull
! let into his own head at Mayville.
Mich. II was Thought the parents
will recover. Stalker died half an hour
after shooting himself Young Stalker
/ had been drinking and his parents re-
monstrated with him.
ROBERTSON. LINDSAY & Co.'S depart
ment store at St Thomas. Ont, was
burned the other night Loss, $4,000.
Two hundred employees in three sewer
/ pipe works near Toronto, o.. struck on
! the lst for 25 cents increase per day.
| SURGEONS from all states in the union
! gathered in Chicago on the 3lst in at
| tendance on the twentieth annual
meeting of the American Surgical asso-
! citation.
Ir was officially announced at the
war department on the 3ist that the
] Twentieth Kansas regiment, now in
the Philippines, viii be mustered out
| in San Francisco.
Tue Transmississippi commercial
congress opened at Wichita, Kan. on
the 3lst with 300 delegates in att end
ance and many more expected the next
day. Vice President Prince, of New
! Mexico, called the congress to order.
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address of welcome and Mayor Ross
spoke for the city of Wichita. Ad
dresses were made on appropriate sub
| iects and several resolutions intro
duced, which were referred to the res
olutions committee.
FRED BRoKEw was drowned near
Waldron, Ark, while bathing.
The state health officer of Texas, on
hearing of the case of yellow fever in
New Orleans placed quarantine guards
and inspectors at points of entrance TO
Texas by 'telegraphic orders and sent
the following telegram to every rail-
road entering Texas from New Orleans:
DO not sell tickets over your line from
New Orleans to any Texas point. Do
not bring any passengers or things
from New Orleans, either by express
or freight, into Texas until further or
ders. This win tie up the Southern
Pacific.
BELGIUM has rescinded the interdic-
ticn upon imports of American cattle
The seventy-fourth annual meeting
of the American Unitarian association
was held in Boston on the 30th. Car
) roll d. Wright of Washington, presi-
4 Al Z T., Al
TuE Washington Post stated on the
3lst that Gen. Otis had informed the
war department that he would be sat
isfed if the army under his command
was kept at a maximum of 30, 900.
DESTRUCTION was dealt out to the
/ gypsy people camped in the outskirts
, of Chicago 10y the terrific storm the
other night. Ada Seed, a gypsy girl of
II, was fatally injured and tents were
/ overthrown, huts were wrecked and
camps flooded.
WASHINGTON observed Decoration
day and there was a big parade of
- Grand Army men, national guardsmen
a and other military organizations. The
A ceremony at Arlington cemetery was
I notable by the presence of President
Mckinley, members of his cabinet and
many leading officers of the army and
! navy. Webster Davis, of Kansas City,
To- Mo, was the orator
\ RECENT prairie fire swept over Au,
A rora county, :, d., and burned over tn,
favoritc lurking place of rattlesnakos
q with the result that the snakes wer,
easily detected and were killed 10y
=, Wholesale by farmers living in tn,
vicinity.
20 ADRIAN BRAUN was put to death by
' electricity in the prison at Sing Sing,
' y. V, ON the 29th for the murder of hi,
wife A current of 500 volts wa'
turned on at 9:l7 a. m. and at 60
V Braun was declared TO be dead by the
y attending physicians a second SHOCK
y was given for ten seconds.
THE Ancient Order of Hibernian'
= held its fifticth annual convention il
l. New York on the 3lst in atliliatior
" with the Board of Erin, the parent or
d ganization of ireland. After electinl
T. officers the convention adopted resolu
= tions denouncing any alliance of tn,
II United States with any foreign power
especially with England,
y GREAT BRITAIN has again refused L
,t pardon Mrs Maybrick, an American
-s woman who was convicted of murder
"a ;,,r h,r b,,. hand a rich Iiyarnppl rppr