The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-02-09

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The buckingham theater, formerly
the grand opera house, at Louisville,
KY. was recently destroyed by fire.
Loss, $50, 900. The fire was caused by
a live wire.
The Clough & Warren company's
piano and organ factory at Detroit,
Mich, was partly destroyed by fire on
the I'd The insurance on the stock
and machinery was about $4,000,
which IL was believed would about
cover the loss.
A LATE dispatch said that Indians
were on the warpath in Alaska. One
battle had taken place and four In
dians were killed and several wound.
ed. Four American deputy marshals
were also wounded. The Indians were
drinking and there may be a general
uprising.
CHARLES WHITNEY, a cattleman from
Fort Worth, Tex, won $1,000 In a
Denver, Col, gambling house the other
evening.
Col JAMES NJ. MOORE, assistant
quartermaster general. has completed
arrangements for bringing home the
remains of the soldiers who lost their
lives either from wounds or disease in
Porto Rico and Santiago, Cuba, in the
recent war. A funeral party, consist
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| left New York city on the I'd on the
transport Roumenia for the purpose
of executing this sad mission.
THE Oxford hotel at st. Louis was
partially burned on the lst and 80
guests who were sleeping soundly at
the time had a narrow escape. Many
got out of the burning building par.
TALLY dressed, carrying their clothing
on their arms.
THE press mill of the Ohio Powder
company's works, located near Youngs.
town, o., exploded with terrific force
on the lst, killing two employees and
totally demolishing the building and
machinery.
ONE man was instantly killed and
three others fatally injured by falling
a distance of 80 feet while working on
a bridge near Punxsutawney, Pa.
HALF block of fire buildings in the
heart of the business portion of Colum.
bus, o., was destroyed by fire on the
lst. wall fell and 1t was feared q
fireman was under IL as he was miss
ing. Loss estimated at $3.50, 900.
THE war department has issued an
order to muster out about Is, 900 volun.
teer troops, including the Second Mis-
souri,, now at Albany, Ga.
A FIRE in Nagyproboez, Austria, de.
stroyed 800 houses and many lives
were lost.
A FBEIGHTING party was caught in a
snowsltdc in Lincoln gulch, 81 miles
above Aspen. Col, on the lst 1t was
believed that five men and is horses
were killed.
AN Iron Mountain freight train wa:
recently wrecked near Malvern, Ark
News was received in Louisville, Ky.
from New York the other day that tn,
deal combining nearly all of the i'm
portant distilleries of Kentucky into {
gigantic whisky trust had been sue
cessfully concluded. The big company
is to be capitalized at s32, 600. 900. TIL,
combination embraces about 90 distil
leries, with between $1,000, 900 ant
$40, 900. 900 of whisky in bond.
THE mahogany lumber yards of J. c
Raynor, at Chicago, and the box fac
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burned, causing a loss of S325, 900. Th
boarding-house owned by Mrs. Smitl
was also destroyed and the % lodger
were driven into the street, with tn
temperature at zero, in their nigh
clothes.
THE frame portion OF the Morton
Brewing company's establishment a
Anderson. Ind, was burned, causing
loss of $50, 900.
A BLIZZARD swept over the west ol
the 30th. In many places in Missour
and Kansas the thermometer range,
from zero to six and eight degrees be
low. StoclSmen reported much suffer
ing of stock and predicted heav!
losses.
PRosPEcToRs who have been at worl
for some time in Woods and Woodward
counties, Ok, ,have found a 3E-foo
vein of good coal near White Horse
The vein lies near the surface and cal
be easily worked.
ONE of the three powder magazine
situated just outside of Bridgeport
Conn, exploded. Several houses in
the neigh borhood were badly dam
aged. The shock of the explosion
shook the whole city. 1t was supposed
that mischievous boys set fire TO tn,
long, dry meadow grass and that tn,
fire, reaching the magazine, caused tn,
explosion.
THREE robbers dynamited the SAT,
in the store of the Kelly Plow compan,
at Longview, Tex, the other night
quite a sum of money was secured
The building was badly shattered
Joe Carroll, one of the robbers cap
tured, was from joplin, Ao.
THE waters of the Canadian rive
have been turned into the canal whicl
was recently constructed by the Mis-
souri,, Kansas Il Texas Railway com
pany at Wirth, |. 4. The construc
tion of this canal became necessary OF
account of the heavy floods last sprinl
which caused the river to shift 1t
channel.
THE siX-story building at Pittsburgh
Pa, occupied by the New York Biscui
company and the La Crosse Art Glas
company was damaged by fire to tn,
extent OF SIS, 900. Several firemeI
were injured by falling glass, but al
will recover. The origin of the fir,
was a mystery.
A ST. PAUL, Mimi, dispatch state'
that on the 3Oth Ss below zero at Bat
tleford and ten below at Marquett,
were the official extremes of temper
ature in the northwest
EVERY steam laundry OF any i'm
portance in Chicago will be operatet
by one stock company IL the present