The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-12

. collectively for $4,000 for false i'm
prisonment
TnE anarchist movement In Franc,
has received an enormous impetui
through the growing fear of military
despotism. The sum of 900, 900 francs
has been placed Mt the disposal OF NJ.
Sebastien Faurc for the purpose OF es.
tablishing an anarchist daily newspa.
per In Paris.
FIRE In the paint shop OF the Nash.
Vile, Chattanooga & St Louis rail.
road at Nashville, Tenn, DESTROYED
ten coaches, including Presiden
Thomas private car and the pay car
of the road The loss on the building
was estimated at $40. 900 and on the
rolling stock at S37. 500
PHYSICIANS report an epidemic OF a
mild form OF the Russian grip In
Decatur ILL.,, on the 9Th. IL was esti-
mated that fully 30 per cent. OF the
population was effected with the dis
ease, which attacked old and young
alike.
SILAs ANDERSON, coiored, who shot
and killed his wife, was hanged in the
county jail Mt Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
9th. Jealousy was the cause of the
crime.
THOUSANDS OF Chinese were reported
starving through floods caused by the
overflow of the Yellow river.
TnE Missouri Pacific express train
which left Kansas City at i0:i0 y. m.
on the Sd for ST. Louis wns wrecked
one mile west of jefferson City the
next morning. The wreck was caused
by stone which had rolled down from
the bluff on the track. The engine
rolled off the track into the river.
crushing To death the engineer and
fireman who had jumped. All the
cars with the exception OF the rear
sleeper, leftthe track, running into the
face of the cliff None of the passen-
gers, however, were seriously injured
THREE negro children were suffo-
Gated to death near Catonsville, Md,
on the 4th. The parents were out at
work and the young ones set Christ
mas tree on fire.
GEORGE TYLER was killed by Thomas
Foley in prize fight at Jersey City,
n. j. Foley landed right swing on
Tyler's jaw and broke his neck
FARMER living near Bright ton, Col,
named A. X. Willis, was robbed of
$1,000 which he had in n bureau
drawer. tramp whom he had shell
tered and who disappeared was sus-
pected of having taken the money.
Four miners were killed in the
Jumper mine ut jamestown, Cal, by n
skip dropping to the bottom of the
shaft.
FIVE or six masked men held up the
Ia a, l..
train ut s:S5 p. IN. of the Sd near Ma.
comb, Mo They dynamited the
through safe, secured it's contents and
escaped. The passengers were not
molested. posse was organized at
daylight the next day to get after the
bandits.
SIX business houses were destroyed
by iire at Beaman, Ia, the other day.
nor campaign against licensing
saloons is on at Galesburg, Ill.
FEARFUL gale swept the Irish
channel on the I'd causing numerous
wrecks along the coast
A DISPATCH from Rome on the Cd
stated that mob of l. 900 people had
destroyed the internal revenue sentry
boxes and stoned the gendarmes
around the Niscemi, Sicily, as a protest
against excessive taxation.
THE biennial session OF the Nebraska
legislature commenced on the 81.
Mrs. PRISCILLA EMERSON was found |
frozen To death in her home ut STRAIT
ford, la., day or two ago.
A MEETING of the creditors of Mrs. |
Leslie Carter, the actress, was recently |
held at New York before ~ A. Prem
tiss, bankruptcy referee. A trustee
was not appointed. The schedules
disclosed no assets and the liabilities |
We're S6S.773
ADvIcEs from Holyobe. Mass. on the
4th were to the effect that the pro-
posed writing paper com bination had
been effected. The capitalization was
sa to be $40 600, 600
The rubber shoe factory at Port
Daihousie, ont, was burned the other
morning, eutailing loss of slOO, O0O
and throwing some $50 hands out of
ABOUT 66,ooo people, according TO
the estimates of the convention hall
doorteuders, attended the gift distri-
button at Kansas City. Mo, on the FL.
ALL the London papers, in review
ing the events of the year, give great
prominence to the Spaaish-A American
war aud regard the year isgS as me-
for the manifest destiny"
of the English-speaking
peoples.
raE three children of Charles Hager-
man We're playing on the ice off Wells
island, n. Y, in the ST. Lawrence river
when IL broke and they fell in. The
mother rushed to their rescue and the
whole four lost their lives
THE proposed massing in Paua, Ill,
of 1000 union miners from central and
southern Illinois towns for the pur.
pose of driving out the negro miners
failed TO materialize on the I'd The
militia ON guard were prepared for
any outbreak.
Miss SUSIE :. THOMAS and Calvin
were fatally injured by
train striking their vehicle while cross.
ing the track near Latham's Corners,
n. y.
Ar Miner, III, John Lyttou shot his
wife, two children aud then himself
All were killed except the husband,
who cannot live Jealousy was the
cause.
A FREIGHT train on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, while going down
grade near New Concord, O., broke
into two sections The sections col.
.ided at the foot of the grade. killing