The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-07-06

with rheumatism for 10 years. lie
was in the war of the rebellion.
THE trial Of August Becker, the Chi.
rago butcher charged with having
murdered and then boiled the remains
Of his wife in order TO leave him free
to marry 17-year-old girl with whom
he had become infatuated, came TO a
sudden end on the 29th when IL was
found that the indictment named Mrs.
Becker as Elizabeth, when il should
have been Therese. The court at once
nolle pressed the indictment. Becker
was afterwards rearrested The result
may be that Becker will escape punish
ment for having once been placed in
jeopardy.
A RECENT dispatch from Pawhuska,
said that Oklahoma's greatest wheat
harvest was just ended. The wheat
area included /, $50, 900 acres, the largest
in the history of the territory. The
product of the great crop is safely es-
timated at 10000, 900 bushels. In some
of the counties the yield was 40 bushels
per acre, but in others not 50 large,
making IS bushels per acre "A conserva-
tive estimate for the territory.
ALLEN RIGGs and Deacon Daniel Her
rim were jailed for killing Paul Gilbert
over a game of euchre at Bobtown, KY
They were all church members.
AFTER an unsuccessful strike of Il
days duration the freight handlers at
Buffalo, n. Y, returned to work on
the 2sth at the old rates.
Tue annual commencement of Yale
university at New Haven, Conn, was
celebrated on the 2sth by conferring
615 degrees.
THE assertion came from st. Louis
on the 2Sth that the National Baseball
league will have Il rival association
next year in all its leading cities. In
st. Louis the grounds have already
been secured and are being put into
shape to build grand stand.
NEARLY all the white puddlers EN-
Ipluyed at Moorehead Bros. & Co. IS
iron works at Sharpsburg, Pa, have
been replaced by negroes because the
former affiliated with the Amalgamated
association. There was no trouble.
GRAssHoPPERs were reported as de-
stroying the cotton in the Hickory
creek bottom, southwest of Denton,
Tex, and leaving a path behind them
utterly destitute of anything green.
Mrs. A. c. ABBOTT, of Huntington,
Ind, gave birth to three boys the other
day. Her husband is u freight conduct
or on the Erie road.
Miss IDA OGLEsBY was fatally shot
by Mrs. w. X. Martin at Bloomington,
H., on the 2Sth. Jealousy was the
cause. They were from Paola, Kan.
THE assay Office of New York sent &c
tons of gold, valued at Sl5,O00,000, to
the Philadelphia mint recently to be
coined into double eagles and smaller
coin.
SEVERE storm swept the section
around Dubuque, Ia, on the 27th. The
Illinois track at Julien was washed
away and crops were badly damaged.
ALL the coal companies in the Pitts
burgh, Pa, district have combined.
SAMUEL OWENS quarreled with his
sweetheart, Sadie B. Matthewson, a
Foster, K. l., and drove her into the
, yard, knocked her down, split her heaC
open with an AK, stabbed her twice
with carving knife, poured oil on hel
and then set fire To her, burning her to
"A crisp.
THREE strikers were killed in n rio
at the Bochum coal mines in German V
THE Bowery and concert hall a
Coney Island, n. V, were burned OF
the 25th.
BENJAMIN LANG, aged 81, killed hi
. wife with an AK at Boston on the 27th
THE brick works at Anderson, Ind.
were completely destroyed by fire, in
flcting loss of $4,000. Three hun
= dred thousand green brick, togethe
with all machinery, were lost.
4 FIVE men were scalded by the col
E lapse of a steam ilue the other night ol
e the steamer ST. Paul when near Elsah
; Ill. Two soon died and the other thre
: were in such serious condition tina
4 they could not live.
{ A SMALL yacht capsized on LAX
- Michigan and Thurman Malone, of Gin
cinnati, went to the bottom. The thre
men in it had attempted to sail iron
=, Chicago to Waukegan, but the loss o
u their compass left them helpless.
HENRY STEWART, IA negro, VIII
', robbed and seriously shot Gail llami
u ton, a negro, and robbed a section for,
: man, was lynched at Fulton, Ky, tn
: other night.
THREE negroes were killed and al
II other was not expected to live as a r,
II suit of a riot between the white an
. negro miners on the 27th at the Oh
mines in jefferson county, Ala.
l. SIR THOMAS LIPToN's cup challenger
Il Shamrock, was launched at London q
c the 26th.
IS THE International Council of Womc
e opened at London ON the 26th with
r large attendance of distinguishe
5. women,
T., THREE hundred whist players are e.
h pected in Chicago from all over I'll
50 United States for the ninth ANNUAL COZ
II greSs of the American Whist league,
Dl he held during the week beginnin
July 10. -Four trophy matches are
A. be held.
~ TON CoNNELLY, eight years old, fe
n into the water from a sailboat on I'll
10 river near Orange, Tex, and James
Vancamp jumped out of the same boz
., 90 save him, but both were drow ned.
Mrs. GEORGE Il. BARROW pleadC
II guilty at New York on the Goth to ii
:, ,harge of kidnapping Baby Mario
= larke and was sentenced To IL yea
md ten months in prison.
- OVER 200 photo-engravers struck
. chicago on the Goth for an increase
- wages to SCI per week. About
y irms were affected.
7" A FIRE broke out in the freight hou.