The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-03-02

Harry Ellscs and breaking two worlds
records. The time for ten miles was
1859 and for i5 miles 30:22.
DURING a fire, which for two hours
on the Esd threatened to annihiiate
the entire packing-house district of
the stock yards in Chicago, one fire.
man was killed and three Others Sc.
verely injured, one so seriously that
it is believed he will die. The blaze
destroyed Swift & Co.'S warehouse No
Z, directly In the center OF the pack
ing-house district and several of the
adjoining structures were slightly
damaged. The loss was estimated at
$780, 900. The building, which was
eight stories high, was stored with
hams and bacon.
FIRE on the 23d destroyed the Lind
building, 2s to 80 Market street, Chi.
| cago, one of the few buildings which
stood intact through the great fire Of
1871 The building which was q seven
story structure, was occupied by a large
number of firms, the ma jority OF them
being machinists, printers and engrav-
ers The total loss Is estimated at
s325, 900; of this amount SIS, 900 is on
the building
The police OF Paris on the 22d seized
TO- 900 medals bearing the head of Due
d0rleans aud five molds for striking
them.
Mrs NANCY l.. SARGENT, an old wo.
man nearly so years of age, who lived
alone at Newark, o., was found by her
neiRhbors frozen to death In bed. She
had been missed for some days.
ANOTHER snowslide occurred at Sill
YER Plume. Col, on the 22d, carrying
away all the buildings of the Seven.
Thirty mine, together with several
miners cabins, and burying four men,
two of whom were afterwards rescued
alive. The other two were not found
and were supposed to be dead.
WAsHINGToN's birthday was cele-
brated at Philadelphia with exercises
at the Academy of Music under the
auspices OF the University of Penn
sylvania. Some 1000 students marched
in procession and enlivened the day
with their college songs and class
slogans
THE big Convention hall at Kansas
City, Mo-, was formally opened on the
22d by concerts during the day and a
grand ball at night the music being
furnished by Sousa's band.
f. CoRRrGAN's ch. &. The Bachelor
covered four miles in 7:l6G on the
grounds of the California Jockey club
at Oakland in race for three-year-
olds and upwards, lowering the worlds
record 81 seconds
OWING to the fact that "a number of
American gamblers have been working
among the soldiers of the Seventh
army corps, several gambling outfits
have been seized and destroyed in Gen.
Fitzhugh Lees camp at Havana.
IT was stated in New York that the
street railway lines OF ST. Louis re.
Gently acquired by Brown Bros, of
that city, will be united in a consoli-
dation having about $50, 900, 900 capital.
The settlement OF the obligations of
the Central Pacific Railroad company
to the government was completed on
the 18th when United States Treasurer
Roberts was given the notes of the
company for $50, sl2,7!5 The notes
are 20 in number, payable semi-an-
nually, and are each for g., $40, 635,
bearing three per cent interest
AN explosion occurred in mine No. 9
at BloctoE, Ala, and five men were
killed or fatally injured and several
more were hurt
THE American Cereal company was
incorporated at Trenton, N. j., with n
capital of $50, 100000
The young daughter of Mrs. Shire.
man was burned to death at olumbus,
Ind, by the house catching fire while
the mother was at a neighbours
THOMAS 0'NEII, n butcher employed
At Swifts packing house in st. Joseph,
Mo, was literally cut to pieces by his
two younger brothers, Edward and
Jack. They had a dispute over money
matters, when Edward and Jack at
tackled Thomas with butcher knives
The dead man was stabbed twice in
| the heart Both brothers were ar
! rested.
THE health department of st. Louis
notes an unusual number of cases of
cerebro-spinal meningitis in that city.
| During the present month IS cases and
nine deaths have been reported. The
physicians can give no reason for the
| prevalence of the disease.
PHILIP ID. ARMOUR has given $3.50, 600
more to the endowment fund of the
Armour institute of Chicago. This
makes his total gift to the institute
S2,250, 900.
A SPECIAL from South McAlester, l,
T., on the Goth stated that smallpox
was spreading in the Creek nation and
| quite a number OF persons were dying
from the disease. Nearly all of the
| railroad towns had quarautined
against anything coming or going 10
the infected district
THE war department on the Goth
issued an order formally mastering
out all volunteer troops now in the
United States.
CHIEF OF POLICE GRIFFIN killed
Mastyn Brack, building contractor,
while trying to quell n saloon disturb
ance at Hearne, Tex.
LUTHER CHAPLIN, the founder of the
senior order Of United American Me
chanics, died of general debility al
Philadelphia on the 10th, aged s;
| years.
The milk trust Is trying to freeze
out the small dealers in Austin, Ill,
and II the experiment is successful II
will be introduced in Chicago. Here
tofore the price of milk has been II
quarts for 81, but the milk trust Il
offering as high as 40 or 90 quarts
for 81.
PREsIpENr MCKINLEY granted a par
don to John r. Jacobs, u Choctaw In
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