The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-07-20


Water was poured down his throat IA
number Of times to hasten death by
strangulation.
a TRAIN Of nine empty cars plunged
into the river from the Mort hwcstern
railway Kinsic street bridge at Chicago
on the 18th. The conductor and brake
man saved their lives by jumping, the
locomotive staying on the track.
Tm organization of the United
American Glue company, with capi-
tai of S35, 600 00O was completed at n
meeting in New York the other day.
The company announced that IL will
invade Canada and cndeavor to get "A
monopoly of the glue business in Brit
ish America.
ONE thousand laborcrs were thrown
out of employ ment on the 18Th by the
closing down of the Schwarzschild &
Sulzb erger packing plant in Armour
dale, Kan. The plant was closed as a
result of a disagreemo between the
management and the butchers union
about wages. The men were not dis
charged, the management merely
deciding to shut down the plant until
the differences should be adjusted.
VAST clouds of grasshoppers recently
alighted ON wheat fields near Rolla, n.
D., from the Turtle mountain region.
THE track layers employed 10y the
Fort Dodge & Omaha at Tara, Ia, went
on strike for an advance in wages.
THE annual convention of the Ma
tiOnal Confcctioncrs' association com
menccd at Frontenac, n. V, on the
18th. About 100 wholesale confection-
ers from all parts of the United States
and Canada were present The enact
ment of pure candy laws in all states
was vigorously recommended.
A sHERFF's posse shot and killed
Abner Calhoun, negro, near Oak
Grove, Ga, in mistake for an escaped
firebug.
THE average condition of cotton on
the 10th was given by the department
Of agriculture as SIS, as compared with
9l.2 for the corresponding date of 1898.
TWELVE stores were burned at Mon
tello, Wis, by fire caused by gasoline.
SERIOUS rioting followed the acquit-
tai of Father Flamidien, of the school
of the Christian Brothers at Lille,
France, who was charged with murder
ing boy in that institution. Thou
sands of persons paraded the streets
shouting Down with the Jesuits"
and smashing windows.
A PASSENGER train on the Colorado
Southern railway was robbed by four
men at point five miles south of Fol
som, n. NJ. The robbers used dyna-
mite to blow open the sides of the eX-
press ear. As soon as the robbers had
searched the express car they mounted
horses, which were hitched nearby,
and fed without any attempt to go
through the mail car.
THE international conference of hor-
ticulturists opened at London on the
18th, the United States agricultural de
partment sending special ENJOYS.
THE transports Newport and Ohio
bearing the Oregon regiment of volun
teers from the Philippines, reached
San Francisco on the l2th.
THE coal miners strike in Kansas il
costing Kansas City 81, 900 day.
THE spring and wagon works at Pom
tiac, Mich, have been destroyed by fire
THE Indianapolis News was put NJ
at public sale the other afternoon 10y
order of the court at indianapolis, Ind.
growing out of the litigation betweer
the partners and the paper was knocked
down for $685. 900.
THE section hands of the Chicago
Junction railway struck for an advanc,
in wages on the 10th. About 200 wer,
out
THERE were six prostrations from
the heat in Chicago ON the l2th, on
proving fatal.
MoBuIzING for the naval maneuvcr
began in England on the llth, lis war
ships and about %, 900 men taking par
in the operations.
The ninth national convention O
the Retail Clerks National Protectiv
association opened in Kansas City, Mo,
on the llth. Sixty delegates from va
rious parts of the country were in al
tendance, one being woman-Mis
Mamie Stoessel, of Ottumwa, la. Chic
, among the questions that will be dis
cussed at this convention are the 81
5 o'clock closing law and the prohibitio
{ of child labor
I PROF CHARLES JONES, of the Dur,
/ lnoh nlRn StnoOl At 4NINlAlbl'' II
was fatally stabbed by pupil he wa
I trying to chastiSe. Jones was we
p known throughout the Chickasaw M
ton.
The skilled worllmen in the tin. mi
= at Lisbon, O., went on a strike on tn
! 10th for the recognition of the unior
{ As a result every department of tn
plant was stopped and 500 men mad
r. idle. The trust manager in charge {
, the mill announced that il would nevI
be run as union mill.
AT O'Keene, Ok, Harvey Blacks sol
, aged three years, drank the liquid eff
= plate of fly poison and died in grei
agony from its effects
The convention of the National A
!, sociation of the Deaf opened at 5
u Paul, Mimi, on the llth. Over q
delegates were present, 10 states bein
u represented.
i TnE two-year-old child of Villa
Wakely, of Tyrone, Ok, fell into a II
K of water in the kitchen and WI
= drowned while its mother was ter
l. porarily absent.
FIVE men were injured, two fatal
It by an explosion of gas in the Loug
Il man mine at Ehrenfeld, Pa The e
It plosion was caused by defective mi
o er's lamp.
a FIRE in five-story crowded ten
d ment in Monroe street, New York, &
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