The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-06-29

6fNERAL NEWS.
IL the recent riots at Travencore. In
dia. the rioters cut off the ears of their
opponents TO obtain the earrings In an
expeditions manner and burned about
$50 houses, British troops afterwards
patrolled the district
BEcAUsE of quarrel between his
nx-year-old son and young Wallace
Barbier at New York, Arthur Bonnell
spanked the latter. Barbier's mother
brought suit for S., 900 damages to her
nerves and the jury awarded her 81 .O7S.
Mr.. Bonnell paid the money on the
spot.
The Guachaland pit in Ayreshire,
SCOTLAND, was suddenly flooded and 10
miners were believed to have lost their
ives at first, but were afterwards res
sued.
THE inhabitants of shelby, o., were
aroused at two o'clock on the morning
IF the 2Oth by the fire and church bells,
giving the alarm of food. The prin-
,ipal streets were running streams and
people were removed from their houses
on horseback.
AT Pismo, Cal. "A complete counter
letting outfit and bogus coins were dis
covered by the United States marshal.
Counterfeit coins were also seized at
Los Angeles, Cal.
A GANG of masked robbers, probably
zen in number, early the other morn
ng raided the receiving Office of the
Iairmount Park Transportation com
pany at Philadelphia and, after hold
ng up the receiver and five other en-
ployes of the railway, blew open the
safe, securing $4,000.
FIRE which originated in James Me
liillicuddy's grocery in Whitesboro,
Eek, the other morning destroyed five
II the principal business houses in
town.
TOD SLOAN, the American jockey,
who was charged with having assaulted
waiter at Ascot, has made himself
very unpopular in England by his de-
nial of the act, which so people said
they witnessed.
Two thousand employees of the Mary
iand Steel company at Baltimore, Md,
held "A meeting on the 18th and deter
mined to strike at the end of seven
lays IL their demands for nine-hour
day and weekly payments were not ac
ceded to by the company.
AT an early hour the other morning
Allen Bros. wholesale grocery al
Omaha, Neb., was discovered on fire
The blaze started on the fifth floor ano
burned downward, destroying the fiftl
and fourth floors and their contents
The damage to the stock was estimated
.
loss being covered by insurance. Dur
gng the progress of the fire magaziu,
filed with powder, which the fremer
were moving To a place of safety, eN
oloded. Eleven fireman were injured
two seriously.
Two new dances have been approve,
by the National Association of Master
Of Dancing at its convention at Niaga
"a Falls, n. y. This win be followed
Dy their adoption in society circles al
over the United States They are tn,
Harvest dance and the Princess Louis,
Ravotte. The music for the callc-wali
quadrille was also received. This is
new dance somewhat similar To tn,
waltz quadrille.
The second annual conference Of tn,
Federation of Zionists opened at Balti
more, Md, on the 18th. Twenty Socie
ties from as many cities were repre-
sented.
BENJAMIN f. HARDING, eN-Unite,
States senator, died on his farm nea
Cottage Grove, Ore, on the 18th.
Mrs. JENNIE PRICE was riding whee
across the Lake Shore track at Cleve
land, o., and fell in front of an an
preaching train. Blase Patrie, VIII,
had been detailed to assist the fiagmal
at the crossing, ran TO Mrs. Prices as
sistance, but both he and the woman
were run down. Physicians said boil
would die.
A SPECIAL from Glace Bay, c. b,
stated that an explosion accompanie,
by a terrible loss of life occurred earl,
on the 10th. More than 40 men wer,
in the pit when the explosion occurrer
and IL of them perished. The explosion
was caused by gas which had accumu
lated in the old workings.
RECENT advices received from eas
Africa showed that famine was prev
alent in the German possession,
owing to the drought. which also pr,
vailed alarmingly in the British pre-
tectorate. Hundreds of women an
children were dying of starvation an
the resident whites were wholly uI
able to s0pe with the distress.