The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-03-23

instantly killed. IL was alleged that
sx-Detective Jack Williams did the
shooting.
THE first train from Denver since
February 81, consisting of the rotary
and four engines, reached Como, Col
on the 10Th. They had been an entire
week going from Grant, a distance
81 2S miles The rotary attacked the
high line the next day and the rail-
road people expected to reach Breck-
enridge in about ten days and Lead
lille within four or five weeks.
The total amount of war taxes re-
seived at the treasury department
from June l3, 1898, the date of the pas
sage of the war revenue act, to the end
Of January last was nearly $50. 900, ooo
ALFRED DANIELS, the largest man in
Iowa and probably in the northwest
died at his home near Lehigh. He was
about i've feet nine inches tall, and
measured two inches more around than
he did in height His weight was some-
thing over 600 pounds
ARRASeEMESTs have been perfected
for the erection of a mammoth coli
scum building at Wabash avenue and
Sixteenth street Chicago, where the
old Libby prison is located. The new
structure, which will hold $1,000 peo-
pie, will be completed by September l.
The detention of the transport Mich
igan at the Georgia state quarantine
below Savannah gave the war depart
ment some concern, as IL was feared
that the quarantine delays which oc-
cur in the southern states will greatly
hinder the return OF troops from Cuba
to this country.
THERE was a heavy reduction in the
clerical force at the war department
on the 18th, !20 employees being re-
duced in grade and 80 discharged on
account Of reduced appropriations for
their employment
ORDERS were issued on the 18th by
the war department for the muster cut
of the First Texas at Galveston and
the Second Louisiana at Savannah.
but will be brought to this country as
soon as transports are available.
THE Texas Cattle Raisers' associa.
tion closed its session on the 18th at
Fort Worth. A resolution was passed
protesting against the railroads abol-
ishing feed in transit r. j. CleburR,
of Corpus Christi, was elected presi-
dent and J. c. Loving, of Fort Worth,
secretary.
A DEPUTY sheriff engaged in an al
tercation at Columbia, Tex, with a man
named Scott, when Scott remarked
that IL he had a gun he would fight
Ex-Sberiff Reese offered him a revolvo
er and the shooting began. Reese
was killed ut the first fire. Charles
Boeme, a bystander, was also killed
and a small boy named Williams was
badly injured.
A DOZEN dwellings were wrecked at
Birmingham. Ala, by a tornado.
A CHARRED body was found in the
ruins of the Gazette office at Chenoa,
Ill, which was burned recently. 1t
was believed to be that of James Cain,
a printer known in Cincinnati and St
Louis. Thomas Finton has been miss
ing since the fire, and 1t was believed
he also had been burned.
The sovereign camp, Woodmen OF
the World, met at Memphis, Tenn, on
the l4th in biennial session with &C
delegates in attendance. The Wood
men Circle Qadies' auxiliary) also was
| in session. The convention will proba,
bly, be in session for ten days or two
weeks
THE Missouri Pacific bridge over the
Platte river near Omaha, Neb., was
carried away by the ice on the 14th.
ROBERT 5. LEWIS was hanged at At
lanta, Ca, on the l4th for murder.
EARLY the other morning IL masked
men entered the power-house of the
traction company at Waverly, n. Y,
and, ordering the three employees &c
hold up their hands, bound them Sc
curely and then blew open the three
safes in the office and secured the cash
The snowbound train on the Chey'
snne & Northern at Wheatland, Wyo.,
was abandoned by the company otfi
,ials and steps were taken to rescue
passengers by means of sleds.
AN order has been issued by the wal
department increasing the age limit
for enlistment from 80 to 35 years
The youngest age at which a man car
be enlisted is Is years.
THE post office at 'Nack River, n su b
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other night by burglars, who, in theil
search for money and valuables blew
open the safe and in so doing demol
ished almost the entire front of the
building. They were unsuccessful
however, in finding anything of value
ABOUT go United States senators anc
representatives have acce pied an in
vitation to inspect the proposed Mica
ragua and Panama canals. They will
sail from New York about March 90.
THE third annual bench show of the
Kennel club of St Louis opened at tn,
Coliseum on the 18th with nearly So,
entries benched.
A SEARCH steamer which returned tc
Brisbane, Queensland, from Cocktowr
on the Endeavor river. reported that
three schoouers and so luggers were
lost and that 400 colored persons and
II whites were drowned during the re
cent hurricane that swept the north,
east coast of Queensland.
The Nicaragua canal commission /;
hard at work upon its final report tc
the president and Admiral Walker
hopes to submit it within another
month. The engineering work has
been so complete that 1t is said little
can be added in this direction by the
new commission which was authorized
by the last congress.
THE Cheyenne & Northern passen'
ger train, which has been for three
weeks blockaded by the snow near