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

eents- Inc primary reason assigned
for the bull movement was the rise Of
securities in Wall street
REPoBTs Q. 90 officers. representing
more than a dozen regiments. scores
Of companies and thousands Of sol.
diers. were laid before the special in.
vestigating commission. at Washing
ton. showing that the beef furnished
the soldiers was bad. Corned beef es
capes without great censure, bat
canned roast beef and the so-called
fresh beef with which the soldiers
we're served is denounced without ex-
ception-
The robbery Of over $50. 900 from
PARIS bank In London was the sensa-
tion short time ago. but 1t took a
dramatic turn on the Goth when the
chairman of the bank announced at a
meeting OF the shareholders that E40.-
300 in the biggest nots had been re-
turned TO the bank by post
The steamer Aorangi from Austria
lasia brought TO Victoria, H. C., the
details of a terrible cyclone which
swept the south seas, devastating viii
lagos, wrecking shipping. upro ting
cocoa plantations and leveling yam
patches Over 500 natives were re-
ported TO have been killed In the Solo
mon islands alone.
INFORMATION has been received at
Washington that 500 friars held as
pelled 10 undergo all sorts OF menial
labor. such as attending to the horses
of Filipino officers, paving the streets
Of towns and so forth.
mysterious" Billy Smith success
fully defended his right TO a foremost
position as a welter-weight pugilist by
knocking out Billy Edwards. of Aus
tralia, In the fourteenth round at New
York the other night
CHIEFS of the Mandan, Grosventre
and Arickaree Indian tribes claim an
immense section of land, including the
towns of Bismarck, Mandan, Minot
and others in North Dakota, besides
thousands of acres of grazing and
agricultural lands. They claim the
reservation was never transferred to
the government and ask 81, 900, 900 in
demnity.
THE National Cycling association
organized at New York on the 25th in
opposition to the l.. A. w. Henry |.
Bloenecke, of Newark, N. j., was
elected president
SooN after Lawrence Schrader had
died at New York from starvation a
check for SIS, 900 came to him from
England. II saved him from being
buried In the potter's field.
A SPECIAL from Mount Olive, Ill, on
the 25th said that Peter Novak, Croat,
his wife and three children were
burned by a coal oil explosion. A boy.
six years old, and babe of four
mouths. were roasted to death. The
third child and the mother were fatally
burned, while the fathers injuries
were serious.
| IRA CRAsDALI, aged 10 years, a blind
farmer, was pounded to death at Cory,
Pa, with an ak, welded by Emme,
Bouton. Bouton had been in the asy.
lum for n year, but was discharged
some time ago as cured. He became
violently insane and literally cut Gran
dali TO pieces.
THE president has signed an orde,
extending the quarantine powers o
the marine hospital service over Cubs
and Porto Rico. The purpose is to re
duce as much as possible the gr8v,
dangers OF infection during the com
ing season. DIR. Walter Wyman, tn,
surgeon general, will go to Cuba in 1
few weeks to give his personal atten
tion to the extension.
THOMAS TEAsLEY, aged So years
died of commissions IL Mounds, Ill.
the other evening and during tn,
night three grandchildren, two girls
aged eight and ten years, and a boy
aged IL years, were taken dangerousl,
sick. The next day the father of tn,
children was stricken with sever,
sickness. There was a strong sus
picion that some one had put poison
in the food.
MISS JESIE MOORE, a society belle o
San Francisco, was burned TO deatf
while dressing for dinner the othe
day. The lace curtains of her room
ignited from gas jet and set he
clothing on fire.
GEORGE w. l. AYREs shot and kille,
his wife at Philadelphia, wounded
boarder named John Wilson and thei
com mittcd suicide. Jealousy caused
the tragedy.
CAMP No. 1871, United Confederate
Veterans, OF St Louis, has gone ol
record as being radically opposed L
placing disabled confederate soldier
In the institutions maintained 70
union veterans and the pensioning o
confederates
RoBBERs entered the store OF o. X
Skidmore & Son at oolagah, /. T., blew
open the safe with dynamite and Sc
cured the contents, amounting To sew
eral thousand dollars.
THE three children of Charles Hager
man were playing on the ice off Well
island, n. Y. in the ST. Lawrence rive
when 1t broke and they fell in. Tn
mother rushed To their rescue and tn
whole four lost their lives
THE fourth annual convention o
the National Association of Manufac
turers convened at Cincinnati on tn
cath for four days session with
large attendance.
FIRE broke out in 5000 bales o
cotton lying on the wharf of Genoa
Italy, which had been discharged fron
the steamer Barbara, from Galveston
Tex. Two thousand bales were de
stroyed.
The naptha launch William ID. wa
run down and sunk by the steam ferry
boat Oakland in the bay at san Fran
cisco. Two lives were lost
SOME 400 representative citizens q
Detroit, Mich, met in the chamber q
commerce and laid the foundation 70
the proposed bicentenary celebration