The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-26

| charging making false reports to the
! comptroller.
A FREIeHT train on the Kansas City.
| Pittsburg a Gulf railroad, while near
! ing Texarkana, Ark, at full speed,
struck a loose rail- which threw the
! engine wheels off and caused the cars
/ to jam together. Six box cars and a
l lot of furniture that they contained
I were destroyed
AL J. WAGENMAS, clerk Of the court
/ of criminal correction at St Louis,
has disappeared, and IL was said by his
| intimate friends that he had confessed
| 10 a subversion of witness and jurors
I fees TO the amount of $40, 900. Ii was
| feared he had committed suicide.
A FIRE destroyed the Cammeyer
/ building at New York on the 18th and
nearly 900 people, of whom 500 were
/ women, were temporarily thrown out
! OF work The loss was estimated at
| $3.50 900.
In an editorial on the 10th the Kan
sas City MOI Times, which has been
| stanch supporter of William J. Bryan,
urged the candidacy of United States
| Senator Francis Marion Cockrell. of
! Missouri, for the democratic presiden-
] tial nomination in 1900.
AT St Louis Katy Clancy shot and
wounded John McCaffery, a street car
| conductor, and then swallowed the
| contents of bottle of bichloride OF
mercury. 1t was thought both would
! die.
! IN the state fiscal court at Frank.
! fort Ky. 81 insurance companies
| doing business in the state were fined
$3.50 each for alleged conspiracy to
combine and control and fix insurance
| rates.
! The executive committee of the
| American Hereford Breeders associa-
tion, at meeting held at Kansas
City, Mo, practically decided to hold
big Hereford cattle show in that
city next fall in connection with a
breeders sale. 1t will be the first dis
tinctively Hereford show ever held n
| America
SEVERAL hundred men and women
employed in the big building at f53
Market street, Chicago, were thrown
into a panic by fire which broke out
on the fourth floor and, although no
one was injured, many had narrow
escapes. The losses sustained aggre-
gated $50, 900.
The Wheeler mine at Newcastle,
Col, was discovered to be on fire. An
alarm was sounded and the men called
out Many had great difficulty in es-
Gaping on account of the deadly fumes
that filled the entries and it was be-
lieved some did not get out Ten men
were working beyond where the fire
was supposed to be- They had not
been seen.
Mr.. TIsDEL and his wife awoke and
found their house at Cleveland, o., on
fire and their escape by the stairs cut
off. They managed to get on to the
scaffolding of a new house next door,
when it gave way and Mrs. Tisdel was
killed and her husband probably fa-
tally injured.
OVER 30 church and school furniture
factories have formed trust
MICHAEL RULINsKI, known as the
"Polish dude" who strangled his wife
to death and then set fire to the body
and house TO cover the crime, COM
mitted suicide the other night by
strangling himself with a bed cord
taken from his bed in the county Jail
at ttsburgh, Pa
OMAHA, Neb.. was said TO be suffer
ing from the grip
A FIRE at Roodhouse, H., destroyed
four building on the public square.
The New York Sun saws there is a
plan on foot to get ex-Gov. William j..
Stone, of Missouri, nominated for pres
ident in 1900
GEORGE CALL and John Shaw, both
colored, were shot by unknown par ties
at Lynchburg, Tenn, the other night
They were disre eputable characters and
had been whipped by whitecaps and
run out of town but returned.
THE three children of Charles Hager-
man were playing on the ice off Wells
island, n. Y in the St Lawrence river
when it broke and they fell in. The
mother rushed to their rescue and the
whole four lost their lives
FIVE small boys were drowned at
South Gibson, Pa. They coasted down
steep hill on a big sled on 10 pond
when the ice broke and they went
under.
THE farm house of Fayette Meacham,
near Pittsville, Wis, was blown to
atoms by dynamite, killing Meacham
and fatally injuring his wife and four
ignited was not known.
A BROKEN rail precipitated into a
ditch near Noble, ILL.,, two coaches and
a sleeper of fast mail train on the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern rail-
road. Many passengers were more or
less injured, but none fatally.
GEORGE GEMUNDA, supposed to be
the oldest violin maker in America,
and the inventor of the famous Gemun-
da violin, died recently at his home in
Astoria, L. l., aged S.
THE first detachment of the Seven
teenth United States infantry left
Columbus, o., on the 18th for New
York, en- route to the Philippines
THERE was intense excitement in
Mountain Home, Ark, on the 10th
over the sudden deaths of six men. In
sverv case there were unmistakable
evidences of poisoning. Besides those
who died a number of others were
taken i'll, but were saved by prompt
medical attendance. The poison was
believed TO be in whisky which the
victims had swallowed.
JAMES BOOKER, a negro, was hanged
at Raleigh, n. C., on the 18th for the
murder of his sweetheart
Miss ANNA MARY HoEK ScHLEY, 25
years old, daughter of the late Col.
William Louis Schley, poet, lawyer
and veteran of two wars, and q second