The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-03-30

| lafntr Two miles west OF GrHnt, i.
T., was in the yard making soap her
dress caught fire. burning her to death.
THREE negroes were taken from an
officer and lynched by an armed mob
near Silver City, &iss. They were the
ringleaders Of the negroes in a race
encounter on the Midnight plantation
the other day.
Mrs MoLTEB, of La Grange. Ind, in
a fit of dependency administered NOR
phine to her two children and then
took dose herself The children died,
the woman will recover.
The Roumania sailed from Santiago
on the 23d with the remains of 554 sol
lers who were killed or died in Gu ba
and 80 from Porto Rico.
THREE river steamers, the Owens,
Flint and Ray City, were destroyed by
Ore at Columbus, Ca, together wi tn
two barges.
MRS FRANK WILsICK, of Oliver, Pa,
dsed Kerosene To kindle a fire and as
result she and her two little children
we're fatally burned.
SIX HUNDRED employees of the Fox
Pressed Steel company at Pittsburgh,
Pa, quit work on the 23d because the
irm refused To grant an advance of 10
per cent in their wages
FIRE starting about two a. m. on the
,Sd destroyed the opera house and
.hree or four other buildings at
Townsville, Ga. The Piney Woods
iotel, filed with northern guests. es-
;aped uninjured after an exciting
tight for its inmates The Hanna
cottage, where the president stayed,
vas mile away.
The little town of Liberty, in De-
Dalb county, Tenn, was almost wiped
'ff the map the other night, furious
yclone sweeping over IL, wrenching
trees from their roots and telling
houses in all directions. The damage
to property was enormous, but no fa-
talities were reported.
Two children accidentally set ire to
keg of powder in store at Detroit,
Ark. A fearful explosion followed
and they were fatally injured and
several other persons badly hurt.
FIRE in the Patterson block at
Omaha, Neb., on the alst caused
panic among the secret society women
who were holding a meeting in the
building. Their escape by the stair
way was cut off and they opened the
windows and jumped to the ground
one after another. Mrs Taylor and
Mrs. Schamel were killed and about 90
others suffered from broken limbs and
burned flesh. The loss on the build.
ing and contents was about $50, 900
The bank vault at Medway, Mass,
l,,h h,,r h,tt ha
did not get anything.
A FAST westbound passenger train
on the Erie road jumped the track at
Rittman, near Akron, o., on the 22d,
the engine and baggage car going into
the ditch. Engineer Logan was al
most instantly killed and his fireman
seriously injured. No passengers were
injured
The council of the Kaw Indian tribe
in Oklahoma has passed an order to
G iect from the reservation at once all
persons not holding permits granted
by the council, and to prohibit any
person coming on the reservation in
the future without first obtaining a
permit
OVER 8, 900 pounds of smokeless pow
der exploded at the Dupont powder
works at Penn Grove, n. j., instantly
| killing three workmen and injuring a
number of others. The shock from
| the explosion shool: the country for
miles around and heavy panes of glass
were broken in many houses
The southwestern limited on the
Lake Shore road was wrecked at West
Seneca, n. Y, by an ice -clogged switch.
| Engineer Shuttack was killed and
Brakeman Roberts severely injured
LUGI LUCCHINI, the murderer of the
Empress Elizabeth, it was reported,
has broken down under the rigors
of solitary confinement at Geneva,
Switzerland He has attempted sui
eide on three occasions
THE two miners who were impris
oned in the Bon Air mine at Leadville,
Co., by CAVERN IS days ago were re
leased on the ord, showing little effects
of their experience.
A NEGRO named General Duckell
surrendered to an officer in Little River
county, Ark, for numbering n planter,
but n mob took him from the officer
and hanged him to tree and riddled
his body with bullets.
DISPUTE over five cents worth OF
beer resulted in the shooting in a sa-
loon at Fairmount park, st. Louis
county, Mo-, of John Ellison, we'll.
known horse trainer. Anton liartung
and his son Hugo were arrested for
the killing.
A DISASTROUS fire broke out in the
row of fats at the northeast corner
of Tower Grove and botanical ave.
nues at ST. Louis early the other
morning. Every one of the four
houses was reduced to a heap of brick
and mortar, but all the occupants were
got out. Octave Pelloux, fireman,
fell three stories with a falling floor,
but was not seriously injured.
The Brooklawn hotel at Cleveland,
o., was partly destroyed by fire early
the other morning. Some bedroom
doors had to be broken in to arouse the
sleeping guests, but all were finally
got out in safety.
The St Louis court of appeals, in
reversing the decision of lower
court upheld the right of a citizen to
vote. Notwithstanding he may have
moved from one house to another in
the same precinct after he registered.
AN exodus of young men from the
Section around Richmond, Ky, to
points in Missouri has begun. They
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