The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-07-13

4 Two hundred negroes from the mines
and quarries in and about Birmingham,
! Ala. left there the other night for Weir
City, Kan, TO take the place of strikers
in the coal mines at that place. A reg
nlar movement of these negroes has
been going on for some time and 800 of
them have already been sent thither.
FIRE in six-story building at Sun
| bury street and Hawkins street, Bos-
| ton. occupied mainly by tobacco manu-
| lecturers, caused S75, 900 loss. The in
.crior of the building was wrecked and
Is contents were almost total loss.
REPORTS from special correspond.
| mt of the Galveston News indicated
| hat, while the property loss by the re-
cent floods has been enormous, the loss
IF life has been greatly exaggerated.
| According TO the News only two lives
| lave been lost in the lower Brazos flood
Texas.
THE war department on the 9Th
granted the request of the governor
)f Texas for gid for flood sufferers
| such government boats as were avail.
able were placed at the disposition of
he governor and the rations asked for
we're to be issued at once.
The events of the Christian Endcavor
convention at Detroit, Mich, on the
9TH were the addresses of the president
md the secretary. 1t was estimated
hat upward of 90, 900 accredited dele
rates had arrived, aside from visitors
Who were not endeavorers. Secretary
Baer in his report said: ''The official
enrolment is 55,Si3 societies, with n
otal membership of $500, 00O The
christian Endeavor Tenth Legion
row numbers IA, 700 members, who are
giving not less than one-tcnth of their
Incomes to God"
PRosPECToRs have just discovered
arge mines of phosphate near Good
cttsvillc, Tenn. A deal has been made
with capitalists for the output on sew
,ral farms. The lands were considered
almost worthless up TO a few days ago,
out the owners will now reap fortunes.
FIRE at Pratt City, Ala, burned 40
buildings, causing loss of S53, 900,
with only about 5000 insurance. The
fire originated in AtlSinson's grocery
store and the fire department was in
adequate TO cope with it. 1t could not
be checked until buildings in its path
were torn down. OF the houses burned,
"a were business houses and the re-
mainder cottages.
A FIRE originating in Whiteworth's s
stables at Paris, Tenn, spread to near
ly 30 other buildings, causing a total
loss of about S175, 900. The water sup
ply was inadequate.
A CONVENTION of the stenographers
of the United States has been called to
meet at Chicago August 22-24 to form a
permanent organization.
BOYS shooting firecrackers at Scran-
ton, Pa, set fire to straw in the barn of
Jones Bros and started "A fire, which
resulted in destroying the barn and
other adjoining buildings Ten horses
were burned.
CATTLE are being worried to death by
flies in Cleveland and Pottawatomie
counties, Ok.
DURING IA drunken quarrel between
Lotion Wells and and Edward Fleming
at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 4th the for
mer shot and fatally wounded the lat
ter.
IT was estimated that the floods de-
stroyed 500, 900 bales of cotton between
Waco and the Gulf of Mexico.
CATTLE in the country west of Paris,
Tex, were said to be dy ing of charbon.
WILLIAM LUDWIG shot and killed his
former sweetheart, Miss Bertha White
side, at Des Moines, Ia, on the 4th and
then sent bullet into his own brain.
L., InI
victed of grand larceny and the girl
broke the engagement. The tragedy
was committed Immediately on his re-
| lease.
THE presence of the United States
| training ship Monongahela at Ply
mouth, Eng, on the 4th was the oc.
casion for an interesting ceremony.
All the British ships were decorated
| with flags and the American ensign
was run up to the mastheads and
saluted with II guns, to which the
Monongahela responded.
| THERE were S27 entries in the Pull
man road race at Chicago on the 4th
but only 20S starters, many failing to ap'
pear on account of the dismal weather
l.. ii. Bender won the race, William
NOuuSn nnlSneu SecOnu anu hcorBt 81
White third. There were many spills
on account of the soggy roads.
The factory of the Western Paper
Stock company at Fourteenth stree
and Indiana avenue, Chicago, caugh
fire ON the Sd. One hundred girls EN-
ployed in the factory found escape Gu
off and jumped from the second-storl
windows. Four persons We're burned
to death and seven were injured, bu
not seriously.
News has been received that tn,
members of the Folger Iilrty, suppose,
to have perished in the wilds of interio
Alaska, are alive. Almost crazed b,
hunger and hardships they dragge,
themselves into Arctic City, where the,
were tenderly cared for by the Win
throp Mining company.
{. f. HILL, a tiagman on a grave
train working between Pierron an,
Pocahontas, H., was struck by fas
train and killed. lie had been sen
out to flag freight train and IL wa
supposed sat down on the track an,
fell asleep.
THE village of Grande Mere, Can.
and the immense pulp mills belonging
To Secretary Alger were entirely de
stroyed by fire.
DURING an electric storm at Ulysses
Neb., Victor and Ira Dobson, a son o