The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-06-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE town Of Brackett, about 100 miles
west Of san Antonio, Tex, was report
ed under ten feet Of water on the 18th.
-Four persons were missing and were
supposed 10 have bcon drowned. a
waterspout over that place inundated
the country for miles around.
RECENT adviccs received from east
Africa showed that famine was prev
alent in the German possessions,
owing 10 the drought, which also pre-
vailed alarmingly n the British pro-
tectorate. Hundreds Of women and
children were dying of starvation and
the resident whites were wholly unable
20 cope with the distress.
a wKLL-DEFINED cyclone came over
southern Oklahoma the other afternoon
and would probably have blown away
the town of liennessey, IL was said.
had not a large cannon been discharged
into the funnel-shapcd cloud when it
was within 80 yards or more of the
town. The cloud Immediately dissolved.
That was the second cyclone which had
passed near Henncssey this summer
which had been burst 10y firing cannon
into IL.
JoHS +. HErDRlcK, the l9-year-old
farm hand who murdered James NJ.
Lail and attempted 20 kill his employ
er's wife on July !, 1898, was hanged at
Jackson. Mo. on the 18TH.
REy. W. T. PoPE, an educated col
orcd divine, of Mcneil, Ark, is taking
the initiative in the organization Of a
league whose object is 10 elevate his
race and help solve the lynching prob
lem. The name of the organization is
10 be the Cooperative League of
American Citizens, and white people
are invited 20 become honorary mem
bcrs.
A COMBINATION OF fruit Gamers was
completed at San Francisco on the l4th.
The combine controls 20 cannerieS,
with an estimated annual output Of
30, $40, 900 cans. The organizers viii
close up half the canneries under their
control.
The transports Newport and Ohio
left Manila on the 18th for San Fran,
cisco, carrying the Oregon regiment
and the First volunteer signal corps
The factory OF the Marietta (O.) Tor.
pedo company blew up the other after
noon. The explosion shook windows
all over the city. Clyde Porter and
Carl Harte, two horses and wagon
were blown To atoms. Trees for 30G
yards were stripped of foliage and the
limbs of some trees were strewn with
the flesh of the two men and of the
horses. The theory is that the eNplO-
sion was caused by the carclessnesS OF
the men in unloading nitro-gly lycerine.
Ar Fairport, o., 400 elevator men
struck for an increase of five cents per
hour.
A FIRE at the ordnance works al
Newcastle, Eng, did 81, 900, 600 damage,
THE lighthouse and buildings of tn,
new United States training station ON
| Goat island, near san Francisco, wer,
| threatened with destruction on tn,
night of the 18th by the grass becoming
| ignited, but large force of men turned
out and saved the buildings from de
| struction.
HARRY RuBENs, who is attorney foi
many OF the brewery interests in Chi
/ cago, discredited the report OF the pro
posed formation OF "a trust with capi
tai Of 81, 600, 600, 900 to secure control oi
| all the breweries in the United States
FoUR small children were drowned
| In the river at North Platte, Neb. On,
child fell in and the others attempted
| a rescue.
TmE Old Dominion steamship Hamil
ton ran into the German Steamship
Macedonia of Long Branta, y. v.
and the latter vessel was in grave
danger of sinking The crew wa
taken off. A dense fog prevailed a
the time.