The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-04-06

THE Legislature Of chihuahua, Mex,
refused TO grant the petition of
several thousand ex.con federates for
the pardon of Mac Stewart, the con-
federate veteran under sentence OF
death for killing policeman in Parral
two years ago Thousands Of dollars
have been spent in Stewards behalf by
the con federates OF the United States
and personal appeal was made to
President DiRz about year ago.
IT was reported on the 3Oth that only
four persons were drowned when the
steamer Rowena Lee sank near Tyler,
Mo.
The department OF agriculture has
issued formal advertisement invit-
ing proposals for furnishing field,
flower and vegetable seeds to the gov
ernment for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1900. All bids are to be filed
not later than April 20. The seeds
are to be furnished in packages all
ready for mailing. There will be, in
round numbers, 10, 900, 900 packets of
vegetable seeds, 1000, 900 of flower
seeds, 81, 900 of tobacco, 23, 900 of cot
ton and 800, 900 of lawn grass.
Two passenger trains on the Belt
line, one from Springfield, ILL.,, and
the other out from St Louis, collided
at Haynes, ILL.,, on the 3Oth DIR. L. w.
Porter, of Jerseyville, ILL.,, and a bag
gageman were fatally injured and sew
eral others severely hurt The engi-
neers and firemen of both trains
jumped and escaped without a scratch.
The two trains met with terrific force,
hurling the passengers into heaps and
smashing the cars, which were piled up.
Miss EDITH BOONE, of Philadelphia,
has brought suit for $3.50 damages
against Frederick r. Farrow, a young
drug clerk, for squeezing her hands so
violently that the smaller bone in one
of them was broken and both hands
were rendered practically useless.
Her doctor says necrosis may necessi-
tate the amputation of one hand.
A BOX containing S14,O0 in confed-
crate money, about 1000 worth of
gold nuggets and So, 900 in gold coin
has been found in cave at Abbot,
Tex. The finders were men who came
from the City of Mexico with a chart
on which was marked the location of
the cave and of the box.
about 81 passengers aboard, besides
her crew, exploded opposite Tyler.
Mo-, on the Goth and imme ediately sank
with all en- board, except Capt George
Carvell and one of the crew. 1t was
believed that over go people had per-
ished. The cause of the explosion was
unknown. The steamer was owned
by the Lee line in Memphis, Tenn.
EDWARD BATES SoPER was hanged
at Harrisonville, Mo-, on the 30th for
numbering his wife and two children.
The bill putting into effect the
amendment to the Texas constitute tion
providing for the pensioning of indi-
gent confederate veterans was passed
in the house at Austin. 1t carries with
it au appropriation of $3.50, 900 per an.
mum for pensions and provides that no
pension shall exceed SIS per month.
HENRY SANDERsoN, who attempted
to murder his sweetheart Myrtle
Fleisher, at Mayetta, Kan, but NOR.
tally wounded her aunt instead, was
taken by mob from his keeper in a
restaurant at Holton at two o'clock
on the morning of the 2Sth and hur-
ried to a wagon bridge out of town
and swung off. The body was after
wards cut down by the sheriff and a
coroner's jury returned a verdict OF
} death at the hands of unknown per-
, sons.
, A DISPATCH from Denver, Col, stated
that Secretary Martin, of the National
Live Stock association, was notified by
the Santa Fe Railroad company that
, the order abrogating the feeding-in-
, transit live stock rates, which was to
/ have taken effect April 1, had been sus.
pended until May 90
, ALVIN BALLARD, serving an eight
year sentence in the Kansas peniten'
5 tiary for horse stealing, has confessed
. that he and Allgood and "Bill' Turner
were the murderers of Joseph New and
, that Mrs. New and George Dobbs,
, serving life sentences for the murder,
. are absolutely innocent. So firmly
does Warden Lands believe in the in
4 nocence of Mrs. New and Dobbs that
he will go to the governor of Kansas
, and ask that they be pardoned.
AN accident occurred at the city
drainage pumps at Cairo, ILL.,, and En-
gineer Tuttle was terribly burned anC
two tramps lost their lives by inhaline
; scalding steam.
A TORNADO on the 2Sth did consider
:. able damage at Opelika, Ridervills
and other towns in Alabama. A
woman was instantly killed at tn,
i former place.
Much damage was done to crops il
Texas by the freeze of the 27th anc
: 2Sth. Corn will have to be replanted
: while the fruit crop was practically
destroyed.
L Inspectors at the Lake Shore yards
/ at Cleveland, o., found the lower par
S of a mans body clinging to Il truck
: 1t was presu med he had been stealth s
, n ride and had got cut in two, the
other part of his body falling by the
way.
!. REPORTS from nearly every county
in the heart OF the winter wheat grow
y ing section of Nebraska showed tina
4 the plant has been badly winter killed
farmers estimating the damage il
, some localities as high as so per cent
" An average for the state would plac,
!, the damage at from 25 to S3H per cent
RALPH HoYr succeeded in tracing
. three men who had burglarized the
- post office and a store at North Fair
field, O., to a barn Al miles away anC
y found them asleep. lie awoSe theu
and made them march back at tn,
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