The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

Southern railway. The company will
operate |, ,537 miles OF road in Colorado,
Wyoming, New Mexico and Texas
EARLY the other morning burglars
broke into the main building of the
Iowa State university at Iowa City
aud blew up the safe with dynamite.
rhe burglars looted the safe and es.
saped. IL was not known how much
they got
! CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
created by rich gold discoveries IS
miles east of Vernal. Utah, in the Blue
mountains, near the Colorado line.
A SERIOUS fire ragged in the town OF
Bridgewater, n. s., and about 30 busi-
ness places were destroyed, including
the post office, music hall, savings'
bank, Motel and telegraph office. A
number OF residences were also burned.
! No homeseekers' excursions will be
run after February l by the roads in
the territory of the Central Passenger
association. At recent meeting OF
the association held in Chicago. at
which 40 of the roads were presented,
all of them, with four exceptions
decided TO discontinue homeseekers'
excursions and in lieu thereof to sell
after this month regular winter tourist
tickets
THE employees of the Sioux City Qa-)
plant of the Cudahy Packing company
have purchased four blocks of prop
erty a short distance from the packing
house and will build up what they will
sall Cudahytown on the cooperative
plan. No one not an employe of the
packing company aud a member OF the
townsite company will be allowed to
buy lots.
AN epidemic OF grip was prevailing
m Oakland, Cal, on the llth. Health
officer Dunn said he thought there
were at least 1000 cases in the city
and, IL weather conditions do not aid
the health department in checking the
disease, a repetition of the epidemic Of
eight years ago was feared.
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL LfEBER.
Of the United States army, has decided
that soldiers OF the war with Spain
may be buried in the national ceme-
terry at Gettysburg, Pa
A NEGRO named Henry Jones was
hanged by a crowd near Richmond,
n. c., for numbering a woman.
|
Mich, was burned on the 9th.
News was received at Vancouver. b.
c., of tremendous landslide near
Spences bridge on the Canadian Pa
cfic railway. The recent thaw had
the effect Of loosening the sides of a
small mountain which overhangs the
Frazer river at that point and with a
roar that could be heard for over
mile, fully 100 acres of the hill, any
where from 20 to so feet in depth,
crashed into the Frazer, damming il
completely and sending the water in
torrents over the fertile Nicola valley.
The course of the river was changed
completely.
In heavy freight train on the Iron
Mountain railway pair of trucks on
a box car jumped the track just as
siding at Vaudeville, Ark, was
reached. The car struck switch rail
and was hurled across the track.
Eight freight cars were piled together
in splinters No one was hurt, but the
company suffered heavy loss
THE Singapore Free Press said that
Spencer Pratt consul general for the
United States, has sent to Gen. Otis,
United States military governor at
Manila, a proposal that memorial
should be erected at Manila to the
memory of all Americans who fell in
the capture or died of disease during
the campaign and that all Americans
now resident in the east should be in.
vited to contribute toward this object
AT the Lenox Athletic club at New
York on the 10th Tom Sharkey, the
sailor knocked out Kid Mccoy in the
tenth round. They were matched for
20-round battle.
Four persons were run down and
instantly killed by an express train
uear Larimer station, on the Pennsyl-
vauia railway, % miles east of Pitts
burgh, Pa The engineer blew the
whistle, but the alarm was probably
unheard.
Four crooks in Jail at Columbus,
Neb., dynamited the building to effect
their escape. Two of them were seri~
other will lose his eyesight
AT the conference at ST. Louis it was
decided by a unanimous vote to hold
the worlds fair TO celebrate the Louisi-
ana purchase at St Louis in the win
Ter OF lbOo. tOurteen states ana terri
tories of the II in the Louisiana pur-
chase district were represented.
AS a result of eating pork from hog
atil cted with trichine, Rika, the daugh-
ter of August Kellerman, a farmer
near Fairbury, Neb., is dead, her moth
.r was reported dying and the father
and five other children were seriously
IL Two neighbor boys, who psrtooS
Of the food, were also reported as be.
ing very low, with only slight chances
for recovery.
Four bandits boarded a suburban
/ train on the Chicago & Eastern Illi-
lois railroad at Englewood aud robbed
+. A. Harding, an aged Methodist
minister, taking his watch, $40 and his
wallet containing valuable papers
/ The robbers then jumped off the train
and escaped before the passengers had
realized what had taken place.
SEVENTY miners and citizens charged
with riot were arraigued in court at
| Pana, Ill, on the 9th. States Attor-
/ ney Humphreys nolled So of the cases
while IL pleaded guilty and were given
sentences Pneumonia continued &c
rage among the colored nou-union
miners, deaths occurring daily.
] The three children of Charles Hager-
man were playing on the ice off Wells
ISLAND, n. Y, in the St Lawrence river
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