The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-05

ern switch engine blowing out its
crown sheet with terrific force at
Springfield, o. Some OF the injuries
TO the men may prove fatal
Ar the SemetSolvay company's by.
product plant at Ensley City, Ala, q
fire was discovered raging in the oil
house. The flames spread rapidly and
soon the main building and chemical
works of the plant were burned down.
Ono hundred and twenty-five coke
ovepa escaped destructi on, but the
principal buildings of the plant were
destroyed, causing loss estimated at
between $3.50, 900 and 500, 900, with no
insurance. One of the workmen lost
his life and another employe was bad.
ly burned.
JAMES Brown, colored, was hanged
In the county Jail at Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 2Sth for the murder of Henry
Prather, also colored, three years ago.
THE secretary of war promised
Messrs Cochrane, Dockery, Cowherd
and Bodine, Of Missouri, that the
Fourth Missouri volunteers should be
included in the 90, coo volunteers to be
mustered out In the near future.
"h hO"hos nthI
Clare, Ia, was shot by a man who had
been keeping company with her. The
murderer then killed himself
IRA SEXTON was hanged at Prince ton,
Mo-, on the 2sth for the murder of
Nathan Stark, a young farmer, October
%, 1897.
AN incendiary fire almost DESTROYED
the News-Democrat building in Belle
vile, Ill.
THE recent announcement by the
officials of the Chicago Il Northwest
ern that they would dispense with the
services of female employees on the
ground that women were not compe-
tent to fill the more important posi-
tions on the road, has interested the
club women of Denver, Col, and they
will lead an organized movement to
protest against what they consider
rank injustice The club was prepar-
ing circular letters to other federation
organizations to help in the cause.
THREE boys were drowned at the
old Tivoli reservoir at Quail street,
Albany, N. Y. They were playing
shiny on the ice when IL broke.
A CHoCTAw Indian named Kelly shot
his cousin Morris at church social at
Garland, ]. T., and fed. lie afterwards
returned and, pushing his way through
the crowd, cut the dying mans throat
and then escaped The two men quar-
relied over woman.
The American Newspaper Publish
ers' association has presented to the
Anglo-American joint high commits.
sioners at Washington a carefully pre-
pared argument in favor of free paper
and free pulp.
THREE children named Geary were
drowned in the Norris canal near Wash
ington, N. j., by the ice breaking.
A LOSS of 500, 900 was caused by the
burning Of an elevator at Minneapolis,
Mimi, containing 600 bushels of
wheat.
STRIKERS in shoe factories at Marl-
boro, Mass, were reported weakening.
A FAMINE is threatened in the Brit
ish Bahamas.
THE Episcopal church of the Ascen-
sion at Chicago was damaged $40, 900 by
a fire which started from an over
heated furnace.
AFTER nearly 30 years Imprisonment
in the Columbus (O) penitentiary for
murder John Taborn refused a Christ
mas pardon offered him by the gov
ernor.
THREE brothers-Russell, Edward
and George Sizemore-have been ar
rested at Onawa. Ia, charged with
the murder of Charles Beck, of Deca.
tur, Neb., for robbery seven years ago.
MARION TYLER, who was recently
jailed at Scottsburg, Ind, for an at
tempt to murder his wife, was hanged
by mob, who had previously got the
keys from the sheriff.
A CROWD of several thousand whites
and blacks, gathered by the burning
of a saloon building, became involved
in race riot at Dallas, Tex, and
when the battle was ended two per-
sons had been killed, five were seri-
ously injured and dozen others
injured. In addition, one man
fell dead on the sidewalk during the
fire and a woman was fatally injured
in jumping from window of the
burning building.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the 23d
numbered 212, according to Brad
streets commercial report, against $50
for the corresponding week last year
TWELVE acres, containing IL, 600, 900
feet of lumber, a planning mill, with
sheds and large quantity of machin-
cry, were swept by fire at Burlington,
VT, the other day, causing a loss esti-
mated at $3.50, 900.
A BAD wreck occurred at Emison,
Ind, on the Goth in which three train
men were seriously hurt and score
or more of passengers bruised. An
express train crashed into a freight
both engines.
THE body of Miss Desmondia Law
ton, who with her brother and sisters
went to Chicago from Kansas City a
few weeks ago, was found in her room
on the esd. She had taken chloroform
and had apparently been dead for two
days. She had been suffering recently
from i'll health.
THE American national bank at
Lima, o., was robbed of SIS, l62 on the
night of the s5th. The janitor found
the doors of the vault open the next
The cashier and president
found all the gold and paper money in
the bank carried away and the silver
money untouched. The affair was
mystery.
HERMAN GRUNBERG died on the 23d
At the Pacific Hebrew home at San
francisco, aged t02 years Nineteen
years ago he bought coffin and had a