The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-10-26

killed near Perdue, Okla, while
starting fire with coal oil, that ex-
ploded.
Probably the worst blizzard since
1882 ragged for several days in New
/ Mexico, causing great damage to
farm improvements and live stock.
Robert Clark, negro lynched at
Lucedale. Miss, had bad police re-
cord in Kansas City, Mo. For ten
years up to the time he left Kansas
] City year ago Clark was the prize
bully of Cottage Lane, negro set
tlement, and had served innumer-
able sentences in the county jail for
participating in cutting affrays. He
stole horse, and attempted to as
sault two women in Mississippi.
During 1905 the oil fields of the
United States produced 134,717,5S0
! barrels of petroleum, as against n.y.
0S0,96O in 1904, according to re-
port issued by the United States
geological survey. This was greater
by 17,636,620 barrels than the pro-
duction in any previous year, al
though the value was $1701S,56o
less than that Of 1904.
Mrs. Rachel Delamarter, wife Of
NJ. C. Delamarter. Roger Mills,
Okla, county farmer, was burned to
death. She threw a lighted match
on the floor. anu her skirts ignited.
William Scully, formerly Lord
Scully of London, England, died
in London. He was a peer until
1900. when he became a citizen OK
the United States and resided in
Washington, d. C. His fortune is
estimated at about $50, 100000, in
GLIDING 100000 acres of land in IL
linois. Kansas and Nebraska.
Havana was visited by a severe
cyclone, which caused damage to
property to the amount Of $2,00O,-
900 and the loss of 20 lives. The
storm continued eastward, and q
great tidal wave engulfed Elliott
Key, an island off the coast of Flor
ida, about 20 miles from Miami. A
sea captain says that every one of
its OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES lost. A
barge on which 100 people had
taken refuge was found near the Ba-
hama islands. and so had been
washed away and lost. The storm
continued northeastward, causing
high tides at New York and other
Atlantic rorts.
A dispatch received in London
from Vladivostok by Lloyds agency
says the Russian wooden coasting
steamer Wariagin struck floating
mine and foundered. Some of her
passengers and crew were saved, but
200 persons were drowned.
Col. D. P. Dyer, United States
district attorney, for the eastern dis
trict of Missouri has notified Atty.
Gen. Moody that he will resign if
necessary, to defend his son, d. ?.
Dyer, Jr,, who has been suspended
in connection with an alleged short
age in the United States subltrea-
sury in st. Louis. Col. Over ex-
presses his firm belief in the in
nocense of his son.
japanese Consul Uyeno intimates
The possibility of international COM
plications between the United
States and Japan, unless japanese
children are allowed to attend all
the public schools at San Francisco,
instead of being relegated to the
oriental schools with Chinese, In
Jians and negroes.
The grand jury of the special
term of the United States district
court at Jackson. Miss, Judge John
E. Mccall, presiding, has returned
voluminous indictment against
the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.
The charge is transportation Of sep
arate carloads Of oil at rates dis
eliminating in favor of the Stand
ard Oil Co. of Indiana. Alleged
shipments for the past three years
are covered.
Two hundred and fifty-eight
skilled Flemish weavers. with their
families, have left Client for Brem-
en-, from whence they will sail on a
steamer of the North German
LLOYD line direct for Charleston,
s. G.
! Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of
the president of the confederacy,
who had been i'll for a week, died
at the Hotel Majestic, in New York
city. Death was due to pneumonia,
induced by severe cold, which
Mrs. Davis contracted upon her re-
turn from the Adirondacks, where
she had spent the summer months.
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