The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-12-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail.
pERsoNAL AND poLIrrCAL


campaign at Chicago, will be placed in
charge of the work there.
WILLIAM DRURY, Of Mercer county,
ILL.,, a multimillionaire. and the largest
land owner in the United States, died
at his home in New Boston, Ia, on the
9TH.
SECRETARY OLNEY has made a report
on the United States relations during
the past year with foreign govern
meuts. He reviews the Cuban strug-
gle and says there may soon be call
for some decided change in the policy
the United States has hitherto pur.
sued.
IT was reported in Minnea polls,
Mimi, on the 7th that Archbishop
Ireland had made an assignment of
his private property, but it was denied
by those acquainted with the arch
bishops affairs.
SECRETARY CARLISLE transmitted to
the house on the 9TH the estimates Of
appropriations required for the gov
ernment for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1885, which amount to s42l,-
1880
A WASHINGTON dispatch OF the 9TH
said that Venezuela has accepted the
arbitration ns agreed upon by Secre-
tary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote.
HENRY DUPONT will renew his con-
test for the place of United States sem
ator from Delaware.
Cor. JOHN r. FELLOWS, district attor-
ney and ex-congressman, died at New
York on the 7th from gastritis and
complication of diseases.
MARK HANNA told republican sena.
tor at Washington that an extra ses-
sion of congress would be called to
meet the 18th or 10th of March.
SECRETARY OLNEY, it was reported,
has under consideration treaty of
annexation of Hawaii to the United
States.
IT was stated in the most positive
terms by the Spanish authorities that
Antonio Maceo, the great insurgent
leader, had been killed in Havana
province. after having effected the
passage of Gen. Wcyler's trocha
THE report of the comptroller of the
currency was submitted TO congress on
the sth. Mr.. Ecisels gives statistics
concerning the national banks and
says n point must finally be reached
when banks shall issue all the credit
currency and be responsible for its re-
demption in gold, instead of the gov
ernment. The legal tender treasury
issues, he says, have always been n dis
turbing element in business and their
current redemption n weakness and
anxiety to the treasury.
A BANQUET was given at Philadelphia
on the 9th to Col. Alexander X. Me-
Clure, editor of the Philadelphia
Times, on the completion of his 5Oth
year in journalism. Vice President
Stevenson, Maj Gen. Miles and many
congressman and senators were pres
ent.
THE Illinois State grange is booming
]. H. Brigham, of Ohio, master of the
National grange, for secretary of agri.
culture in the Mckinley administra.
tion.
The Madrid newspapers were greatly
excited over the references to Cuba in
the presidents letter and declared that
the intervention of the United States
would be unbearablv humiliating.
A SPECIAL TO the New York Sun on
the sth stated that Russia, France and
Great Britain had decreed that the
Turk must be coerced and the sultan's
fate will be made known to him in n
few days The combined fleets of the
three powers will enforce their behest.
A RECENT Washington dispatch said
that IA movement had been inaugural
ted among prominent eX-eonfederates
looking TO the erection at Richmond,
Va, OF handsome monument in hon
or of jefferson Davis.
REV. II. DEWITT TALMAGE has de-
MED the report of his engagement to
marry Miss Susie Mangan, of Sing
Sing, n. Y.
THE United States encouragement
has made his report to congress and
expresses his satisfaction at the new
salary system which displaced the old
fee system. He points out two defects
in the criminal laws and thinks that
new crimes act should be passed at
once. The antitrust laws are also de-
fective, he says. The Union Pacific
railway muddle is also commented on.
THE Washington Times says that
Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Maine. is to be
the next secretary of state.
A SPECIAL from Canton, o., on the
10th said that Senator Allison, of Iowa,
would be secretary of state in McKin-
ley's cabinet
The executive committee of the ma
tional democratic party met at Indian
apolis Ind, on the 10th and gave out
the statement that the party would
permanently maintain its organization
and would at once open national head
quarters in New York.