The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail
Personal AND POLITICAL

Personal AND POLITICAL
TuE autonomist cabinet az Havana
J has addressed an appeal 10 the Cuban
Z insurgents. asking tor the arrange
ment of an armistice for the purpose
Of arriving at terms % peace. The
/ appeal stated shat Spain was willing
/ to enlarge the present scope % auton-
omy.
THE Washington Post stated on the
sth that unless Spain. within - hours.
yielded all BY sarrendering Cuba, war
< could not be averted. that the presi-
dent. in his message, made a seathing
{ arraignment Of spain aud commented
on the blowing up of the Maine and
held Spain responsible for that disaster.
ACcoRDTNs 70 New York dispatch
Z Tammany will send - regiments to
I fight Spain II they are needed.
GREAT BRITAIN has informed Secre-
tary Day that If affairs should take
such turn that the United States
would deem mediation on the part OF
/ another power advisable, Great Brit
ain would be gratitied IL America would
give her the preference
THE 5th was prolific OF reports OF
mediation on the part Of European
powers, but the summary on that point
was that they could not agree on the
matter and that their interference
would be unacceptable to :he United
I States
MEMBERS of congress on the jth were
said TO be receiving scores of tele-
grams for bankers and corporations
appealing TO them to sustain the wise
peace policy" of the president
The Kansas City Live Stock eX-
change, the Builders and Traders ex-
| change and the Commercial club sent
kilograms To the Missouri senator's and
representatives in congress calling
upon them to support the president in
his endeavors to settle the difficulties
with Spain by the use of diplomatic
methods rather than by arms
IT was reported at Madrid that the
basis of an armis.ice in Cuba had been
arranged on the 9th and that Spain
was prepared to give all that America
had asked for. although the concession
must be giided to suit Spanish palates.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY did not send a
message TO congress on the 9th as Gen.
Lee informed him ne could not get all
the Americans out of Cuba and II the
the message was sent in while they
were in the island he could not an
swer for their lives. Another reason,
also. for holding back the message was
that news had been received tina. the
queen regent had taken the Spanish.
American trouble into her own hands
and all the demands of President Me
Kinley were likely To be conceded and
there would be no war.
The navy department at Washington
has received innumerable requests from
newspapers throughout the country
for permission to have representative:
aboard the ships of the flying squadron
and the North Atlantic squadron, but
Secretary Long has concluded that il
will be inadvisable.
SINCE the Maine disaster the sailor:
in the United States navy have been
anxious for war and the delay at Wash
ington has resulted in a round robin
circulated among the enlisted men OF
the North Atlantic squadron. When
the Texas went north from Dry Tor
tugss her sailors brought the protest
along with them. Officials took meas
ures to secure the round robin, but II
had been sent To Washington. The
text of it is that unless decisive actor
is soon taken sailors will desert a.
every opportunity.
IT was reported at London on the 7tf
that the queen regent of Spain has
again appealed to Queen Victoria di
rect, asking the latter TO exert her in
fiuence TO avert war with the United
States aud, it was added, "touchingly
recalling that both Victoria and her
self are widows and thus deprived o
advisers"
ThE ambassadors of France, Ger
many, Russia and Italy at Madrid OF
the eth waited upon Senor Gullon, tn
foreign minister, and presented join
note in the interests of peace. Seno
Gullon, replying, declared that tn,
members of the Spanish cabinet weri
unanimous in considering that Span
had reached 1.-The limit of interna
D tional policy in the direction of con
: ceding the demands and allowing tn
> pretensions of the United States"
GOV. HoLcoNB, of Nebraska, sent
: telegram 10 President Mckinley ten
I
ment
, MARGARET MATHER, the actress, col,
lapsed and was carried off the stage a
Charleston, W. Va. and never regaine,
consciousness. She died of convul
sions, caused by Brights disease. Sh
was born in 1862.
THE London morning paper edito
rials on the sth on the Cuban situation
were all pessimistic, at the most onl,
hoping that the delay would enabl,
some peaceful influences 10 work
The Times could not see how a eonfiie
could be avoided. The Daily New
pointed out that in both America ani
Spain IL was the people and not tn,
rulers who desired war. Special dis
patches from the continent TO IN,
London papers likewise recorded TIT
same feeling of hopelessness of avoid
ing a conflict
. MISCELLANEOUS
r Gov. ADAMS, of Colorado. has ten
5 dered the services OF 800 Navajo In
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