The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-02-24
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will represent his college At the inter
collegiate contest at Chicago
FnIBUsIERfNG expedition com
posed of about 20 men left Tampa
Fla, on the night Of the 18th for Cuba
ACTUATKD by a sense Of honor and ,
strict idea of justice the United State.
state department has taken steps 4
place in the hands of Senor Canalejz
TO whom the letter was addressed. n,
epistle written by Senor Depuy ID
LONE. which led TO the resignation Ot
the minister.
Ir was stated at the state depart
ment at Washington on the 18th tbs;
matters regarding the De LONE
incident had assumed such a SHAPE
that a satisfactory adjustment Of the
affair between the United states and
Spain was confidently expected
Miss FRANCES T. WTIIARD was re-
ported very sick in New York. suffer
ing from cancer of the stomach.
SUSAN Il. ANTHONY called the Soth
annual convention of the National
Woman Suffrage association to order
at Washington ON the l4th- Follow
ing Miss Anthony's address the cOnven-
tion settled down to routine business
Re-. anna Shaw, in her report, spoke
highly of the work Of Miss Gregg. Of
Kansas. a society organizer. Miss Vie
toria Whitney. of ST. Louis. entered a
protest against admitting the Missouri
delegates. but the convention ad.
iourned before 1; was acted upon.
THE bill to submit woman suffrage
amendment was defeated in the upper
house of the Iowa general assembly by
50 TO a..
kGDREssEs were issued from Wash
ington on the 18th on behalf of the
democratic, populist and silver re-
publican parties signed bv Senator
James X. Jones for the democrats,
senator Marion Butler for the popu-
lists. and Chairman Charles Towne and
ex-senator Dubois and others for the
silver republicans, appealing TO all to
consolidate on the financial issue.
IL the lower house Of the Massachu-
setts Legislature the woman suffrage
question came up the other day in the
form of resolution for striking out
the word male from the state consti.
tuition IL was almost unanimously
voted down.
PRESIDENT MCKISLEY has been in
formed by some of the republican SEN
ators that IL will be useless to press
the Hawaiian annexation treaty to
vote until some attention has been
given to Cuba, as a vote now would
mean the rejection Of the treaty.
REv. ALEXANDER KENT. pastor of the
Peoples church at Washington, has
made arrangements for the meetings
ut the church Sunday evenings to be
addressed by congressman. who are to
discuss social and financial problems
THE Kentucky house of representa-
tives passed resolution urging their
congressman and senator's to use all
possible efforts to secure the reeogni-
tiou of the Cuban patriots and the
island as an Independent and free re-
pu bile
Miss FRANCIS T.. WILLARD. president
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union, died early on the morning of
the 18th at New York. She had suf-
fered for some years from profound
anemia and few weeks ago she was
much Frustrated and readily took the
grip. which attacked the stomach,
liver. intestines and finally over
whelmed the nerve centers She was
born September IS lsSa.
THE resolutions which were adopted
at the session of the National Woman
Suffrage association at Washington on
the 18th demand for women citizens
equality with males in the exercise of
the elective franchise, ask for 10th
amendment TO the constitution TO
bring this about, demand for mothers
equal custody and control of their
minor children and for wives and
widows an equal use and inheritance
Of property. and ask for women repre-
sentation ON boards of education, pub
lie schools, etc
ACCORDING TO a declaration of the
state department at Washington on
the 18th Spain has officially disclaimed
in a positive manner the reflections
contained in the De LONE letter. and
that incident is satisfactorily closed.
PEOPLE of every class in Madrid de
nounced in the strongest fashion the
insinuation on the part of the Ameri-
can press that the Spanish nation was
in any way responsible for the Maine
disaster at Havana, which was as
cribed by the majority To an accident.
and by some TO the work OF Cubans,
anxious To embroil the United States
with Spain. should the United States
government officially re-echo the
charges of the American press a dec
laration of war, ID was said, would fol-
lew at once without waiting for further
action from America.
Col EDWARD Il. BROWNE, of Aspen,
Col, wired Gov. Adams offering, in
case OF war with Spain. to furnish
dynamite battery composed OF iO0
miners, who have had long experience
in handling high explosives
The United States government on
the 18th had settled down into wait
ing attitude to get the results of the
court of inquiry appointed by the navy
To investigate the cause OF
the disaster TO the battleship Maine.
The dead seamen were buried in Cuba
and the wounded sent to Kew West,
Fla The story that torpedo hole |
was discovered in the bottom Of the /.
Maine was denied by the authorities I
MIscEII-ASEoUA
THE United States battieship Maine ]
was blown upin Havana harbOr al 9:sO I