The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-09-29
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which prevailed off the Australian
coast four months ago
SECRETARY LONG has directed that
the battleship to be built by the Union
iron works, San Francisco, will be
named the Ohio. The Cramps will
build the Maine and the Newport News
company the Missouri.
LIEUT.. Blow, who has charge of the
wreckage operations near San tiago
barbor, reports that 1t is impossible to
stae the Cristobal Colon. Great hopes
Jr% entertained that the Maria Teresa
can be saved.
The third and last day of the ma.
tional currency convention at Omaha,
Neb., began with paper in support
of an unlimited issue of irredeemable
currency by the government by Gen.
A. J. Warner, president of the Ameri-
can Bimetallic union. A reply was
made to him by Congressman Fowler,
OF New Jersey, who supported bank
currency. Mr.. Fowler said the only
logical position the silver men could
take was that of Gen. Warner; that II
they could legislate value into silver
they could legislate value into paper
and make IL redeem itself.
A WASHINGTON dispatch on the 18th
said army officers looked with disfavor
upon the proposed investigation and
predicted its failure, on the ground
that the commission would have no
power to compel officers to testify and
they would not do so voluntarily.
THE Cologne Gazette, in leading
editorial, declared that anarchists
will no longer be tolerated in Ger
many, but they must be made to carry
their evil purposes to foreign lands"
The contracts for the three new bat
tleships have been awarded. One ves-
sci goes to Cramps, another to the
Newport News Shipbuilding company
and the third to the Union iron works,
San Francisco. Each ship will be of
12,5Oo tons displacement, with a coal
ing capacity of 1000 tons and n speed
of 1917 knots.
PERMISSION has been granted by the
secretary of war to the volunteer
troops who served in the army during
the war with Spain to retain their
arms and equipments. One months
pay will cover the total expense, and
the last months pay will be accepted
in payment. As each man will be
granted furlough, this will practical
ly be a gift from the government
AT the session of the Sons of Veter-
ans at Omaha, Neb., on the l4th, De-
troit Mich, was selected for the next
meeting place. A new ritual was
adopted, which provides for one de-
gree instead of three. The PROPOSE
10 10, . 90,
S3 was voted down. 1t was decided to
ask that one of the new battleships
be named Lincoln.
THE hospital ship Missouri, which
left Santiago with 251 sick troops, ar
rived at New York. Thirteen men
died during the voyage.
GEN. BROOKE, in command of the
American troops in Porto Rico, cabled
the war department on the 18th that
there were l,ss6 sick troops in Porto
Rico, about IS per cent, of the total.
OF this numb ber, LIT had typhoid; 447
malaria, and l,262 other diseases.
There had been two deaths from vel
low fever.
The secretary of the treasury an
nounced that the actual expenditures
on account of the war up to August 81
amounted to S1O5, 900, 900. The aggre-
gate of appropriations made for con-
ducting the war and available for the
six months ending December 81 next
amounts in round numbers to S361, ,000,-
900. The appropriations were made
with the expectation, however, that
the war would continue that length of
time.
Al Chicago on the 18th all western
roads agreed to restoration of pas
senger rates to go into effect Septem-
Der 2i. This agreement will not in
terfere with the special reduction
agreed to by different roads on ac-
count of the Omaha exposition.
A MANILA dispatch of the 18th said
Rear Admiral Dewey regarded the sit
uatior there as critical and had re-
quested an additional cruiser and bat
tleship.
GEN. MILES on the 18th issued per.
emptory orders for the immediate
abandonment of Camp Wikoff, ~ Y.
| All regular troops will be sent to their
army posts.
DR. 5. Y. LEECH, who was recently
required to resign as pastor of the
| Kansas Avenue Methodist church at
| Atchison, Kan, for kissing a young
woman member of his congregation
and for other alleged acts, was rein
stated by Bishop Fowler, who held
| that the action of the board was not
| justihable under the circumstances
THE army regulations do not permit
the payment of hospital expenses for
men who are on furlough, but Presi,
dent Mckinley has decided that men
whose condition has required hospital
treatment will be treated as having
surrendered their furloughs and as be.
ing in active service.
THE post-mortem examination OF
the remains of the late empress OF
Austria, who was assassinated al
Geneva by an anarchist, has revealed
that the weapon completely transfiXeG
the heart penetrating 81 inches anC
making wound one-sixth of an inch
wide. The fact that her ma jesty
walked so yards to the steamer /,
ascribed to her remarkable will power
and natural energy.
A TERRIBLE hurricane swept over st
Vincent island and the Barbados
Kingston, capital of ST Vincent, wa'
reported totally destroyed. Over 500
lives were lost and $500 people ren
dered homeless.
Ina lit of jealousy and i'll temper
Jesse Badgerow, farmer near Jen nj
son, Mich, fatally stabbed his wife
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