The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-07-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and MaiL
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Blanco has issued proclamation an
ncuncing that anyone daring to ex-
press an unfavorable opinion of the
present policy Of the government will
be summarily shot without trial or in
vestigation. Famine was stated to be
imminent and IL was thought the city
could not possibly hold out six weeks
longer.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY sent special
messages to congress on the 27th, rec
ommending that Lieut.. Hobson be
suitably rewarded for his heroism in
sinking the Merrimac in Santiago har-
Dor, and also that Lieut. Newcomb,
who rescued the disabled Winslow
from the enemy's guns, be likewise re-
warded. The president also recon.
mended rewards for Capt Hogsdon,
of the Hugh McCulloch, for services at
Manila, and Naval Cadet Powell, for
trying to rescue Lieut.. Hobson.
The first state convention of the so.
cialists of Kansas met at Fort Scott
and nominated full state ticket Tho
platform demands speedy termina,
tion OF the war; that wages of soldiers
be increased and salaries of army Off
ment issue paper money until legal
tender can be abolished, and that exl
listing fractional coins be supplement,
ed by aluminium: that all land should
be the property Of the whole people,
to be held in common.
NAL GEN, WESLEY MERRITT sailed
on the Newport from San Francisco
on the Goth to join Admiral Dewey
and to act as governor general of the
Philippine islands. /
ALL the members of the cabinet were
present at the meeting in Washington
on the 3sth, with the exception OF
Secretary Day, who was out of the
city. II was stated after the meeting
that the work of supplying Commo-
| dore Watson's squadron with ammuni-
tion, coal, etc, preparatory to its de.
parture to. harass the Spanish coast,
that the squadron would be ready tc
sail in less than week.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has issued o
proclamation extending the blockade
Of Cuba to the southern coast from
Cape Francis to Cape Cruz, inclusive,
and also blockading San Juan de Porto
Rico.
URGENT dispatches have been sent
by the authorities at Washington to
Admiral Sampson off Santiago de Cuba
to have the Iowa and Oregon fully
coaled and equipped and other vessels
ready for Commodore Watson's squad
ron, so that his fleet can start soon to
raid the Spanish coast and carry the
war home to Spain.
THE Iowa prohibition state conven.
tion at Des Moines nominated com.
plete state ticket. Delegates from the
w. c. L. U. organization were present
and pledged the ticket their hearty
support.
THE Spanish consul at Kingston, ia.
maica, received n cablegram from San.
tiago de Cuba asserting that the
United States armored cruiser Brook.
lyn had been struck by a Spanish shell,
which sank the vessel and killed Com
modore Schley and "a seamen. The
Spaniards of the city drank champagne
over the news. The report was dis.
credited at Washington.
LATE Manila advices said IL was sup
posed the German warships would
prevent the bombardInent of Manila
and that the Spaniards had determined
to fight to the death and that desper-
ate fighting was expected when the
American troops arrived.
THE pope of Rome was said to be
greatly affected by the course of the
Spanish-American war, and In view OF
his age and nervous prostration foi
some time past those surrounding him
were anxious, although his physicians
declared there was no cause for alarm
TIE honorary degree of doctor OF
laws was conferred on the Goth by
Yale university at New Haven. Conn.
upon William Mckinley, president o.
the United States.
DELEGATES from 20 states met a
Chicago on the 30th and formed tn,
National Order of Mohawks, whose OBJ
jects are ITO propagate the principles
Of democracy and support the platform
adopted by the Chicago convention o
1895" j. r. Sovereign, Of Sulphul
Springs, Ark, former master work
man of the Knights of Labor, was
elected grand chief of the new order
INTERCEPTED dispatches from Admi
raj Cervera on the S0th showed a criti
cal state of affairs at Santiago. Boil
food and ammunition were reported
to be getting very short and the latter
} will soon be exhausted.
! The war situation at Santiago d,
Cuba at the close of the S0th was de
scribed by Secretary Alger as beinJ
such as to warrant him in entertain
ing the expectation of a battle at an,
2 moment
! THE war department received tn
1 welcome information on the 3oth tha
: a military telegraph station had beeI
I established at Savilla, near Santiago
d de Cuba, in the center of the presen
4 military operations, and that this lin,
n ran to a point near Aguadores, wher
u IL connected with the French cabl
G line, thus bringing Gen. Shafter int
e direct communication with Washing
IS ton.
l. In diplomatic quarters at Washing
h ton on the S0th it was stated that n
r steps had been taken thus far in tn
direction of peace overtures from an
quarter and twas not likely such ovel
a lures would come, either from on
l. power or from combination of pow
d ers, until the military situation mi
e. terially changed by a decided victor
E. or decided defeat
:, MISCELLANEOUS
~ HENRY WILLIAMS, the negro arrests
at Macon Mo- charged with assault