The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Personal AND POLITICAL
SENIOR AeoNcu.Lo. the representa-
dive of Gen. Aguinaldo and the Fill
pinos at Washington, has filed with
the state department n memorandum
setting forth the reasons why the
philippine government should be rec
ognized by the United States.
! PRESIDENT MCKINLEY sent a letter
of coincidence TO Mrs Dingley on the
death OF her husband at Washington.
/ CAss71s q. Foster, Judge of the fed.
eral court for the district of Kansas,
has sent in his resignation to take
effect March /.
] WILLIAM j. BRYAN declared in a
speech at the reception given him by
the Bimetallic league at Denver, Col.
on the 10th that the silver issue was
still very much alive.
GEN. EAGAS sent his amended state.
ment to the war Investigation commits
sion at Washington, eliminating all
the Objectionable language In his re-
ply to -he charges made by Gen. Miles
concerning the beef furnished the
army.
THE president has decided TO appoint
a Philippine commission. 1t will be
composed OF Admiral Dewey, Gen.
Otis. Col Denby, President Schurman.
OF Cornell university, and Prof. Worces.
ter. of Ann Arbor university. They
will study the habits and manners OF
the Filipinos, the material resources of
the country and its commercial possi-
bilities, but they will not attempt to
deal with the problem of government
for the islands
A BILL for woman suffrage has been
in troduced in the Oklahoma legisla-
ture.
EUGENE HALE was reelected United
States senator by the concurrent vote
OF the two branches of the Maine
legislature. 1t will be his fourth term
in the senate.
FRANCIS NJ. CocKRELL dem. } was re.
elected United States senator for the
fifth successive time by the Missouri
legislature.
| WILLIAM J. BRYAN on the nth made
speech to the Colorado legislature in
the afternoon and at night addressed
an immense audience at the Coliseum
at Denver denouncing the policy Of
expansion.
| The president announced at the cab
met meeting on the nth that he had
decided to order a court to try
Commissary General Eagan for the
abusive language he had used respect
ing Gen. Miles while testifying before
the war investigating commission.
WILLIAM Y. MORGAN, of Hutchinson,
| al atut t,,ta k,, ha
sas legislature.
WILLIAM A. STONE was inaugurated
governor of Pennsylvania at Harris
burg on the nth. The inaugural
procession was one of the most impos-
ing ever seen in the capital.
JoHN RUSSELL You've, librarian OF
the congressional library, died a,
Washington on the nth after an i'll.
ness of several weeks.
DIR. ANDREW j. BLACKWELL, for
whom the town of Blackwell, Ok. was
named, and one of the best. known men
in that part of the country, has died.
He was n familiar figure in the mining 6
towns of southwest Missouri and south
east Kansas in the early days.
COL JAMES A. SEXTON, commander
in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re.
public, was reported seriously i'll in
Washington on the 18th.
The detail for the court-martial TO
try Commissary General Eagan was
made public by Adjt. Gen. Corbin on
the 18th.
JUDGE PETER S. GRossCuP OF Chica.
go, United States district Judge, was
nominated by the president to succeed
the late Judge Showalter as United
States circuit judge for the Seventh
district
THE Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Graphic said on the 10th
that one of the principal chiefs of the
Carlists informed him that everything
was ready for rising in Spain, thai
Don Carlos was absolutely resolved &c
take the field and that all were wait
ing for the signal.
A wARsHp has been ordered tC
Samoa on account of the trouble grow
ing out of the election of a successor
to the late King Malietoa- A specia
dispatch said that the British and
American consuls were compelled tC
force the doors OF the supreme court
at Apia, Samoa, In which the German
consul had established himself, anC
push him into the street The situa
tion was reported grave in the island,
and may embroil the United State.
and Great Britain with Germany.
GEN. EAGAN was served with legal
notice of the ordering of court
martial for his trial just before tn,
close of office hours on the 10th and
his office was placed in charge OF
Lieut., Col. George B, Davis, who had
been on duty there for some time as
assistant to the commissary general
A WASHINGTON special TO the Brook
lyn Eagle said that Maj. Gen. Nelson
A. Miles, commanding the United
States army, is to be court-martialed
as soon as the Eagan court.martial
submits its findings, provided il is
found that the utterahces OF Gen.
Miles contained any provocation for
the assault made upon him by Gen.
Eagan.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Arkansas senate passed a bill
relieving husbands of responsibility
for ante-nuptial debts of wives. The
question has long been a mooted one
in the courts and the supreme court
recently held husbands responsible.
CHARLES WATSON, a bartender, was