The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-04-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and MeiL
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


REPRESENTATIVE LANDS, OF Indiana,
has been urging upon Representative
Of the administration at Washington
the desirability of publicly declaring
It's antagonism to- trusts. In a talk
with Secretary Gage and others he
said that the people in the middle
west were aroused in antagonism to
the trusts and that the trust question
promised to make a more exciting is
sue in Indiana than the money ques-
ton did in the late presidential cleo
tion.
SECRETARY ALGER left Porto Rico
for New York on the 9th. While in
the island the secre tary received many
petitions from municipalities asking
financial help and relief from excess
sive taxation.
SANTA CRUZ was captured by Gen.
Lawton's expedition on the 10th and
the rebels were driven into the noun
tains. The Americans had six wound
ed and the Filipinos lost 6s men and
had 40 others wounded.
ii. A. W. TABOR, the Colorado min
ing maenate and ex-United States SEN
ator, died at Denver on the 10th of APP
pendicitis, aged 60 years.
The trial OF ex-senator Quay and his
son, on charges of conspiracy in the
misuse of funds of the Peoples bank
In Philadelphia, began on the 10th be-
fore Judge Biddle.
AN uncensored telegram from Ma
nila said that it was the opinion of
army men that 1901 American SOL
diers would be needed to quell the re-
bellion in the Philippines and that the
volunteers were eager to return home,
us they did not enlist to fight mig
gers" and wanted to be relieved by
regulars as soon as the Spanish treaty
was formally ratified.
WAR was formally ended on the llth
through the exchange of Publications
Of the treaty of peace at Washington,
followed by the issuance of a procla-
nation by President Mckinley an
nouncing to the world that peace with
Spain was restored.
REV. JAY GooDRICH, of Madison, n.
j., has been appointed agent of the
American Bible society for the Philip
pines and will leave for Manila in
about six months.
IT Is stated that Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, the founder of the Christian
Science religion, will soon leave Bos-
ton aud pass the remainder of her days
at Lead. 5. ID.
GEN. LAwToN captured the villages
of Pagsajan and Lumbar, the Filipino
insurgents fleeing to the mountains
Miss CONSTANCE INGALLS,, the daugh-
ter of ex-senator Ingalls,, of Kansas,
was married at Washington on the
18th to Robert Shick, of Reading, Pa,
a lawyer.
DISPATCHES received at Washing
ton state that a party of l05 Ameri-
can and British sailors were forced
to retreat to the beach after having
been caught in an ambush on a
German plantation in Samoa. 1t
was estimated that 800 warriors at
tackled the Anglo-American party and
several British and American officers
and men were killed and their heads
severed by Mataafa's warriors The
German was arrested by the British
and detained on board the Tauranga,
which made the situation very serious.
CAPT. NATHANIEL w. PARKER, the
oldest river man and pilot in the west,
died at the residence of his daughter
in ST. Louis, aged 81 years. He is sur
vived by seven children, "a grandchil-
dren and IA great-grandcliildren
THE Samoan high commission will
sail for Apia on the United States
naval transport Badger, leaving San
Francisco on the 25th inst the early
sailing of the commission is regarded
as evidence that the recent collision at
Apia will be automatically settled.
IT is becoming evident to officials of
the administration at Washington that
the insurrection in the Philippines is
apt to drag along for a considerable
time and that Aguinaldo purposes to
continue a guerrilla warfare.
The $40 dinner of democrats at New
York took place on the 18th. There
we're fully 800 more guests than the
/, 800 planned for, Judge Van Wycll
was the principal orator, lie spoke
against the tariff and trusts, but ig-
nored the money question and terri
toral expansion.
The jefferson club banquet at Mil
waukee on the 18th was attended by
over 400 guests. William J. Bryan, OF
Nebraska, was the guest of honor and
delivered the principal address. He
said the free silver question would be
the issue again in 1900.