The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-03-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail
Personal AND POLITICAL.


IT was announced at the navy de.
partment on the 18th that an arrange.
ment was being made for extending
American authority throughout the
Philippine islands by sending gun
boats to different ports and having
troops or marines land and hoist the
stars and stripes and make military
demonstration to impress the inhabit-
ants
The court OF inquiry into the beef
charges made by Gen. Miles got down
to work at Washington on the Goth,
| the commanding general being the
first witness before them.
| TIE American-Can commission
met at Washington on the goth and
then adjourned to meet at Quebec,
Can, on August ., unless the chairmen
OF the respective commissions agree
upon another date. II appeared that
there were serious differences regard
ing the delimitation of the Alaskan
boundary.
EX.Gov. THOMAS C. FLETCHER of
Missouri, suffered n stroke of apoplcxy
in Washington on the Goth and was in
serious condition at the Emergency
hospital on account of his age having
celebrated his seventy-frst birthday
January 81 last. The chances for his
recovery were regarded as small.
Mr.. ETHAN ALLEN UITCHCoCK took
the prescribed oath on the Goth at
Washington and entered upon his
duties as secretary of the interior.
A DISPATCH was received at Wash
ington on the 2lst from Gen. Otis Civ
ing the proclamation of an important
officer of the insurgent government
Mt Malolos, in which war is declared
against the Americans until they are
exterminated. No quarter was to be
given to the American troops, and the
Filipinos wanted either independence
or death.
john LoGAs, one of the oldest post
masters In the United States, died at
his home at Cross Roads, Pa He was
appointed postmaster during the ad.
ministrntion of President Van Buren,
in 1887 and has filed the same office
continuously up To the time of his
death. Deceased was IS years of age.
A DISPATCH from Hong Kong on the
22d said that through the energy of
Consul General Wildman IL was dis.
covered that 30, 900 rifles and ., 900, 900
rounds of ammunition were recently
purchased by the Filipinos in Japan
and stored on lighters at Nankin,
China, ready for shipment TO the Phil.
ippine islands for Aguinaldo. Consul
Wildman notified Minister Conger at
Pekin and the latter at once commuui-
Gated with the Chinese authorities,
who seized the munitions of war.
The president and Mrs. Mckinley
held a successful public reception at
the white house on the evening of the
2ed.
IMMENSE damage was done at Manila
on the night of the 22d by fires be-
lieved to have been started by Filipino
insurgents, between 600 and 700 resi-
dences and business places being
burned. Hundreds of natives were
made homeless. There was some fight
ing in the streets during the night and
number of insurgents were killed and
several American soldiers wounded.
Gov. ROOSEVELT, of New York, cele-
brated Washington's birthday by aflix-
ing his signature TO the bill to prevent
the desecrating, mdtllation or i'm
proper use OF the national flag.
FERp w. PECK, United States com
missioner to the Paris exposi tion, has
decided that Samuel Kayser director
of the Chicago Conservatory of Music,
shall have charge of the United States
department of musical exhibits at the
exposition.
FUNERAL services in memory of the
late President Fauro, OF France, were
held at Washington on the esd and a
large part of official Washington Gt
tended.
TuF war department has arranged
to dispatch further reinforcements to
Gen. Otis at Manila. The regiments is
selected are the Ninth infantry, now
at New York, and the Sixth infantry
at San Antonio, Tex, Both these reg
iments will go by way of San Fran
cisco
Col. ENoCH 4. CARSON, aged ~ years,
died at his home in Cincinnati on the
23d. lie was not only one of the old
est masons, but also the highest in ranl,