The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-04-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND poLITICAL.

! bEN. fIAbLEk, VINO mas been crltl-
sally i'll at Old Point, Va, may recover.
! JAMES DUGGAN, "A Catholic bishop,
died in an insane asylum at ST. Louis
on the 27th, aged ~ years. He had
been patient for 30 years.
OVER 1000 Filipinos, composing the
rear guard of the rebel army which
was retreating on Malolos, Aguinaldo's
headquarters, made n stand on the 27th
in some intrenchments about Mariloa.
In the engagement six Americans were
killed, including three officers, and 40
were wounded. The rebels were after
wards panic.striclSen and many sought
safety in flight and some were taken
prisoners.
COUNT CAMILLo PECcI, the pope's
nephew, recently intimated at Rome
that the death of the pope was posi-.
BILE, IL not probable, within short
time. 1t was also reported that the
pope, believing that his end was near,
had prepared elaborate suggestions
for the guidance of the conclave which
is to choose his successor.
The British house of commons on
the 2sth ad journed until April TO-
MICHAEL SHEA died in Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 2Sth al the advanced age
of Is years.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY returned to
Washington on the 2Sth from his
southern trip.
THE central council of the National
Sound Money league met at New
York on the 2Sth, reelected the old
officers and listened to reports.
.,1. al 4.
troops in the Philippine islands on the
2Sth; the insurgents burned the town
of Bulacan and the monitor Monad-
mock shelled Los Pinas.
ECUADOR has enacted law to place
that country on a gold basis.
News has been received that the
United States cruiser Philadelphia and
the British cruisers Porpoise and
Royalist have shelled several villages
in the Samoan islands, owing TO
troubles growing out of the election
of king, Mataafa and his chiefs de-
flying the Americans and British. The
news has startled officials at Wash
ington, who apprehend that grave in
ternational complications may ensue,
the Germans favoring Mataafa-
BRIG. GEN. FLAGLER, chief OF ord
nance, U. S. A., died at Old Point, Va.
ON the Goth.
WILLIAM X. VANDERBILT, a New
York dispatch said, has presented his
son, William X, Jr., with $4,000, 00C
as a wedding present The latter is
about to marry Miss Virginia Fair, who
has S5, coo, 900 in her own right
GEN. MACARTHUR's division pushed
on toward Malolos on the Goth and al
, night went into camp four miles from
the city. During the day there were
several brushes with the enemy, but
the insurgents finally fled, after burn
ing several villages, The roads were
, strewn with household goods anc
I clothing belonging to the Filipino'
J and the country around presented q
picture of desolation.
SIMEON B. ARMOUR, the head of tn,
, Armour Packing company at Kansas
| City, Mo, died on the 10th of pneu
, monia, aged II years.
THE president on the Goth appointed
, ex-senator George Gray, of Delaware
, to be United States Judge for the ThirC
/ judicial district
EN-SECRErARY SHERMAN reached hi
residence at Washington on the Goth
He felt no bad effects from his journey
but was very feeble.
THE Dutch anarchists have decide,
to hold an international assembly a
The Hague coincident with the peac
conference. To this all of the foreign
anarchist chiefs, notably Sebastian
: Faure, will be invited. They say thei
aim is to pass resolution approving
3 universal disarmament and the aboli
tion of standing armies.
The American troops uuder Gen
, Macarthur entered MRlolos the Fill
i pino capital, on the 3lst, the rebel
9 burning the city before evacuating il
The Filpinos were in full retreat to
: | ward the north.