The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

sb'OE'ts. Ns'D
WILLIAM J. BRYAN spoke at the Jack
Jou banquet at Chicago on the 7th and
declared that the Chicago platform
vas stronger than ever and that the
sixteen to one ratio was in IL TO stay.
The question of expansion was subor-
linated to the silver issue by the Me-
oraska leader, who was more than
usually earnest in his advocacy of the
white metal.
The president has nominated Charlie
nagne Tower. of Pennsylvania, now
minister to Austria Hungary, to be
ambassador to Russia, and Addison C.
Harris, of Indiana, as minister to
Austria. Hungary.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY signed the bill
IN the 10th to retire United States
Judge Foster, of Topeka Kan.
JoHN HENRY CABOT LoDGE was unan-
lmously reelected United States sen.
ator by the Massachusetts legislature
on the 10th.
PRoF. ]. II. TURNER died at his home
In Jacksonville, ILL.,, on the 10th aged
% years He was visitor TO Chicago
W hen II was n collection of log huts,
was the father OF the Illinois univer.
,ity, one of the first professors of Hi.
and ability and was intimately asso.
slated with the great NEE 81 illinois
m it's early days
JAMES DE LoNe, the horseman, died
at Niles, Mich, OF the grip.
JONATHAN Ross, of St Johnsbury,
VT, chief justice OF the supreme court
Of Vermont, has accepted the appoint
ment as United States senator, vice
Morrill,. deceased, recently declined
by Il. + Fifeld, of Montpelier
The publican legislative caucus at
Indianapolis, Ind, selected ex-Con-
yressman A. J. Beveridge for United
nave n ma jority on joint ballot in the
legislature he will be elected to sue
.eed Senator David Turpie (dem.). Mr..
Beveridge is but SO years old and he
will be the youngest man to be elected
United States senator from Indiana
CoMMIssARY GENERAL EAoAS ap-
peared before the war Investigating
commission at Washington on the i2th
to meet the allegations against the
beef issues in the war. He denied nu.
Derous statements of Gen. Miles,
charged that the latter's testimony
constituted severe reflections on the
commanding generals of the expedi-
tions and referred to him as this
same commanding general, Nelson A.
Miles" and said whoever called the
beef furnished ''embalmed beef was
"l.er."
THE report that Mgr ireland, the
arch bishop of st. Paul, Mimi, is to be
nominated papal nuncio in the Phil
Ippines was absolutely contradicted
at the vatican at Rome. There is no
intention OF instituting a nunciature
in the Philippines
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MEIKLEJoHN
made public on the l2th Father
Thomas +. Sherman's very interesting
aud instructive report to Gen. Brooke
Of his recent tour through the island
Of Porto Rico Father sherman says
that he found the people of Porto Rico
gentle, docile and kindly and that the
Spaniards living there rejoice with
their Porto Rico friends in the change
of sovereignty.
A GREAT battle has been fought in
the Yamen division of Arabia The
Turkish troops stormed and captured
the insurgent position at Shanel and
I, 900 insurgents and 1000 Turks were
killed or wounded.
CONFIRMATION of the report that the
German government was secretly back
ing the Filipino insurgents was said to
have been secured in San Francisco
Germany is anxious to secure the is
lands for herself