The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-03-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

The Oklahoma Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 1tth.
w. G. JOHNSON, senior vice command.
er.in.chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic, has issued call for the ex-
ecutive committee of the national
board of administration to meet at
Philadelphia April - to select com
mander-in- chief to succeed the late
zen. James A. Sexton.
MARY CHOUTEAu, the widow OF Capt
Pierre NJ. Chouteau. died at her home
in Kansas City, Mo, on the 18th. She
was the oldest member of the family
whose history, perhaps more than that
of any other, is connected with the
early days near the Kaw's mouth.
Her maiden name was Mary Polk.
the most known and influential in
western Missouri
THE president on the 18th appointed
Herbert Putnam, of Boston, TO be IL.
brariau of congress
The American troops in the Phil
ppines under Gen. Wheaton captured
.he city OF Pasig on the 18th,
THE Delaware legislature adjourned
sine die on the 18th without electing
a United States senator to succeed
George NJ. Gray, consequently the
state will be represented in the upper
branch of congress by only one sena-
tor.
THERE was a popular demonstration
at Cbristiania, Norway, the other
evening against Crown Prince Gustaf,
who was recently appointed regent on
account of the Illness of his father,
King Oscar IL The prince was return
ing from the military club when he
met a crowd of people, who hooted
him, hissed him and pelted him with
snowballa The crowd was dispersed
by the police and several arrests were
de.
An appeal TO the people of the United
States urging ''all lovers of freedom
to cooperate with them in an attempt
TO induce the government to suspend
hostilities in the Philippines and con.
fer with the Filipino leaders with a
view to preventing further bloodshed
by recognizing their independence
upon the guarantee of protection 70
property by natives, was issued a,
Boston on the l4th over the signatures
Of many prominent men.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and party ar
rived In Thomasville, Ga. on the l4th.
The only callers were some school
children, who presented some flowers
president was there for rest.
THE Madrid Correspondence on tn,
nth said that the Spanish cabinet haC
ad vised the queen regent to ratify the
treaty of peace with the United States
without awaiting the reassembling o
the cortes.
JOSEPH ii. CHoATE, our ambassado
to London. made his first public ap
pearance at the banquet of the Asso
ciated Chambers of Commerce on tn
18th. His address was heartily ap
pladded
JOHN SHERMAN, the ex-secretary o
state, was reported on the 18th to b.
suffering from pneumonia at Fort d.
France, Martinique. No serious re
suits were feared.
THE London Evening News on tn
18th published the following dispatc
from Manila: Gen. Wheaton has com
pletely routed the Filipinos and ha
occupied Pasig, Taguig and Pateros
Several hundred of the enemy wer
killed and as many more captured
Gen. Otis said 1t was the greatest vic
tory since February 8. The American
will now press toward Aguinaldo'
headquarters.
SENATOR KYLE, of South Dakota
said at Minneapolis, Mimi, on tn
10 while en- route home that Presiden
Mckinley had lately received privat
advices to the effect that the Filipin
republic was on its last legs. The ser
ator said he had received this informs
ton from sources very near to tn
president
JOSEPH MEDILL, the veteran edito
and proprietor of the Chicago Tribune
died at San Antonio. Tex, on the l6t
of heart failure. He had been in ba
health for some time.
BENJAMIN Z. HUTCHINSON, bette
known as "0ld Hut:h," the forme
board of trade operator at Chicago
died OF heart failure at the Lakesid
sanitariuN, Lake Geneva, Wis. Ii
was 20 years old.