The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
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under martial law.
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Mrs. Theodore r. Tilton was buried
in Greenwood cemetery, New York.
the 10th.
The levee at Biggs. La, broke the
night of the 10th. The crevasse was
100 feet wide 20 minutes after it gave
way.
The case against the steamer Daunt-
less, charged with violating the neu-
trality laws by taking filibustering
expedition to Cuba on Jan. 1, came up
for trial in the United States court at
Jacksonville, Fla, the 10th. After the
government had submitted it's testi-
mony the case was promptly dismissed.
No testimony was offered by the de-
Tense.
In drunken fight on a shanty boat
at Bellaire, O., the 10th, Jim Williams,
the boat owner, killed his wife and
Charles Horner with club and then
cut the boat loose and fioated down
the river with the corpses.
According to inform alton from trust
worthy sources, the withdrawal of at
least part of the great army that
Spain has maintained for several years
the rainy season sets in, within few
days. The initial movement will be
the departure of 10000 Spanish troops
from Havana for Spain, and within a
short time about 80, 900 troops will fol-
low.
Eleven persons, all colored, were
drowned on Davis Island. Miss, by
the break in the levee.
Boats were used upon the streets of
Penn bina, N. D., the 10th. and the Red
river was rising at the rate of half an
inch an hour.
An official report says the new Gre
vase at Biggs, four miles below Delta.
La, is nearly a mile wide and the
roaring torrent is spreading over the
lowlands of Madison parish with start
ling rapidity. This is unquestionable
the most destructive break that has
yet occurred and the loss to property
and live stock will be enormous.
The council of ministers, after a ses-
sion at the palace the nth declared
that war had broken out on the from
tier, owing to the incursion by the
Greeks on Turkish territory, and COM
mander, was ordered to assume the Of
fensive. This announcement of the
actual existence of a state of war on
the frontier was at first misunderstood,
report that the council of ministers
had declared war upon Greece being
widely circulated.
The food at Pembina, N. D., is the
worst in so years. Steamboats, ran,
the 18th, on some of the streets.
Mrs. Augusta Reitze, one of the
wealthiest residents of Ashland boule-
ward, Chicago, fell from a window of
her home, the 18th, and died few
hours afterward.
1t is said that Speaker Reed will soon
be forced to name three important
house committees on naval affairs.
and foreign commerce, SO
that that the armor plate question can
be acted on this session. This result
has been brought about by the decision
of the republicans in the senate.
DIR. Hunter and several others have
been indicted by the grand jury for
bribery in connection with the sena-
torial election in Kentucky.
Over 200, 900 people cooped up in the
cities in Cuba are staring starvation in
the face. OF this number at least 5000
are American citizens who were en-
gagged in peaceful pursuits in the in
terror. Weyler's orders to concentrate
the rural population in small towns is
the cause of all this misery. The peo-
pie have no money to buy food or pay
rent, and live in bark houses in the
alleyways, where they slowly starve
to death.
Mines Levick, the actor, died at his
home in New York the 18th, of cancer.
In 1858 he came to this country to
create the part of George Harris in
"Uncle Toms Cabin" at Barnum's Mu-
scum.
Seth L. Millikin. member of congress
from the Sd district of Maine, died in
Washington, d. c., the 18th.
The Randall Banking company, Of
Eureka. Cal, closed its doors the 18th.
Charles Garfield, of Mt. Clemens,
Mich, made an unsuccessful attempt
to hang himself. When he recovered
he said he was trying to choke the
devil out of himself and had sue
|ceeded."
The two hundred miners employed
in Chicago Virdew coal companies
shaft at Auburn, ILL.,, struck the 18th
because the price of powder was adj
vanced from $1. 90 to $2.25 by the COM
|pany.