The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-10

ish troops had mysteriously disap-
peared from Havana.
LATER.
The Spanish government, as result
OF the deliberations OF the ministers
over the utterances of General Weyler,
the former captain-general of Cuba,
has come to the decision to try him by
court-martial, no matter where he
lands, if he confirms the accuracy of
the press reports of his utterances.
A Soldier attempted to shoot Presi-
dent Moraes of Brazil with pistol.
The president was just landing at the
marine dock after visiting the vessel
on which Gen. Marmosa, minister of
marine, had returned.
Ellen Peck, who was known through
out the east as the queen of confidence
women was sentenced to five year in
prison by Judge Cowing of New York.
Senator E. o. Wolcott and Gen. C. S.
Paine, two of the monetary commits
sioners appointed by President McKin-
ley to confer with European powers
upon the question of blmetalism, have
returned.
The Spanish Transport Montserrat,
upon which General Weyler and 600 in
valid and wounded privates left Ha-
vaua for Spain. was compelled to put
into an eastern port of Cuba on &C.
count of mutiny. Weyler refused to
allow the soldiers to come upon deck
and they rebelled. A mum Der were
killed.
Official returns from Ohio give the
legislature to the repu blicans by ma
jority of five.
While Michael McNulty and wife of
Mountain Mills, Quebec, were absent
from home their four children, three
daughters and son, were murdered
by unknown parties.
There were ten deaths and thirty
new cases of yellow fever at New Or
leans the 5th.
All work on war vessels at the
Brooklyn Navy yard is being pushed
forward as fast as possible.
The yacht Social, supposed to have
been on filibustering expedition, was
wrecked off Island of ST. Croix in
West Indian storm.
The eastbound passenger train on
the Santa Fee road was held up and
robbed at Grant, N. M. The engine,
baggage car and express car were I'M
hitched and taken mile from the rest
of the train. After blowing open the
express safe the engine wasreversed
and ran back into the coaches left at
the station. The cars were wrecked
and caught fire, four of them being
burned. *
Five men were seriously injured in
five different football games in Penn.
sylvania the 9Th.
Three men, four horses and two
wagons were blown to pieces by dyna-
mite at New Martinsville, w. Va.
Three negroes, armed with shotguns
and revolvers held up forty miners in
pool room at Marquisville, 10. The
miners h ad just been paid and quite
sum of money was secured.
An attempt will be made to break
the coal miners strike in Illinois by
the importation of Chinese laborers.
Cornelius O'Connor, one of the pio-
neer mining kings of California, died
at San Francisco.
An attempt will be made to break
Senator Platt's control of the New
York legislature. The Citizens Union
assembly men will support candidate
of their own for speaker.
The choir of the Peoples church re-
fused to sing the 18th because the pas
tor had advocated the election of Seth
Low for mayor of New York.
The Office of the Republican at Rio
Janeiro, Brazil, was looted by mob.
The freight steamer Idaho foundered
in Lake Erie, off Long Point. N. Y.
The first mate and one sailor who sue
ceeded in reaching the rigging were
rescued by the steamer Mariposa and
brought to Buffalo. The rest of the
crew. numbering nineteen, were un-
doubtedly drowned.
The president has appointed Webster
Street, of Arizona to the chief justice
of the supreme court of Arizona.
The hotel San San Marco. one of the
finest and most commodious hotel
properties at st. Augustine. Fla, was
destroyed by fire entailing loss of
$3.50, 900. The five was the work of
incendieries.
Ralp Van Horn. living near Unadel-
la, Neb., shot and killed his fve-year.
son and then committed suicide. Van
Horn was slightly deranged.