The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-27

ly forbidden any demonstration on the
departure Of Gen. Weyler from Cuba.
LATER.
The Fowler Bicycle company of
Chicago has assigned.
A Steamer left Vancouver, B. c., for
Liverpool with a cargo of III, 1856 cases
of canned salmon.
While frenzled from liquer. Thomas
Cooper of Baldwin, Pa, fred his house
and afterwards shot three men, who
were fighting the flames.
General Miles, commanding general
of the army, has made his annual re-
port to the secretary of war. He com.
mends the efficiency of the army, and
speaks of the progress that has been
made on both the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts in the matter of Notifications.
He asks that congress authorize two
more regiments of artillery to garrison
the new Notifications, and also five
additional regiments of infantry.
Mrs. c. w. Kessler was found dead
in her home at Spokane, Wash, with a
CHASTITY wound in her throat, and near
by lay her 4-year-old son with bullet
hole in his head. The husband is in
jail. charged with the crime.
The president has appointed John
Fl. Sutherland as Indian agent at the
White Earth agency.
Secretary Alger has ordered that the
reindeer in Alaska, belonging to the
government, be used for the transport
70 ~ c,,nr1snc he sof ofc -
ferers who may be endeavoring to
make their way down the Yukon.
The supreme court of Iowa has de-
cided that contracts for grain, where
the intention is merely speculation
on the chances of the rise or fall of
the markets and no delivery is intend
ed, are gambling contracts and are
void.
The Universalist convention, in ses-
sion at Chicago, denounced capital
punishment and the use of fermented
wine at communion.
There were seven deaths from gel
low fever at New Orleans the 23d.
The U. s. treasury the Esd had q
gold reserve of $151, S11, 576.
Thirteen seamen. comprising almost
the entire crew of the steam schooner
Casper, were drowned by the wreck
ing of the vessel off the coast of Point
Arena, Cal.
A mob of 20 striking miners attacked
the men at work in the mines at Mt
Carbon, w. Va, and forced them to
quit work. James Taylor and Robert
EoIoc hoo In 6ry
the strikers, who seemed determined
not to permit anyone to work.
Ell Tempo, of Madrid, Spain, pub
fishes with reserve the announcement
that the reply of the Spanish govern
ment to the United States presented to
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, the Ameri-
can minister at Madrid, declares that
if the United States does not stop the
sailing of flibustering expeditions from
American ports. Spain will assert the
right to search vessels anchoring in
Cuban waters.
Three men robbed the State Bank at
harrisburg, To-, securing about Sc, 900
worth of securities and small amount
of cash. They used dynamite and the
explosion wrecked the building. In
making their escape two of them mis-
took the third for stranger and killed
him.
A passenger train on the New York
Central road was wrecked at Garri-
sons station by the undermining of a
retaining wall, and the engine and two
coaches were plunged into the Hudson
river. Twenty-eight persons were
killed. The coupling between the cars
broke and all of the sleepers remained
on the track.
In his annual report to the secretary
of the navy, Philip Hichborn, chief
constructor of the navy, says that the
strength of the navy Oct. was al YES
sells all told, including the ships of both
old and new navies.
The white squadron, consisting OF
the cruisers New York and Brooklyn,
and battleships Massachusetts,, Texas
and Iowa, have arrived at New York
from an extended visit in foreign
waters.
DIR. Nansen. the Norwegian explorer,
arrived in New York.
Four new cases of yellow fever have
developed at Memphis, Tenn.
Serious international complications
may result from the failure of the U.
S. marshals on board the revenue cut.
ter Chandler to stop the the alleged
filibustering schooner Silver Heels be-
fore she left New York.