The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-08
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Capt Gen. Blanco has cabled the
Spanish government that knowing that
Gen. Correa, minister of war, is OPP
posed to sending further reinforce
ments, he has studied the means of
creating a volunteer corps of whites
and negros who would reply to the
guerilla tactics of the rebels by similar
warfare; but he would need for this
undertaking 1000, 900 pesetas monthly.
The hotel at Red Boiling Springs.
Tenn, was burned. Loss S5O,000
The discovery of a new counterfeit
five dollar silver certificate of tbs SER
les of 1891 with a portrait of Grant. is
announced by the treasury secret SER
vice.
Register of the Land Office Reynolds
at Frankfort. KY, presented to Miss
Christine Bradley bottle of whisky
made in 1880, the year in which Miss
Bradley was born, with which to chris
ten the battleship Kentucky. She will
use it,
Two shocks of earthquakes were fell
at Galena. Ill.
A Chicago & Erie locomotive haul
ing train blew up at Lima, O., injur-
ing three men.
Five stone repair companies at Chi
cago have been indicted under the anti
trust law.
The U. S. treasury the Sd had a gold
reserve of $l57. 454, O3s.
Iohv, -
death escaped from the Jail at Riley,
w. Va, A short time ago he sold
confession and with the money bought
a suit of cloths to wear on the gallows.
He made a dummy of his old suit and
put it to bed, and climbed to the top of
his cell. When the cell was locked
for the night he escaped.
Gov. Tanner has issued proclama-
ton calling a special session of the
Illinois legislature.
Two electric cars at Detroit, Mich,
carrying some 20 passengers and run
ming at a speed of IS miles an hour,
collided, instantly killing John Savage,
superintendent of the road, Chas. M.
Whitehead and John Kelley.
The definite treaty of peace between
Turkey and Greece has been signed.
Martin Thorne, the convicted muir
derer of William Guldensuppe, has
been placed in the death cell at Sing
Sing IN. W prison to await electro
cution.
While temporarily insane, Mrs. M.
E. Ross. of Nickerson, Kas., saturated
her clothing with kerosene and set
them on fire. She was burned to
crisp. Her husband and daughter, in
trying to extinguish the flames, were
seriously, if not fatally injured.
The Italian cabinet has resigned on
account of the action of parliament on
the bill dealing with army promo
tons.
The Reed Phosphate works, near
Charleston, S. c., were entirely de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss of $780,
900.
Exercises in memory of the late
Henry George were heldrin the Audi
forum in Chicago the 5th, under the
auspices of the Chicago Single Tax
league. Over 1000 persons were in at
tendance.
Toru Hoshi, envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary from Japan
to the United States, arrived in San
Francisco with important instructions
in reference to the Hawaiian treaty of
annexation.
BY defeating Champion Frank c.
Ives at New York George F. Slosson
won the series in the billiard tourna-
ment for the championship of tho
world.
The National Prison association de-
cided that it would hold the next an
nual meeting in Indianapolis.
At Tabor, Bohemia, the Czech at
tackled the houses of the Hebrews and
broke the windows of the synagogue.
Seven rioters were arrested. The To-
cal force of gendarmes were called to
restore order.
At the election in the Chicasaw Ma
ton, ratification of the Dawes Choctaw
treaty was overwhelmingly defeated.
The adopted and inter-married citizens
were not permitted to participated in
the election.
The Nicaraguan canal commission,
appointed to examine into the FEAST
bility of constructing canal across
Nicaragua, sailed from the Brooklyn
navy yard direct for Greytown.