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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-15
WAR NEWS.

The bombardment of the Santiago de
Cuba forts was resumed, presumably
tocover the landing of American troops.
A report says that there is talk in the
navy department of carrying the war
into SPANS territory. The Canaries
will be the first objective point.
1t was reported that a new flying
squadron, headed by the Harvard and
Yale, would be formed to watch Adj
miral Camara's fleet, about to sail from
Cadiz.
It was reported that the warship New
Orleans sunk Spanish torpedo boat de-
stroyer off Santiago harbor.
President Mckinley is reported to be
impatient at the inactivity of the army
and to have begun an inquiry to place
the responsibility.
The monitor Monterey, accompanied
by the collier Brutus, sailed from San
Francisco for Manila.
Spanish soldiers in the Philippines
are discouraged and are surrendering
to the insurgents in large numbers.
Imperative orders were sent from
Washington to Gen. Shafter to sail at
once from Tampa with the Santiago ex-
petition, and the troops, fully 10000
strong, are now en- route.
The Spanish torpedo boat Terror was
reported to have been sunk while try
ing to run the blockade at Santiago.
The latest estimates of the Spanish
losses at the battle of Manila on May 1
are 400 killed, 600 wounded and prop
erty loss of $10,000,000.
The American fleet under Admiral
Sampson destroyed the principal forti-
fcations and earthworks at Santiago
after a furious bombardment lasting
three hours. In his report to Madrid
Admiral Cervera says four Spanish Of
ficers and six men were killed and 81
men were wounded.
American marines are said to have
landed near Daiquiri, Cuba, and with
the aid of insurgents engaged and rout-
ed a Spanish force with heavy loss.
It has been officially admitted in
Madrid that the Spanish cruiser Reina
Mercedes was sunk by the fire of the
American fleet at Santiago de Cuba,
and five sailors and 80 marines on board
of her were killed.
Twenty-seven thousand men, under
command of Maj. Gen. Shafter, left
Tampa for Santiago.
A cable from Hong-Kong says it is
reported there that Manila has fallen
and that the Philippine insurgents,
commanded by Gen. Aguinaldo, are in
possession of the city.
The American fleet bombarded Cal
manera, in the Bay of Guantanamo, at
the eastern end of Cuba, silencing the
Spanish defenses and causing the in
habitants to flee.
Plans for the invasion of Puerto Rico.
under command of Gen. Lee, are being
arranged. Special reports to the war
department show the island can easily
be captured.
Persistent reports from Madrid,
Paris and London indicate the surren-
der of Manila to the insurgents and
American forces.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-15
spanish Prisoner Released.

Washington, June 11.-Assistant Sec
rotary Meiklejohn has directed the re-
lease of Jose Castellanos, confined at
Mcpherson barracks, Ga. The man is a
Spaniard, and was arrested at Tampa,
but there was no evidence against him
at his examination to show that he was
engaged in any action prejudicial to the
government.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-15
FOREIGN.

During storm on the coast of Mi
Yake, Japan, 223 boats were lost and
1,627 persons were drowned.
All the members of the cabinet in
France have resigned.
Ernest T. Hooley, for years promi-
nent as the biggest company promoter
in England, failed in London for ST.
100000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-15
AN OPERATION AVOIDED.
Mrs. Rosa Gaum Writes to Mrs.
Pinkham About it. She Says:

DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-I take pleas
ure in writing you a few lines to in
form you of the good your Vegetable
Compound has done me. 1 cannot
thank you enough for what your medi-
cine has done for me; it has, indeed,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-15
DOMESTIC.

At Cynthiana, Paris, Maysville and
other towns in Kentucky severe shocks
of earthquake cause panic among the
people.
The entire plant, rolling mill and
steel plant of the Burgess Steel and Iron
company was destroyed by fire at Ports
mouth, O., the loss being 100000.
Two daughters Of John Whitney, aged
nine and eleven years, were instantly
killed by lightning near Gainesville,
Tex.
The three little daughters of Charles
Watt were burned to death at Pitts
burgh, Pa, during the absence of their
parents.
John L. Bright, wholesale milliner at
Columbus, O., failed for $15O,00O.
The Arkell Publishing company,
which published in New York Judge,
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly and
other publications, went into the hands
of a receiver with liabilities of 81, OOO,OO
The bill for the removal of all politi-
cal disabilities arising from the civil
war is now a law, President Mckinley
having formally approved it.
The celebration of the semicentennial
anniversary of Wisconsin's admission
into the union opened in Madison.
The Delaware national bank of Delhi,
N. Y, closed it's doors with liabilities of
S275,00O. Excessive loans caused the
failure.
The business portion of Ittabena,
Miss, was destroyed by fire.
Ex-Judge Julius S. Grinnell died sud
denly of heart failure in bank in Chi
cago, aged So years.
The captain-general of Manila report
ed to the Madrid government that his
forces were inadequate to cope with
Admiral Dewey and the insurgents.
B. F. Williams and j. T. Pyle, two
well-known and wealthy western cat
tlemen, were drowned in Wolfe creek
near Perry, o. T., while attempting to
cross the swollen stream.
At the annual commencement exer-
cises in Pittsburgh, Pa, of the Western
university the degree of doctor of laws
was conferred on Admiral Dewey.
Andreas Malinak was hanged at New
ark, N. j., for the murder on July p,
1897, of Mrs. Annie Kmetz.
Walter e. Goodwin, who on Septem.
Der 3 last murdered his young wife at
Mansfield, Pa, was hanged in the coun-
ty Jail OF Wellsboro.
The laying of the new cable between
Port Townsend, Wash, and Victoria, B.
c., has been completed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-15
Personal AND POLITICAL.

The republicans of the Sixteenth dis
trict of Illinois nominated James H.
Duskin, of Jacksonville, for congress.
Returns from the Oregon election
show thatT. T. Geer, republican for gov
ernor, has plurality of 10000. The re-
publicans also elected majority of the
legislature and both congressman.
John Dalzell was renominated for
congress by the republicans of the
Twenty-second district of Pennsyl-
vania.
The republican state convention at
Montgomery, Ala, decided not to place
ticket in the field.
In Missouri the republicans in the
Fifth district renominated W. S. Cow
herd for congress and in the Eleventh
district the socialists nominated Peter
Swiete. -
The democrats of the Eighth district
of Indiana have nominated Orlando j
Lott for congress.
Benjamin Tyler Henry, inventor OF
the famous Winchester rifle, died at his
home in New Haven, Conn, aged n
years.
Ex-senator William A. PETER, of To.
peka, was nominated for governor by
the Kansas prohibitionists in conven.
ton at Emporia.
In convention at Hutchinson the Kan
sas republicans nominated w. E. Stan
ley, of Wichita, for governor, and w. J.
Bailey, of Nehama county, for congress.
man at large.
At Fresno, CAL, the prohibition con.
vention nominated j. E. McComas, OF
Pomona, for governor.
Illinois republicans made the follow.
ing congressional denominations: First
district, James r. Mann; Second, Will.
liam Lorimer; Third, Hugh r. Bellnap;
Fifth, George E. White; Sixth, Henry S.
Boutell; Seventh, George E. Foss.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-15

E. r. Ridgely was unanimously re-
nominated for congress by the popu-
lists of the Third Kansas district.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-15
ROUTED!
The Marines Engaged in a Brisk
Fight With the Enemy at
Guantanamo.
The BATTLE WON WITH SLIGHT LOSS.

Four of Our Men Killed and Ono Wound
ed--The Battle Lasts Thirteen Hours
and Spanish Loss Supposed to be Quite
Heavy--Spaniards Mutilats the Bodies
of American Dead.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24
THEY WILL LOOK ALIKE.
Secretary Gage Decides That Bills uf the
same Denomination should Hear a
Close resemblance.

Washington, Nov. Secretary of
the Treasury Gage long ago decided to
have bills of the same denomination
look alike. That is, he wished the S.
silver certificate, the s. United States
note and the IS Sherman treasury note
to bear close resemblance to one an
other. The first of the designs
under the new system is for the
81 silver certificate. The notes will
soon be out. Cearness, simplicity
and protection against counter
feiting are the results chiefly aimed at.
The central device on the face of the
note is an American eagle with wings
partly spread, elutching the flag, and
with the dome of the capitol in the
background Below the platform upon
which the eagle stands are small por.
traits of Lincoln and Grant set in me-
a~'!iOns,
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24
IN A BILLIARDS. GRASP.
frOsn the Storm Railroad Traffic De-
moraliztd and Coal Famine On.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. GA terrific
blizzard has swept over Missouri and
Kansas since Sunday evening. A fall
Of rain changed suddenly into sleet,
and as quickly again into clustering
snowstorm. The wind. as If to aid the
other elements, has been blowing at
stiff gale throughout. The storm,
from reports which have been re-
ceived, extends from Colorado points
10 the interior Of Missouri, and
from Duluth 10 Wichita All Sec
tions report similar conditions.
The record for severe storms in
the early winter has been discounted.
Throughout Kansas, where it is prob
ably at its worst and has not yetc eased,
railway traffic is partially suspended.
Telegraph and telephone wires are
down throughout the state and COM
munication is almost entirely cut off.
Coal famines are reported in several
localities The loss of live stock
promises to be heavy,
A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., says:
For "a hours strong wind from the
northwest has swept Nebraska, and
during most of the time it has driven
fine snow ahead of it Consider
able loss Of stock, both cattle and
sheep, is feared, owing to the fact
that many thousands of herds have
been brought in from the south
for feeding and have not yet had
time to become sufficiently accli-
mated to withstand the stress OF the
storm. One death from exposure is
reported. E. H. Thompson, OF 1885
Twenty-seventh street. Des Moines,
Ia, was foSnd dead on the street in
South Omaha about seven o'clock yes
terday evening. lie was canvasser
for . St Louis view publishing 6rm,
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24
TWO WARS COMPARED.
Statistics show That Death. from Sickness
In Civil War OutnuMbered ThOse
In the Spanish War.

Washington, Nov. 20. Col. Charles
Smart, deputy surgeon general of the
army, has sent communication to
Surgeon General Sternberg. compar-
ing the deaths from sickness in the
war with Spain and in the civil war.
He says:
| lean very promptly state that the sickness
and mortality during the war with Spain were
| not relatively so great as that from which our
! volunteer troops suffered during the civil war.
| A comparison OF the deaths recorded by the
| medical officers Of the present time gives over
whelming testimony to the effect that any diff
ferences discovered In the percentage of deaths
from battle casualties and from disease are not
due to the great prevalence and fatality OF dis
ease in the recent struggle, but to the number
Of sanguinary battlefield, OF the civil war.
Beginning with July. 1851, when we had
medical reports from regiments aggregating
only SO, llS men, and including August Septtm-
ber, October and November, five months we
lind recorded loss by death of 3.07, .nen IN
the reports sent In by medical officers from an
average strength present OF N 500 men or
deaths out of every thousand men during that
period of five months More deaths occurred
than were reported for some surgeons failed
to send reports; but the probabilities are that
had the missing reports been forthcoming, the
deaths would have continued to have the same
proportion to the reported strength.
In Aoril, 1893, President Mckinley called Cor
l25,tW men and later for Is 900 which, with an
increase in the regular army and the immune
-At..- At.t.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24
Why Our Farmers Smile,

The farmers .of the United States
will receive during 1898 more money
from abroad for their products than
in any preceding year. A statement
regarding the exports of principal
agricultural products, just issued by
the treasury bureau Of statistics,
shows that in the item Of breadstuffs
alone the exports for the ten months
ending October 81, 1898, amounted
to $3.50, 237, ,455 which is $65, 900, 900
greater than in the corresponding
months Of last year and $SS,OOO, 900
in excess Of the exceptional year Of
1892. Provision exports also show a
good record, being for the ten months
of 1898, $l62,sS0,64S against $l46,.
COZ ,OS9 in the corresponding ten
months Of last year and 1928, sos. .56S
in 1892. Cotton exports for the ten
months are s1S, 1000 in excess Of
last year and the number of pounds
is larger than in any corresponding
period of the history of the country.
The expectation of practically all
classes Of farm products has increased.
In wheat, corn, oats, rye, oatmeal,
cotton, bacon, hams, lard, oleomar-
garine, fresh beef, and many other
articles Of farm production, the. ex-
portations Of the ten months are not
only in excess Of the corresponding
months Of last year but larger than
in any previous year.-[Wichita
Eagle.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24
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Poor English Manufacturers.

1t will be remembered how undel
the Wilson tariff bill the English man
ufacturitg districts waxed fat and aid
a thriving busines sending their prod.
uct to the United States. Here is
part Of a letter from the Yorkshire
manufacturing district to the Wool
and Cotton Reporter of Boston, trade
journal. %
"One more solid proof we have
given us as to the dire effects OF the
Dingley tariff over the Bradford trade
Struggle as hard as Bradford shippers
will they seem to be unable to make
headway under Dingley rates, and ei-
fort against effort fruitlessly fails.
Some big talk has been INDUCED in
That some good orders were in the
hands of Bradford manufacturers
given on account of New York i'm
porters, but look as | will | fail to
find much evidence as to their exist
ence. The sheet anchor OF the
Bradford exports this last year has
been stuff goods and cottons, and
when these take to themselves wings
and fly away, things must indeed be
ominous. state a fact that every
body fully looked for some develop
ments in shipments for stuff goods,
but have to report decrease"
1t tells its own story. Which
would you rather have thrive, the
American or Yorkshire manufacture
ers9 Which is better for Kansas
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24
ALIENS STATEMENT.
Of an Estrangpment Hetween Himself
and william j. nrvan.

Omaha, Neb., Nov. 22-Senator Will
liam V. Allen writes -etter to the
press saying he intends to remain in
Nebraska after he completes his term
in the United States senate and deny
ing the report that he had accepted a
position as general solicitor for an
eastern railroad. Senator Allen also
denies the report set atloat that there
was an estrangement between himself
and Col. William j. Bryan. He saws:
There is absolutely nothing upon
which to base the assertion. The wish
is evidently father of the thought |
recognize in him one Of the greatest
living American statesmen and shall
be for him in 1904"
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24

Six per cent money is being adver-
tised again. One client of a junction
City loan agent who had declined to
loan in Kansas the past five years,
wrote him that he intended to enter
the State again with the new year
and would have a half million dollars
for good 6 per cent loans. This is
indeed departure for Central Kan
sas and means a great deal more than
shows up on the surface. 1t comes
from the Republican victory and the
assurance that the State means to do
business on business principles. The
Populists have thought they could
make money cheap by pounding the
investor; the Republicans believe they
can make money cheap by assuring
the investor that his loan is safe and
that it will be repaid in honest 100
cent dollars when he wants it. The
experience of the world is that the
Republican theory is right and Kan
sas is simply proving ii again.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24
Will Benefit Creamery Patrons.

One Of the things on which legisla
tion is needed at the coming session
of the legislature is butterine. The
great menace to the dairy business,
in Kansas as elsewhere, is the man u.
facture and sale of butterine in imita.
tion or under the name of creamery
butter. Anyone has right to eat
butterine il he wants to, but no deal
er has right to sell it under an as
sumed name, any more than a butch
er has right to sell horse flesh as
beef steak. A person wishing to eat
horse flesh (and some authorities
claim 1t to be first class article OF
diet) should be allowed the privilege,
but he should not be led to eat it by
misrepresentation.
1t is the intention of those who
manufacture bntterine to add enough
color, butter, tlavoring matter, etc,
to give their product the semblance
of butter, and their success is due
not 80 much to tho intrinsic value of
product as to its imitation qualities.
II this were not so, why should the
manufacturers of butterine work SO
hard to prevent the passage Of laws
prohibiting their coloring their pro-
duct like butter? Honest business
men, in other industries, are willing
that their product shall stand on its
own merit and not on crutches. They
invite you to come, see and handle
and taste and Judge for yourself il
they are net what they are represent.
ed to be, and there the product stands
on its own intrinsic value. Not so
with butterine; it is easier consumed
IL it is favored and colored to repre-
sent butter.
The Dickinson county creamery
patrons will receive better prices for
milk II butterine is sold on it merits
and it is to be hoped that legislation
to compel such action win be adopted.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24
tion than the celebrated tailors OF
Tooey street.
Education for Populists

The returns from the late election
show that educational work among
Populists has been proceeding salts
factorily and has borne abundant
fruits. There is some educational
work, however, that ought to be
pushed without delay.
In the first place, Populists should
be educated to realize that their par
ty now having for eight years pre-.
sented its "unalterable principles"
before the American people has sue
ceeded in electing four Populists out
Of 397 members Of congress.
1t should be pointed out in an edu-
cational way that of the 45 States Of
the union not one has Populist state
administration BY virtue of the late
elections.
The attention Of the remaining
American citizens calling themselves
Populists should be educationally d.
rected to the fact that prosperity,
east, west, north and south, has
caught up with its advance agent.
A little more educational work Of
the right kind will convince Populists
that the gold standard and Repubi.
can protection have had none of the
results that Populist leaders were
sure they would have, but have ac-
complished everything for the coun-
try that they claimed free silver
would do and that therefore these
policies are in the interests of Popu-
lists and all other Americans and
should have their support.
The educational work among Pop
ulists should continue, but Repubi-
cans probably will have to conduct
the school, = Capital.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24

Capt. Sigsbee spoils good story,
but replaces it with another equally
good in denying, as he will in the
December Century, that his orderly
entered the cabin Of the Maine i'm
mediately after the explosion, made a
formal salute, and reported the de-
struction of the ship. Had he done
SO, he would not have been seen, for
the explosion extinguished all lights
and left the cabin black as a pocket.
As a matter Of fact, the orderly ran
into his commanding officer in dark
passage leading forward through the
superstructure and reported that the
ship had been blown up and was
sinking.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24
Our Great Foreign Trade.

We sometimes wonder II our free
trade contemporary, the News, ever
reads the trade statistics and sees how
Its prediction that the Dingley pro-
tective tariff bill would injure our
foreign trade, is coming on. 1t
ought to do so. The striking feature
of the last monthly summary Of COM
merce and finance, issued by lhe bu-
reau Of statistics OF the treasury de-
partment, is its disclosure Of the fact
our total exports for the nine months
ending Sept. 80, 1898, were very
nearly double our imports for the
same period.
During this period we sold goods
abroad to the value OF 1854, 203, 1902,
while our total purchases in foreign
markets amounted to only H75,36O,-
1898. That this excess ofexports over
imports is certain to be maintained Is
indicated by the figures for Septem-
Der, which show that we sold goods
to the value Of $S9, ,3l9,49l and pur-
chased foreign goods to the amount Of
4s, 1882
During the nine months ending
Sept. 80, 1898, there was an increase
Of 1928, 100000 in exports Of goods
from the United States and decrease
of *llS,0oO,0oo in imports. We sold
more goods in every grand division Of
the world than we did in 1897, while
at the same time our purchases de-
creased in every grand division ex-
cept Asia and Oceanica. Our sales
to Europe increased from 1868, $685.
1859 to 1866, 1885, ,539, while our pur.
chases were reduced from 1882, 1884,
94S to $240, 0,S63,714.
The figures indicate that our great
est gains in trade during the nine
months ending Sept. 80, 1898, were
with those countries the governments
OF which have recently enacted legis.
lation prejudicial to our commercial
interests. These enactments con-
sisted OF preferential tariff regula-
tions and other laws calculated to
discourage the importation Of Ameri-
can products, and were put in force
in retaliation for our usual offense Of
legislating for American industry.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24

The News referring to the REFLECT.
oR's remark that the next supreme
court reporter will be from Abilene
says: The gentleman to whom the
REFLECTOR refers is ripe Blackstone
scholar; critic Of critics, aud in
looking after the laws even every
punctuation point would be properly
placed and the Office served with
credit to the bar and to the State.
The News seconds the motion of the
REFLECTOR and goes it one better by
giving the name-T. +. Dewey.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24

Herington Times: Remember that
respectable majority of the Demo.
Gratis of Herington have made up
their minds that they will either vote
their own ticket hereafter or none at
all. They are sick and tired of fu-
sion and unless they can vote their
sentiments two years from now they
will stay at home and teach the
"iixers" lesson that they ought tc
have learned several years ago.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-11-24
THE EMPORIA BANK.
Comptroller Dawes Makes an Interesting
statement Regarding the Matter
Books We're Falsified.

Washington, Nov. 2s.,-In view Of
statements in the local press criticising
Bank Examiner Jobes in connection
with the closing of the First National
bank of Emporia, Kan, Comptroller
Dawes has made a statement of the
condition of the bank which led to the
closing of its doors. The comptroller
states that not only is the bank in
solvent but that books were falsi6ed
to the extent of over $65, 900, and
that as the examination proceeds the
conditions of the bank seem to be
worse. The amount loaned, in viola.
tion of law, to the officers OF the insti-
tuition is in the neighborhood of $l55,-
pul