The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-08-24
THB WEEKS NEWS
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and PO-
litical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
WAR NEWS.

1t was reported that Gen. Blanco has
resigned his office as governor of Cuba,
wishing to avoid his humiliating duties
in connection with the evacuation.
At meeting of American and Cuban
officers in Santiago it was resolved to
disband the Cuban army and the Unit
ed States would pay the men off.
Gen. Wheeler and Col. Roosevelt dis
embarked with their regiment of rough
Montauk Point.
The mortality was said to be so great
in the camp of Spanish prisoners at
Santiago that no longer are the dead
buried, but funeral pile of ten or
twelve bodies is made, saturated with
kerosene and set fire to, cremating the
bodies in the open air.
The Spanish cabinet has decided to
order Gen. Blanco and all other Span
ish commanders in the Antilles to fill
their respective posts until the evacu-
alton is completed.
1t was said an order would soon be
issued, when approved by the cabinet,
mastering out of the service about So
BOO of the volunteer forces.
Three cases of yellow fever and
three suspected cases were officially
reported at the marine barracks in
Key West, Fla.
The president has appointed the fol-
lowing commissioners to adjust the
evacuation of Cuba and Puerto Rico:
For Cuba, Maj. Gen. James F. Wade,
Rear Admiral William T. Sampson,
Maj. Gen. Matthew C. Butler; for Puer-
to Rico, Maj Gen. John r. Brooke,
Rear Admiral Winfield S. Schley, Brig.
Gen. William w. Gordon.
Senator Cushman X. Davis, chairman
of the senate committee on foreign re-
iations, has accepted the tender of an
appointment as a member of the Span
ish- American peace commission.
A rare scene of military splendor
was witnessed at Chickamauga Ma
tional park, Ca. when $4,000 soldiers
passed in review before a throng of
10000 spectators.
Gen. Merritt and Admiral Dewey
were instructed that the Philippine in
surgents must recognize the authority
of the United States and that there
could be no joint occupation of the
city.
The massacre of more than 100 ma
tives of Puerto Rico by Spanish troops
is confirmed. the only offense of the
people being in raising an American
flag at Cieles.
The president has announced his de-
cision to muster out of the service
from $4,000 to 100000 of the volunteers.
Reports from Manila were to the eff
feet that the American loss in the re-
cent battle was six or eight killed and
40 wounded, while the Spanish loss was
quite heavy. Manila was said to be
under martial law. with Gen. Merritt
as military governor.
TWAS reported at Ponce, Puerto Rico,
that 80 natives who took refuge from
Spanish soldiers in the belfry of the
cathedral at Gales were overpowered
and macheted.
1t was reported that Gen. Merritt
had prepared a proclamation to the
residents of Manila defining the form of
government that will prevail.
HongKang advices say that the
terms of the capitulation of Manila as
agreed upon between Gen. Jaudenes
and Gen. Merritt include the cession
of the Philippine archipelago to the
United States.