The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-04-13
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houses were destroyed.
LATER.
At Chilkoot Pass, Alaska. at least
thirty men met death, and a large
number of others were INJURED more or
less seriously in a snowslide. The
dead were crushed under an avalanche
of snow and ice, which came down
from the mountain side upon the left
hand side Of the trail at Midway, be-
tween The Scales and Stonehouse.
The daughter of William Hoffmaster,
living near Great Bend, Kan, was
shot to death by young man named
Baker who worked for her father
The murderer then set fire to barn
and is supposed to have persisted in
the flames.
The ram Katahdin has arrived at
Hampton Roads.
| Lieut.. Commander Mark, of the
Maine court of inquiry, has been de-
tached from the Vermont and ordered
to the Scorpion.
The treasury department has pre-
| pared statement where, by internal
| taxation. the revenues can be increased
500, 900, 0oO
Hereafter all cipher messages will
have to be translated before before
being transmitted from Havana.
All Cuban relief stores are to be put
| in cold storage at New York until the
uncertainty is over.
A car of dynamite exploded near
Great Falls, Mont, killing L. Open
helm, engineer; c. w. Cockrill, fire.
man, and A. j. Martin. brakeman.
Ten cars were torn to pieces and
large hole torn in the earth.
A dispatch from Lima, Peru, announ-
ces the departure of the battleship
Oregon from Callao after taking on
| coal provisions. She has not yet been
painted the war color. A dispatch
to the Herald from Valparaiso an
| nounces the arrival of the gunboat
| Marietta.
Gen. Graham, commander of the de-
partment of the gulf, has wired the
war department as Washington, reco-
| mending Atlanta as a point for the
mobilization of troops in case of war.
The Michigan legislature passed
bill authorizing war loan of half
million dollars.
In accordance with her expressed
wish, the remains of Francis E. Will
lard were cremated at Graceland ceme-
terry, in Chicago The ashes are to be
inferred in the Willard lot at Rose Hill
| The U. S. government has purchased
| the Brazilian cruiser Nictheroy.
The failure of the air brakes to work
| caused collision between a passen-
ger train and an express train at Lima,
Ohio. George Miller, a fireman, was
crushed to death.
President Mckinley received cable
dispatch from Minister Woodford at
| Madrid announcing that the Spanish
government at Madrid had granted an
armistice for Cuba. In making this
announcement, Mr.. Woodford conveyed
| it as a piece of news in which this
country was vitality interested, but not
as an official communication from the
Spanish government to this govern
ment.
Consul General Lee, accompanied by
his staff, left Havana the afternoon of
the 9th on the dispatch boat Fern.
| Mr.. Ewall, one of the relief commit
tee that left Havana with General Lee,
said that he had been obliged to aban-
don giving aid to the, starving. and all
food in the committees hands has been
confiscated for the Spanish army.
The British steamer Hampstead has
been chartered to carry $500 tons of
coal from Philadelphia to the Cape
Verde islands for the Spanish war
ships.
| At the receiving ship Vermont
twenty-five deserters were taken from
the ships prison and restored to duty.
They had all been out of the service
two years, but when the probability of
of war arose, had given themselves up.
Under recent order of the secretary
of the navy they have been restored
to duty and will serve out their origin
al terms of enlistment.
| The new United States cruiser To-
peka. in command of Lieutenant John
j. Knapp, and the torpedo boat Somers.
which were en- route from England to
the United States, were obliged to put
back to Portland. England, on account
of the Somers springing slight leak
in heavy sea.
Gen. Miles, commanding the army,
took the initiatory steps for securing
10, 600 canvas uniforms of a character
designed especially for use in the south.
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