The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-09-21
LATER.

LATER.
The Spanish peace commission has
been appointed. Senior Montero Rios,
president of the senate, will preside.
The other names are withheld until
the queen regent has given her APP
prevail.
More depredations have been report
ed In the vicinity of Uduao. Several
Spanish haciendas have been burned
and two Spanish planters killed. These
outrages are attributed to the lower
classes of the natives of Porto Rico.
actuated by the spirit of revenge and
a lawless gang of brigands which
have been operating near Cialee.
The Spaniards are ready to imme-
diately %evacuate Porto Rico.
1t is announced that j. j. Hill, of
the Great Northern railroad, and other
western capitalists. have secured con
troll of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
The secretary of the navy has or
dered Chaplain Mcintyre of the war
ship Oregon courtmartialed.
1t is rumored that a conflict between
the insurgents and Turkish troops has
occurred near Gambia. According to
the report some Christians were killed
and a number wounded.
Earthquake shocks were felt at
various points in South Dakota. The
quaking lasted about a minute. and in
some instances low rumblings, like
distant thunder, were heard. At the
Pierce hotel at Yankton, guests were
awakened by the swaying of the build
ing. In the kitchen, dishes ratified
and tin pans were shaken from the
shelves to the floor. Guests in the
upper floors of the hotel left their
rooms in fright. This Is the second
disturbance of this nature experienced
at Yankton Of late years.
The United States commissioners to
execute the terms of peace with Spain
sailed the 17lh on board the Cunard
line steamer Campania, en- route to
Paris. The commission consists of
fermer Secretary of State William R.
Day, United States Senators William
P. Frye. Cushman X. Davis and George
Gray, and Whitelaw Reid. Each COM
missioner is accompanied on the trip
by his wife or other members of the
family.
The Spanish peace commissioners
haye been appointed. They are Senior
Montero Rios, president of the senate,
who is president of the commissions;
General Cerrero and Seniors Abnar-
zuzu, V%illarutia and Garnica. The
Spanish commissioners will start for
Paris on Sept. %.
1t is understood the British premier
has ordered hat the most vigorous
measures be taken at Gambia, Island
of Crete, where British troops were
recently fred upon by Mussulmans,
the execution of which only awaits
the arrival efficient reinforcements of
her majesty's soldiers who now num-
Der 2, 900 there, while another batta.
lion is on its way to Gambia from
Egypt.
While the advices from Gen. Otis at
Manila are reassuring the administra-
ton is considering the advisability of
sending reinforcement to the Philip
pines. Gen. Miles, who had been Ill
for several days, left his home rather
unexpectedly and went to the White
House with Assistant Secretary Meik-
eljohn for a conference with the presi-
dent.
Three men held up the railway train
between Lake Manawa and Council
Bluffs, 10. Two of the men held the
conductor while the other robbed the
passengers of small sums.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, died the 18th at Mar
ragansett Pier, R. /. She had been i'll
for several weeks of malarial gastritas.
The sultan has ordered Djevad
Pasha, the military commander in
Crete, to accede to the demand of the
British admiral, Gerald Henry Noel,
for disarmament, thus complying with
the whole ultimatum of the admiral.
A British military detachment occu-
pied the entrance to the fort and it is
rumored that the Ottoman troops will
be withdrawn and a British force will
occupy the town.
The volcano Vesuvius is again in a
state of eruption.
The Spanish supreme council of war
has decided to suspend Admiral Mon
tejo and Major Soatoa, director of the
Cadiz arsenal.
The annexationists have a majority
Of II in the Philippine assembly. but
the discussion of the subject has not
been finished.