The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-02-23

positive manner the reflections con-
tanned in the De LONE letter, and it is
officially announced by the state de-
partment that the incident is satisfac-
torily closed.
LATER.
A resolution offered N the senate the
18th. by Mr.. Hale, appropriating $780,
600 for the raising of the battleship
Maine and saving what property could
without objection, being amended so
as to authorize the secretary to direct
that the remains of officers and sailors
be brought to the United States for in
terment The house also passed res
olution similar to that passed by the
senate relative to the Maine.
A movement has been set afoot to
have the United States erect monu-
ment to General Lafayette in the city
of Paris, to be dedicated during the
Paris exposition.
Two freight trains on the North
western railroad collided at Hubbard,
To-, demolishing the engines and kill
ing Engineer Hollander and Fireman
Osborne.
The ship Lucille. having on board
the government relief expedition, is
stranded at Departure Bay, waiting
for something to come along and tow
it on to Dyea. The Lucille has 112
mules, 100 tons of freight, five packers,
two United States officers and twenty
four men.
No ,sc1 Al r.,
Oguendo has started for Havana. The
Italian cruiser Giovanni Bausani will
soon arrive there.
The spanish armed cruiser Vizcaga
has arrived at New York. Active mea-
sures have been taken to prevent any
accident to the ship while she is in
American Waters.
The government lien on the middle
division of the Kansas Pacific railroad
in Kansas was at Salina, Kas. The
road was bought by Alvin w. Knoch
and Winslow s. Pierce.
Seventy-four bodies have been re-
corded from Vereignite Carolion Eng
luck colliery in Prussia which was de-
stroyed recently by an explosion of
fire damp.
The torpedo boat Guenn was
launched complete at Bristol, R. I.
VIM. j. Seaman, the noted singer
and Irish character actor, died the 10Th
in the Bloomingdale IN. W asylum
for the insane.
R. c. Tilden, engineer, was killed in
collision on the Milwaukee road near
Rockford, Ill.
Twelve fishermen were lost in a
storm on Lake Michigan, off Mari
nette. Wis.
The Observation-Disclosures bankruptcy
bill passed the lower house of congress
and will be sent to conference COM
nittee.
A man was convicted of murder in
London because of death that &C.
Cured in football game.
The worst storm for 20 years pre-
vailed throughout eastern Wisconsin
the Goth, completely tying up all rail
way traffic. At Milwaukee, two feet of
snow fell, accompanied by high winds.
The referendum has resulted in pop
ular approval of the proposed state
purchase of the railroads of Switzer-
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Capt. Sigsbee sent two kilograms to
the war department denying all pub
lished interviews regarding the Maine
disaster.
It is asserted on good authority that
the Royal Niger company has been in
structed, after trying all peaceable
means, to compel the retirement of the
French from British territory in West
Africa by force. The sultanate of So
koto was recently placed under British
protection.
The New York Journal has started
subscription for the erection of mon
ument in memory of the Maine sailors,
and heads the list with contribution
of 81 1000.
The Spanish cruiser Vizcaya, in COM
mand of Capt Eulate, came through
the Narrows the Goth and anchored off
Tompkinsville, s. l., where she is
closely guarded by navy yards tugs
and police patrol boats.
By the terms of the will of Frances E.
Willard, late president of the w. C. T.
u, her estate will pass into the Tenn
Pile fund, after the life interests of her
secretary, Miss Anna Gordon, of her
slster-in-law, Mrs. Mary B. Willard,
have expired.
The naval department decided to al
low concurrent Investigations of the
cause of the Maine disaster. This ar
rangement commended itself to naval
men as alike fair to all and calculated
to develop the exact facts in manner
that could not be questioned.