The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-02-16

tends to keep the port Of Wei-Hai- Wei
permanently.
The yacht Buccanneer, which took
Julian Hawthorne to Havana for New
York paper, has been seized by the
Spanish in the harbor.
LATER.
The National League of American
Wheelmen held its annual session st
st. Louis. The proposition to allow
Sunday racing was defeated.
China has consented to the British
demand for a railway from Burma to
Humankind; she also agrees to indem-
nifty the kidnapped Frenchman I'M.
Lyaudet). Germany has secured con-
cession for railway from Kio Chou to
Ychau as the price of the murdered
sentry.
The U. S. treasury the 18th had a
gold reserve of $165, TIC, 855.
kilograms from Nicaragua announce
that the instruction in that country
has been suppressed.
The president has nominated John
FL. Buford chief justice, and Bayard T.
Hainer associate justice of the supreme
court of the territory of Oklahoma.
| A dispatch from Glasgow says the
Spanish government has requested the
Clydebank Shipbuilding company to
push Spanish work. The company, it
is added, dispatched to Spain high
speed torpedo catcher fully manned by
| Spainards. In addition, two torpedo
boat destroyers are being completed
for Spain, the crews for which have
arrived at Glasgow.
The quarantine convention, in ses-
sion at Mobile, Ala, adopted resolu-
tions that congress empower the presi-
dent to appoint commission of four
medical experts to investigate the
prevention of yellow fever.
In collision on the Milwaukee road
between freight train and log train
near Penn bine, Wis, Conductor Ander-
son, and Brakeman Tews of the log
train were killed.
A vigilance committee has been
formed at Skaguay and it is the inten.
ton of the committee to drive the
horde of toughs and bunco men out of
town.
The Norwegian ministry has re-
signed, and several of the ministers
will seek appointments to other offices.
The large Hoyt building in Cleve.
land, O., was wrecked and burned by
gasoline explosion.
The steamer Vendeem. formerly the
White Star liner Baltic. sank in mid
ocean. Her crew of So, and 1877 pas
sengers were rescued by the steamer
st. Louis. sEt
Attorney General Crow, of Missouri,
rendered an opinion in which he holds
that it is a violation of the state
law to have pupils recite the Lords
prayer, or for the teacher to read the
Bible as part of the opening exercises
in the public schools of the state.
At a meeting in Boston of repre-
sentatives of textile unions in New
England it was unanimously voted to
recommend that all unions call out the
operatives in every cotton mill in New
England.
At the Oakland race track the two
mile worlds record held jointly by
Ten Brock and Newton was lowered
by Judge Denny, who made the won
derful time of 1868. Ten Broeck's
time was a second more.
The orphans home at ST. Francis, a
suburb of Milwaukee, Wis, was
burned. All of the 300 children es-
capped without trouble.
Admiral Sicard has telegraphed the
navy department. from Key West that
he will not avail himself of the leave
of absence granted him in order that
he might GO to Tampa to recover from
the malarial fever, but will resume
command of the North Atlantic squa-
dron at once.
The De Lorme letter was not stolen
from the United States mails but was
secured by an agent of the Cuban jun
ia in the postoffice at Havana. Don
Jose Canalejas, to whom the letter
was addressed never saw the original.
He did not know until eight days after
the letter reached Havana that such a
letter from Spain's representative in
Washington had been written him.
England is negotiating with China to
open Yuen Chau Flu in the province of
Human, as a treaty port, and is nego-
tatlng also on the suject of the navi-
eating of inland waters.
Almost under the nose of Pinkerton's
Spanish spies. large Cuban expedi-
tion left Tampa, Fla. and sailed from
point on Pease river with 5000 rifles
and ammunition.
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway
has lntrusted to former Premier Steen
the task of forming new cabinet
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