The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
LATER.


LATER.
The cruiser Minneapolis, at League
island navy yard, has been ordered
out of commission.
An inquest was held over the no
groes lynched in Little River county,
Ark, and although the black men
were hanged or shot to death, the jury
returned a verdict that the men ''came
to death from natural causes or were
frozen to DEATH"
The secretary of the treasury has
issued orders for the free admission of
binding Irvine to the United States
from Canada.
Mrs. E. B. Nolan's boarding house
at Memphis, Tenn, was burned, and
four persons lost their lives and six
others injured. The dead are: Mrs.
Lily Chaplin and two small sons, Ray
and Chester Chaplin, and Thomas Bull.
The prize fight at San Francisco be-
tween Kid Mccoy and Joe Choynski
was won by the former in the Goth
round.
Private advices the 25th announce
sweeping victory over Aguinaldo's
forces by the American troops The
American loss estimated at 100, includ-
ing the killed and wounded. The Fill.
pino loss is between 800 and 400.
The long expected movement for the
capture of Malolos, the rebel capital,
began at daybreak the gath. For two
days there has been a lull in the fight
ing, and the positions of the troops
have been readjusted preparatory tC
this stroke, which is expected to re-
duce Aguinaldo to the last extremity.
At Sweetwater, Texas, f. P. Wood
ruff, a lawyer, shot Judge John /. Coch-
ran, in chambers, with revolver, the
trouble growing out of the courts re-
fusal to approve a bill of exceptions in
a lawsuit.
1t is semiofficially announced that
the Anglo-Russian negotiations in re.
gard to China have assumed practical
shape and that an early and satisfac-
tory agreement is assured.
Ex-Secretary Sherman was safely
transferred from the American line
steamer Paris to the United States
Cruiser Chicago at Santiago de Cuba.
The Second United States infantry
is under order to go from Admission,
Ala, to Cuba.
The first international congress of
doctors connected with life insurance
companies will be held at Brussels
next September.
= At Hoyt's Corners. o., Paul and John
Zeitner shot and killed Lawyer West.
enhaver. The trouble arose out of
lawsuit in which Westenhaver was EN-.
ployed against the Zeitners.
Eight thousand of the American
troops engaged $4,000 of the Filipinos
near Caloocan and the insurgents were
badly whipped. Our losses were quite
heavy, 26 being killed and 125 wound
ed Polo was deserted and set on fire.
Malaben was also burned. Ten of the
Thirteenth Minnesota are wounded.
A freight train on the Fort Wayne
& Chicago road was wrecked at Jacks
Run, Pa, and James A. Bracken, en-
gineer, and Fireman J. R. Lowe were
killed.
Ex-Gov. Thomas c. Fletcher, of Mis-
souri,, died at Washington, d. G., OF
paralysis, aged ~ years.
Robert Burdette, the humorist, and
Mrs. Clara Baker were married at Pas
adena, Cal.
The fall of snow in Vermont the
past week has been greater than at
any time this year. In some places in
the northern part of the state nearly
five feet has fallen.
The steamer Tacoma encountered
severe earthquake off Yokohama the
18th of Marcn.
The United States euncCat Machias
had been ordered to Guate mala to in
vestigate the reported arrest Of six
members of the recent expedition or
ganized in Kansas City to go to Guate-
mala.
Six thousand employees of the Fox
Pressed Steel Company at Pittsburg
resumed work after a weeks idleness,
the company having acceded to the de-
mands of the man for ten per cent
advance in their wages.
DIR. Charles Cory, of Tacoma, Wash,
shot and killed his wife while she lay
asleep. Cory was i'll and claims the
deed was done while he was laboring
under a nightmare.
Frank Kinaham an electrician was
killed in street duel in Chicago with
two unknown men, over twenty shots
were exchanged.