The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-11-17
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to the town of Boambang, about IS
miles northeast of Tarlac.
LATER.
The Beers fired upon an English flag
of truce, but did no damage.
The president has appointed former
Governor Joseph w. Fifer of Illinois
member of the interstate commerce
commission, vice w. j. Calhoun, re-
signed.
The steamship Zumbria. sailing from
New York for Europe, took out 465, 900
ounces of silver.
Virtually complete returns give the
republicans 5000 majority in South
Dakota.
Now that the revolution has been
suppressed, it is rumored that Senior
Eduardo Romano, the president of
Peru, will ask congress to declare a
general amnesty. Such a step would
add to the increasing popularity of the
president.
Near Bambon, nineteen American
soldiers attacked force of 100 insur-
gents early. They put the rebels to
fight after nineteen had been killed
and six made prisoners. Thirty Maus-
er rifles were secured.
The British transport Moor, having
on board the officers of the staff of
of three divisions of the British army
corps on its way to South Africa, ar
rived at Cape Town, the 10th.
Lord Pauncefote, the British am
hos cd
by the many kind notices which have
Appeared in the United States press on
the subject of his elevation to the peer
age. He will take tn. earliest oppor-
tunity after his return to the United
States, to express through the press
his grateful appreciation.
The four soldiers who were sentenced
to death at Manila now stand an ex-
cellent chance to save their lives. IT.
Irregularities have been discovered in
the proceedings of the courtmartial,
which will require correction in the
first instance at Manila, if indeed they
do not bar the death sentence enterely.
Gen. Otis notifies the department
that all hope of saving the transport
Hooker has been abandoned Her
supplies are to be taken off and the
hulk will be sold at auction.
The Forty-sixth U. S. volunteers
sails for Manila from San Francisco on
the transports Sydney and Pathon.
The Forty-ffth will go on the Senator
and Ben Mohr.
In the United States district court at
st. Louis, Judge Philips established a
precedent by ruling that where the
mails are used, every letter sent out
with the purpose of defrauding consti-
tutes a separate offense.
Two sons of Joseph Edlunk, at De-
troit, Mich, accidentally set the barn
on fire and were burned to death.
For lack of funds, 102 workmen at
League Island navy yard have been
discharged.
Three masked men robbed the depot
at Titusville, Pa, and then held up a
disorderly house, securing $1,000 in
jewels and $500 in cash. One of the
robbers was killed; the other two es-
capped.
The schooner VIM. Bird was wrecked
off the Frying Shoals, North Carolina,
and ten of the crew persisted, includ-
ing Capt. Barrett.
One man was killed and twenty-five
injured in a collision on the Omaha &
Fort Dodge road near Dennison, 10.
Many of them were scalded by escap-
ing steam.
The manufacturers of sheet metal in
Chicago locked out 400 workmen. This
is the beginning of an effort to break
up the present system of labor unions,
and re-esta blishment on different lines.
Vice President Hobart daily shows
some slight improvement and friends
are greatly encouraged in consequence.
Col Bells regiment captured Tarlac
without opposition. Where Aguinaldo
and his so-called government has fed
to is a mystery.
By a majority decision the state
supreme court of Kansas held the coal
screen law to be constitutional. In
1897 the legislature passed a law pro-
hibiting the screening of coal before it
was weighed.
Unknown parties at an early hour
in the morning destroyed the office of
the Urbana, To-, Monitor by dynamite,
and four minutes later blew up J. d.
Burrelrs general merchandise store,
killing Charles Burrell, who had
jumped out of bed on hearing the first
explosion.
The Bradley block in Cleveland was
destroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
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