The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-01
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Brazil has rejected the plan of tariffs
| proposed by Italy and France, demand
ing a considerable reduction in the
| duty on imports of coffee, which are
considered prohibitive.
An agreement for settling the min
ers' strike at Decatur, Ill, was reached
by operators and miners. An eight
| hour day and recognition of the union
were the most important demands by
the miners and these are granted.
Four hundred men were out nine
weeks.
The new battleship Kentucky made
record of 1876 knots an hour on her
official speed trial off the coast of Mas
sachusetts.
The wholesale house of A. Krolik &
| Co., at Detroit Mich. was destroyed by
| fire.
Joseph Earle and wife, an aged
couple, were tortured and robbed of
| $500 by masked men at Glencoe, Md.
The president will ask the incoming
congress to pass an act retiring Gener-
| al Shafter with the rank of major gen.
eral in the regular army. He has al
ready been retired with the rank of
brigadier general.
Claims have been filed up to date on
| account of the damages sustained by
American citizens through the Spanish
war to the amount of $50, 900, 900.
Senior Buencamino, former member
of the so-called cabiuet of Aguinaldo,
has been brought to Gen. Otis, pris-
oner, on board the transport Brutus.
He had sought refuge in village near
San Fabian with Aguinaldo's mother
John Tates, waiter in Chicago
restaurant, was stabbed fatally with
an umbrella. The sharp pointed steel
penetrated the walters lung.
George w. Brooks of Detroit shot
his divorced wife three times and
then killed himself.
The FRANKLIN syndicate, an institu-
ton in New York that agreed to pay
10 per cent per week on all deposits,
was closed by the police.
There are 500 cases of smallpox at
Uniontown, KY. The state board of
health has placed the town in abso-
lutte quarantine.
1t is reported that 10000 troops will
soon leave Odessa to reinforce Russian
garrisons in the far east.
S. G. Davis was arrested at Boston,
Mass, charged with flooding Canada
with counterfeit money.
A portion of Cotulla, so miles west of
San Antonio, Tex, was washed away
by cloudburst. Four inches of rain
fell in 80 minutes.
Buencamino, the brains of the Fill
Pine instruction, is locked up in Ma
Mia in charge of the provost marshal.
When Tarlac fell Buencamino fled
northward, but was captured in a lit
tie village north of Manaoag. Buen-
canine is the chief author of the Fill
Pine constitution and most of the state
documents.
The French and Russians will buy
about $4,000, 600 worth of railway cars
in the United States next year.
The funeral of the late Vice Presi-
dent Hobart occurred at Paterson, N.
j., the 25th. The president and cabi-
net were in attendance.
Col. George B. Davis, who was di-
sition, died in Chicago.
A collision between a work and
freight train at Cashocton, O., killed
three men and injured 25 others.
Princeton defeated Yale at football
by score of II to 10.
An explosion of ammonia destroyed
the big plant of the Passaic On. j.
Half of the business portion of Wes-
ton, o., was destroyed by fire.
The Beers were driven back from
Belmont with great loss.
The house of Stott McAfee, near
Fountain Park, o., was wrecked. Nc
Afee was killed and Miss Clara Popp
fatally injured by an explosion of dy-
Mantle. McAfee had placed stick of
dynamite under the stove to dry. His
body was blown to pieces. The wreck
age of the house was burned.
Admiral Watson telegraphs the en-
tire province Zamboanga has sur
rendered Internationally. Delivery
of all guns promised.
Unknown parties wrecked the under
taking establishment of w. ID. Wood,
at Farmersburg, Ind.
Rear Admiral Schley has sailed for
the Windward Islands.
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