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FUSION IN COLORADO.
Combine on State Ticket Between
Democrats and Republicans.

DENVER, Sept. 1.-THE fusion con-
ference this evening reached an agree
ment apportioning the State Offices
among the Democrats, Silver Republic
ans and National Silver party, the Gov
ernor going to the Democrats. The
Populists are entirely out of the confer
ence. The Silver party convention re-
ceived the report from it's committee.
tabled it and discharged the committee.
The Populists in Pueblo have wired to
the Silver party asking fusion with
them only The fusion conference
meets again at 10 o'clock
The apportionment as arranged for in
the report gave the Governor and Attor-
ney-General to the Democrats, Secre-
tary of State and superintendent Of
Public instruction to the Silver party.
and the remaining offices to the Repub-
licanS.
1t is probable now that there will be
two fusion tickets, Republicans and
Democrats on the one and Populists and
Silver party on the other. The Bryan
and Sewall electors yet remain the
same, the Populists in Pueblo having
voted against indCrsing Watson.
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OF 1000 people He justified the pres
ent existence of the Peoples party by
the statement that the Republicans had
betrayed the people in the crime of '73,
ana the Democrats by the crime of '93.
Both parties had assisted in killing the
Greenback party by asking them TO
trust them to the Democrats in the
south and the Republicans in the West
lie appealed to the people to leave both
parties and asked If Kansas We're yet
true TO the doctrine she taught to the
South. He said:
am the only representative which
the Peoples party has on the national
ticket. II am removed Bryan will lose
IeXas, Tennessee and Kentucky, at
least. To take me off the ticket splits
the Silver party and elects Mckinley"
Continuing, he said that Mr.. Sewau
was not true silver man. He has
rot had the disease long enough He
supported Democratic sold bug for
Governor of Maine named WinSlow He
called SeWan a bondholder, railroad
King, millionaire, q supporter of Nc
kinley tariff ideas. said he was Presi-
dent of the Merchants Marine Associa-
ton of Philadelphia, which asks for
higher protection.
Mr. Watson said also that Chairman
Jones received letter from Sewall at
the time Of the Populist Convention.
intimating that he would step down and
out whenever it was to Bryan's best in
terest. The fact that the letter was
published recently would indicate that
that time had come.
Mr.. Watson said in conclusion: ''Au
1 can do is TO appeal to the people
whether [ am to be placed under the
heels of the Eastern plutocrats"
Mr.. Watson speaks at Abeline to-mor-
row night, from which point he
goes to Colorado, his Nebraska trip hav-
ing been abandoned
The record-union., 1896-09-12
SOUTHERN BORDER STATES.
Democrats Claim They Are Certain
to Go for Bryan.

CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-THE assertion
was officially made to-day at Demo-
cratic headquarters that the southern
border States were as certain for Bryan
as Colorado or South Carolina, this
claim being based on the reports re-
ceived from Kentucky, Tennessee, West
Virginia, Maryland and Missouri. While
some fears have been expressed regard
ing the situation in Kentucky, they
have been entirely dissipated by ad-
vices received at headquarters within
the last three or four days. The Demo-
cratic gold detection is said to be much
less than reported, while in the agri-
cultural districts, especially in Eastern
Kentucky, there is said to be a land
slide of Republican voters to Bryan.
Fusion with the Populists has not been
fully completed, but it is claimed the
members of that party will in any event
vote almost unanimously for the ma
tional ticket headed by Bryan.
Reliable information Is said to have
reached headquarters that Chairman
Hanna has abandoned all hope of MAX
ing any breaks in the border or South
ern States, and will confine his efforts
to the debatable States in the central
West.
Inc Mckinney managers are SAID TO
be in a state bordering on panic over
the situation in Illinois and Iowa. 1t
is alleged that a poll being made by the
Republicans in Iowa shows by the re-
turns from two-thirdS of the counties
more than $4,000 doubtful Republicans
This is taken by the Democratic man
ayers to mean that Iowa is safe for
Bryan. A similar poll by the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee gives
Iowa to Bryan by 25,OO0 majority. A
Democratic poll being taken in Illinois
shows by the returns from fifty-five of
the 1O1 counties outside of Cook that
Bryan will carry the State by 10000
ma iority, according to the calculations
of the Democrats.
1t was announced that DR.. James E.
Adams, editor of the Advance" the
leading Congregational Church organ
has espoused the free coinage cause
and would make several addresses dur
ing the campaign.
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A Feeble-Minded Home Burned.

FRANKFORT (Ky.), Sept. 1.-THE
temporary frame building of the Fee
hle-Minded Home caught fire tonight
shortly after 10 o'clock, and was COM
pletely destroyed. 1t was first reported
that a number of the children had per-
ished in the flames, but DR.. Huff the
superintendent, says that all of them
are accounted for, although several are
badly bruised by jumping from second
story windows. The building was evi-
IDENTIFY set on fire by some feeble
minded boys, who have several times
attempted to escape The loss is about
$4,000.
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SEWALL MUST GO.
SO Says the President of the Re-
form Press Association.

OMAHA, Sept 11.-Paul Vandervoort
of Omaha, President of the Reform
Press Association. se-e the Bee to-
Gay a lengthy interview touching the
efforts to have SeWall withdrawn and
Watson substituted. He goes into the
details of the situation in the South
west, where the Populists hold the bal
arce of power, and declares that the
Vice-President must be conceded to the
Populists or Bryan cannot be elected
He enters into a scathing denunciation
of many prominent politicians, and con-
cludes with an appeal to the Populists
to force Watson on the ticket
The record-union., 1896-09-12
Improved Order of Red Men.

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 1.-THE Great
Sun Council of the Improved Order Of
Red Men ended this afternoon, when the
newly elected Great Chiefs were elevat-
ed to the stumps. The proposition to
appoint a National Organizer was de-
feated, and the work was left to the
Great Incohone, who received an extra
appropriation to carry on the work.
The ritual was partly adopted, and the
remainder left to the Great Chiefs
Council
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Silver Going Abroad.

NEW YORK, Sept. I'm. Guggen.
heim's Sons will ship 157, 900 ounces o,
silver, J. & w. Seligman & Co. 65,00C
ounces, Handy e Hartman $4,000 ounces
Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co. 10000
ounces, Fuller & Wilson 10000 ounces
Lewissohn Brothers 10000 ounces, anG
Zimmerman e Forshay $4,000 ounces
and 10000 Mexican dollars to Europe
on the steamship Campania, sailing to.
The record-union., 1896-09-12
Fatal Explosion.

YOUNGSTOWN (O), Sept 11-An
explosion occurred in the pressroom of
the mills of the Ohio Powder Company
at o'clock this morning in which Dan
iel Davis and George Lynch lost their
lives. The men were burned almost be-
yond recognition. The cause of the ex-
Ilosion is unknown. Davis and Lynch
were the only persons in the mill at
the time. The property loss is small.
The record-union., 1896-09-12
More Gold From Europe.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE Ham
burg American Line steamship Fuerst
Bismarck, which arrived this morning
from Hamburg, Southampton and Cher
hourg, brings from Southampton thirty
nine cases of gold coin valued at 81 503,-
600, and from Cherbourg forty-two
cases valued at 50, 129, 200. The aggre-
gate arrivals thus far are 500, ,112, $50.
Lazard Freres have deposited $1,000
600 gold in the sub-treasury in exchange
for greenbackS
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Benevolent Order Of EIks.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 1.-THE Grand Off
GERS and Trustees of the Benevolent Or
der of Elks are in annual session here.
There was some talk of using the char
ity fund for the building of home for
the Elks, but no action was taken. Min
neapolis was selected as the place of
holding the next annual convention of
the Grand Lodge on July l, 1897.
The record-union., 1896-09-12
A Notorious Criminal Dead.

ANIMOSA Qa~), Sept. 11.-Polk Wells.
the most notorious of Iowa criminals,
died in prison here to-day of consump-
ton. He was sent up for ten years for
highway robbery in Fremont County.
The record-union., 1896-09-12
Senator George Seriously iii.

LOUISVILLE, Sept. IA dispatch
from Carrolltop, Miss, says Senator
George is seriously i'll. His condition
is such as to alarm his friends.
The record-union., 1896-09-12
WATSON IN KANSAS.
Says If He is Taken Off the Ticket
Mckinley Will be Elected.

lola (Kan.), Sept. 11.--Thomas Wat
son, Populist Vice-Presidential candi-
date, spoke here to-day to an audience
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-21
Had No Use For 1t.

He told the shop assistant that he want
ed to purchase something that would be a
suitable present for young lady.
The clerk brought out albums, books,
gold pens and pencils and cardcases, but
nothing seemed to suit. AS the last resort
he showed the young man an engagement
calendar, a beautiful little tablet on which
to record the engagements for each day OF
the week.
"Quite the fad now " he explained as he
displayed the calendar. "All the young
ladies feel the need of them. especially
during the season.
"What is its' asked the young man.
IAN engagement calendar" replied the
shop assistant. shell find 1t invalu-
able"-
"You think she would like onef" asked
the young man with forced calmness.
"I'm sure she would II she hasn't one
already" said the assistant
"Well, / want to say TO you that she
wouldn't" exclaimed the young man.
losing control of his temper. II know her
and you don't, and want you to under
stand, sir that she has no use for any such
calendar. She doesn't have TO keep records
Of her engagements. This Is the only time
that she has ever been engaged, and any
man who says that she will ever be en-
Gagged to any one else or that she has 70
put Ii down on tablet to remember has
got to fight me. That's all there is to that -
He had left the shop before the assistant
had sufficiently recovered from his surprise
TO explain. Strand Magazine
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-21
What Marco Polo Did.

Marco Polo was the first traveller to
trace q route across the whole length OF
Asia, says one of his biographers, de-
scribing kingdom after kingdom that he
had seen with his own eyes. " He was
the first traveller to explore the deserts
and the Towering plains of Persia, to
reveal China with its mighty rivers, its
swarming population and its huge
cities and rich manufactures; the first
to visit and bring back accounts OF Tibet,
Laos, Burma, Siam, Cochin China,
japan, the Indian archipelago, Ceylon,
farther India and the Andaman islands !;
the first to give any distinct account OF
the secluded Christian empire of Abys.
sinia; the first to speak even vaguely OF
Zanzibar, Madagascar and other regions
in the mysterious south and Of Siberia
and the Arctic ocean in the terrible and
much dreaded north. Although centu.
ries have passed since young Marco Polo
grew to mans estate while treading his
dangerous way among these distant
lands. we must still look back to his
discoveries for much that we know about
those countries; for we have learned
nothing new of many Of them since his
time. Noah Brooks in st. Nicholas.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-21
When 1t Rained stones Eleven Days.

There are hundreds of we'll authenti-
Gated accounts of stones falling from the
skies-from the mysterious regions of
the great sea of space-but such falls"
have usually been singly, or at the most
in small showers.
According to legend told by the
Arabs of the Sahara, there was a time
in that portion of the dark continent
when pebbles and fine sand literally
rained from above for several days, COW
ering the earth to depth of many feet.
In fact, they claim that the great des-
ert did not exist prior to the time when
this great shower of aerolites came.
In Jenckyn's "Trip to Ye Burning
Sandes of Africk, page 1871, the follow
ing is told under the head, Another of
Gods Wonders Moreover, the ma
tives Of these parts say that it once rain
ed small stones and sandes for period
of IL days and nights. Much fertile
land and many towns and thousands of
animals and human beings were thus
buried up" This story reminds one of
the 'cometary theory" advanced by lg-
natius Donnelly in Ragnarok. st
Louis Republic.
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ply want TO show these people chat it
will do all / claim"
The stranger never made the least
objection TO this proposition. A liberal
dose of the mixture was applied TO his
head. and the doctor drove ON, after as
surfing his hearers that another chance
would be given them within the next
few weeks TO invest in his wonderful
remedy Not long after a delicate new
growth Of hair would begin TO appear
on the strangers crown, and by the
time the doctor made his second visit to
the city no finer head would be seen on
the streets In no case is the doctor re-
corded as having failed TO rake in lib
eral supply of shekels on his second trip.
A round price was charged for the re-
newer, but what baldheaded man would
fail TO invest in so valuable a remedy
for his complaint? Then the doctor and
the strange visitor would disappear,
never to be seen more in that locality.
Now the doctor has completed his
round up of the South Dakota villages.
He will not reappear among them again
for long time. He makes no secret of
the fact that the men upon whom his
remover worked such remarkable cures
were in his employ or that their heads
were clearly shaved before the drug
was applied TO them. Then it was nee
essary only to withhold the razor, and
a fine growth Of hair was not long in
making its appearance. Sioux City
Dispatch in Chicago Chronicle.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-21
A Wide Awake Waterman.

The directors of an Australian bank
had engaged the services of a Waterman,
who came well recommended. but did
not seem overexperienced. The chair
man, therefore, sent for him to post
him up Bit and began:
James, this is your first job of this
kind. isn't it?'
Eyes, sir.
"Your duty must be to exercise vigi-
lance
"Yes, sir. -
"Be careful how strangers approach
you.
Il will, sir. -
"No stranger must be allowed TO
enter the bank at night under any pre-
text whatever.
"No, sir. -
"And our manageable is a good
man, honest. reliableand trustworthy
but it will be your duty to keep an eye
on him.
But it will be hard to watch two
men and the bank at the same time.
1.-TWO men-how?"
"Why, sir, it was only yesterday that
the manager called me in for talk,
and he said you were one of the best
men in the city, but it would be just as
well to keep both eyes on you and let
the directors know if you hung about
after hours. London Answers.
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Anecdotes of Bulow.

Social rank did not count in Bulow's
estimate of values. He broke up an au-
dience of titled personages assembled to
enjoy one of his rehearsals by causing
the bassoon players 20 perform their
parts alone until the listeners all left
in disgust. Now" said he cheerfully
when the last of his noble hearers had
departed, "we'll go to work. " He kick
cd the name board of certain piano off
the stage because it degraded the artist
into an advertisement. In the presence
of an enthusiastic audience he once no
ticed two laurel wreaths on the piano.
He picked them up, looked at them
and then kicked them under the instru-
ment He did this because he resented
the idea that musicians should be treat
ed differently from other men. He
wished music TO be a manly calling.
He would not have it degraded into a
matter of patronage 'Go, take that
laurel wreath TO Herr Franz Lachner
(his predecessor in Munich). who is on
the pension listl'' he exclaimed to an
usher. II am not superannuated. -
Bernard Boekelman in Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-21

The Pingree men in the recent county
convention claim that the over ruling
OF their demand for an individual ballot
would result in the throwing out OF the
delegation by the State convention
should n contesting delegation be sent
down. 1t is altogether unlikely that
any such thing will be done, for, On the
whole, the windup of the convention left
pleasant impression on all sides and
the Pingree men were happy in getting
all they really hoped for. The fact that
Pingree is booming up in the lower part
OF the State, has, however. caused quite
towing down Of the talk hereabouts
against him and the leaders are evident
ly preparing to swallow Ping il the con-
yentlon gives him to them.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-21
WHERE NO CLOUD oBsCURes.
On the Planet Mars the Weather Is Al
most Always Fine.

most Always Fine.
Let us now remark that the Marian
meteorology is less complicated and
more pleasant than that of the earth.
There the weather is almost always
fine, especially during summer Very
seldom are there clouds even in winter
Generally when we are unable to distin-
guish through the telescope the details
of the geographical CONFORMATION upon
the planet the fault is in our own at
mosphere and not in that of Mars. 1t is
very rarely the case that when our at
mospheric conditions are good we are
unable to see these details. During the
last period of observation of Mars in
1894, /, to speak for myself, encountered
only 10 days (from Oct. 10 to 25) when
the surface of the planet was yelled by
its own atmosphere. Clouds are excess
lively rare ON the surface Of Mars, and
perhaps exist at all only as fogs or light
cirrus; they are not clouds of rain or
storm. These wells are very infrequent
there, while they are perpetual upon the
earth. Probably there is not single
day in the year when the entire surface
of the earth is uncovered so that it could
be satisfactorily observed from space.
The two planets have two meteorolog-
ical systems that are absolutely anti
thetical.
Furthermore, in the rarefied atmos-
phere of Mars there can be no powerful
winds, like the trade winds and the pre-
dominant atmospheric currents which
rule terrestrial climates. Occasionally,
however, observers have noted long
streaks of snow which appear to have
been produced by currents in tranquil
atmosphere. Schiaparelli, for instance,
observed such streaks (''traineesO IL
November and December, 1881, around
the northern pole and extending con
siderable distance from it. But sucf
things are exceptions. The normal con
dition upon Mars is fine weather. Ca
mile Flammarion in North American
Review
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-21
Portage Lake News
Convention of Repub-
liCan Clubs at De-
troit August 4.
The Recent County Con yentiOn


A state convention OF delegates repre-
nting republican clubs OF Michigan
will be held at Grand Rapids, Tuesday,
August 4, the day before the republican
State convention. The basis OF repre-
sentation at the convention will be two
delegates for each club and one add
tional delegate for each fifty members.
The business to be transacted il the cleo
ton OF officers Of the State league, and
the election of two delegates at large and
two delegates from each congressional
district to represent our State in the
national convention OF republican clubs,
to be held at Milwaukee, August 20.
The club talked Of in Houghton should
be organized in time to send delegates to
the Grand Rapids convention.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-21
The Ftnlanders'

Mutual Fire Insurance company OF
Houghton and Keweenaw counties, or
gained in 1890 according to the laws OF
the State OF Michigan. will insure proper
ty OF it's mem ers. Have paid fire losses
over SO 900 during it's existence. The
company paid back during the last year
to sixty-two OF it's members oil hve years
standing 6S per cent OF their premiums.
amounting to s3,502. VIII pay back
during this year on the same rate to
thirty-six members OF five years stand
ing $1.447. On the first day Of July
the company had Ala members, $751;
$40 worth Of property insured, and
$7,611.27 in treasury. For further par
ticulars apply to the undersigned.
JOHN BLoMovIsT, President.
ALEX LENoNES, Secretary.
Office, 443 Pine street, upstairs, Red
Jacket.
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THE SUMS DISTANCE.
would Take Five Hundred Years to Cover
II mt n Swift Steamers Pace.

wou,d Take Five Hundred Years to Cover
1t mt . Swift Steamers Pace.
"The sun is about $1,000, 600 miles
distant from the earth, " writes Alden
w. Quimby in Ladies' Home journal
"It varies through the year because the
earth's orbit is elliptical, and the sun
Is at one focus of the ellipse. The earth
is more than 5000, 900 of miles nearer
the sun i'm December than in June, at
which time the ATTITUDES south OF the
equator receive his direct rays ana ex-
perience the great heat OF their summer.
"Let us try to comprehend the figures
stated. The other day two racers OF the
sea proudly lowered the record OF trans
atlantic passage. Could they turn their
nrows TO the sun, and drive their great
engines day and night in the crossing OF
the ether main, it would be ooo years
before they could reach harbor.
"Most persons have noticed the APP
nreciablo interval of time between the
stroke of an AK at distance and the re-
sultant sound. Could we hear the sound
of a solar explosion we would know that
the explosion had occurred IA years be-
fore. Perhaps the most striking illustra-
ton is that which imagines a little
child 10 have an arm long enough to
roach tho sun. The child might thrust
its fingers into the seething fires, but IT
would grow up to maturity and calmly
descend into the valley Of extreme old
are, biissfully unconscious Of any pain
from the burning; in fact, 1t would re-
ouire another such lifetime TO bring the
news TO tho brain. -