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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-13
big BOAT GOES down.
Reported Loss of the British
Cruiser Talbot.
CARRIED A CREW or 4as PEOPLE.

The Vessel Was Bound for the North
American station and Foundered Dur
Ing the Recent Gsl~-sudden Death ia
Church of the Archbishop Of Cantor
bury at Hawarden-Latest About the
Venezuelan Questionable World News
Doverport Eng. oct. ia rumor is
in circulation here that the British
cruiser Talbot. bound for the North
American station. foundered at sea
during a recent gale. The Talbot is q
second-class cruiser OF 5000 tons dis
placement and carries a crew of 433
officers and men. She is new ves-
sci. built last year, carries five six
inch rapid firing guns. six four-inch
guns. eight l2-pounders. and several
guns OF smaller caliber The Talbot
belongs TO what is known as the Eclipse
class OF protected cruisers, which in
cludes the Diana, Dido. Doris, Isis,
Juno. Minerva. Venus. and Eclipse.
Her registered speed is 1875 knots and
she carries $50 tons Of coal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-13
n,.marck.s Health Causes Anxiety.

London. oct. 13.-The correspondent
OF The Chronicle at Paris says that he
has good authority for saying that
Prince Bismarck's health is causing Sc
,ious apxiptN
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-13
weil-Known Missionary Dead.

Boston. oct. l3.-Rev. Crosby III.
Wheeler. D. H., the well-known mis-
sionary OF the American board. died
at Auburndale sunday. He labored at
Harpoot, Armenia, for thirty nine
yeara.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-13
Cut Hi. Ow a Throat.

Kalamazoo. Mich. Ost l3.--George
Roatch. aged 65 well-to-do farmer
of Lowerfeld. was found with his
throat cut In his barn Saturday night,
aud will probably live. He brooded
over politics.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-13
r.,.r., of rx.Govrrnor wood.on.

St Joseph. Mo. oct. l3.-The funer-
al of Ex-Governor Woodson took place
from the cathedral at 10 o'clock .AIon-
day morning RI Rev. Bishop Burke
conducted the services Governor Wood d.
son having been received into the Cath
ollie church by Bishop Burke some
months ago. The funeral was one of
The largest ever held In st. Joseph.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-13
sultan Makes Promises.

Berlin. oct. 13.-The Frankfurter
Zeitung says that the sultan has signed
an trade promising state reforms for
the whole of Turkey.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-13

New York. oct l3.-The storm which
weather Observer Dunn warned New
work city would strike here by night
fall sunday, arrived promptly on
time,
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14

carried the Jeanette, the probabilities are,
II the ship was not crushed and sunk by
the ice, as was the Jeanette, and the pro-
visions held out, that she would drift out
into the Atlantic Ocean between Franz
ever, there should be a channel north o1
Franz Joseph. Land and between.it and the
Ice-cap mentioned, it is possible that the
ship may have drifted through it to the
northward of Spitzbergen and got into q
drift coming south along the east coast oi
Greenland. If beset in ice there she may
have turned the cape and drifted around
to the west coast of Greenland eventually
to be cast out into Baffins Bay and drift
southward. These are the results which
800 years of exploration and observation
indicate may be expected as the ending oil
the attempt made by the Franz"
General Greelv called attention to the
fact that the dispatch announcing Nan
sens success did not state where he was
when heard from, and this he regarded as
q suspicious circumstance. 1t would have
been easy when telegraphing the reported
discovery of the pole to have stated Just
where Nansen was when this trader heard
IRON him.
"As matter of fact" said General
Greely, nothing authentic. has been
heard from the explorer since his depart
ure from civilization. 1t was expected
that he would touch at New Siberia ISL
ands on his way around to take on extra
provisions and dogs for his sleds. Several
parties had touched at the islands during
the past two or three years, however, and
they had found no evidence that Nansen
had been there
General Greedy has gone on record as
condemning the theory upon which Nam
sens expedition was founded and. like
Commodore Melville, he believes the
project impracticable. According to Cen
eral Greedy, Nansen held that by getting
into the Jeannette's current he would be
carried north to the pole and then across it
south into warmer waters again. Nansen
based his belief upon the existence of such
a current on the finding of what were
claimed 10 be relics of the Jeanette expe-
dition which had been found on the
Greenland coast, and ON the theory he
conceived based upon the direction of
the currents and wind. Now, according to
General Greedy, the supposed relics of the
Jeanette have never been authenticated
as such, although it would have been easy
to do so. Upon this fiimsy foundation,
said General Greedy, the Fran expedition
started. He said he did not believe that
1t has got to the pole, but, in view of the
time since the party started, he believes
that it has perished or is in great peril.
The Norwegian Government evidently
takes the same view, he said, for it has
projected an expedition to go to Nansen' S
relief, though no one can suggest the point
where relief expedition should be sent.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14

keep his eyes bandaged and avoid exer.
else. The party remained in the doctor s
office until Julian put in an appearance
with the statement that the Australian
had authorized him to make any arrange
ments he might see fit. Joe Vendig,
Maher's backer, designated Buck Connolly
OF Pittsburg as his representative, and the
latter with Julian went into conference
with Dan Stuart at o'clock.
The conference lasted for an hour, and
at its conclusion it was announced that
the fight would remain in statu quo until
Monday, pending which Julian would
make no claim for forfeit in behalf of
Fitzsimmons, the latter holding himself
in readiness to fight on Monday or before
and agreeing to announce his final de-
cision that day if Maher is still disabled.
When the decision was announced Dan
Stuart stated that he would waive all his
rights and Interests until next summer if
the intervening period was necessary to
enable Maher to get into fit condition.
Maller and Quinn expressed themselves
n as Satisfied with the agreement and the
Irishman said that he was confident OF
being in shape to get inside the ropes
Monday. The few that saw him, how
ever, were of different opinion. His
eyes are badly swollen, there is continu-
Gus discharge and the eyeballs are dotted
with white spots.
The opinion late tonight is that the
tight is off for good and many Of the out
of-town sports are getting ready for an
early departure. No attempt will be made
to bring off any of the minor fights until
the big affair is settled, Stuart saying that
such move would be impolitic. Maher
will remain here until Monday under the
care of DR.. White and will do no more
training.
Outside of the news from Mahers train
ing quarters there was scarcely anything
during the day to create even ripple of
excitement. Big cards announcing that
tickets were on sale were posted about the
promoters headquarters, but the visiting
and local sports were fighting shy of put
ting up their money in speculation, and
the receipts of cash in exchange for the
cardboards made but small aggregate.
The arrivals UP to dusk were not q
twentieth of what had been expected.
The reported delegation of couple of
hundred from Mexico City and inter-
mediate points dwindled down to a round
dozen, and the number of eleventh hour
visitors from the Eastern, Central and
Southern States was also disappointingly
small.
Stuart and his associates, however, took
this phase of the situation philosophically
and told every inquirer that the pro-
gramme would go on even If there were
but q hundred ticket holders at the ring
side. Fitzsimmons and Julian loungeo
about the Office during the morning and
part of the afternoon, and then the Aus
tralian went down the road to Noakes
blacksmith-shop, where he stripped his coat
and started to make half dozen horse
shoes.
To questioner he said he was in good
wind, strong and feeling as we'll as ever he
had in his life, and that he intended to
win the battle without being all day about
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
t. When the news Of Maher's disability

! IT, When the news of Maher's disability
came 10 town he hunted up Julian, and
the two had long conference with Stuart.
The squadron of Mexican cavalry that
came up from Chihuahua yesterday was
sent out in squads of six during the morn
ing, with orders to patrol the siver to the
north aud westward, along the boundary
line, two squads having instructions to
Keep well toward the country between
Hatch's Spur and Strauss on the Southern
Pacific, where it was supposed yesterday
that the fight would be brought off. Each
squad carried sufficient rations for week,
and was under orders to remain in. the
field until called by Governor Ahumada
Ine latter remained in his office at Juarez,
receiving occasional reports from his lieu
tenants, who were circllng about in this
city until dusk. when he crossed the river.
On his way down he dropped into Stuart's
Office, but the promoter was absent and,
with the remark that he had no particular
business to transact, the Mexican execu-
tive went his way.
Adjutant-General Mabry of Texas had
little with which to occupy himself during
the day. He contradicted the report that
detachment of ten rangers went out on
the train this morning that carried por-
ton nf the ring paraphernalia, but added
that he was satisfied with the assurances
OF the managers that no infraction of the
Texas law was intended. AS to the story
that he would cooperate with the Federal
and Mexican authorities and aid in pre-
venting the fight on other soil. he said:
"lt is not within my province to do any
thing of the kind. So long as these men
keep clear of the State line 1 have nothing
against them. The rangers will accom-
pany the train if one should go out, but
their authority will have ended when the
State line is crossed"
at the Pierson United States Marshal
Hall of Santa F>s had his headquarters,
and with HIM wess fourteen deputies
rounded up from the southern portion of
the Territory. Tonight these we're given
orders to report on Friday morning at day
light, the understanding being that they
would scatter over the western trail and
do what they could toward preventing an
infracrion of the Catron act on the New
| Mexican border.
| Jimmy Carroll, Fitzsimmon's ex-man-
ager, to-day garnished Dan Stuart, Tom
O'Rourke and the State National Bank for
$500 on account of an alleged debt due him
by Fitzsimmons while he was acting as
| manager for the Cornishman
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
The Explorer Said to Have Found
Land on the Long-Sought
Spot.
IS NOT GENERALLY CREDITED.
Scientists and Others Who Believe
1t Would Be Impossible to
Drift to the Pole.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Feb. 13.-
A dispatch from Irkutsk, Siberia, says
thata Siberian trader named Koachlaeroh,
who is acting in the capacity of agent for
DIR. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, has
stated that off Kolymsk he received in
formation that Nansen had reached the
north pole, where he found land, and is
now on his way back.
When Nansen sailed on his voyage 1t
was with the intention of devoting five
years TO 1t if necessary. His vessel (the
Franz was peculiarly constructed. so as
to resist the pressure of the ice, and fully
provIsioned for five years. His intention
was to penetrate the ice as far as possible
and then let it carry him north.
DR.. Frithjof Nansen, who has gained
fame as an Arctic explorer, is about So
years of age. He was formerly keeper of
the Natural History Museum of Ber-
gen, Norway. He acquired his Arctic
experience in Greenland. Nordens-
kiold had started a theory that the in
terror of Greenland had mild climate,
and that probably the survivors of the
settlers from Iceland would be found
living there. To determine this ques-
tion DR.. Nansen, accompanied by three Nor
wegians and two Laplanders. started from
Iceland in June, 1888. After terrible hard
ships, in some places finding a tempera-
ture so or so degrees below zero, they sue
ceeded in crossing Greenland and reached
the western coast in September. They
were obliged to remain in Greenland all
winter.
LONDON, Eng, Feb. 13.-Relatives of
DIR. Nansen have circulated statement
that they do not attach much credence to
the report OF Koachlaeroff
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
NOT VERY AUTHENTIC.
Lieutenant PearY Does Not Fully Be-
Iere the Report.

Lieutenant Pearg Does Not Fully Be-
lieve the Report.
NEW YORK, n. Y, Feb. 13. When
Lieutenant Peary was seen tonight and
asked whether in his judgment any
reliance was to be placed on
the report that DR.. Nansen had
reached the north pole and is now return
ing, be pramptly replied that what with
the meagerness of the dispatch, the local
lty from which the news comes and the
season, it does not seem to him as likely to
be authentic.
DR.. Nansen, if his theory in regard to
the current be correct, Lieutenant Peary
says, would not be likely to ever get back
in that direction. He expected TO cross
the pole and come out somewhere on the
east coast of Greenland
If Nansen or any of his party is where
it is said he is, the lieutenant thought the
message should come direct from him.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
STATE rRoors ARE READY.
Gorsrmor Hughes H9tI Not Permit Fight
ing tf Arisona.

Gorernor Hughes HILL Not Permit Fight
issg tst Asisona.
PHOENIX, ARR, Feb. 13.-The sole sub.
lect OF conversation here at present is the
I'll Paso prize-tght; every one is talking
about 1t. Even to the Governor takes an
absorbing interest in it. Meanwhile Gov
ernor Hughes and General Schwartz say it
shall not take place in this territory, if the
National Guard can prevent 1t. Tonight
Captain Wickham, Company B, Phoenix,
receided orders to have his company at
the armory issue ammunition and TO bold
dress and accouterment inspection.
The Maricopa and Phoenix and South
ern Pacific railroads have announced their
ability to furnish an engine and cars to
carry the company to the scene, in case it
is needed. Since the arrival of. Major
Lewis at El Paso he has kept headuuar-
ters advised, in his last telegram recon-
mending that the companies from Tuscon
be kept at Bowie until after the fight. In
response to a query sent H. B. Vance at
Ell Paso the following was received here to
night:
II have met Dan Stuart. Knows mu-
tual friends. Keep Tncson company at
Bowie until 1 advise you. Am working
with United States Marshal of New Mex
leo. Dan Stuart has been watching Ari-
zona~ closely"
Responding to the Governors telegram
assuring him that the Southern Pacific
and its employees would be held response
BILE as accessories for conspiracy if it
brought the fighters into Arizona, Epes
Randolph replied that his road would in
no way assist the conspirators. This is
considered fine point of law, and the law
yers here are wondering it was never raised
bef0re
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
DOUBTED BY DAVIDSON.
The Professor Does Not Think Nansen
Reached the Pole.

Reached the Pole.
81 hardly know what to think of this
stranee intelligence" remarked Professor
Davidson when the story OF Nansen's sup
posed discovery was mentioned to him.
Somehow or other l cannot disabuse my
mind of the suspicion that the thing is un-
deserving of belief. If Nansen could com
municate with his agent at the mouth of
the Lena, why should the agent be the
first to let the scientific world know of so
important a matter2 If Nansen really
sent message to the effect that he had
discovered the long-sought north pole,
surely he would make an authoritative
statement as soon as he were a bic to COM
municate with his fellow-men In such
an event Nansen's agent might naturally
be employed as the transm:tter of the in
telligence; bat it seems incredible that
the agent should be allowed to figure be-
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
NANsENs PROJECT FEASIBLE.
Mr.. Grunsoatdt Talks Interestingly of the
EapforeT's Venture.

Mr.. GrunsoaIdt Talks Interestimgly of the
Eapforer's Venture.
The telegram from Irkutsk, via st.
Petersburg, telling that DIR. Nansen had
reached the north pole and found land
there, caused much interest in this City.
1t was discussed by many people, and
there were many who thought the story
might be true.
One of the best-posted men in America,
probably, regarding the Sea of Kara and
the icy route of the Fran from the ST.
berian coast, is Constantine M. Grun-
waldt, the agent of the Siberian Fur Com
pany. now here en- route to Russia.
He has four times visited different parts
OF Siberia, where his company has conces-
sions to hunt wolves, foxes and other
ANIMALS. He has also made the long
overland trip from st. Petersburg to
Vladivostock. Travelling by dog team,
snowshoes and in the other ways known
only TO the inhabitants of the frigid north
is no new thing to him. He says he
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
NO INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN.

Troops Not Ordered to Prevent the Ffs-
tic Encounters.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 13.-With
regard to the rumors that United States
troops were being held in readiness to pre-
vent the Fitzsimmons-Maher fight in the
event that an attempt would be made to
pull it off i'll the United States, it was
stated authoritatively to-day that the
War Department had nothing to do with
the matter and that no troops had been
given instructions concerning it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
REcEITED WITH INCREDU1TTY.
MeIritIe aud Greedy Say There Can, Be
No Truth in the Report

No Truth IL, the Report.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 13.-The
story coming from Russia to the effect that
.Nansen, the explorer, has discovered and
landed on the north pole and is now on
his way home is received here with abso-
Lutte incredulity by two persons who, of all
others in the United States, are best quail
ified to pass any opinion upon the proba-
bility of the statement, namely, Commo-
dore Melville OF the navy and General
Greedy of the army. Commodore Mel
vile said to THE CALL correspondent that
he was particularly confident the story was
without reasonable foundation.
"The Franz said he entered the Arc
tic to the north and east of Nova ZembIa.
with the intention of forcing her way to the
eastward to the vicinity of Bennett Island
which is south of where the Jeanette
was crushed in thei ice. AS the Jeanette
had made 1900 miles in a northerly direc-
ton, Nansen had an idea that if he could
get into the same current it would carry
him to the pole. This. to my mind is
impossible. There is an ice-cap at the
pole extending to the vicinity of the
eighty-tifth degree of north latitude
Soundings, currents and all of the OBJ
served phenomena of the Arctic region
assure US of this fact.
"If the Fran should have managed to
get as far east and north as Bennett Island
and so was seized by the current which
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
TESTING the Coins.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb 19. The
Assay Commission appointed by the Presi-
dent to examine and test the weight and
finepess of the gold and silver CONS re-
served by the minis of this city, San Fran
cisco ana New Orleans during the year
1895 met yesterday at the mint in this city
and began the work required of them un-
der the supervision of Director of the Mint
Preston.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-26
Hon. Il. q. EOrr Dead,

Plainfeld, N. j., Dec. 19.-Ex-
Congressman Roswell G.. Horr died
last night at II o'clock, after an i'll
ness of two weeks with bronchitis
and Bright S disease.
Roswell G.. Horr was born Nov. 26.
1890, in Waitsville, Vt. He received
his education in the public schools.
and when young moved to Elyria, O.
In 1858 he married Miss Carrie Hin
ney, of Elyria. He, in 1864, was adj
mittcd to the bar One year later
h moved to st. Louis and went in
to the mining business. In 1871 he
took up his home in Saginaw, Mich,
from which district he was elected
to congress on the Republican tick
ct, in 1873, and served withNdfstinc-
ton three successive terms. In 1890
he moved to Plainfield and became a
member Of the editorial staff of the
New York Tribune. His Joint de-
bate in Chicago with W. IL. Harvey
author of Coin S Financal School. ="
attracted much attention. When
the national Republican campaign
committee called for speakers last
fall he was one of the first to respond,
and made over 90 speeches in the
presidential campaign before he was
taken ill with bronchitis.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-26
ASSININS.

Jacob Forcia went to Bayfield,,
Wis, Monday.
Joseph Chose, OF Newtonville, was
in town Thursday.
The children of the convent were
made happy ChristmasCeve.
The midnight mass held here
Thursday night was largely at
tended.
John Moses, of Calumet, is spend
ing the holidays with friends here.
A number of Indians from Lac
Vedesert are here trying to get
portion of the Indian interest money
sent from the department each year.
A council was held this week. ~
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-26

SEND CONNECTS HOME.
Residents Of Prison Cities Don't
Like Their Style.

Rush Culver, of Marquette. is u
member of a commission appointed
by the mayor OF that city to act
with similar commissions from Ionia
and Jackson in the presentation of
"a bill to the next legislature. The
prison cities have suffered for years
from an abuse which they now wish
to have corrected Every county in
the state sends its bad men to those
prisons, and there is no way provid-
ed for sending them back again after
the expiration of their terms.
Hundreds OF convicts are dis
charged from prison every year and
with, no means of getting away, they
remain in the town where the prison
is located. Each one of those cities
Is now over-run with bad element,
and they have combined in framing
a bill to provide for the return of all
prisoners to the place from which
they are sent.
They will send strong lobby to
Lansing next month at the expense
of the city treasurer to work for the
bill. Lansing Journal.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-26

First pub Dec. II, 1896; last Jan :, 1880.
STATE OF MIC 7IGAN, IS

County OF Baraga,
Al "a session of the Probate Court for
said county, held ut the Probate Office
i'm the village of LAnse, on the tenth day OF
December. in the year one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-six.
Present, Alex q. Shields Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the Estate of James Collins,
deceased
On reading and fling the petition, duly veri-
fed, of Philip X. McKernan, praying that a
certain instrument now on file in this Court,
purporting to be the last will and testament
of said deceased, may be admitted to Probate.
and that administration of said estate may be
granted to Philip X. McKernan, the executor
named in said will. or to some other suitable
person.
Thereupon it Is ordered that Monday, the
fourth day of January next, At ten O'Clock in
the forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of
said petition, and that the several heirs at law
of said deceased, and all other persons inter
ested in said estate, are required to appear at
a session of said Court, then to be holden in
the Probate Office, In the village of l. Anse
and show cause, IL any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioner should not he granted;
And IL is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the different persons Interested in
said estate, of the pendeucy of said petition
and the hearing thereof, by causing copy OF
this order to he published in THE IANsE SEN
TISEL, n newspaper printed and circulated in
said county, three successive weeks previous
To said day Of hearing.
ALEX. G. SHIELDS,
lsEALr Judge of Probate.