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nad nuy steals $500.

CHICAGO, March % Frank Shamrock
and Michael Mink owski, both eleven
xears,old. vera chargod with larceny In
Jastice Seyerson's court Michael Mon
l,owski took SOD from bureau drawer at
his home. 106 West Chicago avenue, ana
Immediately sought his friend, Frank
shamrock Both boys were taken to the
West Chicago Avenue station and locked
M. one hundred and seventy dollars Oh
tfe money WAS found IN their possession:
.Inst.cs scvofson cont lucd The case until
saturday morn.ng.
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Fine nu,iness Block burned.

MAcnIAs, Me-, March .. The new voso
block, one of the finest in the city. was
destroyed by fire early Thursday and the
several business firms AMI persons renting
offices in the building, as well as lodge
rooms, lost all their effects. The total
damage Is estimated at sl25000; insur.
ance, 500, 600 The fire started in one the Of
lodge rooms. The loss to the Vose build
ing is 800 U0J; insurance, $4,000
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In Jail for Murder.

CINCINNATI, March "a "A special to The
Times-Star from Lexington says: John
L. Perkins is in jail ch irgcd with tho
murder of 5 ephen Howard, son of a blind
man The boy was leading his father
along the road when Perkins quarreled
with the boy. The blind man struck at
Perkins, but his his boy. Perkins then
seized the oil mans stuck, killed the boy
and threw the body into noighboring
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Ftfteeu Insurgents killed.

HAVANA. March 27.-The column OF
troops ommanded by Colonel Pavai has
been engaged with insurgcnt cavalry
numbering about 1000 mon, under tho
leadership of Lacret, on the plantation OF
San Joaquin The Spanish cavalry
charged the enemy and the latter re
treated toward the Gran Cienaga, south
Of Matanzas, leaving fifteen killed on the
field. Among the latter were three ofli'
GERS. The troops also captured a quantity
Of arms and ammunition and camp equip
nents
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The Statehood Bills.

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The statc-
hood bills for the admission of tho terri
tories OF Arizona and New Mevic) will bo
again passed upon by the house commit
Toe on territories at its next meeting.
Tho committee has decided without any
formal vote TO take the bills mp next
wcsk aud vote upon them second time
Tho New Mexico bill has been replrtei
fvorably To- the senate. but tho house
committee by very 81 sc vote taken sew
eral weeks ago decided not 90 report them
In the house.
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Suit Against Railway Company.

CHICAGO, March 2T.-The action of tho
Chicago and Northwestern railway, Feb.
2S. in causing wholesale arrests of its pat
rons for jumping off moving train at
Canal street has resulted in damage
suit against the company for S2J.oOO'
George Goodfclow began suit Thursday
In the superior court and he charges tho
company with false arrest. Goodioliow
was one of the mon placed under arrest
and taken before Justice S'vcrson, whore
he was charged with violation OF the city
ordinance prohibiting jumping on OF OH
moving trains but the justice discharged
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ADVICE FOR CONGRESS-
HeatwoIe Wants a Monetary
Commission Named.
RESOLUTION PRESENTED IN HOUSE.

Hale Euiogizes The Late General Casey In
the scnate-The Treasury Department
Raises the Premium on Gold Bars In Or
der to Prevent the Expectation of the
Yellow MotaI-Platt ON His Adjourn
Inent tResolution-Capital Cuiiings.
WASHINGTON, March 81. AT the open
Ing of the session OF the house Thursday
Heatwole of Minnesota introduced the
following resolution. which was referred.
"WHEREAs. In lieu of our present in.
adequate banking and currency system, 1t
Is desirable congress have the aid Of such
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-03-27
Woman Burned to Death.

HlLLsBORo, lila. March 21-Mrs. Ew-
ing Seaton. aged Is years, was burned to
death Wednesday evening in her home in
Fillmore, this county. While carrying
Goals from "a heating stove to cooking
s.ove her clothing caught fire. The flames
burned her clothing entirely of and
cooked her body terribly. She lived only
n short time after the accident.
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re,erraphcrs Aeitating n strike.

PHLADELP March 27-rhe West
ern Union telegraph operators in this city
are az tating a general strike which, It
IS SAID. il To extend over the whole coun-
try The company Is superseding It's un-
ION empl ,ycs with on-union people. The
former claim that it Is only move in the
direction of lower wages. hence they arc
in readiness to desert their instruments
at a moments notice The introduction
Of non.union teleyraphers, it Is said, Is
going ON in all the leading cities.
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Think Dyger, I. Dead.

W WAsnINeToN. March 27-fhcre was a
sudden awakening OF interes. Thursday
In tic case OF Walter Dygert, the Nc.
Henry county farmer who was arrested In
Cuba on suspicion of being an insurgent
spy. senator Cu.iom called on tho de-
llrumcnt for information and received n
telegram from Assistant Secretary Rock
hl!l saving the department. had wired
Cui sui General Williams az Havana for
full details vi Dygests death, but had ro-
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Cubans lneouraged by Uncle sun.

NEW YORK March % "A special to Tho
World from Havana says; Tho adoption
by the senate ana house at Washington O.
resolutions looking TO recognition OF the
rebels as boligercnts has inspired such
h ipe In the CuO1ns thlt thou sands
have Joined the insurgents In the field in
the last ten days.
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r.,,r xv.,a.pb.cb xyas Murdered.

DETROIT. March 27.-The police Wednes-
day discovered a bloody hatchet in the
rear Of weidenbach's place Of business,
not far from where his body was found
The detectives now believe that robbsrs
may have entered the premises aud been
attacked by the proprietor with the
hatchet, and that the burglars then may
have shot Weidenbach and made their as
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Stay for Mclaughlin.

New YORK March % Former Police
Inspector William Mclaughlin. whose
sentence of two years and six mouths in
Sing Sing on conviction of having ex-
torted $50 from Francis w. Segrist Jr..
recently affirmed by the appellate di-
vision OF the supreme court. WAS granted
a stay pending appeal by Judge Dickley
of the supreme court of Brooklyn
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Killed a Burglar.

MIDDLEsDoRo, Ky. March 27.-Five
burglars entered tho store of Goodfriend
Bros. Wednesday night David Good
friend. who sleeps in tho store. was
ar ouscd and opened fire. One was killed
the hers fed The police captured two
Thursday morning who gave names as
.Ir,.e. Stewart and John Heiskelf.
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OutbrenIs at KaIiiz.

CoNsTANTIyoPLE, March 27 The oat-
break at Kill is more serious than had
been supposed The town Is no sur
rounded by troops and no one is allowed
70 leave or enler the place The officials
Of Bills are preventing the American
missionaries from distributing aid The
British ambassador. Sir Philip Currie,
has hal an interview with Tewhk Pasha,
the minister for foreign affairs, on the
subject
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sensation at Conference.

WICHITA, Kan. March y AT the
southwest Kansas Methods, Episcopal
conference Thursday Bishop Andrews
created "A sensation by declaring thas a
minister should not NEEDLE with 'the
temperance question The Gercnt pro-
siding elders pre- sent each made a lengthy
report of his work for the last year
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-03-27
Italian Senate Adopts a Credit.

ROME March 27.-The senate, by vote
of 100 to :, has adopted the credit asked
for by the government for contemplated
operations in Africa consequent upon the
defeat of the Italian army at Adowa
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xvl.cou.ln oratsrical Coatcas Decided.

RIPox, Wis, March " "A decision was
reached welncsday night in the Wiscon.
sin or toric,l contest First hen'rs % GO
Miss u NJ. Evans pg Il ion. and SIC will
repfesant Wisconsin la tha inter- stage Ora
tolicAl contest A. D. Ball Of Lawrenes
is second.
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Couaty Treasurer short.

LINCOLN Ncb., March 27--State Ex-
amincr Fodrsa wednesday completed an
examination OF the county treasury, and
as . result OF his report TO the county
com missioner Treasurer Maxey Cobb
sand. charged with shortage of nearly
~
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81. PAUL March ,H--John Hover OF
Menomonoc. Wis, kin d himself by hring
n bullet into his icmp'a Wednesday at the
Union depot. The su tide was deliberate,
as i'm his pocket was 'ound a card; IN
case of acciacnt send d j l.. Hover, NC
nomOnco, Dunn county WIS.
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DULUTH, Mimi, March 27.-Word Is re-
ccived that bad cave-in occurred Mt tho
Vega mine at Eveleth, in which two men
wero buried alive and third one 50 scri-
on.lY iniurad that b. may not snfvivo
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SPRISGFIELp, Ills, March "a Gov
ernor Altgeld has issucd his proclama'
ton designating Friday April IL, as Ar.
bor day. to be observed throughout the
staie as "A day for planting trees, shrubs
and vines about the homes and along the
highways ami public grounds within the
~ a
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-03-27

As result of the sudden death Wednes-
day o. General Casey, engineer in charge
of the c)nstruct.ol OF the congressional
library Morrill, of Vermont Thursday
presented to ths senate joint resolu-
tion app Jint,ng Born lri II Gre9n, civil
engineer, 90 succasd in charge Of the Ii.
brnry construction at 5000 annually.
Morrill, explained that Mr. Green was the
Immediate assistant of General Casey in
building he Washington monument, the
war, STATE an navy buildings and tho
library. Hale took occasion To speak of
the high Iaiit!5s ot tho late General
Casey, Il d.signa ing him as one OF the best
of all officers in the public service.
The senate by unanimous vote, passed
tho measure introduced by Turpie appro-
printing s2j 0O0 for the preliminary sur
very FOR II ship canal from Lake Michigan
TO the Wabash river.
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Enect of the News of the Alliance.

ROME March PA profound impress
sion has been caused here by Baron
Blanc's confirmation of the fact that the
defensive Anslo-Italian alliance exists.
Its conclusion proves great ability on ex-
Premier Crispis part.
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ceived no reply. The suspicion is grow-
ing In the minds Of Dygsrt's friends that
he has been executed.
News OF nippoiyts'. Death Confirmed

NeWs Of Hfppoiyto|s behth t"uHrHoHs
WASHINGTON. March 27.-Ths ate de-
par IN mt has received a cablegram from
United States Minister Smythe ut Port
au Prince, Hayti, confirming the Paris
report of the death of President Hippo.
iytc OF Hayti The minister's cablegrain
gave no details. simply reading "Presi-
dent dead -
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Fr,eh,ful Mine Explosion.

WELLINGToN, New Zealand, March 81
A terrible explosion of Gre damp has
taken place in mine at Brunnerton.
Five persons were k He'd outright and
sixty more are entombed with no hope OF
being rescued
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JHe oEATH RECORD.

WihLoUGHBy j. EDBROoKR. supervising
architect under President Harrison, AZ
Chicago.
Rev. ROBERT BEATTY, pioneer Method
ist minister, ut Rockford, lila.
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suicide Of an Inventor.

PATERSON, n. j., March eI-Major
Edward Leslie, well known inventor,
committed suicide Thursday by taking
morphine HIS vile and family are In
Canada
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Tho Cuban EeanIufinna.

WASHINGTON, March 27-The con.
fe -rees on the Cuban resolutions have
agreed to accept the resolutions US passed
by the senate.
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METABELs IN REVOLT.

White Settlers, Including Comnissary
Bentley Are Massacred.
CAPE TowN. March 27.-The Matabeles
OF the Inzza and Filabusi districts have
revolted and massacred the white set
tiers, including Commissary Bentley.
The fugitive whites are locking to Bull
uvayo and Gwelo for projection. do
tachment of seventy five volunteers with
maxim gun have been dispatched
against the natives.
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JOEL p. nEArwoLE.

.,commen ialions MS non-partisan com.
pmmission Of experts might be able to
offer,
"Resolved, hat the president Is hereby
authorized 10 appoint nine citizens, emil
nent in trade, political economy and bank.
ing, TO act with the comptroller of the cur
cency as such commission and that such
committee report It's conclusions To con-
grcss."
Shortly bsforJ o'clock tho house went
nto committees of the whole and resumed
consideration of the naval appropriation
bill
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Married on First Acquaintance: :-.-s. -.

CHICAGO, March "a John Smith, an
engineer from Hot Springs, Ak, has
been a benedict for six weeks. He ar
yived here with bis bride "Wednesday, and
nut up at a State street hotel. They re-
tirel shortly after their arrival and when
tho groom woke up he found his wifi, had
gone. SO were the checks for his trunks,
his bicycle and 800 in cold cash. Smith
was not long in discovering that she had
taken his effects to the Illinois Central
station and was making arrangements to
depart for Reed City, Mich, whore her pa
rents live The woman was arrested
Smith had married on first acquaint-
unce
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THREE MEN LOCKED UP.

Chicago Police Believe They Have the
Robbers OF Miser schrage.
CHICAGO, March 27.-Pat Mcdonald, his
son Thomas, and Willie Schragc, nephew
Of Miser Christopher Schrage, who was
robb3d OF his immense fortune in his
miserable howell at III jefferson street,
are locked up at the central station and
the police believe they have about solved
the mystery. Hannah Martenson and her
brother Ole Martcnson, were closeted for
several hours in Captain Whceler's Office
ut the Maxwell street station All the
parties so far named in connection with
tn case are tenants of the Schrage house
and Mrs. Martenson came in contact with
the thieves as they were leaving the
house.
While the woman was not placed under
arrest, sho has told so many conf citing
stories that the detectives are inclined to
believe that she knows more of the plot
than has yet been told. At any rate, tho
woman will be kept under police surveii-
lance until the matter is thoroughly
cleared up.
Mcdonald Sr., and young Schrage arc
thought to have planned the robbery. and
took in three others to insure success.
None of thl throo have been questioned as
TO their connection with tho case, but
Schrnge has become surly and downcast
since his Incarceration in a cell at Central
station. He will be placed in the sweat
box
The herald., 1896-11-25
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

Then Trouble Began.- Mr. What
would you do if l should die and leave
you?" Mrs.-"Leave me how much?''-
Indianapolis Journal
'The king of the Cannibal islands had
a letter held for postage. and got mad
and roasted the postmaster. What time
was it?" Give it up" ATE p. NJ
Life.
Mrs. c., as her husband departs for
club meeting-"If you're any later
than midnight, ! shan't speak to you"
CT hope you won't dear.
Figaro.
Lawyer Investigating clients story
Nov, you must keep nothing from
me-" Client-"I haven't. l paid you
every cent l had in the world for your
retainer" It'd
MY dear, if you want to secure a
small waist, why do you eat so much?"
well, if I didn't eat l wouldn't have
the strength to lace myself into shape"
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
II can't make these matches strike,'
said Bloobumper, after two or three
are not a walking delegate" explained
Mrs. Bloobumper.-Harlem Life.
What you need is warmer climate,
Mr.. Grumpey," said the doctor in his
most persuasive tones. Il guess you'll,
get me there all right enough" was the
ungracious response. - Detroit Free
Press.
Misreported.-'I hear, sir. that you
called me fat-headed." Dear me, how
ones remarks do get misrepresented!
The herald., 1896-11-25
IMPORTANT TO LOS ANGELES.

The writer met an enthusiast yester-
day, who said: Il have nothing to tell
you to put in print. except that l know
that forces are now in motion which
within year or fifteen months Will en-
able you, If you to get an editorial pass.
to get into a palace car at the depot
here in Salt Lake and in about twenty
four hours be in the orange groves out
side of Los Angeles. and next day be
able. while the SHOWS are piling up on
the Wasatch range, to bask in the sun
and listen to the lullabys which come
up from the shore where the breakers
roll in against the beach at Santa Mon
ica.' He was pressed for particulars.
but he would not give then. He said:
You just mark this down in your men,
orandum book. for / know what | am
talking about" When asked what route
he would take, the reason being given
him that If he would only post few
friends privately they would be COB
bling mines if the road went in Il certain
direction. he grew mysterious, and said
Never you mind. There are mines on
all the routes marked out Go and get
a good one if you can We sincerely
trust that his words will prove prophet
ic, because the one thing which this city
needs more than all others is that same
road. The transformation which it
would bring would be most wonderful
Salt Lake Tribune
The herald., 1896-11-25

as the Times would say, and the only
shadow that association with it casts
over Mr.. Martin is cast by the well
known fact that it has no use for any
public official other than to approve
Jobs" for it. 1t is just possible that Mr.
Martin is so innocent of the ways of mo-
nopolies that he does not see the true
inwardness of the combines espousal of
his cause, but if so he is altogether too
verdant to be trusted with the affairs of
Los Angeles. 1t would be too much like
the lion and the lamb reclining together
on the peoples pocketbook-with the
pocketbook inside the lion. But all that
or none of it explains why the Ministe-
rial union is standing in with the Martin
saloon dive railway water company
combine
The herald., 1896-11-25
THE PSALM OF STRIFE.

Tell me not in mournful numbers
Life is but an empty dream.
He who so his mind encumbers
Is d crank, so il would seem.
Life is real. Life is earnest.
You must hustle as you go
Theres no room for passive people
Nor for others just as slow
It's enjoyment and not sorrow
That were striving for TODAY
But we find that each tomorrow
Does not always go our way.
Life is short and time is fleeing.
Let your heart be stout and brave.
II II money that you're after
Strike it rich, don't stop to save
In the worlds broad field of battle.
When you've entered for life's race,
Leave behind all common cattle.
Struggle hard to gain a place.
Trust no future. take the present;
Act at once. for it is said:
you may live ree-score-and- twenty
But you'll be a long time dead"
Lives Of great men all remind us
We can make our lives as great.
And departing leave behind us
Piles of gold and family plate.
Piles of gold. perhaps another.
Sailing Ger lifes solemn main,
May disbursc and then desire
That we'd come and die again.
Let us then. be up and doing
for our chances are but few.
You had better do" YOUR neiehhor.
If YOU don't he may do YOU.
Fl. Niva in the Philadelphia Manufacture
The herald., 1896-11-25

If 1 said anything of the sort at all. I
must have said that you were broad
minded. d."-Indianapolis Journal
Two War Scares.-"Well. ii looks like
war" remarked Dinwiddie. 'Ba aseball
or SPAIN" queried Van Braam.-Pitts-
burg Chronicle Telegraph.
Histley-"My wife is the greatest wo-
man you ever saw for following a doc
tors directions. She had a chill the
other night, and DR.. Mixum said she
must have change of climate" Nor
gle--'Yes?" Histley-"Well, sir. she
warmed up Immediately. Boston
Transcript.
He Wanted to Know.-Little Clarence
Pa Mr.. Calhpers-"There, my son.
stop right where you are. / do not
know who Gains wife was nor why Mon
day does not come on Friday, nor why
some people can wiggle their ears and
others cannot, nor anything of the kind"
Little Clarence-"O, pshaw. pa. | wasn't
going to ask any such foolish questions;
| just wanted to know why people al
ways write finis without the final h.
Puck.
The herald., 1896-11-25
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

The archbishop of Canterbury has two
palaces provided for him free of cost by
the British nation.
Mulhall. the noted statiatician, spent
over forty years in accommodating the
material for his one volume of statistics
Prof Koch, who is on his way to Cape
town. intends to study, not only the rim
derpcst, but also the different local
forms of leprosy. in which he has been
taking great interest for some years.
Gen. Baratieri the unucky soldier
who was in command of the Italian
troops at the battle ofAdowa, when about
1000 We're taken prisoners by the AbyS-
sinians, has broken one of his legs in the
Tyrol.
Col. Walter Raleigh Gilbert, c. B.,
chief constable of Cromwell. who died
in England the other day at the age
of SO, was a descendant of Sir Humphrey
Gilbert, half brother of Sir Walter
Raleigh.
a woman at the Brooklyn meeting of
the Brooklyn Health Culture club said:
This crusade for short skirts is only
a fad. 1t won't last for women haven't
enough courage to follow any style but
the prevailing one"
The sultan of Turkey not only has a
rigid censorship of the press. but he has
ordered that no newspapers be published
will not have to forego their morning
nap in order to supervise them.
Mr.. G. F.Watts. R.A., has decided that
his name shall henceforth appear in
the list of honorary retired Royal acad-
emicians. The academy treats its retir-
ed members in generous spirit. allowing
them to take part at all elections, in
Guiding that for president.
About e400000 was bequeathed to the
Church of England and the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel by the
late Alfred Marriott OF Grange uc:c..cc-....
Mrfield. Yorkshire. TIE testator di-
rects that the money shall be devoted
towards the erection of churches in the
poorest and most thickly populated dis
tricts in the metropolis or in foreign
parts. or in endowing and enlarging
hospitals or refugees for orphan children
or fallen women.
An unusual amount of ecclesiastical
patronage has fallen to Lord Salisbury
Within fifteen months he has, with
translations from one diocese or another
appointed the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and the bishops of Winchester,
Rochester. Chichester. Newcastle. Lon
con ard Peterborough-seven in all.
AS there are thirtyfour bishops. it fol-
lows that in a year and quarter Lord
Salisbury has appointed more than n
fifth of the whole bench. During his
present and preceding terms of office
combined he has appointed twenty-four
bishops-practically three fourths of the
whole number.