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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17

mate and partly to the thought that we
really were at last well within the enc
my's borders.
FOR as Abdul Aim said, when we
had ridden an hour or so, only one Eu-
ronean since the Nile campaign had
IAN nearer Khartoum than ourselves.
This adventurous spirit was Col. Run
d,o pasha. who in 1885 or 1886 rode so
tor toward Abu Hamed that from
sutton he was able to see that town
and the Nile.
Not alone were we affected by the
,ovelv morning. Its glamour was over
our escort of Abadeh generally the
most taciturn of folks. four OF whom
we're conducting an eager argument at
hot speed in the quaint, primitive IAN
puage with It's ABSURD, bewilderins
"c,-k" interjected, Il would seem quite
,nvoluntarily. at every third word. The
others of our escort were chanting al
ternate verses of lugubrious song, In
whose refrain the moan Of the sakeeah,
the buzz of a saw and the creaking oil
an INCREASED wagon wheel appeared TO
ha deftlv blended with the grousing oil
a refractory camel.
The camels themselves appeared to
he affected by the morning. or perhaps
q was by the song. All OF them de-
oeaned themselves quite skittisniy
and one was SO overcome by his sense
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
Horrible seciusion.

One of the alleged dynamiters who
have just been released from an Eng.
lish prison says he did not hear g
single item of news from the outside
world in all the years of his confine.
ment. He did not even know that
Parnell was dead. In our prisons,
which have the same rules OF silence
and absolute seclusion, the inmates
learn everything that is going on, both
within and without the prison, by a
system of signs that defies the watch
fulness of the guards. Either English
prisons are better governed than ours
or else the inmates Of English prisons
are less shrewd and sly than our con-
victs.--New York World.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17

unitathere, thus proving that the
bones are plentiful in the South
Dakota Lake basin, and are al
ways found in a strata higher than
those of the uintathere, thus proving
that its family tree does not extend
backward so far. The pictures show
what the animal looked like when alive.
He was about the same size as the uin-
tathere, but had more brains and should
have lived longer, but he failed to do
so.
Among the fossils and skeletons OF
animals that have been extinct for a
million years are found skeletons OF
turtles, alligators and garfish, exactly
like those to be found at the present
age. They have. survived, whether
they were fittest or not, and live to-day
as their ancestors did two million years
ago.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
, welded Into a Mass.

Tho south-bound express on the Erie
"a p,ttsburg railroad colllded with
light engine, north-bound, near Spring
horo pa The express was running at
Tho rate of a mile minute over that
s,ro,ch Of road. The engines were
welded into one mass, with distressing
.a.,,,,s "a the brave men at the throt-
,,as The south-bound engineer, MI
T 1p welsh, the oldest engineer on the
road was fatally crushed, having both
80 broken and fracture of the skull.
Mr william Roth, the engineer of the
aa 49, engine, was fatally
n'ana,ed The fireman Of the passen-
nnn engine Phil Olmstead, lost an arm
ga . leg All three men will die. Sew
s snd passengers were painfully pal Iiy.b in,
trred by the shake-up, but reached
their homes at various points.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
SUDDEN FAM E.
Catherine Beach's Head Was Turned by
Newspaper Notoriety.

Newspaper Notoriety.
There is at present in the alcoholic
ward at Bellevue Hospital, New York
city, woman who has had a meteoric
career and who has been famed as a
beauty in many cities. Catherine Beach
is an Illinois girl, her father being
Col. Thomas j. Lareson of Lincoln, and
as a girl Miss Lareson was noted for
her good looks. 1t was she who really
posed for the Montana silver statue for
which Ada Rehan was said to have
been the model. This success Is said
to have been the beginning of her
downfall. She sought wider fields to
charm by her beauty; she had tired Of
Chicago and could not return to her
fathers home because she thought the
town too small and stupid, so she went
to New York city. She thought she
would go into journalism and secured
a position on a paper that had pub
lished columns about her in connec-
ton with the silver statue affair She
soon tired of this work, however, and
went on the stage. At first she was
a great success; her face and figure won
her instant recognition, but soon she
discovered she was not an actress and
the theater-goers began to tire Of mere
good looks. She descended to minor
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
BOYS ESSAY ON SHARKS.
He shows Much Skill In Constructing
Fish Story.


An examiner Of lads under 16 for the
civil-service commission gave for a
question, Describe the habits Of fish,"
says the London Church Times. Here
Is a literal transcript of one out OF q
batch OF some hundreds OF answers:
"The shark is about twenty feet long.
and has five rows Of teeth when the
shark Is going to catch its pray 1t turns
on its side. The sharks are found In
India, where they are very numerous In
Africa, etc. The way to catch sharks
Is lowering a piece of meat on a sharp
hook land sailors will do II for amuse-
ment), and the shark is very hungry
always, that he will grab at the meat
and find himself caught.
Zone of his foes are the sord fish II
will go and run its sword through its
stummick
when the shark has been floating
about on the water for some time II
and they will go and lay on the beach
and let small birds come in their mouth
and pick them off and will not heart
them. The shark can live in water and
on land. Going from England to In
dad, you will see sharks in the nile,
they will follow ships for many miles
On purpose to get some meat, and then
perhaps not get any. They are differ
ent kinds of sharks, the Black shark,
etc.
THE shark Is very curious animal,
1t can lay its teeth down when not
catching any food.
"Once upon time there was a ship
going to america, and on board some
slaves the slaves were packed so close
together that they could not live, and
the captin of the ship you'st to let some
come upon deck, and many Of the
slaves you'st to jump oveboard, and be
eat with sharks, so the captin deter
mined to stop it II he could. So one day
black slave woman was just in the
acted to jump overheard when the cap
tin caught her, and had as many slaves
as he could upon deck. And then he
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
An Ingenious B,cyci. Lock.

A locking device is looked upon as
an essential feature to every wheel by
all bicycle riders. An invention, pa
tented by Max Geseler, and known as
the "Gessler lock-" is being placed on
the market by Walter e. Lindsay &
Co., OF Milwaukee. The lock Is
placed inside the front tubing of the
frame and does not mar it's appearance
in the least. 1t Is cylindrical in form,
one inch long, and secured by means
of a rubber washer expanded against
the side of the tubing The locking
and unlocking Is effected by means of
key which engages the bolt directly,
forcing 1t outwardly or inwardly, lock-
ing the front wheel at an angle and
thus bringing the bicycle out of opera
tive position. Some Of the points of
superiority claimed for this lock are:
First, it engages neither spokes nor
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
Mad. Money o, Wood BLOCKS.

The United States signal service Of
ficers at Iona, Mich, captured Frank
and George Kingston, counterfeiters-
They captured the press, and they be-
lieve have made the most important
arrest in years. Frank is rs years old
and George so, the former being the
artist who made the plate. They had
$1,000 in $40 bills, all ready to float.
and paper enough to make 100000
more. The plates from which the bills
were printed are made Of lockwood, and
the bills are all treasury notes Of the
series af 1890, containing a medallion
portrait of Alexander Hamilton. and
so clever that none but an expert can
detect them.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17

OF her influence over the once famou,
pugilist. II is said that In the Wind
sor Theater. Chicago, one night sulli-
van made a savage attack on Duncan
harrison who was then his manager.
ne nad picked up stool in the dress
ing room and was about to brain Har-
rison with 1t when she entered the
room and said. quietly: John, drop
that stool"
The big fellow hesitated moment.
then said; "All right, little one" and,
dropping the stool, walked over to
where she was sitting and kissed her.
Then he turned around to Harrison,
and, Offering his hand, said.
Duncan. forgive me. wouldn't
hurt you for the world" after which
the two were as good friends as ever.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17

away the dead body of the man with
whom she died. John Hartig, the dead
man, was but q years old, the son OF
farmer living at Connor Station. Mary
Bush, about 10 years old, and quite
pretty, is the daughter of a poor Sec
ton hand, who works on the Missouri
Pacific railroad at Pomeroy. The youth
and maiden had met and loved, but
when they proposed marriage the faith
er of the girl objected. Young Hartig
was without means. From develop
ments 1t is evident that the young low
ers had discussed their poverty, the
parental opposition to the marriage,
and what seemed to them their dark
prospects until death seemed prefera-
BILE to life. Their journey to Leaven-
worth, and the tragedy was the result.
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,me has brought many changes to

Time has brought many changes to
The American continent. A trifie of one
or two million years ago the region
that is now Dakota, Utah and other
states In the Rocky Mountains was
blessed with a tropical climate, the arid
plains OF the present were lagoons filled
with warm water and surrounded by
waving palms and other vegetable
growth to be found in torrid zones. The
region was inhabited by animals,
strange and weird-animals which have
long since become extinct and their
bones are now buried under three miles
of solid rock.
Prof. Henry f. Osborn, curator In the
American Museum of Natural History,
has written an interesting story OF
these prehistoric animals. which ap-
pears in the September Century. Chas.
knight has drawn pictures OF them
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17

Of the joyousness OF things that he be-
gan suddenly to buck. Now. q bucking
camel Is. OF all the pleasant sights In
nature. the most laughable. The great
beast seems at these moments OF ex-
pansion to put on his camel nature and
to imagine himself literally the hum
ming bird to which Mr.. Kipling's fancy
has compared him.
For instance, wnen the spirit moves
him to buck, the camel of sudden
hurls himself high into the air. spread
ing out all his splay limbs at right an
giles to his unwieldy carcass. And he
alights. after this grotesque effort, with
his feet all abroad, and rock-splitting,
spine-dissolving thud, only to make a
fresh and more extravagant departure.
1t Is a soul-stirring performance. He
brings a marvellous perseverance to the
exercise and will keep 1t up over half
mile Of country. But 1t is the hum
ming bird he is aping all the while,
the graceful colibri flashing jewel-like
into the air (here the camel projects
himself into space or posing feather
light on the oleander blossom (here he
cracks a mountain on alighting). And
he seems quite satisfied with the meas
ure of success he attains, though 1t Ii
at best a success de'estime.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
DIVERS DANGERS.
Ant to Take "A Nap Under the Sea and
Never Wake Up.

The greatest danger to those who
dive into the sea for valuables that
have been sunk is that of falling
asleep. On a hot day the contrast be-
tween the heat above and the delicious
GOODNESS below water is apt to make
diver sleepy. One of these men re-
Gently stated that he once slept half
an hour at the bottom Of a wreck,
where he was laying pipe. Supposing
that had happened in channel where
the tide runs so swiftly that diver
can work only during the one hour OF
slack water. the deadly rush OF tide
would have snapped the lifeline and
hose Then in working wrecks there
Is the danger of getting jammed in be-
tween freight. or Of getting the hose or
limo entangled. When the hose snaps
AZ great depth the tremendous pres
s,ro Hills the diver. He is frightfnlly
distorted by 1t.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17

Harry Crawford, an eighteen-year-
old boy. of Logansport, Ind may p 1e
o,u Tho result of a practical joke. he
was induced to join party 70 s' ear
w waa and when he was In the
s wa three confederates opened nre
, p blank cartridges. One boy fell, as
~ wounded, and Crawford ran nome, a
distance of two miles, falling IN CON
vulsIons. which physicians say may re.
su,t in death. Crawford's parents are
nro.trated and the perpetrators OF the
Joke will be arrested.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
CATHERINE REACH.

roles. vaudeville, and finally when liv-
ing pictures came in she found con-
slant work. Still she was respondent,
took to drinking, threatened suicide
and finally went crazy through excess
sive drinking. She fancied men were
trying to kill her with hatchets and
revolvers and her Authorizations grew
until she was removed to the hospital,
where she now lies, out of her mind
and in a critical condition. Much OF
her famous beauty has been lost.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17

having a jolly time with his fellow
companions in the Jail, and outwardly
was the coolest man about the Jail. He
was anxious to see the scaffold erect
ed. and offered to help put 1t up. The
evening before his execution he asked
to be allowed to see the scaffold, and
Sheriff Chalfant allowed him to exam
inc it. After doing so in careful man
ner. he said: "Well, boys, 1t looks as IL
II is capable of doing the work" Then
he asked the sheriff where the trigger
was, and the sheriff showed him. He
then remarked, well, have had many
troubles in my short life. but this will
end them all tomorrow" There was
no tremor about his voice. AS he
started for his cell again he added:
What other man could walk out this
way and look at his own scaffoldY"
Then to a little boy who was present,
he said: when / see an innocent lit
tie boy like that 1t always reminds me
OF when was boy. and OF how much
better II would have been for me IL
had died when was Of his age"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17

from descriptions furnished by Prot.
Osborn and other scientists.
The great four-horned uintathere
was found in the Bridger region of
Southern Wyoming and Utah. A pic
ture of its head is reproduced, show
ing the peculiar formation of the horns
and their arrangement. The body was
longer, but in other respects resembled
an elephant, and when grown 1t
weighed two tons. It's brain weighed
less than a pound. The uintathere had
less brain in proportion to its size than
any other warm-blooded animal. With
its tremendous body its brain was as
small as that of dog, and to this fact
Prof. Osborn attributes the animal'e
early extinction.
The titanothere was another giant
that flourished perhaps half million
years after The last than those of the
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
Sure Way of Locating a Puneture.

Sure way OF Lochttng u"e'"'"'
Il picked up new thing for riders
of the wheel in New York a few days
ago." suggested a popular wheelman.
"Those who have had trouble in finding
small punctures will appreciate 1t. You
know the customary way to locate
puncture Is to immerse the wheel In a
tub of water. Wherever the air bubbles
there will be found the puncture. In
some cases, however, the air pressure
is not SUFFICIENT to make the air bub-
bles. In cases OF this kind lather some
soap and smear II over the tire. A
soap bubble will form then over every
puncture, II matters not how small 1t
is. Once located, nearly every rider
knows What to do, or thinks he does,
which Is the same thing, for the great
majority send them to the shops TO be
repaired, Observation-Disclosures Star.
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Bey, says writer In the London News
The ostensible object of this excursion
was to see huge rock in the shape of
a crocodile that Abdul Aim had dis
covered not long since about a couple
OF hours out from Murat and a few
hundred yards away from the Abu-
Hamed caravan track. This rock, said
our guide, had never yet been seen by
Europeans.
Mounted on couple OF our friends
best bred running camels, and escorted
by some half-dozen well-armed tribes
men on small, active beasts as swift as
our own, we set out at that fast trot
which Is as pleasant on a well-bred
Hadjuy, as on rough, HARDEST brute 1t
Is excruciatingly painful. 1t was just
after dawn and the air was delicious,
for the sun does not begin to get really
fierce until after a. m, and as we
wound down the Khor and out among
the Kopjes of the desert, with a pleas
ant breeze tanning our faces, with the
camel's pad striking crisply on the firm,
gravelly sand, and the mems accouter-
ments jingllng rhythmically as they
logged along, we felt our blood tingle
and our spirits buoyant with the exhil-
aration due partly to the glorious cli-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
Horrible Mode OF Suicide.

An unknown man with remarkable
nerve ended his life at Jacks Run,
near Pittsburg, the other day, by plac-
ing his neck on the railway track and
calmly awaiting the approaching en-
CINE. 81 do this TO save Others" was
written on a slip of paper found in his
pocket, but nothing was found indieat.
ing who the suicide might be.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17

had roap fastened around her waist,
and lowered her overheard, when
shark came and bitt half off her of,
and then the captin had the other hall
pulled up and sown to the slaves on
deck, and then said to them that he
would do any one OF them the same u
he jumped overheard"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17

sprockets, doing away with the ruinous
effect produced by attempting to ride
before unlocking the machine. Sec
ond. hammers, files, pliers, nippers are
harmless. The lock is out of sight,
and cannot be gotten at. Third, 1t is
non-pickable. Fourth. weighs less than
two ounces, is easily operated, quickly
adjusted, is always in the machine
when needed; not in your pocket or at
home.-Indianapolis Sentinel
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.,.llsd in the proud position OF man
.sr n the palatial Guys Hotel. built
!, him by aristocratlc admirers from
n blue-blooded Back Bay.
IN the New York morgue, stin and
..rL IN death. with none to claim her,
ward of the city, a candidate for pot
srs FIELD lay the remains OF Anna
livingston, playmate of Sullivan In
IbIdhood. sweethearts when both were
their teens. and, in later years, his
Ompanion and reputed wife.
Tho only comment John l.. Sullivan
al 70 make when appraised by tele-
hone of the fact of Anna Livingston's
oath and this he made in his grufr-
# tone, was, "She was no wife OF
ine."
Anna Liylngeton-N aylor was born In
koston in 1861. Her father was a we'll
ado business man. When about ten
ears of age at school she first met
bohn Lawrence Sullivan. They grew
N together but when she had reached
h age of eighteen and blossomed into
tall. graceful woman, she met Fred
lick Bosworth Anderson, business
manager OF the Howard Athenaeum.
kher a brief courtship they were mar
lied and for years their welded life
has happy. The result OF the union
has one child, daughter, Eva, now
eyenteen years of age, who is living
hin her fathers parents in Providence,
b.
| Mrs. Anderson saw nothing OF Sulli-
kan again until the early part OF 1885.
Meanwhile she had entered upon a
kage career and become one OF the
'ayorite burlesque artists Of the day.
n was while playing an engagement
b her husbands theater that Sullivan
trOssed her path. He was at the height
n his fame, and the silly woman's van
by was fattered by the thought that in
their youth he had been her admirer.
FNhen Sullivan started on his famous
European tour the woman left her hus-
band and, taking her child, crossed
khe Atlantic with him.
When he returned TO the United
Bates she and her daughter came with
BIN. They accomps aied the champion
10 the South, and the woman was not
kar from the ringslde when he fought
bis battle with Kilrain in New Orleans
in 1889. She it was who cared for him
bitter many a wild debauch, and to her
more than to any other being John l..
Sullivan owed the years of success he
bad In this and other countries after
hs practical defeat in France.
But all such fluctuations have an
fnd, and, as usual, the man tired first.
Al through the year of 1890 the couple
pad frequent quarrels, and at last. one
night, in a drunken rage, Sullivan
Threw her down and beat her.
Even this did not kill the woman's
loye. She stuck to him firmly. At
fast one day they sat down and had a
quiet talk. He told her that he had
ceased to care for her. He gave her
1900 in money. and told her to keep
the jewelry he had given her, and
never under any circumstances, at
tempt to see him again. The woman
kept her bargain. From that day until
'he day of her death she never wrote
him.
Some weeks ago, when in straitened
circumstances, friend of hers. wired
sullivan and asked him to send Anna
livingston 800. To this telegram
'aere was no response. At that time
we woman was living In a furnished
la' at No. Al Third avenue, New York.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
os,onisbing physiological phe

An astonishing physiological phe-
nomenon is just announced from Paris.
II is that the size OF the waists OF all
women OF fashion has suddenly In
creased three or four inches. Cycling
and tight lacing do not go we'll to-
gether.
Luminous inks may now be used to
print signs TO be visible in the dark.
Zinc salts and calcium are the mediums
generally used.
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wicked Father KIN. HI. wronred Child

On Hangers branch. IL miles from
Anderson, w. Va, William Robbins, the
father of several grown children, shot
and killed his 1S-year-old daughter last
week from ambush. 1t developed that
she was enciente and her father muir
dered her to conceal his crime. He
was lodged in Jail and mob was or
ganized to lynch him, but before hey
reached the Jail he suicided by cutting
his throat.
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rnnri.t. NARROWLY E.cane

Mount Hood, Ore, was in eruption a
few days ago, and a party of noun
tain climbers narrowly escaped death
in flying rocks and ashes.
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IN. on,x nnnortnn,tx.

Mrs O kalot-What does make you
talk isaria p . In your sleep. Joseph?
10 than Ic~.N It's the only chancs
I syi person is n
until he getA
around the cent?
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HANGED UNTIL DEAD.
MORRIS SUFFERS FOR
HIS ATROCIOUS CRIME.
The Insanity Plea That Failed = JOLLY
Were the Convlct's Last Days spent
Hs Wanted to Assist In Erecting the
GalIowa

II o. SO sheddeth
mans blood, by
shall his blood
be shed"-Gen. tx,
6. In accordance
with the laws OF
Pennsylvania, bas-
ed upon the law OF
God as set forth in
the above quota
ton, Frank Nor
ris. convicted of
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17

Come men who boast about paying
az they go couldn't get trus'eu - 'A''
tried. delphia Record.