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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
c.. WeitZke of Detroit
Hangs Himself to
a Beam
After Sending His Family
Found Him Desd-WRs "A Lnborer
und Evidently Dernnged.

Charles WeItzke, a laborer, aged %,
sent his family, consisting OF a wife and
five children, TO look at the circus pa
rade this morning, and then took adyan-
tage Of their absence to end his life. Trey
live at 80 Waterloost in a story and
a half frame house, and Weitzke commit
ted suicide by hanging himself to cross
beam in the garnet.
After attaching a rope 10 the beam, he
climbed on the baty's low chair, tied the
other end OF the rope around his neck
and kicked the chair from under his feet
When the family returned they found him
dead.
On the floor was piece of wrapping
paper, upon which he bad iotted down in
the poorest kind OF German a few parting
words. The note plainly indicated that
the man was out OF his mind. He men,
toned neighbor, whom he accused OF
winding the rope around his neck, be-
cause he had betrayed him. "He" -
(meaniug the neighbor)--"is the black
dock who is to blame for my death"
Weitzke wrote.
Mrs. Rapp, who lives in a house adjoin-
ing that of Weitzke, says that che spoke
TO him this morning, but failed to notice
anything peculiar about him. Coroner
forth took charge OF the remains aud will
hold an inquest.
Temporary insanity was the verdict OF
the jury which wasempanelled to sit upon
the case; temporary insanity which car
ries so much death with it; temporary IN
sanity which is caused niue cases out OF
ten by early indiscretiODs latter excesses
cause you to become nervous, weak and
morose, you are bashful, have pimples
on the face. You've led an indiecreet life
or INDUCED in the follies OF youth. Ma
ture never excuses, no matter how
young, thoughtless or ignorant youth
may be-the punishment and suffering
correspond with the cause; you realize
this when you awaken to the enormity
OF Your acts; then you commence to
brood and worry over it. As you feel the
symptoms stealing over you, you cannot
sleep at night, then your appetite be.
comes poor, dark spots appear before the
eyes, you imagine everyone notices the
dark rings under the eyes; gradually the
various symptoms make their appear
ance until the entire nervous system be-
comes shattered and temporary Insanity
sets in
Viii you heed ,he word OF warning be-
fore it is too late? Come and see rs; we
will advise and reason with you free OF
charge. We will tell you how to take
care of yourself, and il you are cureable
we will treat you free until you are. Do
not be backward in calling on us, as
every word, every phrase told to us is
held sacredly confidential, Remember we
treat and cure all chronic, nervous, pri.
vate, delicate, blood, tkin, kidney, blad-
der, liver, stomach, rectum and female
diseases. Our hours daily are from 8 a..
m. till s p. m; Sundays, 8 a. m. till 4 p.
m. DR.. Goldberg & Co Pinton block
$50 Pine street, Calumet; branch of 291
Woodward avenue, Detroit.
On Mondays we are at the Douglass
House, Houghton, from a. m. to 8 D. m.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
Dog Taxes nm Township.

In order that the dogs upon which the
owners wish TO pay taxes should not be
impounded should they stray into the
limits of Red Jacket villsge, | am pre-
pared to furnish tags TO all those who
pay up. Tags can also be procured oil
Mr.. Harris, at the Tamarack Junior, and
Mr.. Charles Noetzel, at the Wolverine
mine Office. WILLIAM WALLS,
Treasurer OF Calumet Township.
Laurium, Mich.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
DAVID HELD THE BABY.
Thi, Because Young Woman Was de-
tanned on a Fast Train.

Thi, Because a Young Woman Was de-
tanned on a Fast Train.
There We're only four persons in the
party, including very small and silent
baby, but their advenI caused n revolution
of emotions in the car, which was COM
pletely filled with passengers. The under
sized father and portly mother Of the baby,
together with Cousin En-, boarded the
train at c., bound for New York, and,
as il was q Jersey coast express train on
the Pennsylvania railroad, the stop at
c. was of short duration. Immediate
" after the train started the announce
ment was made in three different vocal
keys that Cousin Elm was being carried
away from home against her volition.
"Here! Stop this train, David Stop 1t,
/ say and let Cousin EN- off - commanded
the babys mother, pushing her little hus-
band toward the door Of the car.
"Stop tho train, conductors Hold 'er
up Hold 'er upl" echoed the husband,
running frantically down the aisle. Eyes,
for goodness sakes, let mo off, >" chimod
in Cousin Elm shrilly. Il amt fit to go
nowhere I've got nothin but check
apron on"
The conductor, however, was somewhere
else and the brakeman's authority did not
extend beyond keeping the excited young
woman from jumping off the fast moving
train With wall of despair, therefore,
Cousin Elm retreated to the center of the
car and proceeded TO relate TO the passen-
gers how she had only come aboard "to
help Cousin Ellie on with the baby and the
things, because Cousin David is no earth
" use where women folks are. And here
am with nuthin but check apron on, :"
she sobbed in conclusion.
Meanwhile the baby's mother was max
ing vigorous use of an ample vocabulary
in setting clearly before her little husbands
mind few facts regarding his general
uselessness. "Now you just fork over the
money to pay Cousin En- fare to the next
sta ton and back, and then you'll hold
the baby till we git home, she said, with
an emphasis that brooked no dissent.
David handed out 40 cents and quietly took
| the baby.
When the conductor appeared, he was
inclined to treat the incident as good
| Joke on Cousin En-, but that young woman
Indignantly babe him observe that she
had 'nuthin but check apron on, and
to keep his jesting for some more suitable
occasion. To n few Of the sympathetic
| female passengers she con6dcd that she
had some "beiitting frocks" at home. and
| as she left the car at NJ station she
expressed the hope that she might meet
her new friends again with suthin better
than a check apron on.
Cousin David held the baby until the
train stopped mt Jersey City. His wife
| kept her eyes on him, and so did the rest
| of the passengers. New York Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

Many of the residents OF the village are
complaining of the annoyances caused
by cows being allowed to wander about
the streets at night ana as many OF them
have bells the sweet slumber OF the VII
layers is disturbed and they appear to
think an ordinance should be passed 40
that all COWS found meandering in the
village during the night should be i'm
nOnnded
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
The Clerks Defeated
By the Doctors on
Saturday.
but Five Innings Were played
The Prescription writers Had Twice
as Many Runs as the BOOK WOrms
-rerse Local LRcOnics.

The pale blue and yellow pennants
waved in triumph in front OF the Calumet
and Hecla hospital this morning. The
doctors dose had been too much for the
mine clerks and they haven't been seen
since. Yellow was the color OF the ply
siclans, but 1t did not signify the kind oil
base ball they played, and blue stood for
the clerks. The physicians own both
flags now.
The score was 26 to 13 at the end OF
the fifth inning and the game ended there
by mutual consent of the captains of the
two teams. The features OF the game
were too numerous TO mention. The
physicians won principally on account OF
their pitcher, DR.. Rupprecht, who proved
a conundrum for the clerks and who
made record in the box. DR.. Whistler
went in for few innings, but did not
iast.
The honors in the box on the other side
were evenly divided bet ween Assistant
Superintendent Warmer and Audit)
Hooper, but they proved no match for
DR.. Rupprecbts curves. DR.. Pomeroy
is the only heroic man in the two teams.
lie played in center field. The ball came
down On his foot with a dull, sickening
thud. 4 groan went up from somewhere
on the field, but the Doctor stay ed at his
post and played the game out. He il
barely able to move about today.
The procession before the game was
sight we'll worth seeing. The teams we're
sportily attlred and Edgar Whiting, who
umpired the game, carried a shot gun to
enforce his decisions, on which there were
no kicks. The Fifth Infantry band head
ed the line and furnished music during
the game.
Most OF the clerks made their escape TO
the wlds OF Keweenaw county yesterday
and haven't shown up vet. 1t is said
that they are planning some sort of re-
yenge.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

Tickets lronwood and return will be on sale for
the train leaving Houghon at 225 p. M, Monday, Aug
ust connecting with the through train at Marquette
Tickets being good for until the train leaving
Ironwood 9;55 p. M Sunday August 8.
The tickets to Bessemer will be sale for morn
ing train of Monday and Tuesday, Aug. I'd and 3d. ar
irving Bessemer $40 p. and will be valid for return
until the train leaving Bessemer Sis a. M. Monday
Aug g. The d. S. S. & A. and c. & N. w. stations at
Bessemer about If mile apart Train leaves
Bessemer Sis D. M, arrives Ironwood $50 p. n re-
turning leaves Ironwood 43O a. m, arrives Bessemer
AS a. m. Fare in each directions 81 cents
For further particulars apply to ticket agents of the
D., S. S. & a. at the stations enumerated above.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
Grand Lodge Meets.

The annual meeting OF the grand
lodge OF the order OF Hermann Sons will
convene this afternoon at Marquette
where it will hold a two day session.
Messrs. Peter p. Zehr and Peter Kramer
went down yesterday and will represent
one OF the local lodges at the convention,
while Messrs. Matt Sailer and Gus Prueese
will represent the other. There are two
lodges OF the order here and both are in
fourishing condition. Delegates from all
the lodges in the State will be in attend.
ance at the meeting. The local delegates
expect to be back by next Wednesday.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

The sale of seats for the veris,ope pict-
ures OF the Corbett- Fitzsimmons' fight
opened at Ryan's this morning and a
large number have been taken. 1t was
reported that the price had been raised
to 81 on account OF the rush for seats
This is not true. General admission is
so cents. Reserved seats 70 cents.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

The Rev. James NJ. Kerridge addressed
an audience OF 205 persons at the Opera
House yesterday afternoon. Mrs. E. Clare
Leavtt rendered a vocal solo and Miss
Glazier an Instrumental number. The
address and music were very much en-
loved
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

There will be an ice cream social given
by the Calumet NJ. f. Sunday school Fri.
day evening, July 6, when ice cream with
cake will be served. The social will take
place in the church parlors and all are
invited to attend.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

T. j. Van Truen, who came here with
the Calumet and Hecla machinery car
last week, went to Mount Clemens Satur-
day to spend few days before gong asst
with the car.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

The Ohrstrom Renard Mckenzie con-
cert company will give an entertainment
at he Opera House this evening. The
members of the company are SAID to be
exceptionally good artists and are sure
to put up good entertainment.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

Express Agent F. w. Preston and wife
left today for Albo Lake, Mimi, on few
weeks visit with relatives. B. j. Willie
sen il attending to the duties OF the Office
during Mr.. Preston's absence.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
Smoothing irons.

Irons may be made TO last for years, and
they may he treated in such fashion as to
wear out i'm few months The first great
secret in their preservation Is to keep them
from rusting To this end, when not in
use, they should be slowed away in clean,
dry place. If, in spite of this care, or,
more likely, because of some neglect, they
should still become rusty, rub them thor
oughly with lard and beeswax and then
with sandpaper.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

st. Joseph's society picnic at Section
16 last SATURDAY was a good TURF out.
All who ATTENDED the festivities report a
good time.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

Mrs. Henry TomlInson left today on 4
Wis with friends and relatives at Ash
land and Ironwood.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

Peter Pera left yesterday for Sandus.
ky where he will purchase a lot OF grapes
for h wine busin So.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

Peter Banditinni left yesterday 70
Butte on three months stay. He will
return here and open up wine business
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
LODGE MEETINGS.

There will be regular meeting OF the
Order OF Eastern Star on Tuesday even.
ing at 1880 o'clock.
Mrs. G. b DYMoCK, w. M.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
FUNERAL DuRECTOx.

SIVFRT OLAON-F Funeral director and
practical embalmer. Established In 1876. Scott
street Red Jacket Night Calls by telephone
or otherwise promptly attended to.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

All members OF Osceola Council, No. Z,
|. o. X. NJ, are requested to he present at
their wigwam Tuesday evening, August
3, to make arrangements to attend the
picnic to be held at Eagle River at an
early date. J. CHYNowETH,
Keeper of Records.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

WANTED-A girl to act as assistant
chambermaid and dining room girl al
the Calumet Hotel.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
MAR RAG s.

ROWE-COOMBE-On the 31st nit at
the residence OF the brides parents at
Osceola, by tho Rev. Mr.. PolQlase.
Miss Lucy Coombe to Samuel Rowe.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

NJ. j. Culnan came up from the iron
country yesterday.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

There will be special meeting OF Calu
met Lodge, No. 271, f. & A. NJ, on tn,
evening OF Thursday next, August 8, al
7:30 and full attendance is requested
Work in second degree.
JOHN MERTON, W. NJ.
l.. W. KLLMAR, Secretary
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
Notice.
Laurium, Mit

To the Members of Red Jacket Lodge,
No. 129, 4. q. wv
You are requested TO meet in the hall
on Thursday evening next, August 5, to
make arrangements TO celebrate the
twenty-ninth anniversary OF the order,
which will be held 10 the Tamarack park
on Thursday, August &c.
August 2, 1897.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

WAYTED-A good kitchen girl at Mrs.
f. Jackman's, No. 1881 Depot street.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
MONUMENTS.

-. n bEVIEH-Dealer in granite and
marble monuments and headstones; material
end workmanship guaranteed. Office at the
Calumet Hotel.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
HI RTHR.

HEUSA-On the 31st ult,, the wife OF Mr..
Charles heusa, OF Laurium, of a dauvh.
ter.
ThACkER-On the LIST inst, the wife OF
Mr., Frank Thacker, OF Hecla. OF son.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
Weather Forecast.

Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday
Colder in west portion,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
e Ladies' Quartette.

Temple Ladies' Quartette.
The Temple Ladies' Qoartette, Of Du-
Iutb, consisting OF Misses Farrell, Lon
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02
BY order oil

BY order OF
THE LODGE.
W. W. ELLIS, Recorder.
The record-union., 1897-09-27
GLASS OF OLIVE OIL.
Old Men-of-Warsmen Drink It to
Prevent Getting Drunk.

The glasses We're going round, says
the Louisville Courier j Journal" when
the man who had been in the navy
spoke: wait a minute. boys. We've
had several. Let me give you a tip
that I learned when I was on the
China station. You are pretty good
drinkers, you Kentucky boys, and you
can hold your own with anybody East,
West or North who tries to put you
under the table. But unless you carry
out my plan don't you ever stack your
selves up against an Englishman, and
especially an army or naval officer. You
could knock them out on whisky but
they don't drink it, except in the shape
of smoky Scotch and Irish abomina-
tions. But with champagne Bergundy,
claret, ale, sherry, Madeira, port,
pulque in Mexico, saki in China, palm
liquor in Africa, bamboos and shandy-
gaff in India, steer clear of them-that
is. unless you have the good luck to
meet certain little. yellowfaced wiz
ened creole from Louisiana, whose re-
ceipe is passed around the mess tables
of United States men-of-war to this
day. 1t started in the old days when
the British officers always had the
pleasure OF outstaylng their American
guests or hosts whenever two ships
met on a foreign station Then that
little yellow devil came along with his
trick and the Englishmen have never
since come out better than second in
any drinking bout. The secret? Olive
oil One wineglass before the fun be-
gins and if possible another later on
and you can keep your wit and legs
throughout the dampest evening. /
suppose one of two things happens.
either the oil coats the stomach and
keeps the alcohol from being absorb
ed by the system or else ii floats on top
and keeps the fumes from rising TO the
brain. But you'll have to ask the medi-
cine men about that. All / know is its
practical result. and that has enabled
us Yankee Doodles to go home cheerful
and clear headed many an evening
when cur foreign cousins were speech
lose -
The record-union., 1897-09-27
THE END OF A FAKE.

The Stockton Mali publishes pri-
vate letter from reliable man who
was deluded into going to the Trinity
mines" in which the writer pro-
nounces the whole boom a heartless
fake; that there are between 1s20O and
]. 400 men in the section, none Of whom
find anything worth mention. The
writer and his party worked two weeks
and took out just % cents worth of gold
and no more. He adds that the sensa-
tional newspaper correspondents had
to leave the region in quick order.
Thereupon the Mali asks some per-
tinent questions. One of these is
whether the heartless men who delud-
ed a thousand people and more. nearly
all hard working and poor men, have
any shame for their dirty work? We
are somewhat surprised that our con-
temporary should entertain the doubt
implied by its question. Shame? Ger
tainIy not, the yellow papers sell for
nickels and that being the prime OBJ
ject the conscience of the fakirs is qui-
eted. The nickel is a wonderful balm.
However, we are inclined to think
that, as the Mail" suggests, people
who are so regularly deceived by SEN
sational Journalism and learn no les
sons by being burned, are not, after
all entitled to much sympathy.
The reputable press of the State
warned the people against the swindle.
1t called a halt from the outset. and
drew attention to the fact that the sem
sational reports were not verified. that
they bore on their face evidence of de-
ceit, and that the industrious pencil
pushers sent TO boom up cold swindle
were simply following orders. There
is a good deal to justify the belief that
large class of people rather enjoy the
process Of being humbugged. Our
The record-union., 1897-09-27
A New Deal.

Yes" sighed the old man, sadly.
I'm rich and plenty of people envy me,
but [ would give at least half of my
worldly possessions to get rid of one
haunting memory. l ran away from
home and shipped as a cabin boy when
was 10. 1 was on my way home
from the grocery with a can of mo-
lassas when this glorious vista of a life
on the ocean wave was opened to my
enraptured imagination. 1 hid the mo-
lasses and two hours later was started
on my voyage.
Years passed by as they have way
of doing, and | was given up for dead.
But during most of these years / was
in India, where the chances favored a
shreWd man in acquiring wealth, and
l amassed an immense fortune. Then
came the inevitable longing to revisit
the scenes of my childhood. I wanted
to be in the old village and the old
home; to make every one happy who
had been associated with my early
life.
"On landing I found the molasseS
just where 1 had hidden it, went to
the house just as I should have done
forty years before and simply said to
the aged couple who looked at me as
at a stranger: Here it is While they
started, 1 hoped in vain for recognition
and wondered if I were changed as
greatly as they. When l told them
who I was their greeting was warm
one, and they called me SON in way
to delight the wanderers heart. I
suppose they had legal right to do
so, but in time came the surprise"
What was that?"
We'll, shortly after I left mother
died, and father married again. Later
he paid the final debt of nature, and
my new mother married again. Never
before had 1 seen either of the aged
couple, yet they were what was left
of the old family in the old home, and
1 was SON I did all that money could
do for them, but it was very disap-
pointing. .''-Detroit Free Press.
The record-union., 1897-09-27
A Fast Colt.

Several men gathered about a horse
near the Western Market Yesterday
morning, says the Detroit Free Press, y
commenting upon the prominence of
the beasts ribs and general leanness
and lankiness. The animal belonged
to a farmer living near Ypsilanti. and
1t was said, never permitted grass to
grow under its feet on the road The
farmer was not pleased with the re-
marks and the strong inferences that
the poor thing had never realized the
sensation of corn and oats
What do you call your horse?" was
asked.
Cyclone. Doesn't he look it?" re-
piled the man from the rural districts
Cyclone! What a name! He GER
tainly looks as if one had struck him -
That's what happened to him, my
friend. 1t was just like this. You re-
member the awful breeze we had out
to Ypsilanti about three years ago?
This feller was a sucking colt at that
time and was in the barn with two
horses. The cyclone-regular old hum
mer-came along and thrashed the
barn off its legs and dropped it night
on TO one hundred yards away. After
the twister had raised all the hob,
fences and sheds it could we went out
to look things up. The two horses were
stone dead, and the colt-would you
believe it?-was nowhere to be found.
Next day | turned over the hen
coop, which lay in the field half a mile
The record-union., 1897-09-27
stockton contemporary says, in clos

Stockton contemporary says, in clos
ing its caustic comments:
When this swindle was sprung on
gullible public the Mail" day after day
denounced it, warned it's readers that
it was a swindle and called on the
newspapers of the interior to expose
the fake and protect simple men from
ruin. We do not know how many men
We're saved by this newspaper from
great loss. But if any of its readers
did prefer the gorgeous falsehoods of
the San Francisco newspaper takers
TO the Mails" plain, unvarnished state
ments. such an one now unquestion-
ably has a lively sense of the differ
ence between a newspaper which is
printed TO give news and newspapers
which are printed to sell both copies
and the people who buy them.
1t will be long time before the dam
age done to legitimate mining by this
miserable, indefensible and scoundrel-
ly piece of work by the San
Francisco press can be repaired. No
wonder a correspondent life is not
safe in Trinity County. 1t is a pity
the whole gang We're not run out before
they ruined hundreds of industrious
men.