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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-11

regular meeting Of the common coun.
ell OF the village of Laurium was held on
Tuesday evening, September Z. 1897,
with President Joseph c. Light, Trustees
II. Flieg', L. Labby, Jr., r, II. Richard,
and John Manner and Clerk j. r, Murphy
present.
The minutes OF thelast regular and spe-
cial meetings we're read and, on motion,
approved.
The monthly report OF the treasurer
was read and, on motion, it was accepted
and ordered placed on file.
The following accounts were submitted
10 the council and, after consideration.
they Were anDrOvpd and orderad na;d.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-11

Mr.. Charles W. Poer, the well known
travelling salesman for a Chicago shoe
house, is laid ur at the Taylor House by
a severe attack of rheumatism.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-11
MONUM ENTa.

j. n. BEV1ER-Dealer in granite and
marble monuments and headstones; material
and workmanship guaranteed. Office at the
Calumet Hotel
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-11
FIRE FUND ORDERS.
WATER FUND ORDERS.

The report OF the secretary of the water
board for the term commencing July
and ending December !, 1897. was read,
and ordered placed on file
On motion, \. W. Kerr, W. W. Ellis
aud Councilman NJ. Kemp were appointed
a committee to have ordinances put in
book form.
Councilmen Miller and kuivel were ap.
pointed by the president TO inspect Mr..
Blbber's cellar drainage on Seventh street.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
WILLIAM w. ELLIS, Clerk.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-11

Don't forget the towel sale on Monday
at nosking K Co.'S.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-11
FUNERAL DuRECTOut.

SlVFRT OLSON- Funeral director and
practical embalmer. Established in 1875. scott
street, Red Jacket Night Calls by telephone
or otherwise promptly attended to.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-11
LODGE MEETINGS.

A regular meeting of Red Jacket Tribe.
No. AZ. l. o. X. NJ, will be held Tuesday
evening. September14, when every mem.
Der is expected To be present.
W. II. HODGES, C. OF r.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-11

Carpets made and laid by Hosking 4
Co.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-11

New shoes for tall at Hosking & Cos.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11
CRACKER COMBINATION.
Consolidation of Three Great Com
panies Is Probable.

NEW YORK, Dec. lot is more
than possible that within the next few
days the bulk of the cracker or biscuit
business of the United States will be
controlled by a combination of the
three corporations that now control the
business, says the New York Times.
These three corporations are the New
York Biscuit Co., the American Bis
cult and Manufacturing Co, and the
United States Biscuit Co. The last
named company is Incorporated in
Pennsylvania and has its headquarters
in Pittsburg; the other two are incor-
porated in Illinois and have their head
quarters in Chicago. 1t is generally
supposed that the New York Biscuit
Co, will be the head, as it is said to
have been the chief promoter of the
combination. This company has for
years been quietly absorbing its rivals.
The other two big concerns have not
been idle, but have been working in
dustriously to maintain a position of
equality with the New York Biscuit
Co. Each has acquired control of
smaller concerns in its territory. The
three-fold process of absorption has
gene on until these three great COM
panies now stand without rivals ex-
cept among themselves. The combira-
ton now forming will put an end to
this rivalry and there will be but one
biscuit concern, which will control the
entire trade of the country It's COM
bined capital will be SOS, 100000 or $780,
600 COO
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11
EARRINGS RUN HIGH
NORTHERN PACIFIC DIRECTORS
RECEIVE a REPORT THAT IS
ENCOURAGING.
BUSINESS OF THE ROAD HEAVY
THE ANTICIPATED DIVIDEND DE-
CLARED, WITH MONEY TO PAY
1T, AND TO SPARE.
PRESIDENT MELLEN's STATEMENT.
Large Estimated Surplus for Six
Months Over Fixed Charges
of the Entire Year.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-The directors
of the Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany today declared a quarterly divi-
dend Of l per cent on the preferred
stock. This is the first dividend since
the reorganization The resolution pro-
viding for the payment of the divi-
dends set forth that the net earnings
of this company are now on a basis
which, after providing for fixed charges
and a reasonable cash surplus for con-
tingencies, justify the belief that the
company may with safety begin the
distribution of dividends on the pre-
ferred stock" The dividend is to be
paid Jan. Is. 1898, to the holders of rec
ord of preferred stock at the closing of
the transfer books on Dec. u, 1897.
The president called the attention OF
the board to the fact that the net
earnings of the company for the four
months ending Oct. / were $4,44O, 900.
He estimates the net for November at
$1.300,000 and for December at 5000, 900,
making net earnings for the first six
months of the fiscal year $40 900. The
fixed charges for the entire year were
about $6,GOO,OOO. The estimated sur
plus for the first six months over fixed
charges of entire year is $40 900. The
net earnings for the first six months
from January to June 1897, were ST.
$4,000, on which basis the surplus over
fixed charges for the entire year would
be at least S2,2S5, OOO The president
stated furthermore that the earnings
from January to June, 1898, were likely
to be largely in excess of those for the
same period of 1897.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11
Railway Notes.

The new sleeping cars that the Pullman
company has placed in service within the past
month on the Baltimore & Ohio road between
Baltimore and Louisville, KY, have large
smoking rooms and an extra size ladies' toilet
room, feature which will be thoroughly ap-
preciated by the fair sex who have had to
dress in some Of the Columbian cars hitherto
used between those cities.
The attempt to reorganiZe the Transconti-
mental Passenger association has failed A
meeting which was to have been held for that
purpose in st. Louis on Dec. IA has been
ordered off because the Canadian Pacific re-
fused to attend. and the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific roads would not join unless
the Canadian Pacific did.
Traffic Manager Hannaford, of the North
ern Pacific is home from St Louis, where,
with several other traffic officials he acted as
board of arbitration to settle the matter Of
Mexico rates.
Notice has been received by local connec-
lions that the Lake Michigan Car Ferry COM
pany, operating between South Chicago and
Peshtigo, on Lake Michigan, will cease bust
ness for this year Dec. Is.
The Eastern Minnesota is proceeding with
the work of constructing a machine shop and
other Improvements at West Superior.
President Hill and his party will be home
from the West the coming week.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11
SPECULATIVE MARKETS IN ALL
LINES STRONGER THAN A
WEEK AGO.
IMPROVEMENT IN DEMAND
NOTED IN a SEASON USUALLY THE
DULLEST OF THE
YEAR.
SATISFACTORY, SAYS BRADsrREET
Reports From the Northwest, the
South and the Pacific Coast
Good as Whole.

NEW YORK, Dec 10-Dun & Co.'S
weekly review of trade will say in its
issue of tomorrow: The opening of
congress, with the annual message and
reports, has not discouraged business
as some predicted, but all speculative
markets are stronger than week ago.
The productive industries, even in the
season about the dullest of the year
as to new orders, meet a definite i'm
provement in demand for products,
presumably the fruit of a prevailing
conviction that new business will be-
gin to crowd the works after the new
year starts. The outward movement of
wheat and other products continues so
heavy that foreign exchange has fallen
q of a cent, and instead of exports of
gold, which have marked December in
recent years, imports would come if
gold were wanted. Securities are ad-
vancing, by reason of the increased
earnings Of railways, SAT, 20S, 801 for No
Yember on reporting roads in the Unit
ed States, 1853 per cent larger than last
year and SO larger than in 1892 A
strict comparison for five years shows
that in each of the last three months
earnings have been greater than in any
previous year, with a larger increase in
November than in October or Septem-
Der
The sudden rise in December wheat
at Chicago to $1.09 would do harm
were it not based on avowed contracts
to ship some millions of bushels to
Europe. That fact and the continued
foreign demand in spite of such con-
tracts has helped a rise of ~ cents
here. Western receipts for the week
were 5.798,7H bushels, against 1851, 374
bushels last year, and Atlantic exports
including flour, 4,312, 1877 bushels, against
2,975,65 bushels last year, and so great
is the foreign shortage that the outgo
of corn last year, far greater than ever
before, is again exceeded, 1913, OS6 bush
els for the week, against 1855, 78O a year
ago, with the price nearly 1 cent high
er for the week. The report that West
ern supplies are running low is dis
credited by receipts from farms.
Cotton is a sixteenth stronger, in
spite of estimates ranging from 10, 100,-
600 to 100000 by we'll known author
tiles. A strike in English mills is no
longer threatened, and the possibility
of one at Fall River has little weight.
The demand for wooden goods has
clearly improved, and more wool has
just been purchased abroad and is be-
ing imported. There is more demand
for iron and steel products in prepara-
ton for railway work, bridges and
buildings next year and on contracts
for export, including one for a govern
ment bridge in Holland and others for
bridges in Japan, with large shipments
of various products to England and
other countries.
Failures in the first week of Deem
Der were but $7,617 ,24O manufacturing,
$73S,420 and trading $1,791,57O. Failures
for the week have been 312 in the Unit
ed States. against $50 last year, and
20 in Canada, against 43 last year.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11

female weakness and painful irregular
tiles so common to womankind. 1t is
founded upon the common sense fact
that a common cause lies behind the
multiplicity of symptoms exhibited in
very nearly all of these cases.
1t may sound like egotism to say that
but one man has been found who is
capable of successfully coping with
matter of such vital Importance to
womankind in particular and mankind
in general Yet there has been found
but one Edison, one Bell, one Fulton,
one Franklin. In the same sense DIR.
Pierce stands alone. His medical dis
coveries and his confidential, fatherly
advice are today the only harborS to
which weak, hopeless, unfortunate wo-
man can turn for help and get it nine
ty-seven times out of every hundred.
Those who turn to him experience at
once, instead of a skirmishing with
symptoms, banishing of suffering.
The "Favorite Prescription" not only
removes all painful female irregular
tiles, but acts directly on the delicate
organs that suffer in the strain and
stress connected with motherhood. 1t
supplies vital force and energy.
Every druggist of reputation sells DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Some
times other medicines are offered as
lust as good" When substitution is
attempted remember that substitution
Is imitation and that imitation RENE
dies work only imitation cures
1t should be mentioned that in seri-
ouSly complicated cases and those long
neglected or improperly treated the
cures may be fastened by following
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11
CHARTER DAY CELEBRATION.
Greater New York Planning an I'M
posing Demonstration.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1O-The merging
of the old city of New York
into the Greater New York will be
celebrated on New Years eve. Mayor
Strong sent out invitations to seventy
five prominent citizens to meet him at
Delmonico's last evening. After the
company had been seated in the red
room Mayor Strong advanced his pro-
ject. Il do not suggest a celebration
of the new New York" he said. Il
have in mind a celebration to mark the
closing of the very interesting history
of the old City of New York"
Archbishop Corrigan, Col Waring
and others spoke, giving their ideas on
the proposed celebration, and then a
committee consisting of Mayor Strong,
Chauncey M. DepeW, Controller Fitch,
Salem H Wales, William S. King,
Francis M. Scott and Judge Joseph F.
Daily was appointed. to carry out the
ideas expressed Leading citizens of
both cities have also received invita-
tons asking them to aid in preparing
for a big celebration Of charter day."
commencing on May 5 next. 1t is pro-
posed that this celebra ton shall last for
three days and be on a par with the
Washington centennial and Columbian
celebrations.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11
BRADsTREET's REVIEW.
Reports From the Northwest and
the Coast Are Good.

NEW YORK, Dec 1O.-Bradstreet's
tomorrow will say: Mild weather
throughout most OF the country has in
terfered to some extent with the dis
tihutlon of winter weight clothing and
other SeaSOnable goods anc trade from
first hands is quieter even than last
week. Jobbers and retailers, however,
report steadily increasing, and in
some regions very active, business in
holiday goods, groceries and kindred
products. Reports from the South con-
tinue, as a whole, very good, with
specially favorable accounts from New
Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville and the
central South. Collections are as
rule, generally very satisfactory in
spite of the low price of Gotten. Favor
able reports come from Chicago, Kan
sas City, st. Louis and St Paul, in
the central West and Northwest, while
the Pacific coast notes a heavy incr5 as
in trade, present and contingent based
upon enlarged Alaskan demand San
Francisco reports the wheat crop i'm
proved by recent, rains, with conserva-
tive estimates pointing to a yield of
$4,000 tons. General export trade on
the coast is very heavy.
The price situation is one of sustain
ed and even ag sreSsive strength. Wheat
is higher, partly on improved stats
teal position, but largely in sympathy
with the Chicago squeeze, which has
advanced prices Is cents per bushel in
that market within a week. All other
cereals have sympathized with wheat,
and coffee, copper. cotton, dairy pro-
ducts, leaf tobacco and raw sugar. are
also among the prominent staples
which have been enhanced in value.
The decreases have been few.
Cereal exports continue very large,
though showing a falling off from last
weeks heavy total. Total exports of
wheat and flour from the United States
and Canada, this week, aggregated
6,O05,63S bushels against $3.50, 900 last
week. 4,222,0 in the week year ago
245S.O0 in 1895, 2,53S,O0O in 1894. ard
3,21T.O 900 in 1893. Corn exports also show
a falling off, aggregating 3,065, 900 bush
els this week. against 4,5S5O00 last
week. S,541, 900 last year and 1881, 900
in 1895.
There are 292 business failures re-
ported throughout the United States
this week as compared with $50 last
week, 3S1 in the week year ago, 313
in 1895 and 3S3 in 1894. Bank clearings
for Canada this week aggregated $780,
543, 290, a decrease of Is per cent from
last week, but an increase of per
cent over one year ago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11
SPRING RUSH TO ALASKA.
Railroads May Find 1t Cause of
Trouble.

hi'IlFoauS May fiAu 1t Il cause or
Trouble.
The one matter which is agitating the pas
senger men of the Western roads more than
anything else just at present is how the big
flood toward the gold fields of Alaska is
to be best handled in the spring The pros
p5ctive rush to the Klondike is more i'm
portant to them than any other and as a
matter OF fact they are completely in the
dark as to the number Of goldseekers WHO
will seek transportation across the country.
The estimates are from 100, 0C0 down. and at
all events the revenue to be derived iroTl
the business will hardly be less than millions
of dollars.
The most perplexing part of the whole
thing is that the railroad men are at loss
to know what to do with their passengers
when they get them to the Pacific coast,
which, in itself, will not lie so difficult. in
the event If a demand for through trans
portation to Dawson City " some Ctber dis
taut point the railroad companies viii be Iut
to it. The steamship accommodations to
Alaska IN to date is an unknown quantity,
and the railroad men do h5t care TO take
any chances with it. fIom the other point
of. view the passengers will not lie content
with being carried across the country to be
then dumped in Tacoma or Seattle with little
prospect of being able to get any further.
The matter which ha: Zen quite thoroughly
discussed by the West PASSENGER aSso-
citation, and is now IN The hands OF it's exec
utive committee. Already there is threatened
rate trouble, and some Of the transconti-
mental, and even the othe" lines, have vowed
they would put IN through AlaS'6a tariffs,
quoting ratS TO points in sac gold country.
The claims of the Canadian PIT liz road Tor
diMerentiais. on the business have been en-
tirely ignored. This road has held out en-
an old score. and promises to make trouble,
although its rates will rot appear on the
tariff sheet. The NOrthsru Pacific and Great
Northern put in a strong objection to allow
ing the Canadian road a dfferential on
ALASKA business, and That is the present
situation.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11
CRUSHED BY Her CROWN!
A MAGNIFICENT BUT UNNECESSARY
SACRIFICE.
How Modesty, the Crown of Maiden
hood and Motherhood, Crushes
Its Wearer.

The great Book Of. Martyrs" has
never been written. eFox's famous
work deals only with the martyrdom
of the body. When the real book of
martyrs is writteno it ,ewiH deal with
the mental martyrdom of the woman
who suffered in silence because mod
esty would not let her put into speech
the questions that burned in her heart.
Modesty is the Crown of Maidenhood
and Motherhood. and yet there have
been literally millions of women crush
ed to death by that crown-that shin
ing symbol of woman's sovereignty in
the home.
up from undated time they come.
These martyr souls of hearth and home,
And to His cross and passion bring
Their fellowship of suffering"
1t is a sad though splendid sacrifice
Splendid because it is the qualities
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11
CALIFORNIA COAL TRUST.
Steps by the Attorney General to
End It's Existence.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1O.-The at
torney general today directed United
States Attorney Foote at San Fran
cisco to file a bill in equity against the
Coal Dealers association. of California
for violation of the antitrust law of
1890 It is stated that the association
is composed of retail dealers of San
Francisco. and has for its object the
control of the retail trade. The consti-
tuition and bylaws of the association
are said to disclose the fact that the
members are bound under severe pen
alties not to sell coal at less price
than is fixed by the association and
otherwise to observe all of it's rules.
Wholesale dealers in Washington,
Oregon and British Columbia are said
to have entered into an agreement
with the association under which any
violations of the rules. including the
sale of coal under card rates reported
to them, would be punished by an in
crease in the wholesale rate to such
offenders of two dollars a ton. or a re-
fusal to sell to them except at the
prices charged consumers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11

DAYToN's BLUFF.
sever Westoy ...,...........6 I9 East Third st
ST. ANTHONY HILL.
Emil Bull Grand av. and st. Adams
W. A. Frost & Co. .Selby and Western avs.
Straight Bros. ........ .Rondo and Grotto SITS.
A A Campbell. ........-.........23 5 Rondo st.
q, !; Guernsey u pdle ST.
MERRIAM PARK.
A l.. Woolsey. ...St. Anthony and Prior avs.
ARLINGTON HILLS.
T. r. Marelius. =. Cor. Bedford and Decatur
A. & G. A Schumacher. $3.50. .904 Payne aY.
LOWER TOWN.
William K. Collier. Seventh and Sibley
Joseph Argay :. Cor. Grove and Jackson SITS.
NJ. D. Merrill. Observation-Disclosures 2 Broadway
UPPER TOWN
S. H. Reeves. 80. Moore Block. Seven Corners
c. T. Heller. Peter and Tenth SITS.
B. J: Witte: .....29 East Seventh st.
w. E. Lowe. ~ Robert and Twelfth SITS.
R. T. Wincott & Co... Rice and Iglehart sts.
WEST SIDE.
The Eclipse. .....S. Robert and Fairfield av.
George Marti. go. .Wabasha and Fairfield av.
Concord Prescription Store. State and Concord
A. T. Hall South Wabasha and Isabel
WEST SEVENTH STREET.
A. & G.. A Schumacher. .499 West Seventh st.
J. J. Mullen. Cor. James and West Seventh ST.
UNION PARK.
c. A. Monchow. -. University and Prior avs.
NO AID. LESS THAN 20 CENTS.
Situations Wanted, Male and Fee
male Help, Business Chances, Horses
and Carriages, Lost or Found, Real
Estate, For Rent, Etc,
ONE CENT PER WORD
EACH INSERTION.
Personal, CIairvoyants, PaImists,
Massage, Medical, Etc.
TWO CENTS PER WORD
EACH INSERTION.
NO AID. LESS THAN 90 CENTS.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11

therefore it is resolved that we. a board.
together with the warden. officers and guards
extend to the bereaved family. our sincere
and heartfelt sympathy and condolcace; and.
be It further resolved. That the foregoing
preamble and resolution be spread upon the
prison records and a copy OF the same be
sent to the afflicted family as a testament OF
our sympathy and regard.
3. +. Nelson. OF Minneapolis. who was ap-
pointed to succeed Gen. Norrish. was present
yesterday for the first time and entered upon
his duties
The case OF the Brennan Lumber Company
VS. John G. Nelson was decided in favor Of
the defendant by a jury in the district court
The case now on trial Is that OF Ralph G.
Baker vs.. Charles Contain. The plaintiff
wants damages in the sum OF $500 for de-
famation of character.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11
Record-Breaking Run.

CHEYENNE Wyo.. Dec. 1O.-A record
breaking fast run was made by the Union
and North Platte. The train, which was run
as the second section Of east-bound No. 2.
made the run between Upton and Wam-
sutter station, on the Wyoming division. at
the rate Of rs miles an hour. From Cheyenne
to Sidney, a distance of 1O2 miles, the run
ming time was 81 minutes. From Sidney to
North Platte, ia miles, the time was III
minutes, being the fastest run in the history
Of the road.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-11
SALTWATER NEWS.
big Cash Receipts at the Prison for
November.

The miscellaneous cash receipts Of the state
prison for last month make respectable
showing, amounting to no less than $l2s,-
643 u TIE two largest items are for collec-
tions on account of binder Irvine and money
paid the state by the Union Shoe and Leather
company for convict labor. etc. Irvine col
lections amounted to 1923 29i.73 and S5,I63 -
was received from the shoe company. All
Irvine notes were due Nov. !: and the manner
in which the notes have been paid are de-
cidedly gratifying to Warden Wolfer. Not
more than $4,000 remain uncollected and L.
is expected that nearly all Of that VIII De
paid the first OF the year.
The board OF prison managers met yesIer-
day and did little important business. Eight
applcations for parole were received. ana OF
this number three were granted. Two pa
rolled inmates. who had served the required
length OF time, were discharged. The follow
ing resolutions were adopted in memOriam OF
Cen ]. F. Norrish; of Hastings; 'W H,1e al
II has pleased Almighty God In His wise
providence to remove By death from our midst
our beloved friend and colleague who has
heen an honored member Of this board for
the past nineteen years; and. whereas the
bereavement was one OF peculiar sadness,