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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
All Nations To BE Invited.

New York, March 17.-Mayor Strong,
as chairman of the Grant Monument as
sociation committee, has sent a letter
to President Mckinley asking that rep
resentatives OF all foreign governments
be invited to take part in the naval GER
emonies on the occasion of the placing
of the sarcophagus containing the body
of General Grant In the tomb at Riv-
are,da mark on April "a.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
Three Negroes Lynched.

Tallahassee, Fla, March T.-Three
negroes, Jim Gilmore, Jim Miley ana
Otis Miller, were taken from the sherin
Tuesday by fifty armed men, strung up
to trees and their bodies riddled with
bullets. The crime for which they were
lynched was the murder of John Bare
field. postmaster at Blue Springs, ana
his assistant, John r. Turner, on March
2. The murder was committed for the
,nurpose of robbery.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
s,oailpox victim at Chicago.

Chicago, March 17.--Charles Grifen,
the smallpox patient who was taken to
the isolation hospital a week ago from
SO Thirteenth street, died Tuesday. Mrs.
Griffen, wife of the victim, quarantined
I'm a room in a hospital. as yet has
shnwn no SYMPTOMS of the disease.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
WIN Resume Operations.

New York, March 17.-opefations are
N be resumed in the American Sugar
refinery, Brooklyn, which has been shut
down about one year. Over 200 men
have been pat on the night shift and
200 on the day shift. The Havemeyer
refineries increased their force OF work.
men by employing 200 men.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
seven Tn. .usand Homeless.

London, March 1.-THE Daily Mall
has a dispatch from Bombay, saying
that $500 houses In Mandalay have
been destroyed by fire. Seven thousand
persons have been rendered homeless
by the confiagration. The loss Is placed
at G10O, 0O0
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
Fort for solicitor General.

Washington, March 17.-It Is said to
be definitely settled that ]. Frank Fort
of Newark, N. j., will be appointed So
licitor general Mr. Fort nominated
Garrett A. Hobart for vice president at
the St Louis convention.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
HAY GOES TO ST. JAMES
President Names Ambassador
Bayard's Successor.
NICE PLUM FOR HORACE PORTER.

ordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
United States to France-Henry White
Named for Secretary of the United States
Embassy at the Court of st. James
Sketches of the Men.
Washington, March 1.-THE president
Tuesday sent to the senate the follow
ing nominations: To be ambassador ex-
traordinary and plenipotentiary of the
United States to Great Britain. John
Hay Of the District of Columbia; Hor-
ace Porter of New York to be ambassa-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
COLONEL JOHN HAY.

dor extraordinary and plenipotenti-
airy of the United States to France;
Henry White of Rhode Island, to be
secretary of the embassy of the United
States TO Great Britain.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
Hay Was Born i'm Indiana.


Hay Was Born in Indiana.
John Hay was born in Indiana 90
years ago. He graduated at Brown uni
versity in 1858, and began the practice
Of law in Illinois In 1861. President Lin
coin appointed him assistant secretary
and kept him in that capacity through
out his administration. He also acted
as Lincoln's adjutant and aide-de-camp
and he was brevetted lieutenant colonel
and colonel. Entering the diplomatic
service in the sixties, he was at various
times charge at Vienna, first secretary
at Paris, and secretary of legation at
Madrid. In 1876 Mr.. Hay connected
himself with the press and for nearly
six years devoted himself to editorial
work on a leading New York newspa-
per. In 1875 he entered politics, taking
an active part i'm the presidential cam
paign of 1876. 1880, and 1884, being then
a resident of Cleveland, o. President
Hayes appointed him first assistant sec
retary of state, which post he filled Tor
nearly three years. Since his retirement
from office Colonel Hay has resided
chiefly in this city.
Porter of Revolutionary stock.
General Horace Porter came of revo-
lutionary stock. He was born just go
years ago in Huntington, Penn. Soon
after his graduation from the military
academy at West Point he was assigned
TO duty i'm the south, then in secession
He was an ordnance expert so most or
his service was in the artillery branch
on the staffs of Mcclellan. Rosecrans
and Grant where he earned a reputa-
ton as a gallant and fearless nghter'
as shown by his brevets He served IN
the Chickamauga and Wilderness cam
paigns and the first assault on Charies-
ton, where he was wounded. General
Grant was greatly attached to Generai
| Porter, and made him assistant secre-
| tary of war while he himself nued tne
secretaryship. He surrendered his army
commission in 1873 and plunged at once
! into active business, being first presi-
( dent of the West Shore railroad, wee
nresident of the Pullman Palace Car
comnany and associating himself win
( other great corporations in directiVt
| capacity.
Has Held the Office Before.
| The appointment of Mr.. Henry White
| m he secretary of the American en-
| bassy in Great Britain is practically Q
reappointment, as Mr.. White had held
this office for eight years previous &c
the beginning of Mr.. Cleveland's ias'
administration. He has been in Lon
don most of the time since his displace'
ment and the fact was brought ou1 att
er his nomination was sent to the sen
ate that he had rendered Mr.. Olney Inn
portant service i'm the recent Venezu
elan negotiations. The present seere
tarv. Mr. Roosevelt, resigned some m'
ago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-21

by the Druitt Halpn thermal storage sys-
TEN. by which steam passes into a cylin-
der and is mixed with a small quantity of
cold water from the feed-pumps. This
steam is supplied to boilers In connection
with the dynamos, and by this arrange
mcnt the boilers evaporate one-third more
steam than would be the case IL they
were connected with the water MAINS
There remains to consider the waists
product Of the refuse. which Is reduced
to about 80 per cent of its original bulk
At present Il Is given away; but there ia
little doubt that a market will arise for
It, 1t can be ground down to make good
sand for mortar of excellent quality for
bricks, FOR artificial paving stone con-
crete and also for drainage and road
making before macadam is laid down.
The Shoreditch vestry are at present con-
sidering the advisability of grinding the
ash and using or selling It themselves as
subsidiary industry There Is absolute
~ no coal used in the Instructor cells.
nothing but refuse. Lord Kelvin, for my
benefit, calculated that from five to ten
tons of dust IS equal to one ton of good
steam coal; some dust IS fun of cinders,
especially IN winter. and Is better for
cremation purposes than summer dust.
| The Vestry clerk calculates that in view
OF the large sum formerly paid for the
barging of the dust the saving of fuel
for the baths and washhouses, and the
receipts by the sale of electricity, there
viii be an annual economy Of Fl 800. This
is probably much below the mark For
the purposes of your journal, the vestry
clerk communicates the fact that all the
electricity the machinery can now yield
| Is taken up. and no fresh customers can
be supplied until more machinery is adj
ded. Additional engines and gear are
now being built.
The electric lighting station supplies the
arc lamps with which Shoreditch streets
are now lighted. At midnight these are
switched Off, and by automatic action in
candescent lamps OF less power are lighted
until dawn In case OF accidental exttnc-
ton OF one set of lamps. the other set will
light automatically The station also
lights the town hall, lights and heats the
baths and technical school. ventilates the
sewers. supplies electric motor-power to
cabinetmakers at specially low rates dur
ing the day time. has entered into a con-
tract with the Electric Cab Company, and
supplies every private consumer, dealing
tendery with him In the matter of fit
tings. II Is good to know that wor1men'a
dwelling are being fitted with the Bastian
penny-in-the-slot meter; for a penny the
poorest home can have an eight-oandle-
power light for six hours. And, delightful
thought, all this light Is churned out OF
dirt
II Is. perhaps. fair TO state that at South
amptOn there is a small 30-horse-power
engine worked by steam generated from
the burning OF refuse; but naturally, this
Is on an insignificant scale. Shoreditch
can undoubtedly claim the honor OF being
the pioneer municipality in combined elec-
tricity and dust destruction.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-21
THE FLORIDA MIDLAND.
The Plant People VIII Make Radical
Changes In the Line,

Sanford, Fla, Aug. 2O.-When the Florl-
da Midland railroad was sold, some
months ago, and bid in by M. E. Bishop
of Orlando, late assistant treasurer of the
South Florida railroad, it was confidently
believed that he was acting for the Plant
system. Subsequent events strengthened
this belief and finally it became fixed
fact in the minds Of many persons. Bishop
is now travelling as the representative of
Armour's Chicago establishment and the
Plant system has been running the Florida
Midland.
The road extends from Kissrnmee to
LOngwood, both points on the South Flor-
da division of the Plant system. Al first
il was rumored that the rails would be
taken up and the road abandoned Then
the report came out that 1t woubd be run
into Sanford by a third rail on the old
"Orange Belt railroad, now the Sanford
and St. Petersburg railway, narrow guage
down to Trilby.
But the only move made was to abandon
the upper end OF the road, from Apopka to
Longwood and attach. at Kissimnsee the
Sugar Belt branch road to Norcroosie.
running trains from the latter place direct
to Apopka.
This plan is now to give way 10 a new
and bigger scheme, and one that surprises
railroad men hereabOuts. Instead Of max
ing the Sanford and st. Petersburg rail-
road wire gauge TO Trilby. as was expect
ed the Florida Midland is 20 be made mar
row gauge and connected at Clarcona with
the Sanford and St. Petersburg railway to
Sanford. The old railroad taken up be-
tween Trilby and st. Petersburg are TO be
used In making the change. As the old
"Orange Belt crosses the Florida Central
and Pennsu.ar railroad al Toronto and the
Florida Midland crosses IL at Apopka, this
change will give a short CUTOFF line from
Sanford to Apopka and that vicinity This
change will give the drummers a great
advantage in covering this section of the
state and In one sense adds a new line 20
Sanford's half dozen now in operation.
Longwood, by the change, evidently gets
a black eye" as that part Of the Florida
Midland viii probably be entirely aban-
doned. Years ago Longwood was a boom
city with much activity and great autici-
pations. 1t had three railroads and ex-
pccted more. but, alas! It's expectations
were not realized IL lost two roads. its
hotel has been closed several years, ana
"a half-dozen fine business blocks, etc.
have fallen into decay for want OF occu-
pancy and atten lion. And yet there are
some plucky residents who hold on. hop
ing against hope. and predict
ing better tines ahead. but this last move
of the Plant system gives Clarcona the
inside OF the track and leaves Longwood
out la the cold.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-21
So Wears Of Cures.
AMERICAS JAPANESE TRADE.
THE UNITED STATES A CoMPETI-
TOR OF EUROPE.

A Trnde That Has Been Gradually
Growing and Promises to Become
More Extensive - Steel Rails, I'm
glnes and Cotton Goods the Chief
Articles Sold In That Country - A
Heavy Import Trade From, Japan
to the States.
Washington, Aug. pa statement, pre-
pared by the treasury department, shows
that for the first time in the history of
trade relations with Japan, the United
States is entitled to be considered as a Sc
rious competitor with Europe.
A recent British report from the legation
at Toxic reviews the foreign trade of ia
pan during the past year In the supply
of rails, nails, pig iron and machinery.
the United States assumed a leading place.
The British report also pointed out that
American railway engine builders were
likely to receive a great number of orders
during the present year. An unusual de-
mand for metals, textiles and raw mate
rails is noted, going to show the growth of
manufactures in Japan. Our own official
statistics sustains the report of the Brit
ish the treasury department statistics
showing that there has been a great in
crease in our exports, to Japan. which have
risen from 49, 2SS,2S2 m 1892 a year of large
general exports, to s1S 2SS,97O for the fiscal
year just closed. The increase over the
fiscal year 1896 amounts to about s.. 500, 900.
This increase was mainly in cotton and
manufactures of cotton, manufactures Of
iron and steel, including machinery. miner
al oil refined, manufactured tobacco and
wheat flour.
The increase in our manufactures of
iron and steel and raw cotton is especially
noticeable. Notwithstanding the heavy
increase in exports, the United States
buys more from Japan than we sell 10
that country. During the year just end
ed the value OF Japanese goods brought
into the United States, was $24, zoos, 756.
Compared with last year this is a de-
crease of about $l,5OO,OOO. However the
value Of japanese imports has been sub
ject 10 comparative little huctuation for
a number of years, ranging from 1885,
81 in 1886 to 1921. l54, 22O in 1893.
OF the ll3.&3, 17j pounds OF tea import
ed by the United States during the fiscal
year 1897, Japan supplied As, 400 16l pounds
and China 5b,iS392i pounds. The import
of chief value, raw silk, was last year
valued at Sl0,i00,S35 The raw silk is free
OF duty. Manufactured silk. which is du-
TABLE was valued at 81 75s, 962. The To-
tai value of free goods imported during
the year. was SIS l08, 500 and Of dutiable
goods s52O1. 147.
In connection with importation OF Japa-
nese teas, Il is noted that prices have In
fifteen years decreased fully one-half.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-21
DANGER ON \ MOUNTAIN ROAD.
Narrow Escape for Party of Tour
lists ON the Side of Fixes Peak.


colorado Correspondence of the New
York Evening Post
At Cascade one may stand at the denot
and look down the track to see first the
top of the locomotive as the train ap-
proaches, next the top of the cars. and
later the whole train. 1t is always a.
new wonder how the train climbs the ex-
ceedingly steep grade But there are those
to whom such a condition CONVEYS no
terrors They rush in where angels would
FEAR to tread, and know no fear Such a
party occupied a drawing room car at
Cascade the other day 1t was a special
and the westbOund train set il off above
the depot. The brakes were set tight
blocks of wood were placed under the
wheels, and every precaution was taken
TO make its position secure. But il did
not suit the party A walk OF 100 yards
was necessary to reach the car from the
point where the path from the big hotel
reached the track
What's the use OF doing all this walk
ing|' asked the smart man of the party.
Let's run the car down piece of the
path SO two or three men and some
of the ladies' got on the front platform.
some more on the back and merry com
pany was inside. The brakes were loos-
ened and the blocks removed Slowly the
heavy sleeper moved down hill, the
brakes grinding and squeaking and the
momentum steadily increasing
stop her, stop herr" called the smart
man, and everybody pulled on the brake
wheels. Al first Il did not even slow up
and the men began to pun out their
cheeks, brace their feet and pull harder
at the wheels
Pull boys, pullw somebody called
while the women shrielSed and turned pale
1t looked as though the car, which repre-
scented a larger fortune than the whole
crowd could muster. to say nothing OF its
human freight, might end its trip at the
bottom of the gorge near the curve, where
the locomotives smokestack came climb
ing into view each day
But at last muscle counted, and nothing
broke. The speed slackened and far below
the path the ear was stopped. The brakes
were set. Huge books were placed under
the wheels, and the men took a few min
utes 20 contemplate the magnitude OF
their undertaking. They real zed it more
fully a little later when the station agent
came out and saw what had been done
He stared at them in wonder IF you
don't beat anythngw he blurted out at
last. There amt a railroad man on the
line at would 'er run that Pullman down
there on that grade-an' you greenies hev
done g. us a wonder ye didn't get yer
necks busted and be strung up fer muir
der Now, don't ye touch them brake
wheels agin to-day" He talked IL all
over with the next trains crew, and so i'm
pressed the tourists with the magnitude
OF their work that they spoke In whispers
Of that particular cscapade for three days
after
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-21
whipping the wifc-Bcater..
From Lesile's Weekly.


Several Of the states. seeking to make
the punishment ft the crime have special
statutes allowing the courts TO sentence
wife heaters TO a definite number OF lashes
at the whipping post In one or more in
stances the whipping posi- has been re-
vived 10 meet this particular kind Of
brutality for IT seems to be the rule that
the man VINO Will beat a woman will not
mind lttle thing Ike a fine for a few
weeks In Jail IL has been pretty clearly
demonstrated that after his confinement
he almost invariably returns - his 0 Ia
habits. The fault has been largely in the
magistrates OF cities. who have. with rare
exceptions dealt lcnicntly with this mean
est Of Olfenses. Cases without END could
be cited whore poor women have been
beaten within fraction Of death by big
drunken DULLES who lived of their wives
earnings ana whore the police magis-
trates imposed only fines aud costs. There
was a time when a mans right 10 beat
his wife was generally conceded and IL
often seems as if the old barbnrism had
come down as a special inheritance for
our police magistrates.
The effect of the whipping post as a cor
receive OF the evil has In several aspects
been quite Satisfactory. 70 Ia lndorsed by
the police force ana The courts. but Re Bit
torly opposed bX inc reformcrs and PHI
lnnthrOpiBts The Wife-hoatlng brute
od-a thousand times more than he does
imprisonment lu one state the re-estab-
llFhmcnt OF the post reduced the wife
beating cases w he courts more than 80
per cent Recently the post has been nog-
lected. ana che increase has gone back 10
the Old proportions Tho newspapers de-
m1ud that the wifc-benter be- sent 60 the
post the phllanthropistg hold that III tins
iF done it viii Doc bafbarism. ana ltH
effect Will be- 10 take from the man pun-
lsho1 all hope or spirit of manhood The
others hold that such r. brute can only
ba punished pnylIonlly ana thus the dis
cuHslDn goes on. We afe inclined 20 the
belief that little lapHe into barbarian
FOR the benefit Of wifo-beatcrs would b.
o. pretty good thing. certainly che milk
nnd-Nater that tho phiiauihr0pisia pre-
scribe does no good whBtevcr. Let the
whipping post ho established f0f enc wife
hfHterF ana lei che whish 30 me raf 10
heard tll me brufca eau beat no more.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-21
CURIOUS OATHs OF LOVERS.
Discarded SuitOrs who Took a Novel
Revenge for Their disappointment.

u
From Golfers Weekly.
Apart altogether from the breach OF
promise question, there Is always an ele-
ment OF danger in putting a proposal OF
marriage on paper. as a young mechanic
who was enamored OF a pretty maiden
discovered some time ago. He wrote a
letter expressive OF his undying love for
the girl Of his choice, and asking her In
honeyed terms 90 become his wife, but
unfortunately he neglected TO fasten It
securely and the envelope opened out IN
the post. When the maiden got the let
ter Il was marked. Found open and Of
ficlaily sealed" and she was 50 convinced
that the pOstofiice clerks had been read
ing the proposal that she cried for very
shame, and at once wrote an indignant
reply. saying that she could not marry
a man who was careless enough to expose
a billet doux TO the prying gaze Of gov
eminent officials
This severe rebuff cut the mechanic 70
the heart. and. fastening TO the residence
OF the fair one. he cloqucnty pleaded for
forgiveness. But the maiden wouldn't
listen. and forbade him 10 come near her
or 10 speak 10 her again. Whoreupon the
poor mechanic almost beside himself with
rage ana disappointment. swcrc that ne
would never again make use or the post
office. either directly or indirectly. This
vow ne mas Htubbofnly kept, and for tho
last four years be has never bought a pos-
age stamp or used a sheet Of writing
paper.
Deserted by bis lady love. middle
aged doctor procured "a testament tragic
ally Kissed o. and affirmed ln solemn tones
that be would not again speak 20 "a mo-
man. whether young or old. 10 was
foolish oath. bat ln hIs ioYelesa condition
he fclt equal 20 anything. and from that
moment rgIdiy carried out DIS deiffmlun-
ton. Needless of the harm which De ga
20 hlH practice ho fatty refused Do 500
any female patients, Hnd even went -
Ter as 40 advertise iu The local nanafa
that ho once ana forever nhiured woinan-
Kind. 1850 heaafrOnE action. hradfs
damaging hia medical reputation f0 3 ~
riouH esient, landed bin u endless DID,
ruliles ana complications. buf ho rel
wnfefel in hin purpose. and hfaamek
of the most conafmed mlsogguifia
country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-21
A Succession EnG to a Dream.


FROM the chicago Diapatc ten.
Eugene Lewis OF Bellevlle died last De.
cember, leaving his widow. Mrs Elizabeth
Lewis, a little home on South Church
street. She had an idea that he ought 10
have left her some ready cash. but he
didn't, or M least not that she knew Of
Not long ago sho had queer dream
She dreamt that hc came to her and told
her he had some gold buried in the back
yard. She studied over The matter Tor some
time and suddenly remembered that one
evening shortly before bis death he had
walked with her into the back yard and
pointed at a certain place with his cane.
She at once went ana dug al The place
az near as she could remember. hut there
was nothing TO reward her search. one
night about a week ago she had another
dream and this time her husband went
and stood on a certain spot la the shed
inithe back yard. She said nothing 60 any
one. but went and dug az the spot and
WAS rewarded by finding a lar holding
$40
Mrs Lewis is Of a cornwall nature. ana
this Wlndfail served aH the means OF pro-
curing % series OF jars that eclpaed any.
thing she had over yet experienced.
Straight booze didn't go. She got several
kinds OF liquor producing effects that
wore releVation. She concluded 90 get a
horse ana carriage. ana invested So In a
Had-ioukIng plug, ana split The wind up
and down the streets OF Bollcyille in Il
way that would have made Millionaire
Berry turn green with envy.
Then her relatives discovered her secret
ana made her turn over the cash FOR safe.
Keeping She only had $50 OF the $40 ieft
and this was placed iu tho bank for her
needs Tho general impression lr that there
ir more sold. and f1o back yard ~ fho
cyclone cellar.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-21
Fifty Years Ago.
Ayers Sar sapariIla

was in its infancy half a CEN
tury ago. To-day it doth be
stride the narrow world like a
colossus" What is the secret
of it's power? It's cures! The
number of them The wonder
of them! Irnitaitors have fol-
lowed it from the beginning Of
it's success. They are still be-
hind it. Wearing the only
medal granted to arsaparilla
in the Worlds Fair of 1893,
it points proudly to it's record.
Others initiate the r en- edy;
they can't initiate the record:
So Wears of Cures.