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yaIIins Must show Cause.

Jefferson City. Mo-, May 26.-In the
proceedings instituted by Attorney Gen.
eral Crow to oust Chief of Police Thorn
as n. Vallns of Kansas City from Of
flee on the grounds that he is not res
ident of the state. the supreme court
en- banc, Tuesday issued a rule on Val
ins to show cause why he should not
be ousted. The rule is made returnable
on Inna
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
DOUBLY SURE OF DEATH
Chicago Mans Desperate Method
Of Suicide.
FIRST SHOOTS HIMSELF IN HEAD.

lie Then PIunges Down a -.'c 'ries
in the New Chambe; commerce
BuiIding-Left a Letter 3C nd saying
His Life Was Made Unbearable by His
Wife's Extravaganza and Quarrelsome
Disposition.
Chicago. May 26.-One Of the most
sensational suicides in tho annals of the
city took place in the n,w Chamber of
Commerce building Tuesday. Professor
w. f. Mttman, dancing teacher, who
lived at 1149 North Clark street. was the
victim. He went to the thirteenth floor
Of the building. and after deliberately
surveying the great disJance down the
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
sues Her Husbands Father.

San Francisco. May 26.-Mrs Margar-
ct Moffatt has brought suit in the su-
perior court to recover damages In the
sum of $4,000 from her husbands ia
ther for alleged alienation of affection
anS has Instituted proceedings against
her husband to compel him to support
her. She alleges that she has twice
been married to William Moffatt but
at each time her father-in-law has in
duced his son to desert her.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
Armour Loses by Fire.

Chicago, May 26.-An explosion evil
IDENTIFY caused by chemicals used in the
preparation of pepsin. shattered the up
per part of Armour & Co.'S pepsin fac
tory at Forty-third street and Center
avenue at 7:40 Monday night and the
blaze which followed practically con-
sumed the building and machinery to-
gether with the stock, causing loss of
S73 600
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
Aimed at Civil service.

Chicago, May 26.-Three ordinances
which were construed as being against
the civil service law were introduced
in the council Monday night. All were
referred to the committee on civil serv-
ice. The measures were respectively
fathered by Aldermen Powers, Rogers
and Coughlin. They provide that many
positions shall be filled by appointment
by the mayor and subsequent confirma
tion by the council.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
Congratulations Acknowledged.

Washington, May 26.--The congratu-
lations Of the president on the occasion
OF the anniversary Of Queen Victoria's
birthday have been acknowledged in
the following cablegram received at the
White House Tuesday from Ambassa-
dor Hay: II have just received the
following telegram from the queen at
Balmoral; May / beg you to convey
to .he president my sincere thanks for
his kind congratulations transmitted
thrnuoh Vou'
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
EDMUNDs CHOSEN by M'KINLEY.
Vermont Man Is To BE offered the Post of
Minister to Spain.

Washington. May 26.-The president
has determined to offer the post of min
ister to Spain to ex-senator George f..
Edmunds of Vermont. Mr.. Edmunds
has not yet been consulted and ii is not
known whether he would accept.
In the presidents opinion the Spanish
mission. in view of the questions or
monumental Importance arising out of
the Cuban war, is by far the most inn
portant within his gift. 1t is case
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
IT. Louis Railway To BE sold.

st. Louis, May 26-Judge Flitcraft
has made an order that the Fourth
Street and Arsenal Railway company
be sold June 29 under a second mort
gage. The foreclosure was ordered be-
cause of the default of payment of In
terest falling due Sept /, 1896, and
March 1, 1897. and also default of pay
mpnt of taxes.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
,.crm.ny rinaliy Approves.

Vienna, May 26.-The Neue Freie
Press publishes dispatch from Con-
stantinople saying that Germany has
finally approved the conditions of peace
and that the identical note Of the powers
on the subject was presented TO the
Turkish government Tuesday.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
Eleciion Declared Invalid.

Eau Claire. Wis, May 26.--Circuit
Judge Bailey has declared invalid the
election at Black River Falls by which
no license carried. The principal grounds
of the courts decision were that the
record showed the date of the filing of
the petition for the election was the day
after the election was ordered and that
two separate ballots were not used, the
form of ballot for general election be-
ING used instead.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
Military Attache at London.

Washington. May 26.-The secretary
Of war has detailed Captain Oberly NJ.
Carter TO be United States military at
tache at the embassy in London. Cap
tain Carter is an engineer officer OF
high professional attainments and sue
ceeds to the place in the embassy which
has been vacant since the return to this
country of Colonel Ludlow, who left the
post to follow his duties on the Mica
raguan canal commission.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
Mithdraws the Ailegations,

London, May 26.-Henry Labouchere
has withdrawn the allegations he had
made in speech in the house of COM
mons and i'm articles in Truth and the
Paris Gaulois rejecting upon DIR. Ruth
erford Harris, Cape Town secretary OF
the British Chartered South African
company in the matter of alleged stock
1obbing in connection with the Jameson
raid of December. 1N9h.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
Chicago Lake Front Case.

Washington. May 26.-The decision Of
the commissioner of the general land
office in the Chicago lake front case, in
volving $15,000.000 worth of property.
has been formulated and will be pro-
mulgated Wednesday. The decision Is
on a rehearing of the case resulting
from a sensational repudiation of the
decision rendered by former commits
eiOnpr
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
milwaukee, Editor Robbed.

Milwaukee, May 26.-Ex-Congress-
man II. V. Deuster of this city, editor
of The Seebote, and at present consul
az Crefeld, Germany, was robbed of 1854
while returning to this country on a
furlough last week. He left his pocket
book under the pillow in his stateroom
on the Friesland, and when he returned
the money was missing.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
r,re at savannah, Ga.

Savannah, Ga, May 26.-Tuesday
morning fire destroyed the wholesale
grocery store of Smith Bros. and badly
damaged the grocery stock OF j. M.
Dixon e. Co. on Bay street. The loss
is s6O. 900: fully insured.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
xvbeat sold I'm SmaJILots.

st. Louis, May 26.-For the first time
in the history of the st. Louis markets
trading in wheat in less than 5000 BUSH
ell lots Is being carried on in the Mer-
chants Exchange. Contrary to expec-
tations the change was inaugurated
without opposition and the little trad
ing done was carried on without con-
fusion.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
Miles studying Turkish Army.

Constantinople, May 26.-General Miles
has been afforded by the sultan and all
the Turkish officials every facility for
studying the Turkish army. He Is pur-
suing the work with great virgor. and Is
kept very busy. The officials are most
kind In offering. every aid.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
Contract Awarded.

Washington. May 26.-The secretary
of war has awarded the large contract
for building six locks and dams in the
Monongahela river to James McCarron
of Philadelphia at an aggregate cost OF
S6211
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26

Berlin, May 26.-The examination Of
Herr Won Tausch, the former chief OF
police of the secret political police. who
is charged with four-fold perjury and
treason. was continued Tuesday. Won
Tausch wept during the course of the
prosecution.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26

Springfield, Ills. May 26.-The senate
Tuesday passed the two gas bills' one
regulating the frontage and the other
consolidating the gas companies.
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become effective. The bin provides for
a complete revision Of the interstate
commerce law
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y
open rotunda, he climbed upon the rail-
ing, and while he steadied himself
against a post with one hand drew a
revolver from his pocket with the other
and shot himself through the head. At
the same instant he plunged forward
and dashed head foremost down dis
tance of 40 feet to the stone tagging
on the main floor
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Minister to Brazil.

Washington. May 26.-The president
Tuesday sent the following nominations
to the senate Edwin III. Conger OIL
Iowa, to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to BRAZIL John G.. Foster or
Vermont, to be consul of the United
States at Sherbrooke. Quebec, Can;
Brigadier General John r. Brooke, TO
be major general; Assistant Engineer
DIR. f. Dismukes, to be a passed assist
ant engineer; George b. Mclaughlin,
agent for the Indians of the Blackfeet
agency in Montana.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
To Amend Commerce Law.

washington. May Ex-senator Cullom
has introduced, by request. bill to
amend the interstate commerce law. The
hill prescribes regulations for pooling,
recurring that pooling contracts shall
not extend beyond five years and that
they shall name the maximum and min
imum rates to be charged, requiring the
anproval of the interstate commerce
commission before the agreements can
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Picked Up LifeIess.


Picked Up Lifeless.
Hewas picked up lifeless and removed
to Rolstons morgue, where a letter
found upon his person gave the cause
of his suicide as the quarrelsome and
extravaganza of his wife. 1t seemed
almost miracle that the falling body
did not strike some Of those collected
on the floor of the rotunda. A crowd
quickly surrounded the body and the
police were Immediately notified. The
remains were as quickly as possible
taken to the morgue. Here the body
was identified from the photographs of
himself and daughter found in his pock-
cts, and a notebook found clutched
tightly in his hand, on the fly leaves of
which he had penned note to his wife
giving the cause of his act.
Mittman intended destroying himself
| Monday in the same manner, and had
| gone to the building and surveyed the
place He postponed his suicide, how
! ever. for some reason. 1t is supposed
{ that Mittman and his wife quarreled,
and that he at that time concluded to
destroy himself, as he had planned on
| the previous day.
Showed No signs of Excitement.
Ine only person WHO noticed MlltilldH
enter the building was Gustave Pandey,
! the conductor on elevator No. s. He
states that Mittman entered his car and
! told him he wanted to go to the top
] floor. His passenger, he said, did not
J show any signs of excitement, but
| walked calmly out Of the car when ii
reached the thirteenth floor. After leav-
J ing the car Mittman walked to the
southwest corner of the corridor direct
I ly opposite the office of Theodore Schintz
1t is supposed from the scratches evil
IDENTIFY made by bootheels that he climbed
! to the top of the railing and, standing
| there supported by an upright iron pill
! lar, shot himself and then leaped into
space. Mr.. Schintz saw the fash of tn,
! revolver over the transom of his dool
and heard the report, but when III
rushed out he saw nothing. Mittmar
has been employed by Bunge Bros, Goa
dealers, at 622 West Lake street, as col
| lector for the past six years. In add
tion to this. he had conducted dancing
| academy at 631 North Clark street.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-24
NEEDED, THEREFORE, GOOD.
English Diplomats Have Borrowed ..Thal-
veg" from the German.
fro BE CONTINUED.

English Diplomats Have Borrowed "Thal-
weg' from the German.
A great deal of discussion has been eX-
cited by the recent use of the German
word ''thalweg," and objection has
been taken to IT'S introduction into dip
loInatic phraseology. But it is by no
means a newcomer in international
agreement, although its exact mean
ing does not appear to be very clearly
realized.
1t has been translated as river val
ley" and generally an impression
seems to have gained ground that it
signifies the drainage area of a river.
What it does, in fact, signify is the
middle line of river, and as water
tends naturally to the lowest available
level, river flowing through valley
may be taken as the dividing line of
the valley. An imaginary line drawn
down the center of the river is, there
fore, supposed to mark the boundary
between two states, each owning one
side of the valley, and this imaginary
line is known as the 'thalweg."
AS an example of its previous use in
international agreements, the case
may be quoted of the protocol signed
boundaries between the French Congo
colony and the Congo Free State. BY
that instrument it was provided that
the Congo Free State was not to eXer-
else any political influence on the right
bank of the Oubanghi river, nor
France on the left bank, ''the thalweg
forming in both cases the separation -
This imaginary line exactly cor
responds to what in English law is
known as 1.-THE middle thread of the
stream" the rights of an owner of
property situate on the banks of a
river extending, in the old Latin
phrase, lad medium filum aquea;" but
we have, unfortunately, no single word
which expresses this idea, and since
the Germans have, there is no apparent
reason why it should not be employed.
-Edinburg Scotsman.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-24

turn tonight leave the young folks here
for a day or two- I'll send them up by
Angus Bruce on Wednesday or Thurs
day-meanwhile FL sound the girl, and
send her back with Fannie, then yon
can ascertain her mind
That's well, but ] fear that Herbert
is the one that seeks her.
.'Then give yourself no uneasiness,
for / assure you that under no condi-
tons would Clara ever wed him, she
dislikes him much
Il am not sorry, Abner, for, though
he is my nephew, he is not one to whom
1 would see your daughter wedded-he
is extremely selfish, and every way un-
worthy OF her, and even can she not we'd
me that marriage would not be desir-
able. Lathrop sought the hand of
Fannie, but L told him that could never
be, and. had 1 not. Fannie shares in
Clara's dislike for him.
His father was speculator who,
when my sister Agnes was but child,
persuaded her to elope with him. for
which my father disinherited her;
Lathrop led Agnes wretched life, and
though my sister and father were recon-
ciled before my fathers death. he never
would allow her husband beneath his
roof. He was trickster, a gamester
and dishonest, and sometimes fear the
boy will travel in his path. But on her
death-bed L promised my sister to look
after him. and have tried to do so, nor
/ as yet have / found him dishonest or
regretted it. But somehow there is q
constant fear that I yet villa fear
that I cannot explain. His father was
killed on a river steamer over game of
cards.
Il think, John, that Clarence is in
love with Fannie. What would you say
to him as son-in-law ?'
THE match would please me we'll.
Abner, and, if I mistake not. Fannie
could be won by him.
''Well. there is the dinner bell" and
with two prospective weddings in his
family, the squire joined arms with
John Lloyd, and they proceeded to the
house.
ITO BE Continued
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-24
MIDSUMMER.

Why rail against the radiant summer sun
Because it beats too harshly on some
days.
Because it brings not joy to every one.
Nor peace. nor comfort to all human
ways,
Because with sudden potencies it beats
Upon the city in death-burdened heats?
What season of the year has not it's sting?
Winter is glorious, yet may freeze the
heart;
There is subtle poison in the breath OF
spring,
And autumn harbors an envenomed dart:
Each has it's charm. each feels its own de-
sire,
These days of summer are so rich with
bloom.
So sweet with perfumes of the flowers
and trees,
So wonderful with starlights hazed in
So full of mystery on meIodious seas.
So tender, dreamful, with bird-haunted
And songs of soft winds under yellow
moons,
That we who live them with love-.ighted
souls,
Gather their sweetness to ourselves and
grow
Beyond the commonplace of common goals,
Beyond the duh restraints that all men
know,
And we are thrilled with divining sense
Of love and its supreme omnipotence:
Now earth seems like garden where our
thought
guise,
Where beauty has the power of life full
wrought,
And youth sees far with wide. enchanted
eyes,
And where the air is scented as it flows
With fragrance of the jasmine and the
rose.
Weekly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-24
A PhiIosonhic sweep.

Rolling out of Piccadiliy into Berkeley
street came one of those splendid old family
carriages, gorgeous with golden lions and
dragons, heavily hung with maroon trap
pings, guarded by two maroon footmen in
the rear, driven by buriy maroon coach
man in a curly wig, containing two visions
in white with lovely bouquets. At that
moment a sweep and, his friend were emery
ing into Piccadilly, with biackened faces and
brushes, having evidently Just transacted
some affair of business, when this splendid
ssRill, l wish we was theml" .'Why?" an
swered Bill, much surprised They'll have
to die the same as u.s." ] have just turned
over the --Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
in search of some more profound reflection
upon the inequality of our lots on this ant
heap of ours. And in vain.-London News
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-24
a MISCALCULATION.
The Fortune Teller Did Not Know That
She Was Married.

She Was Married.
Ibid you ever have your fortune
told ?" inquired Dallas woman of one
of her most intimate female friends
No; did you?,'
Yes; was down at a clairvoyart's
yesterday evening. Did you know there
was one in town.
"No'
well, there is, and she just spread
out her euchre deck, and told my for
tune as slick as a whistle
what did the clairvoyant say was
going to happen to you?''
''She said I was going to marry a
nobIeman and become maid of honor"
Become maid of honori Why. YOU
must forget yourself. You know you
arc married woman"
That's so,'' answered the woman de-
jectedly. "I forgot all about that, and
got the old harridan to lay the cards
out for a widow. 1t is funny how such
little things will slip out of a persons
memory. I shall have to go down and
get the clairvoyant' woman to do it all
over agnin."-Texas Sitter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-24
Something Cheap.

As she stood upon the top stoop and
kissed him good-by before he went out to
battle with the cold, cold world he thought
that she had never looked so winsome even
In their old counting days.
And now my bad boy must have as many
slaps as years he has lived, for to-day is his
birthday she went on, beginning the
Christening situations.
Why, so it Is, he said, with that mo-
mentary sensation of years passing helpless
ly away which middle-aged men experience
upon these occasions.
"And what lovely thing shall his darling
wife get him for a birthday present this
year, she went on. ..You already have a
smoking cabinet and card table and my
dining room lamp, you know, was one of
my birthday presents to you. And then
I'D go kind of light. my dear" he an
little cheap thing. | haven't been able TO
pay for my last years birthday present
yet."-N. Y Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-24
er toiling faithfully all his life, to be

er toiling faithfully all his life, to be
eaten by alligators. It's too much"
yes said the squire, 'sI guess there
would be rather. too much of him for
one, unless it was a very large gator,
as Clarence says this was; but there's
plenty of gators Jobe wouldn't make
a mouthful each for them"
''Ain't you ashamed of yourself, Alb
ner?''
Yes. wife, I am; but couldn't help
it. would be~willing to- give thou
sand dollars to undo his drowning and
bring him back, but it's too late; now
as to Jobe's life of toll, you forget
that he was my fathers body servant
when I was a boy. He has always had
an easy time with me. Why, look at his
age, and he was scarcely bent, but stood
erect at seyenty-something unusual
for a negro
That evening Clara Hill and her
mother took a walk over to Aunt
Dinah's cabin, as they neared the
open door they saw many dusky fig
ures seated about on benches in the
cabin and heard Luke. the negro preach
er of the plantation, say:
ISIS Dinah, you no 'cashun fer
mourn. case Brer' Jobe is gone right
inter Heaven. tell yer, chile, he's gone
right inter Heaven"
81 speck he is, Brer' Luke; but Use
sl<eared he gone inter gator as well.
go dat way"
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no more to-day-I jus is oper joyous.
sides Use weak as calf"
That's right, Dinah, have day Of
rejoicing
ssUncle Jobe,' said Clara, 81 am very
glad the alligators didn't get you. 1
feared I had lost my fishing compan-
ion.''
Dress you soul, honey. Unc' Jobe
yere yet; but 1 can't tell how long.
chile. 1 can't tell.
'.Marster, Marse Clarence say, yon
gwine gibe t'ousand dollars fer bring
old Jobe back; desc old bones aim t
wort dat, marster, but 1 tanks yer. deed
l does, an my 'baccer mos out, marster,
an if wort n little oh dat"
Tell Corbett to give, you a pound,
Johe, and quart of apple jack, you ras-
cal. You fooled US all
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-24
CHAPTER III.

YOUR MOTHER, CHILD, HAS ROMANTIC
NOTIONS
When the ensuing Sunday arrived, it
brought with it on the Sunshine. at ten
o'clock, John Lloyd and his daughter
and nephew.
Clarence met them at the landing
with the family carriage, and they
were soon ascending the steps of the
piazza, where they were met by the
planter and his daughter.
Welcome to Orion, John Lloyd! well
come, Herbert, and my fair Fannie. /
like to have had my hair pulled for not
bringing you the other day, and have
not much to spare"
There was general Misunderstanding,
and Herbert Lathrop seemed to try and
retain in his grasp the hand of Clara