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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-06-17
BASEBALL SCORES

Baltimore Z, Louisville 3.
Philadelphia 3, Cleveland 8,
Washington s. Pit.sburg 10.
Brooklyn 4. Chicago s.
New York =. ~. Louis 3.
Boston 10. Cincinnati 1.
Detroit z. Milwaukee 5
Columbus 8, Minneapolis 2
CEDAR Rapids 2. Dubuque 2
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-06-17
DURRANT's RETRIEVE.
Gov. Budd Decides That Blanche La
mont's Murderer Shall Hang July9.

San Francisco. Cal. June 1.-The
odore Durrant the murderer OF
Blanche Lamont. has been reprieved.
Gov. Budd decided upon this course In
order to settle the question OF the
rights Of the federal courts to inter-
fere in the execution OF sentence Inn
posed by the state court. He has
named July 8 as the day upon which
the sentence shall be carried out.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-06-17
PERSONALITIES.

Rev. DR., Mcmillan. of New York, sea.
rotary of tho Presbyterian board of
home missions, has been rendered the
Presidency of Blackburn university, ut
Carhnville, H.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-06-17

The family Of the late Secretary of
tho Treasury Daniel Manning has had
cast In Troy. N. y, II l00-pound bell
for the United States Cruiser which
bears his name.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-06-17
ABOUT BADGERS.

Lieut.. F. G. Kalk, son of G. f. Kalk
of Cumberland, has been detailed as
professor of military science and tao
tics at Wesleyan university. Mt. Pleas
ant
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-06-17

Miss Emeline Jackson. daughter OF
ex-Assemblyman Jackson Of Shawano,
is winning a reputation as singer.
She has appeared in several cities in
Wisconsin and met with an enthusiast
tic welcome In each place.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-06-17
SUGAR DEBATE OVER
SENATE ENDS CONSl DER ALTON or
THAT SCHEDULE.
BILL NOW TO 81 HUSTLED

Rates imposed by the New Measure
Provisions Relating to Hawaii Are
Temporarily Passed over Petit
grew Antitrust Amendment Is
Laid on the Table
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-06-17

Evelyn Louise Lease. the poet
daughter OF Mrs Mary E, Lease, the
famous reformer, has been invited to
make an address before the national
ChnutouGua assembly ut Chautauqua
lake, New York, In July. She IL only
H. and just graduated from the
Wichita high school last month, and
this will be her initial appearance on
tho lecture platform, Her commence.
ment poem gave her fame.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-06-17

life. savers ut the recent charity bazaar
fire In Paris was coachman named
Geti SEES. He dashed into tho burning
building twenty times and carried out
n number Of burning women, whilo
Other men played on him with the
hose. and thus succeeded In saving
meiy lives. The French government
hat rewarded his bravery by present
ing him with tho Cross of the Legion
of Honor, and he VIII also BIO employed
b. the government The cross was
presented to him by M. Barthou, min
iiter Of tho interior.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-06-17
ITS WORK is DONE
UNIV ERSAL POSTAL CONGRESS-
ADJOURNS.
RESUME OF ITS lABORS

A General Treaty Signed Reducing
Rates and Systematizing The Meth
DDS of Transporting Mail Flom One
Country to Acknowledgements VIII
Meet Next in Rome in 1908.
The times., 1897-11-14

London. Nov. 13.-Hon. D. T. Phillips,
American consul at Cardiff, Wales, claims
TO have knowledge of Chicago that is eX
tensive and peculiar. He also processes
10 know Ii thing or two about New York.
Al the ripeness of lis experience he has
been telling the people OF Wales Of the
awful sinfulness Of Chicago, where, ne
says drunk kebuess and prostitution widely
prevail with the corrupt connivance OF tic
law. New York, says this American CON
sui, is now q nest OF corruption ana Tam
many thieves. III Phillips had been con
tent merely TO abuse and yilify his own
folks all might have been well, but hc
was simply hGi1ing up Chicago and New
York as awful examples to the people over
here. With exquisite taste and remark
able tact, he tells the people OF Cardiff
from the pHhic platform that, although
Chicago ard New York are almost a 5 bad
rs hell. Cardiff is really worse than either
In regard 10 the openness OF its drunken
ness and vice. Probably. he says, there
Y as more vice in Chicago and New York,
hut Cardiff ezoels them In the freedom,
witt which drunkards and prostitutes are
permitted TO flaunt themselves on the
streets
With the perversity OF human nature the
citizens have complained tterly of their
consular hbeler and the presumptuous
Welshmen have not hesitated To say that
tne American consul has no more business
to 70 alb, ut abusing the people To whom
he is accredited than the American am
bassador. They want toknow what would
be saidiu America If the british consul gem
eral ~ Sew York, speaking from the
public platform had denounced the city's
wickedness, drunk and social and po-
litical corruption. 1t SO happens that
Cardiff is one of the most enteTiFisine
and we'll goyer cities in this c0un-
try. 1t max es no more and no less claims
to sohriety and morality than any other
biz city and seaport.
Its people know nothing OF tie moral
cbaracte. of Chicago and New York. but
they say If the character OF those cities
IS as bad As II is pa inted by Consul Phil
lips, then 1t is q monstrous and ridiculous
thing fu- that gentleman to compare them
with Cardiff 10 Cardiff disadva ntage
Let Phillips, they say stick to his con
sular work and reserve his sermons for
home consumption.
1t is to be feared that this is Just what
Phillips VIII not Dc. He is unhappily a
fluent speaker, being an ex-parson and a
Temperance advocate amiable qualities in
themselves, especially If Their possessor be
plain citizen-but these qualities are
distinctly disadvanta geous in consular
representative i'll friendly state. Phil
lips interference in matters outside his
cffice taS grievogsiy impaired his powers
The times., 1897-11-14
ALAsKA's OIL FIELDS
Represented tn BE the Most Remark.
able TO BE Found Anywhere.

able TO Be F0und Anywhere.
Seattle. Wash, NOV. 13 The City Of
Topeka, Of tic Pacific Coast Steamship
CoDpany's Line, On her trip from Sitks
an. Juneau, encountered one Of the most
terrific storms ia the history OF Alaskan
navigation.
The storm continued for nearly twelve
hours reaching Its greatest velocity b.
tweel 10 and II g'clcek the morning %
Nov. 8. For full M hour the vessel seemed
doenrmed. The seas rolled over and
across her uppcrmost decks.
The Topeka passengers are principals
fTon, J uneau, sitka and Cooks Inlet She
had about S75, 600 in gold from the Tread
Wen niin- and the nlacers OF Turn Gain
AiIn.
G. +. 0liphaRt II. c. Rceser. of phi,a
tlelrlia, and X. X. Rnbey. experts and
representatives OF the standard oil Com
rsny, came down from Kayak, Alaska
atout 900 miles northwest of sitka, wher.
they Inspected the oil springs discovered
last summer.
ofphant, Reeser and Robey would not
tnk for publication, but fellow passengers
report that they declared the oil fields the
most erlal kablein the history of the coun.
try.
The times., 1897-11-14
A New Receiver Asked For,

Srit was entered yesterday by Charles
c. Heath. The skanGia Furniture Com
pany. ,ieorge Woeifei and The Port Norfolk
Manufacturing Company against Leo Ge-
schickter. who assigned for the benefit
of his creditors d few days ago. The.
court was asked to appoint receiver
for the defendant in place OF Hysnan
ZeIkin. who was named By Gesehickter as
assignee, ana asking that the defendant
be required to account for all goods pni.-
chased by him and tie proceeds thereof
The times., 1897-11-14
Wife Helped Her Husband to Die.

Laporte, Ind, Nov. 49, The suicide u
CT aries PINS ertnn, under sentence 1f
Gelth. promises h sensational sequel Evi-
denco viii be presented to ne grand jury.
Inai-.nE Mrs. Pinkerton. the suicides
wife, au accessory 10 his suicide.
II is alleged That she gave Pink erton
the knife with which he cut his throat
Mrs Finkerton took an oath over her hus
hare 3 corpse thai she was innocent.
The times., 1897-11-14
REMOVE MILES FROM OFFICER.
Commissioners DISMISS Him and
VIII Do Likewise With Others.

commissioners Dismiss Him and
VIII Do Likewise With Others.
Mr. Frank II Miles, the clerk in the
assessor S office who was temporarily sus.
pended two weeks ago and arrested on ac
count OF alleged embezzlement and theft
IL the office, was yesterday dismissed from
the ser"ice, the dismissal to take effect DC.
tober 80. the day of his temporary SIS
pension
Aaditor Petty is Inaking a thorough ex
ninination of Mr.. Miles books, and, al
though IL is not Completed yet, it has gone
far enough to make the dismissal Of the
gentleman obligatory.
THIS is not the only change in the off;
cial force at the District building which
hes been under ADJUSTMENT. Several Others
We're made yesterday, which will not be
announced until tomorrow. II is stated.
however, tha; no further criminaiity has
been discovered by MIR. Petty, and that
the other changes are merely rea IRA nSe-
n ents oe the force siinilar to those made
three weeks ago.
The times., 1897-11-14

Of usefulness to his Government, and the
least tina ought to be done is to cable him
inuzzling orders from Washington without
delay.
The times., 1897-11-14
A CONSUL s LONG TONGUE
American Representative at Car
diff Making Mischief.
ADVANCE AGENT OF MORALITY

Talks From the Platform of the
Awful Sinfulness OF Chicago ana
New York. Bnt says Cardiff Is
Worse Than Either People of
Cardiff Naturally Resent This.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-15
SANTA re, RI. NJ.
IL FIourishcd Before Columbus Sailed.
The Oldest Church and House.

It Flourished Before Columbus Sailed.
The Oldest Church and House.
In Santa Fe are the military headquar-
tiers for New Mexico, it being also the old
est military establishment In America,
created by the Spaniards in 1902, and in
almost continuous occupation ever since.
Here, too, is the oldest house in the United
States. in which Coronado is said to have
lodged in 1910, and, perhaps even more in
teresting here is the Oldest church, San
Miguel, built about 1913, partially destroy
ed In 1850, wholly restored in 17lO, the
restorers leaving intact all that was posi-
BILE of the old roof, hewn by Indians under
the guidance of the fathers.
In this church Is the great BELL almost
solid cast in 1885, and having an inscrip-
ton in Spanish round it as band, the
letters and figures being still well raised
in the solid casting. This bell was brought
over from Spain and hung in the tower,
but finally, being thought too heavy for
the tower was removed to substantial
timber support i'm the entrance to the
church In the cathedral and other church
es are remarkable reredoses, paintings ana
vestments, many of them of considerable
antiquity, all inviting the visitor to linger
in this home of the past. But the city Is
also n city of the present, and very pleas
ant present it is. An equable climate ana
delightful sunshine hover over streets In
! which the houses have enough OF the sane
! tity of age to diffuse restful spirit in the
air. These houses are often from one to
two centuries old, usually of one story, with
| thick adobe (sun dried brick) walls, deep
! embrasures to the plain doors and windows
| AUDITING on the sidewalk under piazza
and giving not the slightest hint OF the
wealth of coy comfort and elegance to be
| found inside. The rooms are usually large
] and numerous arranged round placita
or Moorish court, generally from 90 to a
/ feet square The court is laid out as gar
| den and entered from the street by wood
( en- gate let into the wall of the house, II
| line with the doors and windows. This
! gate at once shuts out intruders and thu
/ gaze of the outside world, while house ant
garden together form an ideal home.
Fruitful orchards and fertile lands lii
! round about the city, which is at once
monument to the spirit of the past and TIT
! activity, beauty and progress of the presen
age.-New York Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-15
A Great Shot.

The Duke of Malakhoff was at bat
tue at Strathfieldsaye and shot nothing,
much to his disgust, and when the day
was over it appeared that he would be
extremely put out unless he was allowed
or enabled to kill something. So III
spite of all the gamekeeper could think,
feel or say pheasant was procured,
tied by its leg to the top Of post, and
Malakhoff was put some 80 yards off
with a double barreled gun 1t was
supposed that he would thereupon and
thence take two shots at the bird. Not
a bit of it. He loaded both barrels,
walked close up to the pheasant, put
the muzzle close to him and discharged
both barrels into him, with He! CO.
quin." The next day the Duke of We'll
lington told the keeper that Malakhoff
was a great man who had smoked to
death 800 Arab men, women and chill
dren in cave, to which the gamekeep-
er replied: Like enough, your grace.
He'd be capable of anything. let
tiers of Lord Blackford. "
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-15
MONEY MAN NC IN TACOMA.
The City of Destiny once Coined Its own
Cash.

thsns
Tacoma once had mint that coined
all of the money in circulation where
the City of Destiny now stands, and it
did not require the fiat of Uncle Sam,
tie silver Of Idaho or the gold of Cali
fotna to make the y ces from Tacoma's
mint pass current among the Indians
and the few hardy pioneers who were
blazing the path Of civilization through
the forest on the shores of Commence
ment bay, says the Tacoma Ledger.
Back in the early seventies the Taco
ma Mill company, not being able TO
handily secure gold and silver for use
i'll trading with and paying off the In
dian laborers and early settlers, hit
upon the novel plan of issuing its own
currency and to this end set its black
smith TO work to fashion for it out
of scraps of iron and brass pieces Of
money, or, rather, tokens, which could
be used as "a circulating medium. The
pieces consisted of 40 cent and 40 cent
iron tokens and brass 81 pieces. The 40
cent pieces were about an inch in diam
eter and the 45 cent pieces were about
the size of the present silver half dollar.
The 81 pieces were oval in shape, about
ID inches long, an inch wide and a
sixteenth of an inch i'll thickness. These
pieces were stamped with the figures
showing their value, and readily passed
current all over the country tributary to
the mill Nearly all of this old mill"
coin has passed away, but few days
ago William Hanson of the Tacoma Mill
company presented set of these queer
coins to the Ferry museum. In his let
ter to the museum he said:
1.-THE honesty of the people and the
| absence of any blacksmith shop save
that of the company made the use of
this money possible. F"
Oregon has long boasted that the
| Beaver" coin, minted at Oregon City
| in the early fifties, was the only money
| minted in the northwest in the days of
| the pioneer, but here i'll Tacoma, long
years after Oregon's Beaver" mint
had become a historical incident, was q
| primitive mint that supplied the coin
to furnish the pioneers and Indians with
all of the necessities for their rough
lives The coins which are still pre-
served, are roughly made, just such a.
any blacksmith with ordinary tools
might make, and as a matter of fac
during the early years of the mill com
pany's existence formed practically the
local circulating medium of exchange
When the Indians who We're employed
in the mill were paid for their labor
this coin suffced, as all the trading
they did was with the little store run il
connection with the mill The iron ant
brass pieces were, of course, passed
among the Indians in trading with eacl
other, and as anything in the way o
supplies was purchased by them at tn
mill store the pieces were fully as goot
to them as if they had borne the STAN
of the government.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-15
Changes In Cave Dwelling Animals

1.-The influence of environment upon
organisms is nowhere more striking,
saws Science. Ethan in the case Of ami
mails which find themselves acciden
tally lost in caves and which succeed in
accustoming themselves to the situa-
ton in spite of its difficulties M. Ar
mand Wire gives some notes ON his OBJ
servations in the Complies Rendus. The
principal difference in the situation
consists in the absence of light and in
the rarity of animal prey. The eye al
ways becomes atropLied to a degree
which varies with the species and also
with the individual. There is some
times a difference between the two eyes
of Il single individual The eyes are to
a certain extent replaced by other or
gans of sense; the antenn9 of the
campodes become, in some individuals,
twice as long as usual, and sometimes
longer than the entire body. The tactile
hairs with which the body is covered
obtain an exaggerated development, and
in the crustaceans sometimes even in
wade the ocular globe. Hearing does not
seem to be accumulated, but the sense of
smell is very acute, and bit of tainted
flesh becomes invaded in very few
minutes with large colony of animals.
The organs of digestion become very
considerably modified in those species
which are naturally carnivorous. and
in two staphylins the mandibles were
found to be completely atrophied. Every
animal is more or less completely de-
augmented, but those which had no
trace of color remaining began to have
numerous little black spots disseminated
over the whole body after they had
been kept for month in the light, and
these spots were particularly abundant
in those parts (antenne and claws)
which had been accidentally lost and
were in course of restoration.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-15
MAzARlN BIBLES COME HIGH.
What They Are and Why They Are So
CalIed-s2O, 900 For One Copy.

What They Are and Why They Are so
Called-s2O,O 900 For One Copy.
At the sale Of the Ashburnham library
in London copy of the Mazarin Bible
brought the good sized sum Of $50, 600.
The Mazarin Bible is so called because
a copy of il was first discovered by De
Bure in the library of Cardinal Mazarin,
in Paris, about 1860 Its value for book
collectors lies iii the fact that ii is the
first book of any magnitude printed
from movable types. 1t was issued by
Gutenberg at Mainz, in 1900, and for
that reason Henry Stevens calls it the
Gutenberg Bible. 1t is divided into two
volumes, the first containing 324 and
the second 81 pages each page consist
ing of two columns. The characters,
which are Gothic, are large and hand
some and very much resemble manu-
script. Before the discovery of this BIZ
be the so called Bamberg Bible of Pts
ter was generally regarded as the first
printed book, but that honor is now
universally accorded to the former work.
According TO DIR. Austin Allibone.
there are six known copies of the Maza-
rim Bible on vellum, one of which is the
volume found in the Mazarin library.
The copies OH vellum, however, are later
than the copies on paper, II of which
are known to be in existence. There is
q vellum copy of the Bible in the Brit
ish museum and paper copy in the
Lenox library of this city. The present
value of a perfect copy of the Mazarin
Bible on paper is about $40, 900, and
those on vellum are valued at about
$4,000. Practically, however, their
value is variable quantity, depending
on what the book collectors are willing
to give for them. 1t has long been 6
matter of dispute whether the types EN-
ployed in printing this Bible were me-
tallic or wooden. but the question IL
still undecided AS "a specimen of early
printing the work is magnificent, con
tanning richly embellished capitals il
blue, red and purple. New York Trib
une.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-15
A SMUGGlER'S TRICK.
He Carried His Wares Openly, Yet Fooled
the Customs Officials.

Cali this talk about smuggling re-
calls some of the things | learned when
/ was in the service" announced a re-
tired crock catcher the other day. New
ways of beating the government are be-
ing devised right along, and many Of
the tricks | discovered are old now.
There used to be more trouble with the
diamond smugglers than there appears
to be at present. l have found the
sparklers in women's back hair, hat
ornaments, followed shoe heels and
sewed up in various articles of wear, i'll
dog collars, in horses hoofs, in fruits
and vegetables, in trunks with false
bottoms, in pipes and cigars, in canes,
Oh the necks of carrier pigeons and even
buried in mems flesh after the manner
of the Kaffir diamond thieves.
but the man who did the slickest
business without ever being suspected
told me about it afterward. He was a
retired detective who had served with
great credit Shortly before resigning
he claimed to have received a beautiful
diamond ring with three very large
stones from a New Yorker for whom be
had been able to save a good deal of
money 1t was certainly a magnificent
ring, and the matter was duly exploited
in the papers. He professed to be doing
"a private business that took him across
the river frequently, and he would Of
ten use the ferry three or four times q
day He always wore the dazzling ring,
! and looked at it every day for months.
Yet that fellow was making big money
smuggling diamonds.
"How? Why, he had paste rims
made exactly like the genuine one. He
Would wear the paste one over, leave II
! to be set with diamonds, wear then
back, have them replaced with paste
and thus carry on the game right before
our admiring eyes. We never suspected
! the rascal. detroit Free Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-15
Objected to Being q Girl.

Mrs. Wilkes was happy mother who
had been blessed with half dozen boys,
of whom she was justly very proud, but
there was no daughter in the house. Once
when the minister called to see her 1t
praised her thriving family, but added:
"It's a pity, Mrs. Wilkes, that one OF
them wasn't girl
Little Luke, one of the younger ones,
sitting in his little rocking chair, looked
up with a frown and surprised the clergy
man by saying:
81 don't know who'd "a been her.
Frank wouldn't "a been her, and George
wouldn't "a been her. and wouldn't "a
been her, and ! don't know who would
"a been her. "-Pearson's Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-15
An Acid Proof Glue.

The following has been recommended
as producing cement which will fas-
ten glass or porcelain, etc., together
firmly and will not be affected by strong
acids: Mix together two parts OF pow
dered asbestus, one part of barium sui
plate and two parts of sodium silicate OF
specific gravity l.50. A still firmer glue
can be made which is particularly valua-
BILE, since it is not attacked by hot acids,
by mixing together two parts of sodium
silicate, one part Of the finest sand and
one part of finely pulverized asbestus.
II potassium silicate is used instead OF
the sodium salt, the glue will harden
Immediately, but otherwise it will re-
auire about an hour to set. -Exchange.