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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Postmnster Gordon,s Condltlon.

Washington, May 13.-The attending
physicians have become greatly alarmed
over the condition of Chicagos postmas-
ter, c. u. Gordon. DIR. Magruder called
in consultation DR.. Walsh, and they re-
ported that Mr.. Gordon was i'm dan
gerous condition mentally. They found
his perceptive faculties clouded and his
tonsils accentuated by catarrhal jaun-
iice. The physicians have advised that
the patient be removed to Garfield hos
pital, where he would receive every at
tention which his condition commands.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Return of senator AIdrich.

Washington, May Ex-senator Aldrich
returned to Washington Wednesday
and said that nothing had occurred to
change his determination to call up the
tariff bill on May Is, the date which had
been set by him when he reported the
bill. Speaking of the claim made by
the Democrats that they had not suf-
ficient time to examine the comparative
statements he said that it had been fur
nished them in time, he thought, TO an
sWer every PURPOSE.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Appointed "a CoIored Man.

Washington, May 13.-The president
Tuesday made his first important ap-
pointment of colored man TO office
when he sent to the senate the nomina-
tion of Henry Plummer Cheatham as
lutnbia. Mr.. Cheatham is a North Car
oltna negro, and was born slave, but
has for some time been recognized as one
of tho political leaders of his race in the
south.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
r,,,r stationary at New Orleans.

New orleans. May 13.-The river Is
again stationary, but at point nearly
two feet above the highest stage OF
1898 The strain is terrific. but with the
aid Of the good weather and heroic ef-
forts, Is being magniiicently borne. The
financial drain Is now becoming evident
and the la Fourche board has levied a
special tax. President Thoman or the
Orleans board favors increasing the
general levee tax from to mills.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
KANsANS AT SWORDS POINT.
Temperance Crusade Threatens to Break
Up the Fall Festival.

Topeka, Kan, May 13.--The temper
ance crusade which has been inaugu-
rated here threatens to break the an
nual fall festival which has been wide
ly advertised to take place in Septem-
ber Some of the men who have agreed
to contribute declare that they will
withdraw their subscription unless the
agitation shall cease. a member Of
leading drug house said:
1--WE cannot run a good show on
Sunday school basis. Unless the assur-
ance is given that things will be open
we will not give any money. / know
several other business men who think
this way, and who will act in like
manner"
The same sentiment has been expressed
by other business men.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Decree by Council of Ministers.
GREEKS GET A PRIZE.
Turkish Steamer Loaded with soldiers
and Ammunition Is Captured.

and Ammunition Is Captured.
Athens, May 13.-Advices received
here Wednesday from the island OF
Skiathos. off the east coast of the Volo
peninsula, say that the Greek gunboat
Venus and the Greek torpedo boat No.
IA captured Tuesday off the island of
Tenedos on the west coast of Asia Minor,
a Turkish steamer having on board 100
Turkish soldiers, six officers 500 Mar
TIM rifles, several thousand cartridges,
six quick fire guns, various military
stores and $4,000 in cash. The money
was found upon a Turkish major who
was one of the officers captured. The
Greek warship took the prize to the
island of Skiathos.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
RuIlet I'm His Brain.

Moberly, Mo-, May 1S.-H. l.. Lee,
prominent citizen Of Moberly and a
member of the city council, killed him.
self Tuesday night After retiring he
arose at midnight, wrote a note to his
wife, who was sleeping I'm an adjoining
room, then returned to bed anil fired a
heavy bullet into his brain. Financial
troubles were the cause.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Nominated by the Presidents

Washington, May 13.-The president
Wednesday sent the following nomina-
tions to the senate: Brigadier General
James w. Forsyth, to be major general.
Postmasters: Illinois - Daniel Gum.
Kinmundy. Indana-L. V. Buskirk,
Bloomington; Fletcher w. Boyd, Cow
ington. Iowa-Marion Bruce, Rolfe.
Michigan-Henry r. Huntington, Ben
ton Harbor; Ramsey Arthur, School
craft Wisconsin-George ID. Breed
Chiffon.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
=. win Admit Those Cinnamon.

Washington, May 13.-In response to
the urgent request of the director gen.
eral of the Nashville exposition the sec
retary of the treasury has decided to
admit for exposition purposes the 26l
Cinnamon recently arrived at San Fran
cisco and the sixty-four at Tacoma.
The secretary states, however, that un-
der no circumstances will any additional
permits to enter be granted
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Morrill, Non-CommittaI.

Two of these senator's classed as
In favor of the schedule-Messrs. Alli-
son Of Iowa and Aldrich of Rhode ISL
ard-were not seen, both being absent
from the city. Senator Morrill, of Ver-
mont is non-committal, but can safely
be classed as in favor Of the schedule.
1t will be seen that if all those who
are non-committal and all not classified
should vote in favor of the schedule in
its present form, it is still doomed to de-
feat. There is no doubt that the major
ity against the schedule will he much
larger than that given above. Practic-
ally the solid Democratic and Populist
vote will be against it, and several Re-
publicans who are non-committal or not
classified will be in the same column.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Greeks Flee from Epirus.

Constantinople. May 1S.-The Turkish
military commander at Janina tele-
graphs that all the Greek forces in Epir-
us have fed to Arta, abandoning 5000
rifles, 600 cases Of ammunition, and
mountain gun. Seventy mine Greeks were
killed in the recent fighting. The fourth
batch of wounded Turkish soldiers has
q rrixrpd hero
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Resolution Concerning Chapman.

Washington, May Ex-senator Allen
of Nebraska Wednesday presented a
resolution In the senate requiring E. r..
Chapman to present himself at the bar
Of the senate and purge himself Of con-
tempt before clemency be extended. The
resolution went over. The Morgan Gu
ban resolution also went over until next
day to permit the committee on foreign
relations TO present statement
The senate passed bills appropriating
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
IS DOOMED TO DEFEAT
The Sugar Schedule of the Sen.
ate Tariff Bill.
HOSTILE MAJORITY Is PLEDGED.

Forty-seven Senators Say They VIII Vote
Against the Schedule as IL Now Stands
Six Are in Favor of IL and Eighteen Are
NOn-Committal-Ma Many of the Republic
ans VIII Vote with the Democrats and
POpulists-Washington News Notes.
Washington, May 13.-The sugar
schedule of the tariff bill, as framed by
the Republicans Of the senate finance
committee. is doomed to defeat. In
Guiding seventeen senator's who are alb
sent and whose views could not be as
certained, the senate stands thus
Against the schedule. AZ; for schedule,
6; non-committal, IS; not classified, II;
vacancies, 2; total membership of sem
ate, 80; majority against schedule, g. A
careful canvass Of the United States
senate on the amended sugar schedule
shows clear majority against the
schedule as 1t stands at present, and If
net materially amended to lessen the
protection to the trust, the adoption of
general antitrust amendment. OF
the SO senators comprising the present
membership of the senate 62 were seen.
win Vote Against The Schedule.
These are the senator's who Will vote
against the sugar schedule as reported
by the senate finance committee: AL
len, Bacon, Bate, Berry, Butler. Caffery.
Cannon Carter, Chiffon, Clay. Coc<rell,
Davis. Faulkner, Frye, Harris of Kan
sas, Harris of Tennessee, Jones of Ar
kansas, Lindsay, Lodge, Mcbride, Me-
Emery, Mantle. Martin, Mills, Morgan,
Nelson, Pasco, Perkins, Pettigrew, Pet
tus, Rawlins, Roach, Smith, Stewart,
Tillman. Turner, Turpie, Walthall, War
rem, White. and Wilson. There are Al
senators on the list, and there are six
other senators who could not be seen
They can confidently be counted against
the sugar schedule. They are Messrs.
| Daniel, Earle, George, Kenney, Teller
and Vest. These are the senators in
! favor of the finance committees sched-
| ule: Aldrich, Allison, Morrill,, Platt Of
[ Connecticut. Quay, and Sewell These
are the senator's who are non-committal
| on the sugar schedule: Baker. Burrows,
Chandler, Cullom, Deboe, Elkins, Fair
{ banks, Foraker. Gallinger, German,
! Hansbrough Hawley. Hoar, Murphy,
Pritchard, Shoup, Spooner and yelling
I tnt,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Houghon County. Michigan Thursday. May

si,5O0,000 for a public building at In=
dianapolis, Ind. and $500 900 for one at
Deadwood. S. d.; also a bill granting
Montana $4,000 acres OF land in aid of
an asylum for the blind
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Big Fire at SAN Francisco.

San Francisco. May 1S.--At an early
hour Wednesday morning fire broke out
in the tannery of A. Il. Patrick Il Co,
which occupies a strip of land on sixth
avenue South, between @ and X streets
and two hours later there was little left
but ruins. The loss to plant and stock
is estimated from 100000 to Si25,OOO
with insurance of 100000.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Rir damage TO Railroads.

Parkersburg. w. Va, May 13.-Rain
fell in torrents here Tuesday night,
causing big damage to railroads. No
trains on the Baltimore and Ohio were
run Wednesday owing to two bridges
having been washed away at Cairo,
thirty miles east.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13

Havana, May 1S.-William j. Calhoun,
the special commissioner, appointed by
President Mckinley TO Investigate the
death OF DIR. Ricardo Ruiz, arrived
Wednesday.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Important Fighting Expected.

Pharsalos, May 13.-Important fight
ing is expected here between the Turks
and Greeks unless an armistice is inn
mediately agreed upon at Constant-
nople.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
Planing MIN Destroyed.

Uniontown, Pa, May 12.-Laughead &
Madesette's large planning mill plant was
destroyed by fire Wednesday morning.
Loss. s55, 200; insurance. $4,000.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-13
ARMISTNE HPROPOSED
Pending Peace Negotiations Be.
tween Greece and Turkey.
NOTICE SENT TO THE ADMIRALS.

They Have Been Instructed by the Pow
ers To Permit the Departure of Greek
Troops from the Island of Crete-Greek
Gunboat Captures Turkish steamer
with 100 soldiers and Much Ammuni-
tion-Greeks on the Run from Epirus.
Constantinople, May 13.--The ambas-
sadors of the powers held smother meet
ing Wednesday morning, after which
they presented at the palace and to
the Turkish government a collective
note proposing an armistlce pending the
negotiations for peace between Turkey
and Greece which are now in progress.
The admirals i'm command of the for
eign fleets i'm Cretan waters have been
notified Of the mediation of the powers
between Turkey and Greece and have
been instructed to permit the departure
Of the Greek troops from the island or
Crete.
Decree by Council of Ministers.
A decree issued Wednesday by the
council of monsters orders a battalion
Of gendarmes to Larissa and also ap-
points the former Ottoman cousuls at
Volo, Larissa and Trikhala to be kali
makams, or administrators OF those
districts, with powers to organize Turk
ish administrators in those Parts OF
Greece. The sultan will personally de-
fray the cost of the war medals which
are to be presented to the Turkish troops
which have taken part In the campaign
against the Greeks.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-05
DID Il BURGLAR ATTACK HERs
The WIN or . Lynn Policeman Found Injured
H~Iortniiy In Her Home.

LYNN, Mass, July 4.-There have been many
hold-ups and robberies In this city within tho
past month. but the climax camo last night.
Mrs. Margaret E., wife of Patrolman David Lee,
was beaten into insensibility and left for dead in
her homo at 81 Washington street. The woman
Is now in the hospital, and the physician says
she cannot recover.
At about IL o'clock last night q grocery man
called at the house 10 leave an order and found
all tho doors locked. When he was near tho
front door he heard a moan inside. He sum
moned two patrolmen and they burst In tho
door, TO find Mrs. Lee unconscious and bleeding
profusely from a fracture at the base OF tho
skull and numerous cuts on tho head. There
were also bruises on tho arms and legs.
Patr0lman Lee was at once called In from his
beat. He said that he went to the house at
his wife at the time, and says he parted from her
pleasantly. He says he left all tho doors un,
locked, and the theory 10 that q burglar walked
In and hid himself To wait until Mrs. Lee had
locked the doors and had gone upstairs for the
night. Then the man must have attacked the
hard weapon. and thrown her downstairs, after
which he made his escape through a window.
The woman LAS not recovered consciousness
and 10 not likely to.
Some slight suspicion attached to PatrolmAn
Lee at first, but after q thorough examination
the City Marshal decided that there WAS no evil
dence at all, against him. and he was not ar
His wife IL 46 years old. He is q little older, anc
they have been married twenty-five yeAra. They
] have NO children.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-05
THE WONDERFUL K1oND1KE.
Late Reports Prove IL to Ne the Greatest Placer
Mining District Ever known.

SEATTLE, Wash, July 4.-The steamer Queen
arrived this morning from Alaska, making the
voyage In three days, the quickest on record.
She brings the latest news from tho Yukon and
Klondike gold fields, which is most encourag-
ing In character. and moro confirmative than
previous reports of the wonderful discoveries.
In the Klondike diggings 1t Is said that as high
as $500 and even $500 had been taken out from
a pan of dirt, SURPRISING all records made last
fall, when from 5000 to $500 was produced from
q pan.
The yield surpasses anything ever recorded
In the history of gold mining on this or any
other continent. 1t Ii estimated that millions
will be brought out this fall. The Klondike
fever Is extending all over southeastern Alaska,
and hundreds already well provided with good
paying mines and business are preparing to pull
up and 60 to the K1ondike.
The Klondike is q tributary of the Yukon
which flows into the. big river above Forty
Mile. 1t is in British territory. The first
Which bnr reached the mining i settlenents at For
rss.u Mh was sn ehs Sir taso Sais x' the ri snnmsr there nas
was no rush to the wonderful new diggings;
=s Msa Ss%s i sSss G sssg S S,sY taken ar E0S 50. M 10. ae Cd
and the only result was to raise a laugh. The
their supplies and went back. But their laugh
was best, for they told the truth, and those
who wouldn't believe it only left them the moro
time to pick the best for themselves.
I'm the fall when the camps filled up with
the men from tho other diggings, but no one
came in from the Klondike, 1t began to dawn
on Circle City and Forty Mile that prehaps,
after all, there was truth in tho wonderful
stories. Then began a great rush for the Klon,
Ing, in California, and tho whole stream was
staked out in less than q week. Then the il
prospected, and there the rich Berry claims
are located, from one of which $240 was taken
from one pan OF pay dirt.
The world has never seen such placer mines
as those of the Klondike. California In its
very best days was nothing like 1t. Placer
miners will work Gains with great energy that
pay 10 cents a pan, but claims on the Klondike
all last summer averaged a dollar q pan
Miners wages in the Yukon country had beer
$40 a day before the Klondike strikes. Las
summer they rose to an ounce a day, and ever
more. They can't get the dust very clean by
their primitive methods, SO an ounce up Their
Is worth only about $3.50 or $1s. but that Is
big increase on $40. 49,,
The rush into the Klondike diggings thii
year Is the greatest Alaska has ever seen
Thousands of men who knew absolutely nothing
about placer mining went over the Chilkat Pas
and down the Yukon. Most Of them are bount
to fail. Tho diggings were all staked out lonI
ago, and 1t Is q game that men without expert
ence cannot play. They've got to get expert
enco in some other place.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-05
ARSENIC IN THEIR MILK
-Four Members or n Patterson Family Poisoned
at Breakfast.

PATERSON, n. j., July 4.-shortly after break
fast at 7 o'clock this morning four members Of
the family of DR.. Wessler of 50 Bridge street
were taken Ill, and their symptoms indicated
arsenic poisoning. The first to be attacked was
Jennie, IA years old, who fell In commissions to
tho floor. Her limbs became rigid and she vom-
tied. Next Lyman. aged 8. and Reuben, aged 4,
were similarly FRUSTRATED. Mrs. Wessler was
the next to succumb. DIR. Wessler also expert
enced IA slight attack, but soon rallied, and he
lost no time in administering emetics.
DIR. Mccoy, who was summoned. pronounced
ali except tho child. Reuben, out Of danger by
noon.
through milk. DIR. Wessler buys his milk from n
Proukness farmer whose name he does not know:
The milk is left In n pitcher on the second floor
OF the back porch about 8 o'clock every morning.
Tho girl, Jennie, said that when she washed out
the pitcher, shortly before she became, Ill, sho
noticed a white sediment adhering TO the bottom.
DR.. Wessler u at a loss TO know where TO place
The blame. The rooms occupied by his, family
are part Of a house in which four other families
live. The rear entrance Is through a wide car
riageway at the side of the house.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-05

A Brooklyn Girl MORALLY Wounded Falls at
Her Mothers side.

Maggie McCarty, - years old, of $50 Hicks
street, Brooklyn, is in n critical condition in tho
Long Island College Hospital. suffering with n
pistol shot wound in the back of tho head. re-
ceived whilo shc was walking with her mother
through Lorraine street shortly before 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. McCnrty heard II pistol shot, and then
was startled by seeing her daughter fall to the
sidewalk When she stopped down 10 pick her
up she found that she had been shot in tho head.
The mother looked M the street, and saw two
men about ten feet behind her. They had
stopped suddenly. When she approached them
one of them ran away, but she grabbed tho
other, and held him fast. Roundsman McNa.
mara arrested John Lnngford, 80 years old, and
Patrick McGrnth, 30 years old. both Of "a Lu-
uuer street. They both denied tho shooting,
and the police were unable to find u revolver ON
either Of them.
Iangford denied that he ran away; hut Mrs.
McCarty Was positive that no did. Mc'rath Is
tho man Mrs. McCarty seized. The police are OF
the opinion that there was n third man In the
vicinity, who. while firing u revolver. accident.
ally shot the girl. He has not been found, how
ever, and LanRford and MCGrath Will be ar
raigned before Justice BristOw this morning.
1t was said Mt the hospital Rt n lnto hour last
night that in all probability the girl would die
before morning, as the bullet, which WAS or .32
calibre. had penetrated tho brain.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-05
FOUND PLOTTING FACE UPWARD.
A Yachting Party In the Lower Hay May Have
Picked Up the Victim OF q Murder.

The body OF u man who may have been muir
dcred and then thrown in the water was found
in the Lower Bay off Great Kills, g. l., ycster-
day morning by a yachting party on board VIII
liam Morgan's catboat Acorn Of the Gravesend
Yacht Club. The body was first seen 10y George
A.. Became, an actor. 1t was towed to the Staten
Island shore and Coroner John 7. Oates was
summoned. Tho body was taken to Oates's
morgue at Stapleton.
When found the body was floating squarely
on its back with legs and arms fully extended,
the arms at right angles to the body. Old wa
tcrmen say that the body OF q drowned person
Is always found floating face downward, and
that when u body IL found floating face upward
IL is almost positive evidence that the person
was dead when the body was put in the water.
found just at tho left side of the nose. After
the body was examined with greater caro- this
hole was found to be a cut about III inches long.
II was apparently made with u sharp instru-
ment and penetrated to the bone, but the bones
Of The face were not broken and tho wound of
itaelf was not of such a character as to have
been fatal. The fronts OF tho mans shirts were
stained Il dark red as II they had been saturated
with blood.
Coroner Oates will have an autopsy made
| this morning. The body Is apparently that OF
a middle.aged German witt full, round face.
| dark hair, and sandy mustache, quito thin. lie
was about 8 feet . inches in height and weighed
100 pounds. The body was clothed In a ready
made blue black cheyiot cutaway coat and vest
| and trousers OF a dark mixed goods, an outing
flannel shirt and gray cotton underwear, The
lace shoes were almost new and the size Is 6B.
A dollar bill, SLAP in silver, and two keys OF
peculiar shape were found in the pockets.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-05
AN AMERICAN 1IDr BEATEN.
HiEh-Handed Conduct OF Japanese Marines on
q Honolulu Htreet.

VANCOUVER, July --latest advices from
Honolulu say: Miss Lily West, an American
lady, was severely beaten by two Japanese ma
rines from tho Japanese warship Naniwa, last
evening, while trying to assist her brother, who
had been set upon by q number Of mon from the
warship.
"She was confined to her bed this morning and
unable to appear against her assailsnts in tho
police court, whore they were charged with as
sault and battery.
Tho feeling here runs high over the matter.
A wo,l.known business man knocked down three
of the Naniwa sailors in the street this morning
in consequence. and American bluejackets went
hunting for tho ringleadcrs of the Japanese hood
lums who made tho assault. Ono japanese was
pointed out to the Americans ms being conspicu-
GUS in tho assault. The American bluejackets
invited him to call his companions to his aid, as
they were going 10 teach him n lesson In Ameri-
can fair play. He refused and was then severe.
ly beaten. The blood of the American sailors
was up in q good cause, but they went too far.
| Tho punished Japanese is ut the hospital, and
| his life depends upon tho result of q delicate
operation.
"The assault on Miss West occurred on Nuu-
ana street. in front Of tho Lyccum, about 7:3O
=. NJ. Miss West was accompanied by her
brother Fred and o lady. While walking on the
| bluoWhlk passage was UlOCkeu ny wv Jhphhose
marines. who took no notice of their approach,
Miss West stopped between tho men, and heI
brother rather roughly hustled one aside.
AT that the two set upon West, who was get
ting the better OF them until four or five more
Japanese tars appeared and took a hand. Mis-
West tried to assist her brother and was Sc
upon and beaten by two of the fellows, who lief
ugly bruises on her face. Miss Vests assail
ants were arrested later but, at the request o
tho Japanese Consul. they were released Oh
their own recognizance."