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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29

Vermilion red and other colors
containing quicksilver.......
Not containing quicksilver. ...
White lead and other pigment
containing lead. ..,............
Whiting and paris white, dry.
Ground in oil or putty.
Zinc oxide Of, or pigment, con-
tanning zinc, but not lead,
UT ease. s...sss..ss.sssssss
Ground in oil. ..................
Sulphide OF, or white sulphide
OF zinc. .....s...s......
Chloride and sulphate OHM.
All paints and pigments, lakes,
crayons, smalts, frostings OF
crude, dry OF mixed, ground
with water, oil or other solu.
tfons not provided for; artists
paints in tubes, pans or cakes.
Venetian red....................
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29


provided or.................... 20pc cope
SCHEDULE C.-MetaIs and Manufactures
Of
Iron ore, including manganifer-
Gus iron ore; also dross from
burned pyrites.. DOC ton 40c ton
Basic slag ground unground. 81 ton acc
Iron in pigs, iron Kentledge,
Spiegeleisen, ferro manganese,
ferro silicon, wrought and cast
scrap iron and scrap steel...... 81 81
Bar iron, square iron, rolled or
hammered comprising flats,
not less than inch wide nor
less than q in thickness, round
iron, not less than ZIG in dia-
meter. ,....................... 6-l0c Id 8-lOc
Round iron, in coils rods, less
than 7-l6 of an inch in dia-
meter, and bars shapes Of
rolled or hammered iron, not
specially provided for. ......... s-10c S-l0c
Provided that all iron i'll slabs,
blooms, loops or other forms
less finished than iron in bars
and more advanced than pig
iron, EXCEPT castings, shall be
subject to duty of. .......... 5l0c Bloc
Provided, further, that all iron
bars, blooms, billets or sizes
or shapes of any kind in the
manufacture of which char
coal is used fuel shall be
subject 10 a duty Of. sl2 ton SIP
Beams, Orders, joists, angles
channels, car truck channels
tees columns and posts or
parts or sections of columns
and posts, deck and bulb
beams and building forms,
together with all other struc-
tural shapes of iron steel,
whether plain or punched
fitted for use. .5-10c lib 6-l0c
Boiler or other plate iron or
steel, except crucible plate
steel and saw plates, hereinaf-
ter provided for, not thinner
than No 10 wire gauge, shear
ed or unsheared, and skelp
iron or steel, sheared or rolled
in grooves, valued at lc per
10 or less.. ...................... BLOC BLOC
Valued above lc and not above
&c Observation-Disclosures. 6-1Oc 6-1oc
Valued above &c and not above
&c 10. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10 30 d G
Valued at over 4c................. % ID @ rs ID O
Iron or steel anchors or parts
Thereon ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 11Rc lib 115c
Forgings of iron and steel, of
whatever shape or stage of
manufacture. ................... 85pc 85pc
Ball bearings OF iron or STEEL. 45pc -
Hoop, band or scroll iron OF
steel, valued at &c per pound
or less, inches or less in
width, and less than "a of l
inch thick and not thinner
than No. 10 wire gauge.."... 5-lOc aopc
Thinner than No. 10 wire gauge
and not thinner than No. 70
wire gauge. ................ 6-loc cope
Thinner than No. 20 wire
gauge. .................... s-lOc cope
Provided that barrel hoops of
iron or steel and hoop OF band
iron, splayed or punched, shall
pay more duty than that i'm
posed the hoop or band
from which they are made. l.l0c
Steel bands or strips, untemper-
ed, suitable for band saws..... Be lb q -
cope
II tempered. .................... &c 81
2pc -
Hoop iron or steel, wholly or
partly manufactured into
hoops, painted or not, with or
without fastenings for baling. 5-10c ID -
Railway bars made Of iron or
steel, and railway bars made
N part Of steel, rails and
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29

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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-02
FIELD OF LABOR.

Florida exports sponges.
A shave l. 6 ceGtS IN London
Chicago boxmAkers won "a strike.
America has 23i women drsymen.
Hamilton Sev. hasn't al idle man.
California grape Iickrrs get q day.
Cincinnati laundry workers crgauized.
Al Port Alice laborerS get sis year.
Greater New York las four labor lycerms.
Detroit l. TO have another labor exchange.
North Carolina has seventeen WOODEN
mills.
Chicago sweet railway men get 80 cents
an hour.
Chicago tile layers Won a strike that last
ed six weeks.
Cleveland ma~hinists struck for the rein
statement OF two men.
The postal clerks convention Endorsed the
movement for postal savings banks.
Alexandria Ind. plate glass workers
struck against a cut from $l.s5 20 Sl-6s
day.
Plttsburg flint glass workers, who struck
for s2O5 day have rejected the offer OF 81
Indiana's Labor Commissioners settled the
strike at Edwood. The arm Will recognize
the union.
Duuth's unionists talk Of holding an In
/ dustrial bazaar a. which their work would De
exhibited.
/ Bookkeepers held n Dationai coh'chuo"
! a, Detroit Charles Rowett. OF Kansas CITY,
was made president
The New Castle. England, branch OF the
Cooperative Wholesale Society donated
els 900 10 the striking engineers.
Chicagos Municipal Civil Service Com
mission declined 20 furnish 900 laborers e
firm whose men had struck.
, Fall River Loomnxers held shop meet
, ing 10 protest against being asked TO d
: more work than they can do well.
b.. Plttsburg street railway employees wi
4 shortly be granted e for n ten-hour da,
o Some will be employed but nine hours.
a The contractor awarded contract fc
;. boilers by the Fall River School Board ha
K to agree to employ unionists exclusively.
!. Denver bindery girls struck because tv
a non-union girls were employed. The unis
scale calls for ~. eS and 20 week.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-02
TRAIN ROBBERS BAFFLED.
uighwaymen Secure Only Watches and
small sums.

The west-bound passenger train on the
Northern Paclac Railroad was held up three
miles east Of Mooraead. MINI II Is said
that the express car carried a large sum OF
money. which the robbers failed 20 secure.
owing 10 n blunder in cutting on the cars.
The robbery was the coolest piece OF work
imaginable. Engineer Hoover. just after
pulling out Of Elyadon. noticed man on
The front platform Of tie mail car. lew
moments later the robber climbed over the
tank. and. at toe point OF pistol com
PEELED the engineer % apply the brakes
Three other robbers then came forward.
bringing alonG the conductor and brake
men.
All mounted toe engine. which was again
started west The robbers SAT on the tank
Aad ordered the engineer 70 Keep her NOV
ing." Not until the train reached Moorhead
was il known that the engine and mall car
/ had been cut OF from the balance OF the
train. Then the robbers discovered that
they had not cut deep enough into the tran
and had failed 10 secure the treasure in th'
express sales They rapidly despoiled tn
crew OF watches and money and made thei
eecape
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-02
HOSPITAL SET o> FIRE.
Angry View Orleans Crowd DID Not want
Fever Patients IN Their Midst

4, stta,nrt was made Friday morning 10
bum tn. Beauregard school building. ~
New Orleans La. which the board OF heal'n
bad converted into yellow fever hosi''1''
The main building was saved by the IRE de-
pArt-nert but the annexes were burned.
TIE house Wa -; o. Are because OF the +
opposition % residents % the neishooreood /
70 having = fever hospital established IN +
their midst
Al angry crowd gathered around the /
building and openly threatened that al the
erst OPPORTUNITY they would Are Il. sister
Agnes and a number OF other Sisters on
Charity had been putting the place In order
Tor the reception Of fever patients. Ine
school board had removed every desk aLd
other aticles Of furniture from X ana Tue
hospiie! people had brought cots AND o'he'
adiuncts for the treatment OF patients.
surgeont BSom. the Sisters and Others
we're warned that they had better leave the
building. They did so. headed by sister
Acnes and threaded their way through
dense crowd of people.
Then a detachment OF police were ordered
70 the scene but the crowd. bent on incen-
diarisn. were sharper than the police, ana
while the officers were attempting 10 qNeh
the people 10 front Of the building, Two per
sons with 5-gailon can Of oil. proceeded T.
the rear and quickly had the house IL
d. flames.
Al alarm was turned in. but the first nr'
a engine had scarcely arrived when IL hos
wsscut. When the other engines came taei
hose were also cut by the crowd. Chief Gas
ter and Captain Jourue- finally arrived IN
,. Datrol wagon with biz squad OF oincer
and beat the crowd back. TIE hremen wen
actively L. work and succeeded IN prevent
/ ircthe destruction OF the main building.
- A committee called on Mayor Flower =
nrotest against the use OF the building "a
r. hospital The Mayor aercely denounce
&c The burning The question had arisen,
y saia whether there should be law ard goo
order or anarchy. SO far a. he WAS col
nc ccrned he proposed 70 exhaust every pow
y. AT hi- command 70 esta oiish peace. and II
CO required all tue forces % tue city ana stat
ne wAs determined that tho Braur~ea
tunding should be used a. temporary DC
IA ri,al. In the meantime. he said. no eIor,
. expense should be spared In bringing 20 u
t,ce tae mea who bad fred the building.
90 Thus far Their has not been quite one hu
Sif dr.d cases and fifteen deaths from the Tex
IN View Orleans. The death rate l. In
ueishhorhood Of IS per cent II was
1878 IS per cent. 20 that up 20 the pres'
time the disease = about a. V!ru!ent a.
cd. was in the last great epidemic New orle'
- had.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-02
Gold Country Discovered =
Washington State.
SCENE OF EXCITEMENT.
1t 10 Located Near Mount Baker -" -
Said by Experienced Mtners to EHees"
An Value the Lodes Located In AiashS
or C.rirorr,n-T~ies OF Riches Told Ny
Recently Returned Miners.

despatch from Seattle. WASH. says;
The FIRST ausheni. news concerning wash
ington's new Eldorado. near Mount BAKER,
and how 10 get there is brought 20 Seattle
by f.. ". saportas. president OF the informs-
ton and Registry. who, with Frank Cryoo
and Gus Wagner. experienced miners OF
Dawson City. went 70 the scene OF excite
ment last Saturday.
According to Mr.. Saportas. the route Is
.passable and not very difficult until within
five miles OF the nnd. The last Ave miles.
however. presents obstacles that would Tor
ever discourage anyone not an experienced
prospector and mountaineer. There Is IN
Mount Baker and it, surrounding heisn's
enough gold. says Mr. Saportas, 70 keep
prospectors busy for the next 10 years In
samples OF ore that was brought back oy the
informant. Mr. Bogardas. the assayer, py
cursory inspection. declared that free soio
existed in exceedingly good quantities.
Il met many men" continued Mr. Sapof-
tas ..xho came from Mt Tonohoy (rom-
bow and they all reiterated these stories
concerning the great strike OF $4,000 10
! the ton made ia Bear Mountain. in Tomohoy
! (Tombovl. and several others have found
ore equal 70 the discovery IN Bear Noun
tain
A Especial correspon lent Of the Evening
Times sends word from summas a. follows;
FINDS i'm Raid Mountain
The gold discoveries in the mountains OF
Whatcom county are beyond any doubt the
richest in the annals ofthe Pacific Coast or
even ia Alaska So say the most experience
ed prospectors whom | have accom- panieu
70 the scene OF the recent finds.
The recent hnd t. in Bald Mountain. s'o-
ated in the northeast portion OF Whatcom
county. northeast Of Mount Baker The
mineral range runs northwest and southeast
and to-day is located for 30 miles. There II
no telling how much farther It extends.
The vein is IN Ave claims-Lone JACK
Bonnie. sidney. Lulu and Whist-Varie'
T from three to five feet in thickness. II rrn'
e under a layer OF porphyry ledge in ser
4. pentine manner. and auriierous shsle ap
:. pears In the ledge. Il is free milling quart
OF sugar and rose color. carrying copper an
silver. The vein can be traced hall a mile
, Tho cropping T. under solid porphyry.
The cold L. known wire gold al
can be seen with the naked eye and picse
e out with the fingers. That great quantu'
e Oft exist. there is no doubt. The forms
u ton OF the range in which the Ind l. locate
d does not look TO be very rich In mineral
= II there f. any placer mining II has not
: vet been demonstrated TO be a paying pro-
osition.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-02

Explosion Follows Flames at Bsinbridge'
o. Causing Death and Injuries

Bainbridgc seventy-nve miles south OF
springfield. on the Ohio Southern hairo"o'
was visited 10y a $40. 600 FIRE. which was
started bv two boys playing with matches
and straw IN barn Two lives were lost
and eleven people injured. one or more lat
ally.
From the barn the flames spread to an
o,,,huilafnc and then 10 Beardsleys drug
store. In this several barrels OF gasoline
exploded with terrific force. wrecking the
building. Beardsley was caught 10y heAVy
timbers near the front door and plnned
there.
He cried TO the assembled hundreds TO
save him. but their work was In vain and
they saw him roasted alive before 'heir eye.
Finally he threw up his hands. exclaimed
.Good-bye. boys" and was dead. Thomas
Higgins. who was on TOP Of the building
was killed by the explosion.
! Numerous people suffered minor injuries
! Chilicothe aud Waverley responded TO calls
for aid and sent part OF their fire depart
| ment.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-02
TO MARRY PRINCE EsrEKHAzr.
Mr.. Lzogtryrs Attorney says she VIII lie
welded In California.

III apuoars--1.nf that LAlly Lsngtry viii
-,.-r, P-.re. E.t~rAazy = co1-r---t- Al
torr.~v H-ar~ NcPlk~. o: sar Frsnc;seo l.
authority FOR t1---
Il have recently received. sai1 Mr. Ne
PIKE. from ~ client. Mr. Lanstry. notice
q h-r irte-t!on % return 10 California ts
an. end q Sover-t-F. PTiaee k=ternzzs ~Di
accompany h~r. anc upon their arrival h~f~
ft-y Vii b- married.
.B~cSus- thes have preferred 10 be mar
ri~t f. tbs state l. must no; % argued THAI
es,.~r Mr.. Largtry or Prince EsseFhAzy 'e-
s.ras TIE formers divorce as Lacking IL leg
alltv Ia Any other Jurisdiction Oh tie con-
trsry they are advised ~ their solicitors 10
I,orcor. that The decree granted a. LAKE
Po-. hAs freed ber absolutely from EDWARD
L.ugtry. 20 that ne nay marry 10 any par
Of tie world she chooses
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-02
FOREIGN NEWS

All arrans~nents a. Rome Tor Tue ees-
..o. of EAssals 20 Great Britain have D~~n
o.nvle.~d xnd everything l. ready Tor the
se-u p.sion {. that town ~ the brlnsn
troop
prsce 81 sioo 90 has bseD placed on tie
f-sts q 1rosp-rn Morales. the r~soiat."N-
~ leader q Gust~nals. add bis slc Man
a. Fnentee.
rbs or,eial reports q; Paris of the hefvesis
a. b.riev and oats for 1897 show that ibe
former Will yield 1864. 40 heetoiitrer. com
cared with - al. AZ 10 1856, aud that tn-
,s,ter viii Weld q .0is. go. compared with
~ .0os 80 IN 1855
Wilton ". 0riscorn. wels-knovn cleo
,r.e~l engineer " Philadelphia was Killed
by tue seesdettai discharge % his rine whs's
hsGting IN Canada
Fnp<ror william has decorated the hon'
sian Minister Cor War. 0ef- NaDnovsxi. ant
r.,.nx P.sbklu. Ast-de-esnp 81 the Gar
vfth tie Order o, tie Back Eagle.
n~.s aaDcanced IN London thai Lore
ssl.sbrry had nox ~fthtrawn from ths Sea
eoassrsnee. cas tnss be objects 20 the pres
soes Of Bussis ssd JsDse 10 ~
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-02

i
HAMMOND Boshrod. colcrcd. who assaulted
Maggie Roberts. was lynched AZ
Unw~svi,le by q mob of about 500 people.
rns lxn,hius occurred In the courthoVe
.cn.rs and the BODY was left hanging TO the
limb OF a shade tree.
There was no attempt Mt disguise on Tue
mart of the Iynchers. not . mask being seen |,
IN the crowd. Bushrod was from kockpou, |
Ind Seven months ago he was taken In
and treated kindly by Willis Clark. farmer
I'm the upper part Of the county, only TO re-
ward his benefactor by stealing bis watch
He was released two weeks ago from the
ccanty jail. after having served sentence Oh
l56 days for the theft.
Three miles below town. near Petri Sta
ton he encountered little Maggie Roberts,
daughter OF Ben Roberts. prominent
farmer He assaulted her. and. after beat
ING her about the head with coupling pan,
iet, her on the railroad embansment Tor
dead.
News OF the outrage spread. and searching
parties were sent In every direction GUARDS
were sent 20 every skin for twenty miles,
+ and his escape 10 Indiana was well nien
T impossible.
Failing In his attempt TO cross at Tell City.
he made back over the railroad and was
captured In hiding under the waiting sta
ton al Falcon a mining town four miles be-
low the scene Of the crime
Bushroi fell In with a crowd OF four men.
who brought him quietly TO HawesNi1ie ana
surrendered him TO the iailer while the town
was deserted searching for him.
In the meantime the officers got wind oil
mob and Bushrod was secreted under guard
in the graveyard on the hill until morning
when he was again locked up.
But the people had determined on dealing
: him summary justice. Early in the day they
= came afoot. on horseback. IN wagons and II
trains. They were impatient for darkness
!, 10 cover the ground.
II was rumored that militia would arriv'
at44O from Owonsboro. The angry crowd
= hearing this. placed sentinels on the M
= overlooking the road 10 give notice II IN
= train brought any soldiers
When the train pulled on; the jail author
titles started the rumor that Bushrod IA
been struggled on board and was being spii
tied out Of town. The mob then broke 10
the railway. and the officers then tried
Mt get their prisoner out OF town IN another d
rectiOn.
60 The lookouis who had been posted by II
a, vigilantes discovered this move in the gam
- q life and death and IL quickly chez
Al mated for the jaier. A. the point OF M
l. dred guns they gave up their prisoner al
the march q the courthouse square oega
no Bushrod was given brief shift Tor pray
"a and confession. His confession was compile
an and he was soon dangling from the tr'
The applause a. he went up was deaienin
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-02
TIE sEAL CONFERENCE
Great Britain Hss Decided Not Co JOIN IN
the Meeting in W Washington

A decided sensation has oeen caused ID
I,oldon Is q rep0r; tAai Great Britain has
no.larc TIE C.iiet states that she cAHnoi
participate IL the scaling conference a
va,hin-to- Il Russia AID Japan take PaT
II L.
Al orcial a. The British foreign once
sait. .-Gr-at B-..Hla hss not yet withdraw.
hat the die cssioa q The situation VIII 50 OF
With The Cnitc1 states ambassador here
TIE probable r->ut vii - that Great Bin
ain wfli A. HAT ser experts report L. snS-
rnitted 20 her art SIC will thea decide
whether or lot th- l-c~~sity exists 81 !oir-
lag II the c1a'-r-r-e- y tie reports points
cot soue -a-.iy reneti-t situation. result
can - arrived - - a~s--1cni between
g;r~.t Hr.tsfc artt h- Cc.t-d states without
to- necessity q = conference. which Wa
only Scc~f,-c al referendum. II sny event
Il l. protalie IL U1lt-d State vii ooi1it
a. much a. - q -'-reuce was held
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-02
Three Coal Diggers Dead and
Six Imprisoned.
NO HOPE FOR THE MEN.
Caught In m Underground Furnace
Thirteen Wounded Workers br""s"'
Co the Surface. All OF Wno"
Terribly lnjured-Enorss To Save '"e
Property.

Aspecial dispatch from Marion. Ill, says
An explosion terrible In its effects occu'reu
In the Williamson County Coal company
mine four miles north OF here. Fifteen
wounded miners. two Of whom have since
died. have been rescued from the smoke Sho
flames. while one was found dead when 'ne
reecuing party went down the SHAFT
several Of the wounded are so severely
crushed and otherwise hurt that they VIII
die
There are said 70 be five or six miners st''
irrrisoned in the mine. ou; they cannot oe
reached These men DO doubt are dead be-
fore this time. a. there l. no means OF es-
cape for them. the mine not having oeen
provided with the usual escaPement shalt
Most q the men killed and wounded are
Russians and Italians and Il - Impossible 10
-e; their names. The force Of the explosion
was tremendous. as u blew one OF the mine
mules over zoo yards along the main en-
1 trance and into the big dump at the bottom
4 % the shaft which Is $50 feet deep
TIE cages were run up and down the shan
as last - the engines could force them iol
the purpose OF confninS the flames III tn'
entries and preventing them from spre@oins
up the shaft aud se;tiug Ere 10 umeers "n'
buildings AZ the mouth ~ the pit. he eN
ploslou was no doubt caused oy pasural gas
Of which there s. q good deal IN this mine
taxing fire from the miners lamps Whe'
they descended a. they started FOR work
. the morning
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-02
wrHpkRED HIS FAMILY.
An Iowa Farmer Kiiis Bis Wife. Five OF
Hts Own Children and Then Himseif

John Becker farmer, whose home was
eight miles from Carroll. murdered his wife
ana Ave o. HE children and fatally wounded
the remalping child, his eight-year-oid son,
Henry. Monday night Aftervard the nend-
ish or derneniec man sent bullet into MS
own head. inficting fatal wound.
Boecker's parents say be had no family
troubles. his financial affairs we're In good
shape. and they can assign no motive Tor
the terrible crime. On the other hand, II Is
said that he had disagreed with his parents
over the occupancy OF the farm on which he
lived. and this IL assigned 10y some rs the
cause Of the trouble which eliminated 10
the murders and suicide.
The murderer had an engagement TO heiI
a negahbor thresh wheat. and not putting II
an appearance. his brother Henry wen
about . O'Clock % see why he did not 90
The doors Of the house were locked am
there were no signs OF life. Henry tried
get into tbs house and finally kicked In
door. when be came upon horrible scene
Blocker, his wife and baby slept IN n oac
room. ADD their three bodies lay on bet
The wife bad been shot tn the neck WHIP
gun, which slood IN the cornell.