The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-08
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Shefiied's mayor Il the Duke Of Nor
folk. on the occasion OF Queen Vlc-
tcria's visit he gave a feast to $4,000
school children and their 1900 teachers
at his country house near by. where he
subsequently gave tea to 5000 persons
over go years Of age.
Roy Bonnell, aged years was struck
on the head with a stone by "A playmate
at New Lisbon. Wis. He showed signs
of distress, was taken blind and died
soon after, before medical aid arrived.
In the last four years statistics show
that the consumption of spirits has been
cut down more than one-third and Of
wine nearly one-half. This decrease is
credited to the spirit of economy in
duced by the hard times.
Mrs. Addie w. Buzzell who runs
farm near Waterford, Me-. although she
is not more than 30 years of age. has
had seven husbands, and tells a corre-
spondent of the Lewiston Journal that
she thinks of marrying again.
BY the consolidation of the two great
iron manufacturing firms of Schneider
and Canet of Paris. the heads of the
two foundries visited President Faure
recently and assured him that France
now has an iron manufacturing plant
rivaling the Krupp establishment in
Germany
Mrs. A. w. Creydt Of the town of
Lebanon, Wis, died from injuries re-
ceived while engaged in making soap.
She was terribly burned about the body.
General Poilloue de Saint Mars, who
was noted throughout the French army
for the eccentric ways in which he
showed his interest in his men, was in
directly victim Of the Paris fire. He
| died of congestion of the brain soon
| after learning that cousin Of his had
| been burned to death.
Fire at David City. Neb, destroyed
the Bell grain elevator. the largest in
the state outside of Omaha. and the
| city electric light plant Loss $37 900;
| insured for $1,000.
An official in the French detective de-
| partment says that numbers of ladies
| well known in Partisan society do not
hesitate to offer their services as de-
! tectives, on condition that they are
| paid.
| August Prodehl, an oler at Milwau-
kee. Wis, was caught in the wheels
and was crushed in a brick machine
| he dled instantly.
The Minnesota Territorial pioneers Is
the name of an association just formed
in St Paul. All males who were resi-
dents of the state on or before May IL
1858. are eligible for membership.
BostCn's funded debt has increased
steadily, and now amounts to $40, 1898, 326
on which the annual interest is $2,0S2,.
coo.
A gun which was used by the Kear
| sarge in the notable engagement ir
which it sank the Alabama off Cher
bourg, France. i'm 1864. is TO be part o.
a soldiers monument about to be erect
co at Stamford, Conn.
James Butts, a farmer living east o
Terre Haute, Ind. was tsruck by {
street car, but mutilation of the bod!
leads to the belief that he may hav
been murdered and his body placed
across the track.
Harry Frost, the 1i-year-old son o
Henry Frost, fell into an abandoned
stone quarry at Joliet. Ills, and wa
! drowned in twenty-eight feet Of water
The French trawler Liberte, recent,
, engaged in the Iceland fisheries, has bee
lost with twenty three members Of he
| crew.
The Canadian military contingent 70
the queens jubilee celebration saile'
! from Montreal on the mail steame
. Vancouver, 176 strong All branches o
J the militia are represented.