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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-12
AN ANCIENT MEXICAN CITY.
A Curious Legsnd-soms Relics Of Emperor
Macmillan.

Macmillan.
Quoretaro was town before tbs
Spanish conquest and was made a city
in 1855. A legend of Queretaro is that
an Otomite chief, Fernando de Tapia
by name, undertook to convert the city
to Christianity in way that seems
novel to us, but was common enough to-
his day. He came from lula with "A
challenge to the people of Queretaro to
a fair stand up fight. If he won, the
people surviving were TO be baptized.
The challenge was accepted, but while
the fight was in progress a dark cloud
came up and the blessed Santiago was
seen in the heavens with fiery cross,
whereupon the people of Queretaro gave
up and were baptized They set up a
stone cross TO commemorate the event
OH the site Of the present church OF
Santa Cruz. There is scarcely a church
in Mexico which has not a legend Of
this kind attached to It, The town is
identified with the history of Mexico.
Here the treaty Of peace between the.
United States and Mexico was ratified
III lO4eg anu litit @4AAlliillaH A4iuiit HIS
last stand in 1861, was obliged to sur
render and was shot Everybody is in
terested in Maximilian mainly ON ac-
count of poor Carlotta. Macmillan was
executed on the Cerro de las Campanas
and with him Generals Miramin and
Media. The place is marked by three
little crosses Of stone. The two gem
erals were killed at the first volley, but
Macmillan, who had requested that he
be shot through the body that his
mother might look upon his face, was
only wounded, and second firing was
required TO kill him.
The emperor had been led to believe
that Carlotta was dead She became i'll
sane from grief and was kept i'll an asy
lum for many years, but she still lives
and still mourns for her dead husband
and the loss of her throne. The United
States government protested against the
execution of Macmillan, but in vain.
Juarez refusing TO spare him.
There are all kinds of relics of Maxi
milan in Mexico-the Yturbide thea
ter, where he was tried and condemned,
the table ON which the death warrant
was signed, the wooden stools OH which
the prisoners sat during the trial and
the coffin of Macmillan, whose remains
were subsequently sent to Austria and
buried at Miramar. / confess | do not
share in any sentiment of pity for Max
imiliap, who was an adventurer with
out shadow of right in Mexico and
took the. chances of war. He was, it is
true, victim of Napoleon and of his
own ambition. and was very scurvily
treated by those who had induced him
to set up his throne ia Mexico, but to
have released him would have been to
establish claimant for the Mexican
thronea 1t was better that this man
should die than that thousands should
be sacrificed in the wars he would sure
ly have somented if he had been allowed
to live. Philadelphia Ledger
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High Titles without Cost.

English folk are copying the Ameri.
can custom of comforting titles upon
their children in baptism by using such
names as Lord. Earl, Baron, etc. This
will mean more to the English child
than it has to the American.
One parent in the midlands bestowed
on his progeny military as well as social
rank. One of his children is christened
Baron, another Captain another Colonel
and another Major General. London
Truth has this statement from one who
knows this titled family, and they are
to be found at the present time in the
neighborhood of Birmingham. At this
rate every Tommy Atkins in the next
generation may be field marshal.
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F'isliy.

A man who resides on the east side
relates an incident which may be true,
but it sounds fishy.
His boy caught large sucker cou-
pie of years ago, and since that time he
has been experimenting with his finny
pet somewhat. The fish has been kept
out of the water so much that it gradu
ally became accustomed to it, and fire.
quently Topped out of the water itself
and followed the boy around. Finally
the boy placed it in pen and gradual
ly reduced its bathing periods until it
became acclimatized, abandoning en-
tirely its native element. 1t would fol-
low the boy around like dog, and one
day he started over to town across the
swinging bridge with the pet fish flop
ping along after him. But alas for boy
ish hopes The fish made slight mis-
cue and Topped overheard into the creek
and drowned before the boy could res
cue him. --Punxsutawnoy Spirit
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A PLACE FOR FIFTY.
A Statesman Who Found n Use For tho
Earnings of His Pen.


81 recall pleasant incident in the
life of the late Representative Harter oi
Ohio" said an Ohio man the other day.
81 yas at his apartments enc evening
at the hotel where he lived during his
first term in congress and was in the re-
ception room with several friends while
he was working i'll his office at the fan
end of the suit Of rooms. Presently he
came out among us laughing and hold
ing in his hand check.
"'Oh, he said TO us, I am literary,
as we'll as you are, and here's check
for $50 l have just got from maya
zine for an article that | WASH t expect
ing 10 get anything for.
II told him | was not that literary
for l couldn't sell one article for 500,
and we laughed and chatted awhile
about it, Mr.. Harter insisting that he
wasn't a writer for money, but for the
sake of presenting his views to the
world.
"'I don't know what to do with the
check, he said and turned to his wife.
DO you need it?' he asked her.
she tOlu MIN sne ulu HOt, luouSI
most women would have had use for il
quick enough, and he stood irresolute
for moment with the check in his
hand, then he smiled radiantly.
"I know somebody who does want
it, he said, nodding at his wife as II
she never would see it again. Il received
letter from the pastor of little Lu-
theran church-Mr. II. was jealous
Lutheran-away out in Missouri, who
is having a very hard time to get along
and keep body and soul together, ask.
ing me if I couldn't do something
can send him this check. And he danced
away with it as joyously as schoolboy
with a plaything, and in minute OIL
two the check, duly Endorsed and &C.
companied by a letter, was waiting fol
the postman to start it on its mission OF
charity, and / have often wondered
what the business manager of that mag
azine thought when he found that cheek
TO the order of NJ ID. Harter coming
back to New York from little country
bank in Missouri. w Washington Star
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An Opinion of Conkling.

The Rev. II. S. Haweis expresses this
uncomplimentary opinion of the late
Roscoe Conkling in his book of travels,
lately published: "At Bigelow House
in New York 1 dined with Conkling,
the crack lawyer, talker and, l should
say, characteristic windbag of the peri
cd. Conkling seemed to me an
insufferably vulgar, loud, clever person
utterly conceited and self conferred.
Conkling talked through you
and over you and all around you and
quoted poetry whether you wanted TO
hear it or not and answered his own
riddles and asked questions which he
never meant you to answer, being OF
tho nature of Cicero's rhetorical inquir-
les in the verrine and Catalina orations.
I can recollect nothing that ConklinS
said-only the abiding flavor OF his ar
rogance and oonceit.
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HAD NO FAITH IN PHYSlC.
Queen aiizabeth Might Have Lived Longer
Had She Taken Medicine.

hhu She Iahen Medicine.
OF rhe efficacy of physic Queen Eliza.
beth had always been skeptical. Now,
10 or 2 physicians came to the palace,
each promising, with all manner of
asseveration, ''her perfect and easy
recovery" if she would follow simple
course of treatment. But they spoke in
vain. Nor could the protests of council
ors, divines and waiting women induce
her to accept medical assistance. Her
melancholy was "settled and irremov-
able," and she had no wish to prolong
il by frightening out her life. She only
broke silence to murmur, Il am not
sick, / feel no pain and yet L pine
away" She was asked whether she had
any secret cause of grief. She replied
that she knew Of nothing in the world
worthy Of troubling her. At length by
force cit is said) she was lifted from the
cushions and put TO bed. Her condition
underwent no change. Gradually those
about her realized that ''she might live
if she would use means, but that she
would not he persuaded, and princes, as
they tearfully acknowledged, cannot be
cOerced. Nevertheless until the third
week they looked forward to renewal
of her old vivacity and the dispersal of
her letharey But during the week it
was perceived that the ground she had
lost could only be recovered by miracle.
On Wednesday, March 30, her conn
cilors entered her bedchamber TO receive
her last instructions. She had none to
give. The archbishop and bishops offered
up prayer at her bedside and she derived
some comfort from their ministrations.
In the evening she sank into a quiet
sleep, such as she had sought without
avail for nearly month. She never
woke again About o'clock in the
morning of March 81 she departed this
life, mildly like lamb, easily like a
ripe apple from the tree. " When she
was examined after death, her ply.
sicians reported that "she had a body
of firm and perfect constitution, likely
to have lived many years. Death was,
in fact, prepared to the last TO bargaiE
with her for few more years of life,
but his terms implied an enfeeblemenf
of those faculties on whose unrestricted
exercise her queenly fame seemed to hei
to depend. BY refusing to be party &c
the truce she invited her overthrow.
but she never acknowledged hersel:
vanquished. She made no will, she be
slowed no gift on amy of the faithful at
tendsnts who wept beside her deathbed.
and she declined to guide her council il
the choice of a successor. .-Cornhil
Magazine.
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

A cut in cycle prices announced bv
.he huage -Whitworth company, linn
i'eu' Oh London, has caused a general
ian OF cycle shares on the Stock Ex-
change and almost panic.
A Georgia author sent a short story
20 100 newspapers and magazines COM
bined. 1t took all II them lust three
years to decline it; but he was not dis.
couraged, and during the fourth year OF
ITS Itinerary it was accepted and paid
for.
Charles f. Sayler, United States beet
sugar commissioner says that the farm
ers of Nebraska and South Dakota
have big wealth in sight in the sugar
beet industry.
Mrs. Priscilla spooner, mother Of II.
{. Sanford Of Akron, o.. IS dead. She
was 1903 years old and the oldest per-
son on the Western Reserve.
A mad dog at Emngham, Ills. bit
John Lunow, a wagon manufacturer;
Mrs. p. Kinstner, a grocers wife; Hem
ny Schrader, a farmer and a little girl
named Bourland, before H. could be
killed.
New Brunswick, n. j., has woman
night Waterman. and so successful has
Mrs. George Huber been In her new vo-
cation that she expects 20 continue in
that capacity indefinitely
Governor ana Mrs. Tanner have re-
turned to Springfield Ills. from the
north, after an absence Of two or
three weeks and are at the Leland hl-
tel
Professor Samuel Brassai of the Uni
versity of Klausenburg. i'm Hungary,
died recently soon after celebrating his
Tooth birthday.
Palmyra, MS, ia excited over the
elopement Of August Lambert, who re-
Gently removed with his wife and child
from Chesterfield, HIS. TO Palmyra, ard
embarked i'm the livery business, and
Mrs. Myrtle Teaney, wife of Ephriam
Teaney.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that, ow-
ing to drought in New South Wales
and South Australia, 1t will be neces-
sary TO import thousands of tons of
California wheat.
While attending a school at West
Chester, Pa. childof Joshua Abel came
in contact with a schoolmate who had
just been taken i'll. The Abel child re-
turned home and divided some chewing
gum she had in her mouth among four
brothers and sisters. Next day the en-
tire family was stricken with diph-
liberia
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-12
WAGES IN CHINA.
In Spite of Their Lowness the Celestials
Wax Fat.

How a Chinese workman manages tor
support his family and remain sleek and
fat OH the wages he receives is an ever
lasting mystery to the European and
American. The Chinese are a people of
marvellous economy. They will support
a family, furnishing food, clothes. shell
ter, from a small garden which they
call farm, but which in America
would not more than furnish an Amer
lean family with early vegetables.
In cities the laboring men receive the
merest pittanoe. In Canton, where Ia
borers are better paid than in other parts
of China, skilled workmen live on these
wages: Shoemaker, S4 per month;
blacksmith. So per month; fine ivory
carver, S12 per month; tailor, SO per
month; fine embroiderer, $4 per month;
designer, So per month; silversmith, SIS
per month.
The Chinese are superstitious, and
the workmen support, in addition to
their temples and pagodas and priests,
which receive more in proportion than
the churches of Europe and America,
idol makers, geomancers, fortune tell
ers, physiognomists, soothsayers, astrol-
ogers and interpreters of dreams, who
exist by thousands and coin all the mon
ey they want. Another thing which
makes money for a certain class is the
Chinese custom Of burning great guam
titles of spirit money! imitation
coins, which are supposed to be legal
tender for dead relatives. One city
alone employs 100, 600 people in making
this cash for ghosts.
Peculiar suporstitions embarrass the
workman. For instance, carpenters and
builders have to exercise great care in
selecting a ridgepole for a house. 1t
must have neither cracks nor knots, and
in it small hole must be made and
filled with gold leaf and the whole
beam painted red. This insures good
luck for the owner of the house.
The tea trade employs thousands OF
persons. The laborers receive from 81
to $40 per month, according to their
grade of work. Chicago News.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-12
The MARKETS.
hlcago Grain and Produce

Chicago, July 10.
Folloving were the quotations on tne
paard cf Trade today: Wheat-July
onened and closed 69Ac; september,
opened 65hc, closed $3.50; December
opened 67lkc, closed &C. Corn-July'
onened 26$c, closed 26l2c; December,
opened 2Sc, closed 275sc. Oats-July,
Vowed nominal closed 179sc; Septem-
her opened and closed 1850; May, opened
oOM r closed 205sc Pork-Juy, opened
e. 10 closed $745; September, opened
S7S5' closed $3.50. Lard-July, opened
"a 02ib. closed $3.971a; September, opened
$4.O5, closed $4.OO. - uooroor,,
,Aihc ner 10; extra dairy, 12c; fresh
l pa1h'N per dozen. Live Poultry
Turkevs. 6G61kc per I'd; chickens, d1acc:
ducks 6G6ldc. Honey-Whlte Clover II
@12Ihc per 10; imperfect, 1Q9c. New APP
nles. 75d$1.50 per Dbl. New FotaIoes,
81 5O61.6 per Dbl. StraWpelrles-f ar
to good, 50Q75c per lo-qt' case'
Chicago Live stock.
Chicago, July 10.
-Eetirated receipts for the day,
70 Goo. sales ranged at $225Q362ls Tor
MOS "a 45@3. 621s for light, $3.15Q3.SO Tor
ro1ISh hacking, $3.40qS.57h for mixed,
and 81 l0m3.55 for heavy packing anu
shinr;ne lots. Cattle-Estimated re-
CENTS for the day. 500; quotations ranged
at S. OOa5.3 80 for choice to extra shiplin nS
steers S4.4Od5.00 good to choice 90, Sf'1O
m475 fair to good, S3.S5M4.4V colilIlioh W
medium do, SS6064,15 butchers steers
60 ooSS9 on stockers. $370@425 feeders,
81 9513 so COWS. $2.60@4.SO heifers, $Z'2S
G9 S0 bulls. oxen and stays $2.iouf'zO
Texas steers. and $3.50M6.60 veal caves.
sheen and Iambs-Estimated receipts
for The day. 1000: quotations ranged at
60 10G4 90 westerns, S270@315 Texans
s225G4.1O natives, and $2.9O@o'4o latiipS'
East Buffalo Live Stock.
East Buffalo, N. Y, July 10.
Dunning e. Stevens, Live STOCK So,n-
mission Merchants, East BuHalo, ~. :,
quote as follows: Cattle-heeeip.
Hogs-Receipts. 10 cars; market active
anS higher: Workers., s3.S2R@3.S5 most
Iv s3.S5: pigs, $SS0@3S5; mixed, 800
,1,a.ajums s3.7O. Sheep and Lambs-Re-
nairts none and but few head held over;
oil heavy. no trade and prospects only
fair.
st Louis Grain.
st. Louis, July 10.
wheat-Lower: No. red cash eleya-
for &C bid: track, 6Sls@l0Rc new w.
. hard cash and July 66&c; August
esho. sentember. 65hc asked; Deem
PCS %er e7Tc Corn-Lower No. cash
e"iL09aSc: July, 24hc asked; Septem-
her 2IiSc. Oats-Weak; No. cash
iTac bid; September, TIC bid. Rye
Nominal; 32i4c track.
Milwaukee Grain.
Milwaukee. July 10.
wbeat-Weak: No. spring, f51ac,
No northern, 76c; December, ooc. W
white. 22122Ac. Barley-Droopiinigg'
No 3 35c; sample on track, 271aqS41se'
Rye-Steady; No. l. S519
Detroit Grain.
Detroit, July 10.
wbeat-Cash white. 7412c; cash rea'
7aiLc. July. 695sc; September, 6U'sc'
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-12
Mrs. Lanotrv TO Marry Again.

London, July 12.-It is stated from an
excellent source that Mrs. Langtry will
shortly marry Pince Esterhazy de Ca
lantha. The prince is about 60 years Of
age, has been married twice before, both
his wives being dead. He is a great
sportsman and the purchaser Of horses
lor the Austrian government. Prince
Eslerhazy is related to the Earls Of Jer-
sey and his attentions to Mrs. Langtry
are reported to be most ardent.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-12
Cav Wall Papers.

The shops of the decorators show a
decided return to gay effects in wall
papers and seem to indicate that the
reign of negative backgrounds for rooms
is seriously interfered with if not fin
ished. A yellow figured paper, that is
almost an orange tint, hangs next to one
Of deep red, which, in its turn, gives
place to a rich and vivifying green
These are, any Of them, to be used fash
ionably with white woodwork.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-12
STRONG NOTE TO THE PORTE.
1t Fails, However,, to Fix n Date for
settlement.

1t Falls, However,, to FIX Date Tor
settlement.
Constantinople, July 1.-THE collec-
tive note of the powers demanding a
cessation of the obstruction of the peace
negotiations, which was presented by
the ambassadors to the Turkish gov
eminent Friday, is couched In the most
severe terms. 1t insists that the from
tier between Greece and Turkey be as
traced by the military attaches Of the
embassies OF the powers, and empha-
sizes the unanimous determination OF
the powers to secure a prompt conclu-
sion of peace. AS, however, the note
does not fix date within which set
Element of the questions in dispute must
be effected, and as it does not mention
the steps it is proposed to take in the
event of Turkey not yielding to the
wishes of the powers. there is great
doubt as to whether the note will have
the desired effect.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-12
How Many Were Killed2

London, July 12.-Lord George Ham
hlon, secretary Of state for India, re-
plying in the house of commons to a
question as to the number of persons
Killed during the recent riots in the
vicinity Of Calcutta, said that about
seven persons were killed and about
twenty were wounded. According to
naive reports no less than 1900 persons
we're Killed during the disturbances
ABOUT Calcutta.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-12
Worked Both Ways.

at must have cost you a great deal
to provide all these comforts for your
employees, said the friend who had
been looking through the reading rooms
and gymnasium attached to the factory.
ut does cost little" admitted the
manager. "but, you see, we pay 'em
such low wages that the factory is real
ly better place than home. That makes
'em contented to stay. Exchange.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-12
Dritfie1.

A drink called drithel is popular
in the north of England. The cotton
hands Of Manchester and the factory
workers get through nearly 10, 600, ooo
pints of this stuff every year. lt IS maze
from hops, hemlock rott. parsley ana
Glove and is one of the most dangerous
liouors ever brewed. The northern
counties pay about $780, 600 year ior
the output OF drithel. -.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-12
Every Time.

Master-Tombs, this is an example
in subtraction. Seven boys went down
to pond to battle, but two of them
had been told not to go in the water.
Now, can you tell me how many went
in?
Tombs-Yes, sir. Seven. - London
Tit Bits.
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stopped the Fight.

Hot Springs, Ark, July 12.-Carl Han
,yn, Arkansas lightweight, and Fred
s%eManus of Pittsburg met Friday night
or purse for a fifteen round go be-
.e 'ne Arena club. Both men put up
sood hight for three rounds, Hanson get
~, ing much the best of 1t. At the end of
ne third round the city authorities in
'eriered and stopped the fight.
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KILLED by "A Block of Ice.

Chicago, July ia block of ice
weighing 200 pounds dropped four sto-
ries through an elevator shaft in the
Chicago Packing and Provision com
pany's building at Forty-second ana
Cook streets Saturday, crushing and IN
stantly killing the elevator CONDUCTOR
Insnnh Hildehrandt.
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Rumors Set mt Rest.

Harrisburg, Pa, July 12.-Senator
may nay saturday authorized the announce
,ho n :, ehat ne would be a candidate for
sa,, onlted States senate to succeed him
b a, Ihis sets at rest all rumors that
mo. Oeen going the rounds to the effect
noI,., senator Quay would retire from
iaI tes at the expiration of his senator
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Physician Kills Himself.

n vmsneld, Mo-. July 12.-Dr. Roswell
pbvs, a'entine, one of the best-known
.c oD,a'ns in this part of the state.
st,'ted suicide at his home here
COM, morning by shooting on &C
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Justin MCCARTHY is quite gray haired

JustIH MCOaItHy IS qUIIt Bruy HHIItU.
His beard is bushy, and his gold rim
med spectacles impart benign air to
his face, which indeed well suits his
mild manner. AS for his energy, one
would say that it was inexhaustible.
He is politician, a journalist, nov
elist and historian.
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The national flower CT England is the
rose, of France the lily, of Scotland thu
thistle and of ireland the shamrock.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-12

A miner in Staffordshire recently dis.
covered petri6ed arm imbedded in the
solid stone or ore. The popularity of
the arm lies in the fact that the elbow
Joint can be made to move to and fro as
though it consisted Of flesh and blood.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-03-06
Pigs Attacked by a Python.

No creature of the jungles of Java is
more feared than the terrible python.
A hunter tells of his experiences with
one OF these huge snakes.
Cunning one day near the WASH
river, in the interior of the island, F."
he says. II watched q number of wild
hogs coming to the water to drink.
Suddenly the head of a snake rose
abova the grass and hog squealed. A
python had seized full grown one,
easily three feet high OF the shoulder,
and thrown two coils around the body.
Under the tremendous pressure the
hog seemed to lengthen, and when
the snake uncoiled I sow only q strip
of meat, nothing distinguishable but
the head. 1 shot the snake. It was
twelve feet long and over seven inches
through, and yet its coils had crushed
the bones of its prey like chips. There
is no doubt that hidden away in vast
swamps of the interior are many una
condas of enormous size. Parties
have been made up to hunt them, but
the malarious climate drives them
back"