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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
GOLD NEAR ASHLAND.
Party of Prospectors Find It i'm Paying
Quantities in Wisconsin.

Ashland, Wis, July 31.-A company of
Ashland men have been prospecting in
a mountainous region twenty miles
south and say they have discovered gold
in paying quantities. They have been
working quietly the last few months
and have purchased 1000 acres of land
in that region. They are confident that
their find will be a profitable one. AS
says show that the gold runs on an
average Of $50 ton. For years it has
been known that gold could be found in
the hills near Mellen, which is a contin-
uation of Gogebic range. Ten years ago
prospectors found gold that assayed $50
a ton. but at the time the iron mining
fever came on and further explorations
were suspended.
The men interested have a force Of
men at work continuing the prospecting.
Among those interested in the property
are Edward Bekken, j. S. Ellis, banker;
Sam Knowles. logger, and r. A. Wink
Ter of Milwaukee. the latter who owns
considerable property in Ashland.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

isham Sedgwick a prominent business
man OF Richmond. Ind, has failed, with
Hahilties of $4,000 and assets unknown.
Ida Kline Of WyHesville. o.. commit
yea suicide at the Criterion hotel by
.aHins carbolic acid She was IS, but
mad been married about a year.
The tranways, omnibuses and under,
ground railways In and around London,
within a radius Of five miles, carry each
year. 1t Is claimed about 45S, COO 600 pas
sengers
Casper Rantz, aged "A, was killed at
iolgate, O., by a Baltimore and Ohio
fast train
Henry b. Van Peyma. Henry r. Hof-
HELD Peter Wahlers ard others Of New
YORK have filed a bill in the United
States court asking for the appointment
OF receiver for the Niagara Shoe COM
pany of Danville, Ills.
The Champion Manufacturing COM
pany OF Richmond Ind. has failed with
assets of $4,000 and liabilities estimated
at from $4,000 to 100000.
There are $4,000 artists in Paris, more
than half Of them painters The mum
Der OF paintings sent to the exhibitions
last year was about 10000
Willie Hussey and Willie Rogerson
were drowned in the lake at Waukegan
Ills, while bathing.
Dakota man has after twenty years
efforts, succeeded i'm collecting SIS from
the government for supplies furnished
Clusters army on it's way to the Little
Big Horn.
Mrs. w. +. Law was thrown from hel
carriage in a runaway at Shelbyvile
IND, and killed.
Mrs Marcellus Ernest, who lives near
Cyrene, Ga, gave birth to a 9-pounc
daughter, and mother and child are do
ing well. Mr.. Ernest, the father, is only
10, and the wife is only 13 years Of age
c. III. Dunklow, a molder. of Kenosha
| Wis, will lose one eye and possibly
both by the scattering of molten iron il
| his face.
Harry Vincent was struck on the heat
with a pitcher, it Is alleged, by hi
brother-in-law, David Nicol, at Keno
sha, Wis. Vincent's skull was fractured
At Kensington o., Earl Gamble ageC
IL years, jumped into a bin of whea
at thwe levator and was smothered t
death.
The Union brewery at Oshkosh, Wis.
owned by j. Glatz & Son, was damaged
by fire. The loss is $4,000.
Two Indians, John Chambeau and Hi
George, from Lac du Flambeau, wer
arrested at Hurley, Wis, for hunting
| deer out Of season. They went to Jail.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
Can Men Dress Babies?

"Elijah, dear, will you dress Willie this
morningY I'm in such hurry, and II
will only take you a minute or two"
Certainly" replied Mr.. Bixby cheer
fully. I'D just as soon dress the little
chap as not Here, my little man, come
and let papa dress you. I'll have you as
neat as possible in a few minutes.
Willie, aged 4, comes reluctantly from
his playthings and Bixby begins:
"Now, let's off with your mighty gown,
and-keep still, dear, l can't unbutton 1t.
There now, we'll-sit still, child. What
makes you twist about like an cell
Where's your little shirty? All, here 1t Is,
and-keep still. Put up your arm-no,
the other one, and-can't you be quiet
for half second? Put up your other arm
and stop pulling So Now let's-come
here, boy What do you mean by racing
off like that, with nothing on you but
your shirt9 DO you hear me? Come here
and let me put the rest of your clothes on.
Stand still, say. Put your leg In here,
Not that leg. There you go, rolling about
like worm. Now, II you don't keep still,
young man, I'll-stop pulling at that
chain, and-here, Mary Ellen, you'll have
to dress this wriggling little animal your
self couldn't do 1t in ten years. Go to
your mother, sir!"-Pearson' Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
CATCHING THE TARPON.
IL Involves Battle Royal Between the
Angler and the Monster.

The tarpon is "top feeder''-that Is,
he seeks his food near the surface. Those
who know him best fish for him with live
mullet, which is not allowed TO sink moro
than two feet below the waves being sus-
tnined ny a large ttsat' or cork. The
inner portion of his mouth Is bone. and
no hook will take secure hold upon It,
This being So, 10 is necessary TO allow him
partially TO swallow the bait, which he
will do by tho time that ne has carried the
float whiTling along the water for a space
Of 80 feet. Afterward is the time to swear
and pray. The tarpon reel holds 600 feet
of line. Not infrequently when ho feels
the hook the fish will strike the trail for
blue water with seemingly Irresistible
rush, and keep going. What happens
when his $50 pounds of express speed arc
pitted against the strength of line that
is run out needs not to be told He simply
sails on out TO sea, whipping behind him
200 yards of silk and whether he lives or
whether he dies its former owner knows
not. He can only go back to port and tell
vain tales of the size of the wonder that
got away.
But if that splendid rush is DETECTED, II
the fish dives, If the thumb of an old hand
be upon the reel, if the man to whom the
hand is attached Is cool of head and knows
enough to give his adversary the butt, a
battle royal is on, for verify the combat
between 100 pound man, sound of wind
and science, and IA $50 pound tarpon, pos
sessed of the temper of the devil, is Crap
pie of the gods. The crazed fish time and
again leaps three, four, five feet from the
water and shakes his head like dog In
his effort to dislodge the hook. A mo-
| mentary slack of the line is fatal, as with
the rapidity of lightning the sharp teeth
close upon the strands above the smell and
they are severed as if with knife
But when the terrific struggles have
grown fainter, when the steady, deadly
strain of the springing rod has sapped the
strength of the gallant foeman, when his
| 1.-the, powerful body is brought near to the
| boats edge, when the cruel gait has smit
| ten the life from it and its beautiful length
| lies along the deck, the conqueror feels half
| jubilant, half remorseful, wholly respect
full of the giant whom his prowess has laid
low, and confoundedly weary and dry.
! He looks at the sun, which seems surpris-
| ingly low in the heavens He looks at his
| watch and refuses To believe that two
| hours have passed in that desperate wres-
| tie. But unless he be in thorough train
| ing and past master of his art, a swollen,
| aching wrist will tell him for days after
ward that in the silver king of the south
| ern seas he was near TO meeting his match.
| Chicago Times-IIerald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
WOUNDED SOLDIERS FALLS.
The Location of the Wound Makes Them
Take Different Attitudes.

81 had the good fortune or the bad, just
as you choose to view it, to visit battle
field in Cuba the day after a fight, and l
observed some curious things about the
effects of death wounds on men which /
have never seen mentioned in the books, )"
said j. S. McSorley of New Orleans.
at was in Pinar del Rio province and
the insurgents had put to flight a large
body of Weyler's troops after short but
sanguinary conflict. Seventeen boyish
looking soldiers were scattered over the
blood soaked ground. None of them had
been macbeted. The bullets of the patriots
had laid them low Some of them were
shot almost to pieces, though few had
only one or two wounds.
"Those who were shot through the heart
had doubled up like jackknives, those who
died from intestinal wounds were stretched
out in natural position on their backs
and the poor fellows who received bullets
in their foreheads were lying on their backs
with the right arm extended above the
head and the left arm resting naturally by
the side us in sleep. There were five who
had died from this wound, and every one
of them was in the same position. The
uniformity of their positions was so marked
that called the attention of n surgeon &c
it who had accompanied me to the field.
He said that he had observed the peculiar
ity frequently before on other fields, but
was unable to account for it, / have asked
old soldiers in this country If they had
ever noticed similar positions assumed 10y
comrades killed in battle by shot in the
forehead, and the invarable answer was
that they had. 1t would seem that if the
4. Al I,.lI Ia. . ha yis,h
arm above the head, as have described
the left arm would also be extended in tn,
same way, but in all such cases the left
arm is stretched at full length by the side
with the fingers of that hand open and the
fingers of the right hand closed, as If clutch
ing desperately at something. st Loui!
Republic
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
HE SCHEMES A UTOPIA.
Booth-Tucl.er Has Great Hopes for His
New Project.

New Project.
New York, July 31.-Mr. Booth-Tuck-
er, commander of the Salvation Army
in the United States, has just returned
from the southwest, where he inspected
lands for the purpose Of selecting a site
for his proposed poor mans paradise"
The commander hopes to interest cap
italsts, and If he is successful, there
soon will be established in the south
west a colony that is expected will go
far towards solving the problem Of how
to better the condition of the city poor.
Commander Booth-Tucker hopes to
have, early in September, conference
with several eastern capitalists who own
large tracts Of land in Arizona, Colora-
do, New Mexico, and Wyoming. He
does not expect that any of them VIII
donate their lands to this plan of estab-
fishing a western utopia, but he belives
he can demonstrate the practicability
of his plan and that he can assure these
capitalists return Of per cent on their
investments. If he succeeds in doing
this he will raise $500 in month, and
with that money will start $50 families
for the new utopia within the year
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
God Is His Lawyer.

Crystal Falls, Mich, July S1.-Peter
Bons held by the cOroners jury for the
murder of Pearl Morrison. was brought
before Justice Roberts. He asked for an
immediate examination. When asked
if he wanted an attorney, he replied
that God was his lawyer" Further
hearing was adjourned in order to Sc
cure witnesses. Public sentiment against
Rons is subsiding, but will probably be
famed into excitement again at his ex-
animation.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
Annexation Regarded ms Natural.

London, July 31.-Hon. John w. Fos-
ter. in an interview with a representa-
tive of the Associated Press before leav-
ing London Friday, said: las to the
Hawaiian question l may say that IN
London, Paris, Berlin, and st. Peters.
burg l have had ample opportunity to
ascertain the prevailing sentiment on
political and commercial circles. In all
these capitals annexation is generally
regarded as the natural, if not inevita-
BILE, result of the large growth and ex-
pansion of the United States on the
western coasts Of America"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31

wheeling, w. Va. July 31.-The or
gamers In the several fields are map
ping out their campaign. The Mason
injunction Is creating widespread com
neht and nearly every one agrees with
Governor Atkinson that it covers more
ground than comes under the courts
jurisdiction. Boggs Run miners in the
wheeling district, who went back tn
work Friday morning. will be followed
by the other 500 strikers. The break is
only a blow to sentiment, however. as
none OF the Wheeling district mines
snip coal or help TO relieve famine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
MEN WORK
- Miners Are Very Much
'p' Disappointed.
rs GO BACK ON PROMISES.

| n. Mine. in the Morning .', After ,, Say,
wv LIT Before That They Would
inc demonstration at the DE
s,,..s TO Be Kept Up-No Indi-
v,oIence - striking Illinois
h. Leave Roanoke
July S1.-After a long and
D "igbt Of waiting TO learn the re-
,he meetings Of the miners OF
vorls and Cleveland Gas Coal
~ ,he camping strikers were a
'~ ,..od LOT Of men Friday morning,
evpected exodus from the Plum
| sandy Greek and oak Hill mines
aocur The miners did not quit
4 :. thew promised to do, and all
,aos were in operation Friday.
1aylght the indications were that
sIrers had won and that no more
Ironld be mined until the strike was
81, the dawn brought disappoint~
=. vicinity of the Sandy Creek and
Yum mines anxious inquiry was
about Plum Creek. AT the two
80 Thursday night the leaders
ed that the Plum Creek miners
4 come out and that no more coal
1 no dug until the strike was won.
renorts these statements were
M could not be learned, but they
Nave been unfounded, for at $3.50
: morning 200 strikers, after MAX
demonstration at the Plum Creek
went into camp at Negly post
one-half mile from the tipple.
| thew remained till o'clock, and
rlv when they learned that all the
I had gone in and that Thursdays
q had been fruitless. At Sandy
1 small body of strikers watched
Iiority Of the miners who attended
betting go back to work.
Went To Work as Usual.
main interest in the strike, so far
Armitt's men are concerned, is at
biz Hill mine about two miles from
| Creek. The strikers thought that
ne would close, but Friday morn
10 Oak Hill miners boarded the
nys train at Turtle Creek as usu-
started to work. A body Of strik-
camped along the railroad track
9 the train hauling the miners
the camp four of the strikers
IA on the cars. Two Of the miners,
inc the strikers were about to
IAN attack, jumped from the cars
lined the strikers. These two were
nly Oak Hill miners who started
Turtle Creek for the mine who
b 20 to work. The mine officials
hat including these two men. not
per cent. Of the Oak Hill miners
e and their absence is caused by
L., or something other than the
II the marchers will now do Is not
but from indications given by
eakers Thursday 1t is believed that
bodies Of strikers will be brought
vicinity of the De Armitt mines
be demonstrations will be kept up.
credit is given the leaders and the
. for the good order which has
nfaintained, and the indications are
here will be no violence. The men
bit drinking and perfect order is
aimed in the camps.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
THE MARKETS.
Chicago Grain and Produce.

Chicago. July 90.
Following were the quotations on the
Board of Trade today: Wheat-July,
opened 76Ac, closed VIC; September
opened 74Ac, closed 75c; December
opened 75%c, closed 76Ac.. Corn-July'
opened and closed nominal; September,
opened 27&c, closed 27bc; December,
opened 2S7sc, closed zoe; May opened
3iskc. closed 31%c. Oats-July. opened
and closed nominal; September, opened
and closed 17%c; December, opened
1870. closed 1850; May, opened 2O1kc,
closed 2O%c. Pork-September. opened
SIS. closed 1921. Lard-September,
opened s4.27h, closed s4.32A; October,
opened s4.S2k, closed s4S5; December,
opened $4S7h. closed &4o.
Produce: Butter - Extra creamery,
14lbc per 10: extra dairy, l2c; fresh
packing stock, SC. Eggs - Fresh
stock. 915c per dozen. 1--we fou li
enring' elk@1Oc; ducks, 6Q61Rc. New
potatoes $1.75Q1.90 per Dbl. Blackber-
r;esWFair to good, 40@60c per l6-qt.
case. Raspberries-Red, 50@75c per "a
MT case; black, 40@50c per Loot. case.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, July go
uors-Estimated receipts for the day.
On OO0: sales ranged al $2.5O@3yO Tor PIGS
sS'75G395 for light, $35O@3.1o Tor rough sa cn
hacking, $3.7O@3.90 for mixed ana sSoo
GSS5 for heavy packing and shipping
vs. Cattle-Estimated receipts for the
dav 1900: quotations ranged at S4.soQ
on for choice to extra shipping steers,
"a So6I4 90 good to choice do, $4.l5Q4oo
Fair TO good, $3.S5@4.30 common TO me-
dunn do. $360G4.15 butchers steers
| az 25639O stockers $3.IOQ4.Z5 1eeoerS,
81. 9O@S90 cows. $2.6O@4.So heiters, go 90
So2 90 bulls, oxen and stays, SZ.iouf.Zo
Tewas steers. ard $325@5.90 veal calves.
Sbeen and Lambs-Estimated receipts
CO.. tho dav. 9CC0; quotations ranged at
90 75m4OO westerns, $270@350 Texas,
60 a5G4o0 natives. and $3.25q5.6O LAMBS
East Buffalo Live stock.
East Buffalo. N. Y. July 80
Durrirg 6. Stevens. Live Stock Com
,,ieeiou Merchants, East Bunalo, N. l.,
nuote as follows: Cattle-Receipts,
cars: market easy to a shade lower
steadv. good 1.250-pCurd, $3.50; veals
EN-. IONS s5.25T565. Hogs-Receipts,
o. cars. market active ard higher; York
avs "a 2OG4s0: mostly $40; mixed,
"a 10. heavy, $S90@405; others steady.
sheen ard Lambs-Receipts, cars;
market steady for sheep, easy Tor iainps'
former prices.
1t. Louis Grain.
st. Louis, July 30.
Wheat-Higher; NO, reu eash 49, 80
tor 7s%c: track, 7s@SOhc; NO. marc marc
cosb SbHc track; September, 7shc
os,,ad Corn-Higher; No. cash, 26c
hid. September, 25% @257sc. Oats-High-
o Cru No. cash, 1S%c bid on track; NO.
3 isMG1sc; No. white, 22lhc; septem-
her TIC. Rye-Easier; Sshc track.
milwaukee Grain.
Milwaukee, July 80.
wbeat-Higher; No. I northern, Ssc'
No ? spring, S0hc; December, 7lhc.
Corn-Firmfh No. 8, &c. oatsnFIrm;
No. 2 white, 2i021kc. Rye-Higner'
No. /, zinc.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
Big Dam Bursts.

Middletown, Conn, July 31.-At S
o'clock Friday morning dam forty feet
wide, confirming water from which the
three factories get power, burst, letting
down a tremendous volume Of water
The hugh stones Of which the dam was
built crashed into the factory of Will
lam Wilcox's lock shop and the lower
floors Of the factory were flooded Forty
workmen were compelled to flee for
their lives. Much damage was done ana
the water is still rushing down.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
The Ruling Passion.

He (humbly, after being accepted)-l
know / am not worthy of you. Tell me,
my beautiful darling, what you saw In
such plain sort of fellow Do you know,
/ was dreadfully afraid you were going TO
refuse me.
She-I did intend to, but you know my
Weakness. / never could resist n bargain,
and when you proposed you did look SO
awfully cheap. How could let you goY-
Harlem Life.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
ReIieve Andree Is Dead.

Berlin. July 31.-Scientists, army and
navy men and educators here are Dusty
engaged in discussing PROFESSOR An
dree's balloon trip. The consensus OF
opinion is that the famous explorer ana
his two daring companions VIII never
return to civilization. Lieutenant Sieg-
field. the well-known authority on aero
nautics. has expressed the belief tha'
Andree's expedition has already terml-
potad fatally.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
Agreed TO ONT Work,

Carton, Ills, July S1-Nearlv 200
striking miners from Dunfermlne and
81 David marched to the Canton I'm
ION Coal company's mines to get the
miners at work there to suspend opera
tons. "A fife and drum corps headed
the procession and "Old Glory" was
much in evidence. Most Of the miners
agreed TO quit work on Saturday
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
ss.d 20 consider Their Pardon.

Springfield, Ills. July a.-uo I'VE rol
Tanner has refused to CONSIDER cne .,e,
Quest for the pardon of Bankers Cn MARES
and Frank Meadowcroft, whose seh'en.e
was committed Jan. by Governor az
geld from one year in the peni'e"''"''
e. sixtv DAVIS in the county jail
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
-.,.. win Re the Result.

Athens. Ills, July Sl.-Whiie gang
~ men was putting props In the co,
lucrative mine here there was a iaii
20 ,,r,hers One man was killed IN
stortlv one fatally injured, and three
severely hurt. The dead man Is John
Johnson. the fatally injured Joseph
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
Great Britain Accepts.

London, July S1.-The British foreign
oesce notified Ambassador Hay Friday
morning that Great Britain accepted the
nronosition of the United States Tor an
international conference on the question
Of pelagic sealing in the Boring sea, 10
he held in Washington during the COM
,,, antInn.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31

In the country districts, both Of Eng
land and Germany, there Is an idea that
II the bees swarm upon rotten tree there
will be death In the family owning or
living on the property before the expira-
ton Of 10 months.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
Strike In Symathy.

Rock Island, Ills, July S1.-The min
ers employed in the shafts known as the
SilVis, the jameson and Allen mines.
in the vicinity of Carbon Cliff, struck
Thursday night in sympathy with the
general strike
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
Running Short of Coal.

Terre Haute, Ind, July 31.-Terre
Haute coal dealers have not more than
two days supply Of coal, and although
Terre Haute is i'm the center of the In
diana district it is about to have a coal
IN npipa
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31
,y.n Drowned in a Canal.

Schenectady, N. Y, July Sl.-Mr' anu
81 Worshail of Cincinnati were driv-
W. Long the Erie canal THURSDAY
Ins v,sscber's. when their horse be-
came frightened and piunsea ,n'o were
water. The woman ana ho'se
arowned
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-31

al once begin an active canvass OF the
Goa operators for their signatures II
Is sun a question Of dispute among
many OF the coal operators as To whetbe
err enough signatures can be obtained 70
the contract TO make IT operative.