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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11
CALUMET. April 20. 1893

OALUMET, April 70, 1898,
Editor Copper Country Evening News:
SIR:-For the satisfaction OF the mem.
bers OF those families whose relatives
hold policies in the Mutual Life Insurance
70. OF New York, l beg to say that the
Mutual lite will protect the policies OF all
It's members who are called out to serve
this country In any capacity. Their
rights will be fully protected under all
circumstances. No one need hesitate to
respond to the call Of patriotism or duty
through lear Of: the forfeiture OF his pol
ICY W. ARTHUR PHrpps.
Special Agent.
Mutual.LIie Insurance Co. oiNev Yrok.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

Late to bed and early TO rise, prepares
man for his home in the skies, Early
to bed and Little Early Riser, the pill
that makes life longer and better and
wiser. SoDERGREN & SopERGREN.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11
Human Nature.

Boss Barber-Ten clock and not soul
has come In today.
Second Barber-Suppose we hang up
sign mo Admittancef" That'll bring
'em.-CinoinDati Enquirer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

The above rates will apply to all inte..
mediate points. II you have in contem .
plation a trip to the east nowis your un'
to take advantage OF this reduction
rates. For further Information p'eo~
apply tn station and ticket agents.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

"Oae Minute Cough Cure is the best
preparation | have ever sold or used, and
l can't cay to much in it's praise. IL. M
Kennop, Merchant. OdelI. Ga.
SoDERGREN & SoDERGREy.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

WANTED-Nursing to do by compe-
tent English speaking lady. Address,
box 22S, Laurium. Mich.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

To LET-Two furnished rooms with
bath. Apply corner Woodland avenue
and old Torch Lake road.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

5. +. Parker, Sharon. Wis.,. writes:-"I
have tried DeWitt's Witch Hazel SaIye
To- itching piles and it always stops
them ia two minutes. / consider De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve the greatest
pile cure on the market"
SODERGREN & SoDERGREN.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11
LakeL,nden Millinery ParIors.

just arrived q fine line OF the latest
patterns, which will he shown at my par
iors on Saturday, April 80 and after.
Miss e. JILBERT, Lake Linden.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

WANTED-A good reliable hustler to
solicit for the Singer Manufacturing Co
Apply at $50 Fifth street
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

"I never heard of but one perfect boy"
said Johnnie pensively, as he sat IN the
corner doing penance.
"And who was thatY" asked mamma.
"Papa-when he was little" was the
anewer, and silence reigned for the space
Of i've minutes.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

Smoke Shaue's Klondike cigars, man
ufactured by l.. N. Shaug. $40 Pine street,
Red Jacket,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

A man may owe his life to bis doctor,
but the doctor does not always get even
that little. Presa
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

s. c. p. Jones, Milesburg. Pa, writes;-
81 have used DeWitt's Little Early Rise,s
ever since they were introduced here and
must say l have never used any pills in
my family during forty years OF house.
keeping that gave such satisfactory re.
suits as laxative or cathartic."
SoDERGREN & SoDERGREN.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-11

WANTED-Two.boys to wash bottles.
Apply c. Klein, Laurium.
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The d., \. e, & A. Railway has nov 10
effect to the aforementioned Eastern
Points via Sault Ste Marie, the following
very low fares:
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19

1t seems to be understood that on the
outbreak of hostilit:es Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee is to be made a major general of
volunteers and given command of di-
vision of troops for the invasion of
Cuba. The idea is received with enthu-
siasm everywhere throughout the c0un-
try, as it ought TO be, by none more
than by Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt As
sistant Secretary Of the Navy, who
wants to resign and go on Lees staff to
the front. We are not surprised at
that. There is good fighting soldierly
stuff in Roosevelt, and he would make
his mark in the Army, as, indeed, he
would anywhere else. 1t is doubtful,
though, that he could well be spared
from his present position. 1t would be
very difficult TO replace him with a man
equally competent, at short notice. and
We are afraid that the naval service
would suffer for a time at least
All true Americans young and old,
want to fight. While the Government
is thinking about able and experienced
volunteer commanders, it should not
forget that the famous Confederate
cavalryman, Lieut. Gen. Joe" Wheeler,
has offered his services, is still compar-
atively young and absolutely vigorous
and ought to have a commission The
boys from the Gulf States would rush
TO his standard, and it is worth remem-
bering that they are acclimated SOL
diers, nearly all with training in mill
tary schools, in addition to longer or
shorter service in the National Guard
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19
GRIEF CAUSES SUICIDE.
\ Woman Could Not Understand Con-
ErcssiOnnI Delay and Dishnnnr

New York, April 1S.-Mrs. Sarah Wayt,
seventy years old, was found dead in bed
this morning, at No. 400 Macon Street.
Brooklyn, She had committed suicide by
inhaling Illuminating gas through a tube.
one end of which she clenched tightly in
her teeth, while the other end was Sc
curely fastened to a gas burner
The only reason assigned today for the
suicide is the woman's chagrin over the
| failure Of the United States Government
| TO avenge the sinking of the battleship
Maine in a Spanish harbor
For two months Mrs. Wayt's intimates
I say. she has grieved over the desfruc
| ton of the Maine and fretted because the
| Government has failed to uphold the
| honor of America in the way she be-
lieved the occasion demanded The con-
duct of Spain toward the United States
and Cuba was her constant theme, and
as the days passed without action, her
Indignation seemed to give way to sor =
| row, which increased daily until ii de
| veloped into a settled melancholy.
Mrs. Wayt retired later than usual last
evening. She is said to have been in
comfortable circumstances and occupied
a neat two-story house Jointly with the
| family of William H. Lynch. She was
I!itu Dul ltI luSbdliu uOtS not reside
in the house.
Toward daylight this morning Mr.
Lynch was awakened by a choking SEN
station. He arose and at once concluded
that gas was escaping in great volume
in some section in the house. After going
through his wn apartment without find
ing the leak, he traced the odor to Mrs
Wayt's room.
He knocked at the door There was
no response. and he forced his way into
the room. There he saw the aged woman
lying on the bed with the tube firmly
held in her mouth. She was dead. Her
body was already cold, and it was evi-
dent that she had expired many hours
before probably soon after retiring
At the home of the Lynch's today. Mr.
Lynchs son who was inclined to discuss
Mrs. Wayt's affairs, was dissuaded by a
young woman, who declared that Mrs
Wayt's death did not concern the public
The police and coroner We're notified
and the latter will probably view the
body this afternoon.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19
sPANIARDs LEAVE OUR SHORES.
The OIivettc Carries n Cargo of DOns
to Havana

Tampa. Fla. April 1S-The exodus of
Spaniards from here, which has been
threatening ever since the relations be-
tween the two countries became so strain
ed, materalized today, and at o'clock
this afternoon the steamer Oivette sailed
from Port Tampa with several hundred
of them on board. The Spanish consul
here attempted to charter an Austrian
tramp steamer which arrived in port Sat
urday, but the master refused the offer
made by Senior Soils. Then it was that
President Plant was appealed to- and ne
offered the Olivette to take the refugees
as far as Havana on their way to Spain,
where most of them are bound
Capt. Gen. Blancos cable to President
Plant regarding the safety of the Oil
Vette while in Havana and Cuban waters
was of the most assuring nature, and the
crew of the steamer went without the
slightest fear.
She is expected to arrive in Havana to-
morrow at noon, discharge her passen-
gers, and sail at once for Matanzas,
where the refugee Americans will be
taken on. DR.. Dudley. who was assist
ant to DR.. Drummer, United States sur
geon stationed at Havana, and who has
been here since the return of Gen. Lee,
went on the steamer at the request of
Mr.. Plant and the health authorities, in
order 20 prevent the importation of any
contagious disease. Nearly every Span
lard In the city, together with many
Cubans and Americans, witnessed the
departure of the Spaniards. The ship
load is expected to be but the first of
several others.
Consul Soils and President Plant per-
sonally saw the refugees off and took
their names as they went aboard tonight
Gov. BloXham wired the inspector gen.
eral of Florida State troops in this city,
that the remaining Spaniards need not be
alarmed for their personal safety, as he
would provide for their protection in any
and all emergencies.
1t is, therefore, expected that several
companies of militia will be held in
readiness to quell any disturbance which
the hatred between the Cubans and
Spaniards might occasion.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19
Where Are the Armsf

The regular army is fairly supplied
with a most miserable failure in the
way Of small arm, the Krag-Jorgen-
sen rife, which was adopted not on ac-
count Of its merit, but because of val
liable reasons which some time we hope
may be made the subject of Congress-
ionaI investigation and exposure a
much better arm, the Lee Metford, was
rejected, and the representations and
presentments Of many worthy and able
American inventors We're treated in
such way as 10 have created a scan
dal if the truth could have been given
60 the public.
The Krag- Jorgensen is clumsy.
heavy, liable TO get out OF order, and in
actual use has disclosed itself as very
little II any better than the discarded
Springfield. Compared with the rifles
OF the British. French or German arm
les. it is a joke. 1t is vastly inferior to
the arm invented by a japanese officer
and with which the military force of
the Mikado is equipped
What then, are we TO do for rifles
FOR our infantry volunteers? II we had
a more dangerous enemy than Spain to
fight this question would be a most Sc
r1ous one. AS IL is, il is not without an
element Of anxiety. All told, we might
scrape up approximately seyenty-fve
thousand reasonably useful pieces in
the country. Then there are Winches-
ters and Remingtons In unknown num-
bcrs, but probably thirty-fve thousand
he h.
that We must depend upon foreign sup
plies, or upon the current output Of our
arsenais and private arms companies.
Within q few weeks this might be
pushed. ali told. 10 something ike
thousand a day.
The outlook is not as depressing as IL
might be- but only because il has been
demonstrated in The Cuban war that
the ill-drilled and badly disciplined
Spanish troops do not shoot we'll For
the most part they are armed with the
long-range, small-bore Mauser rifle.
The bullet from which goes through a
man, supposing ii hits him, but neither
kills nor hurts much unless il pene-
trates q vital point. In one Of the bat
ties against Gomez the Spanish line. on
the authority OF a foreign officer pres
ent On the field, left windrow of
M2user cartridges six or eight inches
high and a foot wide. and managed 10
kill three Cubans and wound about
twenty in a full days fight At the be-
ginning Of the war of independence the
Cubans had hardly any firearms, yet
thoy' were able TO clean up column after
column, line after line Of the Span
iards. practically with their machetes
alone. and with remarkably small loss
SO We conclude that. armed with
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19
AT Last. Action.

Finally. through their Congress, the
American people have spoken. They
have delivered their mandate to the
President. and he must act. All the
tension Of delay should now be over. All
the Administrative play to escape the
inevitable should be abandoned. The
die is cast. There is to be war.
II matters little TO the American peo-
pie how il comes. From the morning of
the 18th Of February, when The Times
announced that the Maine had been
blown up. and its crew massacred by
Spanish treachery, the whole citizen
ship of America has been demanding
vengeance. That vengeance is now de-
creed. 1t only remains for the Presi-
dent to obey Congress and ACT AT
ONCE.
The Times is satisfied 1t has won
!ts fight.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19
The Idiocx of Innction.

Great Britain having issued an order
that coal is to be treated as CONTRA
band of war, unless We are foolish
enough to allow Spain to lay in a huge
stock at Porto Rico and elsewhere from
our own mines, the Spanish navy will
be compelled to depend upon the Cape
Verde Islands as a coaling base. AS
the islands are thirty hundred
miles distant from the West Indies, the
advantage We naturally have is too
precious a thing to be wasted through
vacillation and inaction.
There should not be an hours delay
in stopping the shipment of American
coal for Spanish account ''unfriendly"
as that act might seem in Madrid and
Havana. But we have or ought to
have, passed the point where we must
consider Spanish interests and suscepti-
bilities before the honor of our flag and
the success of our arms. Every ton of
coal allowed to leave our shores for the
use OF the Spanish navy is so much
equipment given to the enemy with
which to fight US and to destroy the
4 lives Of our sailors. 1t is a bastard
/ ly outrage upon the American people
/ thus to allow the conveyance of prac-
4 teal aid and comfort to their foe!
A President with a Jacksonian back
! bone would have put an end TO such a
/ scandal long ago. Now, at any rate,
I il should be stopped instanter. An en-
barge upon coal is as necessary war
measure as the purchase of vessels and
I on the Southern coast. Situated as we
/ are, there is not another civilized gov
/ eminent in the world that would toler-
/ ate this coal infamy. Is there a reason
/ back of it which would not stand the
1 light of investigation on patriotic
grounds? Has any near and dear
/ friend of the Administration a contract
to supply coal to both navies? Or is
/ it only because the Spanish demand, in
a general way, makes coal mining more
profitable just now for some people,
! than it would be otherwise?
OF course, if any exponent of our
/ best business interests" with strong
| pull, is TO be benefited by leaving our
/ markets open to the enemy, nobody
ought to object. The thing itself may
I be seriously detrimental to our pros
/ poets in the approaching battles at sea,
/ but everyone to his trade" Navy
4 men are made to be massacred in
! friendly harbors, and to be killed in
/ other ways known to treachery or war
! Coal operators, on the other hand, are
I created for the beneficent purposes Of
starving their miners, and making
money out of government contracts,
whether with our own or with that Of
hostile nation. Therefore, it would be
very bad business policy to shut down
on Spain officially until after the actual
breaking out of war, and even then
good deal might be shipped out on the
sly.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19
Fell Five Stories.

New York, April 1S.-A freight elevator
In the Hotel Beresford. al Eighty-first
Street and Central Park West, fell five
stories this morning and severely injured
several persons who We're on the car.
The clamps slightly broke the fall.
IN the car were Patsey Mullen, the
elevator man. three walters and mes
senger boy Frank Murphy by name.
How the accident happened. none of the
men could tell. but as the car was de-
scending its speed suddenly increased and
then, as one of the witnesses said, it
seemed to drop
The elevator boy, who chung to the
rope, had his hands frightfully torn by
trying to cling to the wire. and the wait
ers We're badly cut and bruised. An am
bulance took them to Roosevelt Hospital.
where their wounds We're dressed. None
was fatally injured. The accident caused
great excitement in the hotel.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19
Played the Wrong Tune
(From the Omaha World Herald

tFIOm Tie UIlaha NorId- IIefuId.J
1t was a big house on St. Charles Ave-
nue.. The rooms were full of the fra
GRANGE of orange blossoms and the more
delicate perfumes that emanates from
light, flowing dresses of young women
1t was just after the wedding and a
buzz of congratulations came from the
front parlors. In the hall the musicians
were resting. The young lady pianist
musing, allowed the fingers Of her right
hand to run gently over the treble I'm
consciously the notes resolved themselves
into popular air Good gracious don't
play that" cried young man, rushing
out of the parlor. Why" asked the
young lady frightened. The young man
laughed. That's the marriage of the
Chinee and the COON" he said
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19

In view of another attempt at Euro
pean Intervention in Washington, it is
as well to remind Mr.. Mckinley that he
is not endowed with authority TO treat
with the Concert of Europe. His rela-
tions are with the powers and their
representatives separately. The assump-
ton Of the corps diplomatique in Wash.
ington in holding secret meetings and
presuming as a body to interfere in our
affairs would be angrily resented at any
civilized court in Europe. and would not
be tolerated for a moment The President
will be i'll advised if he connives at any
more friendly calls or collective
notes" His skirts were not quite as
clear on the last occasion as they ought
TO have been.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19
SPANISH SPIES.
Key West Full of Them mt the Pres
emf

New York, April 1S-A special from
Key West to the Telegram says:
Key West is full of Spanish spies who
are in communication with their govern
ment. They are seeking information about
the fleet about the location of mines.
and about the movements of our war
vessels when they move against Spanish
sovereignty in Cuba.
Whether we have the same espionage
in Cuba | have no means of knowing. but
it is to be hoped that such is the case.
1t is OF the utmost Importance TO know
what is going on in the more important
harbOrs in the matter of preparations for
defense. to know whether the Spanish
policy of leaving the land forces to Tepel
invasion unassisted has been changed: to
learn whether the abandonment of Presi-
dent McKinley's humane resolve to feed
or fight has resulted during the last
eleven days in the wholesale mortality
that is suspected.
ION this point a particularly we'll in
formed gentleman who came out of Cuba
with Gen. Lee said today:
No pen can picture the horrors of the
reconcentrados in the prisons now. Those
poor women and children have been with
out any outside relief for now eleven
days. God knows how much more time
will be wanted by the President and Con-
gress before relief can go in, but the pic
ture drawn by the edited consular reports
was mild compared with the wholesale
misery and want prevalent now.
I'm the meantime Gomez and Garcia
are more active than ever. If American
troops landed In Havana, and | wanted to
send word to Gomez. courier could take
in, oh five rrhaT1 fhraa
days would be required TO carry it on
to Garcia.
"a new plan of operations being con-
sidered by army and navy. / am told, is
necessary TO the practical withdraw of
the Spanish naval force from the An
TILES.
THE impression gains ground that
Spain will not give our navy battle in
Caribbean waters. What the new plan
is 1 am not permitted to say but until
Spains fleet is destroyed Ii will be re-
garded as menace TO the United States
fleet as well as TO the sea coast of the
United States.
ITO naval minds it isclear that Spain is
endeavoring to tempt US to give her bat
tie at sea- far away from our base of
supplies. We may accept the challenge.
as We may move directly on the seacoast
cities of Spain.
eff We move against Spain it would only
be done in the hope that the harder blow
We should strike the more quickly would
the war be over
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19
AzCARRAGA EXPECTS WAR.
Spanish Press AbandOns Hope Of
European Assistance.

Madrid April 1S.-Gen. Azcarraga, for
merly minister of war, who has arrived
in Madrid for the purpose of attending
the opening of the Cortes, declares that
in his opinion, war between Spain and
the United States is inevitable.
FL Liberal. in an article on the situa-
ton says that any nation attempting
singly to assume the responsibility of
supporting Spain and opposing the
United States, would suffer the gravest
consequences to its essential interests.
after all, the paper continues, 'it is
a point of international morals that our
first duties are owed to ourselves. Moth
ing can be expected from the powers. At
the first shot in proximity to their terri
tories or waters they would fear an ex-
tension of the confiagration. They would
feel obliged to refrain from combining it
as they now profess, but would approach
with the means of quenching it,.
The price of wheat is rising again and
now exceeds 50 a bushel.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19
The kaiser.s Corrcspopdc,..

(From the Troy Times.)
The German emperor has been writing
letters again. The habit has grown upon
him until efforts to swear off, are in
vain. Wilhelm's latest epistolary effort
is addressed to Gen. Kitchener, congratu-
lating the latter on his victories in the
Soudan. 1t is but natural that this
should recall memories of another con-
gratulatory message sent some two or
three years ago TO an old gentleman
named Kruger. On that occasion the en-
peror rejoiced over a British defeat
while he now rejoices over a British vic
tory. Can. there be anything significant
in this apparent change of heart?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19

The Baltimore Herald tells a sto-
~ with a moral to it which is
worth repetition. The story is for
the American people; the moral
is for the Dons once an American ship
anchored IN Spanish harbor, and the
sailors went ashore to have fun. They
found fun going to a cock fight, and
proceeded to lose most of their money at
that time-honored game. Now, this was
not fun at all, except for the Spaniards.
and they came to the conclusion that
the Spaniards had cheated them some
how. They were very indignant, and
sought for some method of revenge. At
ter consultation one of the sailors said
that he had an American rooster which
he would like to pit against the Spanish
game-cocks. The Spaniards, elated with
victory. agreed with alacrity. and the
sailors went fack to the ship after the
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-19

Springfelds, Winchesters or Reming-
tons. even Colts, our troops would be
only at a theoretical disadvantage
With battalion TANKS protected by
Maxims or Cuttings, the enemy would
of raw country recruits.
But this does not mean that the mod
ern and efficient armament of our reg
ulars and volunteers should not have
earnest and instant attention from Con-
gress and the war authorities. We are
about to constitute an army; let us
have a frst-class one while We are
about it.