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rj HORARY IS 51 OF THE g ?: XICZIGJLIS P Vol. VI. Calumet. Houghton County, Michigan. Friday. April 8. 1898. Nn 19fi 1 A BIRD IS KM BY HIS NOTE A Man Bj His Talk, a Geutleman By His Clothes.. CATELY'S COOPS Do you know what's what, if not the underlined statement above -,' .... will inform you. , . . . ' , Oui . furniture , And Ale re w and up-to-date, the prices can't be beat. THE MNEST LINE In the city, Goods on easy payments no interest to pay; no notes to sign. Agents wanted. JOHN GATELY & CO,. 355 Fifth Street. - S ft it! WHERE TO GO s For a Good Suit, Good Fit, Correct Style Is one waxing question of our citizen. ... WHAT WE CAN DO.... From the business suit to the finest silk-lined suit, clerical and Society.llniforms. The John S. Mitchell fashion plates have been and are always on hand, MEEOHANT TAILOR. Over. 2,000,000 Gallons Used. v ' - A Six-Year Old Child Can Dolt WITH EARTHQUAKE. Why have a dirty faded-out Carpet, when a few cents Mill make them look like new! 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PrenMn Appe 1 to the Feeling of Hu inanity ami Moderation or tliti l'riiilen and the American People In Their K istlng Differences with Kpalu The K Ing uadron Keady for Action General LteMlllln Havana, Washington, April 8. The rerreser tatives of the six powers of Lurtp seeking to avert war between Spain an 1 the United States called on President McKlnley at noon. The governments o? Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia and Italy were tcpr; sented. Mr Jullar Pauneefote, the British ambassador, was the. llrst to ar live, followed by Ambassador von Hol leben of Germany. "Within a few min utes ill the ambassadors had teen ush ered into the bide room, and President McKlnley immediately left his office and went down to meet them. Sir Jul ian I'auncefotc, as representative of the powers, 1 presented the following: "The undersigned representatives of Germany, Austria-Hungary, France Great Britain, Italy and Russia, duly authorized in that behalf, address in the names of their respective govern ments a pressing appeal to the feelings of humanity and moderation cf the president and of the American people in their existing differences with Spain They earnestly hope that further nego tiations will lead to an agreement which, while securing the maintenance of peace, will afford all necessary guar antees for the re-establishment of order in Cuba. The powers do not doubt that the humanitarian and purely disinter ested character of this representation will be fully recognized and appreciated by the American nation." The President' lleply. Fresldent McKlnley replied as fol lows: "The government of the United States recognizes the good will which has prompted the friendly .communica tion of the representatives cf Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Great Rrlt ain, Italy and Russia, as set forth in the address of your excellencies, and shares the hope therein expressed that the outcome of the situation In Cuba may be the maintenance of peace be tween the United States and Spain by affording the necessary guarantees for the re-establ!hment oforder in the lsl and, so terminating the chronic condi tion of disturbance there which s deep ly Injures the interests ami menaces the tranquillity of the American nation by the character and consequences of the struggle thus kept up at our doors, be sides shocking its sentiment of human ity. The government of the United States appreciates the humanitarian and disinterested character of the com munlcation now made on behalf of the powers named, and for its part is con fident that equal appreciation will be shown for its own earnest and unselfish endeavor to fulfill a duty to humanity by ending a situation the Indefinite pro longation of which has beccme insuffer able." Visit to the State Department. The call of the representatives of the powers on the president was quite brief and at 12:20 p. m. they went over to the state department and made an offi cial visit. They were headed by Sir Julian Pauneefote, the British ambas sador, and dean of the corps. The oth ers Included the French and German ambassadors, the Austrian minister and the charge d'affaires of Italy and Rus sia. Their entire official suite of at tache accompanied them. The call ev idently was by appointment, for they were at once shown Into the diplomatic room of the ptate department, where they were Joined by Secretary Sherman and Assistant Secretary Day, with whom they were closeted behind closed doors. Assistant Secretary Day, after a con ference with the president, said he ex pected Consul General Lee would leave Cuba by Thursday. , He. raid the Amer icans on the island were being gotten off rapidly and about Saturday, he be lieved, the situation would permit Gen eral Lee to vacate his post and return to the United States. Cablegram from Woodford. A cablegram was received at the White House from Minister Woodford containing information concerning Wednesday's cabinet meeting. It had been expected that the cabinet meeting at Madrid would be an important one, and that its action would be highly sig nificant on the diplomatic situation. General Woodford, however, wired that there was no important action taken and that it had adjourned without ac complishing any material step that would lead to any change In the status or throw light on the situation. Its tenor was somewhat disappointing in view of the expectations. Senator Gray of Delaware, a member of the senate committee on foreign re lations, was with the president for some time. The senator later said he be lieved that all the Americans who In tended to get out of the Island would be gotten out safely In due time. He believed that both General Woodford at Madrid and General Lee at Havana would be at their posts after the open ing of next week. SPAIN STANDS FIRM. Freeh Note Presented from the United States Government. Madrid,. April 8. United States Min ister Woodford presented a fresh note from the United States government to which he demanded a definite answer within six hours. The cabinet Immedi ately met and the ministers decided to firmly adhere to the tenor of Spain's previous note. Senor Gullon, minister of foreign affairs, intimated the deci sion of the cabinet to the queen regent and received her majesty', approval. The cabinet Issued the following offi cial note: "The cabinet having carefully consid ered the present political situation from every possible point of view, and the details supplied by the ministers of foreign affairs, the colonies, war and marine, have arrived at the determina tion to maintain the attitude previous ly adopted without the slightest mod Iflcatlon whatever. This determination Is the unanimous decision of all the ministers." The' morning papers here are unani mous In expressing the opinion that the situation Is very grave. Several papers announce that General Woodford will leave Madrid without delay. He has now taken up his residence at the United States legation. His family. which left the city Wednesday night, nas arrived at Hendaye on the frontier, and proceeded to Riarrltz. General Correa, Spain's laconic mln ister of war. has broken his silence. In an interview the general has given an Interesting-account tf the situation. saying: "War 13 the better of two evils. It is better to fight foreigners than to fight Spaniards rising In Indtgnat'on if their honor and rights are trampled un der foot." The guards around the United States legation have been trebled. Gtneial Woodford was at his desk at an early hour. Many Americans called to ask about the arrangements made for their protection. The general said he would remain here until directed to apply for his passports, or until they were hand ed to him. He added that when he leaves the British flag will be hoisted over the United States legation. In spite of the alarming situation and the general belief that the end Is about reached, several diplomats still hope for peace. The city thus far Is perfectly quiet. MIII'S CI.KAKi:i i OK ACTION. Com module Schley's Three Crulers Are Heady for Kervlce. Fort Monroe, Va., April 8. The three ships of, Commodore Schley's flying Bquadron had a busy time of It. There was drill aboard them all and a special !rili on the flagship. The Minneapolis has not finished taking on coal and so has not painted her hull. The Colum bla took on more coal, to make up for what she has used in the last few days The red flag flew from the fore truck of the Brooklyn, announcing that she was taking on ammunition. The particular and lasting businessof the day, however, was stripping ships for action. On the Brooklyn It was done with something like emergency speed, and afterward there was a call to quarters. Th boats were put over and It was a bus'ness-Ilke drill. On the other two ships it was a much more leisurely proceeding. All the ships will remain stripped until the possibility of war is over or they go into action. The Clearing will not be as thorough as when actually going into a fight, but It will not take more than fifteen minutes to complete it. The battleship Texas steamed Into Hampton Roads at 7:30 o'clock In the morning and at 8 o'clock dropped anchor with the flying squadron off Fort Monroe. She is fully painted the lead war color and is in the best of con dition. The Massachusetts will be down from Newport News soon and the squadron will then be ready for any emergency.' Commodore Schley has not as yet received any definite orders from Washington. LKU STILL. IN HAVANA. The Mascotte Arrives at Key Went with Many Jteftigees. Key West, Fla., April 8. Contrary to the advices received by steamship offi cials here Consul General Lee did not arrive. The steamer Mascottee was placed at his disposal, but the arrange ments were changed and General Lee has decided that he will come cn the Bache, but not until all Americans are out of Havana. The Mascotte brought about ninety passengers, Including some of the most prominent Spanish and Cu ban families, who are bound for the north. Many of them left without their baggage, which will be forwarded later. All were In a state of. semi-panic. The Mascotte Is practically In the govern ment's hands. She will take on thirty tons of soft coal at the government dock and return to Havana. The 'customs regulations were dis pensed with. The passengers who ar rived by the Mascotte say that all is quiet on the surface In Havana, but It was feared there would be trouble from the volunteers, 'who have been greatly reinforced. Extra vigilance for the pro tection of Havana Is. being exercised. Morro castle has been supplied with the newest range-finders. Six or eight torpedoes have already been placed at the entrance to the harbor and sixty more are at the foot of St. Ignaclo street. Activity at the Navy Yard. New York, April 8. The departure of the Texas from the Brooklyn navy yard was the signal for Increased activity In the work of preparing the smaller ves sels for active duty. More than 400 men are now employed in the renova tion of the cruiser Chicago. Over at the receiving ship Vermont there Is a continuous stream of applicants for en listment, and on an average about thir ty men are taken on every day. The Dolphin will be ready to leave by Mon day with a quantity of ammunition and supplies for the north Atlantic squad ron. Ordered to Washington. Portland, Ore., April 8. Captain George C. Relter, U. S. N., In charge Of the Thirteenth lighthouse district, has received orders to leave for Washing ton, D. C, at once. Presidential Nominations. Washington, April 8. The president has sent this nomination to the senate: Jacob Shfcen of California, to be as sistant appraiser of merchandise In the district f Sun Feanetaco. Woman the Alleged Victim of a Mock Ceremony. STRANGE STORY TOLD IN COURT, After Living with a Man for - Klghteeu Year as Ills Wife Mrs. Mary Meyers of Chicago Discovers Mie Was Duped by a False Wedding Destruction of the Al leged Certificate of Marriage by the Hus band In YVife' Presence, Chicago. April 8. Mrs. Mary Meyers of 33G West Sixty-third street, who is suing for divorce before Judge Burke, Is the victim of a mock' marriage, If the story sne tells is true. For eight een years she lived with Needham Gor don Meyers, now an inspector for the city water department, and believed, she says, that she was bound to him by the strongest matrimonial bonds which the state of Iowa could furnish only to discover that the ceremony was a farce when she brought her life under the scrutiny of the court. This condition of affairs Is being set forth Ip the final argument which As sistant Corporation Counsel J. R. Cor rigin is making. The case will soon be concluded and the woman will know whether the social ties which bind her to the man will be severed. Was a Dashing Voting Fellow. In the story she told on the witness stand Mrs. Meyers said that In 1882 she met her present husband, then a dash ing young fellow with sporting procliv ities, in Sioux City. Her name was then Mary "Hennessey. Her two brothers are now proprietors of one of the large grocery stores on the west side. She was the guest of friends when she met Meyers. The courtship was brief. Bright, attractive, 18, and inexperi enced, she heard the proffer of mar riage with favor, and promptly the al leged ceremony was performed. "One evening," she told Judge Burke, "Mr. Meyers and I, with two of his friends, went before a Justice of the peace In Sioux City. I do not know his name; 1 do not even know where his office was. except that It was near the postofflce. He was an old man, with a white, flowing beard, and sat on a plat form at the end of a dark room. He Joined us in marriage. There were some papers signed and we lct." She Trusted the-ftlan. ' "How did you know this man was a Justice of the peace?" demanded the lawyer for the defense. "My husband told me so, and I be lieved him." answered the woman quietly. "That was the only ground for your belief?" "Yes., I considered that enough. I trusted him." Continuing her story,' the witness said: "We came to Chicago soon after and have lived here ever since as man and wife. My husband kept the cer- i tiflcate of a marriage, or whatever this paper was, In his possession. In 1886 he tore it up before my eyes, saying argrily: 'I will destroy all proofs of our marriage.' " And If the woman's story is true all proofs of a ceremony, real or farcical, were destroyed with that paper. No Marriage License I untied. When last fall she applied for a di vorce on the ground of cruelty she sought for evidence of her marriage. The clerk of Woodbury county, la., wrote, to her consternation, that no such marriage license ever had been Issued. There was not a line on the record to show that the woman was le gally Meyers' wife.- The two witness es, almost unknown to the woman, were traced through two states, but could not be found. In court the hus band denied his wife's whole story. Jealousy Is at the bottom of the di vorce, although the ground set up In the bill is cruelty. Mrs. Meyers threw carbolic acid In the face of her hus band last December. Since then she has threatened to blind him with vit riol, It Is charged. Meyers Is said to be worth $45,000. WORLD'S FAIR HOTEL BURNS. ISIg Structure Containing 1,100 Rooms Is Destroyed. Chicago, April 9. Mrs. Mauzy, her husband and their 4-year-old son. Goodlngs, were awakened shortly after 11 o'clock in their sleeping apartment In the wing of the Great Eastern hotel, Sixtieth street and St. Lawrence ave nue, of which Mr. Mauzy Is the owner. The fire was discovered at the northeast corner of the hotel by a neighbor, Lee Loehr, who ran excitedly through the house, In which there were 1,100 rooms. to find the only one occupied, that In which the Mauzy. slept. The family got out In safety, but lost all their prop erty. The hotel was entirely destroyed and hardly a vestige of it left In two hours after the first alarm was sent In. Mauzy purchased the building after the World's fair for $20,000, and It was dur ing the fair one of the few immense ly successful enterprises. Since that time it has been an eyesore to neigh bors, Mauzy says, and he told the police that he believed It was Ignited by some of them who hoped to get It out of the way. Ten thousand dollars' worth of furniture which Mauzy had placed In the hotel In the last week was de stroyed. It was his Intention to reopen a portion of the house next week. All Quiet at Havana. Havana, April 8. There Is no excite ment here and no reason for any, so far as It Is possible to see. The weather Is cloudy. Holy Thursday Is being ob served In a quiet manner. The Mas cotte Is expected to return here and leave for Tampa at night. The Oli vette will be here and the Bache and Mangrove are ready In the harbor to take any passengers designated by the United States consul general. The lat ter has not decided when he will send the American citizens away. GOV. PINGREE INDIGNANT. Thinks Federal Officeholders Are Meddling with Ills Affairs. Lansing, Mich., April 8. Governor Pitgree and his friend, are greatly In censed at what they call federal Inter ference In pending legislation. Their anger is due to the .appearance here of ex-Governor Rich, now collector of cus toms at Detroit: Collector Avery of Port Huron, and several postmasters from various parts of the state, to op pose the passage of his bill for the tax ation of railroad, express, telegraph and telephone companies. Governor Rich made an extended argument against the bill before the senate com mittee. Conceding that the railroads were not taxed enough, he argued that the proper remedy lay In Increasing the specific taxes after repealing all special charters. He also argued In favor of appointing a commission to receive pro posals from the Michigan Central road for the surrender cf Its charter and to report to the next legislature a bill for the taxation of all corporations, Includ ing a number which now pay no taxes and which are not covered by the Pin gree bill. The bill will go to the senate with an unfavorable report from the corrmittee. Governor Pingree still adheres to his purpose not to recommend a war ap propriation or the strengthening of the national guard until the taxation bill is out of the way. Governor Pingree has sent the following telegram to President McKlnley: "The collector of customs of Detroit Is here In charge of the lobby to d?feat a hill on railroad taxation. He Is as sisted by the collector of customs from Port Huron. They are reported to be promising positions to members who vote against the bill. May I ask. you to have these federal officers recalled and this abuse of federal patronage cor rected?" TROOPS FOR FLOOD DISTRICT. Governor Tanner Orders Men to Guard Agalust Vandalii. Springfield, Ills., April 8. Mayor Car ney cf Shawneetown has wired the gov ernor that vandals are doing great damage and robbing dead bodies, pil laging houses and committing other depredations in the destroyed district. He begs that a sufficient number of the state militia be sent there to pre serve the peace and protect property and lives. Governor Tanner at once wired Captain Nell Pavey, commanding the company of the Fourth infantry at Mount Vernon, to at once send a de tail of four men and one commissioned officer from his command to Shawnee town to report for duty to Mayor Car ney and to remain there until relieved by the commander-in-chief. Governor Tanner has received a tel egram from Assistant Adjutant General Smith from Shawneetown asking If he Fhall return to Springfield and stating that Dr. Wines, secretary of the beard of charities, has the camp well In hand and is attending to the wants of the sufferers. Colonel Smith states that the situation is not so bad as a first re ported and that the loss of life will not exceed thirty-five perrons. SILVER MEN IN COUNCIL. League of III metallic Clubs In Session at IndlanaMIin. Indianapolis, Ind., April 8. About 600 persons were present when President Reemlin called the. convention of the League of Bimetallic clubs of the Ohio valley to order. New officers were elected as follows: President, J. P. Tarvin cf Kentucky; vice presidents, N. R. Tucker of Ohio. F. J. Van Voor his of Indiana, A. C. Bentley of Illinois. The resolutions presented by Chair man S. E. Morris were adopted. They regard the financial question as the paramount issue and pledge the support of the league to the securlngof bimetal lism and free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1: unalterably oppose the single gold standard; believe that congress alone has power to coin and issue money, and that this power should not be delegated to Individuals or corporations; express continued confidence In W. J. Bryan. A resolution of sympathy for Cuban pa triots and In favor of Immediate Inter vention by the United States was also adopted. W. J. Bryan spoke at the aft ernoon session. Ilig Order for Ore Cars, Pittsburg. April 8. -The Schoen Pressed Steel company has been awarded the contract for the manu facture of 1.000 steel cars of the ore and coal hopper pattern by the Pennsyl vania Railroad company fcr a sum ap proximating $1,000,000. This Is the largest single contract ever given for steel cars, and the awarding of It by one of the great trunk lines perma nently establishes the steel car Indus try and takes It out of the experimental stage. The works of the Schoen com pany will be run at full capacity to complete the order and many addition al men will be employed. The cars will be the largest and strongest ever made. Each will be S3 feet long and 10 feet high from the top of the rail. Michigan Man Kills Dlmself. Chicago, April 8. Frank L. Baxter of Manlstlque, Mich., committed suicide by shooting himself In the right temple In his room at the Tremont House, where he had been since Sunday. Bax ter was manager of the Manlstlque Lumber company and had been treas urer pf the Manlstlque Telephone com pany and auditor of the Manlstlque and Northwestern railway. Little was known of him at the hotel, although he had been a guest there on various oc casions. He had been drinking heavily. Spalding's Appeal Is Lost. Bprlngfleld, Ills., April 8. Ex-Banker Charles W. Spalding, now In jail In Chicago, will be obliged to serve his sentence In the state prison. Spald ing's last appeal to the supreme court for a rehearing of this case was denied by that tribunal and the sentence of the lower court aiarmad. t J