Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-09-07

Cuban general, was refused admission
to public dining room in Spokane
hotel on account of his color, when he
threatened to kill the waiter and was
arrested and fined in a police court.
At San Francisco a further stay of
fifteen days in the case Of Mrs. Corde-
LA Botkin was granted 10y Judge Cook,
so as to permit the completion of the
bill of exceptions on the appeal which
is to be taken to che supreme court.
A costly loving cup of gold is being
made for Admiral Dewey in New York
Adrain Iselin, whose wife was Miss
Eleanora O'Donnell, of Baltimore,
offers to improve the streets Of New
Rochelle largely at his own expense.
The Toledo committee in charge of
Mayor Jones independent canvass for
governor has arranged a trip for the
mayor over the state, and for this pur-
pose has secured an automobile. With
the candidate will go a speaker and
singer.
Demetri Friedlander, treasurer of the
United Russian churches of Chicago,
private banker and agent for the
Wacker & Birk Brewing company, is
missing, and an amount variously esti-
mated at from 100000 to 100000 has
disappeared.
At Greenville, Ca, the grand jury re-
turned bills against Walter Blake,
Baldwin Bransford, Charles Bransford,
Clarence Foster, James Chappell, T. C.
Sullivan and William Jones, charging
them with kidnapping and whitecap-
ping negroes.
1t is said that the report of the prob
able settlement of the recent italian
lynchings in Louisiana on the basis Of
a $4,000 indemnity is incorrect, as no
such proposition has come from the
Italian authorities, or is under consid-
GRAFTON by the department.
The train robber who was recently
captured at Trinidad, Col, and who
has since been identified as San
Ketchum, or "Black jack" is said to
be the man who on July murdered
r. M. Rodgers and Clinton Wingfield,
SlOIthCCptl0 dI Ndllp NCluC, AllL
Mrs. Eda Becker, formerly Eda SUIT
terlin, the 17-year-old Chicago girl for
the love of whom Albert Becker is al
legged to have murdered his first wife
and disposed of her body by means OF
chemicals, was granted a divorce.
Becker is under sentence of death.
Rev. DR.. Stephen S. Wise, who has
been rabbi Of the B'nai Jeshurun syna-
gogue, New York, for the last six
years, has received call to the syna-
gogue at Portland, Ore. Although he
has made no official response, it is
probable that he will accept. The sal
airy is $1,000.
Mrs. Eliza F. Smith of Chicago is
said to be entitled to a 100000 share
of an estate in Germany and another
in Baltimore worth s12,000,000 to 3d.
000, 900, claimed by the heirs of Matthias
Silerfirst, German baron, who died in
1745. and of his sons, Matthias second
and Abraham.
Enrico Malatesta, the italian anar-
chist who recently escaped from a
prison in his own country, addressed
two anarchist meetings in New York.
both being largely attended. He says
he will stay in the country three
months organizing anarchist groups in
the leading cities.
The Ohio democratic convention
nominated the following state ticket:
Governor, John r. Mclean; Lieutenant
governor, A. W. Patrick; supreme
judge, De Witt c. Badger; attorney
general. w. III. bore; auditor, G.. A.
treasurer, James I. German;
board of public works, F. D. Malin.
George S. E. Vaughan, who was the
subject of Abraham Lincolns last Off
cial act as president of the United
States, has just died in Missouri. Dur
ing the civil war he was tried twice as
a spy and each time sentenced to death,
but was saved through the interven-
ton of Senator John B. Henderson,
who induced President Lincoln to in
terfere.
Commissioner General OF Immigra-
ton Powderly is considering an appeal
taken by 6S Filipinos detained at San
Francisco by the commissioner of i'm
migration there. These Filipinos were
brought over on the United States
transport Leenaw for exhibIuon at the
Mechanical Institute of San Francisco.
They were detained charged with vio-
lating the contract labor law
John Cowell, who was interested
largely in real estate and mining in
but who had made his home
In Brooklyn for 40 years, is dead. He
was born in 1909 in Wrentham, Mass.
AS boy he went on a whaler for one
trip. and then Settled in business in
New Orleans. Later he lived in Chi
cago. and for a time was in the straw
business in New York. In 1S47 he went
10 California, and took an active part
IN the doings of those days.
Two weeks ago 100 negroes were i'm
ported to Rockford from Brookhaven.
Miss. by w. NJ. Fortner and Son. rail-
road contractors, to work on improve
nents on the Illinois Central track
There has been trouble in the camp
and one day two OF the negroes were
'ound west OF the city with injuries
hat will prove fatal. Twenty-Five
If the imported crew were discharged.
,ame to town stranded. and are being
ed by the police and firemen until