Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-08-24

Of &he Grand Lodge, Knights of
PythiaA were burned. as was the
armory f the local military company
Loss, 8 O,OOo
JoseT4 tBrunock. a railroad man, has
broughMuit against President Trum-
bull of the Colorado & Southern rail-
road company for $4,000 damages on
the ground that he has been blacklisted
by that road.
The coroner's jury investigating the
Bridgeport, Conn, trolley accident,
whereby 20 persons were killed, caused
the arrest of William Kelly, who adj
mitted having puriured himself to pro
tect the traction company.
The first national convention of the
Young Peoples Christian Temperance
Union has been called to meet in Chi
cago, Sept. q and %, organization 10
be effected on Frances Wizards birth
day, in honor of her memory.
A brief service over the body of DIR.
Andrew X. Smith of the United States
army, retired, who died of apoplexy at
Cranston's hotel, Highland Falls, n. Y,
was held yesterday. The body was
taken to Hartford for burial.
The mayor and aldermen of Chat
tanooga, who are in sympathy with the
lockout union motormen, passed an
ordinance requiring all motormen en-
ployed by the road hereafter to take
fifteen days instructions under an ex-
pert.
One hundred miners employed al
section Il shaft of Lake Superior mine
at Ishpeming, Mich, owned by the
Oliver Mining company, quit work tc
consider il they would accept the com
pany's proposition about increase in
wages.
A street railroad deal is afoot involv-
ing the consolidation of all the roads
in Albany and Troy, N. Y, which it is
said, it will be followed 10y the absorp-
ton of other New York state roads
Anthony ~ Brady is prominent in the
negotiations.
DR.. |. II. Fincke of Baltimore, a
member of Commissioner-Gener
Peck's staff, died at Chicago of heart
failure. He had been assigned to duty
as expert in medicine, surgeon deu-
tistry and chemistry in the department
OF liberal arts and chemical industries
at the Paris exposition.
The iles-Bement-Pond company
| incorporated at Trenton, n. j., is
spoken of in financial circles as a tool
trust" although its organizers declare
that they are not seeking to establish
a monopoly. The company has CAPT
tai stock of $S,OOO,0OO $5000,OOO Of
which is common and $3,O00,OO0 per
cent cumulative preferred.
The North Atlantic squadron, COM
posed of Admiral SIMPSONS flag
ship New York, the Brooklyn, Indiana,
Massachusetts and Texas, sailed from
Bar Harbor. The squdron will go to
sea for few days practice and then
proceed to Newport. Twenty men
were left at Bar haIbor, including the
master at arms of the Massachusetts.
At Hamilton. o., deeds were filed
transferring the Harding Paper COM
pany plant to the American Writing
Paper company, the so-called paper
trust. The nominal consideration was
100000, but the revenue stamps
attached show the actual value of the
property to be 100000. The mortgage
of the American Writing Paper com
pany to the Old Colony Trust company
for s17000,O00, was also filed in dupli-
cate.
At Pence, Porto Rico the work of re-
pairing the ravages of the hurricane
progresses steadily and the inhabitants
observe calm. The inhabitants natural
ly indolent, feel that they have not
been really great losers. 1t is the
planters and merchants who have lost
everything, and they receive no help.
Wages have been doubled, and there
is much charity, but it is felt by all
good judges that the only solution of
the Porto Rican problem is perma-
nent government under American adj
ministrators. The transport McPher-
son, laden with provisions and cloth
ing for storm sufferers of Porto Rico.
left New York. Secretary Root issued
an appeal to governors to aid in OBJ
tanning supplies for the sufferers.