Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09


letters were introduced tend} ug to
show that Cornell had persona pro-
flied by excessive charges. I'm
Professor Henry Rowland ,ohns
Hopkins university has invented a new
telegraph machine by which an opera
tAr playing on the keys can transmit
az message, which will be automatically
printed ON a machine 1,500 miles away,
doing away with the receiving opera
tor entirely.
Richard Croker admits that the
Manhattan Elevated Railway company
rejected his proposition to use its
structure for pipe through which his
Air Power company desired to trans
NIT compressed air at a pressure OF
1000 pounds to the square inch for
commercial purposes.
The American Iron and Steel AS
ISOLATION in it's bulletin of March /
says that 6,609,017 gross tons of Bes-
semer steel ingots were produced in
the United States during 1898, over
20 per cent. more than in 1897. Penn
sylvania's share was 2,402,254; Ohio
1,4S9, lis; Illinois, 100000, and Other
states, 612,608.
New York custom officials are au-
thority for the statement that the
seizure last week of some 1,200 Swiss
watch movements and one-half thai
number of gold cases in the Office o.
A. w. Levy, points directly to the ex
istence of an organized gang o.
smugglers which they are in hopes
of soon apprehending.
Frances Saville, the opera singer
who states that she is a citizen of Cali
fornia, has brought suit against thu
proprietor of the Madison Avenue no
tel in New York City to recover $4,000
the value of casket of jewels which
she alleges were stolen from her apart
ments in the hotel in December, 1898
presumably by an employee of the no
| tel.
Edwin T. Earl, who is thoroughly
| familiar with the California fruit
trade, says: The yield of oranges in
| the southern part of the state this
season is about 100000 boxes. Of
this number about four-fifths are be-
ing sent to eastern cities. The finan-
cial returns to the orange growers oil
the crop will be between $4,000, 900 and
$4,000, 900.
At Tyler, Tex, seven prisoners have
escaped from the Jail. Among the flu
gitives is Jim Mite, the surviving mem
Der of the Dalton gang which robbed
tn Longview bank in 1894, when two
citizens and one robber were killed
Mite was brought here from the peni-
tertiary, where he was serving q
seven-year sentence. He had received
a change of venue to Rusk county.
In Chicago, confession of extensive
swindling practices begun in Europ-
can cities and carried on in the United
States, has been made by Nathan Lab
tman, who was arrested Saturday
on a charge of having attempted to
swindle Lowenthal Bros, junk deal
ers, out of $4,000 by trying to sell
brass borings for gold dust. He said
he had made no less than 100000 by
operating the alleged gold dust swind-
ling scheme.
In the United States circuit court
Chicago, the first step has been taken
in legal battle which will probably
have a long existence in the supreme
court of the United States. The case
was that of Shirley T. High, a daugh-
ter of the late Gen. w. w. Tredway
of Madison, against Collector of Inter
nal Revenue Coyne and the matter al
issue is the inheritance tax imposed
under the war revenue act. The
plaintiff seeks to have this tax de-
clared unconstitutional. No matter
what the decision may be, the cause
will be taken into the supreme court
for contest. The legacy which is made
the issue of the legal battle is that OF
Attorney James L. High, former
Dane county man, who died last fall
The tax falls only on the person II
property, which is worth 100000.
One dark, cloudy night last fall n
two days old baby was left at the home
of Mrs. St. John in Edgerton. Par
NhNa6S VI tAC VICE Out was SuIOuucu III
a mystery, but nevertheless the kind
hearted lady took 1t in and gave it
all the attention a mother could have
done. Under the care of the foster
mother 1t has thrived and gives prom
Use of some day being queen among
its sex. Every week that the little
thing has been with Mrs. St. John she
has received IS note to partially rec
ompense her for the hours of care and
trouble which young babe of peces-
sity makes. But the little one has
gone to another home. One evening
not long ago a stranger called and took
it away, whence no one knows, but in
all probability it has passed to other
hands that will tenderly and kindly
care for it in the years that are to
come.