Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-12-14
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FIRE yesterday utobTos eu the SiihIOh;
Mass, theater and several adjoining
buildings. Loss, $4,000.
Milwaukee citizens will hold pub
tic meeting to protest against the
New York franchise scheme.
The Pollak-Virag system of rapid
was tested satisfactorily be-
tween New York and Chicago.
Six passengers were killed in co..
lision on the Denver anu Rio Grande
railroad at English Siding, Col.
A Russian of wealthy family ana
who is charged with embezzlement was
tracked to Montana and arrested
Four hundred and fifty Swedes and
Danes left Chicago on the annual ex-
cursion to Scandinavian countries.
The estimates of the secretary OF the
treasury of appropriations for the next
fiscal year aggregate 1851 ,08l, 1894.
The Cramp Shipbuilding company OF
Philadelphia will, it Is said, estaDHsh
a branch at Vladivostock, in Russia
Asia.
Rev. Lee A. Brink of Iron River,
Wis, was found in Chicago, having
mysteriously disappeared several weeks
ago.
Chicago creditors of Mrs. Evange-
line Claire O'Neill told Judge Slcott
that she left 81, 400 of unpaid bills
behind.
George C. Maynard, Belleville, ILL.,,
died at Havana, Cuba, Dec. 3, 1899. MI
MAYNARD was connected with the pos
tai service.
Ex-state Senator Samuel H. Martin
of Carmi. ILL.,, is dead at the age OF ~
years. He was a captain in the Mexl-
can war.
George and Ed Smith, young men,
are in Jail at Fort Scott, Kas., charged
with the murder of Leopold Edinger,
a farmer.
CYRUS Davis, the Toledo counter
feiter, has been identified as Charles
Johnson, who comes of family of bad
moneymakers
John Simson Woolson, Judge of the
United States court of the southern
district of Iowa, died in Des Moines,
aged SO years.
Yale chose Brown for football cap
tain. and Harvard elected Daily. Ath-
letics cost Yale $56,3S and Harvard
$64, 900 last year.
The new practice ship Chesapeake, the
only sailing vessel of the new United
States navy, is ready for it's trial trip
at Charlestown, Mass.
The state election commission oil
Kentucky met at Frankfort to decide
whether Taylor or Goebel shall get the
certificate as governor.
A brief was filed by counsel for Well
come in the Montana disbarment pro-
ceedings growing out Of the election
of Clark to the senate.
Attorney General Griggs reports that
the nation can prosecute trusts only
in restraint of interstate commerce. A
land claim court is needed.
Henry Gage of Terre Haute, has con-
fessed throwing a stone and injuring
Charles Moberly on Thanksgiving day
so that he is likely to die.
The democratic congressman pomi-
mated James ID. Richardson of Tenn
essee for speaker, and he thus becomes
leader on the floor to the louse.
An open switch on the Milwaukee
road, near Beloit, wrecked a passen-
ger train without loss of life, but with
serious damage to the cars.
In Philadelphia Rev. John b. Hes
pelin, c. S. S. r., the oldest member of
the Redemptorist order in the United
States, is dead. in his 18th year.
The treaty providing for the parti-
ton of Samoa was signed in Washing
ton by Secretary of State Hay and the
British and German ambassadors.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed by
John II. Howe, lumberman and mer-
chant of Amery. Wis. Liabilities, $685.
900; assets not quite half that sum.
j. G. Leftwick, a negro federal en-
ploye, has gone to Hawaii to study the
prospects there for his race. He goes
as agent for a negro association in
Alabama.
On account of the failure of the Bay
field Western railway to complete it's
road in time. the Bayfield, (Wis)
county board has Cancelled the $4,000
JULIUS NOlCu
The proposed combination of the
hat manufacturers throughout the
country, which has been under con-
sderation for some time. is likely to
become reality.
A Wabash railroad passenger train
struck Thrty-first street electric car
in Chicago. injuring eleven persons
and demolshing the ear. None of
those injured will die.
Rev. Richard Hassell, pioneer Con-
minister of Illinois and
Wisconsin, died at Seattle, Washing
ton, of senile decay. aged 10 years. He
settled in Illinois in 1912.
At the trial in New York of Roland
b. MolineuX for the murder of Mrs.
Katharine J. Adams, Assistant District
Attorney Osborne made the opening
statement for the prosecution.
Gen. Henderson was unanimously
for speaker at the republi-
can caucus. Col. Henry Casson of Wis
consin was chosen for sergeant-at-arms
and the Reed rules were re-enacted.
A hard fight is anticipated between
the senate and house ON the currency
bill The senate measure differs sub
stantially from that of the house al