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


died suddenly of heart disease on a
special train eastbound from Denver.
Maj. A. e. Woodson of the ninth
cavalry has rendered his resignation Of
the agency of the Cheyenne and Ara
pahoe Indians, at darlington, o. T.
The value of the imports into Great
Britain from the United States in 1898
was s612,662,073. Canada is a keen
competitor in farm and forest products.
At San Francisco J. F. Turner, real
estate agent, was shot and killed by
Joseph Frena, barber, as the result of
a long standing feud rising from a land
deal.
The town of Pleasant Plain, Ark,
having population of about 500, has
been wiped cut by tornado. No lives
were lost, as warning of the storm was
given.
The resignation of William ]. Latta
as general agent of the Pennsylvania
railroad is announced. He is to as
sumo the presidency of an electric COM
pany.
The amount of gold certificates ex-
changed for gold and bullion to date is
$34, $50, 800. In addition to this, $5,000,-
900 additional gold is about to be ex-
changed.
At harvest picnic, near Ladora, Ia,
Is persons were seriously poisoned as
the result of eating strawberry ice
cream. Fatal results are feared in sew
eral cases.
The construction of warships is de-
layed by the scarcity of steel. The
navy department also finds it difficult
to secure reasonable bids for work at
navy yards.
A secret service has discovered a
rev counterfeit 50 treasury note of the
series of 1891, check letter D; Bruce,
register; Roberts, treasurer; portrait
Mcpherson.
Mrs. Joseph Lippman of Salt Lake
was instantly killed and eight other
passengers seriously injured by the
overturhing of a stage coach near
Dwelles, Mont.
Fire at st. Agnes convent and or
phanage, Sparkhill, N Y, destroyed
nine of the ten building, entailing a
loss OF $1500O0, and caused the death
of four persons
William A. Harshaw of Cleveland,
president of the Harshaw, Fuller &
Goodwin Co., was arrested on a war
rant, charging him with selling adul-
terated linseed oil.
What was apparently an earthquake
shock visited Wabash, Ind. There was
loud rumbling proceeding from the
earth and a slight motion. The shock
lasted but a second.
The position of director-geneTal of
the pan-American exposition has been
formally rendered to William l. Blu
chanan, United States minister to the
Argentine Republic.
Frederick Johnson, a farmer at Gill
bert Plains, Mass, shot and killed his
wife and three children, and then com
mitted suicide. No reason can be as
signed for the deed.
The American Bar association met at
Buffalo. N. Y. and Senator Henderson
made an address, pproving the Presi-
dents Philippine policy. Henderson
was elected president.
Ambassador ChCate has been press
ing the British foreign Office for tenn
porary settlement of tie Alaska bound
airy dispute, but no advance has been
made in the negotiations.
Sol II. Bethea, United States district
attorney for northern Illinois, who has
been i'll at Dixon some time and was
improving, has suffered relapse and
his condition is serious.
Seven of the sixteen persons charged |
with participating in the whipping of
Postmaster Crum at Peck, Fla, have
been arrested. Crum gave offense by
employing negro assistant.
The National Manufacturers associa-
ton has purchased in Shanghai, China,
a building containing 10000 square feet |
of floor room, and a permanent exhibit
ton will be established there.
A Cincinnati firm has received an or
der amounting to half million dollars
from French company for electric
generators to be shipped to
France. China and South Africa
Notice has been given that the OPP
ton on window glass plants, which ex-
pires Sept. l. will not be renewed, and
that the combination which was to |
have been made has been abandoned.
Two men robbed the Clark Is. d.
postoffice and were captured after an
of shots with the sheriff. !
They are regarded the authors of nu-
merous other postoffice robberies in the
state.
A. A. Graham. long a Lake Michigan
resident of Chicago. has re-
turned to Seattle from Atlin Alaska.
He is one of the heaviest American
operators in that camp. having ac-
luired 35 claims.
Iowa populists Endorsed Wharton
Barker of Pennsylvania for president
and Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota
FOR vice president in 1900, and nomi
mated state ticket headed Ey Charles
A. Lloyd for governor.
Major Edward P. Girouard, royal en-
yineer and president of the Egyptian
state railways, has closed contract
With the Pressed Steel Car company OF
pittsburg for building and shipment to
Cairo of 400 steel gondolas.
Mrs Hannah J. Wayne. wife of