Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-01-12

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the grip.
Henry Watterson dominates Ad
miral Dewey and Gen. FitZhugh Lee
for president and vice-president on
the democratic ticket as "a platform
| in themselves"
A mob of 1000 people has destroyed
the internal revenue sentry boxes and
stoned the gendarmes around the
| Niscemi, Sicily, as a protest against
excessive taxation.
| Statistics compiled at the treasury
department show that there was a
! large increase last year in the i'm
rortations of raw materials by Amer
! lean manufacturers.
| The Pennsylvania legislature or
! ganized, and Gov. Hastings sent in a
message in which he advocates taking
state moneys away from favored
banks as repositories.
Colonel Woodson Hayward May
bury of the LIST Texas volunteers, act
ing brigadier general of the 18th Army
corps, died near havana of typhoid
fever and pneumonia.
With his train laundering along at
so miles an hour, Horace Weber, a
veteran Lake Shore engineer, fell dead
in his cab from an attack of heart
disease near South Bend.
Paul Brooks, a member of the bank
ing firm of Brooks & Co. at Santiago.
and late United States consul at
| Guantanamo, died at Rutland, VT, of
pneumonia, in his Goth year.
The Pennsylvania republican legis-
lative caucus gave Quay 100 of 164
votes for senator. Both sides claim
victory, but the minority claims it
controls enough votes to defeat Quay.
William c. Whitney is at the head
of a syndicate which has purchased
the Edison Electric Lighting com
pany and will try to control all other
lighting companies in NewaYork city.
Greater Chicago is in sight. Steps
have been taken to secure legislation
to consolidate the city and county
governments and abolish the different
township organizations within the
city limits.
The funeral of the late Senior
! Romero, Mexican ambassador, took
place from St. Matthew's church.
| President Mckinley and members of
the cabinet.
The advisory committee of Ply
mouth church, Brooklyn, unanimously
resolved to recommend Rev. N. d.
Hills, D. d., of Chicago to the con-
gregation as the successor to DR..
Lyman Abbott.
At Evansville, Ind, -Iinor CARAT,
Edgar Garner, Elijah Scott, Frank
Curl and William Morris, boys from
10 to II years old, were given
public whipping in the police court
for stealing.
John W. Dearborn, mining expert,
said to be well known in the far
west, was found dead in a New York
hotel He was about go years old
Dearborn claimed to be the adopted
brother of Chief Justice Fuller.
Daniel La Forte, known by his
Indian name of Te-hes-la, president of
the Six Nations and a principal in
the case of Onondaga Indians against
John Boyd Thacher in the supreme
court for the recovery of wampum is
dead
1t has been announced that the offer
made some time ago by DR.. d. K.
Pearsons of Chicago to give $4,000
for the endowment of Berea (KyO
College. if the trustees would raise
| $3.50. 900 by Dec 81, 1898, has been
made binding by the fulfillment of the
condition.
President Harper of Chicago uni
versity announced that gifts aggregat-
ing $403 900 has been made to the in
stitution. Martin Ryerson and Mar
shall Field gave lands worth 100000
and John ID. Rockefeller donated
1924, 900 in cash along with this as he
had promised.
Before Major Marchand left Fash
oda on withdrawing his expedition
the Sudanese battalion of General
Kitchener's forces presented to him
the banner of the dervish Emir Said
Deghein, against whom Major Mar
chand fought before General Kitche-
ner's expedition arrived.
BY direction of Chief Lees, detectives
at San Francisco are watching all out
going vessels and trains in the hope OF
capturing Charles A. Beeler, the Wells
Fargo delivery clerk who absconded
! with $4,000 cash belonging to the
Southern Pacific railway company from
San Antonio, Tex. December 2S.
The reorganized Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints in In
dependence, Mo-, the strongest Nor
mon church outside of Utah, has de-
clared strongly by resolution against
seating Congressman Elect Roberts
of Utah. The members of the church
uphold all the tenets of the Mormon
church except the one in regard to po-
lygamy
Officers who have been working on
the case of David Rothschild, the
Cincinnati bar fixture manufacturer
arrested at New York, charged with
having swindled the Central Ma
tional Bank of $4,000 by means of
worthless notes. say he has swindled
banks in New York Cincinnati, Chi
cago and Cleveland out of sums ag-