Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02

Lincoln park, Milwaukee, for work
done for that city.
Brayton ives, the New York banker,
is worth only s2.55.
Samuel H. Ashbridge (rep.) has been
elected mayor of Philadelphia by
10000 plurality.
Robert ]. Burdett, the humorist, is
to marry Mrs. P. c. Baker, a wealthy
widow of Pasadena, Cal.
Ricnard Croker said Tammany will
restore Battery Park to the people and
force the Manhattan Company to obey
the law.
The Manufacturing Investment Com
pany of Appleton, Wis, was placed in
the hands of receiver.
Marie Obrey, IA years old, OF Des
Moines, has confessed attempting to
poison her foster parents.
A Toleuo, o., farmer while insane,
drove his team fu!! speed into a crowd.
injuring a dozen people.
At Sacramento, CAL, a number OF
young men are organizing a colony to
settle on the island of Guam.
Another rich vein of gold ore is re-
ported to have been found In the lisa
bella mine at Cripple Creek
The Texas railroad commission and
the railroads of that state have made
a compromise on the question OF rates.
Secretary Alger is said to be slated
for retirement, and the president Is
said to have already selected his sue
cessor.
Robbers looted the safe of a Santa
Fe express car of 100000 while the
train was standing at Cherry Vale,
Ka.i.
Rev. DR.. Charles Dewitt Bridgman,
rector OF Holy Trinity Protestant Epis-
copal church, New York, died from
grip.
Attorney Charles b. Stuart is dead
at Lafayette, Ind. He was president
of the board OF trustees of Purdue uni
versity.
Latest reports are that the damage
to the southern fruit crop from the re-
cent blizzard was not so great as was
at first supposed.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed at Trenton, N. j., for the Ameri-
can Cereal company, with a capital
stock of s5S,000,OOO.
The New York assembly has passed
an ordinance requiring all elevated
roads to run trains every five min
utes, day and night.
Mrs. Florence B. Rogers testified in
New York at the inquest in regard %
the death of her mother, Mrs. Kate
j. Adams, from poison.
Professor r. w. Wood of the Wis
consin university has discovered
method of thawing frozen water pipes
by the use of electricity.
Horace A. Taylor of Wisconsin has
been confirmed as assistant secre-
tary of the treasury and Colonel Mar
Gus p. Miller as brigadier general,
The Highland Boy mine of Bing-
ham, Utah. has been sold to capitalists
in the Standard Oil Company for a
sum approximating S4.000,000.
John T. McGraw of West Virginia
has served notice on Senator-elect N.
B. Scott that he will protest the lat
ter's right to seat in the senate.
The wife of Levi Weinburg, of
Omaha, claims her husband who re-
Gently dropped unconscious on the
street apd was buried, was inferred
alive.
The government and the reorganiza-
ton committee of the Central Pacific
and Western Pacific reached an agree
ment. and the old debt will be paid in
full.
John Rathberger, a wealthy German
farmer who lived near CarroAton,
ILL.,, killed his wife and committed
suicide. Mrs. Rathberger had begun
suit for divorce.
Lord Charles Beresford was given a
banquet in Chicago, at which he
made a speech, pleading for "ever-
sting friendship" between Britain
and America.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination OF Attorney-General Cla-
baugh OF Maryland to be an associate
justice of the supreme court of the
District OF Columbia.
The manufacturing company which
operates sulphite mills at Madison
and Appleton, Wis, has gone into the
hands of receiver. The property is
valued at over s1,000,000.
George b. NJ. Harvey. formerly a
Chicago reporter and ex-managlng
editor of the New York World, has
bought the North American Review
The price reported is $z25, 900.
Two contributions to the conscience
fund were received by the United
States treasury yesterday. One was
II cents and the other 80 cents in
Canadian fractional currency.
A steamer with 16l bodies of I'M
claimed dead, the accumulation OF two
weeks at the New York morgue, was
unable to reach the city burial ground
and returned the bodies to the morgue.
Mrs. Edith Poppleton, aged %, su-
pervisor OF nurses at the Baptist hos
pital at st, Louis. died OF pneumonia.
She was the daughter of Brlgader
General Samuel ;. Hoiahlr6, U. S. A..
retired.
Admiral Schiey has furnished a
statement to the senate naval COM