Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-02-23
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was destroyed by fire.
DR.. James H. Etheridge, the gyne-
cologist. is dead in Chicago.
Belmond, Iowa, had fire which de-
stroyed $150,000 worth OF property.
At Jackson, Miss, Governor Nc
Laurin is critically i'll of pneumonia.
War officials are looking for Lieut.,
J. B. Everitt, Company A, 4th Wis
consin.
Nearly all the large cereal factories
in the country are merged under one
management.
The department of agriculture
will have beef investigation on It's
own account.
A. G. McClurg & Co, the Chicago
publishers, were burned out, the loss
being s65O,OOO.
George M. Curtis of Iowa is APP
pointed a member of the colonial
board for Cuba.
Coal companies and dealers were
indicted in Cincinnati for violating
the antitrust law.
A Chippewa Fall (Wis.) man was
murdered in the Klondike after gain
ing a large fortune.
Captain James Bryant, who aided
Boss" Tweed to escape to Cuba, is
dead at New York.
Millionaire James L. Flood was
married in Kansas City to Miss Fritz,
sister of his first wife.
George Scarcliff, Sr., wealthy
pioneer resident of GAINESVILLE, Wis,
died at the age of 70.
The American commissioners refuse
to cede Skaguay, Alaska, or any other
territory to Great Britain.
An epidemic of spotted fever" or
cerebro spinal meningitis, is said to be
raging at Morgantown, Ky.
Rev. DR.. Emil G.. Hirsch, a former
Baltimorean, was elected rabbi of
Temple Emanuel New York.
Maxey hall, at Brown university, was
Quilted by fire. Loss, $4,000. Fifty
three students lost their rooms.
Rev. James Monroe Taylor, presi-
dent of Vassar college, was elected
president of Brown university.
Samuel c. Meredith died at Indian
apolis, aged 92. He was the Oldest
newspaper publisher in the state.
Senator Hansbrough's Inter-Ocean
building and other structures at
Devils Lake, N. d., were burned.
Plans for gigantic silk trust, with
headquarters in Paterson, N. j., are
being discussed by the manufacturers
1t is estimated that so per cent. of
tho mhaat aaraaoa In captrol Jll;no;e
has been killed by the severe weather.
George Searies of Chicago found mis-
wife at Wichita, Kan with the man
with whom she ran aWay in January,
1895.
Professionals are excluded from
membership in the l.. A. W.. but will
be allowed representation in the as
sembly.
The president and cabinet fully de-
cided upon an extra session il the
army reorganization bill, is not passed
by March A.
Judge Simon Baldwin, of Con-
necticut, urged the restoration of the
whipping-post for the punishment of
wife-beaters.
Intensely cold weather prevailed
throughout the country The tenn
perature fell to twenty-six degrees in
parts of Florida.
A loving cup was presented to Ad-
miral SIMPSONS wife by the COM
manders who served under rhe Ad-
miral at Santiago.
Mrs. l.. z. Letter and her daughters
sailed for Europe. the daughters to
continue on to India to visit their
sister, Lady Curzon.
The Delaware legislature passed a
bill reducing the taxes of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad from SS5. 900
to $4,000 annually.
The American Steel and Wire COM
pany will advance wages of all mill
men 10 per cent. This affects sew
eral thousand men.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has offered to
give Atlanta, Ga, a 100000 public IL
brary IL the city will furnish a site and
an annual appropriation.
John c. jerks, one of the first
settlers of Evansville, Wis, and for
many sthS "a ANaOAhS nuSlutSS man,
passed away at the age of 81.
Admired Lord Charles Beresford ar
rived in San Francisco from Japan
and gave his views on the necessary
policy to be pursued in China.
In New York the engagement is an
nounced of Lispenard Stewart and
Miss Romola Dahlghen, a granddaugh-
ter of the late Admiral Dahlgren.
Bishop John Williams. of the Pro-
testant Episcopal diocese OF Connecti-
cut, senior bishop OF the church. died
at his home in Middletown, Conn.
Mrs. Martha Cumback died at
Ind, of heart failure.
aged &C years. She was the wife OF
former Governor VIII Cumback.
Jesse III. Bunnell of Brooklyn, N. Y,
died of heart disease, aged So. He was
in the United States military tele-
graph service during the civil war.
At Denver, Henry p. Rhodes, ex-as-
iistant United States district attorney,
lied from wounds Inflicted by himself |
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