Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-01-26
DOMESTIC.

At Hastings, Mimi, Walter r.
Hanna died, aged SO years.
General William Humphrey, aged
| 10, is dead at Adrian, Mich.
movement is on foot in the South
to colonize negroes in the west.
One of the most disastrous fires In
recent years visited Memphis, Tenn.
A West Superior woman is thought
to have been buried while in trance.
Az Memphis, Tenn, the J. s. Monkin
dry goods house burned. LOSS, $780,
900.
Fire today destroyed half of Bridge
water, N. s., entailing loss of $780,
900.
Bolossy Kiralfy, the theatrical man
ager, is being sued for divorce in New
York.
Jesse De Long, well known horse
man, died at his home at Falkland,
Mich.
Mrs. Leslie Carter scored a big
dramatic triumph in Zaza in New
York.
Preliminary steps are taken for the
Louisiana purchase exposition in ST.
Louis.
Mrs. William Fearing Gill, sister of
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, died in
Paris.
Gen. A. b. Nettleton, formerly of
Minneapolis, went bankrupt in New
York.
Ex-senator Dubois was married to
Miss Edna Maxwell Whited OF DolanI,
S. d.
Congressman William l.. Will
son may be chosen president of Yale
college.
Bishop Chatard OF the diocese of
Vincennes, Ind. is i'll with a stroke of
paralysis.
C. Herman Poppe, editor of Der
Freiddenker, died at Milwaukee, aged
81 years.
rhe business portion of Bridge
water, N. s.. was destroyed by fire.
Loss $1,000.000
Nelson Dingley. Jr., chairman of
the ways and means committee, died
in Washington.
A grand jury begins an investigation
of the charges of bribery in che Mon
tana Legislature
John n. Partridge was appointed
superintendent of public works by
Gov. Roosevelt.
Austin Lowell, father of w A.
Lowell of Chicago, died at GAINESVILLE,
Wis, aged "a.
Owen Loyejoy's widow, Mrs Eunice
Storrs Lovejoy. died at Princeton,
ILL.,. aged SO years.
The president nominated Joseph II.
Choate of New York to be ambassa-
dor to Great Britain.
Former Chief Justice James II.
Rothrock died at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
He was 90 years old.
There is talk of making the North
ern Pacific and Baltimore 4 Ohio prac-
tically one property.
American and Canadian lumbermen
and could not agree.
Rev. T. E. Sherman reported that IL
legitimate children outnumber the
legitimate in Porto Rico.
Il Owen C. Howard, accused of steal
ing $4,000 in Houston, Tex, was
brought back from Germany.
The American Steel and Wire Co.
was Incorporated in New Jersey, with
n capital stock of S90,000,000.
An attempt is made at Jackson,
Mimi. to steal 81 carloads of wheat
by means of bogus way bills,
A chewing gum trust, with a capital
between S15,0U0,000 and $4,000, 1000,
has been practically completed.
Students of the University of Wis
consin were riotous at theatrical
performance and one paid a SIS fine.
The remains of the late Ambassador
Romero of Mexico left Washington for
the City of Mexico in a special car.
The product of precious metals in
the territory west of the Missouri river
is said to be the greatest on record.
A syndicate of tweney-one bankers
has been formed to purchase the whole
ofthis years crop of Havana tobacco
Ferdinand Thiemann of Wauwatosa,
Wis, 10 years old, drowned himself
because he was asked to do an errand.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., announced
that he gives up Christian union and
will re-enter the regular Baptist min
istry.
The University of Minnesota was
defeated in debate with the Uniyer-
slty OF Chicago and Evanston by Ann
Arbor.
Herman Beckman, one of the prin-
cipal owners of the Northern Ohio
Wooden Mills. died at Cleveland, aged
~ years.
Secretary Long will allow Admiral
Sampson to take the north Atlantic
squadron to southern waters for drills
and maneuvers.
The Standard Disabling and Distrib-
uting company acquires a large num-
Der Of additional distilleries. including
one In st. Paul
John Morehouse. one OF the best
known men of Mclean county ana
Oldest business man OF Blooming
ton. died. aged 65.
Forty-five republican members OF
the Pennsylvania legislature signed a
pledge not to vote for Senator Quay
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