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


the collision on the Iehigh Valley
railroad at West Dunel,en, N. J., is
found to have been 16.
DR.. Chauncey M. Depew was I'M
animously nominated for United
States senator by the representatives
of the New York legislature.
Books of the United Miners, which
are being investigated by a special
committee of the national convention,
were found to be mutilated.
Capt. William Norris of Harrisburg.
Pa, assistant adjutant general on the
staff of Gen. s. P. s. Goblin, died sud-
denly at the Harrisburg club.
Stockholders of Chicago Klondike
company headed by Frank b. Vroo-
man ask for receiver, charging that
he misused $4,000 of the funds.
John Kean, Jr., was selected by the
republican legislative caucus as United
States senator from New Jersey to
succeed Senator James Smith, Jr.
United States Senator Joseph R.
Hawley was nominated by the repub-
lican caucus of the. Connecticut gen.
eral assembly to succeed himself
Andrew Carnegie promises to give
$250,000 for free library for residents
of Washington if congress will spend
an equal sum in purchasing a site.
"Bill" Ryan, arrested for completely
in the recent train robbery at Macon
Mo-, admits his identity as a former
member of the Jesse James gang.
The senate appropriations commit
tee reports the Indian bill with pro-
vision authorizing partial return to
the Indian contract school system.
Arthur Henry Dundon, vice presi-
dent of the normal college and one of
the best-known eduators in the coun-
try, died at New York, aged 81 years.
Sagasta denies that negotiations are
in progress for the sale of the Caro-
lines, remarking thaG the previous con-
sent of the cortes would be necessary.
Howard E. Wright, speaker of the
California house of representatives,
says he received $3.50 cash to vote
for U. S. Grant for United States SEN
ator.
Auglique Ravel, the father of the fa-
nous Ravel family, French pantomi-
mist, and the largest survivor of the
family, is dead in New York. aged IS
years.
Colonel Theodore Yates, at one time
commander of the national soldiers
home at Milwaukee and a well-known
army officer, died of pneumonia, aged
6S years.
Judge Shiras in the United States
district court rendered a decision sus-
Gaining the constituhonality of the
Iowa law taxing foreign insurance
companies.
In New York Miss Anna Mary
Haeke Schley, daughter of William
Schley. poet author and lawyer, and
second cousin of Admiral Schley, COM
mitted suicide.
At Adrian, Mich, Gen. W. M. Hum
phrey died. He was auditor general
of the state four terms and served
eight years as warden of the state pri-
son at Jackson.
Col. George p. Webster, a we'll
known lawyer and prominent mem
Der of Tammany hall, died. He was
born in Connecticut, but In early life
went to Newport, KY
The anti-Pingree senators secured
the adoption of resolution increasing
the senate standing committees so as
to secure q two-thirds vote against
AL Pingree measures.
At Springfield, Mo-, S. l., Hazeltone,
who was elected to the forty-seventh
congress from Missouri on the green
back ticket, is dead. He was born
at Andover, VT, in 1921.
Arrangements have been completed
for a congress of railway employees 10
be held in Chicago. Feb. Is. under the
auspices of the Railway and Telegraph
Employees Political League
At Baltimore Eugene Higgins, a
democratic politician who never
missed a national or state convention
and was known all over the country
died of pneumonia. aged 81.
AT Charleston, w. Va, ex-Secretary
of States VIM. Il. Chiffon has paid
Attorney General Rucker about IS. 900.
the balance due from him to the state
on his shortage of over $4,000.
Justice Brewer of the United States
supreme court sailed for Liverpool.
His visit is in connection with a meet
ing of the Venezuelan boundary COM
mission. of which he is a member.
At Toledo, four children of George
Laing have died from eating diseased
chicken. The servant is also i'll. and
her recovery IS doubtful. 1t is sup
posed the chickens were affected with
cholera.
Three commissioners have arrived
in New York from Glasgow. They are
going to Washington to try to secure
the cooperation of the president in
the exposition proposed to be held In
their city in 1901.
At Vicksburg. Miss. Capt Nc
Michael Carbine. of New Orleans. a
steamboat man. we'll known from st.
Paul to New Orleans, died Carbine
was 5S years of age. and had been on
the river for 81 years.
oliver Sumner Teall caused a sensa-
ton at New York in the divorce pro-
ceedings brought by his wife when he