Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-16

leuS nave comDsted TO form the AmerFT
lean Wooden Company, with acapitAl
stock of s50,0OO,OO0.
Captain Isaac Walton, an old lake
captain well known in Chicago, Cleye-
land and along the lakes, died at Nor
walk, Ohio, aged SO.
Charleston, w. Va, is almost en-
tirely under water, the Elk river hav-
ing flooded the Kanawha valley
Much distress prevails.
AT Sandusky, o., verdict of muir
der in the second degree was returned
against Martha McFillin. She killed
her lover, George Koechell
controlling interest in the Chicago
and Alton railroad was sold to syn
d'cate represented by John d. Rookie
Aeller and George Gould.
A fire at Charlotte, N. c., destroyed
1000 bales of cotton and other valua-
BILE property. Loss estimated at $780,
600; insurance unknown.
Miss Helen Gould testified at Albany
as a witness against Mrs. Margaret
e. Cody, accused of trying to black
mail Jay Gould's heirs.
1 SsAANo6O capitalists dIt Sdlu 10 Ut
largely interested IN a combine of
smelters, now being formed, with
capital stock of s46,O0O,O00.
In Chicago, May wheat broke to
Tx at TVS, rallied to 721s at 725s,
and eased off to 72A cents--a net
loss for the day of % cents
Very few applications have been
filed for grants, franchises or conces-
sions for the construction of public
works in Cuba and Porto Rico.
Millers want the interstate COM
merce commission to investigate
charges that the railroads are giving
too low rate on export flour.
The Manifestation college de-
bate on the expediency OF an alliance
] with Great Britain was won by Garlic
ton, which took the negative.
| The United States is said to have
promised $100OO,O00 more for the Gu
ban soldiers and that it will soon turn
the island over to the natives.
Three persons were killed and nine
injured by a tornado that passed over
Madisonville, Tenn. At Decatur, Ala
four were killed by terrific storm.
At rekamah, Neb., Calvin Hiscox
was acquitted of the murder of Fred
Sellers. Hiscoxs sister was acquit-
{ ted of the same charge a year ago.
Boston minister, locked out of his
church by the standing committee,
conducted services on the steps and
sidewalks in front of the church.
President Mckinley will appoint
Senator George Gray judge of the third
circuit, including the states of Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
At San Jose, Cal, two bicycle rid
ers, David Aratio and Daniel Murphy,
ran into each other on the country
road Aratio was killed instantly.
Steps were taken in Philadelphia to
interest trade organizations and bust
ness interests in the Philadelphia com
mercial exposition, to be held next fall
Mrs. Cornelia, or Connie" Jack
son, sister of Joseph Jefferson and
herself well known actress, died
from cancer, aged sixty-three years.
Mayor Quincy of Boston has given
directions to the superintendent of
public grounds to begin the work of
DISCRIMINATING the English sparroys.
r. Hayden, editor of the Weekly
Underwater and publisher of the An
nual Encyclopedia of Insurance. died
at his home in East Hartford, Conn.
Physician writing in the Medical
Record says that appendicitis can be
cured by free calomel and soda purga-
ton, followed by a saline if action is
too slow.
Soldiers of Fort Sheridan are COM
planning at the abolition OF the beer
canteen, the profits from which have
furnished all the table luxuries for
their mess.
The condition of Rudyard Kipling,
the well known author continues to
improve. His eldest child, aged 6,
died of pneumonia, but Kipling does
not know this.
| at Rochester, N. Y, Mrs. Emma
M. Winslow, executive officer of the
Constellation is dead. She was chosen
by the navy department to christen
the Kearsarge.
The Ellington. fashionable apart
ment-house in Cleveland, with about
$50 occupants. has been quarantined
because of smallpox, and ingress and
egress are prohibited.
| There is going to be a revival of
old-time river steamboat rivalry on
the upper Mississippi this season. The
| Diamond 10 and the Davenport-B
lington lines have parted company.
At Evansville, John Rider started
home with friend and next morning
his dead body was found on the bank
OF the river near his home. 1t is sup
posed that he died from exposure.
An old grudge between cowboys was
settled with pistols at Childress. in
the Texas panhandle. John Bailey
and Thomas Palmer We're the princi-
pals in an informal duel and both are
| dead.
The proposed constitutional con-
vention for Alabama is being vigor-
ously opposed by the republicans of
the state. The republicans claim that
the convention will disfranchise the