Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-08-31

hidden in the walls of his dwelling
over $4,000 in gold and specie.
I Rev. Father Stephen, rector OF the
monastery at Dunlsirk, M X, was
elected provincial OF tn Order of the
Passionist Fathers, now in session Ut
st. Paul's monastery in Pittsburg.
President Mckinley has been elected
to represent the Columbus encampment
No. rs, Union Veteran Legion, at the
national encampment, to be held in
Baltimore Sept. 10, Ia, and 10.
The soft coal trust has options on all
mines in the Pittsburg district except
the Massillon Coal and Coke company,
about 100 properties in all. The cap
ital of the trust will be $64,000,000.
General Daniel Butterfield, who has
been seriously sick at Cold Spring, N.
", is now out of danger, but will not
be able to resume his work in connec-
ton with the reception of Admiral
Dewey.
The stage between Salmon Lake and
Red Rock, Mont, was held up just in
side the state line. T. NJ. Reilly lost
more than 100000 in gold dust, which
he was bringing to Dillon. The rob
bers escaped.
The Toledo Commercial, which has
been run as an Independent paper, was
sold yesterday by George Hull to John
r. Mclean, owner of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, acting through G. G. Stivers,
his business manager.
Governor Bushnell will go to Boston
to present handsome silver service
to the gunboat Marietta ON behalf of
the citizens of the Ohio town. The gum
boat was named in honor of Marietta,
the oldest Ohio settlement.
The barn on the New York estate of
Horace Greeley was partly burned, and
Rev. Frank NJ. Clendenln, son-in-law
of Mr.. Greeley, charges that it and the
Church of Westchester, of which he IS
rector, were set on fire.
One of the issues in the presidential
campaign next year will be President
McKinley's leniency toward Captain
Carter, who was convicted by court
martial of appropriating to his own use
s1,700,000 of government money.
Owing to the constantly increasing
price of meat and the falling off of
trade in consequence the st. Louis
butchers are organizing to fight the So
called beef trust, which, they say, is
responsible for the higher prices.
In Chicago the bonds of Daniel
Coughlin, charged with Jury bribing,
and at present a fugitive, and those of
his alleged co-conspirator, William
Armstrong, have been declared for
feited. Armstrong is in custody.
The fifteenth annual convention of
the Daughters of st. George, one of the
best-known benevolent societies of wo-
men in the world, was opened at Pitts
burg with about 60 delegates from all
parts of the United States and Canada
The chairman of the committee on
invitation of the G.. A. r. encampment,
which convenes Sept. at Philadelphia,
received President McKinley's accept
ance of the invitation to review the
parade and attend the banquet Sept. 8.
The GOODNESS between the Afro
American council and Booker T. Wash
ingtC1 because the latter did not at
tend the sessions of the council has
resulted in Mrs. Washington's name
being stricken from the council rolls.
Physicians do not generally indorse
the recent findings of the Marine hos
pital commission as to the causes of
yellow fever. Drs. Reed and Carroll
are preparing report along quite diff
ferent lines which will be awaited with
interest.
The date has finally been set for the
reburial of the bodies of the followers
of John Brown, who met death with
the intrepid leader at Harper's Ferry,
Va. in 1859. Tue ceremony will take
place Aug. 2S, at p. M, at North Elba,
n. Y.
1t is proposed that special session
of the North Dakota legislature be held
to Appropriate $4,000 to Bring the
troops of the state home from San
the legislators raising the
amount by returning their per diem"
to the state.
Baron Won Herman. agricultural ex-
pert of the German embassy, is just
back from a two-months' visit to Ger
many. He states that there is every
indication that the meat controversy
with the United States will soon be
settled.
Two hundred men OF the first Geor-
gia infantry were sent to Darien to
suppress an incipient riot and bring a
negro charged with assault upon a
young girl. The crime was committed
several months ago. and recently the
negro tried to kill the girl.
Clayton C. Mason, nephew of Sena-
tor Mason of Illinois. died in Wash
ington from an overdose of morphine
taken hypodermically, presumably to-
ease pain due to kidney trouble. Mason
was an employee at the capitol His
widow is resident of Chicago.
Miss Viola Horlccker, who is under
a $4,000 bond, chaged with having
attempted to take the life of Mrs.
Charles A. Morey at Hastings, Neb., by
sending her box of poisoned candy
on April 10 last. is now in an insane