Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-02-02

of the ruling of the board of general
appraisers, made on Oct. Is, 1897, hold
ing that the new tariff act became
operative at six minutes after o'clock
on the afternoon of July "a, 1897.
A marvellous strike of almost pure
gold is reported in the Isabella mine at
Cripple Creek. The vein in sight is
said to be six feet wide, twenty feet
long, and six inches wide, and the ore
assays nearly 100000 to the ton.
A dispatch from London announces
the death of Robert Rintoul Symon,
aged co. He was vice president and
director OF the Mexican Central rail-
road, and a director of the Maxim
Nordenfedt Gun and Ammunition
company.
Postal Inspector J. ]. Larmour OF
Chicago has left Seattle, having in
custody w. C. Simmons, who is ac-
cused of embezzling $4,000 of the gov
eminent while acting as postmaster at
EIesperia, Mich. Mr.. Simmons has
been wanted since 1893
Ferdinand W. Peck, commissioner
| general and other members of the
Paris exposition commission, appeared
| before the house committee on appro-
priations at Washington and urged
that the appropriation for the United
States exhibit be increased to $780,
900.
Alonzo c.. Yates of Syracuse, N. Y,
died at Nice, France, OF heart failure.
Yates inherited $4,000,000 by the death
of his father in 1880, and lost no time
in beginning to enjoy life. He spent
practically all the money in less than
five years, most of it going in dissipa-
ton.
At Hudson, N. Y, Charles Louis
Beale died, aged rs. He was a re-
publican member of the thirty-sixth
congress from New York city; was a
presidential elector on the Lincoln
and johnson ticket in 1864, and dele
gate to the national union convention
at Philadelphia, in 1866.
Frances M. Stuart, WIDOW of Colonel
Charles B. Stuart, chief engineer of the
United States navy under President
Fillmore, is dead at the residence in
Chicago of Judge Henry NJ Shepard,
her son-in-law, with whose family she
had made her home since the death
of her husband, nearly twenty ago.
Professor F. w. Taussig, the polite
al economist of Harvard university
lectured at Ann Arbor on the subject
of Taxation of Securities. AS a sub
stitute of tax on securities, Professor
Taussig advocated an income tax lev
led by the federal government and
an inheritance tax levied by states.
Arthur w. Brady, western represen-
tative of Pierpont Morgan and Brown
Bros, of New York, has secured
options on all the window glass fac
tories in the Indiana gas belt. The
idea Is said to be to consolidate all the
window glass factories OF America,
much after the fashion of the Standard
Oh! company
AT Chicago Moses S. Greenebaum,
president OF the firm of Michael
Greenebaum Sons company, contract
ors, filed a petition in bankruptcy, liza
bilities aggregating $264,054, assets of
$4,000. At the same time a petition
was filed by his brother, Henry N.
Greenebaum, liabilities amounting to
$260,909, assets $71 900.
At Columbus, o., Dr. w. S. Scott, ex-
president of the Ohio State university,
lecturing on the ethics of the late war,
declared that the invasion. of Porto
Rico was unjustiiable. The naval
battle at Manila without justifiable ex-
cUse and said Spain should not cede
Porto Rica and the Philippines. He
said any argument which would justify
the keeping of the islands would JUS
tify human slavery.
In New York, Margaret Rouss, wife
of Charles Broadway Rouss, is deau
Her maiden name was King. Charles
Broadway Rouss began his business
career in Winchester, Va. The war
destroyed his business there and in
1866 he determined to go to New York
He had so little money at that time
that he was Obliged to leave his wife
and child in Winchester. He is now
millionaire, but almost blind and
likely to become sightless. Mr..
Rouss has taken a great interest in
Winchester The water works of the
town were built by him, and in the
cemetery there are several monuments
built entirely or in part by him, to the
memory of the soldiers of the south.