Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-22


Tut in a receivers hands.
Fourteen lives were lost in a tene-
ment house fire in Newark, n. J.
rhe Theatre Francois fire ds said to
have been of incendiary origin.
Farmers National Congress meets
at Colorado Springs, Aug. 21-31.
Boutell introduced bill providing
pensions for government employees.
Mrs. Herman de Vries, wife of the
opera singer. died in New York.
Milo d. Campbell announced his
candidacy for governor of Michigan.
William II. Hintz, formerly of Chi
cago, died suddenly at Elgin, aged IS.
The Iowa democratic state cow n
ton is to be held in Des Moines May 8.
John f. Convey, United States consul
general at Yokohama, Japan. is dead
Harry Graves was appointed d.
rector of Yale's new school of forestry.
A great improvement Is noted in the
agricultural conditions of the country.
France may enact a law acquitting
starving people charged with stealing
food
Special pension examiners are strik-
ing remarked widows from the pension
rolls.
The Iowa house passed a bill estab.
fishing state department of agricui-
ture.
Congress will not act in the cases of
the Utah postmasters accused of polyg-
amy.
Fifteen out of nineteen towns in
Minnesota voted to grant liquor Ii
censes.
DR.. Cameron is accused of stea ing
book-plates from Boston and Harvard
Libraries.
Temperance people accuse Hanna Of
defeating local option in the Ohio leg
islature.
A. c. Rand of the Latin & Rand
Powder company died at New York,
aged So
Extensive japanese naval maneuv-
ers will be held in the latter part of
this month.
Kentucky's democratic legislature
appropriated 100000 to organize a new
state militia.
Governor Tanner issued a procla-
nation designating April q as arbor
day in Illinois.
The proposed combination Of the
manufacturers Of threshing machines
falls through.
Delegates instructed for Mckinley
wee elected in Texas and Kansa: dis
trlct conventions.
Suit has been commenced by tine
sugar trust to test the constitutionality
OF the war tax.
The house committee favors an APP
preparation of s2,O00,OO0 for national
guard expenses.
Dewey will attend the Illinois G. A.
r. encampment at Jacksonville and
may visit Peoria.
Dr. Frank Fl. Fisher, husband OF
Maud Lillian Berri, prima donna, is
dead in New York.
Mrs. Hearst will pay the expenses
Of University of California archeo-
logical expeditions.
A New York senate committee ia
vorably reported bill repeating the
Horton boxing law
A new emperor is said to have been
selected in China. His name is Point
sein and he ds 8 years old
Rhode Island democrats nominated
N. w. Lttlefield for governor and in
dorsed the Chicago platform.
The Bank OF Commerce and the
Union Bank of New York are to be
combined; capital, $4,000 600
Rhode Island republicans put up a
ticket headed by william Gregory of
North Kingston for governor.
Chicago machinery manufacturers
applied to Judge Chetlaine for an in
junction against union pickets
rhe populist convention in Custer
county, Nebraska. refused to indorse
Bryan and voted against fusion.
The Dublin corporation council,
after stormy discussion. adopted an
address of welcome to Queen Victoria
The Chicago Woman's club discussed
Mrs. Emmons Blaine's plan for placing
domestic labor on an eight-hour day
basis,
A federal judge at Butte, Mont. en-
Joined labor organizations from boy
cotting Chinese laborers or their em-
ployes,
A brother and sister Of Henry Ward
Beecher died on the same day. one at
Elmlra. n. Y. and the other at Hart
ford. Conn.
Swift 4 Co, the Chicago packers,
buy the American holdings of the
Eastman company of New York for
SO 600 000
Indiana gold democrats declared
that they will not support Bryan or
any other candidate on the Chicago
platform.
W. l.. Farnsworth. who is reputed
to have had 40 wives, was sentenced
by Chicago judge to the Illinois PEN
itentiary for bigamy
Francis Truth. a Boston divine
healer. was arrested ON the charge OF
using the mails to defraud. His re-
CENTS were $50 600 a day.