Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-17

The Pennsylvania road, which has
purchased the Long Island railroad
announces it's intention to construct
a tunnel from Staten island to Bay
Ridge.
Because the public did not purchase
enough of the stock. the Siegel-Cooper
Co. has abandoned the project of a
cooperative store, with $2,OOO,OOO
capital
Since the spring opened and work
upon the tunnel began, there has been
a tremendous rush of laboring men to
New York, especially from all parts OF
the east
Commander Schroeder, the new gov
ernor of Guam, will sail in few days.
He will go to Manila and from there
proceed to the Ladrones, possibly on a
man -of-war.
The reported intention of the United
States government to transfer the
claims negotiations with Turkey to
Washington is apparently without
foundation.
The docks and sheds of the New
Jersey Storage company, connected
with the Standard Oil company, was
burned, it is suspected by strikers.
The loss is half a million.
At Leavenworth, Kansas. Sapho.
which has been played through Kansas
the past two weeks, was billed, but
Mayor Nelly forbade the production.
Church people had protested.
A fruitless conference between state
officials and the parties to the st.
Louis street railway strike took place.
woman passerby was killed by a
brick hurled at suburban car.
Kansas City will not nave its new
convention hall ready for the demo-
Gratis by July A, but the hall will have
the floor, four walls and the roof com
plete and this will satisfy the com
mttee.
At Charlotte, n. c., fire broke out in
the Merchants and Farmers bonded
warehouse, partially destroyed 1900
bales of cotton and caused a loss of
$4,000, which is fully covered by in
surance.
A shipment of 1886 bags of rice.
weighing 100000 pounds went forward
from Georgia to New York recently on
the order of the United States govern
ment, to be reshipped at New York to
Porto Rico.
A United States navy officer invents
a shell that no armor plate at present
manufactured can resist. This fact
was deemed so important that the
senate win consider the matter in
secret session.
At mass meeting under the ans
pices of the Frisco labor organiza-
tons, resolutions protesting against
violations of the Chinese exclusion act
and the great influx of Japanese labor
ers were adopted.
The amount of bonds received at the
treasury to date for exchange for the
new per cent. consols is s265 sol. $50.
OF which s4S,S12, 900 was received from
individuals and institutions other than
national banks.
The body of Mrs. Gen. J. n. Wilson.
who was burned to death iu Havana
April rs, was removed from the trans
port Buford by a government tug and
taken to Jersey City from whence If
was forwarded to Wilmington. Del.
Butterine makers interested in the
defeat of the Grout bill claim a vic
tory in the decision of the subcor-
mlttee that that measure shall not be
reported until May 90, perhaps too
late Tor passage at this session.
Six men blew open the safe of the
Farmers bank at Sunbery, Ohio, and
in doing so blew the entire rear wall
out OF the building. rhe noise aroused
the people and the robbers eseaped
having stolen three horses for the mr.
pose.
Gen. Silas NJ. Bailey, one of the aos
OF the famous old guard" which stood
oy General Grant in the convention of
1881, died in Uniontown, Pa, aged Ga
years, OF brain trouble which resulted
from a bullet wound received in the
war;
captain Thomas Mein. one of the
best Known mining men in California
is dead of lung trouble. He amassed
a fortune in the Transvaal. When DIR
Jameson made his famous raid Mein
was one of the Americans taken pris-
oner
me husband of Mrs. Genevieye
Jennison, who drowned herself at
wellesley, Mass. says she was deco
~ melancholy because she eould not
shake of the mastery of her mind
held by Ivan Panin, a disciple of
Tolstoi.
Middle Of the road populists nomin-
ated Wharton Baker for president ana
lgnatius Donnelly for vice president
me platform favors an irredemable
paper currency. direct legislation. and
public ownership OF railroads. tela-
graphs. coal mines, etc.
Franklin l.. Fisk. d. d.. whose regis
tFation after forty wears ircumbsnev
OF the Office of the Chicago Theologiesl
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