Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-10

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Olga Nethersole has sued Rev. DIR.
Eaton, of Washington, for $4,000 for
defamation OF character.
General Brooke is to succeed Cen
eral Merritt as commander of the de-
partment of the east.
Louis Mayer, one Of the oldest and
best known Jewish residents of Chi
cago, died of old age.
Miss Ethel Barrymore denies the re-
port OF her engagement to be married
to Charles d. Wetmore.
New York bankers estimate that
American tourists will spend $3.50, 00O,-
900 in Europe this year.
Roosevelt Is said to be willing to
accept the vice presidency if Mckinley
will support him in 1904.
Ex-President Dole of Hawaii seems
to be in the lead for appointment as
governor of the islands.
The democratic choice for Bryan's
mate is said to be between Belmont,
Scnley and Mayor Harrison.
John w. Gates was sued for an ac-
counting by man claiming share in
profits from promoting trust.
Thos. H. Edge was unanimously re-
nominated for congress by the repub-
licans of the first Iowa district.
Southern democrats in the senate
will not oppose General Miles eleva-
ticn to a lieutenant generally.
Professor Sheridan Cox, for many
years a leading educator in Indiana,
| died at Kokomo of pneumonia.
The Standard Oil company Increased
the wages of employees 10 per cent
and reduced the hours of work.
Frank Davidson. one of the most
widely known newspaper men in the
country, died in Chicago, aged S.
In Chicago a true bill was returned
against George p. Gubbins and four
other union men in assault cases.
| The Montana democratic state COM
mittee voted to increase the repre-
sentation of anti-Clark counties.
Melba says she would not marry
another man, "be he lord, yeoman, or
troubadour" She is just divorced.
Chicago corporations may be re-
quired to pay the 100000 it costs for
policemen detailed to serve them.
At the eighth Wisconsin district re-
publican congressional convention at
Appleton, Minor was renominated.
A. S. Hallidie, inventor of the first
cable car system in the United States,
Is dead at San Francisco, aged 10.
The Fifth Avenue hotel, New York,
was bid in by the Enos heirs Of the
property, for s4,225,000 at auction.
Cots at low prices and cheap food
will be provided for delegates to the
populist convention at Sioux Falls.
Detroiters tore down Great Britain's
flag in banquet decorations and hoist
ed in its place the emblem of Spain.
Michigan republicans in state con-
vention endorsed the administration
and instructed in favor of Mckinley.
Frank Rockefeller left the Euclid
Avenue church of Cleveland because
Of quarrel with his brother John ID.
Henry NJ. Flager, a Standard Oil
official, asks court to relieve him of
the care of his insane wife's millions.
Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul
railway officers prepare to establish a
benefit and pension fund for employees
Kansas has commenced action
against Colorado for diverting the
Arkansas river for irrigating purposes.
Summons to appear in court and ex-
plain the Steel and Wire deal was
| a " IL
York
mail package of public docu-
ments, reaching St. Louis under con-
gressional frank, contains wearing APP
parel,
Turkey wants America to send a
warship in order that the porte will
have an excuse for paying the indem-
nifty
The trials of Kentuckians accused
of completely in the Goebel assassina-
ton are set for the second Monday in
July.
Political slatemakers are now con-
Meeting Major-General Miles with the
vice presidential nomination at Phila-
delphia.
The congregation of All Souls
church. Washington. is divided over a
proposal to call woman to the pas
torate.
The heaviest rain in years flooded
Waco. Texas. drowning several per-
sons and causing great damage to
property.
Francis E. Brooks, a machinist of
London, Ont. is said to have fallen
heir to a California estate valued at
$4,000 900.
DR.. ]. Radford Fearn of Oakland,
Cal, was secretly married March 10 to
Miss Mary Micklethwaite, a cousin of
Cecil Rhodes.
Charles 7. Yerkes states that the
four elevated roads in Chicago will be
merged into one system. He has sold
all his surface lines.