Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-02-22

ments, burned. Loss S5o,OOO; lnsuf-
ance, $4,000.
The National Biscuit company's net
profits for 1899 are reported at s3,302,-
1856, equal to $50 per cent. on common
stock after paying per cent. on the
preferred.
Chicago builders placed at work 754
non-union men. No violence is at
tempted. The labor situation is I'M
changed, neither side having any adj
vantage.
At Las Cruces, ~ NJ, robbers held
up the cashier at b. C. Bowman's bank
and took $4,000. The famous sheriff
Pat Garrett and a posse are in pursuit
of the thieves.
At South Bend, William II. Smiles,
20 years old, was arrested, charged
with embezzling $4,000 from the es-
tate of the late Samuel Halstead of
New York
Captain Arthur s. Mckinley, first
cousin of President Mckinley, was
married at the Catholic cathedral in
Denver to Miss Regina Quigley of
Montgomery.
Trinity Methodist church, Chicago,
was wrecked by fire which started
near the organ during a prayer meet
ing. Women wept as the roof fell in.
Damage, $4,000.
H. c. Frick has filed bill in equity
against the Carnegie Steel company
showing that Frick values his holdings
at Sl6,23S,000 while Carnegie offers
him $6,O00,O00 for them.
Civil Engineer Asserson, at the
Brooklyn navy yard, has reported that
the fire at that yard is heavy blow,
owing to the large number of histori-
cal and valuable records destroyed.
At Lansing, Kan, the board of di-
rectors of the state penitentiary have
decided to hereafter sell the entire
output of binding Irvine of the Kansas
penitentiary direct to the farmers.
4 Kansas City jury gave a negro
footpad a forty-year sentence in the
penitentiary for snatching a white
woman's pocketbook. Two jurors
wanted to give him life sentence.
DR.. William Steinitz, the famous
chess player, was taken to the insane
pavilion of Bellevue hospital New
York. He is 62 years old and was con-
fined in an asylum in Moscow in 1897.
Commander Richard Wainwright
will be detached from duty in charge
of ships at the naval academy, March
4, and assume the duties of superin-
tendent of the naval academy, March
10.
w. S. Taylor, republican claimant
to the governorship of Kentucky, is
sending the troops out of Frankfort in
pursuance of his plan to have the leg
islature meet again in the state capt.
tai.
The Clark investigation proceeded
and several witnesses for the senator
were heard. One of them gave evil
dence for the prosecution, much to
the surprise of the defense, which
called him.
Among the commissioners to the
Paris exposition nominated by the
president we're Henry A. Parr of Bal
timore. Mrs. Bertha Honore Palmer of
Chicago and o. II. Fethers of James
vile, Wis.
In New York Cecil Leslie, press
agent" and employee of the Miller $40
per cent swindle, has made a con-
fession. in which he says Miller must
have gathered in S1,0OO,O 900 out of the
scheme
The survey for a cable across the
Pacific has been finished All sound
ings have been made and the results
have been mapped out, but they will
not be given until transmitted to
Washington.
General Miles laid the corner stone
OF the tower and gateway to be
erected at the dormitories of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania in honor of
the university men who served in the
war against Spain.
II. H. Wells, military governor of
Virginia in the reconstruction period,
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
James T. Walker, in Palmyra, n. Y,
after a long illness. He was born in
Rochester in 1928.
committeeman of Wisconsin. has re-
ceived letter from Marion Butler an
nouneing that a meeting of the ma
tional committee will be held at Lin
coin, Neb., Feb 10.
At Joliet one workman was killed
two badly injured and several others
slightly hurt by the collapse CT the
heavy sheet iron roof covering the
cast house of the Illinois Steel COM
pany's plant here.
At ST. Paul the supreme court, in a
case brought from Mcleod county, de-
clared the Minnesota inheritance tax
law to be unconstitutional, being con-
trary to the costitutional provision re-
curing equal taxation.
Professor S. w. Stratton of the de-
partment of physics at the University
OF Chicago has gone to Washington
to work in the interest of a bill to pro-
vide for United States standard of
weights and measures.
At Fargo, n. D.. United States Mar
shall Haggart has completed arrange
ments for taking the forty-eight
Cinnamon ordered deported to Port
Townsend Wash Thew will coil o..