Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-16

At Sheboygan Nelson Wheeler and
Joseph Oleauski were overcome by the
heat. Wsrk IN all the foundries in the
city was temporarily suspended.
| The ke waunee Grain company, with
branch elevator at Casco, has dis
solved partnership. The business in
the future will be conducted by Joseph
Duvall & Son.
At Green Bay Philip Van der Lin
den, aged so years, hung himself.
Mrs. Mary Duffy of Ottawa, aged IS
years, resident of Waukesha county
for fifty-two years, is dead
At Kaukauna the first death from
sunstroke occurred. Alex. Moldberg,
aged SO years, succumbed to the in
tense heat, dying Friday. A wife and
two small children survive.
The Wisconsin Carriage company
will erect a new plant presented by
the citizens of GAINESVILLE. The new
building will cost $3.50 The
plant was burned month ago.
Rural free delivery is to be estab-
ished at Fox Lake August Is. The
service will embrace an area of Sc
square miles with a population of 535
Emmer l.. Houston was appointed car
rier,
The Sheboygan fire department was
called out in the intense heat to eX-
tinguish hot blaze at the barn of
Mrs. Ulenn, which caught fire by spon-
| taneous combustion. The damage to
the barn and neighboring buildings
was abou: $500.
Knapp. Stout & Co. of Menomonie,
recently sent the largest raft of lum-
Der down the Mississippi that was ever
| fioated upon that stream. 1t contained
loads of lath and shingles. The raft
was made up at Saltwater, and the
lumber was consigned to ST. Louis.
At Fond du Lac word was received
of the death of Theodore Zentgraf, a
member of Troop B, Fifth cavalry, u.
| st. Louis. The young mans parents
reside at Mount Calvary. He left
home three years ago to serve with the
| fifth cavalry in Cuba and his time of
service was nearly ended.
/ At Combined Locks L. S. Packard
received a letter from Stockbridge
| telling of the death there of Laura B
Packard, and asking if she was his
daughter. He had no relatives there
and does not know who Laura Packard
/ ifnr CHI cd Tr1Ix
and was buried the next day at Parish.
She left some property.
! Wisconsin pensions: Original, Chas.
A. Starkweather, Milwaukee, Sc; Je-
rome ]. Curtis, Black Creek, Sc; addi-
tional, Anthony Lashua, Reams, IS;
| George w Thompson, Berlin, $12;
Charles Stier, Oshkosh, IS; increase,
Wallace r. Thurston, National Home,
Milwaukee, SIP; Charles f. Weed, Sha-
wano. SIP; reissue, VIM. H. Edmins-
! ter, Blaine, So; original widows, Mary
s. Bernier, Germantown, S12; war with
Spain, original, James w. McEathron,
Milwaukee. $17.
| Thousands of dollars worth of dam
age was done by lightning in the farm
/ ing districts at Cumberland during last
week. Lightning-rod swindlers have
taken advantage of the heavy storms
! thousands of dollars the past week.
They tell the farmers that they wish
to put up a rod for advertising pur-
poses and ask them to sign permission
for them to do so, which permission
afterwards turns up at the bank in the
form of an agreement to pay anywhere
from $3.50 to $3.50.
The death from cancer of John j.
Clarke occurred at Waukesha. He
was SO years of age and had been a
resident there As years, having emf
grated from his native home in Ire
land after the death of both father and
mother He made his home with his
aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Carney, who was
a pioneer resident and who bequeathed
to him the bulk of a large estate. He
is survived by wife and four daugh-
tiers, Mrs H. p. Miller of Racine, and
Misses Katherine, Camille and Estelle
Clarke of Waukesha.
Martin, the 10-year-old son of John
Huntinger of Stevens Point, was
knocked off the side of moving Wis
consin Central freight car and one leg
, was cut off. The boy managed to hold
on $50 feet further, when the other leg
} was cut off. No one witnessed the
accident. He dragged himself to the
shade under box car on the next
track, and when he was found five
minutes later was examining his
wounded limbs. He called to another
boy who happened to be passing and
asked him to bring his feet from the
other track where they had been
thrown by the wheels. His nerve was
: wonderful, but during the afternoon
he collapsed from the loss of blood.
At La Crosse it was discovered thai
! a party of % men from La Crosse
who make log stealing profession
j had attacked the raft of j. w. Van