Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-31

name to the Philadelphia convention
and that he had acceded to the honor.
G. H. Morse and William A. Crombie,
formerly lumber dealers at Burlington.
VT, as Morse & Crombie, have fled
petition in bankruptcy Liabilities,
| s1SS,1OO, OF which $500 is partly Sc
cured
The United States supreme court
decided the Kentucky governorship
case in favor of Governor Beckham,
democrat, dismissing the writ of err
ror from the Kentucky court Of APP
peals.
Policeman McRae was shot and
killed by St. Louis mob while he
was attempting to repel its attack on
a street car. Strike riots were general
all day. A 3-year-old boy was shot
and may die.
The National Travellers Protective
association declared that trusts have
thrown 100000 commercial travellers
out of employment and withheld
100000 daily in advertising from
country newspapers.
The insurance department of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
wound up its affairs without acting up.
on the question of establishing an in
digent fund of $4,000 as a branch Of
the insurance work.
Francis Bicknell Carpenter, whose
great historical picture of Lincoln
reading the emancipation proclama-
ton to the cabinet which made him
one of the best-known historical
painters in this country. died in New
York.
w. A. Clark's latest credentials as
senator from Montana were laid on
the table in the senate. Maginnis
credentials are due No action is
likely on either, but the senate will
: wait for the legislature to fill the
vacancy.
At Atlantic City Col Wickham
Hoffman, aged rs years, who was in
the military service of the govern
ment through the civil war and then
/ Secretary, charge d'affaires, and
minister on the European continent
I from 1860 to 1886. died.
! Frederic A. Bell. who made vast
fortune in the bituminous coal business
/ in philadelphia, and who was subse-
E auently president of the Buffalo Ele-
waiting company. is dead at his home
C in Madison, N. j., aged So years. He
: leaves an estate valued at $25,000,000.
At Philadelphia. superintendent of
| II Il Ixr(
e colored laborer, has confessed that
he was with the murderer of Prof.
! Roy Wilson White, the young law in
: Structor of the University of Penn
sylvania, who was killed on the street
I General Albert ID Shaw, commander
5 in-chief of the c A. r., in company
with Mr.. Patrick of the G. A. R. COM
e mittee on legislation, called on the
: president and invited him and Mrs
Mckinley to attend the encampment
: Aug. 81. He promised to be present, If
e possible.
Charles w. Mussey pleaded guilty
: in the United States district court to
/ misrepresentation of funds of the Mer-
chants National bank of Rutland, VT,
of which he was cashier, and was SEN
} fenced to seven years Imprisonment.
' John c.. Farrar, former cashier of the
Waterbury National bank, pleaded
guilty to abstracting $4,000 and was
given a term of six years.
! At Greenwich, Conn, huge pink,
granite boulder, weighing nine tons,
, arrived and was taken to the small
, ON the brow of Puts hill and placed in
honor of General Israel Putnam, who,
history tells us, pursued by the Brit
ish in revolutionary days, rode astride
| horse down a hundred steps which
. then stood there, mid shower of
bullets, and escaped to Stamford.
The Methodist general conference
resolved to elect two secretaries for the
} Freedman's Aid society. One will be
NJ. G. b. Mason. a colored man. The
secretaryship of the Epworth league
/ was abolished. The conference will
adjourn May 30. The conference
elected David II. Moore and John ~.
Hamilton bishops. The organic Law
was amended so as to admit women
to the general conference and abolish
ing the 5-year limit for pastors.
German reishstag passed meat bill
and the bundesraths approval is as
sured. The bill bars canned meats
and sausages, of which 60,000,0O0
pounds were imported from America
last year Chicago packers protested
to Secretary Wilson against the bill.
The secretary has power to retallate
by excluding any German products
on the score of danger TO public
health. Agrarians are angry because
the bill permits entry of salt meats.
The following officers were elected
at the conference of charities and cor
rectlons: President, John NJ. Glenn,
Baltimore, Nd; vice presidents.
Daniel C. Gilman, Johns Hopkins
university; T. j. Charlton, Plainfield,
Ind; Michael Heymann. New Orleans,