Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-06
,ry of the late King Humbers.

F1tZS1mmonS 1ailed 10 get dnoInet
match with Jefferies and announced
his retirement from the ring.
n. z. Morgan, Appleton, Wis, was
nominated for congress by the eight
district democratic convention.
George II. Ling, who saved 800 lives
at the Johnstown food, was killed by
falling from a Pennsylvania train.
The National Association of Local
Fire Insurance Agents met in Milwau-
kee. Some 600 delegates were present.
Thomas j. Powers, banking com
missioner OF Pennsylvania, was killed
by falling from train at Philadelphia.
Charles H. Barnes, alias John H.
Nelson, an alleged Kentucky train
robber, who escaped from detectives in
st. Louis recently, is reported to have
been located at Deer Trail British
Columbia.
John w. Gates, former chairman of
American Steel and Wire company,
has sailed from Hamburg for New
York.
Tramps at Marshalltown, Iowa,
killed an aged negro for defending
young girls whom the tramps had in
suited.
The democratic convention of the
Second Iowa district nominated ex-
Mayor Henry Vollmer, Dubuque, for
| congress.
Mrs. DR.. Wright, whose attempted
arrest for malpractice resulted in riot
at Gilman, Ill.,, died at the IroGuois
county Jail.
Crops suffer in some localities from
excessive heat; in others, from ex
cessive moisture. Reports are not
encouraging.
The handwriting experts who testi-
fed in the Molineux case at New York
have entered suit against the city to
collect their fees.
George Henry White of North
Carolina, the only colored man in con-
gress, announces that he will not be a
candidate for reelection.
Altha NJ Rittenour, Uniontown, Pa,
lost his life trying to save Samuel
Trimble, East End, Pittsburg, from
death in the Mononghela river.
In New York Virginia Harmed (Mfs.
d. II. ,Sothern) has been Frustrated by
the heat, and her condition has caused
her husband much uneasiness.
Senator Hanna has, it is said, decid-
to take a hand in the Tennessee
fight between the Brownlow and the H.
Clay Evans factions, and settle it.
The National Association of Mexican
War Veterans will meet in Cincinnati.
Sept. ) and 6. This will probably be
the last meeting of the association.
Chicago men, headed by c. F.
Periolat, just returned from Alaska,
will build a 100000 cyanide plant for
the reduction of gold at Yakataga.
Because his stepmother made him
mind the babies and do homework
Harry Burgess, twelve years old,
drowned himself at Winsted, Conn.
The 100000 endowment fund Tor
Carroll college, a Wisconsin insti
tuition, has been secured by a gift of
$4,000 from a wealthy Chicago woman.
1t was announced that the Rogers
locomotive works will go into liqui
dation and that the plant will be closed
Dec 1, thus throwing 1,400 men out of
wo.n
John Esson, of Chicago, mortally
wounded Harold H. Stridiron and
killed himself at the Hotel Vendome
yesterday. Drink and jealousy caused
the crime.
On the ground that it's figures were
the lowest submitted the Midvale Steel
company has protested to Secretary
Long against the rejection of it's bid
for armor plate.
Mr.. Bryan expressed himself as
highly gratified over the action of the
populist committee in indorsing the
nomination of Mr.. Stevenson for the
vice presidency.
Michigan fruit farmers are unable to
take off the large crop and sent TO
Chicago for all the help that they can
procure in pairing and canning the
harvest for market.
Near Camerson, Tex, Charles Lane.
a farmer, shot William Mason to death,
and then surrendered to the officers.
Lane accused Mason of attempting to-
assault his 12-year-old daughter.
Lieutenant Colonel Calvin Dewitt.
deputy surgeon United States army.
has been ordered to st. Paul, Mimi, as
chief surgeon of that department, to
relieve Colonel Joseph p. Wright.
Chief Swenie and five companies OF
firemen had narrow escape from
suffocatiOn in the basement of the
Pousey company's varnish factory,
Chicago. The building was destroyed;
loss, S35, 900.
Otto RI. Tittman of the geodetic
survey declares that the Alaska bound
airy as established by the modus
vivendi of October 20, 1899, is not to be
regarded as a settlement of the disput-
ed question.
At Kaukauna, Wis, in full view of a
large party of pickniekers, Mrs. Henry
Quaddy and her three little sons were
drowned in the river, while Mr.. Quaddy
with his daughter narrowly escaped
the same fate.
At Dallas, Tex, Mrs. Mary Carmaek
and Richard Walker were placed in
Jail and held without bond, charged
with numbering w T. Carmack the