Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-12-27

Cl llOl VI AOWd.
Rev. John Showers, aged so years,
for half century & pioneer Methodist
is dead at his home at
Paradise, III.
The Illinois supreme court sent r.
S. Dreyer's case to the United States
supreme court. The banker is seeking
release on bonds.
The Nebraska supreme court order
ed the starch companies to show
cause why their business should not
be discontinued.
Railroad lobbyists in western states
are to be kept busy this winter to
prevent legislation making passenger
rate two cents a mile.
The vote cast in West Virginia at
the November election has finally
been received. The plurality Of Nc
Kinley over Bryan is q ,06S.
Rivalry Of the independent asphalt
combinations and the National AS
phalt company of New York may
causo war in Venezuela.
West Point cadets, testifying in the
Oscar Booz case, admitted that haz-
ing Is, practiced at the military acad-
envy, but said it is not harmful.
Ex-President Harrison says his Ann
Arbor speech was misquoted and was
not intended as a legal argument on
the status Of the new possessions.
In wreck on the Craig Valley
branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio
road. Engineer Mosely was killed and
the fireman and brakeman injured.
At Chicago Count" William Won
Zedlitz is a prisoner charged with
having swindled 100 persons by issu-
ing fraudulent life insurance policies.
Attorney general Griggs, in an ar
gument before the supreme court, in
sisted that the Philippines and Porto
Rico can be deemed foreign territory.
The Moorish government has set
tied the claim Of this government Tor
$4,000 for the murder of Marcus
Azagui, naturalized American citi-
zen.
It Is rumored that If Hanna inter
feres in the senatorial fight in Penn
sylvania Quay will get Pennsylvania
congressman to vote against the sub
sidy bill.
Edward A. Cudahy of Omaha paid
$4,000 in gold for the ransom of his
15-year-old son and offered a reward
of $4,000 for the apprehension Of the
abductors.
A committee of the national civil
service reform league reported that
reform as applied to federal positions
has been seriously checked by politi-
cal influence.
Congressman Crumpacker presented
a report on the reapportionment bill,
reducing the representation of the
southern states that have disfran-
chised negroes.
Representative Amends wants the
Illinois legislature TO bar oysters from
the state during the warm months,
and Representative Nohe wants brok-
ers taxed $4,000 each.
A vigilance committee of prominent
citizens, whose duty it shall be to
stamp out vice in Chicago, was to be
appointed by the central committee of
the aHti-vioe movement
William HALEY, better known to
border fame as ''Bilr' HALEY, chief
lieutenant of the noted guerrilla
Quantrell, died in the insane asylum
at st. Joseph, Mo, aged SO.
Dr. S. Hoepfner, a consulting en-
giner and chemist of Hamilton, Ont,
is dead of typhoid fever. DIR.
Hoepfner invented the electrolyte
treatment of refractory ore.
At Mount Vernon, N. Y, DR.. Charles
Sabin Taft, who attended Abraham
Lincoln after he had been assassinated
in Ford's theater, in Washington, on
the night of April Ia, 1865, died at the
age of Go.
The river and hareor committee has
partly agreed on an appropriation of
$75 100000 for internal improvements,
including $225000 for surveying
channel from Chicago to
the Mississippi.
Brigadier General John c. Parke,
United States army, died at his resi-
dence in Washington, aged 7S years.
He took part in the Pacific railroad
and the marking of the north,
west boundary.
II. Clay Armstrong, grand secretary
Of all Grand Masonic bodies OF
died from heart trouble at
Auburn. He was counsul-general at
Rio de Janeiro during President Cleve-
lands first term.
Rev Dr. Cyrus Augustus Bartol, for
nearly % years pastor of the West
Uniterian Church and for quarter OF
a century an assistant to Rev. DR.,
Lowell, formerly pastor of the
church, is dead. He was 81 years of
age.
In a head-end collision today be-
tween two electric cars on the Green
field and indianapolis interurban line
near Jim, Ind, Emory Scott and John
motormen, were fatally In.
jured. Six passengers were badly
hurt
The body of the man who held up
the Illinois Central train at New
Orleans was found in swamp with
his throat cut and has been identified
as that OF Claiming b. Barnes, alias
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