Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-12-06


Henry w. Bigler, who was mem
Der of the Mormon battalion working
at Suffers mill race in California
when the discovery of gold was made
in 184S, is dead at Salt Lake, aged rs.
The lifeless body of W. H. Fullhart,
an eccentric ranchman living near
Anselmo, Nebr., was found. His skull
has been crushed. Fullhart's only
companion, who was a hired man, Is
missing.
In making up the republican caucus
list of the senate the name of Sena-
tor Wellington of Maryland has been
omitted at his own request. He has
chosen a seat on the republican side,
however.
A gasoline tank in the Westing-
house foundry in Allegheny, Pa, ex-
ploded, forcing heavy casting
through the roof, partially demolish-
ing the wall and badly burning four
workmen.
Fire which broke out in the general
merchandise store of Begole G Vars
dale at Beatrice, Neb., destroyed the
brick block in which it was located, to-
gether with the stock. involving loss
of $4,000.
The Turkish minister at Washing
ton asked Secretary Hay why the
battleship Kentucky is at Smyrna.
He was told there was mo present
hostile purpose. 1t may be regarded
as hostile act.
Ten thousand spectators saw the
University of Chicago football team
Unexpectedly defeat Michigan by a
score of Is to 6. Northwestern
played a tie of to with Iowa at
Rock Island.
Captain w. NJ. Meredith of Illinois
has been appointed chief of the bureau
of engraving and printing at Washing
ton. Mr.. Meredith served as chief
clerk to the bureau under the Harri-
son administration.
Edward Robinson, in charge of the
Greek room at the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts, announced that twenty-five
out of twenty-eight terra Gotta statues
supposed to have come from Tanagra,
Greece, are forgeries.
Mrs. Joanna Robinson, a second
cousin of President Mckinley, died at
her home in St. Paul, aged rs years.
On the occasion of the presidents
last visit to the northwest he made a
long call at the Robinson home.
Albert Bart Roeder, formerly of
Madison, Wis, president of Orinoco
Iron company, New York, filed a petit
ton in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $434,-
255; assets, nothing He is a son-in-
law of Searles, the sugar magnate.
Leonard r. Day, son of the late mil
lionaire lumberman of Minneapolis,
was stabbed to death and Frank H.
Hamilton, a newspaper man, is held
on suspicion of being the murderer.
Day was 26. There is lady in the
case,
The roof of glass. works in San
Francisco. from which 100 men were
wrongfully watching a football game,
gave way and they fell on top of hot
furnace. Eleven were killed outright
and eighty injured, fifteen of whom
will die.
In an address to the students of
Colorado college, DR.. d. X. Pearsons,
the Chicago philanthropist, announced
that, Jan. l, 1901, he would make the
college a gift of $4,000 toward the
cost of completing the new scientific
building.
A London bric-a-brac firm, with a
claim of $3S5,000, obtained an order
from the New York supreme court
restraining the trustees under the will
of Jay Gould from paying Anna Gould
the court.
At Syracuse, N. Y, Harriet Schmoll
has been acquitted of the charge of
June 8, 90, she shot and killed
Mrs. Lulu Ostrander at Baldwinsville,
and it was shown at the trial that
Mrs. Ostrander had been intimate with
Mr.. Schmoll.
Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis of
Minnesota, chairman of the committee
on foreign relations, died Tuesday
night at his home in St Paul after
an illness of two months of Bright's
disease, aged SO. His parents and a
widow survive
Terry" McGovern signed articles
ut Chicago to meet ben" Jordan of
England in siX-round contest some
time in January or February. The
fight is to be for the international
featherweight championship and
purse of $4,000.
The will of Charles H. Hoyt re-
quests that Frank Mckee continue to
manage the business of Mckee &
Hoyt. All the profits to go to Mckee
except share to Elwood NJ. Dasher.
Requests are made to friends. but
nothing to relations.
James w. Golden, the New York
Janitors helper failed" owing
Sl96,S29, is an investors dummy"
He charges for the use of his name,
and property is decided to him when
the real investor does not care to fig
ure in the transaction
Fire at Cross Forks. Pa. DESTROYED
about $4,000 worth of property. No
sooner had the fire subsidized than the
highest flood ever known in Kettle
Greek struck the town and carrie,,