Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-01-11
suddenly at his home in stewartstown,

ture.
Henry Wattersou predicts Gen.
William F. Draper, ambassador to
Italy. will be McKinley's running
mate.
Omaha, Kansas City and Eastern,
Omaha and St Louis, and Kansas City
and Northern railroads will be COM
bined.
The Ohio legislature has organized
at Columbus by electing republicans
as speaker and as president of the
senate
Jan. 8 Bishop Spalding will sail from
New York on voyage to Rome. He
goes to secure a rest and to transact
business.
Five nations with spheres of in
fuence" in China have guaranteed
equal trade rights to America in the
empire.
Pingree asked the Michigan legisla-
ture to amend railways special chart
ers, making them taxable under the
general law
The Northwestern university has is
sued an appeal to Methodist church
members for $2,000000 to meet it's
growing needs.
The United States navy tug Reso-
lutte was sunk in collision in New
York harbor; q persons were on board
but all escaped
The first refusal of a steamship
company to return contract laborers
brought to the United States is noted
at Galveston.
Representative James j. Meyers of
Cambridge was nominated for speaker
of the Massachusetts house by the re-
publican caucus.
The annual distribution of seed by
the agricultural department will be
made shortly. The cost to the govern
ment is 100000.
The majority report of the COM
mittee investigating the case of Rob-
erts will recommend that he be ex-
cluded from the house.
At Lancaster, Pa, County Treasurer
e. H. Herschy is a defaulter to the
extent of $65, 900. He is believed to
have gone to Canada.
William II. Putnam, the undertaken
who conducted the funerals of Henry
Clay and Daniel Webster, is dead at
New York, aged 81 years.
The big Painter gas well in Richie
county, w. Va, is burning. Millions
of feet of gas are going and the finan-
cial loss will be enormous.
At Pittsburg 10000 puddlers and
finishers employed in iron mills will
get an increase of wages Jan. 10, rang
ing from 80 cents to 81 day.
Lawyer Carl Fischer-Hansen an
nounced that the United States prob
ably would acquire the Danish West
Indies by April 10 for $3,O00,0OO.
Professor Felix Adler and Rev.
Charles A. Briggs will at once com
mence a crusade against vice on the
lower east side of New York city.
The republicans in the Ohio legisla-
ture excluded from their caucus, at
Columbus, Senator Brown, a fusion
candidate from Hamilton county.
Ross Raymond, formerly we'll
known journalist, has been SEN
fenced to the Milwaukee house of cor
rection for sixty days for vagrancy.
The Cleveland Leader says Hanna, at
McKinley's request, will be both tenn
porary and permanent chairman of
the Philadelphia national convention.
W. R. Moody, eldest son of the late
evangelist, has been appointed ad
ministrator of his fathers estate.
Moody left no will. The estate is very
small.
Levi r. Doty, Chicago capitalist and
formerly president of several large
coal companies, is relieved of liabili
ties aggregating $5,O0O,000 by order of
the court.
At Stromsberg, Neb, Eden Baptist
church was destroyed by fire and two
persons seriously injured. The fire
was caused by an explosion of acety-
lene gas.
Wallace Collins has resigned his po-
sitlon as general manager Of the c., M.
& st. p Ry. His successor will likely
be Henry r. Williams, general super
intendent
Charles A. Tracy, confidential book
keeper for f. p. Bagley & Co., Chicago,
mas btti liAoolhS SAhSC AtSN- w. MS
books are straight and his wife thinks
he is dead.
The university of Chicago by vote
of 20 to 16 has placed itself on record
as favoring the use of the reformed
spelling adopted by the National Edu-
cational association.
Bishop jackson. coadjutor of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of Ala
bama, has sent his resignation to
Bishop Doane of Albany, chairman of
the house OF bishops,
President Hadley of Yale, who has
been in Chicago, talked to the alumni,
asking them to contribute to the 81
000, 900 being raised by graduates for
the university this year.
At Papiudon, Neb, Corporal Fair
and Private Jockens. charged with
murder in shooting a deserter, had
their preliminary hearing. and were
held in 81 900 bonds for trial.
In Chicago the new Northwestern
elevated road was tied mp so far as the
public is concerned, by order of Com
missioner of Public Works McGinn,