Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
at Columbus. Crop is shedding bolls

badly.
Grover Cleveland was quoted at
Indianapolis as having refused to head
a third ticket because of the state of
his health.
Mrs. S. r. Goodell Of Rockford has
received word that she and fifteen
others are heirs to a $4,000, 900 estate
in England.
A letter from the Philippines tells
o. the death of Richard Eisenach,
Forty-fifth Volunteers, Racine boy,
from wounds.
The Langstaff Hardware company or
Memphis assigned, scheduling liza
bilities $50, 1000, with assets sufficient 10
ray creditors.
Gilbert NJ Hitchcock, Omaha pub
Usher is a democrat candidate for the
United States senatorship, to succeed
John NJ. Thurston.
Wisconsin bankers met in Milwau-
kee. The retiring president said that
business in the state increased 20 per
cent. in two years.
A man in an advanced stage Of
leprosy was discovered wandering
about the streets of Minneapolis. He
was quickly isolated.
At Marietta, Ca, Samuel Robinson,
the negro charged with criminal as
sault on Mrs. George liner, was con-
victed and sentenced to hang September
/.
The sailing vessel Mazda crashed
f,,ta he or arfn n
sinking, completely, blocks the chan
mel, tying up all shipping.
Prof. James e. Keeler, director OF
the Lick observatory and one Of ,.-e
greatest of American astronomers,
died at Mount Hamilton.
Charles A. Mielenz, German wall
paper dealer of Chicago, committed
suicide in order that his wife may
receive his life insurance.
Mrs. Booth Tucker wife of Com
mander Booth Tucker of the Salvation
Army. who has been i'll near Asbury
Park, N. j., is out of danger.
1t is announced that Senator Marion
Butler of North Carolina, chairman OF
the populist national committee, will
take the stump for Mckinley.
Sub-ContractorJ C. Rodgers declares
that the rapid-transit delay in New
York is due to John B. Mcdonald S
failure to execute final contracts.
At Columbus, Ohio F. NJ. Renick OF
Falling Springs, w. Va, leaped from
the roof of the statehouse and was
dashed to death 80 feet below.
Terrell, mureder of Express Mess
eDger Lane, received visit in
the Columbus (O) Jail from the girl
for whom he committed the robbery.
General Randall, commander of the
department of Alaska, estimates that
fully 1000 persons will be made des-
titute at Nome at the close of naviga-
ton.
Candidate Woolley of the prohibition
party will take the stump as soon as
he RECEIVERS the use of his dislocated
shoulder. The country is to be widely
toured.
George Ferguson, who superintendent
the burial of 5000 bodies in the Kings
county, N. Y, potter field. has him
self been buried there. He was 6S
years old.
b. f. Mamreoy, at one time private
secretary to William H. Seward, died
suddenly at him home in New York,
aged 40. He was Russian, born in
Jerusalem.
The Bank of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
has been closed. Assets are $51 900
and liabilities sci 900, including a
claim of $4,000 by the county
treasurer.
The navy department has decided to
reject all the bids for armor plate, but
it is said that this does not indicate
tho governments purpose to build a
plant of it own.
A new telegraph company, to come
into the field as rival of the Western
Union and Postal concerns, was
launched by the Chicago Board of
Trade members.
The pamphlet issued by the Treasury
Department shows that during the last
quarter century the greater revenue,
save that raised by the war tax, was
recorded in 1882.
Mayor Frederick &c. Prime, an engin
eer officer of the union army during
the civil war and chief engineer in
Grants Mississippi campaign, is dead
at Litchfeld. Conn.
Coils p. Huntington, president of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, died at
Pine Knot Camp, on Racquette lake,
in the Adirondacks, New York state,
of heart disease, aged 10 years.
John Hogan. formerly a battalion
chief of the Jersey City fire depart
ment, cut his wife's throat and then
his own. Both are in a precarious
condition. The man was jealous.
An omnibus containing % persons,
who were returning from a funeral.
was struck by a train at Slatlngton,
Pa, and II of the party were killed
and several others fatally wounded.
At New Kensington, Pa, almost the
entire plant of the Pittsburg Reduc-
ton companys aluminium works was
destroyed by a tornado; loss Sl0O. goo.
Frank Johnston, the engineer, was ia
tally ..-sdred.