Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-07

| than Gear" Reed ever was.
During the conduction OF memorial
day observances at Byron, H., stroke
Of lightning shattered the marble
| shaft of a soldiers monument.
The court of appeals decided that
those who refuse to pay judgments
under the bankruptcy law may be i'm
prisoned until the debt is paid.
The Grout butterine BILL favorably
reported to the house. imposes tax
Of 10 cents pound on oleomargarine
colored in imitation of butter.
David Word, Michigan's pioneer
lumberman, died at his home in Pom
tiac. He was rs years old and had
acquired fortune of S25,000,00O
James Fitzharris and Joseph Null
let, Irish Invincibles, were excluded
from this country by New York immi-
g, alton officials and will be deported.
Strong expansion sentiment was
shown at a mass-meeting in Detroit,
Mich, in connection with the Ameri-
can Baptist missionary anniversaries.
Among the nominations sent to the
senate was that of Brigadier General
| Elwell s. Otis to be made major gen.
eral, vice Merritt, who is soon to retire.
The Western Union is said to be
about to enter the long distance tele-
phone field in opposition to the Bell
company, which has hurt its business.
The sheriff is empowered to call a
posse comtatus of 1000 citizens to
preserve order in st. Louis, and as
many more will be called as necessary.
All but four of the S34 delegates to
the republican national convention
have been elected Contests in Ala
bama, Delaware, Tennessee, and
| Texas.
Major General Elwell s. Otis is said
TO be slated for head of the department
of the lakes, with headquarters in Chi
cago Army men expect him about
Aug. i.
The four newly elected Methodist
Episcopal bishops, DTs. d. II. Moore,
j. w. Hamilton, e. w. Parker and
Frank Wesley Warne, were conse-
Grated.
Judgment against the estate Of the
late Rufus N. Ramsay for $4,000 is
entered by the circuit court of Clinton
county, ILL.,, in suit brought by the
state.
Gold has been discovered in Sui
phur Lick creek near Elmville, Ky,
Assayists of Denver and other. cities
have examined and pronounced it
genuine.
| In speech at Clinton, Ia, Lieuten-
ant Governor Northeott of Illinois de-
clared himself a receptive candidate
| for the republican nomination for vice
president.
Mrs. Annie Meyer. authoress and
prominent in the Womans congress
at the worlds fair, went to the Chi
cago bridewell under a sentence for
shoplifting.
A number of Friends from Baltimore
held services in the old Quaker Meet
ing House at York, Pa, the site
which was donated by a son of Will
liam Penn.
Eleven more persons were shot and
many were injured by missiles in
riots provoked by the st. Louis strik-
ers. Three of those wounded are
expected to die.
Timothy b. Blackstone, former
president of the Chicago and Alton
railroad and one Of the oldest railroad
chief executives in the United States,
died. aged II years.
Harvard will send two representa-
tives to Paris to the socialists con-
gress next September. They are w.
p Evarts, 1900, and w. b. Monroe,
of the graduate school.
A duel to the death was fought by
Emmett Coy and Bonifacio Perez cow
boys, in Hidalgo county, Tex, at 100
yards. Winchesters were used. Both
men fell dead in their tracks.
Kid Mccoy given the decision
over Syracuse Tommy Ryan at the
end of the six-round bout in Chicago
The defeated man hit Referee Malachy
Hogan, who returned the blow.
The labor troubles in Chicago may
be ended through a proposed plan of
the Masons' and Builders association
to treat with individual unions, ignor-
ing the building trades council
President Mckinley has been forced
by the temperance element to abandon
his support of the army canteen. By
his orders the anti-canteen bill was
reported favorably to the house.
Mayor Maybury called the Detroit
council in special session and had
street-railway tracks, laid in defiance
of the mayor, council and the courts,
torn IN the day they were laid,
Navy department is arranging for
the fertilization of Dry Tortugas,
Pearl harbor, Pango Pango, and
Guam. With these. Alaska, and Cavite
America would dominate the Pacific.
Indiana gold democrats said silver
was not dead. denounced Bryan and
Mckinley and declared they would not
support Bryan on any platform or
any one else on the Chicago plat
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