Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-22
Domestic.

domestic.
Anthony Comstock is preparing to
raid the poolrooms and gambling dens
of New York.
Records found in Pekin show that
Chinese missionaries landed in Amer
lea A. d. 499.
1t is intended to place the United
States on an equal war footing with
other powers.
Congressman Dayton of West Vir-
ginia says United States should have
a navy half as big as England's.
1t is said that there were eighteen
deaths from the plague in San
Francisco during the summer.
Lord Strathcona, Canadian high
commissioner, will sail in few days
for England to resume his duties.
Students at the Kearney, Neb.,
Military Academy are in revolt and
are backed by members of the faculty.
The proposed canon of the Episco-
pal church forbids marriage of di-
vorced persons by Episcopal minis
ters.
A bent piston rod caused the return
of the monitor Monterey to Hong
Kong soon after she had started for
Canton.
Mrs. Stanford is said to oppose
views held by President Jordon of
Stanford University who may be
forced out.
The allotment of lands to Kiowas
and COMMANDERS in Indian Territory
Is nearly completed and whites are
ready to enter.
vicar general of the Catholic diocese
of Manchester, N. H., was killed by a
cable car in New York.
Major Rafael Echeverria, surgeon,
U. S. ", has been honorably dis
charged from the army, his services
being no longer required.
Lieutenant Colonel Russell B. Har-
rison, inspector general, u. s. ", has
been honorably discharged from the
service of the United States.
A San Francisco newspaper com
menting on report of quarantine of
ficer says there has not been an
authenticated case of plague in the
city.
The National Woman's Christian
Temperance union is called to meet
in its 9th annual convention at Wash
ington, d. c., Nov. Both, to continue
in session until December z.
The Kentucky state board of assess
ment and valuation fixed the tax val
uation of whisky at $40 a barrel in
stead of 81. which has been the as
sessment for several years past.
The population of the state of
Michigan as announced officially by
the census bureau is 2,420,9S2, as
against 2,093,S99 in 1890. This is an
increase of 327,O93 or 1876 per cent.
Secretary Long has appointed
Cyrus C. Wells, of Illinois, his private
secretary temporarily at salary of
$2,250, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the recent death of l.. H. Finney.
Jr.
Rear Admiral Bradford, chief of the
bureau of naval equipment, recon-
mended new survey of the great
lakes declaring commerce of the in
land seas a country's foremost bust
ness.
DIR. w. r. Harper, PRECEDENT of the
University of Chicago, \enied that he
had written letter to Baron De Cour-
bertin, of Paris, in an effort to bring
the Olympian games of 1904 to Chi
cago.
In a fight over the business affairs
connected with the operation of a
store at Bonita, La, p. S. Bachelor
killed his partner, j. A. Williams and
+. F. Welbourn. All three were
prominent citizens.
Thomas Hubbard Caswell, a pioneer
OF lS4S, who was prominently identi-
fed with the early history of the
state and the most exalted Mason in
point of rank in the world, died at
his residence, in San Francisco.
Majors Valery Harvard, William C
Gorgas and J. r. Kean, surgeons.
have been detailed to represent the
medical department of the army at the
Pan-American Medical Congress to
meet in the city of Havana, December
1929.
Max j. Lasar, the diamond SNUG
gler, pleaded guilty in the United
states court. at Buffalo. He was
fined $500 and sent to the Erie County
jail for six months. The smuggled
diamonds We're sold a few days ago
for $4,000.
Joseph S. Hill, Henry o. Pixley and
Alexander Colt, three students of the
University of California, have been
selected to help George Putnam and
F. w. Edmonds. engineers of the
coast and geodetic survey, to chart
the Philippine archipelago.
In the supreme court argument was
heard in the Chicago drainage canal
case. The proceeding is instituted on
the part of the state of Missouri to
secure permanent injunction against
the use OF the canal, for the protec-
ton of the water of st. Louis.
William Haywood. United States