Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
DOMESTIC.


William Steinitz, former chess
champion, is dead.
The Coler fight in New York may
disrupt Tammany hall.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
prophesies dollar wheat.
The Dakota elevator at Buffalo. n
Y, burned; loss 100000
Fitzsimmons and Sharkey are tc
fight Aug. "a for purse of $4,000.
Mccoy is training well and in great
condition for his fight with Jim Corbet
Ex-Representative George w. Shonk
of Wilkesbarre, Pa, died in Washing.
ton.
Henry j. ONeill the barley king,
filed petition in bankruptcy in Chi
cago.
Miss l.. Blanche Fearing blind
lawyer and writer of note, died in
Chicago
Professor Irven Lewiston of Omaha
was elected superintendent of the St
Paul schools.
There is talk in baseball circles OF
adopting three balls and three strikes
next year.
At Tampa, Fla. Bias Trujillo, 4
prominent cigar manufacturer. COM
mitted suicide.
At Chicago the clothing factory If
X. B. Olsen & Co. was destroyed by
fire; loss $4,000.
Congressman Jenkins was renomi-
nate6 by the republicans of the tenth
Wisconsin district.
Congressman Dolliver may be APP
pointed United States senator by the
governor OF. iowa.
Capt. James Compton of Fergus
Falls was elected commandant of the
Minnesota soldiers home.
William NJ. Gravenhorst, the Neither
lands consul is dead fom heart failure
at his home in Brooklyn.
President Mckinley will do no active
campaigning, but may make one or
two speeches in Chicago.
Robert S. Hughes, president of the
Roger Locomotive company, is dead at
his home at Paterson. N. ].
At Necedah, Wis. Sadie and Libby
Lauk, children, were drowned in the
river while playing on a raft.
Tho Illinois Central will improve
its ocean carrier service between New
Orleans and European ports.
Three hundred delegates attended the
anti-imperialist convention in Indian
apolis, Bryan was Endorsed.
John J. Mooney of Kenosha left
100000 to grandchildren, and directed
that he be buried in s25 coffin.
Croker defeated Hill by preventing
the selection of Mcguire for Chairman
of the New York state convention.
Gen. Joe Wheeler saved the life of
William Jennings Bryan J., by keep
ing from falling out of window.
Confederate veterans of the south
ara opposed to General Gordon's at
tending the G. A. II. encampment.
Thompson Stickle's design for the
Nancy Hanks monument to be erected
over her grave, has been accepted.
F, Romans, candidate for political
office in Missouri, committed suicide
because of attacks by his opponents.
Mrs. U. 5. Grant cannot attend the
Grand Army encampment owing to ad-
vanced age and the nervous strain.
The main building of Holbrook
College. at Fountain City. suburb OF
Knoxville. Tenn. burned; loss $50, 900.
At Corinth. Miss, Jack Belts, a
negro. was lynched. He was charged
with assulting a 10-year-old white
girl
Governor Beckham OF KENTUCKY
called an extra session of the legis-
lature for Aug. 2S to modify the Goebel
law.
President Mckinley returned to
Washington especially to receive the
Cuban teachers studying at Harvard
eollegs.
The anti-Goebel democrats in Ken
lucky decided to support Jonn W.
Yerkes. the republican candidate for
governor.
Rain has fallen every day for 81
days in northeast and south Texas.
Rises are reported in the rivers. the
Colorado being % feet above low mark