Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-01-25


} Eagan, Dakota county, Mimi, shows a
salary list of only $468 for one year.
! Representative Sherman of New
York. whose name has been mentioned
5 in connection with the Office, has de-
clined the secretaryship of the senate.
/ Heavy rains, causing a general rise
of all streams, interfere with the ac-
= curate observations of the Chicago
drainage canal flow down the Illinois
river.
DR.. G. Amos Warner of Line In,
, Neb, formerly professor of political
economy i'll Nebraska and Leland Stan
ford universities died at Los Crucez,
New Mexico
The suit of Alderman James G. Pat
terson of Chicago for $25 900 damages
against the Joliet CID street railway
for injuries sustained last summer was
commenced.
The urgency deficiency bill appro-
PIRATES $4,000 to complete surveys of
lake-to-ocean routes and increases the
appropriation for the Paris exposi-
ton to 81, 199, 500.
A lone robber, masked and armed,
cleaned out two restaurants in the
center of Kansas City under the glare
of an electric light. He secured
5000 and escaped.
Peter Bonkoski was instantly killed
and several other workmen were seri-
ously injured by the explosion of
metal ladle in the Federal Steel COM
pany's plant at Joliet, ILL.,
A proposal to unite all the railroads
in big passenger pool was favorably
considered by the eastern lines and
committee is working to get the west
ern roads into the combination.
At Newport, R. l., Charles A. Sieg-
fried, medical inspector in the United
States navy, in charge of the naval
hospital at Coasters Harbor island,
died of pneumonia, aged so years.
The house committee on foreign af-
fairs has entered upon the considera-
ton of a bill for the reformation of the
consular service by promotion and
continuous service for consular officers.
At Cincinnati the professors of the
university will Immediately quit if
President Aver insists that all mem
bers of the faculty should resign and
he accept such designations as he may
select.
A feud between two Kentuckians led
to shooting in Frankfort hotel and
the killing of three persons and the
| wounding of five. The verdict of the
coroner's jury is that Col Colson killed
the three men.
Ex-President Cleveland, Commodore
Benedict and Captain Bob Evans ar
rived at the Murphy's Island Gun
clubhouse at Fairfax, S. c., from
South island, at which place the shoot
ing was not so good.
Rev. j. Wilbur Chapman has re-
signed as vice president of the Moody
Bible Institute as the result Of a con-
troyersy as to who should write the
official life of the dead evangelist
himself or VIII r. Moody
General George Henry Sharpe of
Kingston, N. Y, died in New York, of
a shock following an operation, aged
Y. He was present as a member of
General Grants staff when General
Lee surrendered at Appomattox.
Minister Leishman. at Berne, Swift
erland, has cabled the state depart
ment that the Swiss government has
revoked a former decision and gives
| general authorization for the importa-
tion of American dried and fresh
meats.
The board of naval bureau chiefs has
| decided against tho uco of douhIa t,,,.
rets for the new battleships; they also
ask permission of congress to eliminate
from these ships the sheathing which
is at present a feature in the new con-
struction.
Lieutenant Samuel Howard the
pilot and last of the officers and crew
of Ericsson's Monitor during her
memorable engagement with the con-
federate ironclad Merrimac died in
Washington from conclusion of the
brain, aged 70 years.
A post-mortem examination of the
body of Charles Seeberger, the cleo
trician, who was shot at Brunswick,
Md, by Conductor Jerome Swartley,
and died. revealed the fact that Seeber-
| SCI ilNCu oiAly uOuIS WITH Il outlet mole
through the center of his heart.
The senate confirmed the following
nominations: r. w. McMade of
Pennsylvania, consul to Canton, China:
I. ]. Henderson of Illinois, a member
of the board of Ordnance and Fortifi-
cations; f. S. Warner of st. Paul, sur
veyor general of Minnesota.
1t is said by member of the foreign
relations committee that an under
standing exists between the United
States and Great Britain, under which
this government can proceed with the
instruction of the Nicaraguan canal
without reference to the provisions of
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
By the terms of the will of the late
Dorman B. Eaton. several large be-
quests are made for educational and
charitable purposes. Columbia and
Harvard universities receive $1,000
each, the New York Skin and Cancer
hospital gets $4,000, and the Society
Tor the suppression or Vice S25, 900.
FOREIGN