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

widow and two children, both of whom
are grown, survive. The children are
X. Curtiss and Elizabeth F.
Curtiss.
Dwight H. Bill. aged 81, died at
Bridgeport, Conn, at the residence OF
his brother, DR.. C. H. Bill, after long
illness. Deceased was for many years
emigrant agent Of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railroad.
The two Union Pacific train robbers
killed in Kansas are believed to be
James and Tom Jones, Missouri ami
Texas desperadoes. There is a reward
of $4,000 in Missouri and $500 in Texas
for the brothers. dead or alive.
The largest amount of gold ever
shipped in a day from this country to
Europe has been ordered for shipment.
The amount is over sS,000,O00 and is
the first payment on the English war
bonds subscribed for in this country.
Gov. Roosevelt announced that be
would ask Mayor Van Wyck to answer
charges against him of malfeasance in
offica in connection with ice-trusC
scandal, and then decide the question
of appointing a commissioner to take
evidence.
The California deadlock between the
wine makers and wine growers ended
by the breaking up of the growers
combine. Grapes are selling for Sl2
and S14 a ton, instead of SIS and $40
the prices fixed by the defunct growers
association.
Danforth presented the Coler boom
for governor of New York to Croker
and later ex-senator Murphy declared
Coler weak, said his attacks on Croker
were unjust and declared e. NJ. Shep-
ard was $4,000 votes stronger. Lamont
is dark horse.
Joseph Brown, his wife, five children
and two girls accompanying the
family on a holiday were struck down
by a thunderbolt while seeking pro-
lection from the storm under a oak
tree near Highbridge, n. Y. All were
fearfully injured.
BY permitting an express train t.
pass mis- station without delivering
orders Operator Wells caused a wreck
on the Grand Rapids and Indiana road
at Person, Mich, which resulted in
seven deaths and the injury of nine
nersons, one fatally.
Washington Turner, young farmer
residing near Admission, Ala, with his
wife and baby, who had never ridden
on a railroad before, jumped from d
railroad train. Turner was killed
instantly and his wife so badly injured
that she died The baby has a broken
leg.
Judge John H. Reagan, chairman oil
the Texas state railroad commission
and the only surviving member Of
Jefferson Davis cabinet, announced
that he will resign next January and
retire permanently from public life
He will devote the remainder of his
life to writing his memoirs. He is >,
years old.
Miss Clara Klemm, for % years head
of the department of German at the
Lake View high school, died al
Squirrel Island, Maine, of hemor-
rhage of the brain. The remains were
taken to Boston and cremated Miss
Klemm was born in Chicago in 1856
an was educated in private SCHOOLS in
Philadelphia.
At Columbus, Ind, while bathing in
White river Joseph Irwin I. Sweeney
the 20-year-old son of the Rev. Zachary
I. Sweeney American ex-consul OF
Turkey, was drowned The young
man was a student of Butter college
indianapolis. Mrs. Sweeney, the boy s
mother is a daughter of the million
aire banker, Joseph l. Irwin
Frank B. Van Valkenburgh, a we'll
known Milwaukee bicyclist, died sud-
denly supposedly from hemorrhage Of
the brain. He served one term as
chief consul of the Wisconsin division
League of American Wheelmen, and
was assistant United States district
attorney for the eastern district of
Wisconsin under the Cleveland adj
ministration. He was 45 years old.
At the fifty-fourth annaul convention
of the Temple or Honor and Temper
ance George C. Gates of Rhode Island
was made most wortniy templar. and
the most worthy vice templar, elected
was Jesse X. Starr of New York. The
other officers elected were: the Rev.
DIR. c. S. Woodruff, Dover, n. j., re-
corder; d. l. Robinson, Massachusetts,,
treasurer; H. ID. Williams, New Jersey,
chaplain; Henry Pearce, Wisconsin,
usher; C. E. Boswell, Connecticut.
g 9r3;an. 1t was decided that the
next convention should be held at
Fredonia, N. Y.