Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-12-06

derailed on the st. Paul road at Lost
Nation, Ia. The passengers escaped
with slight injuries.
One of the guns used in the attack
and defense of Charleston, S. c..
harbor during the civil war has been
loaned to that city.
Four LapiandeTs passed through
Alaska, where they have been herding
for the government.
The Venezuelan government has re-
ceived from Germany 10000 Mauser
rifles and 100000 cartridges, says a
dispatch from Caracas.
Secretary of War Root will frame a
bill providing for a standing army of
100000. The president is to have the
power to reduce the force.
Owing to the discovery of a case of
smallpox in the town of Washington,
near Eau Claire, the school in the
district has been closed.
Robert E. A. Dorr, president of the
New York Mail and Express company
and publisher of that paper, died at
his home in New York city.
Rear Admiral Frederick V. McNair.
ranking rear admiral of the navy and
next in line to Admiral Dewey, died
of apoplexy at Washington.
With two legacies recently left her,
Miss Laura Hamilton, an aged spinster
OF Oyster Bay, l.. l., found life too
lonely and drowned herself.
Chicago physicians are not in ac-
cord with the English doctor who adj
vocates solitary confinement in bed as
a means of prolonging life.
Comptroller Dawes in his annual re-
port strongly condemns the practice
by national bank directors of borrow
ing the funds of their banks.
The democratic state committee of
Wisconsin advises the organization of
a democratic state club as an auxili-
airy to the central committee.
G.. A. Davidson of Cleveland. was
elected president of the Railway Pas
sengerand Freight Conductors Mutual
Benefit and Aid association.
Charles Johnson ST., aged 70, was
found dead in his barn, near Metropo-
lis, Ill. He had been killed by the
accidental discharge of his gun.
A 100000 building fifteen stories
high is to be erected on 1.-The flatiron'
at Broadway, Fifth avenue and
Twenty-third street, New York.
DR.. Hamilton was shot and killed at
Marysville, Iowa. Alfred Aim is under
arrest charged with the crime, which
is said to be due to domestic affairs.
It is believed that many of the
victims of the wreck of the steamer
st. Olaf, off Seven Islands. in st.
Lawrence river. persisted in the snow.
At Leavenworth, Kas., DIR. j. w.
Brock. a well-known army surgeon,
died. lie served through the civil
war in the siXty-sixth Ohio volunteers.
Discovery is made that the late
George II. Griffiths, clerk of the board
of education at Cincinnati, was de-
faulter for years and embezzled $780,
900.
1t is stated at the navy department
that Admiral Frederick Rogers, at
present chief of the inspection board,
is slated for duty on the Asiatic sta
ton
A w. Prothero, former chief of
police at Ashland, Wis, beat Phil
OHerne, who tried to rob him in Chi
cago, infiicting many and severe
injuries
Capital of $4,000 has been raised
for a canning factory in Waterloo,
Wis. A site has been purchased and
the factory will be erected in the
spring
Financial arrangements for the con-
of the tin can industry of
the country with a capital of 100000.
600 to SIS 100000 are said to be com.
plete.
The Sunday School Union of the
Methodist Episcopal church will hold
its anniversary in Washington, d. c..
beginning December 6 and continuing
four days.
Senator Burrows says there will be
an extra session of congress unless the
measure providing for a reorganiza-
ton of the army is passed at the COM
ing session.
Secretary of the Navy Long issued
his annual report, giving the opera
lions of the navy and marine corps in
China and general information of the
department
Ollie Odoil, keeper of resort in
Thorpe Wis, was shot and killed In
mates deny knowledge of the assail-
ant. The woman has two brothers liv.
ing in Chicago.
AT meeting of Methodist minis
tiers in Chicago one member spoke in
approval of the punishment of the
negro ravisher who was burned to
death in Colorado.
Five prisoners held for burglary and
assault escaped from the county iail
at Mexico. Mo, chiseling through a
brick wall. Eleven other prisoners
refused to leave.
The German bark Arnold which ar.
rived at Falmouth from Victoria. r
T., whence she sailed June I, reports
that her master, Capt. Preken. died
during the voyage.
Mrs. Jerome Leeds. of Vineland. n
j. hearing that her husband was nos.
ing as a single man and fiirting 10,