Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-20

state convention dominates Chester B. |
Jordan for governor.
Ruysdael's famous painting, Silenus
Somnolens. vas stolen en- route from
Naples to New York.
Woolley and a party of prohi bition
speakers will start on special train
for a tour of northwest.
General Joseph Wheeler was placed
on the retired list, having reached the
age OF Ga, the service limit.
A Louisville girl, missing for six
months, has been earning her living as
stable boy and horse jockey.
Anna Doag, of Millerton, N. Y, pre-
fers poverty to legacy of $4,000 and
home left her by her employer.
Thieves robbed South Evanston
private bank in the afternoon by work
ing an old game on the proprietor.
Frederick S. Kent, pioneer teleg-
rapher OF the days Samuel b. Morse,
died suddenly of apoplexy in Chicago.
Rev. DR.. Gunsaulus' new church at
So Washington street, Chicago, is to be
twelve stories high and to cost 100000
The Chicago white stockings clinch
ed the pennant emblenaelc of the
championship of the Ane. lean league.
| An excursion steamer win 600 pas
sengers abroad foundered of the coast
OF Massachusetts, but all Oh board were
saved.
Rev. George c. Lorimer of fremont
Temple, Boston has refused to accept
an increase of salary offered by his
church.
John Reeder, an old soldier, killed
his wife and himself in New York be-
cause he was jealous of two adopted
children.
German Catholic societies voted at
Peoria to join the federation. Nicho-
las Conner Dubuque, was elected
president.
William J. Meyer, of Brooklyn, dived
into the mud of Coney Island creek
and, powerless to free himself. met a
dreadful death.
Census figures show that the men in
Chicago outnumber the women by
: 51,755. The figures are: Males, S7S.-
100; females. S20.415.
1t is stated that the annual report of
Comptroller of Currency Dawes will
show that the United States leads u.
other countries in banking.
Leaders of the republican and demo-
cratic campaigns consider fight a dull
one and discuss the apathy of the PEG
pie toward politics this year.
1t Is said the cost of changing the
dry docks at the Mare island and
League island yards will involve an
additional expenditure of $750,000.
The annual report of the Chicago,
Milwaukee &c st. Paul road shows the
gross earnings amounted to SAL, SS4,6S2
for the year ending June 80, 1900.
David B. Hill introduces a resolution
before the New York state democratic
convention denouncing the ice trust
Stanchfield was named for governor.
President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers ordered a general strike
: in the anthracite region, to take effect
Monday. Over 100000 men are af-
| fected.
The Western insurance union elected
James NJ Decamp, Cincinnati, presi-
dent; l.. S. Blackwelder, Chicago, vice
president; P. d. McGregor, Chicago,
secretary.
Five members of the Duncan Clark S
| female minstrel company were killed in
train wreck on the Illinois Central at
Mounds, ILL.,, and eleven others fatally
injured.
DR.. Frank w. Gunsaulus resigned
from the presidency of the Armour
institution, Chicago, in order to take
more complete charge of Central
church.
Secretary Thompson, of the National
Glass Company, told the Industrial
| Commission that his companys prices
are about Is per cent. higher here than
| abroad.
Tho Central Trust company, New
York, began foreclosure proceedings
against the United States Milling COM
pany at Milwaukee. The plan is to
reorganizc.
A corners jury at Lansdal, Pa, has
held the Reading Railroad company
and several employees responsible for
tuD NltIh vi tue AlldUIlC Oltg eA-
cursion train.
George thinner. manager of the
Lexington, Neb., telephone exchange,
and a companion named Thomas, of
Kearney, were drowned while attempt
ing to ford the Loup river.
1t is reported at Frankfort, Ky. that
efforts will be made to indict Senator
Dehoe, Former Governor bradley and
other prominent Kentuckians for COM
plicity in the Goebel murder.
The closing of the rubber factory in
Newtown, Conn. by the rubber trust
will take from the town its only indus
try and throw more than half the male
population OF the place out of work.
The Abbott reduced the worlds mile
trotting to wagon record at Charter
Oak Park. Hartford, Conn, to 2:051h.
The former record was 2:O9A, held by
Lucille and made at Cleveland in 1897.
Extremely high winds did great
damage throughout hunois, Indiana
Wisconsin. and Michigan. ST. Paul,
Mimi, reported a record rainfall. The
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