Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-05-16

Within the next few months 20 tor
pedo-boat destroyers and torpedo
boats are expected to be added to the
navy.
Oil was struck II miles west of
Lake Charles La. The well is between
200 and 800 feet in depth and flows
freely.
Efforts are to be made at the next
session of congress to give the inter-
state commerce committee more
power.
Charles Foster of Fostoria, former
secretary of the treasury, fled petition
in bankruptcy with $74700s liabilities
and no assets.
The La Crosse, Wis. Packers Pack
ing company has been absorbed by the
trust recently organized and known as
the American Can company
The name of young man killed at
Kewanee, H., two weeks ago by a
train has been found to be Charles
Warren of Mount Pulaski, III.
General Fitzhugh Lee and his fam
| lily left Omaha to return to their old
home in Virginia. where they have
scarcely lived for fifteen years.
The Colombian minister made
formal offer to sell the property rights
and concessions of the Panama Canal
company to the United .,tates.
Many clerks, walters, office boys,
typewriter girls and other women are
said to have made fortunes in a day
in the Wall street speculation.
The third trial of DR.. Kennedy for
murder was begun in New York.
Judge Newburger refused to permit
the dentists wife to sit beside him.
The statement that the state depart
ment has delivered a new isthmian
canal treaty to the British ambassa-
dor is officially denied by Secretary
Hay.
Baltimore republicans elected eight
cen out of twenty-three members for
the first branch of the city council,
and all three members of the second
branch.
A New Haven Court has given ID
Miss Bartholomew a verdict of 81 900
against rich Charles |. Parmlee be-
cause he shouted "Boot" and scared
her into hysteria.
A cablegram to the Harvard observ-
atory from Professor Krantz. at Kiel
observatory, says that the comet seen
at Cape of Good Hope will appear
soon in the northern hemisphere.
The New York Confederate Veter.
ans camp adopted resolutions prais-
ing President Mckinley for recon-
mending that the nation care for the
graves of confederate soldiers.
Il was annouced that plans for the
locomotive combine had been per.
fected. w. Steward Webb was
chosen director in the International
Power company, the parent concern.
A strike among the sawmill en-
ployes at the head of the lakes is
threatened Two mills are shut down
on account of the trouble and possibly
others may discontinue operations
today.
President Mckinley and his party
reached Los Angeles, after a notable
daylight ride through the San Ber-
nardino valley, They were welcomed
to the state by Governor Gage at Red
lands.
The State department has paid to
the Mexican ambassador 1000 as full
idemnity to the heirs of Florentine
Suaste, a Mexican citizen, who was
lynched in La Sale county, Texas, in
1895.
Eccentric young Paul Mccormack,
of Poughkeepsie, Ito get square" on a
local newspaper. published report OF
his marriage to a New Haven school.
girl, He now says that it was
fake"
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yerkes has decided that as the rate
of tax on tobacco and snuff will not
be changed by me act of March 2.
1901. no now stamps for tobacco and
SNUFF will be issued.
Thomas j. Shelton, publisher of the
Christian, who claims the power to
cure disease by sending vibrations to
any distance, pleaded guilty to the
improper use of the mails at Denver
and was fined $25.
Part of the bank of the Erie canal
was carried away at the eastern wide
waters, just beyond the Rochester
city line, doing much damage to
manufacturing establishments in the
immediate neighborhood.
A dispatch received from the mayor
of Colbert, I. T.. announces that small
pox is raging there. The smallpox
outbreak in the Salem, Ore, Indian
school there has so far resulted in ten
cases and three deaths.
A deal involving s9.250,000 in in
surance circles was made when the
Hope Mutual Fire Insurance COM
apny of st. Louis sold and renewed its
policies in the National Insurance
company of Hartford. Conn.
Valet Jones. the chief witness
against Lawyer Patrick of New York,
accused of Millionaire Rice's murder.
is seriously i'll in the House of De.
tention and has taken no food for five
days owing to stomach trouble.
The Italian steamer Vincenzo Florio. |
which arrived at New York from
Naples. with so cabin and COS steerage |
IS detained at quarantine. |