Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-08

A large portion of the natural
tunnel in Scott county, Tenn, near
Bristol, through which passes the
Virginia and Southwestern road, fell
in. 4 big stone, $50 feet in length,
20 feet in width, and feet through,
| fell on the track.
IN fight with boot-leggers at
Wathena, Kan. Constable A. NJ.
Livermore shot and instantly killed
Lou Henderson, one of the boot
leggers who had been arrested, and
captured John Williams. an accom-
| plice Of the dead man.
r. T. Taliafero and wife, Carroll
county, Miss, near Jackson, We're
/ found dead in bed with their heads
split open. 1t is thought the murder
was committed out Of revenge for
the killing of negro who attempted
to poison the family.
George t. Lawton, astronomer of
the United States naval observatory,
died in Washington of typhoid fever.
He was graduate of the university of
Michigan and of the university of Chi
cago. He was a native of Jackson,
Mich, and once lived at Beloit
Full traffic was resumed on the
Brooklyn bridge. The broken sus-
pension rods were removed welded to-
gether and are being put back in their
| former place. An expert engineer
declared that it was caused by over
loading the bridge. Heat, he SAID,
had nothing to do with the accident
Mrs. Carrie Nation. who is serving
sentence in the county jail at
Topeka for joint smashing, has been
pardoned by Governor Stanley. The
county commissioners will allow her
to pay the fine and costs, amounting
to $3.50, in installments of S. month.
| Henry L. L'Homedieu, son Of
Superintendent L'Homedieu on the
Michigan Central railway, and a
freshman in the engineering depart
ment of the university. was killed at
Ann Arbor. Mich, by the Grand
Rapids express On the Michigan
Central
F. Wayland Brown, who with DR..
August M. Unger was convicted of
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company, was released from jail at
Chicago. The verdict sentencing him
to the penitentiary was vacated, and
an order imposing fine of $4,000 sub
stituted. Brown and his wife paid the
| fine.
George F. Washburn of Boston,
president of the Commonwealth club
Of Massachusetts, has sailed for
Europe to inquire into the co-opera-
tive methods of various bodies IN
England, Belgium and Switzerland,
with a view to the formation Of a
$50,000,000 cotton combination in this
country
United States Marshal Chandler ar
rested George Ammons, the turnkey
in charge of the county Jail at Toledo,
o., when Topeka Joe' and his two
pals escaped. He is charged with
permitting the prisoners to escape.
1t is said that the authorities will
try to prove that Ammons knew of
the plans.
Rev. S. Young, pastor of the Gar
field Presbyterian church at Passaic,
N. j., has distributed circulars among
the members OF his congregation, in
which he asks that all the male at
tendants at the church services wear
shirt waists. Mr.. Young says he him
self will wear one. with perhaps a
thin coat over it, but no waistcoat
Directors of the Seventh National
bank voted to reorganize with 81
100000 new capital, pay all debts and
resume business. w. e. d. Stokes
sued to recover the value Of his
stock, alleging incompetence and de-
ception, and a Cleveland bank sued
on drafts, declaring that it was lulled
into fancied security by false tele-
grams.
The first step by the government
looking to the recovery of part Of
the $2,250,000 alleged to have been
embezzled by Oberlin M. Carter, late
captain of the corp Of engineers, now
serving sentence at Leavenworth.
Kan, while he was supervising gov
eminent work in the harbor at
Savannah, Ca, was taken when
Marion irwin of Georgia, special at
torney for the United States. filed
bills against o. NJ Carter and
Lorenzo ID. Carter. his uncle.
Washington business houses that
have been in the habit of sending
money order blanks to their Gus
toners will be supplied by the post
Office department free of cost with
| the special money order blanks in
which the name of the payee or firm
sending them out will be printed in
red ink. If the use of these forms be
adopted, small coins and stamps as a
means of the exchange of the values
may disappear from the mails.