Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-01-24

snip OF traction lines.
AS an undertaken started to prepare
the body of Miss Schaefer, a New
York school teacher, for burial she
sat up and spoke, and, restored from
coma by heroic measures. is now in a
private hospital, doing very well.
Eugene II. Perdue, for many years |
president and business manager of |
the Cleveland Leader Printing COM |
pany, has severed his official connec-
ton with the paper, and will shortly |
go to Carlsbad for the benefit of his
health.
The 33-karat diamond pendant and
the other jewels struggled into the
United States from Mexico by Valino
M. Preza and Alexandra Marcuci last
October were declared forfeited yester-
day in New York for failure to pay
duties.
There has been little change in the
condition of Maurice Thompson, the
author, who has been seriously ill at
Charlottesville, Ind, several weeks
He is extremely weak, but it is not be-
lived there is immediate danger of
death
Detectives raided a counterfeiters'
den at 34S West Lake street, Chicago,
at midnight, captured ]. p McGarry.
the supposed leader of the band, and
secured three bags of spurious coiD,
with a complete outfit for manufac-
turing it.
Scott Wike. who served in the lower
house of congress two terms, begin
ming 1886 and who was assistant
comptroller of the currency during
President Cleveland's last term, is at
the point of death at his home near
Barry, Ill.
A. b. Sheldon, bookkeeper for
Colonel John Florer, United States
Indian agent at Grey Horse, Okla
homa, died. He had been in the
Indian service twenty-six years. The
body was sent to Shedden's former
home at Brooklyn, N. Y.
At Albany, N. Y, Louis Currier
aged 40 years, cut his wife's throat
broke his son Arches head with a
baseball bat, took a dose of paris
green and then cut his own throat, dy-
ing soon afterward. He is said to
have been insane from drink.
The report of the appraiser appoint
ed by the New York surrogate to es-
tablsh the valuation of Ogden Goe-
let's personal property shows that it
was worth nearly 100000 instead of
being a trife over 100000, the esti-
mate furnished by the family.
1t is reported that Mayor Van Wyck
will remove Police Commissioner York
and then join with other members of
the police board in retiring Chief
Devery with a pension, Similar ac-
tion was taken when Former Chief of
Police McCullagh was retired.
James r. Chapman, electrical engi-
neer for the Union Traction company
of Chicago, has been employed by
Charles T. Yerkes, the street railway
magnate, to superintend the con-
struction and equipment of his under
ground railway system in London.
Baroness Won Ketteler of Detroit,
formerly Miss Ledyard, widow of the
late general minister to China, will
sail for Germany the latter part of this
month. Her health is now completely
restored and she desires to visit her
late husbands mother, who is so
years CID.
On the steamer Tunisian, which ar
rived from Liverpool at Portland, Me-,
We're 80 lace-makers, bound for Zion
City, Wis. Acting upon advices from
| the immigration bureau, the party
was not allowed to land until the case
was laid before the authorities at
Washington.
VIM. A. Eddy, the wellknown
kite flyer, of Bayonne, N. j., says that
since 1892 he has drawn from his kite
wire hundreds of electric signals.
which may have come from some
other planet The signals have been
usually in groups of three, regularly
| timed like Morse sounder.
A, runaway engine in the Rock Isl.
and railroad yards at Council Bluffs
Iowa, crashed into and overturned a
coach on the Wabash train, killing
Jesse Bell, porter and injuring a wo.
man passenger and two children and
then collided with and disabled an
engine on Rock Island train.
Alaskan advices state that the Sitka
Indians, including the Eagle, Crow and
Frog clans, who have been uuarreIing
over the use of certain totems and
other emblems of their respective |
clans have decided to put aside their !
differences and hereafter live the |
lives OF law-abiding American citizens |
At West Point under the semi-annuaI |
examination, just finished. twenty
cadets go back into private life.
Among them were: Third-class. Amos
NJ. Cook of Colorado; fourth-class. Ed.
ward L. Finn of Minnesota, Fred r.
Garages of Nevada, Albert T. Lyman
of South Dakota and James A. Etorrer
of Idaho
The state pardon board denied
the application for pardon for James
II. Southall who is serving a term in
the Minnesota penitentiary for the
famous government time check swim.
die, the aggregate of which was esti.
mated at $450,000 His wife's poor