Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-01-03


200.
The federal court denied Rudyard
Kiplings right to the exclusive use of
an elephants head as trademark on
books.
Census figures show four cities in
Kansas having population of more
that 10000, Kansas City leading with
I51,418.
The trial of Cornelius n. Alyord,
Jr.. the defaulting teller CT the First
National bank, was postponed until
Jan. 8.
W. A. Clark and others are sued
flor 81. 075, 900 by the American Mining
company of Montana for alleged tres
pass.
A brother of Cadet Booz denied be-
fore the military court of inquiry the
charge that the dead boy was
coward.
The Red Cross society has aban-
doned plan for twentieth century
watch meeting in Madison Square
Garden.
n. Green surrendered to the police
at Sacramento. Cal, saying he killed
William Feeny at Claire Station,
Mich, in 1875.
Mayor Harrison, Chief Ripley, and
other Chicago officials appeared be-
fore the grand jury and pleaded in
nocent of any knowledge of vice or
crime in Chicago.
A destructive fire in Eau Claire, 10
.1ileb east of ST. Joseph, Mich, re-
suited in reducing half the business
section into ashes. The total loss is
$4,000 partly insured.
Father j. p. Chadwick, who was
chaplain of the battleship Maine when
she was blown up, has been assigned
to the cruiser New York, at the re-
quest of Rear Admiral Rogers.
At Philadelphia, w. irving Smith,
who has been filling the position of
United States consul at Barrinquilla,
Columbia, and who was recently ap.
pointed consul at Singapore, COM
mitted suicide.
The Fox Press Steel Bar works.
one of the largest industries in Joliet,
was nearly destroyed by fire. The
, loss will reach many thousands of dol.
lars. Two hundred men will be
thrown out of work.
The resignation of Capt. Charles A.
Boutelle of Bangor, Me-, as member
of the house for the fifty-seventh con
gress will be rendered about March 4,
according to an understanding with
President Mckinley.
A new effort Is likely to be made to
induce congress to grant recognition
of some kind to Naval Constructor
Richmond p. Hobson for his gallant
conduct in sinking the Merrimac in
the harbor of Santiago.
La Normandie, of the French line,
French gendarmes. in full uniform,
who are going to Tahiti, the principal
island of the Society group, to relieve
a like number now in Tahiti.
Milton Whitney, chief of the division
of soils, reports successful termina-
tion of experiments conducted in co.
operation with the Connecticut ex-
pertinent station in the production of
Sumatra tobacco near Hartford.
Frank Smith. the boy district mes
senger of Brooklyn, who took mes
sage of greeting from American school
children to President Kruger, was in
the police court, charged with hurting
a paving stone through show case
The body of Michael " Britzius. a
prominent Chicago labor leader who
died at Denver, will be cremated al
lGraceland cemetery, and his ashes
will be scattered, as provided in his
will. Only intimate friends will be
present.
Professor Thomas A. Williams, as
sistant chief of the division of as
trology, department of agriculture,
and well-known authority on botany
died at his home at Tekoma of heart
disease. He was S5 years of age
and came from Weeping Willow, Neb
The officials of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation company are jubilant over
the fact that the fire in the celebrated
burning mine at Summit Hill. which
started forty-two years ago, is now
under control. and ii Is said that the
next two years will see its extinguish
ment.
On his arrival at New York. Ferdin
and Peck, the United States commits
sionor TO the Paris exposition, com
municated with the white house, and
an arrangement was made for an in
terview. when it is expected Mr.. Pech
Will lay before the president the gen
eral results of his mission.
> John J. Morgan. at the experimental
: sanitary camp, Quesnados. Cuba, has
volunteered to test the theory that til,
germs of yellow fever are carried b,
mosquitoes. He will be placed In a
house built for the purpose. and sleet
every night in room with forty.five
mosquitoes that have bitten yellow
fever patients
The Kentucky court OF appeals ad
journed until the January term with
out rendering n decision in the cas-,
of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers
charged with completely in the Goebe
assassination and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment. This passed the appea
to the new court. which viii stand foul
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