Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-02-07


cautions which caused the loss of 81
lives in the recent asylum holocaust.
Charles Schmidt put poison in his
glass while drinking in saloon at
Helena, Mont, and died. His right
name was De la Gardie and he was
connected with the royal family Of
Sweden.
w. G. McAliister, W. A. Death and
A. J. Campbell, slayers of Jennie Boss
cheiter at Paterson, n. j., were sen
fenced to thirty years Imprisonment
and G. ]. Kerr was sentenced to ff
teen years.
George Heiss, silk thief, arrested in
Chicago, pleaded guilty at Quincy to
robbing store and was sent to Chester
The trial of William Davis, alias
Bloomington Red" leader of the
gang, was continued.
In Brooklyn Judge Hurd accepted
plea of guilty from George w.
Howard, formerly of Cambridge,
Mass, charged with bigamy, and SEN
fenced him to two years and ten
months in Sing Sing.
Members of the subcommittee Of
the national .. A. r. council of adj
ministration, who are in Cleveland.
predict that 10000 veterans will at
tend the annual encampment to be
held in that city next fall.
Relatives of Phoebe Ann Wing, a
widow, 50 years old, who ownes
thousand acres of farm land in Dutch
ess county, N. Y, and has $4,000 in
securities, have brought proceedings
to have her declared incompetent.
A lamp exploded in the residence o.
Louis Beissel. Bessemer, Mich, anl
two of his children, a boy 4 years old
and girl years old, were burned to
death. Mrs. Beissel was so severely
burned that she is expected to die.
Senator Hoar. from the committee
on judiciary, reported favorably the
bill granting a charter to the Fedora
ton of Woman's Clubs. The incor-
porators mentioned in une bill include
many women prominent in club life.
Charles T. Hallowell. general agent
of the Green Line tank cars of the
Pennsylvania Railroad system, with
headquarters at Oil City, died from the
effects or grip and stomach trouble.
He was born in Philadelphia in 1910.
DIR. Henry J. Herrick, a widely
known physician and surgeon of Cleve
land is dead. He was for many years
professor of the medical department
of the Western Reserve university.
He was a member of the Loyal Legion.
Fourteen college presidents will at.
tend the second annual meeting of the
Association of American Universities,
at the University of Chicago, Feb. 26
to 2S. Among the universities in the
association are Michigan and Wiscon-
sin
Rear Admiral KautZ, recently re-
lieved from command of the Pacific
station, has been placed on the re-
tired list on account of age. He has
had long and distinguished career,
of which nearly eighteen years was
spent ct sea.
Adam Hartmans body was disin-
tered at Jacksonville, ILL.,, and stry-
chine was found in the stomach
to Sheridan, Mo-. in November and
died suddenly. The coroner's verdict
was death poisoning"
Countess Boni de Castellane is not
affected by the decision of the New
York court, her lawyers declaring that
she has already limited her personal
expenditure to $250,000 a year, de
voting the remainder of her income to
the payment of creditors.
The lewiston Me. city council has
voted unanimously to accept the
offer of Andrew Carnegie to give for
a free public library ten times the
amount the city will appropriate an
nually for its support. Mr.. Carnegie
will be called upon for $4,000.
The committee appointed by the
alumni of Stanford University to
reasons for the inforced re-
signation of DR.. Edward Ross, head of
the department of social science, re-
ported that the action of Mrs. Stanford
in asking his dismissal involved no
of the right of free
speech.
A bronze memorial tablet, in honor |
of Pontiac, the Indian chief. was UNI
yelled at St Louis. by the Daughters |
of the American Revolution. The !
tablet was placed in the Southern |
Hotel Immediately over the spot |
where Pontiac was buried in 1869 by |
his friend, Governor st. Ange Bel |
lerive.
The president has sent a message to |
renewing his recommends
tion of last session that congress make
gracious provision for indemnity 20 |
the families" of the two victims of the |
Tallulah Qa,) lynching on July 20, |
1899, who were subjects to the Italian
Five persons dead and one severely !
wounded is the result of collision be-
tween Petroleum and Volcano juno /
tion, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
The dead are; ]. b. Walker engineer;
w W. Cunningham. fireman; NJ.
Courtney, brakeman; ]. T. Bailey fire
man; ]. j. Bailey, brakeman. The in |
jured; Ike davidson, engineer.
Commissioner Yerkes of the internal |
revenue bureau has held that proxies |
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