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

killing his sister, May Fosbourgh, in
Pittseld, Mass, was admitted to bail.
The exact loss sustained by the
revenue Office at Peoria, Ill, by rob
bers has been determined to be $751;
976.
Naval officers look for a war with
Germany. Admiral Dewey is said to
have predicted a conflict within two
years.
Disaffected Choctaw Indians have
Joined the Creeks, who are terrorizing
their nation. and Seminoles threaten
to rise.
James Bashford. a brother of Coles
Bashford, governor of Wisconsin in
1861, is dead at Lyons, N. Y, aged
81 years.
The Kansas state temperance union.
in session at Topeka, subscribed 500
to buy gold medal for Mrs Carrie
Nation.
Ten thousand Catholic members of
the federal party in the Philippines
have decided to separate from the
Church of Rome.
A bill has been introduced in the
Tennessee Legislature providing for
state pensions to veterans of the civil
war on both sides.
United States Judge w. II. Seaman
of Wisconsin was appointed temporari-
ly to fill the vacancy in the southern
district of Illinois.
The st. Louis municipal assembly
passed a bill providing for 100000
bonds in aid of the Louisiana purchase
celebration in 1903.
The naval board which inspected
the floating drydock in Havana harbor
decided it is not worth the price
Spain asks-$225,000
Louise X. Schrader, a fensing
teacher of Minneapolis, has challenged
Alicia Mower of Chicago to contest
with bare-tipped foils.
In Chicago Mayor Harrison aban-
doned his efforts to repeal the mid
night closing ordinance, which he said
he would enforce.
The will of Mrs d. Sturges of Chi
cago gives 100000 to brothers and
sisters and the remainder of a $4,000
900 estate to six children.
Congressman Springer says he is
sure Chicago will win the drainage
canal case and in fifty years be the
largest city in the world.
President Mckinley told callers that
he would call an extra session of
congress to consider legislation for
Cuba and the Philippines.
A shortage of $4,000 was discovered
in the endowment bank Knights of
Pythias, and charged to a trusted
clerk. whose name is withheld.
p. ID. Armour's will distributed only
$4,000 900. the balance of his es-
timated fortune of $6O,000,00O having
been given away during life.
DR.. Rodermund, who broke small
poS quarantine at Appleton, was ar
rested in Milwaukee and forcibly
placed in an isolation hospital
Iowa will make an effort to collect
from the government $3.50, 09o to $3.50,
600 interest on bonds issued to equip
Iowa soldiers in the civil war
Official figures show that since the
opening of the last century our COM
merce with the rest of the world has
increased more than twelve-fold.
The house committee on coinage |
agreed by a party vote to report |
favorably the Hill bill ito maintain |
the silver dollar at parity with gold"
Assistant General Passenger Agent |
Grain of the Northern Pacific resigned
to become general passenger agent of |
the Oregon Railway and Navigation.
Mrs. Carrie Nation the temperance |
crusader, called on Gov w. e. Stanley, |
in Topeka, and arraigned him for his |
failure to enforce the prohibition law. |
The municipal council of Chicago |
refused to pass a resolution of sym
pathy with the people of the British
empire on the death of Queen Victoria |
The senate finance committee has |
agreed to recommend reduction of |
the war tax on beer to $3.50 per barrel. |
The total reduction is about 100000
600.
The value of agricultural products |
exchanged between this and foreign |
countries in 1900 exceeded in value |
two billion dollars and broke all
previous records.
The Hundred Year club has located |,
the Oldest man in Izal Rodofsky of |
Moscow, 1856, and the oldest woman in |
Mrs. Nancy Hollofeld, III years old, |
OF Battle Creek, Mich.
Charles II. Ferguson, a well.known |
insurance man and once president of
the National Association of Under
writer's. is dead He was born in
OSwego, ~ Y. in 1876.
Al Savannah, Ca. Joseph Bartlett.
runner for sailors boarding house.
was drowned while. with a companion.
attempting to steal sailor from the |
Italian barkentne Letiza.
Relatives of Miss Marie Louise Acker. |
man. the New York heiress who eIon.
ed with Lawyer George E. Wentworth |
the husband of her dearest friend |
have located her in Chicago.
IL is expected that there will no
active competition among shipbuiIders
to secure the contracts for the thrs,
new protected cruisers. proposals for |
which viii be opened February l.
Charles Kernen. a Madison. Ind
volunteer in the twelfth United States