Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-07-11

of Labor, who suffered conclusion Ut
the brain as result of fall from a
Washington street car is progressing
rapidly towards recovery. He will go
to Deer Park, Md
George w. Partridge, for eight years
private secretary 70 'Zack" Chandler,
former ex-secretary of the interior,
was found dead in bed at his home in
Detroit. Heart failure was the cause.
He was 20 years of age.
Secretary Long admits that neither
he nor the president, nor any one in
authority, sent the massage to Admiral
Dewey which caused the destruction
of the Spanish fleet. 1t was sent by
some clerk in the navy department.
John Cook, living at Losantville,
Ind, died from the result of gunshot
wound, He alleged he was shot by
Theo. Kiser, colored man. but the
latter claims Cook shot himself in
struggle for possession of the weapon.
In a general battle between negroes
and deputy sheriffs five negroes we're
instantly killed and as many other
seriously wounded near Carsons Levee
camp in Mississippi. The trouble
followed raid upon crap game at a
picnic.
East-bound Atlantic express No. 2
on the Union Pacific ran into the rear
end of freight train at Rock Springs,
Wyo. Between fifteen and twenty
persons, all but two of the passengers
on the east-bound train, were slightly
injured.
James Huntington, for several
years known as the oldest travelling
salesman in active service in the
United States, died in Chicago at the
age of IA years. He went to Chicago
and started life over as a travelling
salesman.
At New York. United States Com
missioner Samuel H. Lyman, clerk of
the United States District Court, re-
signed because of ill-health. Judge
Brown appointed Commissioner
Thomas Alexander, the present deputy
clerk, as clerk.
prominent republican politician and di-
rector of the school board, is under ar
rest, having been indicted on five
counts bribery, solicitation of a bride
and three charges of obtaining money
on false pretenses.
At Thacker, w. Va, deputy United
States marshal and posse have cap
tured nine persons who terrorized
miners at Tug River the past ten days
by shooting at all who could not give
the proper strikers sign as they
passed along the railroad.
At Oberlin, President John Henry
Barrows announced the receipt of a
$4,000 check from "a friend in New
England toward the completion of
the 100000 Rockefeller endowment
fund for Oberlin college. 1t is neces-
sary yet to secure $4,000.
At Kearney, Neb.. Rev. L. G..
Brocker of the Evangelical church,
who was about to be arrested for
illegitimate parentage of Harriet Long
mates child, committed suicide by
leaves a wife and six children.
At Kenosha, DIR. Paul Malmstrom, a
well-known physician, was twice as
saulted in his office by a mysterious
woman who pounded him on the head
with a heavy cane. The woman has
not been arrested, although it is
claimed her identity is known.
A fire which started on one of the
Hoosac tunnel docks in Charlestown,
the Boston terminus of the Warren
Line Steamship company, destroyed
the pier, with large quantity of
merchandise. Six freight cars were
consumed. The loss is 100000.
The Brewers Exchange of Cincin-
natl, which includes the brewers of
Covington and Newport, KY, and other
surrounding towns, was sued for dam
ages on test case brought by the
Saloonkeepers' association to dissolve
the exchange as in violation of the
Ohio antitrust law.
Captain p. s. Davidson, formerly of
La Crosse, died at his home at Hood
River, Ore, very suddenly. Captain
Davidson was one of the most promi-
nent lumbermen on the upper Mississ-
ippi. He conducted in the early SOS
the White Collar line of packets and
ran two mills at La Crosse. He was
"A years old.
Rev. William A. Passavant of Pitts
burg died suddenly OF apoplexy. He
established Passavant hospital in
Pittsburg, Passavant hospital, Chi
cago: Passavant home for epileptics,
Rochester, Pa; Passavant Memorial
hall, Jacksonville, Fla; Milwaukee
hospital, Milwaukee, in all of which he
was a director.
Rev. James Crutcher appeared in
his pulpit at the Compton Heights
Christian church. st. Louis, in a white
shirt waist, and delivered a sermon on
Fads in Religion to congregation
composed largely of shirt-waist men
and hatless women. The novel de-
parture on the part of his auditors
was at the clergyman's request.
Because Tommy Peterson, aged 10,
Of Chicago, was not manly enough to
tell that he had fallen in the lake and
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