Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13

charged with stealing $-,Ooo
worth of jewelry from college
dormitories.
The FIRST agnostic wedding ceremony
celebrated took place in Cincinnati.
The bride and bridegroom assented to
a series of peculiar pledges as to their
future conduct.
The Evangelical Lutheran synod
voted that the Foreign Mission Board
acted in good faith in declining 10
return Rev. N. E. Yeiser as mis-
sionary to India.
Samuel G. Edsall, missionary bishop
of North Dakota, defeated DR.. w. S.
Rainsford of New York in the contest
for bishop-coadjutor of the Minnesota
Episcopal diocese.
Officers and directors of North
western road, with one exception, were
reelected at the annual stockholders
meeting. z. E. Osborn succeeded M. L..
Sykes as vice president.
Rumor is current in New York that
Mr.. Havermeyer is to resign the
presidency of the American Sugar
Refining company and be succeeded
by w. b. Thomas of Boston.
a Missouri banker, convicted of
Incorporating the funds of his
bank, voluntarily appeared at the
penitentiary and entered upon term
of six years Imprisonment.
The Consolidated Tobacco company.
capital $30,000,000 was incorporated in
New Jersey, presumably to acquire The
American and continental companies
and the new cigar combine.
Sergeant Mcknight, a member of
The thirty-eighth general assembly Of
Illinois, and prominent in politics, died
at his home in Girard. He was born
in Macoupin county, Jan. 6, 1874.
The gift of 100000 by John d.
Rockefeller to the Institute of Medi-
cal Research will be available at once,
and the first problem attacked will be
the purifying of the milk supply.
A contract for the equipment of a
sugar factory in Mexico calling for an
outlay of 100000 has been placed in
New York city Other contracts ag-
gregating $9,3O0,O00 are to follow.
Harry Lehr and Mrs. John Vinton
Dahlgren, Frederick G.. Goodridge and
Miss Ethel NJ. Iselin, and James A.
Stillman, Jr., and Anne Urquhart Pot
ter were all welded in New York
At Elwood City, Pa, Costen Burns
was robbed in broad daylight in the
heart of the city of $1,000 by three
men. Two of the men were captured
but the third escaped with $1,700.
Kansas Wesleyan University trus-
tees refuse to re-elect Professor Frank
ID. Tubbs to the chair of science be-
cause of alleged heretical teachings,
and the students are in open rebellion,
The Congregational council at Grin
NELL Ia, declared Professor Heron
guilty of unchristian conduct in de-
sorting his family and ordered his
name stricken from the roll of the
church
Professor r. w. Wood, Phi. D., of the
University of Wisconsin, was appoint
ed professor of experimental physics
of Johns Hopkins university, succeed
ing the late Professor Henry A. Row.
lands.
Henry Siegel of Siegel, Cooper G
Co. is to build ten-story department
store on the site now occupied by
Macy at Sixth avenue and Fourteenth
street, New York. The structure is to
cost $1.OOO,OO0.
Mrs. Josephine Curtis Woodburys
$150,00O libel suit against Mrs. Mary
Baker G.. Eddy. head of the Christian
Science church, was thrown out of
court at b. ston, the plaintiff having
failed to make out case.
In New York Miss Laura Billings
daughter of the late Frederick
Billings, at one time president of the
Northern Pacific railroad, was married
to Professor Fredeick S. Lee of the
Columbia university medical school.
At meeting of the trustees of
Johns Hopkins University, Ira Rem
sen, Phi. d., LII. D., professor of
chemistry in the university since 1876,
was elected president of the univer-
sity, succeeding DR.. Daniel C. Gilman,
resigned.
Captain Robert Patterson, a brother
of John II. Patterson. president of the
National Cash Register company and
father of the manager of that institu-
ton, dropped dead of heart failure at
Dayton, Ohio. The deceased was So
years old.
The state department is aroused by
the report that Turkey had paid
claims of France to the amount Of
100000. The American envoy at
Constantinople was directed to make
formal demand for. a settlement of the
American claims.
One policeman was killed and au-
other wounded at Toronto while TAX
ing three burglars from the court
house to jail. The prisoners aided
by confederates overpowered the
guard, but were recaptured while try
ing to escape on trolley car.
Miss Eliza Kelly, one of the Oldest
teachers in northern Illinois in point
of service. is dead at Joliet. at the age
of 81 years. Since 1864 she had
taught continuously in the public
schools of Joliet. being connected with
ono school over "a ouarter Of a eenfrrv