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

self with revolver at Terre Haute,
rather than return to her parents at
Danville, Ill.
James c. Stout of Auburn, N. Y,
former warden of the state prison,
died suddenly of apcplexy. He was
so years old.
At Rushville, Ind. ex-Mayor Joseph
A. Armstrong, 50 years old, sick and
penniless and deserted by his family,
became an inmate Of the county poor
farm.
A mob of masked men went to the
house of Lee Key, colored, near Knox.
Vile, Ark, called him out and shot
him. 1t is charged he had been ter
rorizing other negroes.
Al Louisville. F. II. Richardson
shot and killed his wife, Kittie
Richardson, installing her for a
burglar. 1t is thought Mrs. Richard
son was walking in her sleep.
At Leavenworth. Kan, Mrs. Emily
Kegelmeyer, wealthy widow, was
shot and fatally wounded by Jacob
Utters. a livery stable proprietor, who
! afterwards committed suicide.
While preaching from his pulpit at
Avondale, Ila., Rev. j. NR. McEven, a
negro, was shot from window of the
church and lflled. Henry Flacher,
another negro, was arrested.
At Ell Reno, Okla, Postmaster
| Lowry and son of Carter were shot
and killed by a man named Fowler.
The shooting was the outcome of an
old feud.
The Civil-Service League has filed
with President Mckinley and the
| secretary Of the treasury demand for
the removal of Internal Revenue Collie
tor Sapp of Louisville.
Frank Charles of Eau Claire, a
bridge-builder working on the Great
Northern's steel bridge across the
Spokane river. slipped from trestle
and plunged headlong 65 feet to the
ground.
The appraisers for the real and per-
sonal property of the late General
Harrison found real estate valued at
$170,025. This sum includes only the
property in the county.
The trustees of Beloit college met to
discuss the prospects for raising the
$l50,000 required to secure the dona-
ton of 100000 from DR.. d. X. Par
sons for the endowment fund.
A great strike of oil has been made
at Sour Lake, twenty miles northwest
of Beaumont, Tex. A well was struck
in the rear of the Sour Lake hotel, and
at oace became q gusher, flowing
$4,000 barrels day.
A fondness for champagne is the
direct cause of the death in Chicago
of Matthew J. Flynn, well known in
theatrical circles. In one night Flynn
consumed the contents of twenty-thrae
bottles of champagne.
Because of alleged mistreatment of
his wife, DR.. Adolph Goodman, an os-
teopath was horsewhipped by j. X.
Beckham, Sr., his father-in-law, and ].
X. Beckham, Jr., his brother-in-law, in
Kansas City.
The president has appointed Colonel
Amos Stickney, corps of engineers,
member and president of the Missis-
sippi commission to fill the vacancy
caused by the detachment of General
Gillespie, now chief of engineers.
Rev. William Creighton Dandy, a
former member of the Rock river
conference, died at Los Angeles, aged
~ years. He was born in New York
state, and moved to the Rock river
district in 1885,
At Michigan City, Ind, James Lee,
colored, a convict from ST. Joseph
county, was shot and killed by officer
Herrick of the state prison. The me-
gro had attacked the officer with an
iron bar.
Professor David Shepard Holman,
known throughout the scientific world
as the inventor of the Holman life
slides. which are exclusively used by
microscopes, is dead in New York.
He was born in 1926.
The case against Brigham H. Rob-
erts, who was convicted of unlawful
cohabitation and which was appealed
to the Utah supreme court, was dis
missed by that body, as the indictment
was defective.
Schedules of the assets and liabili.
ties of John E. Searles. who made an
assignment on March 5, have been
filed The schedules show on their
face that Mr.. Searles' assets greatly
exceed his liabilities, being s3,616,545.
The war department published the
reorganization order prescribing the
strength of the various branches of
the military service upon the base of
total army of 77,2S7 men and staff
of 2.7S3 men.
Fire destroyed the entire plant of
the Walkerville. Ont, match factory,
and also the match stock in the yards
adjoining The loss is $4,000, with
s5S,0e0 insurance. About 100 men
were employed.
The United States supreme court
has denied the rights of California
mission Indians to hold lands upon
which they have lived when their
claims are in conflict with those of
persons claiming unconfirmed Mexi-
can land grants.
The statements published in the