Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-08
in which the American renders his

in which the American renders his
foe hors du combat.
Richard Hearn, a wealthy citizen of
Nation, ILL.,, received Matchmaking
letters threatening torture and death
for him and his daughter.
The steel strikers, it is said, will ap-
peal to Senator Hanna to act as an
Intermediary with J. Pierpont Morgan
for settlement Of the strike.
Thirty Organizes at Columbus. o.
organized the progressive democratic
party of Ohio and named state
ticket on free silver plank.
The start of the land drawing in
Oklahoma was watched by $4,000 ex.
cited homeseekers. A SAC. 00G prize
was won by Kansas telephone girl
Joseph and Edward Prather
brothers, were killed by lightning on
a farm near Martinsville, Ind. They
had taken shelter under a walnut
/ tree.
J. II. Dow, for more than thirty
years one of the leading merchants
of eastern Kansas. drowned himself
in the Memphis railroad lake, near
| Olothe.
! Chicago. which ridiculed the St
Paul story Of eggs Matching chickens
| by the torrid hot weather, sends out
a story of similar experience on its
own heat.
The 3-year-old son of Valentine
Koehler, at Ripon, Wis. fell into a
fof,
inches Of water and when found life
was extinct.
Twenty of the twenty-six judges in
Cook county, ILL.,, are taking vacations,
while 125 prisoners swelter in Jail
awaiting trial and $4,000 civil suits
are unheard.
A naval attache at London sent a
report of firing tests made by the
British which the experts figure out
would have disabled battleship with
double turrets.
The traffic departments of the
Union and Southern Pacific roads are
practically consolidated. Joint agen-
cies are to be established in the
principal cities.
/ Despite the objection Of his chill
dren, both of whom are older than his
bride, wealthy Andrew Namely OF
Brooklyn, married Miss Jennie Hicks
S5 years his junior.
j. H. Dow, wealthy man, for
! thirty years one of the leading mer-
| chants of eastern Kansas, drowned
| himself in the Memphis railroad lake,
near Olathe. Kas.
Mrs. ]. e. Maple, a Denver woman
who was arrested on complaint of c.
l.. Hatchway of Wallace, Idaho, and
who attempted to commit suicide,
was adiudged insane.
| j. Pierpont Morgan rejected the
counter proposals Of the steel work
ers and notified them that the offer
made last Saturday is final so far as
the steel trust is concerned.
The state department at Washing
ton has received a message from
Consul General Stowe at Cape Town,
stating that he would leave there for
the United States August 7.
The Civil-Service Reform League
issued report asserting that govern
ment officials were seeking to over
| throw the merit system, particularly
in the postoffice department.
A person supposed to be Pierre
Lorillard. Jr., resistered his fathers
racing colors with the New York
Jockey club to prevent MRS Alien
running her horses under them.
Leslie Collins, of Shelbyville, ILL.,. a
private in the 9th infantry, may be
punished for sending home false ac-
count of the drowning of twelve SOL
diers because of government neglect.
Secretary Wilson Of the agricultural
| department has started for the west
to make personal investigation of
the regions lately visited by drouth
and to estimate the extent of damage.
The assets of the Joliet (Ili) Lime
stone company were sold at receivers
| sale. Joseph Stephens, Joliet, repre-
senting several large stockholders,
secured the property ON bid of $751;
600.
Lightning struck the barn of Ed
Hoist, a farmer near Sullivan, Ind,
anu HNe men were knocked SeuSeleSS.
One recovered Just in time to rescue
the other four men from the burning
| building.
Lulu Prince Kennedy, under SEN
/ tence of ten years for killing her
husband, Philip III. Kennedy at Kan
sas City, was released in bonds of
$4,000. pending an appeal of her case
| to the supreme court.
While playing on a farm wagon in
the yard of Emery Bayl on the Cheat
river near Morgantown, W. Va, Lloyd
and Marie Shoemaker. aged 5 and
years, were fatally hurt by rolling
over precipice 200 yards high.
Lightning fired the barn of Willis
Aiken, near Ellettsville, Ind, and de-
stroyed it with contents. Human
bones found in the debris led to the
belief that two persons had sought
shelter in the barn and persisted.
Martin Fry was hanged at Carlisle