Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-12-19


sumption.
Florence Porter, who was shot on
Nov. 80 BY Harry Hortman al
Cherokee. la. is dead. Hortman is
charged with murder in the first
degree.
A movement Is on foot 10 increase
the salaries OF members OF congress
from $4,000 to S1o.0oo per aBnum, the
change to take effect with the next
congress.
Allen Nixon, aged 10, who lived
alone at Manchester. o., was found
dead in bed with the bed clothing
saturated with blood and his face
badly bruised.
Francis E. Baker. assistant justice
Of the supreme court OF Indiana was
appointed United States circuit judge
TO succeed the late Judge Woods of
indianapolis.
Mrs. Ada Dennis OF Washington
was found dying in her home with
her skull fractured and her body
bruised. The identity of her assailant
is a mystery.
Mrs C. A. Baker of Delaware, o.
died in Columbus, o.. hospital from
the effects of an anaesthetic ad-
ministered to remove a small growth
on her neck.
Benjamin l. Cheney has bought
for his wife, who was known on the
ufa Itaff Arfh he 4
largest blue diamond known, valued
at over 100000.
Miss Jessie York of Hampshire, H.,
who has been on a concert tour with
a company composed of young persons
from Elgin and other nearby towns.
Is III with smallpox.
Charles w. Morse of the New York
ice trust, said in an interview that
he owned eight banks in New York
and was now reaching out for similar
institutions in Boston.
The preliminary hearing of the
negroes charged with participation N
the riot in which two white men Were
killed. has begun at Andalusia, Ala.
under militia guard.
Mochs Hochstim, Tammany captain
and follower of Martin Engel, was SEN
fenced to serve from one to three
years in Sing Sing for violating the
election law in 1899.
Judge Newburger refused to quash
the indictment against Roland B.
Molineux and the murder case must
be tried again. 1t will probably come
before the court in January,
Officer Charles Armstrong, who has
been acting chief of police Of Hough-
ton, Mich, for two months during the
Illness of Chief Voetsch, was stabbed,
possibly fatally. by a prisoner
Charles Stokes was arrested 1T
Brooklyn upder suspicion of com
plicity in the recent robbery of the
Chicago postoffice. Stamps valued at
$2,29S were found in his room.
Fl. j. Freshman, cashier of the
Farmers and Merchants bank of Los
Angeles, Cal, is missing, and a
shortage of about 100000 has been
discovered in the banks funds.
A mass meeting 6f students OF the
Hyde Park. iii, high school declared
the girls bf that school without peers
hi beauty. other high schools were
challenged to show their equal.
Henry Rueping, one of the victims
of the De Pere wreck of June "a, 1900.
received a verdict at the hands of
jury at Fond du Lac of $4,000 against
the Northwestern Railway company.
Miss Emma King of Brooklyn, who
permitted herself to be inoculated
with bovine tuberculosis germs, is
said to have developed the disease,
thus disproving DR.. Koch's theory.
Paul J. Derleth Of Lebanon, ILL.,,
father of Alderman Charles G. Der
leth of East st. Louis, is dead at the
age of 50 years. He worked con-
tinuouslv at his cobbler's bench for 20
years.
J, Pierpont Morgan advanced be-
tween 81 100000 and 81 500 900 to save
prominent New York mercantile
house from failure. the supension Of
which would have hurt the stock
market.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Gage are said to be in sharp conflict.
The impression at Washington is that
the president is trying to make the
secretary SO uncomfortable that he
will resign.
Frank M. Smith, former cashier OF
the Citizens Savings bank of Ports
mouth, o., pleaded guilty to embezzle-
ment of $4,000 of the banks funds and
was sentenced to eighteen months in
the penitentiary.
Fire which started in the supply
house of the Creamery package manu-
featuring company at Eleventh and
Jones streets, Omaha, resulted in
serious injury to three firemen and a
loss of $4,000.
The reported assignment Of Mgr.
Scalabrini, Of PlacenZit. Italy, as the
successor Of Cardinal Martinelli, the