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

monopoly in the oil business IT
Borneo and east Africa by the pur.
chase Of the Shell line of ct Gamers.
The Tsthmian canal commission in
its report to congress recommended
the Nicaragua route, the cost Of a
canal being estimated at s1S9,s64, O62.
s. e. Murphy. who is in jail at
Eufala, Ala, charged with forgery, is
said to have posed as an evangelist
and conducted several religious re-
viyals.
The full text of the Hay-Pauncefote
agreement concerning the Nicaraguan
canal is made public by the senate
The United States alone is to control
the waterway.
Blaine Nance. aged II, while snap
ping a revolver which he did not
think was loaded shot and instantly
killed his brother Irving, age 10, on
farm near Herrick, Ill.
The governors of states affected by
the railroad combination have replied
TO Governor Van SAINTS invitation to
q conference to consider the subject
Little interest is shown.
Richard Croker in a conference with
Senator Tim Campbell, admitted that
his leadership uf Tammany was prac-
tically at an end. His health requires
him to give up the work.
J. A. Whitehea, a Harvard student
visiting friends at Nov Haven, 7isked
hie life nv ,41ftn hino, ,,n n ,~ran;to o1see
400 feet high to show Yale men he
could accomplish the feat.
The safe in the bank of Holly, Colo.
was broken open. The outer works
of the safe and the Office fixtures were
badly wrecked but the burglars
failed to open the inner stronghold.
The Australian consul appealed to
the Austrian legation at Washington
TO compel the Michigan Central COM
pany to reveal the whereabouts of the
immigrants injured at Seneca. Mich.
At Rochester, n Y, FIRE caused $780,
600 damage to Woolworths' and other
stores In the business district. Seven
fremen were overcome and removed to
the hospital. two of them being in a
serious condition.
Near Pond Creek. Okla, the farm
house of William F. Heck was de-
stroyed by fire. and Mrs. Heck and an
1S-months-old boy were burned. The
child has since died, and Mrs. Heck
cannot recover.
Dispatches from Sparks, Neb., re-
port destructive prairie fires In the
northeastern part of Cherry county
and throughout the greater part of
Keya Papa. Thousands of acres of
range have been destroyed.
The validity of an insurance policy
depends on the truthful answers to
questions propounded by the COM
pany when application for insurance
is made, according to an opinion hand !
ed down by the United States court of
appeals
a tremendous development in the |
manufacturing industries of Chicago |
and Illinois is shown by census bulle-
tin. In the last decade the Chicago /
plants increased S25 per cent. and
the value of the product 1877 per cent.
to sSsS.651. 1885,
At Walla-W alla. Wash, after three
days of steady poker playing for the
biggest stakes seen in years in that
part of the northwest, Nicholas
Scheidisch was forced to quit the
game, penniless, having lost $4,000
% John Kramers.
Hugh Cameron. assistant cashier of
he First National Bank of White
Sulphur Springs, Mont, committed
suicide No cause is assigned for the
lct. his business affairs being in first
lass shape. while his domestic re-
atoms were pleasant.
The bull fight season opened at
Iuarez. across the border, in Mexico,
With very tame exhibition Three
thousand Americans from this side Of
he Rio Grande river attended and
Jaw one bull gore three blia2folded
iorses to death Two bulls were
lain.
Ex.Queen Liliuokalani and suite OF
Hawaii arrived in New York and were
lenied admission to several hotels,
icing taken for negroes. and their
IDENTIFY being unknown "Lil' has gone
o Washington disappointed because
10 official notice was taken OF her
'resenee.
Lizzie Albert 20 years of age, com.
nitted suicide by drinking carbolic
Ioid in New York. 4 month ago, she
lad nervous attack. which mani ,
ested itself in twltching of the
muscles of her face. Her girl COM
'anions. she said afterward. made
un of her afiliction and her sweet ,
leart gave up calling on her.
AT Philadelphia the district council
d the brotherhood of carpenters sent !
% every employer of carpenters in the ,
,ity notice asking for an increase of
pay to 40 cents an hour. the eight ,
nour Jay, half holiday on Saturday.
extra compensation for overtime. Sun.
lay and holiday work, and that the re-
quest be granted by May l. 1902.
The Irish National Worlds Fair
association, recently organized. viii