Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-02-27

range for the appointment of a com
mittee to investigate suffrage in the
south.
/. man J. Gaga is to become presideb.
of the United States Trust company
of New York, with salary of $4,000
la year.
i The foreign relations committee OF
the senate decided that the re
ciprocity trade treaties are not dead
but can still be acted upon by Tie
lsenate.
An explosion of gas in the house of
f. Elmer Gould. West Brookfieii,
Mass, killed Mrs. Gould. Mrs Mary
Tomblen and servant, and wrecked
the house
1 The senate committee on agIi-
culture is is condering the cleo bill.
/ which recently passed the house. and
has been giving hearings to those
interested.
A. d. Blair and Charles r. Blair
were struck and killed by a Balti-
more and Ohio train ear Fairview
Pa, their bodies being carried mile
on the pilot.
It is rumored that President Roose-
welt will veto the permanent census
bill because Of the provision that
! places many clerks and employees
under civil service rules.
Two masked men. at the point OF
revolvers held up Flanagan's gam
bling establishment. Clinton. Iowa.
and robbed II inmates of money and
valuables amounting to $4,000.
At Prairie - CHEN. Wis, Frank
Roger died, aged 81 years. Only a
week ago he received word that an
estate worth 100000 had been left
| him by q relative in st. Louis.
Public buildings will probably be
| provided for in an omnibus bill. A
member OF the committee says ex-
penditures on this account will be be
tween $4,000, 900 and $4,000. 900.
Secretary Long has approved the
sentence in the case of George II.
Washburn, pay clerk. U. s. N. recent
| ly tried by courtmartial and SEN
fenced to be publicly reprimanded
! Before the senate interoceanic
canal committee C. G. Colne of
Brooklyn said a Drexel- Morgan syndi-
cate had been willing to pay $4,000
900 for the Panama railroad property.
Engineer e. c. Taylor was fatally
and Fireman ]. A. Johnson and Brake
men A. T. Flynn and A. W. Sawyer
seriously injured by the collapse of a
Burlington coach near Guernesy
Wyo.
! It is not often that a catholic priest
| and Protestant minister take part
| in the same funeral service, but this
was the case, when the funeral OF
| Mrs. Herbert West was held at Sioux
City.
The president demanded the
resignation of Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow for using
inspectors to investigate the charac
/ ter of man merely mentioned for an
lofflce.
Annie Anderson. Employed as a
domestic at 2O4 Ashbury street. San
Francisco, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by a masked foot
pad. He escaped and is still at
large
At Norfolk. va. Levy D. Walker,
aged 20. fatally shot William 0,
Ship and Walter Gray, the latter ac-
! cidentlly and the former because, as
he says, Shipp ruined his (Walker'5)
sister.
Fire at Cedar Falls. Iowa. destroyed
property valued at $4,000. A large
lumber shed belonging to the Town
send and Merrill Lumber company
and livery barn belonging to Del
Burr were consumed.
The cracker factory of Frank
Goetz, in North Manchester. Conn,
was destroyed by fire. A boarding
house connected with the factory and
a large coal shed were also burned,
the total loss being $4,000.
One person was killed and six In
jured in fire that destroyed the
Battle Greek Adventist Sanitarium
and Hospital. Three hundred pa
tients escaped in their night clothes.
The property loss is 100000.
After serving seven years of life
sentence for murder in the Mas
sachusetts state prison, Patrick Foley
was pardoned by Governor Crane
only to die few hours after at the
home of friends of consumption.
At Ashland Herman c. Fahrig. in
/ ventor of Fahrig metal, committed
suicide. He was an expert worker
in metals in Germany, and a few
years ago invented a metal upon
which he had worked all his life.
At Kansas City. William Prince
has been sentenced tc two years in
the penitentiary for completely in
the murder of his brother.in-law. p
II. Kennedy. Princes sister, who did
the killing. was given ten-year sen
tence.
i At Little Valley. N. Y. Mrs.
Shanning Strickland, who shot and
killed Willie Hawkins. aged II years,
, September 16 last year, was indicted
, for manslaughter in the second de
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