Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-05-22

Because Mrs. Lena Croker, 255
Watch street. is i'll with smallpox,
1000 employees of the National Watch
company at Elgin were ordered vac
cinated.
The will of Potter Palmer appoints
| the widow as head of the estate. esti-
mated at $4,000, 900. 1t is willed Joint
ly to her and their sons, Honore and
Potter Jr
John Wanamaker is said to have
made an offer of $4,000 900 for the
Metropolitan opera house in New
York, which he would turn into a de-
| partment store.
Jim Underwood, negro, was
,ynched at Decatur, Tenn He boasted
that he killed two men and threatened
TO kill two prominent residents at the
earliest opportunity
The senate committee on pensions
heard arguments by General w. w
Dudley and others in support of a
| service pension policy II would
cost $25,00O,00 to s30,O00,O0O
At Fort Scott, Kan Birdie McCarth,
convicted of horse stealing, goes to
prison for five years instead of four,
because she was unable to repeat the
| Lords prayer for the Judge.
Mahlon d. Miller, describing him
| self as a manufacturer of linen and
| fax goods in St. Paul filed petition
of bankruptcy with liabilities of 81
226,720 and assets Of only $4,000.
The Presbyterian assembly elected
the liberal section, Moderator by a
vote of 29S to 276. but the liberals
predict they will control. The re-
suit is important for creed revision.
! At. Beatrice. Neb., Arthur Shellen-
/ barber, 10-year-old son of a prominent
citizen, shot and killed Eden, the To-
year-old son of Frank Salts, preside it
of the City Ice company, while play
| ing.
The cornerstone of the Mckinley
Memorial Ohio College of Govern
| ment of the American University was
/ laid by President Roosevelt The lat
| ter and Senator Hanna made adj
i dresses.
Charges of cruelty are made
against the management of the
Illinois Insane asylum at Jacksonville
by Mrs. Martin McHugh of Blooming
ton, whose husband was an inmate of
the institution.
Mrs. Abby Perkins Cheney of Chi
cago has filed suit for divorce in the
circuit court from her husband, John
Vance Cheney, on the grounds of de.
sertion. Inconpatibility of tempera.
| ment is the cause.
Near Beaumont, Texas, in a fight be-
! tween whites and blacks injured and
number of others hurt by jumping
| from the train. All the lights in the
coach occupied by negroes in which
| the trouble started were shot out
The sailors and marines of the
, Brooklyn navy yard dedicated a
$1,000 Y. NJ. C. A. building erected
| by Miss Helen Gould Ex-Secretary
of the Navy John D. Long made an adj
| dress. Miss Gould also spoke
Harvard defeated Yale in the an,
nual intercollegiate debate. Harvard
took the affirmative of the question,
Resolved, That the immigration of
Chinese laborers to our insular pos
sessions should be prohibited By law"
At Emporia, Kan. Rev. w. H. Pol
lett, a colored preacher, who last
month shot and killed Isaiah Edmund
son. was given three years in the pen
itentiary. Since his arrest, Pollett
has converted four of his fellow pris-
oners.
Miss Minnie Rice, one of the pref
test society bellies of New Rochelle.
n. Y, who was badly injured in the
New York Central wreck on Jan. 5
last, and who was preparing to sue
the corporation for $4,000 damages,
settled her claim for $4,000 cash.
Articles of Incorporation were filed
for the Minneapolis, Superior, Winni-
peg and st. Paul Railway company to
build line from st, Paul north to
the Canadian boundary. to connect
with the Canadian Northern railway.
The capital stock is Sl0000,000.
William w. Thomas, United States
minister of Sweden and Norway,
Nuiito OiA tllS ptC0AdSht anu p4CothtSd
tC him, at the instance of King Oscar
of Sweden, photograph of the latter.
representing him clad in the full uni
from of high admiral of the Swedish
navy.
At Austin, Texas, in the oil fields
the drill in well at a depth of 142
feet dropped into a lake of liquid
asphalt which is so thick and heavy
that further drilling is almost impos-
sible. 1t is said that liquid asphalt
has been found heretofore only in
Trinidad.
A duel was fought with pistols by
Miss Minnie Russell and Miss A. w !,
Arthur. of Poinsett, Ark. over the
affections of Henry Ward. Three
shots were fired by each. Neither
principal was injured. but Miss Effie
Hinsler. a second, was wounded in the
| shoulder.
AT the suggestion of Fish Commits
sioner Bowers, Representative Nc
Cleary has modified his bin relating
TO the establishment of a fish
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