Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-03-20

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Benjamin d. Green and John r.
Gaynor. defendants in the Carter con-
spiracy case. Savannah, Ga, are re-
ported to have disappeared com
| pletely.
| Thomas A. and William Edison.
sons OF the wizard were arrested
in Elizabeth City, n. c., and fined on
the charge OF being drunk and dis
| orderly.
Foreign Ambassadors. it is said,
| threaten to stay away from the
| capitol during formal affairs unless
they are given precedence over the
supreme court judiciary.
Rev. George w. Brownback,
, graduate of Moody Institute. Chicago.
has left Reading, Pa, to select a wife
from ten candidates for his hand,
representing half a dozen states
More than fifty persons were in
jured In a Madison avenue trolley car
IN New York when the car cut off the
safety valve of portable hosting
engine that was too near the track.
The food fight in congress promises
to be long one. Graeme Stewart and
the other delegates from Illinois de-
clared their intention of remaining
in Washington until bill is passed.
Minnie Maddern Fiske arrived at
Indianapolis from ST. Louis. Her
manager said she had been but slight
ly injured at st. Louis, and was able
to walk from the theater to her hotel.
Colonel Norman S. Dixie, who was
appointed successor to Sheriff Guden
of Kings county, New York, took pos
session of the Office Guden, however,
refused to give up his books and pa
pers.
The steamer Providence, plying be-
tween Vicksburg and Lake Palmyra,
Miss, was capsized by a squat at
Lone Landing, Miss, and twenty-one
OF its passengers and crew were
drowned. Only nine persons were
saved
The steamer Newport from Mexi-
can and Central American ports ar
rived In San Francisco with the news
that much property and many lives
were lost as the result of a tidal wave
which swept the coast from La Lib
ertad TO Acajutla.
A movement has been started TO
make Judge A. B. Parker chief Judge
OF the court of appeals of New York,
the democratic candidate for COVER.
nor OF New York next fall, and, If he
Is successful, the democratic can
didate for president in 1904.
The list Of dead who persisted in
the Cannon Ball Express wreck on
the Southern Pacific In Texas will
probably foot up to at least fifty.
The names OF some of the lost will
never be known, Among the dead is
A. i. Boonse OF Doyline, Iowa.
The earliest opening of navigation
on the great lakes since the Straits
OF Maclinaw became factor seeing
to be at hand. A resumption of bust
ness by April on all the upper
lakes two weeks earlier than usual,
is now predicted,
Cornelius Shields general manager
of the Dominion Coal company,
Montreal. stated that borings made
by the company near Buffers Lake
had revealed the presence OF a gold
deposit estimated to contain at least
one billion tons of bituminous coal.
Current gossip is that Secretary of
State Hay will resign and be succeed
ed by Secretary Root; that Governor
Taft will be secretary of war; that
Governor General Wood of Cuba will
resign and be second in line to
succeed Miles as lieutenant general.
Macarthur being first.
Tho coroner's jury, investigating
the Park Avenue hotel fire. New
York. finds that the hotel was not
properly equipped for the safety of
guests and occupants in that there
was no standpipe provided for the
use of the fire department, and that
there were no ropes or fire escapes.
Chicago postotfice clerks union of
the American Federation of Labor. at
a meeting yesterday. drafted an APP
peal to President Roosevelt and Post
master General Payne, asking their
assistance In behalf of the clerks
efforts to secure by legislation an
eight-hour day and an increase in pay
on the grade scale ranging from 5000
to $1,000.
A meeting of the creditors of the
late Archbishop Purcell was held at
cincinnati, when resolutions were
adopted to ask for the discharge of
the receivers and appeal to Rome for
special collections throughout the
United States to wipe out the in
debtedness OF which there is
balance OF about $4,000 900. including
the accumulated interest of many
years.
Lieutenant Powell Clayton, Jr., u.
5. A., son Of the minister to Mexico,
has recently been detached from that
embassy and assigned to the cavalry
stationed at Fort Myer. He quarreled
with a Mexican officer on the Ameri-
can insular policy. The Mexican sent
him a challenge. which he could not
| accept because his commission for
babe. Clayton fell in disgrace in