Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-23


missionary.
At Winchester, KY, Patsy Con, a
white girl aged six years. was ac-
cidently shot and killed last night by
q toy rife in the hands of colored
boy with whom she was playing.
The little girl was a daughter Of Pro
fessar John Goff, formerly president
of Jackson college.
President Roosevelt is very much
worked up over the revelations which
have been made to him concerning
the Japanese silk frauds in New York
He has taken the entire matter en-
tirely out of the local New York ma
chinery and will push the investiga-
ton along Independent lines.
The British government has no in
tention of talking over the British
Chartered South Africa company at
the conclusion of the war. The di-
rectors of this company, however, are
preparing an important scheme to at
tract new capital with the view of
further development of Rhodesia.
Thomas Hardin, aged so years. died
yesterday in Tacoma, Wash. He was
member of the constitutional con-
yention of Maryland, was colonel of a
union regiment from Missouri during
the civil war, twice mayor of st.
Joseph, Mo-, and prominent in rail-
read banking enterprises in Nebraska.
At San Francisco the first biennial
convention of the United brotherhood
of Railway Employees assembled. The
following officers were elected: First
vice president, H. C. Smith. Portland,
Oregon; second vice president, J. E.
Murray San Francisco junior past
president, w. H. French. San Fran
cisco.
Mrs. Mary Fenton of Miller, S. D.,
has sought the aid of the police in
locating her mother, from whom she
says she was stolen thirty-seven years
ago, and who now, Mrs Ferton be-
lieves,, lives in st. Louis. For twenty
five years, or ever since she was old
enough to realize, she had been sepa-
rated from her mother
The visit of Attorney General Doug
las, of Minnesota, to President Roose-
welt and Attorney General Knox in
regard to the Northern Securities
company merger has developed the
fact that both the president and the
attorney general are in favor of
legislation which will place the rail-
roads under governmental control,
Washington detectives arrested
Richard Cole, colored, on suspicion of
connection with the mysterious as
sault, on Dec. 8, on Mrs. Ida Gilbert
Dennis, the fashionable dressmaker.
The arrested man worked at the Den
mis- establishment as porter Mrs.
Dennis says she knows of nobody who
could have any motive to assault her.
DR.. G. A. Coe. professor of mental
philosophy in Northwestern universi-
ty, hypnotiZed three students of one of
his classes to prove his theories re-
gard1ng the influence of suggestion.
DIR. Coe says that faith healers like
Dowie, Schlatter and Schrader, en-
ploy hypnotism. He says their claims
to being instruments of God are abb
surd.
What are considered two insur-
mountable obstacles in the way of
obstacles in the way of the Panama
canal purchase have come to light.
One is that the Panama Canal COM
pany's lease provides that the canal
and concessions shall revert to the
Colombian government, and the other
is the CONVICTION that clear title can
not be given By the Panama company.
AT Buffalo. N. Y. Henry Pearlstein,
his wife and FIVE children, were burned
to death in FIRE that DESTROYED a
two-story frame building. Joseph
Supowski, who owned the building.
and Karl Bracki, his brother-in-law.
have been arrested. Supowski carried
an insurance of $4,000 on the building
and its contents. Supowski told the
police that he accidentally dropped a
lamp.
DR.. Clayton Parkhill one of the best
known surgeons in the west, died at
Denver of Bright's disease. The
physicians who attended him ex-
pressed the opinion that the disease
was a development of tropical NAL
ady contracted by DR.. Parkhill while
in the service of the United States
army in Porto Rico during the Span
ish war. DR.. Parkhill was born near
Vanderbilt, Pa, in 1860
The twenty-sixth anniversary of the
railroad branch of the Young Mems
Christian association was celebrated
in New York. Andrew Carnegie was
the principal speaker. There are 10
railroad branches of the Y. M. C. A.
in the United States and Canada, with
membership of more than $4,000. and
an annual expenditure Of more than
$4,000 of which sum the railroad
corporations contribute so per cent.
At Beaver City, Neb., the sky was
illuminated by a brilliant meteor.
which passed across the heavens in a
southwesterly direction. When IL
struck the earth the conclusion sound
ed like thunder. Those who saw IL saw