Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-09

tax bill would be the most important
measure before the legislature.
Colonel Partridge, the new New
York Police Commissioner, took
charge of the Office. He then APP
pointed Colonel Thurston as success
sor to Assistant Commissioner De-
very, who reported for duty, but was
told there was nothing for him to do.
The new east wing of the Hill pre-
paratory school at Pottstown, Pa, was
destroyed by fire entailing loss of
$4,000. The wing contained the swim
ming pool, manual training room,
classrooms and dormitories. Most OF
the contents of the rooms were saved.
Rev. William b. Geoghegan, pastor
of First Independent Unitarian church
of Baltimore, has accepted call ex-
tended to him by the congregation IF
the Unitatian church of New Bedford.
Conn. Ralph Waldo Emerson was at
one time pastor of the latter church.
Eugene Hector, Chicago reporter
shot and killed a footpad at Calumet
avenue and Twenty-frst street, who,
with companion, attempted to hold
him up. The other robber fed, but
was captured The slain man is sup
posed to be George F. Donovan of
Boston.
Pandia Rail-, a magazine writer,
well-known as contributor to the
Overland Monthly and eastern publica-
tions, an ex-member of the First Cali
fornia regiment, who was seeking a
fortune in the coal fields of the Philip
pines, was murdered Nov. II, near
Maxitac.
The Everett-Moore street car lines
and telephone companies throughout
Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan were
placed under charge of committee
of Cleveland bankers representing the
creditors. This is due to the inability
of the syndicate to meet approaching
obligations.
Wild horse meat is the principal
article of food for the section men on
the desert districts of the railroads
in southern Utah, according to reports
which come from there. The section
men say the meat is not bad, es-
pecially when it is the only fresh
meat obtainable.
One hundred and thirty-seven days
at sea, during which time two of her
crew died and a score or more gales
were encountered, imperiling the lives
of the survivors, is the record of the
ship Paul Revere, which has just ar
rived at New York from Japan by
way of Cape Horn.
A package said to contain bones and
dried blood of st. Magnus, a Roman
centurion, and st. Bonosa, a Roman
virgin. who were martyred in the time
of Nero, has arrived at Louisville
from Rome. The relics win be placed
under the altar of ST. Martins Catho-
lie church in this city.
The Sacred Heart college attached
to st. Joseph's church. Cohoes, N. Y.
was destroyed and st. AIMS convent
which adioins it, was badly damaged
by fire. The loss is 100000 An over.
heated boiler is believed to have
caused the fire. Seven hundred stu
dents are thrown out.
Miss Estelle Reel, government
superintendent of Indian education,
has decided to have the annual con.
vention of those interested in Indian
education. including the teachers
held in Minneapolis next July in con
nection with the session of the
National Educational association.
Lawrence Hex, colored, was SEN
fenced to be hanged in Pue bio, Cul
during the week of April 10. Hex was
convicted of killing William While
and Mrs Lizzie Allie, both colored
two months ago. This is the first
death sentence since the restoration
of capital punishment in Colorado.
Hiram Smiley, So, employed as
trackman for the Lehigh Valley rail
road, and Cornelius Dugan. so, were
killed by train near Park Place, Ma
hanoy City. Pa, last night. The men
were walking upon the railroad track
in the face of the rainstorr. Their
umbrella hid the approaching train.
Rev. Constantine Maria Won Droste.
Huelshoff son of Baron Won Droste.
HuelshOff of the diocese of Westphalen
Ger. died at the st. Francis hospital
in La Crosse. He gave up the life of
a nobleman to enter the priesthood.
He came 10 America 80 years ago and
had lived in La Crosse for the past 10
year,.
The governors and legal officers of
seven northwestern states. In confer
ence at Helena, decided to make le-
gal fight against the Hill railway mer-
ger. Judge Lochren at Minneapolis
dissolved the injunction against the
Northern Pacific reorganization. The
! decision is said to recognize the legal.
ity of the merger
The first definite information con
corning the wreck of the Pacific Mai
steamer San Bias and its cause has
been received at San Francisco by the
! kosmos liner Herodot. The officers
of the Herodot state that the disaste;
was caused by an attempt to rount
1 Remedies reef before the vessel wa,