Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-16

! The president has Sdid ne VIII nOl
sign any bill indicating Schley.
Professor Nicholas Murray Butler
acting president of Columbia univer-
| sity since the resignation of Seth
Low. has been elected president.
Minnesotas attorney general maize
a formal plea before the United State
supreme court asking it to enjoin the
| merger of northwestern railroads.
The Sparta high school debating so
ciety has made arrangements to meet
the La Crosse high school debating
| club in that city in the near future.
A sub committee of the senate com
mittee on foreign relations will in
quire into the legality Of extending
reciprocity treaties already expired.
A syndicate is organizing the Trust
Company of the Republic, which plans
to loan money to farmers upon the
security OF warehouse grain receipts.
An official statement showed net
earnings of billion-dolar steel trust to
be $29 600 900, assuring earnings for
the frs tyear of more than 100000
900.
f. J. Moses, former governor of
South Carolina was sentenced to i'm
prisonment in New York for stealing
an overcoat He is a victim of
opium.
At ST. Enine, France, a cook named
TantaIe killed his wife with revolver
and tossed her body in an oven and
cremated it. Then he committed
suicide.
J. V. Conklin. receiver of the
Canton. s. d., State bank. which
failed some months ago, has finished
paying the creditors so cents on the
dollar.
AT Volga, S. ID. an opek safety-pin
was removed from the throat of the
infant of John Woodward and the
child is now recovering after suffer
ing two months.
Six masked men held possession of
the stock yards in East st. Louis for
nine hours, gagged and bound several
persons and robbed the National
Stockyards bank.
In his message to the legislature
Governor Beckham says Kentucky
has recovered from the bitter political
rivalry growing out of the Goebel.
Taylor contest.
The remains of a woman, thrown
from a West Madison street cable
train in Chicago. were identified as
those of Mrs. John b. Ashby formerly
of Beatrice, Neb
At Beloit, Arson p. Waterman died
aged 49, He was for thirty years i.
resident of Beloit and was twice
mayor and for forty years a trustee
of Beloit college
Near Aberdeen, Miss, William Ian
Ter. convicted and sentenced to hang
for the murder of the Bittelle brothers
IN 1890, and who twice escaped from
jail was captured.
John Miller negro. with a moose
round his neck and badly beaten.
sought protection of the sheriff at
Tampa Fla. He said he had escaped
from a mob of lynchers.
Andrew Carnegie outlined the plans
of his $4,000, 900 Carnegie institu-
ton and named its trustees, who in
clude many well known men. Sena-
tor Spooner among them.
Another water gusher has been
struck in Milwaukee county, this
time on the farm OF Jacob Beuscher
ST.. in German township, seventeen
miles northwest of this city.
The bill creating a fifth assistant
postmaster general. introduced in the
house by Mr.. Watson of Indiana, gives
the new assistant charge of the free
delivery system. rural and city.
Charles II. Thompson. general
manager of the olemargarine depart
ment of the Hammond Packing com
pany, is charged with attempted bri.
berry of Michigan pure food officer
Fifteen We're killed and sixteen in
jured in collision between two pas
sengcr trains in the Park avenue tun-
mel of the New York Central road at
New York. Many of the injured may
die
At council meeting at Alma. Wis.
resolution was passed for holding
a special election for voting on bonds
not exceeding $4,000 for the erection
of county teachers training school
there.
A correspondent at Shanghai urges
that the powers insist on Russia re-
storing at cnce the Chinese telegraph
line from Shanghai to New Chwang,
If the commercial status quo of China
is to be preserved
girl arrested at Baltimore dis.
gutsed as boy proved to be Miss
Caltha Eads, school teacher of
springfield ILL.,. who left there with
young Henderson. whom she said she
was going to marry.
At the Redwood Falls city election
H. NJ. Aune was elected MAYOR:
Joseph Cbadderdon. municipal Judge;
\. r. 4. l.audon. recorder: II. A. Bald.
win, treasurer; J, A. Engelhart and e.
a. PeaSe. aldermen
An anonymous friend of the Post.
graduate hospital Of New York city
has offered TO give 100000 to the In.