Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-12-18

the late Thomas Mast, as conSuEgen-
eral at Guayaquil, Ecuador.
The term of Imprisonment of Gideon
W. Marsh, president of the defunct
Keystone National tank of Phila-
delphia, has been commuted so as to
expire December "a.
At st. Joseph, Mo, two South
Dakota stockmen gave James Kirk
bride $4,000 to keep while they were
on drunk, and he has since been
unable to locate them.
Rear Admiral Sumner won the first
victory in the United States naval
war game by entering Mayaguez,
Porto Rico, harbor and laying mines
TO shut out Rear Admiral Higginson's
fleet
Capt. Lewis Whalen threw two chill
dren from a coal barge to a tug by
swinging them over his head, during
q gale off Clinton, Conn. He then
tied his wife to line, and was drawn
on board after her.
John Lovett and Arthur Aldridge OF
Onarga, ILL.,. were arrested at Buckley
by United States marshals, charged
with robbing the postoffice at Buckley
July II, of 800. Bail was fixed at
81, 900 in each case.
Fire destroyed the building occupied
by Nathan Wolff & Sons, dealers in
hides and oils, at Buffalo. John
Krautmann, Waterman employed by
the company, is believed to have been
! burned to death. Loss $4,000
There is great apprehension among
the friends of Attorney General Knox
about his health. He left the capital
for the south at the command Of his
physicians, who think they have dis
ooverd symptoms of kidney trouble.
Before the strike arbitration com
mission at Scranton, Pa, miner
testified that eviction in the rain
caused the death of his wife A
widow testified that it took the work
of herself and sons for 13 years 10
pay back rent.
One fireman was killed and three
fatally hurt at Toledo, in the burning
OF KEEPER Bros furniture factory.
The property loss is $50, In
$4,000 fire at Bird Island, Mimi, a
boy was caught by his foot under
the building and burned to death.
! The James S. Kirk &c Co. soap
factory, Chicago, will be reported to
the factory Inspector as a suspected
violator of the child labor law. A
woman's club committee discovered
twelve girls in the wrapping depart.
ment believed under IA years old.
! Republican leaders practically aban-
doned hope of legislation on the tariff.
trust, financial or reciprocity at the
present session of congress. The
action will be postponed one year.
The wide difference of views prevents
consideration at the short session.
A matter that is giving great con-
Germ to the republican leaders in con,
gress, particularly in the senate, is
the bill for an eight-hour-day It has
passed the house and is now Icing
considered by the senate committee
on labor, which evidently proposes to
report it favorably to the senate.
! Reuben p. Beall. a stockman of
Rosendale, Mo-. while under the in
fluence OF liquor attempted to murder
| his wife and two sons. Beall ex-
changed shots with officers and was
badly wounded in the arm. He
swallowed twoounce bottle of
caonite and died in a short time.
Benjamin Wagner shot and killed
his nephew, ID. w. Bair. and then tlew
cut his own brains at St Louis. Six
weeks ago Bair was married. and
/ Wagner grew melancholy because his
close association with Bair was there
by somewhat severed. and the
tragedy followed
John d. Rockefeller will give pos.
sibly 900 to a national ednca-
tional institution at Washington. ac-
cording to Senator Aldrich. relative
by marriage. A till already passed by
congress is believed to provide for it
An educational clearing house for the
masses is planned.
Walter Watkins left paducah. Ky.
i Tor philadelphia with an old lease ne
has guarded fourteen years. He
claims it gives him. as one of the
| Baker heirs, the title to twenty-five
acres of ground on which some of
Philadelphia's business buildings
! stand
! In New York. Herbert Reginald
Bishop. retired merchant and banker.
is dead after lingering illness. Mr..
Bishop was a director of the St Paul
Minneapolis & Omaha. the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific, and the Duluth
4 Iron Range railroads He also was
one of the organizers of the iron
properties in the vicinity of Duluth.
AT San Francisco the strike AT the
Spreckles sugar refinery has been
amicably settled, all of the men who
walked out have returned to work.
The employees whose discharge caused
the strike will be reinstated some nj
once and others as soon as there is
work for them.
AT st, Louis the National Lumber
manufacturers Association organized
and adjourned to meet April 20. 1908.
IN Washington, The following officers
We're elected: President. f. C. Eos.
burg, Norfalk, Va: vice president.
Edward Hines, Chicago: secretary. @,