Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-11-06

the oldest inhabitant runs, is dead
near White Rock agency, aged 104
years. He was in the early days a
special friend of Brigham Young.
Baroness Schaezler, formerly of
Davenport, Iowa, seeks a divorce.
claiming she has to take at her meals
whatever is left after her besotted
husband has fed his Newfoundland
dog.
| Victor Herbert, a composer, was
awarded $4,000 damages by a New
York court because a musical maya
zine called him plagiarist. The jury
was instructed that the statements
made were not libeIous if true.
| Gen. Corbin's annual report will
! recommend that the army canteen be
reestablished. Secretary Root will
concur Gen. Miles is expected to
| disapprove, as he believes the abolish
ment has benefited the soldiers.
The Iowa State bank at Prairie City
was robbed of $4,000 by four men, who
held the citizens at bay three hours
while they blew the safe open with
dynamite. The Cheneyville, ILL.,, bank
was robbed of $500.
A chorus girl, Bonnie Hoyt, lies dead
| at Chicago sanitarium, and two DAYS
of diligent search have failed to reveal
| the whereabouts of friends or relatives
to claim the body and give it burial
1t is not even known if Hoyt is her
real name.
The Washington assessor of the dis
trict has rendered an opinion in which
he holds that churches which it is
customary to rent for the purposes of
giving lectures and entertainments
are subject to the regular license taxes
| usually levied on buildings rented for
amusement purposes
William Wilkingson, a farmer near
Palmyra, Wis, and two relatives are
believed murdered and the bodies
burned in the formers house. The
robbers are supposed to have stolen
$500 recently drawn from o bank. The
bodies and a tin money box we're
found in ashes.
Mayor Harrison pardoned Gus
Bretzke, a GAINESVILLE, Wis, farmer,
from the Chicago bridewell Bretzke
declared he had been fined $S5 and
imprisoned for merely being robbed.
The police charged he had been drunk
! in saloon.
At Oxford, Ohio, the express for
Chicago over the Cincinnati. Hamilton
& Dayton and the Monon routes
collided with two runaway freight
cars here last night. Engineer Ed
ward Conn and two unknown tramps
were killed.
Cuthbert j. Cad, New York min
ing man. says he has been swindled
| out of $4,000 by the sale to him of a
] sailed placer mine at Nome. He
| bought the property for 100000, pay
ing $4,000 down. r. J. Macarthur
and ]. F. Ray are alleged to be re-
Secretary Hay protested to Colon
bia because the latter's minister re-
fused to obey his government in
structions on the Panama canal
treaty. The Nicaragua route may be
chosen, or the Panama route taken
| without consent
One thousand six hundred Douk-
| hobors left their farms and cattle in
| Manitoba and started out to convert
| the world. They are marching to
Winnipeg. The Canadian police are
trying to prevent suffering, and the
women and children are under govern
ment care.
Willard F. Rose, former resident of
ST. Paul. committed suicide at Brown
| ton, Mimi. Rose was a sleight-of-hand
! performer and gave an exhibition in
the schoolhouse at Brownton. After
| the performance was over he was
found in a room in the rear of the
schoolhouse with his throat cut.
1t was announced by Dean Russell,
of the New York Teachers college,
that the sum of $4,000, upon the
raising of which the recent half-a-mil-
lion-dollar gift of John d. Rookie
Teller was made contingent, has been
practically secured. The situation is
that the Teachers college will be
richer by 100000
The Western Union telegraph COM
pany's central cable Office at New
York has been advised by the Next
can government that, because of
earthquakes, all telegraphic COM
munication with Mapastepec,
Huixtela, Tapachula, San Benito,
Chicharro, Montozintla, Monte Cristo
and Tensiquo is interrupted.
Attorneys for Frank C. Andrews.
the convict vice-president of the
wrecked City savings bank at Detroit.
announced that they had secured
three bondsmen to make up the $780,
600 bail fixed by the supreme court
J for Andrews's release, pending the
hearing on a motion for new trial.
California green oranges are not to
be sent TO the east this season, even
though the first shipments must be de-
layed two or three weeks. The Los
Angles Fruit World announces a COM
pact between local orange shippers not
to rush out green and immature
oranges in order to be first on the
market.
Warden McTague of the state peni-
Tertiary and Fred Morrow, a convict.
were at Miles City. Mont, and. follow