Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-21

college of agriculture and mechanics
arts at Kingston, r. /.
The Cramp Shipbuilding company
is soon to launch the largest steam
ship ever built in this country. She
is for the Standard Oil company and
will be 374 feet long, so feet beam and
281z feet depth of hold. She will
carry 100000 gallons of oil.
DR.. w. E. Terry was fatally in
jured by an explosion of gasoline at
Princeton, KY. He lit a match in the
Terry & Prayer drug store, which
caused the explosion and originated a
fire that did $4,000 damage before it
was brought urder control.
At Washington J. A Bower has in
vented a steel coming tower electric
searchlight, caisson and diving bell
combined, weighing eight tons, ana
will attempt to locate the steamship
Rio Janeiro, which sank in the Golden
Gate, at San Francisco, Feb. 22, 1901
Chicago police secured evidence
connecting Oscar Thompson. the
boarder at the Bartholin house, with
the murder of Minnie Mitchell. A
woman witness said she saw Thomp-
son and Barnman Claffy out with a
wagon on the morning after the muir
der.
The Kankakee asylum inquiry was
abruptly ended by the state board Of
charities and a report was made to
the governor that after a full and
thorough investigation it was found
that no cruelties have been inflicted
upon patients and that the food is the
best.
Professor Winchell of Minneapolis
and Warren Upham of St. Paul, with
others visited Lansing, Kan, and on
inspection of the human skull recently
found there pronounced it of the
lowan stage of the glacial period and
the most ancient found on this con-
tinent.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has
bought the entire house for one per-
formance of the Wild Rose company,
at the Knickerbocker theater, New
York, and will take the company to
Newport for private theatricals at a
dinner she is to give in the near
future.
Prince Chen, accompanied by
Chinese notables, was welcomed by
President Fornes, of the New York
board of aldermen, after which the
postoffice, subtreasury and Brooklyn
bridge were inspected, followed by a
visit to Chinatown, where reception
took place.
The postoffice at Highland Falls,
N. Y, was entered by burglars. The
safe was blown open with dynamite,
and stamps to the value of $1,000.
$500 in currency, three diamond rings,
valuable bracelet and all the records
OF the office were stolen. There is no
clew to the robbers.
Lance Harwood, an S-year-old boy of
Grand Rapids, Mich, returned to
Swift & Co., Chicago, a package con-
tanning $4,000 worth of negotiable Sc
curities which had been lost at the
stock yards by messenger boy en-
ployed by the firm. Young Harwood
received reward of $25.
AT Echo, Utah, body identified by
papers as that of John Mcdonald of
Sandstone, Mimi, was discovered
alongside the Union Pacific tracks. An
ugly hole, apparently inflicted by some
dull instrument, appears on the back
OF the head. The authorities believe
Mcdonald was killed by tramps.
The governor of the island of
Guam reports through the navy de-
partment at Washington that the peo-
pie of Guam desire to make a good
showing at the ST. Louis worlds fair.
The governor is with them and will
do all he can to have the island
creditably represented at the fair.
Attorneys for the American Book
company have filed a writ of error be-
fore the supreme court at Washington
against the state of Kansas. The
fight will be upon the right of the
Kansas supreme court to bar the COM
pany from doing business in Kansas
under the interstate commerce laws.
The body of Harry Tracey was re-
ceived at the Oregon penitentiary, Just
two months after his sensational
escape. The corpse was identified
by prison officials and convicts. Wit
riol was placed on the face to destroy
the features, for fear some one might
steal the body to place it on exit.
bition.
Jacob Mumma, an aged farmer, who
lives alone north of Dayton. O.. was
tortured by masked robbers. who
broke into his house. The robbers
poured coal oil on his feet. and
started blaze to compel him to re-
veal the hiding place of money he was
supposed to have. but they secured
only small sum.
The will of Rebecca t. McCullough
or Allegheny, widow of j. N. McCul.
Tough. has been filed for probate at
Lisbon, o. 1t disposes of an estate
OF S15,000,000. Mrs. McCullough's
husband was formerly president of the
cleveland and Pittshurg railroad. The
estate is divided among a daughter.
granddaughter and grandson.