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

at Leinster assizes for speech in
citing murder.
A heavy storm has caused losses
throughout the Crimea. The electric
lighting plants and the telegraph and
telephone wires at Odessa and Sevas-
topol were crippled.
| Prince Oscar Emperor Williams
fifth son. has sustained a slight frac
ture OF the collarbone through falling
from a horizontal bar. The injury
will not interfere with his studies
Signor Polasco, Italian minister at
Sofia, has committed suicide at Mi
Ian. He threw himself out of a win.
dow of a hotel. The minister had
been suffering for some time past
from nervous debility.
The extremely cold weather prevail
ing in Germany, in connection with
the hard times, is causing much suf.
fering. Many persons have been
frozen to death in the western in.
dustrial provinces and in the north
eastern provinces.
| With her flag flying at halfmast for
the loss of three of her crew, who
were lost at sea during a storm, the
Gloucester schooner Vera McKeown,
Capt. Mcfarland, arrived at North
Sydney.
a hitherto unknown portrait of Mar
tin Luther, painted by Lucus Cranach,
the celebrated artist and burgomaster
of Wittenberg, has been uncovered in
the town church of Wittenberg. 1t is
pronounced to be the best portrait of
| Martin Luther.
Eighty firms in Denmark have prom
ised to exhibit at the st. Louis expo
sition and great pressure is being
brought to bear by all the business in
terests to induce the Danish govern
ment to make an appropriation to pro-
vide for its official representation.
Consul General Gowdy at Paris is
seeking information regarding Clar-
ence Andrews, said to be an American
who was found dead in his bed at the
Hotel Franklin ct du Bresil. The doc
tors believe his death resulted from
natural causes.
Two brothers, Anne and Auguste
HUT, and their brother-in-aw, Goo
man, bankers, who have fioated COM
panies to the value of many millions
in France and Germany, have been ar
reste dat Brussels on the charge of
fraud and obtaining money under false
pretenses.
The Nile river dam at Assouan was
~ mi or d nd hxv
the duke of Connaught It's 1870
sluices, in masonry wall mile and
quarter long, will be closed for the
storage of water till April.
At Havelock, Ont, James Rogers of
Belmont was driving across the
Canadian Pacific track with his family
when a train struck the sleigh. Mrs.
Rogers and a 12-year-old son were
killed. Mr.. Rogers and daughter,
aged 8, were fatally injured, and an
other 14-year-old lad was badly hurt.
Professor Mommsen attended the
national conference at Berlin of the
moderate radical party, which is as
sisting the socialists in obstructing the
passage of the tariff bill. He COM
mended the party's course in the
reichstag against the frightful strug-
gle of political self-interest."
The widespread suffering at Copen-
hagen resulted from industrial stagna-
tion and commercial depression has
been intensified by the unusual Sc
verify of the winter, which set in
month earlier than usual. Building
operations had largely to be aban-
doned. thus increasing the number of
persons unemployed to an extent sur
passing most of the records and
seriously taxing the resources of the
charity organizations.
An official denial was given out at
Berlin of the statement published
in the National Review of London that
the German emperor during his recent