Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-09

TO shoot a hawk, but the gun failed 20
discharge. He attempted to locate
the trouble by blowing into the
muzzle of the gun, when the weapon
exploded, the entire charge entering
Rupert's mouth.
A bill of chanceTy was filed against
the city of Paterson, N. j., to restrain
that city from emptying it's sewerage
into the Passaic river. There are 100
compliments, all of whom own
property along the river between
Paterson and Newark. The amounts
of damage claimed range from $780,
coo, asked by the Botany worsted
mills, down to $4,000.
At Denver an unknown man at
tackled Harold Friedborn, aged Is, and
Florence, his sister, aged 16, while
they were skating. The boy was struck
on the head with an ak and instantly
killed. The girl was then assaulted.
She gave a fair description of the man.
She says she bit his finger severely
and the police hope this may aid them
in his apprehension.
Gen. Frank Armstrong as agent Of
the war department is at Fort Sill
Okl., making arrangements for the re-
lease of Chief Geronimo and the 29S
Arizona Apache Indians, who are held
by the government as prisoners Of
war. They were captured by Gen
Lawton II years ago, after a 5000
mile campaign. They will be allotted
land by the government.
When st. Louis police forced the
door of a room in the Gould Hotel they
fund the inanfmate body of a young
woman, subsequently identified as
Pearl Sutton of Jerseyville. ILL.,, lying
on the bed, and near it Charles H.
Holcomb, of Corsicana, Texas, fatal
ly wounded. Holcomb whispered:
did not shoot myself. 81 don't know
who shot me or the girl"
The Cunard line steamer Umbria
which arrived at New York. after a
stormy and belated voyage, from
Liverpool and Queenstown, was n
communication on Christmas day by
wireless telegraphy with the EtrurIa
eastward-bound, for Liverpool. The
Umbria was also in wireless conf
munication with the Campania on the
28th, 60 miles east of Nantucket.
James s. Van Antwerp a widely
known newspaper correspondent, died
at his home in Washington. His
death was due to physical and
nervous collapse superindueed by over
! work. He was the Washington
| representative of the PHILADELPHIA
/ Bulletin, Seattle Times. Milwauke e
Wisconsin, Los Angeles Herald
| Duluth Herald and Richmond Times.
Ogdensburg, ". Y, was caught in
the grasp of a snow blizzard from the
northwest. The telephone, telegraph
electric light, fire alarm and trolley
wires were torn loose, and carried to
the ground in tangled mass. Two
hundred telephone wires were use
less, and all communication from out
side the city shut off. The electric
light and fire-alarm systems were use
less.
Detective Capt. Titus said at New
York he was confident his detectives
would capture Edward Kern, the valet
who is accused of having stolen $55,-
600 worth Of jewelry from his en-
ployer, Paul G. Thebaud. Capt. Titus
said he believed Kern was accom-
panied when he left the city by tie
wife of a waiter. The value of the
stolen property was more than $50
900.
Negotiations are practically COM
plcted by the United States Steel cor
poration, by which the great nickel
deposits controlled by the nickel cor
porations of England. will pass into the
control of the big steel trust. The
deal will place the big steel corpora
ton in position where it will be bet
ter able to control the manufacture of
armor plate and other forms OF hard
steel.
Judge Dissette of the common pleas
court at Cleveland handed down de-
cision which if upheld by higher
courts will probably result in killing
the federal plan of municipal govern
ment in Ohio. The court holds the
Director of Charities Cooley of Mayor
Johnsons cabinet, who has recently
pardoned a number of prisoners frol
the Cleveland workhouse, had no au.
tho,ity to do so.
Tie police of Evanston, ILL.,, with re
newed hope of success in solving one
of the most mysterious abduction oil
disappearance cases in recent years
issued rev circulars. offering a re-
ward for information concerning th>.
whereabouts of Miss Florence Ely
and her 13-year-old nephew, Frank
/ Ely Rogers. A description of Miss
Ely is given, and it is stated that tie
boy is in all probability dressed in the
garb Of q girl.
The white house reception new
years was brilliant affair, in point
of M lbers excelling any reception
ever held in the executive mansion.
The total number passing before the
president was 1881. of whom many
were veterans of the Spanish war.