Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-14

The Italian steamer Sardegna, from
Genoa and Naples, arrived in New
York with the schooner Notice, which
she had picked up at sea, in tow. Or
the Notice were 81 persons.
The proposition by the American
Tinplate company to its employees to
accept a reduction in wages in order
! to secure some large foreign contracts
has been rejected by the men.
John b. Mccoy and Aaron Howe,
manufacturing chemists of Indianapo-
lis were arrested, with three women,
on the charge of stealing corn silk
which they made into medicine.
Poker on the steamer Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse, which reached Nov
York was played for big pots Some
81 900 was on the table when a
charge of cheating stopped the sport.
John w. Gates has secured an in
terest in the Weaver Coal company.
which expects to furnish 1000 tons Of
bituminous coal daily to the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul Railway com
pany.
Pickets of the eighth Pennsylvania
regiment were stoned from ambush
at Shenandoah, and General Goblin has
issued ball cartridges, with orders to
shoot to kill and investigate after
ward"
Miss Johnny Smith, of Paducah
and Lucy Stevenson, of Hickory Grove
were caug;. on a railroad trestle at
Dawson Springs, KY, and killed.
Three others were fatally hurt by
jumping.
Archbishop ireland, in his sermon
in the ST. Paul cathedral, told his
hearers that the pope is better quail
fed than any other Catholic to settle
the friar problem, and advised that
clamoring cease.
William Thompson of Villas, Colo,
on his deathbed confessed the murder
of his son, Benjamin, and a petition
for the pardon of Zeb Nicholson, who
was serving term in the penitentiary
for the crime, has been filed.
A feud between the Gates and Ben
nett families in Pearl River county
Mississippi, led to a fight in which
Homer Bennett lost his life and his
father-in-law, Jonas Crawley, was SER
iously wounded by Cullen Gates.
Attic Allison. white farmer of
Tallahatchie county, Miss, was shot
and killed by John Little, a neighbor-
ing farmer. Allison had testified be-
fore the grand jury that Little had
been selling whisky without license.
Ed Rudy, colored, was shot and kill
derson, KY. who found him stealing
apples. AS soon as he was dis
covered Rudy attacked O'Brien with
club and the latter fired, killing the
negro instantly.
At Chicago William Holabird, Jr.,
the golf player, is critically i'll with
typhoid fever at his home in Evanston,
and his recovery is doubtful. Hola-
bird was taken sick on the first day
of the Glenview golf tourney and was
not able to take part in it.
The grand jury at Washington in
dicted Harry A. Barrows, formerly
disbursing clerk of the United States
census bureau, on three charges The
first charge alleges embezzlement and
the larceny OF $500. Barrows has
confessed to the discrepancy
Mrs. Mary Karow. aged 20 years, of
Milwaukee. young widow and the
mother of two small children, COM
mitted suicide by taking carbolic acid.
Mrs. Karow's husband died three
months ago and dependency is as
cribed as the cause for the suicide.
Ell Torrance, commander-in-chie of
the Grand Army. has appointed COM
mittee to organize and press to
speedy completion the work of erect
ing in Washington a statue of Gen.
r. #. Stevenson. the founder and first
provisional commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army.
Fire Marshal Cape of the Racine
fire department had narrow escape
from death while mixing run to a
fire. While crossing the tracks of the
Northwestern railway the gates
dropped and struck Marshal Cape on
the head. knocking him to the bottom
of the buggy.
r. b.. son of Chairman Van Horne.
of the Canadian Pacific, was quaraR.
tined on his realrn from Cuba, where
he has been representing his father
| In railroad building, He is suffering
not only from fever, but believes he