Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03

Wash, fear that wreckage found on
the Queen Charlotte islands, including
a boat marked Catharine is from the
Norwegian bark Catharine, which
sailed from that port June 2, lumber
laden, for Delagoa bay.
Marcy X. Brown, former prosecuting
attorney and a prominent lawyer and
democratic politician, shot and serious
ly wounded Frank Hunter, a clerk
at Kansas City, Mo, who, while evi.
IDENTIFY insane, attempted to force an
entrance into Browns house.
! Fire destroyed the Columbia ribbon
company's mill at Haledon, N. ]. II
was two story structure a block in
length. The fire started in the boiler.
room OF the new annex, and spread
with great rapidity to the main build
ing. The loss is about $3.50 900.
Mabel Rice, youngest daughter OF
Dan Rice, famous old-time circus
clown, has gone on the stage. She is
member of the chorus in Peggy From
Paris, the George AIDE musical play,
which is to open the season at Wal
lacks theater, New York, Sept 10.
An explosion at the works of the In
dependent Powder Company. situated
four miles southwest Of Carthage, Mo,
wrecked the mixing-room, killing three
persons and injuring three others, one
fatally. The dead are: W. o. Roll,
superintendent; Ernest Pearman and
Jerry Haworth.
The safe intercepted at Joplin Mo,
by federal authorities in the belief
that it contained $4,000 in gold, the
property of Robert Boatright, under
sentence to the peniteniary for foot
race frauds in Missouri and other
states, was opened yesterday and
found to be empty.
Harry Bell and Fanny Shelby, col
ored, were taken from Batavia, ILL.,, to
Geneva and locked up to escape mob
OF angry whites. They were members
of negro picnic party who invaded
Mrs. George Burton's place, attacking
her and the police who came to drive
them off
Two vessels are overdue at Mobile,
Ala, and are supposed to have been
lost in the recent West Indian hurri-
cane They are the Norwegian steamer
George w. Kelley from Bluefields for
new Orleans, and the American
schooner Bentley, from Mobile to
Cienfuegos.
The sixth Zionist congress opened
at Basel, Swift, under the presidency
of DR.. Theodore Herzl of Vienna
Among the 500 delegates from all
parts of the world who assisted at the
opening were Max Nordau. Sir
Francis Montefore and Israel Fang.
will, the novelist.
II. A. Bigelow, an attorney of Hon.
olulu, to whom was rendered the chair
OF criminal law in the university of
Chicago, has accepted the offer, a&A
will leave soon for Chicago to assume
his duties. Mr.. Bigelow was formerly
an assistant professor at Harvard. of
which institution he is a graduate.
General Nelson A. Miles has arrived
at the Weirs, N. H., as the guest of the
New Hampshire Veterans association
He was received with a salute of
seventeen guns and escorted to the
soldiers pavilion for dinner by the
survivors of the fifth regiment, New
Hampshire volunteers.
More than 1000 Smiths were present
at the twenty eighth and largest an
nual reunion of the Smith family and
friends at Peapack, N. ]. Their ages
ranged from a few weeks to 80 years.
The founder of the family in New Jer-
sey. John Schmidt. is supposed to have
arrived from Holland in 1743.
The third section of the Barnum G.
Bailey circus train. composed almost
entirely of sleeping cars for the per
formers, was wrecked at Wildwood
Pa on the Pittsburg and Western
railroad and a serious accident was
narrowly averted. Forty performers
were badly shaken, but ESCAPED in
jury.
The postofflce at Whitewater. Wis.
was broken open and a considerable
amount of cash taken The burglars
bored hole in the safe door and blew
1t open with dynamite They took
$500 in currency, but left the stamps
untouched, although there were sew.
eral hundred dollars worth that thew
might have taken.