Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-31

Keckuk. Iowa. The loss is $3.50, 900;
insurance. 100000.
GAINESVILLE for the year of 1904 will be
a wide open tom, the aldermen hav-
ing sanctioned the opening of several
disorderly houses.
With the Ohio river frozen over
and great gorges at many places, the
rise of nearly three feet threatens dan
ger for all kinds of craft.
At Omaha Isaac Chamber stabbed
his brother Joseph to death as the re-
suit Of quarrel which began in a sa-
Icon. Both are halfbreeds.
w. H. Watkins, a policeman and
colored leader CT Cairo, Ill, was killed
by a negro known as Texas Kid
whom he was trying to arrest.
James Gillespie was indicted at Ris-
ing Sun, Ind, for the alleged murder of
his sister, Elizabeth. Belle Seward and
Myron Barbour are accessories.
Frank G Andrews, the Detroit bank
CT, convicted of Incorporating
funds, was paroled by Gov. Bliss after
serving thirteen months in prison
Andrew Carnegie said regarding the
report that he bad combined with John
ID. Rockefeller to control the Steel
trust, Il have no statement to make"
Application has been approved to
convert the State Bank of Brinsmade,
Brinsmade, with capital of $4,000.
Contracts for the construction of the
new Pennsylvania station at Washing
ton have been let. The station is to be
500x3 900 feet and will cost 100000
At South Peabody. Mass, fire de-
stroyed the George w. Brown glue
works, operated by the American Hide
and Leather company, loss Of $780,
600.
At Norfolk, Va, the United States
torpedo boat Moccasin is steadily
settling in the sand, and at the
present rate she will soon be buried
completely.
In New York Frank Henry Burmese,
ships cook, on trial for the murder of
his skipper, submitted written con-
fession. stating he had also killed three
ether men.
Roscoe w. Derby. As years old, killed
his wife and three children at Cleve-
land and then ended his own life be-
cause he had no money to buy Christ
mas presents.
Charles Roman, sixteen years old, son
of E. w. Roman, a well-known attorney
at Albany. N. Y, accidentally shot and
killed his brother Frank, aged twelve,
at their home.
The civil service commission, during
the year. gave 654 examinations to 112,-
ga applicants, resulting in 1856 APP
pointments. against 1884 in the pre-
ceding year.
State Senator George f. Green of
New York, was held on five postal in
dictments and obtained a writ of ha.
beas corpus to resist removal to Wash
ington for trial.
James M. Edge, The bank teller who
embezzled $4,000 OF the funds of the
First National bank Of Paterson. N. j.,
was sentenced to Imprisonment of
seven years.
At Lynch, Neb. because his parents
reprimanded him on his lack of table
maners, Joe Kalal, a young farmer,
committed suicide, blowing his head off
with a shotgun.
Speed Mosby. author of a Missouri
political novel, Ben Blunt, was dis
charged from the position of state SUI
preme court clerk because Of his life.
like descriptions.
At Norfolk. Va, Thomas j. Blake,
alias Ed Hall has been arrested as a
deserter from the navy and a murderer
efter being chased 1900 miles and es-
Gaping several times.
At Chicago James Week confessed
that he murdered his wife after feign-
ing insanity for three days. She was
drunk at the time and he tried to fix
tho crime on her companion.
AT Merrill Simon Flanagan, who
was found guilty OF assault upon one of
the graduates Of the Tomahawk high
school on the evening of May 30, was
sentenced to four years in prison.
Inv ohAtSu oAaNtS wants
the flying machine invented by orville
and Wilbur Wright, the Dayton, Ohio,
brothers who made a successful test of
their invention at Kitty Hawk, N. C.
At Bennington, VT. Mrs, Mary A.
Rogers was found guilty OF murder in
the first degree in killing her husband
Marcus II. Rogers, on Dec. 10, 1902
The verdict carries the death penalty
At Richmond, Ind. DIR. David w
Dennis proposes that condemned Grim
inals should be innoculated with germs
in the interest OF science and made al
service to humanity as material for ex
periments.
AT Brookline, Mass, Rev. John Sin
clair. formerly Of st. Paul, has created
a sensation by declaring there is more
poverty there than in any other town
in America. He says the rich are re
sponsible.
rhe secretary of the treasury has Is
sag I'd a circular letter of instructions "a
Ulcers CT the customs service declar
ing that the reciprocity treaty with
Cuba becomes operative one minute
after midnight, Dec. 2S.
Professor Jenkins has reported n