Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-13

The corner stone of the new $40 900
Carnegie library at Brazil, Ind. was
laid under the auspices of the local
lodge of MasOns. The event was a
holiday for the town.
An automobile in which Judge and
Mrs. lockwood Honore of Chicago
were riding frightened a horse near
Brewster, Mass, and the animal ran
away, injuring two women.
The navy is stirred by the PROPOSE.
ton to supplant night shirts with
roomy pajamas as the sleeping uniform
for the jackies. The nighties ap-
parently are ahead thus far.
At Texarkana, Ark, A. NJ. Harri-
son, travelling man from Little Rock
was killed and a score of others were
injured by street car leaving the
track and crashing into crowd.
AT Evansville, Ind, the verdict of
the coroner's jury in the cases of the
ten people killed in the recent riots
is that they came to their death from
rifle bullets fired by persons unknown.
Evidence tending to clear Curtis
Jet OF the James 3. Marcum murder
was given at the Cynthiana, Ky, trial
by DR.. j. NJ. Nash, who declared he
saw Jett across the street prior to the
shooting
}. Henry Smythe Jr., son of a Phila-
delphia clergyman and a chess player
Of considerable fame, was committed
to a New York sanitarium because OF
brain trouble caused by constant study
of that game
Two indianapolis and Martinsville
trains met on curve, injuring about
thirty people, two Of whom, Frank
Easterday a motorman, and Mrs.
Mary Strawburn, of MartinsviIle. will
probably die
United States Senator w. B. Hey
burn Of Idaho, a leading lawyer of
that state Is enrOute to Pennsylvania
to wed his boyhOod sweetheart Miss
Gheratine Yeatman, who has waited
twenty years for him.
A deadlock on the cruiser Columbia
is in existence at the Brooklyn navy.
yard because Chief Carpenters Mate
Isaac Miller, a negro, insists on dining
with the white petty officers. Wash
ingtOn officials may interfere.
The government weekly crop re-
port shows temperature too low in the
northern states, but rains ample ex
cept in the central Mississippi val
ley; corn and cotton are generally inn
proved; the former still late. Min
nesOta wheat is improved.
Postmaster GeJge w. Robin of
Rocky Mountain, N. c., on being mott
fed that his office was advanced to
the presidential class, submitted
recommendation for four other Rob
bins as assistants. One was given a
place
Owners Of the Merchants bridge
over the Mississippi at St. Louis were
notified by Secretary Root to show
cause why that structure should not
be seized by the government Viola
ton of the charter by transfer of con.
troll Is charged.
Negro domination in the south ap-
parently can be prevented only by
education. The south itself is fifty
years behind in teaching methods, and
white children have scant facilities
fer learning. The common school N
the blacks chief hope.
Near Plattsburg, N. Y, a freight
train on the Delaware & Hudson rail
road plunged at full speed through an
open drawbridge. killing the fireman
and seriously injuring the engineer.
both of Whitehall, N. Y. Eight cars
were full of livestock and all were
drowned.
A majority of the stock of the Sum
ner Iowa, Telephone company. capital
$4,000 and owning about $50 miles of
line and large exchanges at New
Hampton and West Union. Iowa, has
passed under the control of Victor
Stevenson, who controls the Standard
and Interstate lines.
The Northern Pacific railroad has in
creased its reward for the apprehen.
sion of the men who dynamited the
steel bridge over the Yellowstone
river Sunday night. The total reward
the same persons were implicated in
the attempt to dynamite u passenger
train near BoZeman Wednesday night.
Adrian Iselin. the wellknown yachts
man. has presented to the city of New
Rochelle Neptune park, which under
his direction has been for three years
in process of Improvement The prop
erty is valued at more than $lO0, 900
and the only condition attached to the
donation is that no liquor shall be sold
in the park,
Captain Henry Hoffman, the only
survivor of the schooner yacht Amer.
lea $ crew and who was n boy aboard
the boat when she lifted the now
famous cup in English waters. has
been badly hurt in a runaway near his
home in Brooklyn. His carriage was
overturned while he was trying to
dodge an automobile.
Fire Chief Weimer, Captain Grogg
and Ffremen Joseph Frailey, Charles
Souders, Frank Steuril and Albert