Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-04


envy.
1 Mr.. Roosevelt is said to have or
dered an inquiry into the giving out
by officials of news about his
mail and comments ON his wifes hand
writing.
Mrs. Agnes Ethel Tracy, who, as
Agnes Ethel, was known to theater
goers Of three decades ago as a most
promising exponent of emotional roles
is dead.
/ The Irish Industrial League OF
America has been incorporated. The
primary object is to promote agricul
ture in Ireland and advance land
tenures.
! At Elmira, n. Y, Dennis Connolly, a
native of County Cork, Ireland, Is
dead, aged 103 years. He read with
out glasses up to the time he was 100
years old.
Parlor games for prizes are declared
by the Williamson county Oll) grand
jury to be gambling within the law and
citizens are urged to prosecute if they
are continued.
Rev. Morton c. Andrews, rector of
st. Paul's Episcopal church at Oshkosh
has purchased a cafe and will conduct
it in conjunction with his grocery and
investment bureau.
At Stamford, Conn, William J. H 4.
Bohannan, ex-mayor. and now practic-
ing law in New York, thrashed Irwin
Wood, a commuter, because Wood had
insulted a woman.
The price of beer to the Milwaukee
trade is to be raised from Sc a barrel
to $3.50 or 81. The increased price of
labor and materials is given as the
cause Of the change.
An unknown man sitting in an open
car crossing Brooklyn bridge, suddenly
alighted when the car was in the mid
die Of the center span, jumped into the
river. and was drowned.
Mrs. Susan C. Day, divorced wife of
William A. Day, assistant attorney
general, fired four shots at Dr.
Charles A. Nicholas at Urbana, ILL.,,
but he escaped unhurt.
At Valparaiso, Ind, Truman Beam
entered a plea of not guilty to the
charge of numbering Martha Lawrence.
The defense secured a continuance uii-
til the September term.
General John F.. Weston, chief COM
missary of the army, is seriously i'll at
Johns Hopkins hospital. Baltimore,
where he went for special treatmt 1T
for an affection of the lungs.
Amos Leedy, aged 60 years, post
master at Leedy. Okla, pleaded guilty
to OBTAINING valuable letters in land
contest cases. and on account of his
age was let off with fine.
Benjamin f. Jones, the Pittsburg
steel manufacturer, left an estate
valued at $6O.O00.0OO0 The widow re-
ceives an income from the bulk, the
balance going to four children.
At Portland, Oregon, NJ. w. Leasit,
who murdered his father-in-law and
then fled, taking his divorced wife
along as an unwilling companion, was
captured, and wounded, in barn.
The ice manufacturing plant of the
American Ice company. Philadelphia,
was destroyed by fire at loss of $780,
900. There were explosions of am
monia tanks, but no one was injured.
AT the seventy-ninth annual meeting
of the American Baptist Publication
society the officers were reelected.
The treasurers report showed assets
of $1.950617 and liabilities of $SS9,346.
The interstate commerce commits
sion's power and future existence will
be tested soon in the United States
courts on the refusal of the anthracite
coal presidents to produce their books
The Presbyterian general assembly
at Los Angeles was told by the Rev. c.
l.. Thompson, New York, that the
Mormon church cannot be reformed by
education. but must be crushed.
Chicago restaurants are threatened
with a tie-up because of the demand
by 10000 union walters and cooks for
81 weekly wage increase. Some al
ready are making $50 weekly through
tips.
az A@dN iSiStpuIS, ilu., IL is NOW De-
lieved that the assault on both Rosa
keiser and her father was by white
man and not by a negro, and that re-
venge instead of robbery was the mo-
tive.
Booker T. Washington. in state
ment at Tuskegee, Ala. declared young
negroes are driven from the country
to the city by mob rule. Better schools
and police protection are found in
cities.
At Memphis, Mrs. Lizzie Mccormick
has been indicted for murder in the
first degree for sending a bottle of
poisoned whisky to a woman in Gin
cinnati. which caused the death of one
person.
While passing on a hill near Erie
the boiler on the locomotive pushing
Philadelphia 4 Erie freight train ex-
ploded. killing one trainman and in
juring four others. three perhaps
fatally,
Thomas Mcdonald, well-known
citizen of Plymouth pa bed a sevara