Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-12

rice market center by James J. Hill.
| Mills to be built there for preparing
the Japanese crop, which ne~ steam.
ships will bring at the rate Of 1000
| carloads monthly.
| Directors of the United States steel
| corporation met and announced that
! 1888 men had subscribed for SLIPS
shares in the proft-sharing scheme
and that its untitled orders amount to
over 100000 tons.
Snow, sleet, and rain were aeneral
| throughout the northern states. Wires
were disabled everywhere Com
| munication between Chicago, New
York, Washington and other cities
was broken for hours.
Elevator men, janitors, and washers
| in fifteen Chicago downtown Office
| buildings struck for recognition of
| their union, tenants were forced TO
Climb stairs and the engineers and fire
men threaten to shut off heat.
The senate committee on education
and labor authorized a favorable re-
port upon the bill providing for the
appointment of a commission of five
to investigate the condition of the col
ored people of the United tates.
A resolution was adopted by the
house committee on military affairs
recommending the appointment of SEN
ator Quay as member of the board of
managers for the national soldiers
home to fill the existing vacancy.
Charles Gurley, the negro slayer of
Rosie Higgins, was hanged in the Jail
yard at st. Louis, Mo, in the presence
of several hundred persons. His
crime was committed April 30, 1901,
the victim being a colored woman.
An eastbound Great Northern train
was stuck for two hours in a tunnel
near Wenatochee, Wash, and the
crews Of both engines, a conductor,
brakeman, and two women passengers
were made unconscious by gas.
Rufus Cantrell, leader of the Indian
apolis ghouls, during the trial of Dr..
j. c. Alexander named Henry Martin
Walter Daniels, William Jones, Leroy
and Walter Williams, Isham Donnell.
and Burford Colley as accomplices.
William PAUL, Castle Square Op-
era singer, was killed at st. Louis by
a jump or fall from the sixth story
window of the Southern hotel. He
was the husband of Ethel Gordon,
who had left his room temporarily.
During heavy gale early fire broke
out in the business section of Middle
bury Vt, and before it could be con.
trolled six blocks, two halls. a planning
mill and other property were de-
stroyed. The loss is estimated at $780,
900.
Peter McCrea, a deafmute So years
of age and the owner of S25, 900 and
100 acres of fand, was assaulted at
Shelbyville, Ind, by Jeff Richardson
with a spade and his skull fractured
McCrea cannot live. Richardson IS
in Jail.
Cole Younger. the Missouri bandit
was granted full pardon and allowed
TO return home on condition that he
will not place himself on exhibition.
He was sentenced in 1876. The news
was cheered by the Missouri legisla-
ture.
The inquest on the Jersey Central
railroad wreck near Westfield' by
which twenty-three persons were
killed, disclosed that the ROYAL Blue
locomotive was disabled and that the
engineers attention was distracted
from signals.
Mrs. John Newell, living near Mar
| letta o., was killed and her two young
! sons fatally injured by an explosion
of nitro-glycerine can which the
had brought their mother and which
she was attempting to clean. The
house was demolished.
f, Charles C. Morris, a seaman attach
ed to the new United tSates battle.
snip Maine, whose home is in the west
| died at the naval hospital in Philadel.
phia from injuries received aboard the
Maine Morris fell down a hatch.
way and broke his neck.
The house committee en- Indian af.
fairs authorized favorable report on
the bill introduced by Representative
| stephens of Texas TO open to settle.
ment 505,000 acres of land in the
| AN'S"Ns NNiuohSAiC anu Apdtut Inulun
reservations in Oklahoma territory.
Acting upon the advice of his
| physician, Captain William r. Morton,
millionaire and noted character OF
Louisville, Ky, will leave for Los
Angeles in search of heath 1t is pos
sible that he will spend the rest of
his life in travel in this country,
Europe and Asia.
Uriel II. Crocker, Boston lawyer,
whose second wife, who had been his
clerk, was snubbed by his family. left
the income of his large estate TO her
| with power to give what she chose of
the income to his sons and to direct
| by will what should be the share OF
each in the estate at her death. His
! will was sustained.
Theodore Ger. a well-known citizen
of Oakland, Cal. has received from
the German emperor notification that
he has been elected as a member of
the Kroner order in recognition of the
TACT that Gier, during the time of the
| Chlnese war, rendered service to the