Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-16

women candidates for positions as
school teachers
President Schurman, of Cornell uni
versity, announced that he had re-
ceived from Andrew Carnegie a CON-
munication in winch Mr.. Carnegie
begged to be allowed to pay all bills
incurred by students of Cornell uni
versity on account Of sickness during
the recent epidemic.
At Holyoke, Mass, Peter McGurrin,
a postoffice clerk, shot his sister
Mary, aged 16, and his aunt, Miss
Sarah Cassidy, and then cut his
throat with razor, dying instantly
McGurrin was driven to the deed
through worry over the condition OF
his sister, who is i'll with consump-
ton.
The police and fire departments If
Denver, were called to the county
jail to quell mutiny. -Four
desperate prisoners, armed with re-
volvers, overpowered Guard Murphy
and secured his keys. One shot was
fired at Murphy, but he was not in
jured. The prisoners finally sur
rendered.
! Charges have been furnished py
Acting Postmaster General Wynne
against M. W. Lewis, chief of the
division Of supplies. The charges
allege that the hand stamps and ink
pads now being supplied to post
offices under the present contract are
inferior in quality and not up to the
contract standard.
States Attorney General Webb of
California has rendered an official
opinion declaring the use of the bible
in the public schools as unconstitu-
tional. Not only may teachers not
use scriptures as textbook. but
even reading from them, as is The
custom frequently at the opening
exercises, is barred.
Mrs. Carrot A. Hobart is out of
town, but her son, Carrot A. Hobart,
Jr., was seen at ais summer home,
McCulloch Castle, Haledon. He de-
MED emphatically the rumors from
Lewiston, Me-, and Washington. 10
the effect that his mother is engaged
to Senator Frey. Mrs. Hobart's
closest friends also deny the story.
Creditors of the New York dry
goods commission firm of Dresser
& Co., representing $1,0O0,OOO of the
$1,17S,057 for which that company
failed were told that d. Leroy
Dresser, president, would provide
within ninety days for the payment
of the sS50000 unsecured liabilities.
The bankruptcy proceedings will lie
ended at once.
Gross violations of the law and lax
administration of the affairs of the
salary and allowance division
or the postoffice department has been
discovered, and as result the
salaries of many postal clerks
throughout the country may be re.
duced 800 a year. George R.
Beavers, who resigned short time
ago, presided over this bureau.
The postoffice imbroglio at Alex
andria, La, growing out of the al-
pointment of negro as clerk has
ended by the resignation of the negro
and the filling of the place by a white
man. The negro over whom the
trouble arose, Tom Rankin, passed the
civil service examination and became
eligible for the clerkship. He de-
clined to accept it, however, saying he
did not care to cause race antagoli-
ism.
e. e. Clark, grand chief of the
Order of Railway Conductors and a
member of the late anthracite coal
strike commission, is likely to be-
come commissioner of labor within
few months. Commissioner Carroll
d. Wright announces he has no in
tention of resigning now. or at any
time in the near future, having only
accepted the presidency of Clark uni
versity college, in Worcester, Mass.
with the understanding that his
duties there should not interfere with
his work in thl, department of labor