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


head. Jealousy was the cause. Horn
fed. At daylight his body was found
at Sedan.
In New Orleans pontifical high mass
was administered at the old St. Louis
Cathedral as part of the centennial cell
ebration of the Louisiana purchase.
In the river, within view, were six
American and French warships, and
the spanish cruiser Rio de la Plata.
Much excitement has been caused by
reports from Auchey's Station, Schuyl-
kill county, Pa, of the discovery of
beds of pure anthracite coal far up be-
yond the limits Of what has heretofore
been considered the southern boundary
OF the hard coal region in Peunsylva-
MIA
Every passenger on the Northern
Central railroad train No. 81, which ar
rived at Elmira, N. Y, Saturday night,
was vaccinated by the railroad com
pany physicians before the train left
the station, the precaution being taken
because OF the discovery of smallpox
patient among the passengers.
Rev. Father NJ E. Boyce of the
Church Of Immaculate Conception, New
Richmond, Wis, has created a sensa.
ticn and got the women of his congre-
cation up on their ears on account of
lis sermon, in which he sharply criti-
cised the Ladies' Aid society He has
no use for afternoon meetings for gos-
sip, he says, held under the guise of
raising money for charity.
Chinese laborers are rushing to Can
ada by the hundreds and on every
steamer from the orient they are arriv-
ing en- route to British Columbia. The
cause of the sudden influx into Canada
lies in the fact that the Canadian gov
eminent recently enacted a law by
which every Chinaman landing on Brit
ish soil after Jan. will be compelled
to pay head tax of $500
Rev. Alfred Duane Pell, a member of
one of New York's best known families,
has ben ordained a priest of the Pro-
testant Episcopal church by Bishop
Potter. Mr. Pell is regarded as one of
the highest authorities on china in the
country. A collection which he placed
in the Brooklyn museum of arts and
sciences contains a specimen of practi-
caly every age since earthenware came
into use.
Another sensational chapter to the
Holmes shooting case was added at Ap-
pleton. Wis, when Mrs. Mary e.
HOlmpc walkad into I,Joo r. ,Y.-J,-
court and asked for divorce from her
husband, who is in states prison fer
an assault with intent to kill. The di-
vorce was granted and Mrs. Holmes
was restored to her former name, Mary
X. Walters. Holmes was her former
husbands coachman.
The United Staes Christian party has
issued call for its national mass con.
vention to be held in ST. Louis MAY 1
and TO nominate a candidate for pres.
dent. The party was organized July
4, 1899, at Des Moines, Iowa. William
r. Benkert is president and Rev. C. H.
Thomas of Chicago is vice president
The call demands direct vote of the
eople on all questions of vital i'm.
portance and that Christ's golden rule
should be applied to all government.
Through negotiations just completed
the American, White Star, Atlantic
Transport and Leyland steamship lines
VIII soon surrender their present piers
in the southern quarter of Manhattan
end move uptown. where they will
lease docks along the North river i'm.
mediately south of Twenty-third street
The change is part of plan to en-.
able the Pennsylvania and other south.
ern and western lines and the New
York Central railroad to unload passen
gers directly from the cars to ships.