Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-10-08

A shortage of $4,000 has been found
in the accounts of James H. Beatty
disbursing clerk in the Office of the
auditor for the war department, and
he has been dismissed Relatives
made good the deficit.
Mayor Harry H. Devereaux OF
Springfield, ILL.,, was indicted fol-
alleged malfeasance in refusing to sup
press gambling. Twenty persons were
indicted for gambling and forty-three
for keeping slot machines.
Willis, Frederick NJ, and Burton
Van Wormer, brothers, were electro
, cuted in the Dannemora IN. " jail
for the murder of their uncle, Peter A
Hallenbeck. The executions followed
each other without incident
Mrs. Alexander NJ Thackeray
daughter of General William T. Sher.
man, will leave Havre Oct for New
York to attend the ceremonies attend.
ing the unwilling of the Sherman
, statue in Washington, Oct. Is.
Manuela Gomez, eighteen-year-old
daughter of the mayor OF Lenares,
Mex, took the reins of the town gov
eminent when all the officials were
attacked with yellow fever and hero
ically strove to stamp out the disease.
In Pennsylvania railroad wreck at
Lancaster, Pa, car filed with Phila-
delphia mail was burned. The letters
rpnGf1U fhagn M htuinncc
and through registered mail. The con
tents of the car were totally destroyed.
The Wyoming supreme court de-
MED the motion of Tom Horn. the
stock detective, convicted of the MUIR
der Of little Willie Nickel in the Iron
be hanged Nov. 20.
AmZi Lorenzo Barber OF Washing
ton. a prominent financial factor in
the asphalt trust, has arrived at San
Francisco. Mr.. Barber Is president
and director of number of the princi-
pal asphalt companies in this country.
George o. Nauweleart, a convict
just released from Sing Sing prison,
New York. is supposed to be on his
way to Chicago to kill his wife, on
whose complaint he was convicted OF
brutality and sentenced to three years
in prison.
Professor Martin d. Atkins, for the
last four years head of the department
OF physics and electrical engineering
at the Michigan agricultural college
Lansing. has resigned and accepted a |
similar position at Lake Forest uni |
For the first time in eighty-two
years women were permitted to sit |
with men in the sessions OF the eighty
seventh Indiana yearly meeting of the |
Society of Friends at Marion, Ind. It |
was voted that men and women should |
meet together at all sessions.
Count D'Agrenaff of Russia, a tramp |
IN Europe, a soldier in the Philippines.
who lost 100000 on the Buffalo race
track and who claims to have shaved |
President Mckinley just before the
Is in jail at Omaha, |
Neb, on a charge of forgery.
A new price fist and new discounts
for window glass to the trade was put
into effect. The discounts agreed
upon are 80 and 10 per cent off on all
sizes and grades. The new discounts
Indicate an advance over the prices
that have prevailed for several
A fence is being constructed entire
ly around the Lower Brule reserva-
ton. 1t will be sixty-three miles in
length. composed of four wires, placed
on posts set rod apart. cedar and
ash posts alternating. In its construc-
ton 252 miles of wire will be used.
The work Is being done entirely by
Indians
By additions made to the collections
in the New York botanical garden
through ten expeditions that have lust
returned from gathering material in
the West Indies. Honduras and b.
livia. the collection in the garden has
now reached fourth place in the
worlds botanical exhibits. Several
hundred of the additional specimens
are new to science.