Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-05-14

made by the Business Mems associa-
tion.
A course in love making was In.
augurated by Prof. Trueblood of Mich
iigan university to stimulate interest in
his classes. Oratorical students are
forced to initiate him, kneel before
girl classmates, and declare their af-
lection.
Two heavily laden freight trains on
the Central Vermont railroad collided
at Milton, fifteen miles north of Bur-
lington. One man was killed, three
others were injured and heavy dam
age was done to rolling stock and
freight
The report of an accountant work
! ing under Instructions from District
Attorney Jerome in New York show 5
[ that there is 10 foundation for the
scandal in connection with the man
agement of the Metropolitan street
railroad.
Charles II. Schwab was reelected
president of the United States steel
corporation. Ali the other outgoing
officers were reelected. John F.
Dryden of New Jersey was elected
director in place Of the late Abram s.
Hewitt.
Several hundred tons of limestone
rock, part of the high cliff bounding
the railroad yards in the west bottoms
of Kansas City, fell, smashing frame
house below and killing Mrs. Fronie
Dibble, negress, aged % who was
sick in bed
Benjamin Sippe, better known as
big Bill' Mason, was arrested at the
gate Of the penitentiary at Philadel-
phia, where he had just completed
sentence of five years. He is wanted
in Washington, d. c., on a charge of
housebreaking.
Joseph Trepani, the alleged head of
a gang of New York Italians who de-
frauded insurance companies by bogus
deaths, was sentenced to not less than
two years and not more than four
years and eight months in state
prison at hard labor.
Seymour w. Tulloch, the Washing
ton postoffice cashier, answered Post
master General Pavne's roast by de-
claring the formers charges of ir-
Irregularities in the local office can be
substantiated. His superior had
called him "windbag."
Final permission reached the Italian,
British and German embassies for the
allies representatives to sign with
Bowen, Venezuela's plenipotentiary,
the protocol submitting the question
on preferential treatment to The Hague
tribunal for arbitration.
BY decision of the surrogate Mrs
Alice HUI Burdick of Buffalo, ~ Y,
will get the custody of her three chill
dren. The surrogate declared void
the provision in Mr. Burdick's will
which directed that the children
should be under the guardianship of
his executors.
Judge Halsey ct Milwaukee re-
leased John Connors and Alexander
McCarren of Springfield, ILL.,. who were
accused of swindling by means of
bogus fights and footraces, on the
plea of their attorneys that they had
been lured to the state in order to
secure their arrest.
Former Mayor A. A. Ames OF Min.
neapolis was convicted of accepting
a 5000 bride while in office. Motions
for a stay and arrest of execution were
made. Ames denied all charges
against him and declared he never
had seen the alleged list of disorderly
houses. He also claimed to be sick
and incompetent.
Sixty-five French seamen who left
st. Malo. France, on the fishing brig
Sans Souci. reached New York on the
steamer st. Andrew. having been
rescued from their craft April %. They
reported most perilous trip. Six
members of the crew were washed
overheard and drowned in a gale April
20 and one man died.
By locking Tom Cockrill in the
negro compartment of the smoking
car, the conductor of Louisville &
Nashville train prevented a meeting
between the sole survivor of the
Cockrills, young man not far in his
twenties, and Alexander Hargis. Cock
rill killed Ben Hargis year ago, when
the Hargis-Cockrill feud was especial
ly bitter, and James Cockrill the
deputy marshall who was assassinated
in the courthouse at jackson last July,
was his brother
FOREIGN.
The projected naval program of
Japan proposes the expenditure of