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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30

DEVELOPMENTS
Investigation N the Postoffce Department
Takes Serious Turn
Assistant Attorney General Tyner is Sum-
mary Dismissed
May Air Turf Scandal and Arrests will
Probably Follow

Washington, April PA sensa
tional development of the investiga
ton of the postofice department
affairs occurred just before the depart
ment closed yesterday, when Post
master General Payne announced the
summary dismissal of James N. Ty,
ner, assistant attorney general for
the postofice department, coupling
with the announcement the startling
charge that all papers and records in
the safe of the latter's Office had been
distracted by Mrs. Tyner, wife of the
discharged officer, with the assistance
OF others. The postmaster general
stated that Mrs. Tyner had refused the
demand of the government for the re-
turn of the papers taken, and said that
the circumstances in the case would
be submitted by him to the depart.
ment of justice this morning. Other
sensational developments are expect.
ed to follow The question of arrests
is under consideration and will be
passed on Immediately by Attorney
General Knox.
The facts are told tersely in the
following letter of dismissal, signed
by Postmaster General Payne We'd
nesday afternoon and made public
last night:
"Sir:-You are hereby removed
from the office of assistant attorney
general for the postoffice department.
deem 1t proper to give you reasons
for this summary action on the part
of the department. Early in the
montn of March communicated to
you, through a mutual friend, a re-
quest for your resignation. After
a Iainful interview with you, and a
more painful one with Mrs. Tyner, 7
consented to modify the demand for
your resignation; that it might take
effect May 1, 1903; with provision,
however, that you were given leave of
absence from the time of the accept
ance of your resignation to the date of
its taking effect, with the understand
ing that you were not in any way to
undertake to discharge the duties of
your Office"
Late yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Ty-
ner came to the office of the assist.
ant attorney general for the postof-
flee department, and entering in the
regular way, went through the main
office TO the private office, closing the
door behind her. She then unlocked
the door entering from the public hall
into the private room and admitted
her sister, Mrs. Barrett, whose son
was formerly an assistant in your Of
flee, and whose conduct is now under
investigation by the department. She
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30
FOREIGN.

Five private soldiers in the LeiIl-
ster regiment were given death SEN
fences at Pretoria for rioting.
At Montevideo the steamer Pampero
rammed and sank the steam launch of
the American cruiser Newark. The
crew was rescued unhurt.
The rumor that General Butler will
receive an appointment as field mar
shall is not credited even by his
friends in the military clubs.
The use of phosphorus in match
manufacturing is forbidden after 1907
by the German reichstag Bad effect
on workingmen is responsible.
In Honduras Bonilla is now presi-
dent. .Arias is in prison at Tegucigalpa
and Sierra is a fugitive at Nicaragua,
havins; fled to that country for safety.
A l'a.ttle with the forces of General
Pando, president of Bolivia, is feared,
notwithstanding the modus vivendi
agreed upon between the two re,
publics.
The town of Mequinez, SO miles
from Fee, was pillaged by Morocco
tribesmen and 81 inhabitants killed
The sultan's brother was proclaimed
emperor.
William Mortimer Clark, X. c.. OF
Toronto has been appointed lieuten
ant governor of the province oil
ontario to succeed Sir Oliver Scott
Mowatt.
Capt. Dreyfus, the disgraced French
officer, appealed to Minister of Wa
Andre for a review of his case. anC
declared he was convicted on forged
evidence.
A "durbar" of Algerian tribesmel
was witnessed at Ell Kreider by Presi
dent Loubet of France 5000 Arab,
gathered on the desert plateau. Deco
ratons were conferred on the chiefs.
process server of Grenoble
France, while attempting to serve
summons upon monks, was driver
away by crowd of peasants arme,
with pitchforks, and was unable to an
proach the monastery,
At Berlin ii is announced by {
director of the Deutsches bank that /;
deal has just been consummated by
which England assumes % per cent
of the Bagiad railway bonds. thu:
insuring British participations in the
constructor OF the enterprise,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30

fire in the direction taken by Col Plum
kett, and later a few fugitives coming
in reported that Col. Plunkett had
been defeated with loss.
"The news has been fully corrobo-
rated since, and l have to report the
total loss of Col Plunkett's party,
with the exception of thirty-seven
Yaos, who have arrived here"
Somaliland is an extensive country
with indefinite boundaries, lying south
and east about Abyssina,, hitting the
angle of the Red Sea and the Gulf of
Alden. and bordering on the west the
southern extension of British Egypt
1t has only recently been attempted
to develop it and new names are COM
ing to the front, not located on the
troll of the British foreign Office. The
natives are a vigorous race of negroes
and Abyssinians There are desert
regions and mountains; but the wide
valleys are very fertile. The Abys-
sinians are the unconquerable people
of Africa. Somaliland has extensive
sea coast. The natives seem to have
no organized government but are unit
ed as against foreigners.
1t is said the Somali forces num-
bered 10000 and news of further
heavy fighting is expressed. Troops
have already left Alden to bring rein
forcements to Somaliland from Indix
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30

a member of George w. Vanderbilt.
house party at Baltimore for the pas
few days, left Asheville, N. c., fol-
Washington in Mr. Vanderbilt's pri
vate car
Three-year-old Nina Correglio /.
dead in Brooklyn hospital as the re
suit of being struck by flaming gaso
lene stove which had been thrown
| from second-story window of a tene
ment house.
Mrs. Minnie Cummings of st. Louis
is accused with the murder of her hus
band Michael Cotton, a former hus
band, is also reported murdered by
her killing and the killing of another
husband is suspected.
investigation of the American Red
Cross society's affairs is planned by
President Roosevelt. The attention
Of congress will be called to the I'm
business like methods and revoca
ton of its charter will be asked.
DR.. Charles Howard of st. Paul
Ind, was killed, and Richard Rice OF
indianapolis was seriously injured
at Indianapolis by the collision of
their automobile with a street car
They failed to see the street car in
time to stop.
The rumored retirement of Assist
ant Postmaster General Wynne be-
cause of friction over his investigation
of scandals is denied by the postmas-
ter general. The rural delivery service
is accused by country merchants with
aiding mail order houses.
Andrew Latham, aged 70, a director
of the Peoples national bank of Green
port, l.. l., and one Of the prominent
men of Suffolk county, committed sui
eide by hanging in his stables at
Orient. Two of his brothers were
taken to an asylum some years ago.
e. o. Thomas, who was recently
discharged from the penitentiary, was
arrested at Owensboro, KY, charged
with arson for the burning of the
Greensboro trouser manufacturing
company's plant. The loss by fire
was $4,000. There was $4,000 insur-
ance on the stock and $4,000 on the
building.
Two passenger cars on the Rapid
railway, Detroit electric line, col
lided headon on curve between
Algonac and Mount Clemens, Mich.
while running at speed of 25 miles
an hour, and several persons are re-
ported injured. The accident is said
to have been due to failure of the air
brakes to work.
Mrs. Marshall Hodge, aged 81, wife
of coal miner, is dead as the result
of q shooting scrape at Amelith, Bay
county, Mich, following dance.
Leonard Roth, a constable, was shot
through the foot, and two other men
were grazed by bullets. Hodge and
Frank Bardwell, his brother-in-law
are under arrest.
The sale by auction of the Bensusan
art collection in New York realized
$l5,530 The highest price, $1,750,
was paid for Schoenwerk's marble
figure of the Girl at the fountain" A
flemish 17th-century tapestry brought
1885, two bronze Nubian figures. life
size, by Toussaint. s1,100, a Louis XVI
sofa and four arm-chairs $1,000. a
Sevres vase $3.50, an empire cabinet
with ormolu mounts $1,000, Barge
bronze lion $500.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30
1ELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
POLITICAL.

A resolution favoring the election OF
United States senators by popclsr
vote was killed in the Massachusetts,
senate.
The Ohio republican state conven-
ton is called for June and 4, at Col
umbus. Senators Foraker and
Hanna are to be chairmen.
Grover Cleveland is accused by w.
]. Bryan, in a speech to Kansas City
democrats, with betraying his party
and disgracing himself by aiding re-
publicans.
Arguments against the Grady-Salus
libel bill were maze at Harrisburg
pa by Charles Emory Smith and
others. Newspapers most vital in
terests are declared at stake The
governors action is uncertain.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30
INSULAR.

Judge Carlack of the court of first
instance is dead at Cebu of cholera.
At Havana Santos Vasquez, a prom
inent merchandise broker has been
arrested for issuing fraudulent drafts
The Moros in the Lake Lanao dis
trict are reported by Gen. Davis as
pacifed. Dattos representing forty
towns declared allegiance to the
United States.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30
OeSPoNDENT YOUNG LADY
SWALLOWS cARRollc Acl

Berkeley, Cal. April 25.-Miss Annie
Day Kellogg, the adopted daughter OF
ex-President kellogg of the University
OF California, yesterday committed
suicide by swallowing carbolic acid.
She had been respondent for some
time.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30
Dies in PHYSICIANS Office.

New York, April 25.-Anthony J
Thomas, vice president of the Chicago
Indianapolis & Louisville railroad
formerly with the banking firm OF
Morgan 6 Co. and for many years
prominent in railroad circles, dies yes.
terday in a physicians Office. The
cause of death was cerebral hemor.
rhage.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30
MORTuARY,

Alexander Ramsey, the first terri.
torial governor of Minnesota, died at
ST Paul.
William Ward. 81 years of age,
died at his home in Virginia. Ill. He
was a wealthy farmer.
At Chicago Colonel William r.
Arthur. formerly president of the Illi-
nois Central road, is dead, aged 50
years.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30

will sever his connection today with
that road to accept a position as first
assistant chief engineer of the New
York Central with headquarters at
Syracuse, N. Y.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30
knowlton Promoted.

Minneapolis, April 25.-w. H.
Knowlton. assistant chief engineer of
the Chicago & Great Western railroad
and former engineer at Dubuque, Ia.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30
CHICAGO MARKETS.

CattIe-Receipts, LOCO; market steady
good to prime. S. 10d5. 90: poor to medium,
IA 25d5. 10: stockers. s3O0I4.90; cows, Sl.5Og
ATS: Texans, "a O0Gi5.00.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000; market steady at
Yesterdays close; mixed butchers, s6.9O@
725: good to choice heavy, 1901. as; rough
2eavy, s5.O0d7.25; light, s6.75G7.10; bulk OF
sales. s7.10M7.25.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000: market steady;
81. 7565.50 lambs, "a 50d7.00.
Butter-Weak; creameries, 1S@231ac; dair-
les, 15d22c.
Eggs-Firm; 15c.
rms, PFC
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30

Hard TO Bear.
w h e n the b a C k
aches and pains so
badly. can't work,
can't re S t, can't
sleep, can't eat. it's
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30

Children and fools are always cum
ming, but clever people never.-Byron.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-08
GOOD RoADs BILL.

REPRESENTATIVES, BROWNLOW OF
n Tennessee has introduced in the
house q bill which is described as "A
bin to create in. the department Of ag-
riCulture a bureau 10 be known as the
bureau of public roads and to provide
for a system OF national. state and 10
cal cooperation fin the permanent i'm
provement OF the public highways"
The act carries an appropriation Of
S2i000.0o0. to be available at the rate Of
100000 a year for three years begin
ming in 1904 States having a popula-
tion OF less than 900 are to receive
Sz50000 each, while every state of more
than 100000 population shall have. in
the language Of the bill, "a sum equal
to the proportion its population bears
90 that Of the total population OF said
statef having a population OF over
100000"
1t is not necessary to say that the
purpose Of tho bill is TO bring about
much needed improvements in the pub
lie highways Of the United States. That
much is explained I'm the title II any
civilized country in the world has poor
er roads than the United states. taken
as an average, we don't know what
country Il is. Some Of our states have
exceptionally fine highways. others
have mere trails that are ankle deep
in dust in summer and hub deep in
mud in the spring and early fan. In
winter they are frozen. Between, the
three evils It IS difficult to choose the
least. All seem equally bad to the in
dividual who is compelled to travel
over them.
And yet, I'm the absence Of further
light. we are not I'm a position to unre-
servedly endorse the Brownlow bill. In
Withholding the endorsement we have
no criticism to make of Mr.. Brownlow's
motives. He evidently believes he has
found a method by which the bad roads
problem can be solved But does he
forea the riot OF extravaganza, cor
rUrt 70 perhaps. that the passage OF
the bin might lead to? Certainly there
would be jealousies and chickering's be-
tween states and between sections.
Men OF influence would be able to Sc
cure large appropriations for their re-
spective communities while more de-
serving communities would get no
money at all from the public treasury.
1t should be said in favor OF the bill
that it proposes to help only those who
help themselves. That is. 1t provides
that I'm no case shall the government
pay more than so per cent Of the cost
Of making a road. That, however, is
"a very liberal allotment and would
prove . strong temptation. to road au-
thorities IN the various states. on the
whole, it seems better to leave the
business Of road building to the states
themselves II they do not take enough
interest in their highways to make good
highways then they do not deserve good
roads. The men who use the roads
most are the men who should pay for
them. II they desire to stand in their
own light it is the fault Of nobody but
themselves.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-08
ENORMOUS COST or
BUILDING PANAMA CANAL

1t is estimated that it win cost the
United States $1S4, 233. 35S 10 acquire and
complete the Panama canal besides the
amount 10 be paid to the government
ia control Of the isthmus for the con
cesslCa.
Already there has been an immense
amount of money and energy expended
on the canal. says the New York Tri-
bune- lit is safe to say that a sum
more than sufficient to dig a waterway
from ocean to ocean at sea level has
been collected from investors at differ
ent times in it's history.
When De Lesseps organized the first
company in 1900 for the construction
of the canal, it started work with a
paid up capital Of SEQ, 0oe, coo. For eight
years the company toiled. employing
at times as many as $4,000 men Then
came a necessity for changing the plans
and the company failed, after having
collected in round figures from the sale
Of stock and bonds 500. 600 600. OF this
It was shown that the expenditures
actually made on the isthmus amounted
70 $l56, 400, 600 and the cost Of exCeva-
ton and embankment proper was S8S.-
100000. The ultimate cost was then es-
timated at $l74600000. For several
years an effort was made to capitalize
new company to complete the work.
anu az AdSLs III 1854. the present Fan
ANA Canal company was organized
with a paid up capital Of s1S00O.OOO
Since that time work has advanced at
the rate OF about 10000 600 cubic yards Of
excavation each year.
The total amount of excavation M
to the present time has been about 81
100000 cubic yards. Unfortunately only
about 100000 cubic yards of this is
available for the waterway proposed
/ in lS99-1900 for the canal commission.
Of which Rear Admiral Walker was
president. The Walker commissions
communication include this available
excavation in the $4,000 O0Q to be paid
the canal company for it's work. maps
records, drawings and the property Of
the Panama Railroad company The
commission estimated that the total
amount of excavation which would be
required fo- the canal to be built from
its plans. exclusive Of that for the
BOhiO dam and the Gigand spillway
would be 94,S63, 703 cubic yards The
work remaining TO be done therefore,
represents the difference between the
amount Of available excavation which
it win acquire by purchase from the
Panama Canal company, or nearly
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-08
TWO SOURCES OF TROUBLE.

IN THE PRESENT COAL MINE trou-
bles the strikers have been unfor-
tunate in the class Of men chosen to
speak for them, If Demolli, the italian,
is typical. Demoln naively admits
that he is an exile from his native land
because he participated in an armed
rebellion against his country and was
compelled to fee. The trouble which
drove DemolH out Of Italy was a strike,
ending in rioting. shooting and all the
evils Of anarchy.
We submit that a man whose ideas OF
government justify that sort of strik-
ing IS no fit representative Of either
uuionism or American citizenship; and
we question whether any union Of
American citizens would tolerate his
leadership for a single day.
Another thing, DemolH comes from
Colorado 20 precipitate a sympathetic
strike among Utah worlSmen who have
no such grievance as the Colorado min
ers. Here they have the eight-hour day,
ample safeguards guaranteed by law
and q community singularly liberal in
its attitude toward labor. If the coal
miners were led by representative cit
liens and presented grievances show
ing uI-treatment. low wages or unjust
conditions Of employment. they would
find public sympathy with them in their
effort to secure a remedy. As it is.
they have allowed DemOlli, an alien by
birth and training, a nonresident Of
the state and a professional trouble
maker, to take the center Of the stage
to the exclusion Of better and ADLER
men who might have had a friendly
hearing. Every friend of the miners
VIII hope that DemoIH win be discarded
at once and invited to go elsewhere. II
he isn't. the union might as wen pre-
pare to lose it's case with the general
public.
incidentally, il might be well for the
Utah Fuel company to lose one or two
of the armed guards who are wearing
the badges Of deputy sheriff in the coal
camps. It would not be difficult to
show that some Of these men are quite
as obnoxious in their way as Demoui
is in his. They are not residents Of the
county; they know nothing of legal
rights, they are characteriess adventur-
ers and they have no business acting
as authorized agents Of the courts of
Utah. Some Of the guards are sub
stantial, law-abiding citizens, but the
others are about due to get a perma-
neut leave Of absence from the sheriff
If he knows his business.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-08

A MOTHER EFFECT OF Senator Han
"A mas bill, introduced by request a the
last session Of congress to pension eN-
slaves, has come TO light in Charleston.
s. c. Two negroes, sam Dolly and
Thomas Williams. have been making
hay while the Hanna sun shone. The
account OF their operations is interest
ing, as showing the credulity of the av-
erage negro. likewise his faith in any
thing that bears the stamp OF Marse
Marcus.
Dolly went among the negroes wear
Ing a black cloth sash adorned with nu-
merous gilt spangles. This. ne eX-
planned, was a badge Of authority pre-
sented to him by the government for
the purpose Of enabling him to prose-
cute a great work in which he was en-
gagged. This work was the securing Of
pensions, not only for ex-slaves but for
all negroes. All Dolly required was a
deposit Of $50, merely as an evidence
Of good faith. Dolly did a flushing
business. 1t is said that his campaign
had netted him several thousand dol
lars when the officers Of the law rudely
interviewed. Williams came a little high
er He pretended to be a minister. spe-
cially ordained to lead the blacks
out Of the darkness OF no pensions
into the light and warmth Of pen
sions at $500 per lead. Williams, too
was growing wealthy when he was
nabbed. Senator Hanna should be very
proud Of the bunco game he has made
possible. Just how many more negroes
are working It through the south VIII
never, perhaps, be known, but it is
safe to say there are enough.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-08
sPEAKLNa % -.
What Would You DO in This Case if
Your Name Was Clark?


A young man named Clark is taeB
purchasing agent for q large corpora
ton. Recently he has been making
contracts for the winters supply of
coal. The contract is q larse one. the
corporation in question using some 500
tons a month.
Some half a dozen firms of coal deal
ers have been trying 10 get the con-
tract. After q weeks figuring an but
two of the firms in question have been
eliminated from the deal. the rivalry
between them being extremely close
The other day when Alr. CiariS
reached his home on the west side his
wife said:
John. didn't know you We're going
to have the coal put in today
Neither did ]. answered the aston
ished Clark.
well there were ten tons put i'm
this afternoon. I asked the driver AMI
Re said ell he knew about 10 was De
was told 10 deliver the coal 90 Mrs
John Clark's residence. There was
nothing TO pay, he said
When Clark got down to his Office tho
next day he found representative OF
both the rival companies waiting TO sec
him. Clark was pretty mad. He CaleI
In one Of the coal statesmen and said.
Did YOU send that coal out TO my
house yesterday
The coal salesman looked AT Clark
and saw the righteous indignation ia
his eyes.
why. of course not, he said. with
virtuous wrath. eve don't do business
that way"
Then Clark called in the other coal
man. and he also hotly denied that ne
could be guilty of such an outrage.
Mrs. Clark says there was no name
painted on the wagons which delivered
the coal; at least, she did not notice
any.
Now, what is Clark to do about it?