Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05

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hack, and John Eeiland indicted il
Chicago for the alleged sale of cocaine
without physicians prescription.
G. Herbert Orr, a Michigan univer
sity student from Hinsdale, died from
loyerstudy in preparing for final exami
nations. He had worked daily in 3
barbershop and studied till a. m.
Advance sheets of the official direc
tory of the Roman Catholic church for
1903 give the total number of Catholics
under the American flag as 18,S52,951
of which II ,298,719 are in the United
| States
At Cassopolis, Mich, the body of
Oiacer Daniels was found in the rear
Of store. The upper part of his
head had been cut completely off by a
giant icicle, which fell from the roof
of building.
Pillar NORM, an actress, began suit
| for separate maintenance against her
husband, Anne La Chaume, pianist, be-
! cause he notified her he would bury
himself in a village" and try to be-
come 2 virtuoso.
Mrs. Annie Ford Eastman, an FL
mira On. " pastor, told the Brooklyn
Congregational society that old min
listers should be shot, and that buff
foonery is depended on to attract
church congregations.
1t is rumored in the University Of
Chicago circles that the founder of the
university, John D. Rockefeller, is to
provide for an experimental hospital
on the campus, the cost of which will
amount to several million dollars.
An effort will be made, according to
conservative ministers, at a meeting
of theologians of the higher criticism
school, soon to be held at Chicago, to
change the International Sunday
school lessons and also the study of
the Bible.
William McKinley's birthday ami
versary was celebrated at Canton (O)
with a banquet, at which President
Roosevelt was the chief guest and
speaker. The latter and his party first
visited Mrs. Mckinley and Westlawn
cemetery.
The amazing sight of a pretty girl,
dressed in a handsome raglan coat
and a picture hat, backing mes
senger boys shoes, attracted a big
crowd to the telegraph office at Thirty
first street and Broadway She did it
on a wager.
The Chicago -Milwaukee electric rail-
road connection in the city of Kenosha
was prevented after ten years efforts
by fire in the Kenosha power house
TIE generators were destroyed and
the company cannot fulfill franchise
conditions.
Contributions amounting to $1,000
for the relief of the starving inhabi-
taints of northern Sweden were for
warded from Chicago. Previous re-
mittances make the total thus far col
lected by the local Swedish Relief AS
sociation $21 900.
The murder of Harry Ferris, a Chi
cago nonunion foreman, in 1900, was
practically fastened on James Kilroy,
a striker. by DIR. M. A. Weisskopf
who identified a scar on Kilroy's neck
as the wound dressed by him after
Ferris was shot.
Twenty persons were crushed or
burned to death in a collision between
westbound Sunset limited and an
eastbound Crescent City express trains
on the Southern Pacific railroad near
Tucson. Eleven cars were burned.
The telegrapher is blamed.
Attorney-General Cunneen of New
York gave hearing at Albany on the
application of w. r. Hearst that ac-
, ton be begun before the supreme
court under the antitrust law against
u coal-carrying railroads and the
| Temple Iron company.
Independent telephone exchanges in
Iowa and northern Illinois are being
bought by the Central Telephone Con.
| struction company An automatic
service will be installed and connec-
| ton will be made with the Illinois
: Telephone and Telegraph plant in Chi
cage.
A singular case of loss of memory is
exciting interest at st. Stephens
! theological college, at Annandale. n.
! Y, where Samuel A. Chapman. a stu.
dent of Boston, has lain in semi
: conscious condition for over a week
He fell on an icy sidewalk and in
, jured his spine
1t is reported from Stanton, Mo,
that securities to the amount of $780,
GOO We're recovered yesterday from
the house of Frank Rudolph by party
Of detectives. These securities are part
of the loot of the bank of Union, Mo,
which was robbed December 81. Money
and valuable papers amounting to
nearly $4,000 were taken.
Philip Baer. city librarian and
, Walter +. Sawyer, Nathan Springer
and Moses Springer were arrested in
New York by detectives from the dis
trict attorneys office on charges of
attempted subornation of perjury in
connection with an alleged swindling
scheme through which enormous sums
are believed to have been lost by the
| department of taxes.