Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17
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J my HiSh WHO SouSuJ 10 lynCu HSSIO.
One of the worst duststorms in
many years swept over the central
part of Kansas. The wind was ter
rife. Wheat was damaged.
President Roosevelt called on Post
master General Payne, who is i'll at
his apartments in the Arlington hotel.
Mr.. Payne hopes to be out in a day or
two.
President Roosevelt will not attend
republican party birthday celebration
at Jackson, Mich, because of a dispute
as to whether the party was born
there.
At Norton, Kas., the trial of
: Chauncey Dewey for the murder of
Burchard Berry was again postponed
because of the illness of one of the
Jurors.
The Missouri supreme court de-
cided that the charter of Kansas City
did not give the city authority to pass
an ordinance regulating telephone
charges.
Frank Aher, carpenter, stepped
from one track to avoid freight and
walked into a Pennsylvania pas
senger train at Fort Wayne, Ind and
was ground to death.
At Pittsburg David Swope, a Fulton
county structural ironworker, received
a letter that his wife gave birth to
five boys, quit work. and says they
will be trained as bridge builders.
Following the lynching of negro
at Springfield, O., the levee district
inhabited by blacks was set on fire by
whites. Many outside militia COM
panies were called to keep order.
The two houses of the New York
legislature in joint session finally con
firmed the election of Andrew s.
Draper, president of the university OF
Illinois, as commissioned of education
The steamer Lombardia, which ar
rived at New York from Genoa, Naples
and Palermo, brought sixteen camels
from Tunis for the st. Louis exposi
ton. They were in charge of five
natives. ...-... ..... ...
Senator Tillman of South Carolina
Is very i'll with an abscess in the
throat His fl, nds are much con.
cerned, as it is impossible for him to
swallow, al I little liquid nourish-
ment Is all he can take.
Professor Frank Thilly of the Uni
yersity of Missouri was elected
Stuart professor of psychology at the
meeting of the trustees of Princeton
university in place of Professor j.
Mark Baldwin, resigned.
Robert Weston, a travelling man
who mysteriously disappeared last
summer and was supposed to have
been murdered in Chicago, has been
located in hospital at Natchez, Miss
HIS wife and child live in Elgin, III.
Mrs. Betsy Ripley, aged rs, a
wealthy pioneer of Kenosha county,
was burned TO death at her home in
Salem. While carrying a lamp she
fell and it exploded. Everett Ripley,
son, was badly burned while trying
to rescue her.
An explosion of gas completely
wrecked the millinery store of Miss
l.. NJ. Moran at Rockwell, Iowa Miss
Moran, Miss Eta Anger, Mrs. Kelley,
Tarpy and Howard Siegtield were
blown into the street and all were
more or less injured.
Mrs. j. c. Fleming and her daughter
lottie were killed by a west-bouno
Panhandle passenger train at Hanlin's
Station, near Steubenville, o. They
were crossing the tracks to take an
accommodation train. when they were
run down by the eynreSs
The merchants of Beloit have ar,
ranged to keep their stores open ON
the evenings of Tuesday. Thursday
and Saturday of each week. Yielding
to the Clerks union for the past two
years, the storekeepers have closed
nights. excepting Saturday.
Henry Miller, prosperous mer-
chant, was found dead in bed at Skies
ton, Mo. Froth about the mouth
aroused suspicion that he had been
poisoned. He had drunk wine at the
| drug store of DR.. Warren Smith and
Dr. Smith has been arrested
' About 900 employees of the New
York Manhattan Elevated railroad
. system have been notified of an in,
, crease in wages. Those affected are
tower men. hand switchmen, porters
| and trackmen. An advance was re,
Gently granted to the guards.
. The report that Mrs. Florence MAY.
, brick, recently pardoned by the Brit.
\ ish government. arrived in New York
= On the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm IL
is denied by Attorney Daniel S.
. Decker. counsel for Mrs. Maybrick in
) the litigation going on about her
= property.
, Philippe Bunau-Varilla. who re-
Gently resigned as minister from
Panama to the United States. sailed
, for Havre, Captain Algernon Sartoris,
grandson OF General L, s. Grant who
J goes abroad to marry Miss Cecilia
/ Noussard in Paris, also was on the
, steamer.
! Strikers at Toledo are taking by
their officials To outside justices ana
given nominal fines. Then when war