Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-03

building Commissioner Williams and
ms. ,ector Laughlin indicted on
malfeasance charge.
Helen Hale, the soubrette of Peggy
from Paris, who is said to have been
engaged to a Chicagoan, is forced to
give up the stage, and is believed to
have consumption.
A panic in the Bijou theater at
Pittsburg occurred during a per-
Torrance of Old Kentucky. A woman
tainted and the crowd fed. Falling
plaster started it.
Oscar L. Triggs, instructor at the
University of Chicago, was dismissed
from the faculty, supposedly because
of his liberal views and unusual state.
ments in his lectures.
Sailors from American and Spanish
war ships clashed at ST. Thomas, D.
w. l., and the former, after everal
of their number were stabbed. drove
their opponents into the water.
Senator Hanna's will, probated at
Cleveland, leaves 100000 estate to
relatives. The third is given to the
widow and the balance is divided
equally among three children.
Owners of forty-four American
broom plants have agreed to form a
combine under the name of the
National Broom company. The de-
tails are being perfected in Chicago.
The death sentence was imposed on
James Summons and John Lynch, IS
and 10 years old, for the murder of
Patrick Barrett in Chicago. Hugh
Kelley, aged 1S, was sentenced for
life
An Iron Mountain freight train was
wrecked near Sikeston, Mo. Engineer
William Hack and Fireman w. J..
Haas, both of Poplar Bluff, Mo-, were
caught under the engine and scalded
to death. A broken rail caused the
wreck.
A Connecticut judge awarded
nominal damages of $50 for the death
of an employee of railroad and scores
the co-employe law, which made such
an award possible, as being re,
sponsible for the manning and death
of thousands.
William ]. Thornbury. chief plan
examiner in the Brooklyn building de-
partment, and one of the most accom-
plished mathematicians in the country.
killed himself by inhaling gas. He
had been in poor health for year. He
was a native of Kentucky.
Michael Pallone, an Italian. was
hanged at Brookville, Pa, for the
murder of Rosso Crocco. The killing
was the outcome of a carousal at an
Italian camp. Crocco furnished the
liquor and Pallone shot him because
he had not provided more.
Lewis Swatzer and John Mahey of
Eria Pa, lost their lives by the ex-
plosion of a locomotive on the Phila-
delphia and Erie railroad, near Kane.
Pa. Both were asleep in the caboose.
The engineer and fremen were blown
out of the engine, but were net fatally
injured.
The trial by court-martial of Lieu
tenant Frank Pratt, First United
States infantry, native of Flint.
Mich, on the charge of duplicating his
pay accounts and issuing a check on
fictitious bank to the proprietors Of
the Hotel Metropole in Detroit, was
begun at Fort Wayne
The police at Mobile, Ala, arrested
A. j. Quinn, manager of the Old
Dominion Telegraph company, and
John Slack, a manager of the Inter-
state Telegraph and Telephone com.
pany, charging them with violation
of the state code, which prohibits
pool-selling on horse races.
Carl Black and Cecil Hogett were
burned to death in the city Jail at
Mountain View. Ok. They had been
arrested for drunkenness and it is
thought that the bedding caught fire
from a lighted cigarette. The fire
had gained strong Roadway before the
cries of the men attracted attention
By the time rescuers reached the Jail
the two were burned to a crisp
For the murder of Jesse E. Soles
and Jim Stanley at Whiteville, N. c.,
last March and the burning of their
house TO conceal the crime. label
Register was hanged there His
father is now serving a life sentence
for planning and instigating the crime
Elsie and Robert Shonafelt, aged 6
and years respectively, were burned
to death in their home in Johnstown,
Pa. Their mother. who is a widow,
had gone just across the street to
visit a neighbour
John Conroy, convicted of killing
his wife while she was asleep in their
home in Pittsburg, Dec. 2, 1902. was
hanged. He was very weak and had
to be supported to the scaffold. At
the trial Conroy claimed that while
he was kneeling at the bedside saying
his prayers he saw his wife pointing
a revolver at his head. He claimed
that he turned the revolver aside and
il was discharged. the bullet entering
his wife's head and infiicting a fatal
wound.
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