Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17

Missouri Pacific conductor, and her
eldest daughter, Mamie, were drowned
in attempting TO ford Meramec river
in a buggy west of st. Louis, Mo.
Another daughter saved herself by
holding TO an overhanging tree for
/ two hours until rescued.
A fashionable audience attended a
piano recital given at the New Will
lard hotel, Washington, by Miss Maria
/ Won Unschuld, court pianist of her
majesty the queen of Roumania The
affair was given under the immediate
patronage of Baroness Hengelmuller
the wife of the Austrian minister.
/ The Musical Mutual Protective
union of New York has adopted an
amendment to its constitution allow.
ing all enlisted members of army ano
navy bands who are in the union to
remain until the terms of their enlist
ment expire. If they reenlist, however,
they are to be expelled
Spencer Saxton, an oil well con.
tractor, was instantly killed and Ed
ward Wood, a well shooter, and S.
Culvertson, a driller, were seriously
injured by the premature explosion
| of two charges of nitro-glycerine
which were being lowered into an oil
well near Marion, Ind.
Mrs. ]. Taylor Arlington of Blue
Banks, KY, has been arrested on com
plant CT her stepson, William AIling
ton. She married DIR. Arlington
who committed suicide by shooting
and his children charge that he was
drugged before he took his life. Mrs
Arlington says she is innocent
w. d. Roman, aged 40 years, a
travelling man, whose home is in New
York and whose mind had become de.
ranged by fever, comitted suicide in
/ by sending a bullet into his train He
was admitted to the hospital six days
ago suffering from an attack of pneu
monia.
! Four unidentified men were burned
/ to death in a box car containing
gasoline, which caught fire at Branch
Intersection, ten miles from Harris.
burg. Pa. Two others, George Klingei
of Harrisburg and William q. - Ter OF
/ LewistOwn, barely escaped with their
lives, their bodies and clothes being
badly burned.
Thomas Simpson has been arrested
at Great Falls, Mont, pending an in
vestigation into the death of Rober,
Scott, who was burned to death in his
home Simpson was seen in the neigh
borhood of SCOTS house just before
/ it burned. The two men had quarreleo
recently and Simpson had been fined
for beating Scott.
In a fight between Aaron Stewart
and son on one side and w. w. Hill
and two sons on the other the
Stewards shot and killed w. w. Hill
and his son, John Hill, and seriously
wounded Hunter Hill near Walden
Miss. Tn Weapons used were pistols
The difficulty arose in a dispute over
a boundary line
l.. G. Appleton, employed in the
Toronto branch of Nelson's bank, shot
himself to death in the corridor out.
side the executive offices of the bank
at Montreal. Appleton had been sum
moned from Toronto for the purpose
it is stated, of making an explanation
in regard TO his accounts. After an
interview with the officers of the
bank he killed himself.
While returning with a group OF
young people from a wedding at
Oconomowoc. Miss Ida Knopp, aged
70. was struck and killed by Milwau-
kee train and her sister Annie and
Herman Raasch were seriously in,
jured. The party had stepped off the
track TO allow fast mail tain to pass
and stepped on another track. directly
in front of a freight train.