Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-04-21

connect the former towns water mains
against the citizens wishes.
The dissolution asking the general
conference to restore the time limit
for pastorates was defeated in the
New York conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church by vote of 105 TO
100.
Preventable diseases in New York
state cost over $94,000,000 yearly, ac.
cording to the state health com
missioner's report This estimate is
based on $4,000 as the legal value Of
life.
The battalion of Filipino scouts un-
der command of Major Darlington,
which has been at San Francisco for
some time, left for st. Louis, where
they will be one of the features of the
exposition.
Five officers and twenty-five men
were killed on the United States bat
tleship Missouri, and six others wound
ed, by the explosion of 1000 pounds OF
/ powder in an after-turret practice off
Pensacola.
/ George K. Ellis testified at the
Grand Rapids scandal trial to Offering
IE. d. COnger twenty shares of stock
for the Heralds influence. j. Clark
Sproat of the Democrat told of re
ceiving $4,000.
I The battleship Missouri had narrow
escape from being blown up and
beached after the explosion. The
gunners mate closed the magazine
door and Capt Cowles stopped ship
close 10 shore.
over 10000 persons landed by
steamships arrived in a single day at
New York. Russian Jews, fleeing from
military service; are included among
them. Every nationality on earth is
represented.
Miss Florence Vanderbilt Twombly,
eldest daughter of Harrison NICK.
Twombly, was married to William A.
M. Burden in st. Thomas church, New
York. Miss Twombly is a granddaugh-
ter of the late William II. Vanderbilt.
The first trip through the New York
subway in a regulation motor car with
passengers was made from 135th street
to a point downtown. August Bel
mont and John b. Mcdonald, with
twenty other persons, were aboard.
The Edward Hines Lumber company
of Chicago purchased 100000 feet
of lumber from the N Ludington com
pany, at Marinette, comprising the
products of two mills for year. The
consideration was nearly 100000.
Rev. Clayton Hall, minister of
the Christian church, dropped dead at
his home, two miles north of Athens,
Ill, He was "a years old and one of
! the earliest settlers of Illinois, coming
/ from Virginia to Menard county in
/ 1880.
1 A. II. Silsbee, well known among
grain men throughout the middle west,
died in Stronghurst, H., of pneumonia.
He was 60 years old. F. J. Silsbee
managing editor of the Enterprise at
Beaumont, Tex, Is a son of the de
cedent.
Salvatore Francheschi, whose trial
for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Joe
Lazzari at Meaderville June 25 ended
at Butte. Mont, was found guilty of
murder in the second degree and his
sentence fixed at ninety-nine years in
the penltentiary
Governor Mickey has issued an ex-
tradition for the return of Frank Shell
don from Peterboro, Ont, to York
Neb. This is the first international
requisition made by a Nebraska COVER
nor In twenty years. Sheldon is
wanted for passing a forged check.
A Rock Island passenger train from
st, Paul was wrecked at Rockdale,
one mile south of Joliet III. The pas
senger train crashed into the rear end
Of freight train, The cars took fire
from the wrecked engine. Only one
person. the engineer. was injured.
A gasoline explosion at the Cadillac
Automobile works at Detroit, caused a
fire that damaged the plant 100000
Four employees were injured. Joe
Hertz. broken arm; Henry Koch.
sprained ankle; Charles Borer. wrist
broken; Martin German, face burned.
The Idaho state board of pardons
committed the sentence of George Levy
to life Imprisonment, He was to have
been hanged Friday for the murder of
Davis Levy in October, 1901. The APP
/ plication for clemency indicated that
another man may have committed the
deed.
/ The special train of President e.
/ H. Hartman of the Southern Pacific
passed through Memphis, a stop of
some hours being made there, during
which the members of the party were
taken for tour of the city in automo-
biles. The special left later for New
/ Orleans,
Richard f. Scholz of Milwaukee has
been selected by the state university
/ of Wisconsin TO represent the institu.
ton at the state competitive examina-
] ton for the one Cecil Rhodes scholar.
ship which has been awarded to Wis
consin by the authorities at Oxford.
England.
/ Governor Hunt sailed from San
/ man for New Yprl. IN coDFor ,,-;4,.