Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-01-28

AT Hamilton, ONO, Jne divorced Df.
E. f. Brown and DIR. Martha Brown
nave decided to continue their bust
ness partnership.
The death of Alonzo Alexander
makes the fifteenth victim of the cpl
demic of typhoid fever which has
been raging at Canton, Ill.
The Nebraska state penitentiary at
Lincoln is discovered to be an opium
den. The drug was struggled to con
vict by TRUSTEES" and contractors.
Findlay, O., was partly submerged
by floods, and $50 families were res
cued from drowning. Railroad bridges
near GAINESVILLE are weighted with
coal cars.
Leroy Harris, aged 16, arrested at
Marion, Ind, confessed to fourteen re-
cent robberies, including the theft of
diamonds from Porter J. White, an
actor.
White settlers in the Cherokee IA
ton are threatened with death by the
Ketawah Indians, who are dissatisfied
over the governments allotments OF
lands.
John Alexander DOwie has been sued
for 1862 in California by Hugh Craig,
insurance agent and former president
of the San Francisco Chamber of Com
mcrce
James Tilbery. a coachman, was ar
rested on the charge Of trying to ex-
tort $4,000 from Mrs H. M. Thurs
ton Of Chicago as the price of family
secrets.
Santa Fe' railroad officials are
elated over the life sentence given
John Devine for wrecking a Colorado
express Oct 30, by which twenty-five
were injured.
Charles Crane, whose trial on a
charge of embeZzling SAT from his for
mer employers the Powell Engineer
ing company, was set for at st. Louis,
Mo. killed himself.
Mrs Catherine Bechtel, accused of
completely in her daughters murder
testified at Allentown, Pa, and denied
! knowledge of the crime. The state
was unable to shake her.
The New York Central railroad will
try to break the worlds speed record
OF 100 miles an hour, made at Pros
ses. Germany The test is planned by
the General Electrical company.
The Seitz hotel at Marion, Ind. was
wrecked by a gas explosion. Three
persons were killed and twelve in
jured Three were killed and nine
injured in a Johnstown (Pa) mill.
Quartermaster Sergeant Fred Felix
and Private Harry Bill, of the twenty
eighth artillery. were arrested at Fort
Leayenworth on the charge of stealing
and selling government property.
Secretary Hay has notified Count
Cassni. the Russian ambassador. that
member Of the diplomatic corps who
attend evening receptions at the white
house wear their full uniforms.
The three cadets dismissed from
the Annapolis Naval academy for haz-
ing will in all probability be reinstated,
Commandant Brownson having agreed
to the Introduction of a bill in con
gress fer the purpose
Rev. w. II. Foulks of Elmira. H..
byteriG9 church at Clinton, Iowa, as
successor to DIR, J, X. Fowler who has
become pastor of the Presbyterian
church at La Crosse. Wis.
! All public and private schools at
l.ockport N. V, were closed. and will
remain closed until a smallpox cpl
demic has subsidized There are now
p cases under treatment, and a large
number of persons have been exposed.
II. f. Gricrson, formerly of Chicago.
who was commander of Grierson's
Horse in south Africa during 1881.
was married in London TO Mrs. Fitz.
gerald Creagh, widow of Major Cen
eral Creagh
Although George Udell, a Jew of
Passaic n. j., celebrated his one hun
dred and fourteenth birthday anniver-
sary, he is anxious to get married
third time, and has set about to make
Rebecca WodisH 22-year-old Jewess.
his bride.
In tit of anger Everett Bourne. a
crippled railroad fireman of San An.
tonic, Tex, shot and killed his wife
and his mother-in-law. fatally shot w.
5. Beatty, his wifes stepfather and
then standing before mirror, COM
mitted suicide
The steamer John H. Starin o. the
Starin line, bound from New York to
New Haven with thirteen passengers
and freight, ran into ice or some un.
known obstruction while off Bridge
port Conn, and sank on the mud
flats. Her passengers were taken off
safely.
Seven thousand acres of land in
Washington county, Alabama. thirty
five miles from Mobile on the main
line of the Southern railway. have
been purchased for colonization pur-
poses. The tract viii be subdivided
into small farms and Ssld to alien
farmers
Ebert Hubbard. the Roycrofter, and
Miss Alice Moore of Concord. Mass.
were married by justice of the peace
metallic casket. believed to con-
tain the body of Charles Coghlan. the
actor has been fpund IN tho heacb