Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-02-04

Sage's trusteeship OF the Hastings and
Dakota land grants Rand sued for
$4,000.
The concert scheduled by Nine.
PATHS manager said the high altitude
and smelter smoke affected the diva's
voice. 1t is generally supposed by
many that the sale of seats was not
Iup to expectations.
Charles and Henry Nelson, under
sentence of death for the murder OF
Henry Krier of Owatonna, Mimi, last
summer, will not go to the gallows.
The board of pardons committed their
sentence to Imprisonment for life
Charles F. Dodge, whose supposedly
divorced wife married Banker Morse
of New York, was arrested in Houston,
Tex, on a telegram from District At
torney Jerome of New York saying
that Dodge was wanted there for per-
jury.
Archbishop Farley of New York
denies the report that the members Of
the faculty of the Catholic university
at Washington are to be succeeded by
the teaching orders of the church.
He says there is no trouble at the
university
| Elmer Gardner, a student at the
state agricultural college at Manhat-
tan, Kan, was scalded to death by fall
ing into a pump pit that furnishes hot
water for the institution. The earth
caved in. precipitating him into the
boiling water
c. c. Jacobson. assistant architect
in the building of the huge paper mill
plant of the Consolidated Water Power
and Paper company at Grand Rapids,
| Wis, fell into a vat of boiling hot
water and severely scalded the lower
half Of his body.
Albert Platow was sentenced to ff-
teen days Imprisonment in the house
Of correction at Milwaukee for steal
ing loaf of bread from a bakery. He
told the court that he had not had any
thing to eat, had been cut of work for
three weeks and one daughter has a
broken arm.
! Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy, on trial
! in Kansas City second time for the
murder in January, 1901, of her hus.
band. Philip II. Kennedy, collapsed in
court when her mother assumed the
stand and admitted that the defendant
had been secretly married since her
! conviction fer the murder of her hus-
band
! Representative Geneva offered a
resolution in the Iowa legislature pro-
posing an investigation of ex-Auditor
Merriam's conduct in office. Merriam
was charged by Governor Cummins in
the latter's biennial message with ex-
torting $4,000 fees from insurance
companies for examinations never
conducted
The mystery of the disappearance of
j. c. Sullivan of Minneapolis from
Black Duck, Mimi, last spring has
been solved by the finding of his bones
in the forest of the Little Fork coun-
try, whittier he had gone to locate a
claim. Identification was made by the
shoes. He had evidently been eaten
Ly wolves.
Alice Edwards. a Philadelphia young
woman with numerous aliases. was
held in $1,000 bail for trial by United
States Commissioner Craig, charged
with using the mails to defraud Her
plan was to write letters to men.
claiming acquaintance and ask for a
small loan. Many sent her amounts
from $5 to 1926.
United States Senator ]. r. Burton
OF Kansas was admitted to $4,000 bail
IN the federal court at St Louis to
answer March for trial on the indict.
ment charging him with accepting
money fer his influence with the pos
tai authorities to prevent the issu-
anee CT fraud order against the
Rialto Grain and Securities company.
The body of Charles Ehril. a Green
vile, Ill.,, farmer. was found hanging
in his smokehouse, At first Ehril was
believed to have committed suicide.
Investigation, however. leads to the
belief that he was struck and pros.
trated and was then hanged to avert
suspicion of murder The door to
the smokehouse was propped shut
from the outside
! Horace G. Burt. retiring president
OF the Union Pacific railroad, with
Mrs, Burt, started from Omaha on
worlds tour, going direct to San Fran.
cisco, From San Francisco they will
sail for the orient, where they win
spend several months. Mr. Burt has
not definitely decided on the re-
mainder of his itinerary but stated
that the trip may occupy two years.
. Charles NJ. Pepper. who has made a
tour of almost all South American
countries as a special railroad commits
sioner sent out by the United States
government with the purpose of ascer-
tanning the exact status of the great
intercontinental railroad project which
is to extend from the Straits of Ma
gelan on the south to the great lakes
on the north. has reached Washington
and reported to Acting Secretary
loomis He travelled something like