Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-11

Goodnight was 16 years old and they
had been married but few days.
The will of Charles T. Yerkes leaves
his estate among members of his
family, Mrs. Yerkes getting half,
fortune ultimately to be expended for
New York hospital and art gallery.
New York police received word that
Prentice Tiller, an ex-conyict, has
agreed to disclose the hiding place of
a part of the loot of the mysterious
diamond robbery in that city last May
Joseph Bosler, who was appointed
assistant treasurer of the United
States for Philadelphia, succeeding
w S. Leib, who was removed by Pres
ident Roosevelt, was indicted into Of
flee.
Andrew Carnegie has presented the
Baptist society of Shenandoah, Iowa,
with $1,000 to pay half the cost of
new pipe organ, which has been in.
stalled in $4,000 building just de-
dicated.
! Cecilia Tantonia, aged II, daughter
of former project of police in War
saw, Poland, and who was banished by
her fathers successor for melting
revolution in school, attempted suicide
in New York.
Manager Conried at New York re-
fused to recognize the union of
Metropolitan opera house chorus
singers, but promised to consult with
the directors regarding a demand for
increased salaries.
The property of the Smith Medberry
company at Sheboygan, which has
been in litigation for some time, has
| been bid in at trustees sale By A. d.
De Land, former president of the com
pany, for s2,205.
| Two large barns on the farm of
| August Pasch in the town of Bristol,
Kenosha county, were destroyed by
fire as the result of the explosion of
lamp. The loss is placed at $4,000,
with partial insurance.
August Zerbel slipped on sidewalk
at GAINESVILLE and broke his ankle. Not
! realizing how severe his injury was,
he managed to reach is home where
he was found unconscious Sunday
morning by neighbors.
G. G. Guthrie, chairman Of the Re.
public Iron and Steel company, who
was operated upon at Salisbury, N. c.,
for appendicitis, is resting comfortably
and his physicians hold out encourag-
ment for his ultimate recovery.
Governor Herrick, as new years
eyif ardn I
serving a life sentence in the Ohio
penitentiary for murder in the second
degree from Clark county. He had
been in prison twenty-three years.
Vice Chancellor Emery, on applica-
ton of John Shields, appointed Halsey
NJ. Barrett receiver for the John
Shields Construction company at
Trenton, N. J. The assets are given
as $500 and the liabilities 1851, 900.
The report of the speculations of
Newton c. Dougherty, the former
Peoria banker, shows his crimes to
have been conducted on an UMPIRE
cedented scale, and many persons may
be held liable as innocent recipients
of stolen funds.
At Virginia, ILL.,, Professor Milan ].
Alkire, former city superintendent of
schools, and now practicing attor-
ney, and Miss Stella Skies were mar
ried, surprising their friends, as
large society wedding had been plan
ned for February.
Application was made for an order
restraining President ]. H. Worst of
the United States experiment station
at Fargo and Commissioner e. F. Ladd
from enforcing the new North Dakota
law, which practically excludes mixed
paints from the state.
Laboring under the hallucination
that a deputy game warden is on his
trail and bent on having his life for
some violation of the law which he is
sure he never committed. Peter Riley
of GAINESVILLE, a horseshoer, has be-
come violently insane.
Indictments were returned by the
Nashville, Tenn, grand jury against
number of attendants at Cumberland
park, charging them with violating
provision of the Rice-Ligon law
which prohibits betting on horse races
in Tennessee. Several days ago horse
men arranged race, opened book
and took wagers in order to test the
race track bill.
At Terre Haute, Ind, on the charge
of perjury in connection with the mar
riage ii Pearl Downs, aged IA, to
Ernest Harris, the groom has been ar
rested on complaint of the father of
the girl, John Downs, Edgar County,
Illinois. Harris is alleged to have
made an affidavit that the girl was IS
years of age so as to get marriage Ii
cense. The bride has disappeared, but
is supposed to be with Harris mother
OBITUARY.
William ID. Kirk, president of the
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