Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-26
NEWS OF THE WORLD
DOM ESTIc.

Lawson was wrecked and fifteen per.
sons were lost.
Fire destroyed the four story build
Ing of the Harmony Knitting Mills at
Troy, N. Y, loss $4,000.
William Campbell and his wife and
father of Farley, Ia, were killed by
an Illinois Central passenger train
near Epworth.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, Fred Wideman
contracting stone mason, committed
suicide. He was respondent because
OF lonliness.
Frank Williamson, farmer near
Taylorville, ILL.,, hanged himself in
his barn. He was nearly dead when
discovered, but may recover.
A Bryan club of more than 200
members was organized at Mt. SterI-
ing, ILL.,, with Mayor J. M. Murphy
president and County Superintendent
c. W. Sellars secretary.
The Jeane iron works at Hazelton.
Pa, has gone into the hands OF re-
ceiver. The bill alleges q total liabil
ity of $4,000 and assets of $741, 900.
The works employ about $50 men.
At Boone, Ia, four men were badly
scalded by the tipping over of a
wrecker on the Chicago and North
western railway. One of the men Is
perhaps fatally injured.
The payment of gold and silver In
any amounts to those who desire &;
has been formally resumed by Port
land, Ore. banks. There was 10 unus.
ual demand.
The jury in the case of John J. Bat.
terson of Beaver Falls, Pa, charged
with soliciting William Howard to
mnrdur Judge r. s. Holt of this place.
returned a verdict Of not guilty.
The Union Avenue Bank OF Com
merce, one of the small banks aflllat.
ed with the National Bank OF Com
merce at Kansas City, which closed
when the parent institution failed ten
days ago. has resumed business.
The steel steamer Yale. loaded with
grain and bound for Buffalo. the last
vessel down from the upper lakes for
the season of 1907. passed Detroit.
the arrival of the Yale at Buffalo
viii close the season.
The work of releasing the three
entombed miners in the Alpha shaft
at ELY, New, Is proceeding slowly. The
entombed men are In little danger as
they are above the water level and
nave plenty of food and water.
L. 4
Columbia Railway Works, Jacob
Mueller. of Waterloo. ILL.,. an engineer.
caught his foot In a trestle and was
Killed by Mobile and Ohio passen.
ger train. He was 81 years old.
Bert w. Edwards, a brakeman on
the Illinois Central. was killed M
Iowa Falls, Ia, by fail from his
train. His neck was broken. Edwards
was 20 years old and leaves a wife
and child at Waterloo. III.
j. II. Tent of the Tent Hardware
company, Quincy. Ill.,, died at Los
Angeles, where he had been for his
health for the past two weeks. He
was born in Westphalia. Germany. in
1887, and came here In 1874 He
leaves a wife and four children.
At Pittsburg, Pa. crazed by deliri.
um while suffering from typhoid pneu.
monia and labor1ng under the hallu.
cination mat he could cure himself
by cutting out his appendix. William
Eiohler AZ years old. stabbed himself
in the left lung with butcher knife
and died.
Another Italian was killed near
fremont, La, by negroes. making
three Italians to lose their lives on
account OF prejudice against their re-
placing local lumber mill labor mt
Chathamville. La, Two other Italians
were wounded near Chathamville. and
twenty-six were robbed.
The Minnesota state board OF
health has ordered the public schools
ut Farmington closed because OF the
prevalence of scarlet fever, Because
of diphtheria at Big Falls the schools
there are closed, The high school and
one grade at New Ulm have been
closed because four teachers were
exposed TO small pox,
Mrs. Mary P2rkatis, aged 40 years,
and her year old son. were murder
ed on Monday at their home in Shen-
andoah. Pa. Their threats were cut.
The police are searching for John
Rodgers. who had been boarder AT
the Perkatis home, He had been or
dered ON Saturday to pay his board
or leave.
The privilege of being further at
liberty in the custody of detectives,
for the purpose of seeking bondsmen.
was denied TO j, nalzell Brown, gen
cral manager Of the California Safe
Deposit and Trust company, and w.
]. Barnette. former general counsel
and vice president OF the western
Pacific railway. who Is director in
the insolvcnt institution. The hearing
was continued,
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