Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-08-01
News Boiled Down
DOMESTIC.

ment 10 Jury at Boise, Idaho.
Young King on Gould, with five Col
umbia students, will prospect for gold
in Arizona.
Eugene Howe, a butler, crazed over
Christian Science, jumped from a win
dow in New York and was killed.
At Houghton, Mich, Erie Peterson,
a young man, drowned in Portage lake
near the ship canal. With three com
panions he was in small boat which
capsized.
Louis Ragsdale, said to be a banker
and race-horse owner of Mobile, Ala. ;,
died in an ambulance while being
taken from his hotel to a Cleveland
hospital
Passenger train No. SO on the South
ern railway was wrecked at Richland
s. c., the locomotive being turned over.
The fireman and several passengers
were slightly hurt.
Lawyers for Fred Magill, accused of
wife murder, hope to secure his free.
dom by demanding, on his return to
Clinton, an immediate show of evil
dence sufficient to hold the prisoner.
Albert t. Patrick, granted his first
interview in New York prison, told
of renewed plans for freedom, de-
nounced the death penalty as barbaric
and eclare the nee of prison reform.
The discovery OF thick beds of as
phaltum in the Shoshone (Wyoming)
oil fields at the eastern base of Copper
mountain is reported. Many large
samples of an excellent grade have
been found.
Commander Peary, the arctic ex-
plorer, pays high tribute to the late
Prof. Angelo Heilprin in a letter
written to the professors brother. He
says Heilprin's death causes a loss to
science that is irreparable.
Major Paymaster Eugene Coffin has
had his left arm amputated at Manila.
the result OF infection from the hand
ling of money paying troops. He was
a veteran of the civil war and a mem
Der of the old Mckinley regiment.
Believing that women secretaries
to heads OF bureaus and chiefs of di-
visions are exposed to too great
temptations, Secretary Wilson forbids
their employment in that capacity In
his department
AT joint meeting of the executive
committees of the National FraternaI
congress and the Associated Fraterni-
ties of America, 1t was voted to hold
the meeting OF the two bodies on Aug.
q in Buffalo, N. Y, instead of Duluth,
Mimi
II was announced in Pittsburg that
the Carnegie Steel company Is to com.
pletely rehabilitate the Edgar Thorn
son steel plant in Braddock at a cost
of about s2,000,o0O. Larger facilities
for the manufacture of steel rails are
included in the plans.
Recent insurance legislation Is
styled unwise by Darwin p. Kingsley
newly elected president of the New
York life Insurance company, who, in
letter to policy holders. asks their
aid In getting a square deal in the
passage of laws.
The Farmers National bank of BOY.
ertown, Pa, was ordered closed by the
comptroller of the currency upon a
report showing it to be insolvent. J..
w. Scoiield, bank examiner, has been
appointed receiver. The bank has a
capital of $4,000.
A dispatch to the Portland Oregon.
ian from Seattle says official an.
nouncement of an increase in lumber
and shingle rates between the Pacific
coast and Chicago. st. Paul and st.
Louis has been made by the trans.
continental freight bureau.
The result of the vote of the mem.
oers of the Merchants association of
New York upon the preambles and
resolution approving the action OF the
government in successfully negotiating
a tariff agreement with Germany has
been overwhelmingly In support OF
the preambles. and resolution.
Cecilia Johnson. sister of "Mush.
mouth" the negro gambler of Chicago.
posed as white girl and was a Uni
yersity OF Chicago leader three years.
Warden Johnson of Sing Sing prison,
who was succeeded by Jesse ID. Frost,
declared reports of scandal In the
prison We're started by dlsgruntled
ex-convict.
Washington politicians believe Will.
lam j. Bryan had double motive In
shelving government ownership-re.
moval of an embarrassing situation for
the 1908 campaign and warding of the
disastrous blow which would be dealt
To his own hopes in case some other
candidate be nominated and defeated
on that Issue in 1905.
Letter has been received at the
headquarters OF the board of foreign
missions Of the Presbyterian church
from one, OF the medical missionaries
OF the board now in China, describ.
ing the conditions around Canton
According to DIR. ]. NJ. Swan. the
writer only laado. 4. ,,.,..-.