News of the World in Badgerdom and Local Happenings
August Anderson a section hand was killed by a train at Stockholm. Deer weighed 41 pounds shot in Flambeau river country. Daniel Wolff of Shields, Dodge county, died by his own hand slashing his throat. William Younger, 15, killed a family of twelve in a hollow stump in Wood county. Rev. Joseph Wells to Snohomish pastorate. Manitou county pensions set twice yearly. First Socialist club formed in Dunn county at Wheeler with C. B. Bird president and D. E. Crosby secretary. Chief Justice Cassady improving at Madison. Upham family to Europe after holidays. Manitowoc steamer incident injures a sailor. Cheese farming festival draws 1500+ attendees. Police raid finds hut with youths and guns. Enquity to move to Madison. Manitowoc YMCA reaches 226 members. Sugar beet crop largest ever in Door county. Pound watchman caught with ten pounds of dynamite. John Johnson of Onalaska committed to Mendota asylum. Kinney of Colfax to manage mining firm, moving to Seattle. Burglars steal furs in Superior. Coal shipments exceed last year. Robbery suspects flee after shotgun threat. Henry Beffel dies in freighter accident. Bankruptcy case reopened in Madison. Winnebago County Medical Society elects officers. Racine insane asylum costs high per patient. Sheboygan couple spared jail with wife paying fine.
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Badgerdom
August Anderson
Stockholm
Flambeau
Daniel Wolffre
Shields
Dodge County
William Younger
Wood County
Joseph Wells
Congregational
Washhs
Snohomish
Waan
Sheboygan County
Sheboygan Falls
J. B. Cassady
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Madison
W. H. Upham
Marshfield
Europe
Italy
Mediterranean
Manitowoc
Alva
Chicago
Monma Kaeseverein
Tilleson
Menomonie
Enquity
Uial
C. P. Chapman
Young ’4Men’s Christian Association
Door County
E. E. Bolles & Co
John Johnson
Onalaska
Mendota Insane Asylum
C. G. Kinney
Colfax
Butte Ang Oregrande Mining and Milling Company
Seattle
Wash
A. W. Lindstrom
Superior
Northwest
Johnson
Racine
W. Elfchicke
Waukegan
Mgr
Enry C. Beffel
Financial and political notices from 1907 era edition
Long column of foreign affairs obituaries and legislative items. Mentions German France Morocco tensions shipboard gifts to sailors from Miss Helen Gould with bibles, Swedish coronation of Gustav V, Russian empress, Italian repatriation, and several U.S. bills in Congress relating to banking hours post office harbor improvements and fish hatcheries. Obituaries include Marcellus Hopkina Henry O Haysmeyer Nelson Moore and Clara Bloodgood. Also Wisconsin and national senate actions and tariff resolutions.
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D ‘Gald
Pacific
Helen Gould
Naval
Young Men's Christian Association
Germany
France
Morocco
Gustav V
Sweden
Oscar I
Russia
Oran
Naples
Koch
Nordduetsche Allgemine Zeitung
Imperial Band
Berlin
Havenstein
Seehandlaga
Cardinal Cretani
Congregation of Sacred Rites
Rome
Pius IX
Chicago and New York News in Brief
Crowded tenements raise Chicago death rates while Milwaukee divorce cases surface. Chicago figures attack Jewish schooling. Roosevelt touts bathhouses over politics. Police hunt for Lillian Wulff. Fairbanks boom rooms noted. Edward Morris residence robbed. Emma Hansen death under surgeon’s knife probed. New York news covers Margaret Pilneton illness. Hughes reelection talk. Panama bond bids. Buffalo coal cargo end. Metz proposes auction of municipal franchises. McCormick manslaughter case dismissed.
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Chicago
James’ Iates
Milwaukee
W.S. Rountrep
Hanly
Indiana
Emil G. Hirsch
Lillian Wulff
Fairbanks
Edward Morris
Herbert L. Swift
Healy
Emma Mildred Hansen
Roosevelt
New York
Margaret Pilneton
Page
Hughes
John J. Arisio
Tralian Savings Bank
Lincoln League
Samuel Byerley
Panama
Cortelyou
Buffalo
Metz
Queensborough
Ira A. McCormick
New York Central Railway
Woodlawn
Atterpy
Congressional Summary of Finance Committee Probes
Washington reports Tillman introduces resolutions directing the finance committee to investigate treasury department actions amid the financial crisis and to inquire into clearing house certificates. Culberson seeks data on Panama canal bonds issuance and banks’ counts and public money deposits by state and territory on specified dates. Allison suggests deferral due to Aldrich absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Senate
Aldrich
Senate Committee In Finance
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Panama’ Canal
Interior Movement
Clapp
Washington, D. C
Tillman
Committee On Finance
Culbertson
Allison
Culberson
Bill to restore the canteen debated in Congress
Reported measures include injunctions against state-law operations, a public buildings package for Wisconsin sites with 50 000 to 360 000 dollar sums, a 100 000 dollar gateway and fog signal for Apostle Islands, and tariff and postmaster compensation bills. Brig Gen McKenzie sent Maj Judson's engineer report on Milwaukee Kewaunee harbor improvements.
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Quibernon
Spertone
A. J. Sabath
Chicago
Sabath
W W. W. Wilson
Cary
Stafford
Milwaukee
Menominee
Kuestermann
Fish Commission
Davidson
Stevens' Point
St. Mary's ‘Catholic
Oshkosh
Washington
Clayton
Alabama
Moras
Wisconsin
Antigo
Booker
Missouri
McKenzie
Congress
Fire destroys six story building in Chicago district
Fire swept a six story Canal Street structure housing Findlay Wall Paper and George K Paige companies near West Harrison, causing about 125000 dollars in damage. The blaze began Saturday night and left the building destroyed, with electrical contractors noted among occupants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dee
Harrison
Canal Street
Findlay Wall
Paper Company
George K. Paige Company
Telectrical Contractors
Pere Marquette Ballpark Elects New President
New York Dec 15 The Pere Marquette directors elected William Cotter president. He is the general manager for the receivers and led the property during the receivership that has just ended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pere Marquette Ballpoay
William Cotter
Wing estate valued near six hundred thousand dollars
Administrators of the estate of the late Colonel Isaac H. Wing of Bayfield filed a county court schedule showing total appraisement around 600000 dollars. Most value consists of stocks and bonds with about 78000 dollars in cash in banks. The state will receive an inheritance tax of about 28000 dollars.
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Wing
Washburn
Wis
Isaac H. Wing
Bayfield
Cokonel
Denounce Parcela Post Plan by Postmaster General
Chicago December 15 resolutions denouncing the parcel post plan of Postmaster General Meyer were passed by the Western Wholesale Shoe Dealers Association during its annual session Saturday night. The meeting in Chicago reflected broad opposition to the parcel post proposal as announced by the federal administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parcela Post
Chicago
Parcela-Post
Post
Meyer
Western ‘Wholesale Shoe “Dealers
Association
Tulane Shoe Factory Burns in New Orleans Blaze
A large Tulane shoe factory in New Orleans burned Sunday morning. The fire, reported in the early hours, razed a major southern manufacturing unit and caused extensive damage to the plant and surrounding area. No casualties are yet reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Southern
New Orleans
Tulane Shoe
South
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the Postville Review
A. E
Burdick, Puba
Stville
Iowa
News OF the World
Eafety Deposit
Hils
United States Court
Winnebago County Medical Society
J. M. Conley
F. W. A.brown
F. B. Ackley
Councellor
Gordon Todd
Neenah
State Board of Control
Racine County Insane Asylum
Sheboygan
Frank Ziwatkous
Gitlin
Goldfield
Monongha
W. Va
Hopkinsville
Joss
Ahren
Philinsine Bureau of Forestry
Islands
Hudson
Pittsburg
Lama
Marshalltown
Bud
Kenneth
Gerald Carnal
Tama
Belleverson
Naomi
J.J D. O'Neil
Hahnville
Nicolina Gebbia
Leonardo
Pivaster’ Lamana
Gebbias
Moore
Nashville
Francis B. Hart
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Yarks Bank of Commerce
National Bank of Commerce
Great Northern Railroad Company
General Electric Company
Schnectady
N. Y
Cascade Tunnel
Cascade Mountains
Somerville
Mass
Emery Huntley
Raymond Shomo
Caroline Huntley
John A. Steele
Everett
Edward Cohen
American Federation of Labor
Boston
State House
Suffolk County
Dennis D. Driscoll
Louisville and
Nash Ville
Montgomery
Ala
Sater
Ystone Tumbler Company
National ‘Pany
Samuel ‘Gompers
American Feclaration of Labor
Nev
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Goethals
Col. Goetaals
Root
Amassador
Frye
Cannon
House
State Department
Army
Cumming
Marcellus’ Hopkina
Henry O. Haysmeyer
American
Sugar’ Refining
Pailberaers
Nelson Mooroe
Alden
Erie County
Union College of Law
St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church
William Laimber
Clara Bloodgood
Baltimore
Hugh Birkhead
Berland
Legare
Shockley
Sun’ Prairie
William ‘H. Shine
National Home
Hook
George Steckenbauer
Baraboo
Nellie B Young
la Follette
Wisconsin Federation of Labor
Representative Hall
South Dakota
Pere Marquette Road
Bob Kidney
Aare
Ian Ea
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