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was arrested at Philadelphia charged with using the mails to defraud heirs of a wealthy Englishman.
The body of John Kraus, an old soldier, was found in the woods near Rockfield, Wis. The man had died from exposure and hunger.
The monthly statements show a surplus of $11,227,036 in receipts over expenditures for September. The public debt shrinks $16,122,090.
Mrs. Langtry reached New York to begin an engagement in vaudeville and declared it is "tabloid tragedy," not a "sketch," she is to give.
Control of the Wisconsin Central railroad reported about to be transferred to some eastern trunk line, possibly the Erie or Canadian Pacific. A run started on the German State bank at Freeport, Ill., following rumors that it was insolvent. All demands were met and the panic subsided.
Advices from the gulf coast storm region bear out the estimates of the loss of 200 lives and the destruction of property worth upward of $10,000,000.
President Roosevelt dined with the jackies on the battleship Missouri after target practice and smoked a cigar the men got for him from the canteen.
At Janesville for the first time in the history of the city out of 1,885 pupils enrolled in the city schools the boys outnumber the girls by twenty-five
Car ferry No. 2 of the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad turned turtle at the mouth of the Chicago river and three of its crew of six men were drowned.
Attorney General Moody and Secretary of the Treasury Shaw will retire during winter and Ambassador Meyer will be named to fill one of the vacancies.
Senator Piatt tried to evade a settlement with Mrs. Piatt by giving his property to his sons. His wife's ultimatum is: "He bought my beauty: let him pay the price."
Frank P. Phillips, 14 years old, of De Pere, has sued the Portage Transit company of Duluth for $10,000 for injuries resulting from a cake of ice falling on his hand.
New York creditors filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy against George Freeman & Co. of Syracuse, clothing manufacturers. The liabilities are $90,000, with small assets.
Blackmailers extorted $20,000 from Mrs. R. T. Robinson, the wealthy woman of Racine, under threats of death. Two men were arrested in Milwaukee accused of the crime.
The loss of life by the storm along the gulf coast is estimated at 250; damage to property, $10,000,000. Picturesque little towns planted along shore were wiped out of existence.
Brigadier General Samuel M. Mills, chief of artillery, has been placed on the retired list on his own application on account of illness. He was succeeded by Colonel Arthur Murray.
The case of Caleb Powers, under sentence of death for the assassination of William Goebel in January, 1900, was passed to the February term by agreement of counsel at Georgetown, Ky.
At Kenosha grave apprehension is felt on account of the rapid spread of typhoid fever. Seven cases are now being cared for at the Kenosha hospital, and scores of other cases are reported in different parts of the city.
Two prominent Kenosha merchants brought into court pleaded guilty to violations of the pure food law by selling impure pepper. The fines, $25 and costs in each case, were paid by representatives of the Chicago wholesale houses
The date for the dedication of the new $50,000 Carnegie library at Lawrence university has been set for Oct. 19, and President Harris of Northwestern university, Evanston, Ill., and President Van Hise of Wisconsin university will be the principal speakers.
Gov. Davidson has appointed the following delegates to represent Wisconsin at the annual meeting of the upper Mississippi river improvement association, which will be held at Minneapolis, Oct. 9 and 10: Senator J. A. Frear, Hudson; Walter Owen, Maiden Rock; J. L. Orr, Glen Haven; E. C. Higbee and James Thompson, La Crosse.
Architect A. C. Clas of Milwaukee has been appointed by Gov. Davidson as a member of the Devils Lake and Wisconsin Dells park commission, which was created by the legislature two years ago to investigate and report on the advisability of the state purchasing the land around Devils lake and the Wisconsin dells for park
