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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
HUNDREDS FALL IN iuzon.
Past Week of Filipino War Most Dead
IY of Its His nrY.


Last week was one of the bloodiest of
the Filipino war since the first days fight
ing around Manila. Authentic reports.
mostly official, show total of 3TS Fill
pinos killed, twelve officers and PA men
captured and many more wounded The
number wounded is hardly guessabe.
Considering that the Filipinos q tirely
lack hospital facilities great majority
of the wounded will die. Probably the
weeks work finished 900 Insurgents
The American loss was nine killed and
sixteen wounded. Two sergeants and one
private were killed in ambushes while
escorting provision trains
The insurgents have been aggressive in
almost every province of Luzon. Gen
Pic Del Pillars band, numbering 800
which was out of sight for three months,
the leader being reported killed, has re-
appeared in its old field about San Mi
guel. Pillar is supposed to be in COM
mand again. He gave the American gar
rison at San Miguel, consisting of three
companies OF the Thirty-ffth infantry,
with a Calling, three hours fight dur
ing a night attack. The loss of the in
surgents in this engagement is not in
Guided in the foregoing total, as they re.
moved their dead and wounded. but pre-
sumably it was considerable.
Twenty Filipinos in the province of Ba-
tangas attacked Lieut. Wonde, who. with
eight men, was scoting near San Jose.
The lieutenant and five men were wound
ed and one private was killed. Sergeant
Ledoius of the Thirty-ifth infantry was
badly wounded in an ambush near Bali
uag. Lieut.. Balch of the Thirty seventh
infantry, with seventy men. had a five
hours fight with 400 insurgents in the
Nueva Caeeras district. Twenty of the
insurgents were killed.
Col. Smith of the Seventeenth infantry,
who captured Gen. Montenegro and
brought him to Manila. is in the isola
ton hospital suffering from smallpox, pre-
sumably caught from the Filipinos. Col.
Smiths command captured $50 officers
and men with Montenegro.
One hundred escaped Spanish prisoners
from the province of Tayabas, south Luz
zon, have Arrived at Manila. The insur-
gents have 400 more Spaniards in that
district. Recently the Filipinos destroy
co several rods of the railroad line near
Paniquo in an unsuccessful attempt TO
wreck TRIM
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Rriet state nanpen,nrs.

y H. Brokaw of kaukauna is greatly
improved.
There is great scarcity of laboring
men az Grand Rapids.
Wolves in the vicinity of Sparta are
getting alarmingly numerous.
The first creamery built in Washburn
County has been opened At Shell Lake.
DIR. L. B. Bradley, practicing dentist
for fifty years. died at Beloit, aged IS
years.
The Republican delegates from Door
County have been instructed for ID. W.
Stebbins for Governor and Il. 5. Minor
for Congressman.
The declamatory contest between Ryan
high and Oshkosh high schools, which
was to be hell on May IL, has been post
poned until May Is.
Adqm Deshoy. a prominent resident of
Kenosha. who bro right suit against the
Milwaukee Electri Railway and Light
Company for 5000 damages for injuries
received by being thrown from a street
ear was given verdict for $500 by
the jury.
The strike in the Athens sawmills has
ended the men agreeing to return to work
pending a final settlement of their de-
mandS. About sixty men were out from
the Athens Manufacturing Company and
Brown & Co.'S mills. The Rietbroek x
Halsey men refused 10 strike The mills
are running with an ll-hour day.
Rev. Harry Thompson. who for the
past twenty years has been very nromi-
- -,
eonsin and Iowa, has retired from the
ministry He preached his last sermon
as rector Of st. Matthews Church in Ke-
nosha.
A representative Of the British Govern
ment has been at several places in Sank
County to purchase horses and mules for
army service in South Africa. The use
for which these animals are intended ne
cessitates that they be of the verF best,
and such horses and mules are row in
great demand for spring work on the
farms. Prices were firm and consequent
Is few sales were made.
There was little scare at the resi-
dence of Alex Horlick. Jr., in Racine
4 few friends, among whom was Dr.
Neachiln. We're at the hsu~e, when shot
was fired by some person outside. The
bullet lodged In the wall. 1t is thought
that some boys who were playing with a
gun hred the shot.
Theodore Eber1s. farmer residing
near the town Of Utica. shot an alligator
IN Eight-Mile creek. The animal was
four feet two inches in length and fifteen
inches around the largest part Of the
hcdv. The facts are attested Ia by the
town clerk. d. NJ. Shea. No Ont knows
where the alligator came from OF how il
GOT into the creek.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
The Adjective.

A writer in Longman's Magazine
SAYS that everybody nowadays in prose
or poetry claps on an adjective to every
noun. 1t degrades the adjective and
eneryates the noun.
Then, too. there are host of vulgar,
overdressed people introduced into our
company, whom we, the oIdfashioned
adjectives, hardly strenu-
ous.a "intense. weird, fiery" sym
pathetic splendid, SECURE, naive. !"
Impressive" poignant" mostly at
tached. too, to the wrong nouns.
There are too many adjectives. and
they carry too much sail, like Deliah.
hedecked.. ornate and gay.
| noticed. as an instance the other
way. a criticism in Il French review of
the academician sea-captain who calls
himself Pierre Lott, whose style is SO
defeated that he seldom or never uses
an adjective more startling than
good bad" green" red" dark. -
light" and so on; and yet so orders
his sentence that the adjective shines
out like a rose on brier-bush.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

their only diet was bread and water
the entrance fee was not exorbitant.
The primitive cabins of the Bernard
ines yet exist and are yet occupied, al
though a more imposing edifice has
grown up around them.
At every few steps in the convent
hangs some inscription in huge black
letters which contains the word
Death" 1t is impossible to forget for
one moment ones inevitable destiny.
"Are you prepared? This hour may be
your last. Reflect on death is a sam
pie of the inscriptions. Another one
that 1 noticed was to this effect: "That
you may not sin because you have
beautiful hair, cut it off, Beautiful
eyes and beautiful face have caused
much sin. Detest them, and think
about Death"
The nuns cemetery is within the
convent enclosures and is the favorite
resort of the Bernardines. Here they
promenade, praying for the dead, and
at 4 o'clock every day each one digs a
shovelful of earth from her own grave.
AS the Bernardines are vowed never to
speak word, the Servants of Mary at
tend 10 all Of their necessities for them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Wilmot Village in Ashes.

The most disastrous fire ever known in
Kenosha County occurred when fire de-
stroyed all the industrial portion of Viii
mot The loss is estimated at from S43,-
900 to 100000. The heaviest losers are:
Voak Brothers, millers, $33 900, with a
small amount of insurance. The fire broke
out shortly after o'clock in the after
noon and for time it seemed that the
entire village would be reduced to ashes
After the mills of the Voak Brothers
We're destroyed the flames spread to other
buildings and were not extinguished until
the open prairie was reached. On ac-
count of the fire nearly all the men in
the village are out of work 1t is sup
posed that the fire resulted from sponta-
neous combustion
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

forward and looking across the broad
e1panse of water before her. was a
beautiful girl. in the flush of her youth
and beauty.
In the wheelhouse stood a young
man. second mate of the ship, looking
at Mabel Nane. He was young, with a
bold, manly face, curling brown hair
and beard and speaking gray eyes-a
man, in grace of person, manly beauty
and pure heart--a man worthy OF the
name. He was only sailor, and had
risen to his present rank from cabin
boy, but yet he dared to love the daugh-
ter of the East Indian millionaire, Ar
thur Vane
He loved her and had no hope-loved
her as we worship a star which is far
beyond our reach. Nothing was fur
ther frolu his thoughts than TO Insult
her by telling her that he loved her; but
to be near her, to see her often, per-
haps to do some service which would
win smile from her-that was reward
enough for viii Clay
She never dreamed of his alteration;
ard he had heard her say among her
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
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FIANCeE HIS CHILD.
Photograph Leads to a Discovery an
Ends an Engagement.

Ends an Engagement.
But for an accidental discovery OF his
dead wife's picture in his affianced wife's
photograph album, Adam Cordiff, a mid
'dleaged Ohioan, living near Hopedale.
would have been married TO his own
daughter He had arrived IN Charleston,
Nv. Va, to be married to the young wom-
Jan, Miss Lucy Cole. and on the evening
before the ceremony was sitting with her
looking at the portraits in an album. He
was surprised into sharp exclamation by
seeing the picture of his wife. dead fol-
more than eighteen years. Miss Cole,
noticing the exclamation, said THAT is
my mother; she has been dead many
years"
In answer to Cordiff's excited ques.
tioning the whole story came out. Miss
Cole is not the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs,
Cole, with whom she is living They
adopted her when she was a little child
and she therefore took their name. She
said she never knew who her father was
and could not remember her mother. Her
adopted parents were able to explain
something of the story
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
THOUSANDS in HIS RAGS.
Chicago Board of Trade Character Had
a Fortune.

Chicago Board of Trade Character Had
Fortune.
1t has been learned that Sam Beswick,
an old and weil-known character on the
Chicago open Board of Trade, died re.
Gently a charity patient in the Baptist
hospital, and his death was attended by
a queer discovery on the part of the hos
pital authorities His old and tattered
clothing was found literally lined with
gold and silver certificates, and sewed
behind an inner vest pocket fifteen $1Ot
bills were found. Among the bills was a
slip of paper, on which was scrubbed:
Put in in 1885,
1t was found, after Beswick's clothing
had been ripped to pieces in the hospital,
that the old man was worth $1,000. OF
this amount $2,035 in currency was found
hidden away in the Innings of his coat and
vest. Bonds and real estate mortgages,
thought TO be worth about $1,000, were
discovered sewed inside leather pocket.
book that was stitched to the lining Of
his coat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

ton camps immediately otter the great
FIRE of Jan. 20. All Of these shoes and
other clothing were burned aud every
refugee fitted out with complete new
outfit of shoes and clothing. The au-
thcrities of Honolulu have adopted the
most heroic methods to suppress the epi-
demic, it now being the rule that when
ever a case occurs in frame building
(which it is impossible to thoroughly dis
infect it is condemned with all its con-
tents and burned TO the ground.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
The world.sLarsest Mn.

Yunnan-sen in Persia owns the larg
est man in the world. His name is
Chang-Yan Mum. Ne is seven feet
three inches in his bare feet, and is pro
portionately broad. besides which he is
a man of weight, for he turns the
scales mt $50 pounds. He was formerly
a coolie. and as he carried double loads
he earned double pay. Now he guards
the entrance TO a lnandarin's yamen
and receives the remuneration of three
soldiers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
NEWS FROM
OUR COLONIES.

An American by acquisition is the en-
gaging creature shown here. 1t is not
monkey or a nightmare. but simply Fill
pino member of the climbing marsupial
family, 1t has pouches a retiring dispo
sition like that of Aguinaldo, and bad
temper like that of Tagalog. Its sci
entitic name is tbs spotted emur. and it
is little known in this country or in Eu-
rope, because it has been found practical
ly impossible to keep specimens alive in
captivity. The few that have lived for
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Two Funerals.

rs the Rev Mr.. Brown at home:"
asked a stranger. confronted by a smil-
ing Irish maid at the parsonage door.
No. sorr he is ATTENDING a widding =
answered the maid.
Can you tell me when | shall be
likely TO find him: z" asked the caller
We'll, sorr, was the smiling reply,
Il don't know just whin he'll be back,
for he has another funeral to attind
afther. and tile both viii delay him
some time. S0rrt
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
MY SECRET.

When first assurance came to me
That thy dear heart was mine.
| wandered forth upon the lea
Alone, lest all the world sbould see,
My secret so divine.
But alb. the world has passed me by,
Aor read the secret, dear;
The poor old world, so dim of eye,
So dull of ear, 'twere vain to try
To make my feelings clear,
To those who cannot know as l
Thy heart when love draws near.
New York Home Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Not An RAM.

Can you tell me who Ananias was -
asked the old man of the proprietor OF
the book store.
LOT course can," was the reply. He
was the champion liar OF the world at
one time. Did anyone cau you Ana
Mass"
Yes. sir. Yes. called me Ananias;
and durn my buttons If l didn't think
be was giving me a bushel of praise.
Next man calls me Auanias wont know
what house fell on him. Washington
Post
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Chance for Athletics.

Farmer Yes. / want man. Are you
good jumper.
Applicant Jumper? Well, yes.
You could jump barbedwire fence
without much trouble. s'posef'
UNI s'pose so.
Well, that's all right. then: you'll
do. You see some of our bulls Is leetle
wild New York Weekly
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Many Didn't Get Paid.

Only short time ago the members Of
Company III, Second Wisconsin regiment,
u. S. ", who served in the Spanish
American war, received their back pay
for services at Camp Harvey, Milwaukee.
Now it transpires, however, that fully
thirty-fve of the Mantowoc boys failed
to get their pay, for reasons unknown to
the soldier boys. The boys are deter
mined to get at the bottom of the matter
and cannot understand why their pay
should be withheld when the other mem
bers of the company have all been paid.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Finds Bod y of Mrs. Mary Bigns.

The body of Mrs Mary Bigus was tax
en- from the river at Milwaukee, where
it had evidently been since she disappear
ed March 16 1t was identified by her
sister, who said that Mrs. Bigus' husband
had been accidentally killed six months
ago, and since that time Mrs. Bigus had
often been respondent. Forty-six dol
lars in currency was found in the pocket
of her dress, together with a note saying
this was for her funeral expenses.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

1t is probable that a petition will be sent
10 Gov. Scofeld asking for the pardon of
George Harris, the 11-year-old boy who
was charged with having robbed a woods
man of SO and was taken to the indus
trial school. The town of Amberg is all
stirred up over the affair and stonecutters
in the big quarry are taking up collec-
ton to defray any expenses incurred in
getting him released Nothing was PROV
en- against the lad
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Woman Burned to Death.

Mrs. Ann Butterworth, aged 50 years
and one of the Oldest residents in RAJ
cine County, met with a terrible death
at her home, three miles west of Racine.
While engaged in preparing her dinner
her clothing caught fire. and, in attempt
ing to smother the flames, set fire to the
curtains and bed clothing. She attempted
to leave the house, but failed, and neigh
bors. noticing the smoke, hurried TO the
scene. When they entered the dwelling
they found the sitting room in flames and
Mrs. Butterworth in her armchair, a foot
from the doorway, burned to a crisp. 1t
was by hard work that the body was car
ried from the house and the building saw
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

columns of flame which shot into the
air announced the fate of the Gray
Eagle. They reached the islands safely
after week had passed.
+
There is a young man who sails a
steamer from London to Alexandra,
whose name is Will Clay, and he is
married. The name of his wife is Ma
bel, for Arthur Vane, having found a
man." knew how to make him all his
own.-Exchange.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

The Prime Minister was idly turning
the pages of a book Of proverbs and
pitky sayings which he had found
among the effects Of the late mission
ary.
II wonder what this means.r be said
suddenly. "One mans meat Is anoth-
er mans poison.
Perhaps. replied the cannibal king.
iii refers TO the fact that the cigarette
smoker is not edible. New York
Fress.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
A SAILORS LOVE.

HE Gray Eagle
W G n t on her
course, parting
the waves of the
Indian o C G a n
She vas a packet
steamer in the
G IN ploy of q
great E II g Il S h
company, a n d
carrie d many
p a S 5 e n g e r s.
Among I b g S e,
standing on the
promenade deck
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
MANY Factories Will Close.

Oshkosh sash and door men assert that
there is strong likelihood of a general
shutdown of factories of that line. Ow-
ing to the strikes in the building trades
business is very light, and at the meeting
at Chicago the proposition to suspend for
two or three weeks was canvassed and
written agreement TO that effect pass
ed around. 1t was signed by all who
were present and will be sent to those abb
sent. Some of the local factories are
running light as it is and shutting down
occasionally The Oshkosh factories en-
ploy about 200 men,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

II is said that cowbclls are produced
only in four factories in the United
States, aud are made just the same as
they were 100 years ago. and sound the
same. There are ten sizes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01
Side Lights on.
the BOer War:

Mrs. Joubert. the widow of the late
Boer general, has from the days OF her
earliest childhood been used to war 5
alarms. She can load and FIRE off gun,
and on many occasions has shown the
greatest courage. She has an extensive
knowledge Of Kaffir warfare and her adj
vice has often been acted upon by her
husband, plans of campaign being freely
discussed over her dinner table. During
the Magatoland campaign she, notwith-
standing the heat-over 100 degrees in
the shade-and the fever, joined the gen
eral a week or two after his arrival, ac-
companied by only two or three little
Kafir maids. Finding Gen. Joubert in
anything but a comfortable tent, she rout-
ed him out. erected a tent of her own
and installed him amid all the comforts
of home. What was more. she recon
structed the generals mess arrangements
and cooked his meals with her own hands
If the printed pictures Of British Off
GERS in South Africa are true to life they
reveal the secret of the great mortality
among them. The large per cent Of killed
and wounded officers has been attributed
generally to the superior craftsmanship
of the Beers. The latter undoubtedly
shoot well, but it does not require high
order of craftsmanship to top over men
clad in knickers with bosoms built on the
balloon order The central feature Of
the uniforms look as though the bishop
sleeves" worn by women few years ago
had been converted into abbreviated
trousers for the warriors at the front. aud
the anderpinning is so long drawn Out
as to present the appearance Of golf sticks
ia boots. The veriest amateur could
scarcely miss such irresistible target
They would provoke an unloaded gun %
action.
Gen. Lord kitcheucr's reputation has
been seriously Compromised not only by
his strategic bIunder AZ Paardeburg,
which cost 800 men IN single days
fighting. but also by the complete failure
of Lord Roberts transport service. which
Gen. Kitchener organized Kifchener's
expedition through northern Cape Colony
to auelI the rebellion also proved an utter
fiasco. and his officers. among whom his
stern. overbearing methods make him
highly unpopular. write most disparaging
1y concerning him.
-:-:-
There are just now three living Brit
ish peers who have won their peerages
on the attIcfeld-yiscounf Wolscley.
Lord Roberts OF Kandahar, and Lord
Kitchener Of khartoum.
49,
1t Is leara0s that the Boer govern
ments have formally notified Portugal
that they consider the shipping Of British
troops and munitions Of war to Rhodesia
By way OF Beira, Portuguese East AT
RIGA. to be fantamount to hostile action.
This, however, VIII not stop Gen. Sir
Frederick CarFington's force from enter
sss=-ss-- = neither or not the Beers
will make reprisals upon Portugal re-
mains to be seen. though the best inform
ed opinion inciines 10 the belief that the
Beers are not likely TO back up their pro-
test with action that would bring them
into hOstilities with still another power.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

A tale of cruelty such as might have
been perpetrated in the middle ages was
told in the police court at Milwaukee. The
sufferer was a 15-year-old boy and the,
fortunes. it is charged. was inflicted upon
him by his father, John Vana. laborer.
The father swore out a warranl for the
arrest of his son Frank for vagrancy The
boy was found in the custody of a com
mission merchant by the name of Suess,
living across the street from his home.
When the boy was brought into the court
his haggard appearance attracted atten-
ton. Under promise of protection the
boy told his story. He said his father
beat him constantly, and when he had
been drinking would tie up hislegs tightly
with rope and crowd him into an old
trunk, through the sides of which large
nails had been driven. so that he could
not stir without the nails tearing his flesh.
He had been kept in the Trunk for hours
at a time, so he ran away. The father
made no denial and the mother admitted
the facts of the torture, but said she
could not help it. The boy was told to 90
back to Suess and the parents warned to
leave him alone
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-01

The average walking pace Of a
healthy man or woman is said TO be
seyenty-five steps a minute.