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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
M'KiNLEY AND ROOSEVELT
Republican, National Ticket Wins by {
Good NTaiorifx

NSpUDIICan NATIONAL IIcket Wits by a
Good Majority.
William Mckinley and Theodore
Roosevelt have been elected President
and. Vice President respectively, by a
majority Of electoral votes larger than
that given in 1896 TO Mckinley and Ho-
bart. The Republican tendency through
out the nation was strong enough appar-
emily, to secure the election OF a Congress
which will be Republican in both houses.
The State of New York, in spite of the
strenuous efforts made TO secure an over
whelming Bryan vote in New York City,
has given the Republican candidates a
large plurality. Illinois. Michigan, Min
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
strange Murder of a Woman.

The body Of Pearl Forbes, aged 20
years, was found in ravine near her
home in Lcavenworth. Marks on her
throat Indicated she had been murdered
BY strangulation. The surroundings gave
evidence of terrible struggle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Fastest Boat Is LAUNCHED.

The Arrow, designed TO be the fastest
ship afloat. was launched at New York.
Ii is being built for Charles r. Flint.
The contract calls for speed of forty
two miles an hour. and it is thought il
will make fifty
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
GOULD AND CAFES REAcH our.
Plan Gigantic Railway Syndicate for
Chicaon-Te~pa Ira ffic

According to story which came out
IN Cleveland, a new railroad syndicate
has been formed by the Goulds, K. II.
Hartman and John w. Gates. The new
syndicate has now under its contract the
Chicago and Alton and its allied inter
ests, the Kansas City Southern, tne Wa
bash, the Missouri Pacific and the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas and other prop
critics in the southwest country. These
roads are to be put into a pool with
Texas roads, the object being to lessen
the competition and to make possible a
new through service to the Texas terri
torys which has not been obtainable out
of Chicago hitherto.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Candidate Commits Suicide.

Henry E. Proctor, county treasurer for
four years and Republican candidate for
State Senator in the Seventeenth Dis
trict. committed suicide with laudanum
at Grand Rapids Mich.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
WILL CONTROL THE HOUSE.

Republicans Elect a Safe Working
Majority in Congress.
The Republican landslide has included
the House of Representatives, and that
body will be in control of the party which
has held it since the Fifty-fourth Com
gresS, Returns received up TO l o'clock
Wednesday morning show that the Re
publicans will have 1917, the Democrats
152, fusion S-thereby making a clear
Republican majority of 81. These figures,
however, are not conclusive
THE SENATE
States Rep Dem, Ind.
Alabama 5000. ..... , "
Arkansas .............. :.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Democrots Keen the Ounces.

In Frankfort, Ky. the Court of APP
peals handed down decision holding
that the action of the State board of
election commissioners in awarding GER
tificates of election TO the Democratic
minor State officers was final and that
the court had no power 10 interfere.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Saws Beating Kills Woman.

Mrs. Wilhelmina Pearson died at Guas-
ton;a, Ga, from the effects of a beating
alleged to have been given her by Jonas
Swink in his home at Woodruff, S. c.
some time during September. Swink, .
man of wealth and with a family, inHu
entail in cotton mill circles, has been com
mitted to Jail for murder
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Population of Indiana.

The population OF the State Of Indiana.
as officially announced by the census
bureau. is 2.516.4te as against 2.1a2. &04
in 1890 This is an increase OF 81. as.
or lA.7 per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
En,,s In nark 70 naa,h-

John Hewitt. Philadelphia nsanufac-
turer well known in the carpet business.
WAS found lying unconscious and in dy-
ing condition at the base Of fight OF
stairs az his home Death ensGed in an
hour after he was found.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Eirht KiIled i'm Couanse.

Eight persons We're killed and many
were injured by the collapse of the upper
STORY of the hotel Of the Three Crowns,
which is being rebuilt in Stetttiih, Geg-
many.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Preacher victim of Hunting Mi.hap

Rev. stephen f. Reed. a recent gradu-
ate OF the Princeton Theological Semi
nary, was accidentally shot and killed
while hunting in the neighborhood Of
I.awrenceville. \. ]. Mr.. Reed had only
been married six months. Ii was John
Bahrenhurg who killed the minister. !.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

Burglars forced the safe in the office
OF James Doolittle. trustee of OH town
ship, Ind, and decamped with $1,000 in
cash and valuable notes. The money be-
longs TO the township and had been re-
served Cor school house purposes
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Rich Find i'm kooteney.

A dispatch from CambOurne. a new
town in kootenay. says very rich 6nd
OF free gold in deeompoSed ore has Just
been made. Qusrtx from a fisSGre vein
assays several thousand dollars to the
ton, and is freely sprinSled with coarse
srnlE
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Enda l.if.. on Account OF Politics

James Elliott. Jr., of Manchester. y.
H., committed suicide by shooting him
self through the heart. He was morose
because he and his father differed in
their views ON politics.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah Munyan of Vine
land. \. j., are the parents of a wonder
full baby girl. They can boast that al
though seventeen weeks old. this infant
weighs fifty pounds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

Two electric cars on the Cincinnati,
Lawrence and Aurora Electric Railway
collided near Cleves, Ohio, owing to
misunderstanding of orders. The cars
were wrecked and eleven passengers in
Sured, some seriously. none fatally
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Discouraged Inventor Kills Himself

In Pittsburg Louis Diekering. q sick
and discouraged inventor. hung himself
with his trousers belt because he could
not make perpetual mossaa rocking
e,ysk and steamboat withe>< paddle
-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Ruainess Mnn Is Shot.

j. H. Holland was shot through the
head aud heart st Alvarado, Texas. by
Ray Hampton and instantly killed. Both
were prominent in business circles.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Abel p. I,pham Take~ Acid.

IN health Abel i. URham. a director OF
the firm and in charge Of the tea depart
ment Of Sprague. Warner \ Co, Chicago,
for quarter OF century. committed
suicide at his home by taking esrbolic
acid.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

4 typhoen has occurred at Turan,
Anam, causing great destruction. Six
teen hundred persons persisted and 1850
were rendered homeless
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Legislators Hurt in a Fight,

A bloody fight occurred on the special
train bringing the Georgia legislators to
Valdosta, Ga, to attend the State fair
Several of the members engaged in 8
quarrel in which knives were freely used
Mr.. Harden of Wilkes County was stab
bed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Conper TO Demand Indemnity.

Minister Conger is instructed 10 de-
mand ample but not excessive indemnity
from China for death, injury and losses
Of Americans
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

Grant Reiner and J. Ralph Griffith,
gamblers, between whom i'll feeling had
existed for long time met in saloon
at Middlesboro. Ky. Each at once drew
mis- pistol and the duel lasted until both
men fell dead
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

~ announced by the census bureau, is 81
53I, as compared with 81, 105 in 1890
This is an increase of 31,S26, or Oh per
cent
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
STUDENTS PROTEST But YIELD.
Trouble at Mount Union College, Alli-
auce Ohm. Is T. rded

ance, OhlO, Is II lded.
The trouble between the faculty and
students at Mount Union College, ALI
ance, Ohio, has eliminated by the strik-
ers giving in. President Riker addressed
the students, saying that the faculty
could not recede, and subsequently the
boys, after issuing protest against what
they regard as the unjust treatment Of
two of the suspended students, agreed to
comply with the action of the faculty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Repnbiicans Arc winuers,

The general election on Tuesday re
suited in the election of Mckinley and
Roosevelt, the Republican nominees, and
gave control OF Congress To that party.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Drea,ned Husband Would Die

Edward w Freeman Of Kokomo. Ind,
one of the speakers at a Democratic bar
becue at Peru, was stricken with paraly-
sis on the return train. The night before
his wife dreamed he was brought home
dead from Peru, and tried to keep him
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
CATCHES OHIO couNTERFElTERs.
Marshal Dye Lands Three Men and
They Saw ONT of IaiL

They Saw Ont of Jail.
At Marietta, Ohio, when Marshal Dye
was driving TO the First Ward polls,
three suspicious looking men started to
run. He followed and arrested them.
When searched valuable papers and coun-
terfeit money We're found on them With
10 fifteen minutes after being put in jail
they sawed their way out by cutting
through the Hoor and started across the
hi9s
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
At,ant;c I.;ner Damage,,.

Atlantic liner st. Paul suffered dam
ages Of S250,000 by collision with dere-
liet at sea and reached New York late
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
THAT s7oo, 900 THIEF.

The New York Note Teller, Alvord,-
Now Under Arrest.
The defalcation of Cornelius l.. Alvord
Jr, who appropriated 100000 Of thu
finds of the First National Rank az Ncyr
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

completed the first practical airship since
its factory was established at Elm Mott,
Texas The whole machine will weigh
go pounds and will carry three to five
people. Tue inventor is w. d. Custard,
a telegraph opei ator at Elm Mott
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

Although the type OF typhoid fever Il.
as severe ia England ss it ever was, the
death rate during the last twenty I've
years has been diminished so per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

Fonr houses near the governments Va
men in Canton were blown up and nary
people killed. II is charged that one 81
ne houses was the reGormers' arseaN.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Nv Hone for Mrs NJavbrick

The appointment of Mr.. Richie as
home secretary of England affords new
hope to the friends of Mrs. Maybrick
who say Sir Matthew White Ridley, the
retiring home secretary. was prejudiced
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

Nineteen cars went into the river az
New Athens, Mo. by bridge span COZ
IA eziag The loss Is 100000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

ImosrE White. II. New YORK 81
tampses eide because she failed 10 win
got7 ss1dai At school. VIII recover.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

The Custard Airship Company. which
was Incorporated several months ago with
capital stock OF 100000. has about
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
ROBBERS LOOT A WHOLE TOWN.


Blow Bank Safe, Enter Residences and
Shoot at Citizens.
Every store in the town plundered, the
safe of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank blown open with heavy explosives,
the building wrecked, and $1,000 in
money secured, residences entered and
looted, citizens shot at and driven back
into their homes by desperate men, parad-
ing up and down the streets firing revolv-
ers, while their confederates plundered,
is the result of nocturnal visitation of
a band of robbers to the town of jackson
Center. Ohio
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
HOUSE.
M'KIlVLEY STATES.
Electoral Votes.
ELECTORAL Votes.

According
ties 7 Mckinley and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

W. c. Townsend vas caught on q rail-
road bridge near LOuiyville, Ky. He at
tempted 10 let himself down between the
ties He became wedged and the apr
preaching train decapitated him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

A large meteor fesl near Lexington.
Ky.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
pEIAMARE.
WEsT vIRGINIA.
NEBRASKA.
wyoming has gone Republican b 1000

Wyoming has gone Kepublican b 1000
majority.
The Republican majority in Indiana IS
about 10000.
Bryan slept while the returns came in.
bnt not Till be had been assured Of de-
feat
Illinois IS Republican, by between co.
600 and 100000 on the national ticket.
Two men were killed Ind three wound
ed dariag a fight bet xeen police and dep
uty sheriffs at q Denver polling place.
Both Republicans AMI Democrats are
surprised by the election reta~ns. indieat-
ing Mckinley's reelection by the largest
majority in history.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
BATTLE OF THE BALLOTS.


COMPLEXION
SENATE.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13

Necessary to elect, pa.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-15
NO YELLOW PERIL.
st. PAN pionecr Press.l

People whose dreams are haunted by
the specter of The yellow peril which
will confront the world when China
shall have adopted European arms and
trained it's 4O0.000.o00 of people in mod
ern methods OF warfare lose sight of
one Very important fact That is. that
while the Asiatic populations are either
stationary or declining, he popuia-
tions of European origin are increasing
AT a tremendous rate. as shown in part
by the recent United states census y
hundred years ago as Robert Giifen
points our. The European populations
of the world could not have exceeded
40 900. 600 in numbers. Now they foot
up something over 800. 600 600. 1T would
take NJ least hundred years to lift
the slow, tradition bound conscrva-
tive Chinese to the Europcan level in
the use of arms and in the strategy of
warfare. Meanwhile the population of
European nations-and particularly OF
the Anglo Saxon section-wiil at the
present rate OF increase have reached
fully 1,5O0.O0oO0O. We shall thus be
able to face the assumed yellow peril
with a numerical strength at least
three times as great MS that Of the chi
nese. And it isn't at all likely that
While the Orientals are learning, we of
the Occidcnt shall remain stationary
in the material and moral development
which, more than numbers. constitutes
the real strength of the nations.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-15
OUR COLONIAL POLICY.
lSt. Innis Rnnilhiic.l

In the final formulation of our colo
NAL policy" which may now he expect
ed at a not remote date. its possible APP
peal to the people Of the Philippines
and, as may hereafter develop. to the
people of Cuba. is necessarily weakened
by the unhappy record established in
the case of Porto Rico.
1t must be confessed that tho right
has not prevailed as governing the ac-
ton of the Mckinley administration to-
ward the Porto Rican people. as the
only alien people that consented TO our
government it was to have been hoped
that we should deal with peculiar mag
nanimity and fairness toward the Porto
Ricans. They were glad to be Ameri-
cans. They believed that the tyrauni-
cal government of Spain was 10 be eN-
changed for just and equal govern
ment They were promised an the
privileges of American citizenship.
All that they have received has been
q government which, FOR the solo and
exclusive benefit Of the Sugar Trust.
and at Sugar Trust dictation. has
placed upon them q tariff tax burden
which has still more completely impov-
erishcd them and destroyed their trade.
They have been made S5-rer cent.
American citizens, in violation OF the
American Constitution ana OF our spe-
cial pledge to them a the time of the
invasion of their country. There IS no
denying this shameful truth. IL has
heon repeatedly asserted by eminent
RepubIicans not afraid to speak their
mird3.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-15
OUR INDIANS.
lRrnnliivn E,ngle.l }

NlDtOOktEll I.tSltsJ
1t has been supposed, at least al
legged. that The American Indian was
dying out. and that we should have
nobody to replace him but negroes.
Slavs, Arabs Greeks. Polacks. Italians
and Filipinos. According to state
mcnts made by the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs. we have about 26S,000
red men in the United states. of
whom more than 80 900, beside those
in the schools. are kept in a state OF
paupcriSm by reliance on Government
rations. We are treating our charges
better than we used to do. because we
are trying in IL small way to make
them independent. With the disap-
pearanCe OF game in this country, cs-
pecially The buffalo, which WAS the
most important of the food animals
of America IL becomes necessary to
feed the Indians who formerly fed on
game. unless We can educate them out
of barbarism and qualify them for
earning the same sort of living as n
white man. This we are doing. at last,
as the schools in Carlisle and on the
reservations indicate, Vet the fact OF
keeping the Indians on reservation.
of innicting punishments on them If
they leave and of treating them like
children and pauners is n deterrent to
their mental and moral growth and in
dependence.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-15
A NEWSPAPER TO TELL ALL THE
TRUTH.
The Brooklyn Eagle says:


Life in this town will be unusually
interesting If the ideal newspaper is
started which DIR. Parkhurst says some
capitalists are about to endow The
paper is to tell the whole truth about
everything. The people are TO believe
everything which it prints and it's opin
IONS Will be affected in no way by adj
Vertising or by political patronage. 1t
VIII be just as enterprising as the most
successful papers in America and it
Will cover all the ground which they
cover. And 1t will have convictions of
what is right and what is wrong. Be
side. 1t will lead public opinion instead
OF following 1t, as the preacher thinks
too many of the existing newspapers
do"
Although there are several news
papers in New York that are present
~ pretty heavily endowed" by capital
lists, by all means fetch on the kind
that Is to tell the whole truth about
everything" The country has been
hearing of this project for several
years now. There are people in New
York with money to burn. There are
printers out of n job. The Paper
| Trust always has room for one more
| way of this newspaper which is to
take public opinion by the forclock and
lead it whittier it will.
This venture should settle many
questions. One of them is, does every
body else know more about running
Il newspaper than the newspaper man?
Hitherto the world has been sharply
| paper man on one side and everybody
| else on the other Maybe Il solution
| OF the problem is at hand, for of
course the new newspaper will not
have on 1T men trained and Initiated
In other schools of Journalism. On the
contrary, we take it. young gentlemen
| fresh from college with gold-rimmed
glasses and Ideals will make up its
| reportorial STAFF. while its editors will.
one and all, have it in for the Monster
of Iniquity, in whatever guisc he
caper The Wanamaker store news"
will be rigdly censored and everything
but facts will be blue penciled. from
the offerings of the real estate agent
and the cut-price clothier.
The paper will start off with an i'm
mense clientage comprising every man
who wants the whole truth told of
himself and others, and 1t will never
lose any subscribers. 1t will have n
special vogue in New York. where
there is nothing to tell that anybody
would mind and among the statesmen
at Washington who never have any
thing to conceal. When this endowed
newspaper has demonstrated it's
splendid practicablity the way will be
open for the endowed doctor, the en-
dowed lawyer, the endowed merchant.
the endowed plumber. The endowed
circus will be n supernuity.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-15
THE CORONATION.
(NYashington Times.l

According to reports from Republi-
can headquarters the second Inaugural
ton of Mr.. Mckinley is TO be some
thing unheard of in the annals of spec
tacularity. Money is 10 be positively
no object. There will be free trans
portation for oiIiceseckers from all
over the country. II is intended 10
have 81 longer and thicker military and
civic procession than has ever been
seen In Washington The Republican
National Committee has enough of the
trust fund left over TO pay the expenses
Of all contestants for seats in Congress.
ana every defeated Republican candi-
date in the Southern states~is expected
to be on hand with his brief and ac-
cept royal entertainment until the
Committee on Elections can provide
for him permanently. An colored po-
litical organizations will be expected
to attend and will be furnished free
Transportation ana maintenance while
here. AS Il force bill is to be the chief
feature of the new Administration, its
Southern bencfciaries will see the
necessity of being on hand to give the
scheme a good send OF Hanna is the
man to pay the freight.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-15
NOTES AND OPINIONS.
THE WORLDS GOLD RESERVES.
CPittsburg Post.)

The Federal Treasury has more gold
than is held by any other National
Treasury. France until recently held
the first place, her bank having sii4,
5SI,754 of the yellow metal. The Bank
of Russia comes next. with S3i6,S90, 100;
the Bank of England fourth, with
about $500. 100000. our position as Il
gold country is really stronger than
the Treasurys holding of $i5l. 4t1,4OI OF
gold indicates. since the National
banks, according to official reports,
hold SSl2.OO0.0O0 of gold in addition.
Including the considerable amounts of
gold held by private banks. business
firms and individuals. the total of
gold doing work in this country, as
circulation or reserves. is estimated at
$1.o59 100000. 1t is said we have been
lending large sums OF gold to Europe,
by allowing our trade balances to re-
main there, FOR Investment. Our re-
cent loans in that quarter aggregate
$50. eco 600 or more.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-15
TIE VIRGINIA M. E. CONFERENCE.

The Virciniau Pilot, in behalf of this
city, welcomes the Virginia NJ. Il. Con
ference to Norfolk. and trusts that the
members thereof may find their stay
here individually pleasant, and that
this session may mark distinct step
forward in tile work that this consc
Grated body of men have undertaken.
The Virginia Conference Of the Meth
odist Church. South. embraces 267
preachers and more than 10000 mem
bers, among them being. clerical and
lay. some OF The ablest and most dis
tinguishcd men in the state. t. has
under It's care the Randolph Macon
System OF Colleges. the splendid or
pianase at Richmond, soon TO be erect
ed, and contributes largely 10 mis-
sionary work in foreign fields. It's
growth of recent years constitutes an
instructive chapter of church history.
and the proceedings of the conferences
will doubtless be followed from day TO
day With keen interest by workers in
all churches.
Always glad TO have THE stranger
within its gates" Norfolk's welcome to-
the conference IS unstinted In lis
cordially. "