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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28

Twenty new passenger engines have
been received by the Santa Fe Company.
The gross earnings of the Rock Island
for the month of June amount to 1891,
SCI 0S.
A great increase in the traffic between
Colorado common points and Chicago has
been experienced during the last few
weeks.
The State of Colorado has begun suit
against the Pullman company for ST.,
0S5, claimed by the State as incorpora-
ton fees.
Contracts have been awarded by the
Grand Trunk Companyi for the double
tracking of its lines between Hamilton
and Clifton, Can.
A high traffic officer of the Great
Northern road says his company will not
join the proposed transcontinental pas
senger association.
Eastern roads are said to have agreed
to raise the rates on soft coal 10 per
cent, and to be already looking for bust
ness for next season at the advanced rate.
The decline in The price of wheat has
proved a serious detriment to the West
ern roads. A decline in the price Of grain
has always a depressing effect on traffic.
Western roads are in a fight over the
annual wool shipments TO tho East. The
Wisconsin Central has reduced the rate
st. Paul to Chicago to 80 cents per 100
pounds.
General passenger agents of all Chi
cago roads report business heavier now
than at any time during the present sum
mer and in comparison larger than dur
ing many seasons past.
Thirty eight new locomotives have
been ordered by the Southern Pacific
road. They are TO be heavier, more pow
erful and better in every way than any
now running on the line.
The northwestern situation, so far as
grain rates are concerned, is just now in
a critical condition, and Ike same may
be said about rates on packing house pro-
ducts from the Missouri river east.
Arrangements have been made between
the Grand Trunk, Northwestern and Tn
ion Pacific systems to LAND passengers
from Montreal in Portland in ninety
three hours, or seven hours quicker than
is possible by the Canadian Prcidc.
1t will cost the Government only 81 per
capita to transport its soldiers from Chi
caro TO San Francisco. The effort TO re-
new the pool on military tratfls has fail
ed. and as a result Of Tie Competition
among the railroads for military business
the Government viii get exceedingly low
rates
The Santa Fee has placed an order for
200 ballast cars 10 be used in the work
of reducing grades. A large number Of
steam shovels and unloaders have also
been ordered.
A new line is being planned BY the
Union Pacific road between Evanston.
Wyo-. and Salt Lake City, Utah The
new branch viii not touch Ogden and viii
be built TO eliminate q number OF heavy
grades and curves.
The agreement OF Western railroad
presidents 10 maintain normal freight
rates and harmony in the West has al
most been gsven up as a hopeless case.
It is admitted that the agreements which
were drawn up are OF 10 value.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
A Generous Boy.

She had stopped on the sidewalk and
was admiring the beautiful flowers in
the garden.
"G'want some?" asked the mild luna
tic, who was leaning against the fence.
"Oh, how good of you!" she cooed.
"You live here, then?"
"Sure," he answered. "Jist &C right
in an help yourself. The Lord made
flowers free fer everybody what l
think, an they amt no use in bein' a
hog, is they?'
She was still eestatically thanking
him when she entered the gate, but he
had started off, merrily whistling on
his way. Two minutes later. she was
trying to explain to the angry gardener
why she was there. and the angry gar
dener was giving her detailed his
tory of that cussed Jones kid that
lives in. the next block. indianapolis
Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28

"Most emphatically," responded
David. "I've prospered out west, but
all the time I've hankered to come
back to the old farm. Always, that
was my idea. I've saved ana laid
aside, intending to come home ard set
the old place on its feet. l never got
to feel at home anywhere else, and
I've just dreamed of the pastures and
that row of walnuts and the spring
run, till it seemed must get here if
l ever wanted to be happy again."
The old mother wiped more tears
with her apron, but looked anything
but sad.
1.-The Lord bless you, David There
isn't anything else l need to make me
happy"
But / might as well own up my
whole doing, mother and confess I've
brought home a wife"
The old woman started.
"a wife? Why haven't heard this
before%
''Well, just listen a minute. AS
had about made up my mind to start
this way, l met a wonderfully pretty
girl, and l just fell so deep in love it
kept me waiting a little longer. You
see. had to give her time to return my
sentiments. She wasn't a western
girl. but had come to the town l was
living in and was rather homesick her
self. So we naturally were congenial
and in course of time she made up her
mind to come home with me. 1t didn't
take much coaXing. The idea suited
her down to the ground"
David laughed aloud. and putting his
arms around his mothers shoulder
kissed her cheek.
But where is she nowY' asked the
mother, looking rather dazed and I'M
certain.
First promise to love her as well as
you did Ellie Martini
"In time, David, maybe in time; but
have to get used to changes first"
"Well, that's all any reasonable per-
son could ask, I'm sure" said David,
heartily. ''As for wife, she's in the
house. You see, left her in the front
room when l went to find you in the
kitchen, and coaXed you out on pur-
pose to let her get acquainted with
| father first"
Mrs. Allen started to her feet
"Oh, i must hurry back TO start the
| fire if we are to have company
mo hurry, not a bit of it," laughed
David. but he rose and walked beside
his mother. "Wife's getting supper.
She said she would call us when twas
ready"
Was the ground Keeling under foot?
The old woman's life had contained so
| little excitement that these crowding,
astonishing events seemed like wild
dreams. David drew her arm through
his, saying gently:
Don't you worry. mother! And
look, there she comes! Isn't she pref
ty?"
A girl, light of form, with bright
cheeks and shining eyes. was running
toward them from the house. When
she reached the couple she spread wide
her young arms with a soft cry:
Mother. I've come home again.
And the old woman simply leaped to
the girls embrace. and in trembling
tones murmured: ELLIE! Ellie!'-The
Ledger Monthly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
AMERICAN WRITES TO FILIPINos
Correspondence Captured in Luzon Is
Made Public.

Cores pondence Captured in Luzon Is
Made Public.
Letters and papers belonging to Agul-
naldo, which were captured several
months ago by Gen. Funston, have been
made public by the War Department.
Some of these documents tend to substan-
tate the charges that the Filipino insur-
gents have received encouragement from
persons in the United States. The most
remarkable letter in the collection is from
DIR. Montague r. Leverson, dated Fort
Hamilton, n. Y, July II, 1899, who de-
scribes himself as a member of the Anti
Imperialist League, and who advises the
Filipinos to capture some official of high
rank in the service of the United States
and try him for piracy. While it is said
by officials of the administration that
charge of treason might be based on Mr..
Leverson's letter, a Washington CORE
spondent says no legal proceedings will
be instituted
DIR. Montague r. Leverson, who wrote
the letter declaring the United States
to be guilty of piracy in its Philippine
policy, is still resident of Fort Ham
ilton, from which place the missive was
dated in 1899 He is 20 years old and
is physician of English birth, but is now
a naturalized American citizen. DIR. Lev
erson four years ago had an alteration
in the union station at Albany with An
thony Comstock They later each sued
the other for libel Each recovered
verdict of 6 cents
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
RACE WAR in GOTHAM.
Angry Mob Seeks Vengeance on New
York Negroes.

York Negroes.
In New York a mob Of several hundred
persons formed at IL o'clock Wednesday
night in front of the home of Policeman
Robert j. Thorpe, Thirty seventh street
and Ninth avenue, 10 wreak vengeance
upon the negroes of that neighborhood
because one of their race had caused the
p0liceman's death. Thorpe was stabbed
and bruised Sunday night by several ne
groes while he was attempting to arrest
a colored woman The man who inflicted
most of the injuries is said to be Robert
Harris, a negro who came to New York
several weeks ago from Washington.
In few moments the mob swelled TO
1,50O people or more. and as they became
violent the negroes fed in terror INTO any
hiding place they could find The police
reserves from four stations, numbering
400 in all, were called out.
The mob Of white men, which grew
with great rapidly, ragged through the
district, and negroes, regardless of age or
sex, were indiscriminately attacked.
Scores were injured. 1t took the COM
bined efforts of the reserves with as
many more policemen on regular patrol
duty in the four precincts to restore or
der. Clubs We're used until the police
men We're almost exhausted. Revolyers
were emptied into the air and in one or
two instances fired at he upper stories
of the negro tenements, from which the
negroes defensively fred bricks, paving
stones and other missiles.
The trouble grew out of the death of
Policeman Robert j. Thorpe of the West
TEirty-seventh street station, as the re-
suit of marderous assault by a negro
early Sunday in Eighth avenue and For
ty-frst street. Thorpe was attempting
to arrest a negress when Arthur Harris
and another negro attacked the police
man with razors He died the following
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28

renee that it was impossible to doubt
it, but for some months it could not be
accounted for. Then came the other
side of the story. 1t was learned that
shortly before this fall of wheat some
farmers near the northern coast of
Morocco had been threshing wheat
with fails, when suddenly a tornado
swept over the ground and carried all
the wheat and chaff on the threshing
cloth into the air. The cloth was swept
away by the storm, and the farmers
fell to the ground, but were not injured.
When the storm had passed they were
Mortified at discovering that the result
of their labors had disappeared. There
seemed little doubt that the wheat
which fell in Spain was that which
belonged to the Morocco farmers II
had been blown clear across the Medit-
errauean
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
Roasevel,,s AIi.terative Libel.

The paragraph in Rooseyelt's wild
West" speech at st. Paul which has
excited the criticism of both Repub-
licans and Democrats is as follows:
They the Democrats Of the country
stand for IawIessness and disorder, for
dishonesty and dishonor, for license
and disaster at home and cowardly
shrinkage from duty abroad"
Other portions of the speech are Of
the same rough rider variety and are
characterized by equal indecency.
Roosevelts offense was so great that
Hanna even was Disguised and took
him to task Roosevelt's future speech
es, we may be certain, will be temper
ate and weak. But slangwhanger who
attempts 10 MEASURE his words deprives
them of emphasis and significance%
Rooseyelt's wholesale libel on 1000
900 Democratic voters viii rebound to
his own disadvantage and TO the dis
advantage Of his party. The day Is
past when mere excited vituperation
passes for argument and effects the
public judgment Every Democratic
voter IS as much Of patriot and as
little cs a coward as Teddy" Roose-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
THE PRAIRIE SCHOONER.


Slow was the weary, toilsome way
Where creaked the heavy-laden vain
Quaint follower of the speeding day
Across the plain.
White canvas covers, bullying, fair,
Inclosed fond hearts athrob with joy;
The builders of an empire there
Found safe convoy.
Along its course child-voices sweet
Marked all the strangeness of each
scene,
While parents sought new homes to greet
With vision keen.
No luxury or ease was here
To lap the traveller into rest,
But stanch it bore the pioneer
On toward the West.
Deserted now, its ragged sails
Are furled-the port has long been won.
Sport of the boisterous, hurrying gales,
Through cloud and sun.
Unused, forlorn, and gray, it stands,
faded wreck cast far ashore,
The Mayfower of the prairie lands,
It's journey Ger.
Overland Monthly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28

CALLER POWERS. The court room was
packed when the verdict was received.
/. G, Stone handed the verdict to the
clerk, who read with a clear voice: I'VE,
the jury, find the defendant guilty and
fix his punishment at Imprisonment for
life" Powers paled slightly as he heard
his fate pronounced, but moment later
smiled as he turned TO some Of his
friends. Judge Cantril dismissed the
jury and adjourned the court until Mon
day.
A Georgetown dispatch says that as a
result of the conviction Of Caleb Powers,
numerous suspects in the Goebe case
who have not yet been arrested have fled
to Indiana. They expect to find refuge
in the Hoosier State until political pre-
JUDGE and bitter feeling die out in Ken
lucky, or until they feel sure Of escaping
prosecution in connection with the alleg-
ed plot that resulted in Goebers murder.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
The snhsidy Steal.

The millionaire mendicants of the
steamship trust. who are begging for
Treasury bounties to be wrung from
heavily taxed people, have doubtless
made grateful contributions to Chair
man Hanna's fund for such brilliant
campaign inventions. But the ques-
ton is whether the American voters
can be caught with this sort If bird
lime. If so, they will fasten upon them
selves and upon the necks of the COM
ing generation a monopoly of transpor-
tation on the high seas which would be
more formidable than are any of the
monsters that prey upon the consuming
millions on land.-Philadeip Record.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
Irish Arc for BRYAN.

Irish-American Republicans Of Chi
cago are getting in line for William j.
Bryan. They have tired of Hannaism
and have declared against possible
Emperor William Mckinley l.
The landslide has been started by
Col. John f. Finerty, president of the
Uuited Irish Societies. This action
means a solid front of Irish-Americans
OF Cook County and Illinois for Bryan
and anti-imperialism.
This movement in Cook County is the
keynote which is to result in an about
face ON the part of Irish-Americans
from Maine to California. In Cook
County alone knowing political proph-
cts assert that 10000 votes already
have been added to the cause of Bry-
Chicago American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
Wonderful showers.

A wonderful dust shower fell in Hun
gary somewhere about four years ago.
Analysis proved that this dust was
Identical with the sediment of the Nile.
The dusk was believed TO have been
brought by the wind all the way from
Egypt. pretty long journey for dust
shower to make. 1t must have been
high wind that brought 8 shower OF
wheat some years ago TO the villagers
in a place on the southern coast OF
Spain. The wheat fell like rain. There
were 20 many witnesses OF the occur
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
Assassssassasss

have been obliged to disgorge a small
part of their profits to skilled labor
unskilled and cheap labor show no adj
vance because they are at the mercy
of the trusts. 1t is rather exasperat-
ing to wage workers to have the Labor
and the Industrial Com
lined up to deceive them, but
better could be expected of this
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
9aNslMe ERClAl
AND 7a
I11Mwe-e s ksss ESaE7E NJ 4Sss.t-a4r
aFNANC.AlL.

New York-Upward of $20,0OOOOO in
gold has so far gone out Of the country,
on account of American subscriptions to
the English axehequer loan Funds on
call have been in abundanr supply in
Wall street at rates ranging from / to
Ia per cent, while time money continues
to be freely offered for the rest of the
year at 4 per cent, The demand for
money is showing some Improvement, but
the available supply for loaning purposes
is still SO large that the best judges of
the situation can see no reason to fear
anything like stringency within the
next few months. The deposits OF banks
all over the country have been increasing
at an enormous rate, and taken as a
whole the banks probably never have
been in better position to meetthe usual
fall demands for crop-moving purposes
than they are this year.
Chicago Grain markets were dull dur
ing the week, the absence of speculative
activity being to some extent due to the
declining tendency of the price of wheat
1t requires a different direction in the
trend OF fluctuations TO interest anyone
but the regular traders, and they were
somewhat restrained by the lrfegalarltY
with which those who live outside of Chi
cago received Information of the momen-
tary variations in prices The weight of
the great crop of winter W leat grown
this year in the Southwest weighed upon
the spirits of the bull traders, and in
despair Of any change in that respect
within the compass of month they
threw their holdings upon reluctant
market with the result mentioned Corn
was firm, receipts being small and ship
ments heavy. Manipulation having been
invited by the Insignificant stock of con-
tract corn in Chicago, and the apparent
reluctance of country holders to part
with their reserves OF old corn at current
rates, there developed an anxious demand
from shorts for September corn that stop
ped previously declining tendency and
turned il in an upward direction.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
5Sss3ssss39Sss53ssssssS {;
BRYAN'S PROMISE.

Extract from his notification speech,
delivered at Indianapolis.l
IF elected, l shall convene Cen
gress in extraordinary session as
soon as | am inaggurated and rec
ommend an immediate declaration
of the nations purpose-ir to
establish a stable form of govern
ment in the Philippine Islands,
just as we are now establishing a
stable form of government in the
island of Cuba; second. TO give in
dependence to the Filipinos, just as
we have promised to give independ-
ence to the Cubans; .hird, to pro-
tect the Filipinos FROM outside in
reference while they work out
their destiny, just as we have pro-
tected the republics of Central and
South America and are, by the
Monroe doctrine, pledged to pro-
tect Cuba"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
Travelling Men and Trusts.

1t goes without saying that the trav-
cling men who have lot their places
through the formation Of trusts will be
a unit in opposition TO trusts and to the
party which has done nothing tc regu-
late and restrain them. Tie travelling
men who were fortunate enough to
keep their employment viii also be
aligned against trusts If they are ami
mated by a healthy self-interest.-St.
InuiS RpDubIic
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
Mork az the Corrnptionist.

WI - UN VT IT = -
The news that ''Blocks-of Five" Dud-
ley will have big slush fund at his dis
posaI, allotted by the Republican Ma
tionaI Committee for use in Missouri,
is easy to believe. The presence in a
campaign of this man Dudley without
a slush fund is hardly TO be conceived.
The two 90 together-Dudley and his
bundle of Doodle. They are coming to
Missouri. A word TO the wise is suffi-
cient--St. Louis Republic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
she Is TMn-Faeeai.

They do tell me" said the Empress
of China. that these foreign devils
are accusing me of being two-faced."
Worse than that" said the confden-
tial adviser. after addressing Her High
ness with string of titles too long TO
write on hot day, worse than that.
The newspaper illustrators have run
your face up into the hundreds"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
ParaIyzinr FIGURES.

A Jesuit priest now in South Africa
writes to the boys in the New York col
lege, where he was formerly profess
sor: Mine in the blessed language is
diheramanwanmngw but this is
nothing to 900, which is mashumiamag-
duamahna manwanamanagwah :
Observation-Disclosures manwannain-
govhalea gowakadiheranaman
gwahela."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
UNITED STATES LEADS ALL.
Got More Prizes than Any Other Nation
of Paris ENnnsifinn

Got More FrIZeS than Any Other NatIOn
at Paris Exposition.
The superior jury of the exposition of
1900, whose duty it is to give the final
revision to the list of awards, held it's
closing sittings on Monday, when a COM
mittee of FIVE was appointed to finish up
the tag ends. Prof. j. Howard Gore,
superintendent of the American juries,
is the only foreigner made a member of
this exclusive committee. The assist
ant administrator general NJ. Delaney
Belleville, on finding that the United
States had more awards than any other
country, said to Prof. Gore: "This is due
simply to the fact that you had your July
program thoroughly organized, and were
determined not to let any other nation get
ahead of you, not even us. The United
States has been unique in this respect"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28

Welt or any of his admirers Democrat
ic blood has redeemed every battlefield
of the country. Democratic principles
are the saving element in our form of
government in both war and peace.
Roosevelt's general libel against great
and patriotic party is the worst ebulli-
ton of political spite and malice which
the lowest partisanship could inspire
Chicago Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
rhe Hard cash Arenmenf.

The great argument the Democrats
have to withstand In this campaign is
the hard cash argument-the money
contributed by the trusts as the price
of Republican protection and the levies
on Office holders. Even the whisky and
beer vendors in far-away Manila are
expected to contribute to Hannas cam
nalgn chest.-Pittsburg Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28

That story from Kansas that 500 city
girls have earned enough in the harvest
fields in three weeks to keep them in
silks and diamonds during the coming
winter is probably intended for circu-
lation by the prosperity bureau of Re-
publican headquarters.--Cin En-
,.,sYa~
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28

George is the best time to
speak to your father?
She-oh, should say when he is en-
joying himself in slippers and smoking
Jacket in the library after dinner
Philadelphia North American
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28


Goebel, was found guilty
at Georgetown Satur-
day. His punishment
was fixed by the jury at
Imprisonment for life.
The jury was out fifty
three minutes. The vote
in favor of a life SEN
tence was unanimous.
Powers will move for a
new trial, and, failing in
that, will take an appeal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28

In 1896 this was not military ma
ton. The army appropriation for 1901
is S114,220,0 95.-St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
The Parting Of the waxa.

We have come TO the partiry Of the
ways. and he that " net for the Demo
cratic party in IT'S great fight for con-
stitutional government and relief from
corporate oppression must be counted
with the enemF. Buffalo Courier.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28

1t is every woman's complaint that
her husband is more willing TO lend a
hand te, the neighnors than to Lift q
finger around home.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
Cost of Militarism.

The Republican national literary bu-
reau is circulating recent speech of
ex-Speaker Henderson as campaign
document 1t is supposed to prove that
the United States are not, by COMPARE
son, much of military power Here
are Gen. Manderson's statistics:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28
POWERS FOUND GUILTY.

Convicted of Completely in the GoebeI
Murder and Sentenced for Life.
Ex-Seeretary of State Caleb Powers
Of Kentucky, charged with being an ac-
cessorY hefore the fact 10 the murder OF