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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Minister'S Son Is Guilty.

A verdict of manslaughter in the third
degree has been returned at Minneapolis,
Kan, against Erwin Kerr. charged with
killing 4. b. Popham on Feb. II. Kerr's
father is the pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Ada, Kan. The
trial attracted much interest and many
women attended daily.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
NEGRO MOB WRECKS HALL.
Attem pit to Break Up Dauce at Cievcs,
Ohio Followed by Street Fight.

mob of negroes numbering nearly
fifty, armed with various weapons, as
saulted the town hall of Cleves. Ohio,
completely demolshing its walls. roof
and windows with powders, clubs and
bullets. A number of young white peo-
pie were dancing in the hall and several
were slightly injured With drawn re-
volvers the white men chased the mob
away, a running fight through the town
following. Many shots were fred. One
negro was slightly wounded. but got
away. A patrol is preventing an attack
of indignant whites ON the colored set
Element at Coal City.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Can Maintain Negro school.

The Kansas Supreme Court decided
that the Topeka Board of Education
could maintain separate schools for
white and negro children and can com
pei the negro children to attend the ne
gro school 4 colored man had taken
his son to the white school and the pupil
was refused admittance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

In a fight at Jacksonville. Ohio. four
people were fatally shot. They are:
Mrs. Henry Skrotsky, Charles Riley.
Charles Cochran and Seth 1iukhann.
Henry Hohlett was seriously svouaaed.
The fight occurred in the saloon Of Mrs
SkrOtsky.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

A committee of the directors of the
electric street railways in Jersey City.
Hoboken. Passaic. Paterson, Newark.
the Oranges. Elizabeth and Bergen
Point, all in New Jersey. adopted
proposition 10 merge AL those systems
and include the United Electric Company
of New Jersey. The system will control
500 miles of trolley lines.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Mining Professors Resign.

All but one of the fifteen members of
the faculty of she State School of Mines
at Golden, Colo, have presented their
designations to take effect next Septem-
Der. This step has been taken in con
sequence of friction between the faculty
and President C. S. Palmer. The pro-
fessors allege that the presidents policy
relative to scholarship is lowering the
standing of the school.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
neath in kansa. Cyclone.

A tornado struck Altamont, Kan, at
4 O'Clock the other afternoon. Many
houses were blown down and number
of persons were Killed. The news was
confirmed by the crew Of a Frisco train.
They saw the funnel-shaped cloud for
many miles near Oswego, Kan. The
storm came to an end near Galena. I'M
roofing houses and doing serious dam
aye
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Nine sawmills Are seized.

dcrS from headquarters at MuSkoyce.
seized nine saw mills and 100000 feet
Of lumber, valued at Sl00.0O0 in the
Little River country near Harrington.
/. 7. The heaviest loser is the 5. Is.
Scratch Saw Mill Company
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Big Price for Human Arm.

A human arm was valued at $4,000
by july in Judge Hutchins-on's court in
Chicago. such verdict beng returned
in the suit of Charles Guthorl, 10 years
old, against Philip u. Armour and JOna-
than o. Armour. Guthorl was injured
on July "a. 1899, while working on n
sausage machine in the plant of Armour
< Co, at the Chicago stock yards.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
LOVERS ELoPE ON sRoNcHos.
Thrilling Ride Across Plains Followed
by<Arrest but Final Wedding.

z
byArrest. but Final Wedding.
Claude Fairbanks, aged %, and Pearle
Robbins, aged is. lived on adjoining
ranches near Sheridan, Wyo. The girls
parents objected to the attentions of
Fairbanks. Pearle encouraged the
young man, however, and suggested an
elopement. She wore a suit of her low
er's clothes and, starting in the night.
they rode sixty-tiye miles on bronchos
across the plains of Wyoming through a
driving snowstorm to Moorcraft. Here
the girl donned her skirts and they caJae
on Burlington train to Deadwood. $. j..
Fairbanks procured a license, but while
he was waiting for Justice Cook 10 mar
~ them Marshal Dornan came IL with
telegram from the girls, parents order
ing their arrest. The ceremony was
rudely interrupted and the pair soon
found themselves in JAIL where they
spent the night. They were about TO
be given hearing on writ of habeas
corpus obtained by an attorney hired
by Fairbanks when relatives Of the girl
came to announce her parents consent
and they were soon married.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
ENFoRCEs THE BLUE LAWS.

Sheriff at Lewiston, Me-, Closes Con-
fectionery Shops Sundays.
Sheriff Cummings, of Lewiston, Me-,
has undertaken a partial enforcement of
the old blue laws by compelling confec-
tionery shop owners to close their places
Sundays. The storekeepers threaten to
force the sheriff to carry his crusade
farther and enforce to the letter all the
old statutes. This will mean that bust
ness and labor of all kinds must cease
on the Sabbath and even the newsboys
would be driven from the streets and
the electric cars would be stopped.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Rank Robbers Escape.

Robbers wrecked the vault of the
bank of Smithson, No., with dynamite,
but were frightened away and did not
secure any booty, Citizens were attract
ed by the explosion and running pistol
fight with the robbers took place The
robbers escaped, but one of them was
wounded
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
storm Sweeps jersey Coast.

All along the Atlantic coast the flood
and storm has been the worst in years.
At Atlantic City and Asbury Park the
severest northeastern that has visited that
part of the Jersey coast since 1895 ragged
for twenty-four hours. The tide was
the highest that has been known for
eighteen wears
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Re,iance Takes Ita First plunve

To the boom of naon and the cheers
Of 1900 or more spectators, the new Yam
kee Gun defender was launched from the
ward Of the Herreshoff Manufacturing
Company. Bristol, Il. l., and as she slid
down the ways she was christened Re
liance by Miss Nora Iselin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Tbrce Perish in Coilisiou.

The schooner Margaret l.. Ward was
rammed and sunk by the Southern Pa
cihc steamer Ell Rio twentyeight miles
east of Galveston bar. Two children of
Captain McI<own of the schooner and
one seaman Of the same vessel We're
lost
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
BATTLEsHIPs IN COLLISION.
British Naval Authorities Suppress
News of Accident in Fleet.

News of Accident in Fleet.
News which the British admiralty has
seen fit to suppress is just reaching En-
gland to the effect that during the re-
cent maneuvers of the Mediterranean
feet repetition of the disaster by which
the Victoria was rammed and sunk by
the Camperdown, with terrible loss Of
life, was narrowly ayerted. 1t appears
that during combined maneuvers the Bull
wark, Sir Compton Domille's flagship.
collided with the Formidable. The armor
plates of the Formidable were seriously
damaged and the cost of dry-docking and
repairing the ship is stated to be $780,
600.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21


III Sal 100000 so7f.O00,0O0
ss ............. 1881, 900 a2.s72 900
Since the State set up its corporation
incubator some years ago II has man
aged to hatch altogether 1920 foreign
and about 1000 domestic companies
There are all kinds Of wrecks in fhe
list, and their debris is scattered pretty
generally over the United States and
Alaska. Mining companies, bologna
trusts railroad corporations, steamship
lines and corn cure creations are inter-
mingled Unfortunately. Some were
formed in good faith, but met with re-
verses. Others were conceived IN fraud.
continued in dishonesty. and their fate is
welcomed by their promoters and officers.
Prior to this year she largest number
of corporations dissolved at one time by
the Governors proclamation was enc
year ago. There were then 6S7 names on
the list, but they were capitalized fsr
only S62. 100000. In one year. therefore.
the financial importance of the annual
calamity has increased fourfold. In 1901
the number Of corporations dissolved
was GAG. and they were capitalized Mt
$49,000000.
These fgures. though they ire start
ling, do not tell the whole story Of the
States whirlwind harvest There Gre
two other ways in which the corporations
have met or are meeting their fate. Dur
ing the past year, and especially during
the months since Jan. !. there has been
an astonishing rush to both the State
Court of Chancery and to the United
States Courts for the appointment Of
receivers for corporations alleged to be
and which generally are insolvent.
Between April J. 1902 and April I.
1903. receivers have been appointed for
127 corporations. capitalized at $2T4,000,-
OaO. One Of these. the National Asphalt
Compa53. has actually issued Si9.J29.
454 in stock and another, the National
Salt Company. has issued $12000,0O0 in
stock. These applications for receivers
are increasing month after month There
are fhirty-eight In the State courts alone.
Some idea Of the recklessnass Or Grim
inality. or both. with which the com
panies have been formed. may be gath
cred from the face that though the thirty
eight are capitalized at So. ST., OGO their
assets. according 10 the sworn applica-
tions Of the stockho, lers who want their
affairs wound up. are only S113I0C0
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Negro Murderer Hanged.

Albert West. a negro. was hanged at
Media, Pa, for the murder Of Mart W.
Allen. a policeman. of Chester. Pa, The
negro quarrcied with colored woman
and Allen interfered and was killed by
West.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

that crime has been sought all over
the world. has been a resident of st. Jo-
seph. No. and the French bottoms north
of the city for three months. Grove es-
caped from the police from the home Of
John Christian. just as q posse was sur
rounding the house
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
PREDICTS UNION WITH CANADA.
Carnegie Says Two American Nations
Will Be One Some Day

Andrew Carnegie, in his reply to an
invitation to attend a demonstration of
Canadian born persons from all parts of
the continent to be held in July, says:
THAT people of Canada and of the Uni
ted States and of Great Britain are to
remain divided, talking of boundaries
and military forces ON one side or the
other to protect one from the other, is
not to be thought of. Some day they will
come together and move together in all
international affairs. Indeed. they will
not be different nations. They win be
one politically, as they are racially."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

Receiverships one year ending April /:
Assets of
Appointed companies Capital.
III ............. Sal ,000,O00 s27f.000,000
Pending
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Miser pics Amid His Gold.

Patrick Flynn. 81 years old. known as
the miser and hermit Of Harker's HoE
low. \. j.. was found dead in his novel.
lie had been dead for two days. At the
base of an old chimney was found
$1,000 in geld. silver. bills and pennies.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
FIRST CRUISE OF NEW MAINE.
BattIeship Returns from West Indian
Waters-Seven Deaths at Sea.

Waters-Seven Deaths at Sea.
The maiden cruise of the battleship
Maine is story of mishaps. There was
trouble between the officers and crew
before the warship left Newport News.
1t encountered storms Immediately after
sailing. There was a gun mount acct
dent and defective boilers, together with
seven deaths, all within two months.
There is a scoop in the vessels deck
which is the result of structural weak
ness and was caused by practice firing
off the Porto Riean coast, where the
six-inch guns were tried. The body of
Lieut.. A. G. Baker, who died of typhoid
fever, was shipped to Chicago for burial
and the bodies of six others were buried
at sea.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
R~;,1;art Event at N-wnort.

Before an altar brilliant with candles
and yelled with clouds of incense the
ceremony uniting Miss Kathleen Neil
son, daughter OF Mrs. Frederick Neil
son. and Reginald Nanderbilt. youngest
son of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. was
performed at NEWPORT, r. l.. Tuesday
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

Harry Pulver and another private
named O'Brien attempted 10 escape
from prison st Fort Thomas. pulver
was shot and later died. Lion Parsons.
Of Company B, Third infantry, was
struck BY PuIver and O'Brien wiS1 crow
bars and sustained scalp wounds and
broken nose. bur be viii recover. O-Brsen
was put in irons
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Three-nnvs, Rridc KIM HeraeIf.

Mrs. II. A. Friedlander, bride Of
three days, jumped overheard from the
steamer Arctic while en- route 70 Eu-
reka. Cal. and was drowned Mrs.
F'riedlander had an estate IN New York
Of SO COO.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Ohio collision Is Fatal.

A pony engine, moving at a rapid cate.
eollided with the rear of a passenger
train ON the Lake Shore branch line at
Ashtabula. Ohio, demolishing one end
of the Pittsburg sleeper and causing the
death of S. Bogue, the pony engine fire.
man.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
ARMED STRIKERS HOLD DEPors.
Employment of Imported Laborers on
Ohio Road Causes Riot.


A strike of 100 workingmen employed
in the construction of the Western Ohio
Electric Railway between Wapakoneta
and Sidney eliminated in a riot, and loss
of life was only averted by the officials
yielding to all the demands of the strik
ers. Eighty. Italian laborers were inn
ported from Brooklyn, n. Y. and put
70 work on the line, and number of
local men were discharged. The rest of
the workmen Immediately quit work, de-
handing that the foreigners be removed
from town, as they would not work
with them. Toward evening the strikers
and sympathizers armed with shotguns
and rifles took possession of the passen-
ger station, blocked the tracks and
stopped all cars and traffic. The marshal
was assaulted, and the sheriff could
swear IL. no deputies. The situation be-
came very alarming. and the company
agreed not to put the foreigners back to
work. They we're hustled out of town on
the Work cars,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

The Birmingham Post calls the atten-
ton Of British manufacturers to the
fact that contracts involving the gazn Of
Sss5 OCs0. 600 have been obtained BY Amer
lean interests during the last few weeks
for the construction sf electric traction
systsEas II England. Russia and Holland.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

The pennell inquest at Buffalo talieJ
70 solve the mystery Of the Burdick
murder or show whether the deaths Of
Pennel and his wife were the result Of
accident or design
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

General aud copious rains have fallen
in southern Russia and have removed
the fears for the safety of the crops
which have been aroused by the long
continued drought.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

Fire at Lake Pontchartrain. near New
Orleans, caused loss of $4,000. The
Capitol Hotel, the Southern Yacht club
house and many eat boats aud yachts
wore DESTROYED.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
..rsuffaro Bur- Il Injured.

WI. Cody--BnIfalo Blii--had an ae
ci6ent at the first performance Of his
show Ia Manchester. England His
horse reared and fell On him. His ankle
was badly wrenched. bur be appeared in
the arena in the evening.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

Five raeD at work on the mines and
metallueSy building ar the worlds fair
site in st. Louis. We're injured. three of
them probably fatally. by the falling of
a derrick with several tens of building
material
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

We have to turn away
from Wall street to End
out how well the country
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Car Hold Up in Chicago.

A trolley ear on Grand avenus. near
Franklin boulevard, Chicago, was held
M hy three men, who rotoed seven pas
sensers. conductor ana motorman, and
escaned, leaving no trace for police 10
falfax
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Three Killed in a Wreck.

Owing 70 the spreading Of rails a drill
engine on the Central railroad Of New
Jersey left the track and plunged down
a twenry-foot embankmeSt into = pond.
The engineer and fireman and brake
man were buried under the engine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
r;,.as $1,000 in Hollow Tree.

Gecrxe Vaughan. farm laborer near
Knoxville. Tenn. found S1.e0o in $40
and $50 bills in. the stump OK 4 hollow
tree. 1t Is believed il was hidden hy
robbers after the civil war.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
kiIIe,t hx RoiIer Exninsinn

The boiler Of the Charles Bevans saw
Mill at Ruby. Ohio, exploded. killing
Charles BevanS. Richard Houck. Rufus
Houck and two boys ramed Hoack and
Csottridxe Several others were badly
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

Attorney General Knox decided that
Naval Captain Bowman III. McCalla of
the navy Is not entitled TO be advanced
SIX numbers. making him a rear I'd
miraL fer his services in the Spanish
American war.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
CONDITION OF WHEAT.
Government April Report Promises
Biggest Crop Ever Known.

~OFNI IIUCHt AUFIA NcDUTI ETUMIsCs
Biggest Crop Ever known.
The April report of the statistician of
the Department of Agriculture shows the
average condition of winter wheat on
April 1 to have been 9T.3, against 1877
on April /, 1902, OH at the correspond
ing date in 1901, and S21 the mean of
the April averages of the last ten years.
The following table shows for the prin-
cipal States the averages of condition on
April !, the corresponding averages one
year and two years ago, and the means
of the corresponding averages for the last
ten years:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
TRUSTS GET A AARp RAP.
Hundreds of Concerns Wiped Out by
New Jersey Proclamation.

New Jersey, baving sown q large crop
Of indigestible, Nyind-inhated securities, is
now beginning The harvest. Governor
Franklin Murphy has issued his annual
proclamation, forcbly diasoving those
trusts and corporations organized under
the laws of the State which have not
paid their annual tax.
No fewer than OPT Of these creations
Of the Commonwealth capitalized in the
aggregate at $239.000,000, are ashered
out of existence. and with their dissoin-
ton is destroyed the fond hopes of thou
sands of stockholders. The following
table will give some idea of the collapse
of these mushroom concerns:
IN;esol,-ad he ,rcola,, zion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21
Eive KiIled in Niine Exnloaion.

Five men were killed and two serious
~ burned by a gas explosion in mine
No. - of the Kansas aud Texas Coal
Company at Carbon. /. L.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

L-1 out how well the country
is really doing. To watch the rush Of
immigration, the opening up of new
country and the beginning of new en-
teFprises. to note the large volume of
business being done on every hand, and
the favorable reports is to realize that
the country is all right, even though the
plans Of some mighty magnates in the
financial world have gone wrong.
In the industrial world the feature Of
the week was the angual report Of the
Steel corporation. When a single Ameri-
can corporation has assets of $1.5f654f,-
234 does business of S560,510,4T9 "A
year and shows net earnings of Sl33,-
30S 1G4, its reports command the atten-
ton of readers the world over. The
gratifying showing in the report Is in
the fact that, while the future business
on the books Of the company al this time
last year aggregated 4,49T.T49 tons, the
untitled orders in hand this year show
the remarkable total Of 5,13T2J3 tons,
and some of the plants Of the company
have enough business TO keep them going
TO the end Of 1903.
The railroads are making showings
in regard TO net earnings that are graft
flying. considering the greatly increased
cost Of operation due TO wage advances
and other causes.
The Southwest promises a record
breaking wheat crop. the government re-
port for April putting the condition Of
winter wheat at 97.3 What this mcsns
may be seen from the fact thar last year
the condition at this time was 1s.I, and
the average for ten years is ST.. The
winter wheat is. therefore. 1876 points
higher in condition than last year and
16.t higher than the ten-year average,
and Ibis condition covers tile largest acre-
age ever known nj this time
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

plicity in the kidnapping Of the ensil
Edward Cadahy at Omaha and weo sincs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

Three shIIiings a word Is TO be the
charge for cable messages between
England and Australasia via the Pa
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21

The CIyde's mouth must be enlarged
to permit the exit Of the two Bis Gu
nard steamers now being buslced there
tn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-10-02
Humps HIS Study.

Tt was an odd fad enjoyed by q
wealthy bachelor who died recently
in Liverpool. His heir, on opening
his desk, was surprised to find in it q
manuscript volume of 1000 pages.
which was entirely devoted to study
of humpbacks.
Further Investigation showed that
for several years this man, who, by
the way, was himself stalwart, tall
and athletic, had closely studied this
curious subject and had visited va
rious countries for that purpose.
According to his manuscript, there
are more humpbacks in Spain than
anywhere else, the number in one
small district at the foot Of the Ser
IA Morena amounting to one in every
IS inhabitants. There are also many
in the Loire region in France.
From<the statistics of all the coun-
tries of the globe it appears that
there is one humpback in every 1000
persons, which IS equivalent to say
ing there are 1.GG0.o0 humpbacks in
the entire woEld-Stray Stories.