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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-08-25
FINDS FEuolsrs GUILTY.
Jett and White Convicted by Jury of
Numbering James u. Mnrcum.

Numbering James u. Marcum.
The jury in the case of Curtis Jett and
Thomas White, charged with the assas-
sination of James b. Marcum at Jack
son, Ky, returned a verdict of guilty,
fixing the punishment on each at life
Imprisonment. The verdict was returned
at a time when there were few persons
In the court room. The only attorney
present was County Attorney Webster.
Jett received the verdict with compar-
alive Indifference and calmness White,
who has been apparently under a severe
strain during the trial, flushed up and
his eyes filed with tears.
Attorney Golden for the defense stat
ed that a motion for new trial would
be made as soon rs possible. The gen
eral opinion seems TO be that the motion
will be overrulcd by the court and that
it will then go to the Court of Appeals
The verdict on the whole is regarded as
a victory for the defense, as the prosecu-
ton asked that no middle ground be TAX
en- and that the men either go acquitted
or be hanged.
The case has been on trial almost three
Veeks. At the first trial at Jackson the
jury disagreed and it is believed that the
later verdict was a compromise with a
juror opposed to capital punishment.
There have been tWenty-seven lives
lost within the past two years in the
Hargis Cockerill feud in Breathitt Coun-
ty and this is the first conviction. No
arrests or indictments had been made I'M
til last May when the troops were or
dered to Jackson to protect the grand
jury and afterward the trial jury and
witnesses Jett is still under Indictment
for first degree murder for killing Town
Marshal Cockerill Friends of the de-
PENDANTS showed such relief as to leave
no doubt of their previous apprehension
of the death penalty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-08-25
RICH MEXICAN DIES.
FIVE YEARS AGO A PEON, He
LEAVES s65, 900 900.
Made Immense Fortune Out of Pal
Milo Mine-ofered to Pay National
Debt of His Country Prosecution
for Theft of Government Timber.

Pedro Alvarado multi-millionaire min
ing man, is dead at Parral Mexico. He
was one of the most spectacular charac-
tiers in Mexico. Six years ago he was
a barefooted peon working in a mine at
30 cents day. He discovered the won
derful prospect, now known as the Pal
Milo mine. How much it has produced
is not known, but it is conservatively es-
timated that Alvarado's wealth aggre
gates fully $S5,OO0,0O0. He had no faith
in b nks, and it is said that more than
$50, 100000 of silver bars are locked in
a steel cage of his palatial home near
Parral, constantly guarded by strong
force Of men. Alvarado recently offered
10 pay the public debt of Mexico, but
this offer was refused by the finance
minister. A year ago Alvarado made his
first trip over "A railroad, chartering a
special train for Chihuahua, and bring
ing with him a bodyguard of 200 men.
He was very charitable. disbursing mill
ions among the poor of Parral and sur
rounding country.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-08-25
THE CROP DtsIROYER's TALE.

This is the season of the year
When always. without fail,
The Crop Destroyer finds it pays
To tell BullisiSs tale.
He takes his trusty pen in hand
And wires his daily scare,
The Hot Dry Wind, at his command,
Comes roaring from its lair
Forth comes the Chintz BIg, fierce and
strong,
Anon, there comes the d-outh
The wheat at once turns into straw,
Qbedient to his mouth.
As up and down he walks the fields
They shrivel at his breath.
He blights them here and shrinks them
there
And marks the path of death
He sums it up. and puts it down,
He quotes it East and West;
His words are final terse, and grim
And thrown out like his chest.
And good Dame Nature dare not raise
A bushel more nor less:
She always stands around and waits
Till he has made his guess.
Then, when he's killed the wheat crop
off.
And all the lands bereft.
His friend. the Chintz Bug, finishing
The little that was left,
The foolish farmer who don't know
The Ohintz Bug has been there
Goes on upon his silly course,
Not asking bull nor bear;
And some way, no one knows just how,
He gathers up crop
That staggers all the estimates,
Av,1 IL .
The moral of this halting rhyme
Is easy, don't you think?
1t is-in short-you can't kill wheat
BY drowning it in ink.
Northwestern Miller
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-08-25
CHASED BY WILD DOGS.
Montana Girl Had a Narrow Escape
from an Awful Fate.

from an awful ate.
Chased for more than a mile by a pack
of wild dogs, Miss Gertie Sullivan,
daughter of sheep man living on Birch
creek, near Havre. Mont, escaped only
by spending the night in an old corral
and picking off the animals now and then
with a rifle.
Miss Sullivan was riding her pony
across the prairie when she saw, some
distance away, perhaps twenty animals,
which at first glance she TOOK to be coy
otes. AS they came nearer, evidently in
pursuit of her. the girl saw they were
not coyotes, but wild dogs, of which there
are several small packs iTl northern Mon
tana and just over the Canadian line
1t became a ride for life with Miss
Sullivan. She had with her small rifle,
but the animals seemed so savage she
dared not stop and give them battle. As
she began to despair of escaping she
sighted the old sheep corral, and toward
this she ran her horse, reaching it only
when the pack was but a short distance
away. To enter with the pony and
quickly close the gate was the work of a
moment.
Swapping and snarling, the dogs tore
at the poles forming the stockade, but
were unable to gain an entrance. The
girl began shooting at the animals, which
retreated when she fred and returned to
the attack when the rife was silent Miss
Sullivan was found the next morning by
her father and brother. who had been
seeking her
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-08-25
LACK HOMES AND FOOD.
Conditions in Jamaica as Result of
hurricane Moat Serious.


There are heartrending scenes I'll over
the eastern and northern portions of the
island of Jamaica At Port Antonio
thousands of homeless and starving peo-
pie have sought shelter in the old prison
and the few other buildings which sur
viyed the hurricane. Those who could
not be accommodated thus are covering
in the lee of ruined walls and disman-
tied piaZzas. The railroad sheds and
waiting rooms are filled with women and
children. The merchants of the place
are feeding the hungry to the best of
their ability, but the majority are depend
ing upon green, unripe bananas knocked
down by the storm. The bananas are
boiled in Kerosene tins over open fires
made from the debris of destroyed build
ings. This is their sole food supply. and
it will be exhausted in nine or ten days.
Similar conditions prev all at Annotata
bay, Buff bay, Orange bay, Port Maria,
Marchioneal, Moran bay. Bowden and
other smaller searOrts. In the interior
the distress is equally acute. Scarcely
a PEASANTS home is standing. Even the
dwellings of the planters, which are built
of substantial stone, have been unroofed
with few exceptions. The misery of the
peasants families is indescribable. Eff
forts are being made at Kingston to re-
lieve the immediate wants of some To-
calities by subscriptions of food and
clothing. but the local efforts at best are
totally inadequate. 1t is now estir sted
that the loss on the island will reach
S15,OO0.OOO
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-08-25
PANAMA ROUTE in PERIL.
Amend ments Adopted in Colon bi a
May Cause Choice of Nicaragua.

Amend ments Adopted in Colombia
May Cause Choice of Nicaragua.
The Panama canal treaty has practi-
cally been killed by Colombia and it is
thought that President Roosevelt will Sc
lect the Nicaragua route. Colombia
struck a deathblow to the Panama route
when the congressional committee hav-
ing the treaty under consideration adopt
ed nine amendments, any one of which
will be fatal to the treaty, owing to the
impossibility of securing their adoption
by the United States Senate, which must
accept or reject them. Officials of the
Department of State and Senior Herran,
the Colombian charge d'affaires in Wash
ington, are in the dark as to the exact
nature of these amendments. From mea-
ger and mutilated official dispatches it is
knewn that the two principal ones pro
vide for a large increase in the bonus
demanded of the United States for the
strip through which to construct the wat
erway, and prohibit the Colombian gov
eminent giving the United States abso-
lutte control over this territory.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-08-25
|PUlPlJAxD.
PREAGuEQ.
AooNNo0ooo

The Most Rev. ]. j. Harry, recently
appointed archbishop of Manila, will be
consecrated at Rome.
Evangelist d. w. Potter was re-elect-
ed president of the board of trustees of
the Desplaines Camp Meeting Associa-
ton.
About 800 Baptists in Los Angeles,
Cal, have formed a new church Many
of the members come from the First
Church.
Prof A. w Berg. organist of 1.-THE
Little Church Around the Corner" New
York, and his wife celebrated their gold
en- wedding recently.
The Rev. Benjamin H. Davis of Wey
mouth, Mass, one of the oldest clergy
men in the Universalist denomination in
the country, is dead
A Christian Endeavor Society with
thirty members has been organized at
Salonika, the ancient Thessalonica, where
Paul taught the Thessalonians.
The Rev T. J. Bassett. president of
the Upper Iowa University, has been
honored with the degree of doctor of
divinity by Cornell University.
Dean Samuel Cox of Garden City Ca
thedral, Hampstead, \. Y, narrowly es-
capped being killed recently while az
tempting to get on a train at Hollis.
Elizabeth Lyons, the oldest nun in
the diocese of Connecticut, died recently
in St. Patrick's convent, New Haven.
She was nun for tifty-oae years.
Bishop Hartzell has been decorated
knight commander of the Order of the
Redemption of Africa. The honor was
conferred by the republic of Liberia.
The late Bishop Thomas A. Starkey
bequeathed his library to the trustees of
the episcopal fund of the diocese of New
ark for the use of his successor and the
clergy.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of Salt Lake City, Utah, is in a
fair way of getting mgcb.desired
building for its use Mrs. Mary Judge
has given $4,000 for the building fund;
others. among whom Mr.. II. II. Walker
Is prominent. have subscribed S25, 900
additional, and only $4,000 more IS
needed to secure a gift of $50. 0O0 prom
ised when $4,000 has been raised.
Vacancies in the episcopate in the do
ceses of Newark and Quincy in the Epis-
ENnHi t-NuECn Will NC HiiEO oAcEAlgf AAN
! bisnops-eIect in each case having accept
ed
The Rev A. B. Shields, rector of the
Church of the Redeemer. Boston, is an
artist as well as a priest. He earned
enough money painting TIE last wiiGer 70
afford a summer in the galleries Of the
old world.
The Rev. Winfred Chesney RhoadeS.
pastor of the Eliot Congregational
Church. Boston. and DR.. Melville :.
Page of Mount Vernon. y. Y. are max
Ing tour of England. Scotland. Ireland.
Belgium and Holland.
The diocese of Vancouver has been
raised 10 an archbishopric. and the Ri
Rev. Bertram Orth. bishop Of Vsncou-
yer. has been created archbishop Of u
new archdiocese.
The Rev. Lathrop Cooley of the Dis
cipie Church. Cleveland, receusx prsach-
ed his ffty-ninth anniversary sermT at
The first church in which he served 1T
North Eaten, Ohio.
The Rev. Nj. p. Hunt Of St Joseph
No. has been elected president Of Gal
Issin College. and tie trustees feel sure
that they have chosen a man of strong
eonvictaons and courage. Mr.. Hunt once
ran for Governor of Kentucky on the
proAbition ticket.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-08-25
WOMAN is ABDUCTED.
WIFE OF WEALTHY IOWA FARM
Err KIDNAPPED.
Ransom of $4,000 Is Demanded
Victim Is Imprisoned in Cellar of
DESERTED House, but Manages to
Escape-Made Insane by Fright.

A most daring kidnapping took place
near Sunbury, Iowa, late Sunday night,
when Mrs John Hilsrow, the wife of a
wealth farmer living near Bennett Iowa,
was abducted. imprisoned in the cellar
of deserted farm house and ransom
Of $4,000 demanded for her release.
Sunday evening an unknown stranger
called at the home and told MIR. and
Mrs. Hil:row that their son. living at
Walcott. Iowa, where he has been work
ing on farm, was very sick and that
they were wanted at the bedside at once.
They Immediately drove off with the
stranger. When they arrived within two
miles Of the village of Sunbury, Iowa,
sever miles from Bennett, the husband
was thrown out of the buggy and told
that he should bring $4,000 to a seclud-
ed spot near Bennett. He was also told
that if he told any of the officers he
would be Killed.
The mali then drove on with Mrs. His
row for several miles until they had ar
rived opposite a corner school house
Here the kidnaper tied his horse and
dragged the woman through a corn field
to deserted house, where she was i'm
prisoned in the cellar. The man then
left and has not yet been found.
Some time during the night Mrs. Hills
row escaped and was found in the morn
ing in the farm yard of Henry Rueser, a
farmer near Sunbury. insane and very
i'll. She was recognized by the wife of
Mr.. Rueser, and the news of her discov-
cry was at once telephoned to the Ben
nett police. The case was then investi-
gated, and after considerable difficulty
so great was the old mans fear of the
kidnaper, the facts were brought out
Mr.. Hilsrow offered the police $1,000 re-
ward for the capture of the men. and
the sheriff Immediately collected a posse
and started pursuit
Late in the afternoon a grip with
mems clothing was found near the house
and a little later a cane was found in
the road. The cane was recognized as
belonging to another well-known farmer
named John Lee. When confronted with
this evidence he stated that the cane
had been stolen from him several days
ago. He is not suspected of the crime.
Mrs. Hilsrow has been under the care
of doctor, and at times her life is de-
SPARED of. At no time has her mird
been clear. and until she is revived an
accurate description of the man will not
be secured. as Mr.. Hilsrow did not see
the man in the light.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-08-25
Notes of Current Events.

A binder Irvine factory is to be erected
at the Missouri penitentary as soon as
the work can be done.
Martin Deeginger. aged IA years, was
drowned in the Kaw river while swim
ming at Topeka, Kan.
Conductor Bert Clay was killed al
Oklahoma City. o. T.. while his train
crew was switching cars on to a sidiAg.
A young man whose identity is un-
known jumped into the Patapsco river
near Baltimore, Nd, and drowned him
self.
An effort is TO be made to secure tbs
passage of law providing fos the exam
ination ard licensing Of music teachers
in Iowa.
In quarrel among a number Of Ital-
ians at Felix. Wyo.. two men were kill
ed and another is 50 badly wounded that
be win probably die.
Former Congressman briggs. New
York, pleaded not guilty to two indict-
ments, charging him with being impli-
Gated in the postal scandals.
George A. Williams. a newspaper so
iicitor. formerly Of Lexington, Ky, want
ed at Detroit, Mich. for alleged embez-
element, was arrested at Troy, Ohio.
An automobile in which Judge and
Mrs. Lockwood Honore Of Chicago were
riding frightened a horse near Brewster.
Mass. and the animal ran away. injur-
ing two women.
The astronomers at Yale observatory
have sust made photographs Of Borelli's
comet showing faint indications Of the
presence Of a fourth tail Previous OBJ
servations showed only three.
Secretary Root has decided TO approve
an allotment OF $3.50, 900. 10 be expended
under direction Of Gen. Crozier. chief Of
ordinance. in equippins the militia with
the new field guns and material for their
service
A petition in involuntary bankruptcy
was fled n the United States District
Court IN St Louis against the Merchants
Brokerage and Commission Company,
asking that a trustee be appointed 10
TAXA sh@gs q e egaRanz snalr.
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New. of Minor Note.

The baby of Mrs. C. c. Crook. Rush
vile, Ohio fell into bucket of water
and drowned.
Severe blow at Carthage. Jasper and
Lamar, Mo- Many buildings damaged.
No one killed.
The independent long-distance tele-
phone system of Texas has passed into
the hands of n. E. Huntington.
1t has cost Kansas 81, 900 to print the
journals Of the two houses of the last
Legislature. They make total of 3, $50
pages.
Mary Jackson, a negress SO years old,
was run down and killed by a Santa Fe
switch engine in the yards in Guthrie,
o. I.
William Merritt was shot and killed
while sitting in his front yard at Mob
rara. Neb. Isaac Mccain was arrested
on suspicion.
At the Grand hospital, San Francisco,
doctors bored hole in the head of Pie
tro Raffino and inserted antitoxin, curing
him of Iockjaw.
New Hope Church. Appomattox Coun-
IL, Virginia, was struck by lightning.
4
wingheld were killed and several others
injured.
A committee has been appointed by
the Governor Of Texas 10 make an award
Of $4,000 for a successful remedy for the
cotton boil weevil.
Thomas 0'Toole Of New York. one 6f
the most expert bridge builders in the
country, was accidentally killed st Quar-
rYville. Pa. Friday.
The purchase Of silver by the treasury
for Philippine coinage has been tempo
-arily suspended on account of the high
price Of the white metal.
Cor. Heard of Louisiana has declined
to interfere in the case Of A. e. Batson
for the murder Of seven members Of the
Earl family, B4ts0n win be Hanged At
Laka ChEss@&
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TORNADO DEvAsrATEs FARMS.
Buildings Blown Down and Persons In
jured-kaDsas River at Flood Stage.


Heavy damage was done by tornado
which swept the country ten miles south
west of Norfolk, Neb The house of
farmer of the name of Kriger was demol-
ished, Mrs. Kriger was seriously injured,
and one of the children hurt. Fields of
corn were destroyed and outbuildings
blown away. The storm struck the farm
of Albert Berglund, near Newman
Grove. All the outhouses were totally
destroyed, including the barn. blacksmith
shop and sheds. The machinery on the
place was wrecked and scattered. Peter
Berglund was standing in the door of
the blacksmith shop when the storm
struck it, and was carried some distance
with the building. The only injury he
suffered was a broken arm
The storm reached its greatest fury at
the farm of Louis Kvam, where a large
barn was wrecked, not enough of it be-
ing left in one piece to make an ordinary
door. A quantity of barley in the gran
airy was carried $50 feet and scattered on
the ground. The rest of the barn was
strewn over the country for half mile.
Two horses were picked'up by the wind,
carried some distance and killed. Twen-
ty-hye or thirty hogs were also killed.
Traffic between the Kansas Cities was
practically suspended Saturday, all the
temporary pile bridges erected after the
great flood in June having been endan-
gered by riSe in the Kansas River, the
result of continuous heavy rains.
The stopping of traffic over the tenn
porary bridges caused a rush for the flow
line bridge, which supports the pipe car
rying the city's water supply. The gates
at each end of the bridge were torn off
in the anxiety of those seeking to get
across. The bridge is comparatively
frail structure, aud at one time there
were nearly 800 persons on it. There
was danger of the bridge falling, and it
became necessary to nail up the gates
and force persons from the structure.
The James street bridge, the only
nleans of street ear communication be-
tween the two Kansas Citys, went out
Monday morning. The bridge had been
weakened by the high water and gave
way when struck by a great mass of
driftwood carried in from the west by
the swift current The James street
bridge was built of piles to replace one
carried out by the June food. Fart of
the Belt Line bridge collapsed Sunday.
At Armourdale which was literally
wiped out in the June food, the river
was fourteen feet above low water mark
and seven feet higher than the lowest
mark recorded since June. At Abilene
the water was two feet deep on 4th and
9Th streets, and many cellars were
hoodad
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-08-25
cLoUDBURsT CAUSES WRECK.
Fireman of Rock Islands Texas Ex-
press * lied at Alma, X an.

The engine, mail car and baggage car
OF the Texas express on the Rock Island
went through bridge across Hendricks
creek near Alma. Kan, killing Fireman
John Leggett and seriously injuring the
engineer, John McSteen of Kansas City.
The baggagemen and expressmen jumped
when the shock came and were swept
by the waters into tree tops, from
whence they were rescued at daylight by
William Graves, a fisherman. Graves
also found the engineer unconscious and
entangled in the limbs of a tree. The
engine is at the bottom of the creek, out
of sight. One car is dangling from the
end CT the bridge and another is lodged
on the bank of the stream, partially I'M
der water. That a fearful loss of life
did not follow is due to the narrowness
of the stream where the disaster occur
red. A cloudbIrst had filled the creek
and weakened the bridge.
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Told in a Few Lines.

George Ayers and Tom Woodson Bris-
toll. Tenn. were frightfully injured while
blasting coal.
G. S Bailey. Mountain Park, o. T.,
killed W. Brown. Quarreled over pro-
posed removal of the town.
The bank of Dwalls' Bluff in Arkansas
has gone into the hands of a receiver.
1t is expected depositors viii be paid in
full.
p. s. Bennett. a New York capitalist,
Is reported killed by the upsetting of
stage in the Thunder Mountain district
of Idaho.
A Chicago undertaken threatens to
drive his hearse up to a debtors door
every day until he receives his money for
a coffin furnished the mans mother.
Fire which started in the Davy block
at Rochester, \. Y. did damage estimat-
ed at 100000 -Four stores with their
contents were destroyed. Thirty girls
were rescued with difficulty.
Foreclosure proceedings have been be-
gun against Eppinger & Co. and others
of San Francisco TO secure an indebted
ness of 1857, 1914 due the London, Ameri-
can and Paris Bank, Limited.
A mob in Henderson, Texas, released
a negro after preparing to lynch him.
Judge promised that grand jury would
lake up the~negro's case at once. He is
charged with criminal assault
Mrs. K. G. Scott. Richmond. Va. while
on a ear near Cincinnati, was slightly
wounded by a bullet which passed
through car window. She was able to
continue her journey. No clew.
Mrs. Lizzie West of San Francisco.
Cal. falling 10 receive Expected moaey
from relatives IN Denver. b,ught a & I'm,
paid cremation fees and a..!nk ehlOro-
form. Physicians think she viii live.
James Coghili. 20 years old. who had
lived three and a half years with a
broken back. is dead at Holyoke Mass
The fall which fractured the spinal col
urnn caused paralysis below the break.
Eaton Stone. web known IA lis time
as a circus performer, is dead az mis-
home in HutIey, y. j.. at the age Of Sc
Stone is said to have been the first man
70 turn a sonersault on a galIop.1g morse.
He retired from the ring about thirty
years 49,