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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
To Ra;se Anvor, Goats

Raw wool merchants are much inter
ested in the efforts Of the government
bureau of animal industry to promote the
raising of Angora goats in New Eng
land and other parts of the country
George F. Thompson of the bureau has
lectured in Boston and elsewhere on the
possibilities of goat culture, and has
particularly endeavored to impress the
farmers with the practicability OF his
ideas.
He tells them that the goats are of
great value as destroyers of brush; that
there is little cost in feeding them, as
they find food for themselves where 9TH
er animals would starve; that their fleece
is equal in value to that of the sheep,
and the meat is as nutritious, although it
does not meet with as ready a sale
In some parts of the West Angora
goats are being raised with profit and it
is the expectation to produce all the mo-
hair needed in American manufacturing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
LaSsr Notes.

There we're 252 strikes in Austria last
year. involving 36,304 work people. OF
these there were successful. II; partly
successful, 68; failed. 50; result unknown
in IS cases.
Elevator constructors from all over the
country have held a convention in New
York City, formed an international union
and decided to affiliate with the Amerl-
can Federation of Labor.
Brockton. Mass, Shoe Stitchers' I'm
ion is By far the largest local Of the
Boot and Shoe Workers in the United
States or Canada. 1t has a total mem
bership of over 1900 and an income Of
800 day.
The Amalgamated Association Of
iron Steel and Tin Workers limits the
amount of production Of the mills over
which il has control in accordance with
tba anount of work il believes its men
are capable Of performing. The present
limit IS about 430 sheets in eight hours.
There IS no eight-hour day in Russia.
On the government work the laws pro-
vide that the day mus aot extend be
voud eleven and half houls, not count
ing the recesses, and On Saturdays and
DAYS before holidays not more than ten
hours. Daytime is reckoNed from 5 a.
m. TO 0 0. m, and those yho work at
night must not be kept working more
than ten hours Of the twsnty four.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
Interesting Nemn Items.

The water works tunnel at Cleveland,
Ohio, that has cost fifty lives and mill
ions of money, has been opened after
years Of work.
While delirious, Margaret Mcfarland,
a typhoid fever patient in ST. Luke's
hospital. Duluth. leaped from a fourth
story window and was instantly killed
The plasterers' union at Minneapolis,
Mimi, is one of the strongest unions in
that city from financial standpoint, and
with three exceptions every plasterer in
the city is member of the union.
Samuel Hunkin. a contractor, was in
stantly killed ri,d his companion, Miss
Matte Fitzsimmons, was dangerously in
jured in a suburb of Cleveland. They
were driving and were struck by the
Eyer on the Erie road.
Thomas Lucas, a 16-yesr-old colored
boy of Brooklyn, ILL.,, is a prisoner charg-
ed with killing his stepfather, Charles
Anderson, also colored, aged 40 years.
The production of the play, Jesse
James, the Bandit King" by company
filing an engagement at the Auditorium
Theater. in Lincoln, Neb., was stopped
by order of Chief of Police Routzahan.
George Grace, aged 10, whose parents
reside at Lake Contrary. near st. Joseph,
Mo-, was killed in a runaway. He fell
from a seat and his right leg was caught
between the spokes of wheel and torn
off.
|. Jerry Gallivan, a farmer who lived
southeast of Warrensburg, Mo-, drove
over the edge Of culvert and overturn-
ing his wagon, fell into a ditch below
and broke his neck, killing him instantly.
Adam Cupler, Jr., president of the firm
of A. Cupler, Jr., g. Co, manufacturers
of nitro-glycerin and oil well supplies,
was instantly killed in East Titusville,
Pa. By the accidental explosion OF ten
quarts of the high explosive.
An unknown man, apparently about 90
years of age, was struck by the seath-
bound Santa Fe passenger train while
on the Cow Greek bridge, about two
miles north of Pittsburg. Kan, a9d SIS
tanned injuries from which he lied.
f. W. Crosby. who is coIecGiias speci-
mems for the Sh shsoniSn institute az
Washington, is n Oregon City, Ore, TO
see the meteor reported few days ago
and has pronounced il rot only genu-
inc meteor, but the largest ever discov-
cred in the world. 1t weighs twenty
tons.
B. T. Dunn, an attorney of Findlay,
Ohio. and formerly vice commander OF
the Grand Army Of the Republic depart
rent OF Ohio. fled a petition in voiun-
tary bankruptcy. He gives his Liabilities
as 76,O3O.OT and his assets az $500
Mr.. Dunn's failure is due to deprecia-
ton Of Findlay real estate after the gas
boom II that city some years ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
SETBACK TO CHILD INSURANCE.
Indiana Judge Makes r-ling of Inn

Indiana Judge Makes E-1ing of Inn
portance to the Companies.
Judge Plummer of the Wabash Circuit
Court, Wabash, Ind, rendered I decis-
ion in the case of Mary A. Ellis of that
city against the Metropolitan Life In
surance Company of New York, which
is OF vital interest to insurance &C
panies that insure the lives of chill =
and to persons who pay for such policies.
Last summer Mrs. Ellis insured the life
of her son, VIII Ellis, and paid several
premiums. The lad was attacked with
hemorrhage of the lungs and died sud
denly. Mrs. Ellis demanded payment of
the policy, under which she. as benef-
ciary. was entitled to $126. The COM
pany's attorney filed an answer setting
forth that, although young Ellis was not
of age he was married and had children,
and that the mother received nothing
from him in the way of support, and
therefore was not pecuniarily interested
in the policy. The plaintiff demurred,
and Judge Plummer overruled the de-
murrer, holding that Mrs. Ellis did not
have an "insurable interest" in her son;
that the mere fact of relationship did
not permit her to stand as a beneficiary
under the policy and that judgment must
be for the defendant. Under this theory
any insurance company which insures an
infant, in law, can successfully defend
suit on the policy brought by the parent
as the mere relationship does not give
cause of action. 1t is a severe blow TO
child insurance companies.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
WIFE MAY NOT MEND.
Philadelphia Organization Takes Ad-
vanced Sfaud on domestic Labor.


Docs a union man violate the man
dates of trade unionism when he allows
his wife to mend rent in his overcoat 2"
This question caused a heated discus
sion in the Central Labor Union in Phil
adelphia, and the decision finally reach
ed was that he does. II also was decided
to fine all organizations which do not
employ regular union men for all work.
The matter was brought up in an argu
ment as to the right of a union man to
do the work of a bartender and waiter
at an entertainment given by his own
organization. For nearly two hours the
delegates debated the matter. President
Leps argued that it was all right for
union men to perform any necessary
work at home, but he was voted down.
He said: Union men have a perfect
right TO do gratuitous work of that sort
where there is no pay. You can do the
work of other crafts at your home with
out violating any laws of trade unionism.
If l choose to, l can hang paper in my
own home, or do any other work. Is a
ma,l a 'scab' simply because he allows
his wife to mend tear on his overcoat
or suit, instead of taking it to a union
tailorT'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
International,. Report.

Special Geographic reports from CORE
spondents of the International Mercan-
tile Agency throughout the United States
and Canada regarding the state OF trade
are summarized as follows:
The intervention of elections in eleven
States, with week of mild weather, has
served to check retail sales OF seasonal
BILE goods, notably clothing and millinery,
but canvass of leading iobbers in sta
pie lines at important cities indicates
that the seasons total business is some
what in excess of expectations.
In financial circles features have been
the ease with which the Wall street
stock m2rket resists shock. the ease with
which gold was engaged for import after
the first flush of cotton export bills and
the increased firmness Of money at the
West, where as Chicago bankers say,
continued tension is promised for the
next four weeks. The cotton crop, rep
resenting $100.o00000 more than that Of
last year. ev,n if no larger. points to fur
Their financial drafts to market it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17

as result of the legal battles now being
waged over the stricken territory.
This Montana mining area is the rich
est on the face of the earth. Its stored
up treasures have already yielded many
millions of dollars to mans insatiate de-
sire, though the mining may be said to
have hardly begun, so great is the wealth
which nature has here stored away. The
very cream of this is around Butte City,
where the mineral area is about four
miles in width by ten miles in length east
and west. Here are located the big cop
per mines which have yielded hundreds
of millions of dollars and are yet in
their first stages of development, and for
the ownership of which men are putting
UP the greatest legal fight of the age.
AS result of court decisions in favor
of its opponent, f. Augustus Heinze, the
Amalgamated Copper Company has shut
down for an indefinite period all of its
mines, smelters, sawmills and coal works
Starvation confronts thousands of idle
miners and their dependent families. To-
day the population of Montana is 25O,-
900 in round numbers. The shutdown
of the mines and mills of the copper
trust has thrown 10000 men out of
work. The gaunt specter of want peer
ing through the sagging doorways Of
10000 homes strikes terror to 10000 peo-
pie. Other thousands of merchants,
landlords and the like are made to suffer
indirectly, until, when all is told, the
immensely of it is appalling.
In Butte alone 10000 men are thrown
out of work. The payroll of $4,000 a
day has been stopped. To the business
community of the city that means a loss
of at least a quarter of a million dol
lars a week. With starvation threaten
ing the masses and ruin and bankruptcy
hanging over the heads Of many mer-
chants and business men, it is no won
der that an atmosphere of gloom has set
tied over the stricken community
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
This and That.

pickpocket at Madrid distracted
wallet containing 100000 pesetas (about
s32s. 100 from the pocket Of a million
aire farmer from Granada.
John Joseph Shea, who rowed in the
Dauntless eight which won the Worlds
Fair championship regatta at Detroit in
1898. j. lead in New York.
Wiiber Perry Guenther. aged "a years.
a proofreader known in many cities. com
mitted suici,se by inhaling Illuminating
gas in Philadelphia. Pa. He had been
Respondent owing TO i'll health. 1iuen-
Their was native OF ChaHipaiss County,
Illinois.
Robert G. Holbrook, a comedian
known for years throughout the country
as Happy Dave Holbrook," is dead
at Worcester, Mass, from consumption'
He died In poverty.
In his annual report Rear Admiral NJ
T. Endicott, chief Of the bureau OF yards
and docks. says that the expenditures IN
his department during the year aggregat-
ed s6.G04. J0747.
The steamship Manchuria, built for the
Pacife dail Steamship Company, struck
on the WAYS as it was being launched az
the New YorR Shis Building Company's
yard in Camden, " J. The tide rec"ded
ans 1t was necessary to postpone the
launching.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17

Passenger rates between Chicago and
St. Paul have been restored to the nor
NAL tarje of $11.50 over all the lines.
The Southern Pacific Company is max
ing extensive improvements on its line
between San Antonio and Ell Paso, Tex.
Freight traffic on the Big -Four during
September was "a per cent greater than
during the corresponding month of last
year.
The New York Central is making prep
arations for pensioning off its old en-
ployes who have been incapacitated or
worn out in the service.
The annual report of the Clover Leaf,
or Toledo. st. Louis and Western, for
the fiscal year ended June 80 shows
gross earnings of SO, 1853, an increase
OF $4T0,479.
At a conference of Eastern, Western
AMI Southern traffic managers, held at
the office of the Trunk Line Association
in New York last week. a new schedule
of rates to middle western points from
gulf and Atlantic ports was agreed upon.
Plans are being considered by the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Oma-
ha for improvements in st. Paul which
will increase the capacity of its freight
Yards four-fold and viii require the ex-
penditure of a sum estimated at from
5000, 600 to $1.000.000.
Eleven hundred and thirty-eight trains
arrive daily in the city of Chicago upon
tw enty-three railroads, carrying an aver
age of 160,O00 passengers. or these
trains 33S are for through traffic and 500
for suburban business. The twenty three
railways combined have mileage OF
more than 81 600 miles, which is more
than one-third of the total mileage OF
the United States, and within 1900
miles of TIE entire mileage Of the United
Kingdom, Germany and France. The
l60 600 passengers may be roughly di-
vided into 10000 suburban and 10000
through passengers. The largest number
OF suburban passengers are handled by
the Illinois Central Railway. while the
Union station and Canal street, between
Madison and Adams, receives and sends
ont the largest number Of through trains,
The Louisville and Nashville has Civ
an noace that on account Of the extreme
car shortage it win be compelled TO re
strict the operation Of its Own freight
cars to its own system
During last year electrical railway
campanies ran their cars eleven times the
distance from the earth 10 the sun. killed
1.a1S persons and injured 4a,423.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
1Gbz C1,I(Ia9l(2s,SZE17S
..,.sst.ss9sss ESSl~,-GN-.
ea5 ~ :S No.
III. c&SG'S

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $500; hogs, shipping grades,
81 to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $50
to $3.50; wheat, No red, TSc TO Toe;
corn, No. 2, 43c to de- oats, standard,
3Gc to SIC; rye, No. ,, 55c 10 SIC; hay,
timothy, $3.50 to S12.00; prairie 5000 to
S11.50; butter, choice creamery, 1Sc to
Ole; eggs, fresh. 20c TO BE- potatoes,
soc to 62e.
IndianaDolis-Ca shipping, $500 to
S5.15; hogs, choice light, 's4.00 to S5.i5;
sheep, common to prime, $3.50 TO S3.25;
wheat, No. 2, S3c to SAC; corn No. 2
white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. = white,
36c to &c.
st. Loais-Cattle. $3.50 to $40: hogs,
$3.50 70 1928; sheep, $500 TO $3.50;
wheat, No. ?, Soc to SIC; corn, No. 2,
40c to Ale; oats, No. 2, 34c to 3Gc; rye,
No. =, 53c to 54c.
Cincinnati-Cattle. s4.25 to SlG5;
hogs. $400 to S5.35; sheep, $500 TO
S3.Z3. wheat No. >. sac 20 Sic; corn.
No. , mixed. 43c TO 4Gc; oats. No.
mixed. 35c to 36c; rye, No. >, G0c 20 &c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 TO S5.4O sheep, $3.50 to $500;
WlnHI, No - QUO AZ Oftf fOlAf NV -
yellow acc 20 4Sc; oats. No. 3 white,
SIC to CSC: rye. No 2. SIC to SIC.
Observation-Disclosures, No. northern.
roc TO soc: corn. No. 3. 44c to Ace: oats.
No. white. &c to 3Sc; rye. No. !. 55c
to 5Ge; barley, No. 2, Gao to G5c pork,
mess. SIPS.
Wheat, No. mixed, Sic to
s3c; corn. No. mixed. 4Tc to 4Sc; oais,
No. 2 mixed. BE to 3Sc: rye, No. ?. '4e
10 SEC, clover seed, prime. 1862
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
"a. 30 TO $3.50; hogs. fair to prime $500
TO $500: sheep. fair to choice. SIS to
$500; lambs, common to choice. 500 to
$40
New York-Cattle. 800 70 s5.25;
hogs $500 to 1928; sheep. $500 to
"a *. wheat. No. red. SIC to S5c; corn,
No. 2, SOC TO sic; oats. No. white,
ACC TO 43c: butter. creamery, lSc to &c;
- .~oetarn HIc to DE
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17

history. and the scene before tive gavel
fell in that body was enc OF animation
both on the floor. ~ the cloak rooms and
in the Hobbies and corridors.
Crowds of eager spectators, 10th men
and women, thronged the corridors and
and the galleries, to which admission
was had by card only, were taxed to
their capacity long before the hour for
assembling arrived. Many high officials
of the government left their desks at the
departments to witness the opening of
the session and greet their legislative
friends. Many strangers in Washing
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17

At the opening session of the general
missionary committee of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in the First Methodist
Church in Omaha, the report of the
treasurer of the missionary society, DR..
Homer Eaton of New York, was the
principal business. The report was for
the year ended Oct. 81 and showed the
missionary gifts of the denomination to
have surpassed those of any former year
in the history of the church. Receipts
for the year, including special gifts,
amount to S1,654, 223, passing the million
and a half mark for the first time. The
increase for the year, aside from special
gifts was $136,974. Disbursements for
all purposes were S1,365,4S5, of which
$716411 went to foreign missions and
S475.S70 to home missions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17

The rush to make entries on the Red
Lake lands, which were thrown open for
settlement Tuesday, at Crookston, Mimi.
broke all records. The filings numbered
IT,. Many persons stayed up all night
and spent all their savings to reach the
land office, only to- fall fainting ia the
long line of waiting people or be disap-
pointed. Miss Gustava B. Anderson, of
Elk River, secured the prize, a tract of
choice timber land worth $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
Chicago street Car Strike.

The Chicago City Railway tieup start
ed Wednesday on vote of 800 employees.
The ears on south and southwest sides
were taken to the barns. The employees
demands. which the company refused to
grant, include increased wages, employ
ment only of union men. and pay for
medical attendance and time lost. Over
1900 employees are involved, with daily
pay roll of $6,196; 800 miles of track,
1874 cars, and 100000 fares are af-
fected
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
Blow at Coal Strike Award.

received a blow at the hands of Judge
Auten the other day. He ruled in favor
of the Llewellyn Mining Company in
mandamus proceedings against Justice
Lloyd, before whom the Royal Oak min
ers obtained judgment for back pay. The
company appealed, and this decision of
Judge Auten indicates that the commits
sion's findings are not binding on either
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
MOB USES TAR AND FEATHERS.
J. Ward Copeland Dragged from Un-
der a Bed and Punished.

}. Nard copeland Dragged from On.
der Bed and Punished.
j. Ward Copeland was dragged from
under bed in the Williams House in
Charlotte, Mich, where he was day
clerk, by mob at O'Clock Friday night
and tarred and feathered. His clothing
was torn to shreds. Copeland was ac-
cused of being responsible for the misfor-
tune of Mabel Sturdeyant, the young
woman who hanged herself in the Phoe-
nix House Sunday night. There were
many prominent citizens in the mob, and
Copeland was ordered to leave town
within twenty-four hours under penalty
OF being treated to d second coat of tar
and feathers. The mob was formed after
an afternoon paper had published a
statement from Prosecuting Attorney
Damn, in which he said that he could not
issue a warrant because of the lack of
evidence
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
bandits Tail a Policeman.

-Four burglars oyerpowered the only
policeman of Merrimack, Mass, and af-
ter ob5ing him and locking him in the
town Jail they blew open the postoffice
safe, riiled it of its contents and fed. In
going away the thieves held up one man
at the point of a revolver and fired two
shots at another man, both bullets going
wide of the mark
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
FATAL BLAST AT COLLEGE.
One Man Killed and Others Hurt b
Boiler Explosion in Ohio.

Oue Man Killed and others Hurt Dy
Boiler Explosion in Ohio.
While students of the Agricultural
College at Ohio University in Columbus
were witnessing the harvesting of field
of corn for ensilage purposes with a ma
chine operated by an old traction engine
the boiler blew up and pieces of iron tore
through the crowd of students. The en-
gineer, Charles Pepper, was blown about
fifty feet from the engine and his body
was terribly nlangled by the debris and
scalded by the hot water from the boiler.
John Delgaru. assistant engineer, was
fatally injured. Prof. Vernon II. Davis.
assistant professor in horticulture, suf-
fered severe injuries to his hand. The
explosion was felt in all the university
buildings. With tremendous force the
pieces of iron were hurled through the
air and blew a great hole in the side of
barn over hundred yards away.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
Family Held on Murder Charges.

The prosecutions in the case of Mabel
Bechtel who was recently murdered in
Allentown, Pa, were postponed until the
next term of. Criminal Court Mrs.
Catherine Bechtel, mother of the muir
dered girl; Myrtha Bechtel. her sister,
and Alois Eckstein, Mabefs fance, are
held as accessories after the fact, and
John and Charles Bechtel, Mabel's
brothers, were committed in default Of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
BRYAN Loses $4,000.

In New Haven, Conn, Judge Cleave-
land of the Probate Court announced
that he had decided that there was no
undue influence by William J. Bryan
over the late Philo S. Bennett in the
construction of the latter's will. but that
the sealed letter about which there has
been a contest, providing for gift of
$4,000 to Mr.. Bryan and family, was
not incorporated in the will.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17


ulH6dUU. house workers averted a
- - threatening disturbance in
the labor situation and restored equanim-
ity where there was probability of seri-
Gus interference to business. The season
Of outdoor work is now well advanced
and there will be the usual release Of
help, but this will affect only moderate
number of skilled hands. Aside from
implement makers. indications are that
most factories will run full forces
throughout the winter, and the steel mills
are assured full employment. Demand
for furnace products and finished iron is
eurtailed, due principally to large con
sumers holding off for lower prices Re
ported cuts in finished materials and a
reduction in price of rails will encourage
the early initiation of much heavy work
for some time past held in Allowance
Grain shipments, including 2,0S0. 1913
bushels of corn. aggregate 4,90T ,5SS
bushels, and are 26 per cent over the
corresponding week of 1902. Agricul-
tural advices are satisfactory as to con
iition of winter wheat and farm work
Supplies of wheat are gaining in the
Northwest and millers are enabled to in
crease the output Export demand for
breadstuffs is lighter and prices tend low
er. Compared with last weeks closing,
wheat declined 27s cents Corn advanc-
ed 5sc and oats unchanged. Live stock
receipts, 1868, 500 head, are S per cent
over year ago. Bank clearings $17S,-
363,1l3, are 6.02 per cent over year
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17
Coal Mem i'm coIorado Omit.

More than 10000 coal miners in Colo
RADIO went on strike Monday for an eight
hour day, increased wages and other con-
cessions Of the idle men 5000 are in
southern coal fields, 1000 in the north
ern coal fields and 1,S00 in Fremont
County. One hundred mines have been
closed down.