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The investment in the government
printing office is $2,429,000.
One factory has marketed 10000 cleo
trical flatirons this season.
The Democratic Labor Union in Ma
Mia has membership of $4,000.
In shipbuiding, Pennsylvania stands
first and New York second, while Cali
fornia is good third.
Returns Of British trades unions show
a gradual decrease of unemployed mem
bers in the engineering trades.
Portuguese wharf laborers in Hawaii
have refused to work because they were
asked to work alongside of japanese.
Although one-fourth of the worlds su-
gar crop is consumed in the United
States, but one-twentieth of it is grown
here.
Skilled labor in Indiana controlled by
corporations average $2.43 a day and un-
skilled labor S133, boys II cents, girls
and women 80 -ents.
New York C.ty viii no longer take its
refuse to sea and dump it, but viii make
1t into briquettes. with bituminous fux,
which will probably be burned in a mu-
nicipal lighting plant.
Girl ticket agents on the elevated roads
In Chicago have formed a union, securing
charter from the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Street Railway Employees.
They work twelve hours day and hope
to securs shorter work day. The union
Is the only one of its kind in the United
States.
The American Bridge Company com
pleted twenty seven bridges in the Ugan-
da, African railway, in ifty-three weeks
The British contractors had built eight
In two years previous. The British build
ers employed more than 100 men in put
ting up a bridge, while the Americans
used five.
The Chicago Printers Union has tax
en- steps to increase its members bene-
fits. The union now sets aside $3.50 a
month, from which sum every member
who for twenty years has been con
tributing member Of the union, and is
physically unfit for work, viii receive
pension OF So a week.
In view Of the establishment Of the
Bureau Of Commerce and Labor it is in
teresting to state that the government
statistician says the internal commerce
of the United States has grown from 81
O00OO0,O00 fifty years ago TO $4,000
coo 900 last year The manufactures
nearly double those Of Great Britain and
about equal those Of Russia, France and
Germany combined.
An industrial census Of Bohemia shows
that Of its 2,O06. 900 population Of 49,
327 are engaged in manufactures and Of
these POI .539 are women. Most Of the
work Is done BY hand and at home.
Publishers Of San Francisco daiIies
have entered into an agreement with the
Newspaper Writer'S Union Of that city,
chartered by the international Typo
graphical Union. and providing for a
minimum wage scale
The Manufacturers Record estimates
that II the rate Of industrial progress be-
tween 1880 and 1902 is maintained until
1912 the annual output Of American coal
will reach the stnpendous total Of 49,
O08, 900 to 10000. 900 TONS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
BLACKS KILL AT ALTAR.
Georgia Planter Who Seeks to Break
Up Revival Is Shot.

Up Revival Ia Shot.
Negroes in Harris County, Georgia,
! killed John Cash. white man, who en-
| tered a church fer colored people Sun
/ day and tried TO break up the services.
! Cash was a planter and the negroes
have church near his home. A revival
has been in progress at the church and
| Sunday night there was great congre-
| cation and much shouting The noise
disturbed Cash and he decided to break
up the meeting. He entered the church
in threatening manner and ordered the
negroes to get out.
He's profaning Gods house XII
him. shouted the religion frenzied ne
| groes.
BE mercifnl," cried the preacher, but
| the negroes were overwrought and began
nring at Cash, who stood near the pulpit.
Probably 900 shots We're fired, many of
them striking Cash, who fell in a pool
| Of blood at the altar.
| All during the fusillade the negroes
kept shouting, XIII the profaner!" while
the preacher pleaded, BE merciful. :"
| Only one negro, Henry White, has been
arrested, but it is not believed he will
be prosecuted. Henry Whites father
once killed a white man who was leading
whiteeap party.
/ Leading negroes of Philadelphia met
\ and decided to send petition to Car
| Nicholas of Russia through Count Cas-
/ SIM, the Russian ambassador. asking him
to appeal to President Roosevelt TO take
steps on behalf OF the colored race in
this country. The Car is expected by
the negroes to ask about race troubles
in this country in return for Americas
| interest in the fIishenev affair."
A mob of fifty marched from Larxin-
vile, Ala, Monday night and took An
drew Digs, colored, from the Scots
boro Jail and thence to the woods 10 be
lynched. Diggs had been arrested for
attacking Miss Alma Smith, white, at
Larkinville. Sheriff d. o. Austin re-
sisted the mob until he was shot down
| and the keys taken from him
At Peoria, Ill, a special grand jury
convened to consider the case of John
McCray, the negro who a week ago shot
and instantly killed Detective Murphy.
| McCray is in the Galesburg Jail, where
he was taken to prevent lynching at the
hands of mob that surrounded the Jail
| for two nights, The people were only
| appeased by promises Of a speedy trial
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Ridley BROCK LOSES HIS LIFE.
Man Who Married General CIay's Di-
vorced Wife Is Killed.

Riley Brock, who married the divorced
wife of Gen. Clay Of Whitehall, KY,
was run over by train and killed at
Longview, III. Gen. Clay, when he di-
vorced the girl, gave her home in
Woodford County and bestowed upon her
nearly all of the rare pictures and bric-a-
brac he had gathered during his stay at
st. Petersburg. When she married Brock
the general gave her land to rent out and
live on the income, but Brock sold every
thing, including the presents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
SAYS DoNs COULD HAVE WON.
Hero of the Merrimac Declares Ger
yera's Fleet Was Suuerior 70 Ours

Hero of the Merrimac Declares Ger
vera's Fleet Was Superior to Ours.
Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson,
the hero of the Merrimac, in an article
printed in New York makes some inter
esting statements concerning the battle
of Santiago. He says:
''At Santiago the Spaniards had good
ships, heavily armed, of twenty knots
speed Outside we had but two fast
ships in our squadron, the New York
and Brooklyn, and they only armed cruis-
ers, oar heavily armored vessels being
only sixteen-knot ships
IF the Spaniards had clustered out
side and stood away at twenty knots
speed, and our motley feet had put out
in pursuit, before nightfall our vessels
would have been far separated, scarcely
one in the line being in sight of the next
ahead or next astern, and the Spanish
squadron could have turned around and
defeated them one at a time.
THE Spanish officers and enlisted men
were brave and courageous, and died
nobly at their posts of duty. The differ
ence lay in efficiency.
why this was not the result, instead
of the complete destruction of the Span
ish feet, I can explain as follows:
ANY person going down to our feet
prior to the war would have found every
officer and enlisted man engaged from
morning TO night, each in planning and
executing methods to increase the eff
cheney of his own department in battle.
Reports from the Spanish squadron show
no such activity; no target practice, only
occasional perfGnctory swinging of tur
ret guns.
admiral Cervera informed me when
/ called on him at Annapolis, returning
the gracious call that he paid to me while
in prison in Santiago, when the question
of the battle came up in conversation,
that he had been forbidden by his govern
Inent to cut out any of the woodwork,
and that the cutting of the fire main on
his flagship in the early stages of the
action prevented fighting the fire, which
ragged with inconceivable fereeness"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
OUsTED OFFICIAL FLIES.
Detroit Comm ssioner Said to Have
Misapp1ied Public Funds.

Commissioner of Public Works Dewitt
FL. Moreland of Detroit, Mich, one of
the appointees under the ripper" act of
the Legislature of two years ago, was
removed from Office by the City Council
the other evening as the result of an in
YestigatiOn of his Office which has been
going on for two weeks. 1t is charged
that he has misapplied public funds and
solicited brides from contractors. Mayor
Maybury at once appointed his cousin,
William II. Maybury, chairman of the
Democratic County Committee, to sue
coed Moreland. Moreland has disap-
peared, but it is learned from source
worthy of belief that he is in Mexico or
on his way there.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
STATUE OF HOOKER UNVEILED.
Gems. Miles, Bates, Merritt. Brooke,
Howard and Others Present

Gems. Miles. Bates, Merritt. Brooke,
Howard and Others Present.
The equestrian statue of Gen. Joseph
Hooker, erected upon the grounds of the
State house in Boston, was dedicated
Preceding the unwilling ceremonies a
great parade was held in which scores of
the most distinguished military men of
America participated, together with reg
ular army, cavalry and infantry, marines
and blue jackets. Gov. Bates occupied
nus place as commanderin-chief of the
military forces of the State, while in the
line were Lieut. Gen. Miles, Gen. Wesley
Merritt, Gen. John R. Brooke, Gen. Oil
yer o. Howard, Gen. Daniel E. Sickles,
Gen. Alexander s. Webb, United States
army, and Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain.
Master Joseph Hooker Wood, grand
nephew of Gen. Hooker, pulled the cord
which released the veil.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
BIG DEAL ST. LOUIS.
Electric Light Concerns Consolidate
with S1O,oOO,OOO Capital.


1t has been officially announced that
n. w. Harris & Co. of Chicago, New
York and Boston have purchased S4,-
100000 3 per cent thirty year bonds of
the Union Electric Light and Power
Company Of st. Louis. This company
is to be a consolidation of the Imperial
Electric Light, Heat and Power Com
pany and the Citizens Electric Lighting
and Power Company with the Missouri
Edison Electric Company and will thus
control practically the entire electric
light and power business of the city. The
company is capitalized at $10000,000 and
is at present erecting one of the largest
central power stations in the world at
a cost of over 100000 and with ca
pacity OF $4,000 horse power A ten
year contract has just been entered into
with the st. Louis Transit Company to
supply the latter with a minimum of 49,,
600 horse power.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Roasts a Girl in a Sack.

Mrs. Mary Patterson is under arrest
at New Iberia, La, charged with muir
der. The woman became enraged at her
stepchild, a little girl of 10 years, and
after beating her, tied her In q corn sack
and suspended her to 6 limb of tree.
She then made a fire beneath the tree
and piled on a lot of paper to intensity
the heat and smoke. The sack caught
fire and the body, falling out, burned to
a crisp,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Yale Is the Victor.

For the first time on record Yale tri-
umphed over Harvard in all three of
their boat races in the annual regatta
on the Thames. The wearers of the
blue won the eight-oared varsity race by
three and one-half boat lengths, the
freshman eight-oared race by two and
quarter lengths and the varsity four
Dared race by one and half lengths.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
KILLS SWEETHEART IN RAGE
T. IL. Worden of Carmel, N. Y, At
tempts a Triple Murder.

tCMpEs q ITIpIG MuTuCTs
Angered over her refusal to marry
him, p. II. Worden killed Edith Roscoe
by cutting her throat. He then attacked
Mrs. Sherman Roscoe, sister-in-law of
Miss Roscoe, with a hammer, crushing
her skull and inhicting fatal injuries.
Worder then shot himself, but may re-
cover The tragedy occurred at the Ros-
coe bone on farm near Carmel, n. Y,
where Worden and Miss Roscoe were
visitors. The cause assigned for Wor-
den's acts is that he was insanely jeal-
Gus of Miss Roscoe and killed her in a
rage because she declined TO marry him.
His attack on Mrs. Roscoe is thought to
have been due to Worden's belief that
she had influenced her sisters action in
refusing him
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Two Held for Po,tofBce Robbery.

Postoffice Inspector Drake and the
local police have arrested three supposed
leaders of a gang of country postof1ce
robbers who have been working North
Dakota for several months. The men
are Alex. Bell, Andrew Hendel, alias
May, and one named Gray. Gray was
arrested at Bottineau, where. the post
Office was piundered some time ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Has Spent So, 5000 on Fair.

The worlds fair company expended
$8,500,000 in cash up to the first of the
present month, as shown by the report
of the auditing committee of the national
commission at work in st. Louis Con-
tracts have been let by the exposition
company that will approximately COM
plete the expenditure of the $10,000,000
required by the act of Congress before
any Of the government funds are availa-
hlo
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
OHIO scHooLMA,AMs ON STRIKE.
Adams Township. Cham paig County,

Adams Township. Champaign County,
Offers to Compromise.
The school board Of Adams township,
Champaign County, Ohio, cut teachers
salaries to $40 a month a short time ago,
and every one of them went on strike.
They persuaded others to give them sup
port, and no applications were filed. The
township superintendent found another
job. As no one could be induced to come
at the salary offered, the board has of
fered a compromise of $40. 1t is not
known whether the ''spunky" teachers
will accept, as they asked $50.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Plunged Down Shaft.

The breaking of a shaft on the first
floor of the II. J. Heinz Company's plant
in Allegheny, Pa, released the ropes sup
porting a large freight elevator on which
twenty-three persons were crowded. The
cage fell from the fifth floor into the cell
lar, distance of forty-five feet, and
every one in the elevator was injured.
1t is thought that at least two will die.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Following is the standing of the clubs
Tornado Kills Eight People.

A tornado IN jackson County, Mimi,
killed at least eight people. Among the
dead are Mrs. Joseph Fritcher and two
children, who lived two miles north of
Heron Lake. Near Window Dan Gala
CHER, wealthy farmer, and two daugh-
tiers were killed. Their home was de-
stroyed. Many buildings were destroyed
and the storm is reported to have been
the worst in manY years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Kiduaped ChiId Recovered.

Little Alice Furlong, who disappeared
from her home in Chicago a few days
ago, has been found, alive, well and
happy. The woman who is thought to
have kidnapped her, Mrs. Hazel Avery, is
a prisoner at the Desplaines street sta
ton, and man who accompanied her is
also held pending an investigation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
SAVES TRAIN FROM DISASTER.
Action of a Brave Engineer Prevents
Loss of Life.

Loss of Life.
Engineer GA. Duyal of a local freight
train on the Ohio river division of the
baltimore and Ohio risked his life near
Parkersburg, w. Va, to save the lives
of the rest Of the crew and to prevent
his train from being blown up. A car
loaded with powder and next to the en-
CINE caught fire. Seeing the burning car
and knowing what it contained, the engi-
neer coolly stopped his train, had a
brakeman cut the train off behind the
powder and then ran ahead with the
burning car, leaving it at safe distance
from the rest of the train. He had bare
~ time to escape with his engine before
the explosion. Only slight damage was
done TO train or track. but the car was
blown to splinters. No one was hurt,
owing to Engineer DuvaPs presence of
mind and courage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
NEED 100, 900 MEN.
Wanted % Gather the Harvest in Great
Wheat Fields of the West.

Wheat Fields of the West.
From the big wheat counties of Kan
sas comes a cry for help. The farmers
cannot harvest their grain crops, unless
an army of laborers comes to the rescue.
Railroads, press and public have been
appealed to, to bring in the helpers.
Within the next fortnight $4,000 men
will be required to gather the wheat aft
ter the machines and get it into shock
ready for the thresher. To make the
harvest expeditions $4,000 men are nee
eSsary. Farm labor has been put at a
wage premium to attract helpers, but
even with this inducement there is grave
danger that not enough men will be OBJ
tanned to garner and save the whole of
the crop. There was similar dearth
of harvest hands last year, but this year
the need is greater than ever.
Appeal after appeal has gone out from
the employment bureau. The agricul-
tural press In some instances has agreed
to publish free of charge any sources of
supply from which laborers may be OBJ
tanned. The great railroad systems trav-
ersing the western wheat belt have made
special low rates to transport men from
other States and FROM populous centers
to the places of greatest need. Some
good has resulted from this, but the de
ficiency Is still alarming.
Farmers are freely offering $3.50 a
day and board. In places where the
need is most acute wages considerably
In excess of those quoted are offered.
Kansas is not the only State ham
pered by a dearth of farm laborers.
South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska
Montana and the great wheat sections in
western Canada are in similar straits
An army of more than a hundred thou
sand men would not be a whit too large
to care for the crop
1t is a race between the various sec
lions as to which shall offer the best in
ducements to get the men. This prob
lem Is becoming graver every year The
era of prosperity and the good wages
have taken laborers away from the
farms and drawn them to cities.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Wrecks a Chicago Train.

The west-bound New York and Chi
cage limited train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad was wrecked near Lucas, Pc.
but no one was seriously injured. The
accident was caused by Toledo passenger
train running into the observation car on
the rear of the limited.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Gr;efDrives to su;cide.

Heartbroken by the deaths of his wife
and children and bankrupt and despond-
ent, Theodore Wallkopf, once a wealthy
Brazilian, fired bullet through his brain
in New York. His weapon was French
duelling pistol, its handle marked with
six deep notches, rs if in token of as
many meetings on the field of honor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Sue. for share of a Million.

Mrs. c. c. Burnes and daughter. Mar
jorie, of Chicago, have brought suit in
the federal court at st. Joseph. No. for
a share of the million-dollar Burnes es-
tate. one of the wealthiess in Missouri.
They claim to be unable TO secure an &C
counting from L. C. Bnrnes. the preSeat
herd Of the estate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07

Breweries Company, Main street ana
Archer avenue, Chicago. wrecked the
entire upper part of the building blocked
the streets with bricks and wreckage,
broke many window panes in the vicinity
aud injured three men. The damage TO
the building is estimated between $1O,-
600 and S15 600
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
No Money from State Treasury.

At Topeka, Kan, the house killed
bill by Representative B. T. Waggener
appropriating $1,o00,000 from the State
Treasury to repair and reconstruct the
bridges across the Kaw River that were
damaged or wrecked by the recent flood.
Cities and counties, however, were en-
poMered TO repair the RUS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Home for Consumptives.

What is said to be the first municipal
tuberculosis sanitarium in this country
has been opened in Cleveland. All pa
tients under treatment for tuberculosis in
the city hospital will be removed to the
new institution and treated according to
the latest scientific methods.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Oil King ou.ts osuooa.

John d. Rockefeller is now the ruling
power in the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company. John c. Osgood, for many
years head of the concern, who last year
conducted a winning fight against John
w. Gates and the Hawley- ii arriman
combination in their attempts to wrest
control from him, has resigned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
six Persons Shot in a Car.

Six persons were shot and severely
wounded in a trolley ear between Media
and Chester, Pa. A negro, believed to
have been seeking revenge because the
conductor recently elected him, discharg-
ed both barrels of a shotgun ar the car
as it passed lonely spot in the country.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
MANEUvERs OFF OYSTER BAY.
A Naval Demonstration in August
Where President May See 1t.

WHcre FresIuent May sec IT.
A great naval demonstration has been
planned to take place off Oyster Bay
about the middle of August. President
Roosevelt will review the North Atlantic
feet, under command of Rear Admiral
Barker Forty-fve vessels at least will
participate. This will include six battle
ships, five cruisers, four gunboats, eight
or ten destroyers, three training ships,
eight supply ships and Golfers and nine
tenders and tugs. The review by the
President is to be part of the summer
practice program for the home feet an
nounced by the Navy Department.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Cause of the Explosion.

1t is generally believed that the explo-
sion was caused by one of the miners
opening IA condensed air chamber. Those
of the survivors who are able to talk
believe that gas had formed in the cham
Der and forced out the air. When the
miner opened the door his lamp set fire
to the gas.
d. S. Brooks, superintendent of the
mine, and William Pascoe, stable boss,
entering soon after the explosion were
overcome by the gas at the fourth level
and but for immediate assistance would
have persisted in few moments.
There are several miles of workings in
the mine, and the men were widely scat
tered. At the seventh level sixty-fve
men were employed. The underground
stables were also located at this point,
and forty-fye mules were kept in them.
1t was impossible to go beyond the sew
enth level going down the main entrance,
this being perhaps 600 feet from the sur
face.
A party of FIVE men entered from an
air shaft half mile away from the main
entrance and succeeded In going in about
three-fourths of a mile. They found
bodies being blown into atoms. The gas
at this point was very strong. Before
the men could retreat they became ex-
hausted, and but for assistance rendered
by a party who followed them closely
never could have reached the surface.
They found many of the air shafts closed
and passageways INSTRUCTED by the walls
caying in.
The Hanna mines are among the best
on the Union Pacific system, being estab-
lished in 1878. The town was named for
Senator Mark Hanna when he was a
member Of the Union Pacific Coal Com
pany. Mine No. 1 is practically new
property. 1t has twenty-six entries, fif-
teen miles of workings and a main in
cline shaft of one and one-half miles in
length. The mine has been recognized as
dangerous on account of the large
amount of gas, but the system of ventila-
ton has been so good that an accident
was not Anticipated
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07

The Malone paper mill, owned By the
Malone Paper Company at Malone. y.
T.. was destroyed By fire. Seven or
eight dwellings also were burned The
Mil employee 1ne hundred hands. Tbs
loss is estimare4 at 500. 900, with IL
snranca Of $50 600.