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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
MAY REDUCE WAGES.
Carnegie steel Company Has Posted
Necessary Notice.

Necessary Notice.
That a reduction in wages is possible
to the men employed in the Homestead
mills of the Carnegie Steel Company
was made known Friday by the posting
of a notice by the company that on Jan.
1, 1904 there would be a readjustment
in the wages Of the employees. Officials
of the company claim the notice does
not necessarily mean any change in the
wage rates, but in view of any POSSIBLE
ity of a change being necessary it was
deemed best to protect the interests of
the company by posting the notice.
Ever since the strike of 1892 an agree
ment to this effect las been in force be-
tween the company and each of the mill
workers. In case either side was dissat-
isfied with the existing scale agreement
1t was stipulated that they must give at
least three months notice of this fact
preceding the first of the year, when the
matter would be taken up and a new
agreement entered into During the last
four years there has been no disposition
on the part of the Carnegie Company to
change the agreement, but on several oc-
casions it has advanced the wages of the
men voluntarily beyond the rate agreed
upon, until at present they are being
paid the highest wages in ten years.
However, the recent depression in
business has made it necessary for the
company to give the required notice of
change in the wage scale. While it is
not stated a reduction will be made, y IS
thought by some that this is the proba-
BILE intention, and the posting Of the no
tees has been the theme of considerable
talk among the men.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13

News has reached Topeka, Kan, of
a disastrous tornado to farm property at
the Bear Greek settlement, twelve miles
southeast of Topeka Several farm
houses and barns were destroyed, trees
blown down and corn shocks and hay
stacks of the farmers scattered all over
the neighborhood. SO far as can be
learned no lives are lost. \ heavy wind
and rain storm prevailed at Lawrence,
Kan. Signs were blown down, trees up
rooted and much minor damage done.
The passenger shed at one end of the
Union Pacific station was blown across
the tracks, blocking traffic, and the ware
house of the Lawrence nursery was de-
mOlished. At Joplin, Mo-, a severe wind
and rain storm caused several thousand
dollars damage The storm travelled at
the velocity of tornado, blowing down
trees. signs and houses in all parts of the
city The electric light plant was dam
aged badly and the city left in darkness.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13


r. T. Hammond and L. /. Whitman
of Pasadena, Cal, are the third party
10 cross the continent in an automobile.
By road the distance from San Francisco
to New York is 5000 miles, and they
made it in 70 days. The machine was
a small gasoline runabout Of FIVE horse
power, weighing 500 pounds. Heavy
rains prevented the Continuance of the
trip sixteen days, while another day they
were lost in the desert Of Wyoming. The
riders have amusing experiences to re-
late. When lost in the Wyoming desert
pack Of coyotes howled around them
all night. They built a fire of sage brush
and one sat up and watched while the
Others slept, thus keeping off the sneak
ing quadrupeds. Near Battle mountain
they came suddenly upon lone Indian
tending a camp fire at dusk. The Indian
gave a frightened glance at the horse
less carriage and disappeared with yell
of terror. Many miles were Travelled
over roads upon which an automobile
was never before seen, and the surprise
of the few natives encountered was in
structive to the travellers. On the trip
Whitman lost twenty pounds and Ham
mond fifteen pounds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
BURN HUMAN BODY IN WOOD.
Strange Women Mourn Over Mysteri
Gus Miduirht Funeral Pyre


GUS Midnight Funeral Pyre.
At late hour the other night a closed
carriage was hastily driven TO the woods
belonging to Frederick Krump, south of
Brazil, Ind. On arriving at dense
ciump of bushes four men and three
women got out of the vehicle and carry
ing a heavy bundle wrapped in White
cloth, hurried into the woods. The men
were closely followed by the three wom-
en-. who carried cans evidently filled with
coal oil When a dry cluster of brush
was reached pile of sticks was quickly
heaped together, thoroughly saturated
with oil and the men placed the object
they We're carrying on it and set 1t on
fire. The flames lighted the woods for
some distance and three men watched
the movements of the party while the
object, which is supposed to have been
human body, was being consumed. The
women seemed to be weeping and it was
some time after the fire died out before
the three onlookers dared to go to the
place. where they found AN accumulation
of charred bones. Prof. A. G. Fish
back, who examined them, says they are
human bones and look as though they
had been sawed or broken The purpose
of this was evidently so that the bones
could be burned to ashes. The people
departed in the carriage as mysteriously
as they came. The authorities are in
yeStipatinP
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
MANY sHAcKLEs MAY FALL
Every Military Prisoner In America
May Be Set Free.

On a decision which will probably be
filed in ST. Paul during the October term
of the United States Circuit Court Of APP
peals depends the freedom of every mill
tary and guardhouse prisoner in the
United States. The decision may break
the shackles of a thousand men,
The case is that of Edward M. Brode,
James f. Coffee, Andrew Handshoe and
John H. Morris, prisoners at Fort Leav-
enworth military penitentiary. The case
hangs on what construction the court will
place on The court-martisl commitment
order that each man "shall be confined
in such place as the reviewing authority
shall direct"
The prisoners claim that only the
courts martial have the power to direct a
place of confinement, and that such az
order is judicial and beyond the power on
any reviewing authority. AS the courts
martial failed to direct a place of con-
finement, there is no such place, and the
men must go free if this contention is
upheld.
Every military prisoner in the United
States has had his place Of confinement
directed by the reviewing authority, and
all win be affected.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Brndstreet,s Trnde Review.

Bradstreet's Weekly Review of Trade
says:
Mixed trade and crop conditions still
present themselves. although some i'm
provement in tone is noted where crop
estimates, as in the case of corn, show
expansion Lower prices for cereals
point the way to future large business,
and induce a larger foreign interest i'm
our farm products Trade reports vary
with sections considered. the best reports
coming from the Southwest, the North
west and the Pacific coast.
A really favorable feature this week
is the Improvement of collections West
and Northwest, the reflection of the be-
ginning of the movement of delayed crops
to market.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
SIX KILLED BY TRAIN.
Wisconsin, Central Express Demol'
ishes a Chicago Trolley Car.

ishes a Chicago Trolley Car.
Six persons are now dead and nine 9th
ers badly injured as the result OF a col
lision between a west bound Wisconsin
Central limited train, ''the cannonball
express and a Chicago Consolidated
electric car at sd avenue. The cause
of the accident is declared to have been
neglect of duty on the part of the crew
of the electric car. Witnesses say that
the conductor failed to stop at the cross
ing and go ahead to see if the way was
clear. Instead the mot9rman rushed the
ear straight into the path of the engine.
The electric car was going at full
speed as it crossed the railway tracks.
Suddenly the moSorman saw the head
light Of an approaching engine and grasp
ing the brake he turned it rapidly. The
chain was loose and the car shot ahead.
Terrified. ne shouted a warning to the
passengers and then jumped.
The electric car was caught squarely
in the middle by the engine and shattered
into splinters. The occupants of the car
were thrown high in the air and some
were found dead sixty feet away, their
bodies horribly mangled.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
GREAT DANGER OF KAISER.
Average of One Arrest a Dav for Plots
to Kill German Emperor.

Average of One Arrest a Dav for PIots
to Kill German Emperor.
TIE department If politi al police in
Berlin has poted without establishment
the several instances recently of danger
to the life of President Roosevelt, only
wondering that they have been so few
and so evidently without intelligent di-
rcctiOn- Inquiries show that the arrests
of persons suspected of designs against
members of the imperial family of Ger
many average one daily. The arrests
seldom are reported in the newspapers,
and then only against the wishes of the
political police, for the latter believe
that the mere mention of such arrests
prompts ill-regulated minds TO plan kill
ing the sovereign. Fifty definite clews
to such plots have been investigated dur
ing the last nine months, largely upon
anonymous clews. The members of the
imperial family, however, are so hedged
in by police precautions that it is diff
cult for the mentally diseased to get
near them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13

conspiracy TO defraud the government.
The authorities have been especially
anxious to obtain indictments against
Barrett, who is held responsible for ad-
mission to the mails of the get-rich-quiek
turf schemes. Tyner, it is said, gave
Barrett free hand in arranging and
passing upon these cases.
w. ID. Doremus is also indicted in con
nection with sales of the Doremus stamp
canceling machines. There are addition
al bills against George w. Beavers and
State Senator George A. Greene, of New
York Harry G.. Hallenback, of New
York, whose firm formerly held the CON
tract for supplying money order forms is
also among those indicted to-day. He is
charged with conspiracy to defraud in
connection with John T. Metcalf. former.
chief of the money order division, ard
his son, Norman r. Metcalf. both of
whom have been previously indicted An
additional bill was found against August
W. Machen. Other bills were not made,
public, pending service by the officers.
General Tyner is paralyzed at his
home IN Washington He has been con-
nected with the postal service for years
He was Postmaster General in 1S76-77,
afterward First Assistant Postmaster
General and Assistant Attorney General
He is nearly so years old and in serious
physical condition. Barrett, who is in
dicted Jointly with him, is his nephew,
and came from North Carolina. He was
assistant attorney until Dec. 81, when
he resigned. There are two indictments
against Tyner and three against Barrett.
Bond was fixed for Barrett in the sum
of $4,000 and for Tyner for S., O00 fur
nished in both cases By Scranton, Pa,
surety company.
Postmaster General Payne is now
awaiting the report of Fourth Assistant
Bristow. The next steps will be the trial
of Machen in Washington and Attorney
Johns and Daniel Miller in Cincinnati
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
New York. Weekly Review view Of Trad.


Aside from the reduction in blast
furnace activity. manufacturing plants
are more fully engaged, and sew.
eral encouraging reports are received
particularly as to footwear. Wholesale
and Job6ing trade is we'll maintained
many cities reporting a larger volume
than last year, Latest returns of for
eign commerce at this port are favorable
exports Increasing, while imports de
crease as compared with the same week
last year. Railway earnings thus fay
available for September exceed those Of
1902 by 81 per cent and surplus earn
ings in 1901 by 1913 per cent.
Ii is practically certain that a reduc~
ton of pig iron output will be made
averaging about 20 per cent, and this
concerted action to prevent accmula-
ton of stocks has already had a senti.
mental effect on the market, inquiries
increasing in number and extent of ton
mage.
The week has brought few changes in
quotations. Car shortage has begun to
cause trouble, but the diminished needs
of blast furnaces relieve the situation at
Connellsville where the coke output has
been materially curtailed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13

vaal viii arrive in Mexico by Jan. l
and establish homes on the newly ac-
quired property.
Gen. Joubert has secured options on
100000 acres from the Mexican govern
ment. IF the Beers who are soon to ar
rive in Mexico prove successful in the
new country, it is probable that more
land will be purchased and many more
families transported to the western con-
tinent within the next year.
1.-The Beers are dissatisfied under ex-
isting conditions" said Gen. Joubert,
"and they are anxious to leave the coun-
try. y,aey don't like English rule and
viii never like it. They are looking for
a new country"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Mr.. Balfour's New Ministry.

Mr.. Balfour announced a patchwork
ministry and accepted the Duke of Dey-
onshire's resignation. The cabinet APP
pointments are Alfred Lyttleton to be
colonial secretary. Graham Murray to be
secretary for Scotland, Lord Stanley
postmaster general, Austen Chamberlain
chancellor of the exchequer St John
Brodrick secretary for India, and Ar
mold Forster secretary for war.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
1E1z lrlAg3I[ERS
:. .ss9ssf llE$Sl@,N-
sss "a 20
SD. S

Chicago-Cattle common to prime
$500 to $3.50; hogs, shipping grades.
"a so to S6.25; sheep, fair TO choice, $500
TO $685.: wheat, No. ? red, 76c to nc;
corn, No. 2. 43c to 44c:oats standard. BE
to 35c; rye, No. 2. SIC to 53c; hay, tim
othy. $3.50 to $3.50; prairie, $500 to
$11.50; butter, choice creamer.. lSc to
20c: eggs, fresh, 16c to l9c; potatoes,
soc to SIC.
ST. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 1915; hogs.
$3.50 to S6.25; sheep, $500 to $500.
wheat. No 2, sec 10 SIC; corn, No z,
43c TO 44c; oats, No. ., 3Gc to Bic: rye,
No. 2, 52c to SIC.
Cincinnati-Cattle S4.25 to s465-
hogs $500 TO $500; sheep. 800 to
$500: wheat, No. 2, S5c to SIC; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 47c TO 4Sc; oats, No. 2
mixed. &c TO CSC; rye, No. 2, G1c to 62c-
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs.
$500 to 5000; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat. No. 2, SIC to S3c; corn, No 9
yellow, Acc to zoe; oats, NJ. white,
&c to $780, rye, No. ?. soc to &c.
Milwaukee-Wh No. 2 northern.
roc to SOC; corn, No. 3, 46c to 47c; oats.
standard, 36c TO BIC; rye, 10. /. SIC
to SIC; barley, No. 2, &c to 64c; pork.
mess, S11.25.
Toledo-Wheat. No. mixed, SIC 70
SIC; corn. No. 2 mixed. sic to SIC; oats,
No. 2 mixes, SIC 10 3Sc; rye, No. 2, SAC
to sc; clover seed, prime. 5000
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers
$3.50 to $3.50; hogs. fair to prime, 500
to $3.50: sheep. fair to choice, S325 to
500; lambs. common 10 choice. 800 to
$3.50.
New York-C9ttIe. 500 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 to $G.10; sheep, $500 TO
$500: wheat. No. 2 red. 79c to soc; corn.
No. 2. zoe to Ole; oats, No 2 white,
doe to Ale; butter, creamery, 1sc to 20cs
eggs. western, 2lc 10 25c.
anapolis--Cattie. shipping. $500 to
So 40; hogs, choice light. $500 TO $780,
sheep. common TO prime, $3.50 to $3.25:
wheat, No. 2, soc to Sic. corn, No I
white, 48c to Acc; oats, No. white, 8Ss
to sec.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13

Leonard Lavergne. Baptiste Roseon, Al
bert Robinson. Frank Lalond, Edouard
Giasson and Fred Winner were fined $50,
or two months in Jail for riot end SO
or Ole month in Jail for assault. Noise
Dupont was fined $25 for riot. as was
also Andrew Denes. The court held the
company was much to blame in agra
waiting The riot
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Health Ruined by Cold Bath.

Suit has been begun against the city
of Philadelphia on behalf of John f..
Rapp and his wife, Maggie X. Rapp,
who ask for heavy damages because
Mrs Rapp under orders from the board
of health was taken from her home to
the almshouse hospital and there given
cold bath, from which she became seri-
ously i'll.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Arrested at White House.

Peter Elliott, identified as a notorious
advocate of anarchy, was overpowered
by the White House police in Washing
ton. after a desperate battle. in which
he and one of the officers were wounded.
Elliott. who halls from Minneapolis, was
trying to force an entrance TO President
Rooseyelt's room.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
BRIDGE MEN TO STRIKE.
Thousands of W orkers in United States
and Canada Are Ready to OMIT,

An international sympathy strike, af-
fecting the 10000 organized bridge and
structural iron workers in the United
States and Canada, is scheduled to be
called in a few weeks Pittsburg will
contribute 5000 men, completely tying
up all bridge and structural work there
and throwing out of employment thou
sands of men of other crafts in the city.
The strike is to be in sympathy with the
fight of the New York members against
the Cornell Construction Company, mem-
bers of the big combine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Mexican CITY Is Fire-swept.

Merida. Mexico, has been swept by
So. OO0.O 900 fire. 1t ragged all day, wiping
out street on which are located many
of the principal business houses. The
guests of the Bazaar Hotel barely es-
capped Nth their lives. American insur-
aiee companies will be heavy losers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13

A slight shock of earthquake was
felt in Carondelet, the southern part of
st. Louis The disturbance lasted about
a minute and caused alarm among the
citizens At the same time a slight
shock was felt in the western portion of
tho city
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Fa;Is with Debts of 5000. 900.

of Bolivar, Pa, is insolvent, with an in
debtedness of 100000. Judge Lucien
w Doty appointed the Westmoreland
Savings and Trust Company receiver.
The assets, it is said, total almost ST.
900 600
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
vino Hn. Pierpont,s Coatg

j. Pierpont Morgan became SO deeply
interested in the convention of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church that he picked
up the wrong overcOat on leaving the
church. The coat fitted him so well he
did not notice the mistake until later.
and now rs trying to ascertain who has
his coat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
FootbaII Put ON BIacklist.

Football as a high school game was
officially discountenGnced at a meeting of
the Board of Education in Fremont,
Neb. A resolution was passed charging
The superintendent and teachers hereaf-
ter to give it no encouragement. The
city has heretofore been represented by
one of the strongest teams in the State.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Farmer senator is Iniured.

General Marion c. Butler, of South
Carolina, formerly United States Sena-
tor, was struck on the head by large
stone thrown into the Pullman car in
which he was riding. He received
scalp wound and one of his ears was
nearly severed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Cuts Throat with Razor.

r. c. Vernon, well-known politician
and wealthy real estate holder of Mad
ison. Wis. attempted suicide at the
home of his brother in Kansas City,
cutting his throat with a razor. At the
hospital it is said he may recover. Mr..
Vernon is said TO have suffered from
melanchoia. due to financial troubles.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Omcer Stands off Ohio Mob.

At Oxford, Ohio, a deputy sheriff stood
off a mob as it was lynching Louis Spi-
yey and cut the strangling victim from
a tree to which he had been strung. The
marshal of Oxford, in attempting TO ar
rest n drunken man, precipitated a riot
In which FIVE men were wounded, four
fatally
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Kansas Corn Yield Is Big.

II have just finished a tour of the
Kansas corn belt said Gov. Bailey at
Topeka, Kan, land l feel safe in say
ing to the country that the corn yield
this year will reach 190OO0.000 bushels.
There will be $4,000, 900 bushels more
than the grain men are figuring on"
Gov. Bailey is one of the most extern
sive farmers of Kansas.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
ALIENS FLOCK TO AMERICA.
Inn migration Statistics Show Foreign
Population Is Enormous.

1opuidtIou Is NsQOr m GUS.
Figures have been compared by the
bureau of statistics Of the Department of
Commerce and Labor in Washington
which show the total immigration into
the United States since 1890 to be APP
proximately 20000,000. The number of
foreign-born persons now living in the
United States is more than 100000,
and the number of persons of foreign
parentage exceeds 26,000,000. Before
1920 no records of immigration were
kept. bur it has been reckoned that the
immigration between the years 1534 and
1874 amounted to 1000 a year. In the
year 1920 S,3S5 aliens entered the coun-
try. Since that time immigration has
increased in an eyer-swelling wave until
in the past year it passed all previous
records by more than 100000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Will Not Evacuate Manchuria.

Russia has notified China that she will
not eyacuate Manchuria unless all her
demands. presumably the eight points
submitted some months ago, are COM
piled with. This may endanger the
American commercial treaty and render
the much-talked-of war with Japan
measuraby nearer
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
Philippines PopuIation 1000, 600.

General j. r. Sanger, latterly in
charge of the census work in the Philip
pines, has arrived from Manila. As re-
suit of the census work the government
is in possession of 100000 names. Yep
resenting the civilized portion of the ma
tive population of the islands. The UNI
civilized population is placed at about
600. 900
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
PLAN STATE FOR NEGROES.
French millionaire Seeks Grant of
Territory on African Coast.

Territory on African Coast. '"
The London Daily Mail says JACQUES
Lebaudy, the French millionaire. who is
supposed to be scheming to establish an
empire for himself on the west coast of
Africa, in reality is planning a great
state to be peopled by negroes from the
United States. He desires first to obtain
the consent of the European powers, who
claim to have influence over the territory
on which he has designs, to establish
along the northwest coast of Africa an
empire larger than Rhodesia. to be enti-
tied the United States of Liberia. Here
he proposes TO found a negro state, peo-
pied by negroes from America, especially
from the Southern States, who would re-
ceive grants of land and be encouraged
to found a country Of their own.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
shot bx a Naked Mob.

Ed. McCollum. a negro, was taken
from the county Jail in Sheridan. Ark.
by a masked mob, tied to tree in the
court house yard and shot TO death. The
negro shot and seriously wounded Con
stable CrqItchheld of Davis County while
the officer WAS attempting to arrest him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
warned of a Dynamite Plot.

Sheriff Gilbert was varied by wire
by President Meyer, of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners of a plot to blow up
the four big mills at Colorado City treat
ing Cripple Greek ore. Officials QS the
miners and millmen's union confirm the
alleged plot, but the details are withheld.
The mills are valued at $2000,000