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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
CIVIC FEDERATION.
National Organization Meets In Chi
caRo to strive for Definite Plan
to Prevent Strikes.

Chicago, Oct 16.-The open.
shop" question was the chief topic OF
discussion at the opening session OF the
National Civic Federation in Steinway
hall yesterday. President John Mitch
ell, Of the United Mine Workers urged
the rights of union men to refuse to
work with nonunion men. Thomas
Woodlock, editor Of the Wall Street
Journal, New York, argued against 1t.
Capitalists, railroad presidents, man
ufacturers, and merchants are meeting
with leaders Of principal trades unions
and workmen On a common ground at
the convention, in an effort to arrive at
some definite plan for preventing
strikes and lock-outs.
Chicago, Oct. 17.-Before the National
Civic Federation conference T. K. Web
ster, a Chicago manufacturer employing
hundreds Of men, won hearty approval
by a declaration In favor Of the eight
hour day and by indorsing the unions
demand for that concession. Socialism
and it's advocates were rebuked by labor
leaders and capitalists by George Koop
being prevented from speaking. Several
interesting papers were read.
Chicago, Oct ia banquet on Satur-
day evening closed the sessions of the
Civic Federation convention. Senator
Hanna pleaded for honest purposes and
fairness in all negotiations between la
Dor and capital. James II. Eckels de-
clared that If organized capital or organ
ized labor denies rights TO individual 1t
violated the law. Samuel Gompers said
that all expressions Of anger were apt to
antagonize, while kind deeds and
thoughts were most likely to take root
and reap sympathy for the cause of labor
declared it every mans duty to do his
best for the promotion Of industrial
peace
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22

Iowa City, Ia, Oct, 20,-The Rock Is
land limited, east-bound, crashed into an
extra freight train, west-bound, while
running at high rate Of speed at Ok
ford. west OF this city, Sunday. A dozen
persons were injured slightly, but no one
was seriously hurt. The conductor and
engineer Of the passenger train leaped
and sustained slight injuries About 80
persons were in the dining car when the
shock came The impact was terrific and
the tables were upset and the dishes
smashed, Many persons were struck in
the face and on their heads. The pas
senger engine was turned over on It's
side and was demolished while the
freight engine was badly wrecked
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22

William Peter, aged SO years, of Be.
lott, committed suicide at his home by
shooting himself. He was Respondent
from continued i'll health.
Racine county farmers are to organize
against people who hunt on their lands
steal apples, nuts and farm produce
The annual synod of Presbyterian
churches in Wisconsin held its sessions
at Neenah with Rev. c. A. Adams, OF
Crandon, as moderator.
Wisconsin now has two admirals in the
navy. The newest one is William Henry
Whiting, whose home was once in James
Vile The other is Admiral Cotton
now commanding the European squadron
and native OF Milwaukee.
Capt James Leigh, proprietor OF the
Leigh house, died at Milwaukee. Capt
Leigh followed the lakes for 25 years anG
was well known.
The youngest son of Mrs Moses Smith
OF Vallor, sac. and killed his baby sister
by accident.
For the first time in II years the grand
commandery, knights Iemplar OF Wis
consin, gave a street parade in Milwau
kee. The occasion was the meeting OF
the grand commandery for its forty sixth
annual conclave.
Fire completely destroyed the concen.
trating plant of the Hoskin Mining com.
pany at Benton. Loss, $4,000.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
WHEN THE BLIND SAW,
Man of Thirty, Blind from Birth,
Could Not Realize Sight
for Ten Days.

~ A Scotch surgeon recently removed
cataracts from the eyes of man of 80
who had been blind from birth No eff
fort had been made to educate him, but
he could go on I'M errand to any house
in his native village, for the resonance
Of his footfall-quite different In passing
a building from what 1t was when oppo-
site an open space-enabled him to
count the housea as he passed and thus
turn corners and to stop at the one he
wanted. For ten days after the opera
ton he could not realize that he was
seeing. The first thing he perceived was
the mouth of the house surgeon, his sense
Of sound causing him to look at the sur.
geon's lips, and, recalling what he
knew from having felt his own mouth,
he realized that he was looking at face.
Then, having an idea of what vision
meant, he made very rapid progress.
From the very first he saw everything in
its actual position, showing that the
retinal inversion of a picture in inter
preted psychically without any educa-
ton. The muscles for moving the eye
balls are feeble from hsuse, and he has
to learn their use
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
SWEPT BY FLAMES.
Best Part of the City of Aberdeen
wash, Destroyed by Fire which
Causes S1,OOO,OO0 Loss.

Aberdeen, Wash, Oct. 17.-Fire that
burned from nine Friday morning until
two o'clock in the afternoon caused lour
deaths and destroyed property valued at
approximately 81 100000 1t practically
wiped out the main business street OF
this town, which is built mostly OF wood.
One hundred and fifty buildings were
burned. The dead are: Charles Ralfo,
Daniel Webster, Calvin Mckenzie and
an unknown man.
Not more than one-half Of the lost is
covered by insurance, for the reason that
the insurance companies have refused TO
carry any greater risk on account OF the
infiammable material of which all the
buildings in Aberdeen are constructed.
Every business man in the city is loser.
In order to stop the further progress
of the flames, dynamite was used on
several of the buildings, upon which
the flames were advancing. Telephone
messages brought the fire departments
of Hohuam and Montesona to the scene,
and they did effective work. The fire
started at nine O'Clock in the morning,
and it was two p. m. before the flames
were brought under control.
Aberdeen has a population Of about
1000, and the chief industry is lumber
ing. Several large sawmills are located
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
CIGARS IN MUGGY WEATHER.
There Are Not So Many Smoked The u
as on Bright Clear
Days.

Time, muggy day; scene, cigar
store, with the proprietor rising from
a chair to greet customer who has
just come in
you are the first customer l have
seen in ten minutes" says the cigar
man.
What's the matter?" asks the Gus
toner. People stopped smoking?"
why, they always stop more or less
on days like these. You see. this hui
mid weather makes cigars soft and
spongy Even hard. well-seasoned CT
gars will absorb the moisture in the
air and get soft in such weather, and
when cigars are damp like that they
don't taste so good.
There's nothing like the fun to be
got out Of a cigar on a day like this
that there would be in smoking it in
bright, dry weather. and only the most
inveterate smokers indulge as much
in humid as they do in ordinary
weather
so day lire this is bad for the
cigar business"
The damp weather doesn't affect the
cigarette sales to any noticeable ex-
tent, and, If it has any influence at
all, 1t tends to stimulate the trade in
chewing tobacco. Pipes are kept go.
ing all kinds Of weather, but it takes
lots Of matches and more putting than
when it is dry.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
TEN MEN KILLED.
Bridge builders Mt PittsburI Are
Thrown Into the River by
Falling of Iron.

Pittsburg, Oct. 20.-By the breaking
Of the ropes carrying FIVE beams to their
position, letting the tons of iron fall
upon the movable crane at the Pittsburg
end of the new Wabash bridge being
built by the American Bridge company
over the Monongahela river, almost a
dozen wOrkmen were hurled to death
by fall Of more than 100 feet, striking
the water and two large barges beneath.
Ten dead bodies have been recovered.
Five are seriously injured. The part OF
the bridge extending over the rive" from
the Water street side Is a total wreck.
Following is the list Of dead: w. J.
McCloud. George Wells, c. w. Kelt-
linger, William Kempton G. l.. Elem
ing, Fred Sallingar, Frank Daily, j.
Campbell, Edward Morris, James Sim
mons.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
HAD ARRANGED WITH HIM.
Messenger Boy Speedily Disposed Of
Rival who Was an Impede
ment to Progress.

Owing to the illness of his regular
Office boy Wall street broker recently
engaged a new lad named Tommy,
Tommy was a jewel and when Joe, the
former incumbent, was convalescent
the broker was loath to send Tommy
away. But the other hoy wanted to
come back and pleaded hard for rein
statement, relates the New York Press,
We'll" said the former employer,
you can have the position again if
you can arrange with Tommy"
Every well, sir l think I can dc
that" was the joyous reply.
When the broker went to his office
next morning he met sight he had
not bargained for. The glass in the
door of his private room was smashed,
ink was spilled on the handsome car
pet and chairs were overturned every
where. Evidently there had been a
tremendous struggle. But Joe came
forward blithely, one eye blackened
and his cheek swollen.
"Tommy's gone, sir" he remarked.
1--WE arranged with him"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
BIG VICTORY
FOR UNCLE SAM
The Alaskan Boundary Dispute De-
cided by Tribunal in Favor
of United States.
Every Claim But One Is Conceded
Canada Is Granted the Portland
CanaI-What America GHins-The
Dominion Is Stirred to Deep Anger
ut the Decision.

London, Oct 1.-the Alaskan
boundary commission Saturday reached
an agreement whereby all the Ameri-
can contentious are sustained, with the
exception of those in relation to the
Portland canal, which Canada wins
All that now remains to be done is
for the commissioners to affix their
signatures to the decision and COM
plete the map which will accompany
1t. On the map will be marked the
boundary line definitely fixing the d.
vision OF American and British terri
tory, on such basis that no American
citizen will lose foot OF land he al
ready believed he held, while the
United States will get all the water
ways to the rich Alaskan territory,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
FATAL COLLISION.
FIFTEEN Men Killed and Forty In.
jured In n Railway Disaster
In New Jersey.

Trenton, n. j., Oct 19.-Fifteen per-
sons were killed and about 40 more in
1ured in a collision which occurred Sat-
urday on the Belvidere division OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad company near
Washington's Crossing. The persons
killed and injured were laborers who
were on a work train and were on their
way to work at Washington Crossing
to repair a washout along the road The
railroad authorities here are reticent as
to how the accident occurred, but it is
believed that the gravel train either failef
to see any adverse signal or that the flag
man OF the first train failed to go back
a sufficient distance.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
TO REDEEM NEW YORK.
DIR. Dowie, with IA Large Band of His
Followers, Begins a Crusade
in the Big City.

Chicago, Oct. 15.-With a speech, a
prayer, an aqmonition and pose before
score of cameras, John Alexander
Dowie departed from Zion City on his
crusade to New York yesterday after
noon, himself and his cabinet, the rear
guard of the restoration host of almost
5000 people who preceded him by few
hours.
New York, Oct. 19.-Five thousa nd
persons were turned away from Madison
Square garden Sunday afternoon after
all the seats in the building had been
filled with a great crowd curious to see
John Alexander Dowie, on his first ap-
pearance before New York audience.
Fully $4,000 persons were in the garden
at half past two O clock when the services
began.
New York, Oct 2O.-After attending
an early service in Madison Square Gar
den John Alexander DOwie's "Restora-
ton Host" numbering nearly 1000, be-
gan Monday house to house canvas
or the city Before giving them mis- final
instructions, DR.. Dowie said: Il am 60
Ing out to do a little restoration work
myself and | won't be far from Wall
street. Pray for me-"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
UNITEDSTATES HORSES.
A Few Years Ago They Were valued
at Eleven Hundred Million
Dollars.

The United States is tho greatest
horse producing country in the world.
At this time, therefore, when other
agencies are coming into competition
with horses for many purposes, and
are being substituted for horses in
many others, it is proper for us to con-
slider what it is wise to do in order
that there shall not be too serious
losses in an industry as great as 1t is
widespread and interesting, writes
John Gilmer Speed, in Century, A few
years ago the horses in the United
Stats were valued at $1,100,o 900 900.
Business depression, together with the
competition and substitutions referred
to, deprecated this stock more than
one-half. But there has been an ap-
probation within few years, owing
to business revival and ensuing pros
perity, so that the value Of the horses
in the country had risen more than
$2O0,000,000 at the end of the last fiscal
year, June, 1902, from what the value
was at the low water mark referred to
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Big increase.

The state tax commission has certified
to the secretary of state the annual as
sessment Of taxable property in the state.
The customary state tax, usually 7-1O OF
a mill, is levied on this assessment. The
tax is used principally for educational
purposes and to pay the interest on the
state debt. The state assessment this
year is $1,753, 172 900, which is $24S, $685..
600 higher than last year and 1915 1888, 900
higher than that of 1901 The largest in
crease this year is in the personal prop
erty, being $443.6e7,53s against S277,-
969,O27 last year. The valuation Of all
taxable real estate this year is 81 309 ,5O4,-
464, against 81 ,226, 376, 973 last year.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
MURDERER LYNCHEO.
Mob Takes Slayer of n Little Child
from Jail In Montana and
Hangs Him.

Hamilton, Mont, Oct, 15.-Walter
Jackson, the convicted murderer Of Fon-
ME Buck, six-year-old boy, was taken
from the county Jail here late at night
by mob and lynched.
The identity Of the mob leaders is un-
known Thirty-five minutes after the
lynChing, Jackson's body was cut down
by the sheriff and coroner and removed
to the mOrgue.
The murder OF little Fonnie Buck was
a peculiarly atrocious crime. When the
boys body was found 1t was horribly
mutlated. Suspicion pointed to Jack
son and when he was arrested lynch
ing was narrowly ayerted His trial
quickly followed and verdict was re-
turned within two hours. He was SEN
fenced to be hanged, but his attorneys
appealed to the supreme court.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22

Forty-nine per cent. of the women
graduates of the University of Wiscon-
sin are unmarried. Figures show the
chances of college girl entering mar
ried life increases with the years that
elapse after she has left her alma ma
ter. This increase holds good only up
to ten years after graduation, when
for few years the percentage remains
practically stationary, then declines
But four per cent. Of the class Of 1901,
ten per cent of the class OF 1900 and 16
per cent of the class of 1897 are mar
ried
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
Post Office Robber Sentenced,

Cairo, H., Oct. 16.-Walter Hiatt,
notorious post office robber, has been
sentenced in the United States district
court to a term Of ten years in the pen
itentiary at Chester, for robbing the
post Office at Towanda and New Bad
den, Ill. Hiatt has already served
terms in the penitentiary at Columbus,
O.. Albany, N. Y, Fort Madison, Ia,
Chester, H., and Jacksonville, Ind,
for post Office robberies.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22

Indianapolis Ind, Oct I'D. M.
Parry has issued call for representa-
tiYes of manufacturers, employers and
trade organizations to meet in Chicago
October 20 and 80 for the purpose of
completing the formation of the Ma
tional Federation of Employers. Part
of the plan is the raising OF 81 500, 900
with which to fight labor organiza-
lions
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
New County PrOpOsed.

Because they are dissatisfied with
the findings of the recent county tax
commission, raising the valuation OF
country property, movement has
been started at Seymour to create a
new county, with Seymour as the
county seat. The plan proposed is that
the townships of Deer Creek, Maine,
Cicero, Maple Creek, Bovina, Black
Creek, Seymour, and Osborn, in Outa-
gamie county, six townships in Sha-
wano, and four townships in Brown
county be taken to make up the terri
tory Of the county.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22

Chicago, Oct. II. - The express serv.
Ice on the Wabash railway entering and
leaving Chicago Is tied up by a genera
strike OF express employees Of the Pacific
company. About $500 men are or
strike, in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas
Indian territory, Texas, Louisiana and
Oregon. About dozen men are out In
Chicago, the only road affected being
the Wabash. The strikers are asking
ten per cent. increase, which was re-
fused after number OF conferences al
ST. Louis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
Saw He Drinks.

Sensational charges have been made
against the Rev. Theodore Lugowski, pas
tor Of the Holy Cross Roman Catholic
church in La Crosse The congregation
committee charges that Father Lugo'
wski, in a drunken frenzy, cleared the
church during an evening service and one
of the committeeman charges that Fa'
ther Lugowski is continuously intoxi'
Gated and that he is unfit for his calling
Bishop Schwebach will investigate thu
case.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22

Toronto, Oct 19-Canada was
stirred into a tumult by official an
nouncement that the Alaskan bound
airy tribunal had rendered a decision
giving a sweeping victory to the
United States. The denial to Canada
of even single port for the Klondike
gold fields aroused the wrath Of the
entire dominion, and annexation to the
United States was urged by many as
relief from Great Britain's repeated
regulations of Canada's interests.
Dispatches from various points
throughout the dominion indicated that
the Alaskan defeat had inspired gen.
eral rage against the mother country,
and this was emphatically expressed
by leaders of all parties.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
TILLMAN SET FREE.
ES-LieutennntG Governor OF SOuth Chr
oIinn Declared Not Guilty of the
Murder of Editor Gonsnles

Lexington, S. c., Oct 16.-The trial
of James H. Tillman, who was
charged with the murder of N. G.
Gonzales, editor OF The State, in Column
bia, on January Is last, ended yesterday
in an acquittal. The jury before which
Tillman has been on trial since Septem-
Der % brought in verdict Of not guilty,
thus ending judicial hearing which has
engrossed the attention of the public Of
South Carolina as none other has in the
last quarter Of century. The jury was
out for 20 hours before arriving at a
verdict.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22

Sitting side by side in the parlor OF theil
Anna Schultz, husband and wife, com.
mitted suicide in Milwaukee by inhalins
illuminating gas. Continued ill-health
which had discouraged both, is the reason
ascribed for the act. Schultz was 46 years
old and his wife siA years his senior
They are survived by six children, the
eldest of which is boy of 16 years.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
Lived OF Years.

Mrs. Betsy Robins on Mead, one OF the
Oldest residents of this county, and the
Oldest Daughter of the American Revolu-
ton in the country, died at her home at
Onion River, aged g. years. She was born
in Kent, Putnam county, N Y, May %
1911, her father being Peter Robinson, a
soldier of the American revolution and a
friend of Benedict Arnold She came tc
Wisconsin in 1S49. She leaves two chill
dren, c. r. Mead, Of Plymouth, and Mrs,
c. Wright, of Delavan.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
semitic Bank Fails.

Seattle, Wash, Oct. 20.-The Seattle
branch of the international Bank &
Trust Company Of America. which failed
Saturday, has closed its doors and is in
charge OF a receiver. The assets Of the
local bank are given as $4,000, and the
liabilities 5000 Seattle customers, 1t
is said, will receive over 80 per cent. OF
their deposits.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22

Business men going across the At
lantic often take with them scores OF
unanswered letters. For the convent
ence Of such hurried travellers one
steamship company has engaged
young women stenographers, who take
replies to such letters and then type
write them, thus giving the busy man
much more time for real enjoyment
on the voyage.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
Quick work.

Committed forgery, captured, tried
found guilty, sentenced and started or
his way to states prison, all in "a hours
is the record of William Bennane, 9
southern Minnesota division railroad
man who lives in La Crosse. He wa:
found with the forged papers on him and
under the circumstances, he decided tt
plead guilty.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
Bank Robbed.

Peoria, H., Oct. 15,-Soon after two
o'clock yesterday morning four men
drove into the little town of Berwick
eight miles west of Abingdon, Knox coun-
ty, and, going to the Farmers state
bank picked the lock in the front door.
Then they drilled the door OF the vault
and forced the combination, securing
81, 500, and escaped
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
Newspaper Man SuicIdes.

Chicago, Oct. 20.-H S. Garfield,
well-known writer and newspaper man,
committed suicide Sunday night at the
West Chicago sanitarium. by cutting his
throat with razor. lie died a few min
utes after ten O'Clock, and Monday
coroner's jury returned verdict Of sui
eide while temporarily insane
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
New Railway,

The steam railway from Madison tt
Green Bay, by way of Oshkosh, is as
sured. Among the other cities mention
ed on the new road are Waupun, Beaver
Dam, Neenah, Menasha, Appleton ano
other points in the Fox river valley. The
road will be $50 miles long and cos,
50, 900 900.
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Al Rest In Arlington

Washington, oct. 1.-THE bodies of
SO American soldiers who died in the
Philippines We're inferred at Arlington
National cemetery Friday. The remains
were accompanied to the grave by a
platoon Of soldiers, and there were APP
propriate religious services.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
New Trottinx REGARD

Wichita, Kan, Oct. 20.-Cresceus
broke the worlds trotting record for a
mile Monday afternoon, going the dis
lance in 1874, beating the previous
record held By Lou Dillon and Major
Delmar by quarter Of second.
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Make Rich IIauI.

Sioux Falls, s. D., oct 1.-THE Bank
Of Viborg was robbed Of s. 600. The rob
berg were seen by citizens who did not
care TO venture on the street, which was
patrolled by armed robbers. Half Of the
money stolen was in gold. The robbers
escaped on a hand car
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-22
Turkey. Are Scarce.

Chicago, Oct 19-Already farmers and
dealers are talking Of shortage in the
Thanksgiving turkey crop. 1t was quite
marked last year. when prices were
around 90 cents, and it is said the rate
will be higher this year