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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-01
TWO-MINUIE TROTTeR.
Lou Dillon Breaks the Worlds Record
at Readville, Mass.

This year is destined to remain memoir
able in the history of the horse. Not
only has the running record been broken,
but the pacing record, thanks to the
achievement of that nimble and willing
animal Dan Patch, has been broken. Now
comes the news of still more extraordi-
nary performance in the announcement
that at Readville, Mass, Lou Dillon
trotted a mile iii two minutes.
Lou Dillon, owned by c. X. G.. Bill
ings of Chicago, is the new world $ trot-
ting champion. having displaced the
great Cresceus in her trial against time
at Readville. So easily did the little
mare perform her work that it is the
universal opinion of harness-horve men
that Lou Dillon can beat the 200 mark
and possibly she can come close to the
harness record of / so made by the PAGER
Dan Patch.
No one who has paid even cursory at
tention to the development of the horse
needs to be told what this announcement
means to the horse breeders of the world
For nearly a century the speed record
for trotting horses has been slowly low
cred, each decade seeing a few seconds
Topped off from the three-minute record,
which was deemed fast at the beginning
of the nineteenth century. Fifty years
ago the fact that a speed of a mile in
two and half minutes was obtainable
was accepted with surprise and elation.
The extraordinary fame won by Maud
e. In 1885 was due to the fact that she
had reduced the trotting record below
2:10 Fer many years Maud SIS record
IF will in .0QaL Cd
of speed obtainable by trottes, and from
that time to this the possibility of eyolv-
ing a horse which would cut the record
to two minutes has been in the minds of
horsemen throughout the world.
While The Abbot and, later Cresceus
succeeded in cutting the record still fur
Their, it has remained for the fieet-footed
Lou Dillon to take the honor of making
the first two-minute record. The posi-
bility of trotting mile in two minutes
is no longer in dispute. 1t is an accom-
plished fact. The only question now is
whether some still speedier animal may
not lop a few more seconds off the rec
ord and thus establish new goal for the
ambition of the horse fancier. The steady
increase in the speed of trotters to be
noted during the century in which the
one-Inile, record was lowered by fifty
nine seconds may not seem of much utili-
tartan Importance at first glance, but the
truth is that il has been accomplished
by general improvement in horses The
two-minute trotter stands as proof that
stronger, sounder, swifter animals are
harnessed to all manner of horsedrawn
vehicles to-day than those that worked
for man in past generations.
Trotting records:
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CONQUEST OF WHEAT FIELDS.
The Annual Battle Between Man and
Nature in Kansas


Nature in Kansas.
The annual battle between man and
nature fought in the wheat fields of Kan
sas ended about the 10Th of July. The
army of conquest. equipped with har-
yesters and thrashers, entered at the
southern portion of .he State and. sweep
ing everything bef.re it, progressed
northward until the Sunhower State was
marked by nothing but stacks OF grain
and fields of stuhble. Over vast areas
the sheaves of wheat were thrashed out
as fast as they were garnered, while in
many counties the wheat vas left stand
ing in shocks ready for the thrasher in
the fall.
According to Philip Eastman, writing
in the Review of Reviews for August,
this years wheat harvest in Kansas was
the largest in the history of the State and
the greatest by far OF any State in the
Union. Time was when the name of
Kansas was associated in the popular
mind with corn. But the famous wheat
belt of the West now includes thirty
counties in Kansas extending from the
northern to the southern boundary Not
a county in this belt raises less than a
million bushels annually. II is pointed
out that the yield of Sumner County
alone-6,S12, 102 bushels-is more than
the combined yields of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Mississippi, wy
oming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada,
Alabama and New Jersey. Barton
County, which ranks next to Sumner,
called for 4.400 extra men and more
than 1900 additional horses this year TO
harvest her crop of wheat
In 1901 Kansas broke her own record
in she matter of wheat crops and led the
list of all the States, with more than
100000 bushels. This was 100000
more bushels than were raised in the
State of Minnesota, although the acre
age of wheat sown in Minnesota was
greater than that of Kansas by S33,S6S
acres.
To the eastern farmer, who is content
to farm his eighty" the farming opera
tions in Kansas seem too gigantic for
ordinary credibility wheat farm of
a thousand acres is very common sight
in the Sunhower State. In Pawnee
County in fact the avera Ne farm is 1000
acres, although there are many larger
ones. To harvest the crop from such
farms of course requires the use of the
most modern harvesting machinery upon
large scale And a wheat raiser may
own several thousand acres and not pos
sess a pillow or a harvester. He contracts
for all the work from the time the
ground is plowed until the grain is deiv-
cred at the elevator.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-01
DEATH OF SALISBURY.
highlands Prime Minister Passe
Away at a Ripe Old Age.

Away at a Ripe Old Age.
Lord Robert Cecil, the Marquis of
Salisbury, died Saturday at HATFIELD, in
the house where he was born and where
he had spent his long and busy life;
where another Lord Cecil entertained the
beautiful Queen Elizabeth in the six
teenth century; he, too, being England
prime minister.
The late marquis was the fourth one of
his race TO rule the affairs of the British
empire from that honorable post in the
shadow of the throne.
The marquis was born Feb. 3, 1880.
and was educated at Christ's College
graduating in 1S49. Four years later he
took his seat in Parliament and for the
past fifty years has been figure in
British politics. For thirty-fve years he
was a statesman of cabinet rank, and
for the past quarter of a century the
greatest figure in the world politics, with
an experience in the affairs of nations I'M
equalled by any of his contemporaries.
To his knowledge and diplomacy is due
the general success of Great Britain in
disputes of the past thirty years, and TO
his judgment its comparative freedom
from war
He married young and entirely against
his fathers wishes; then being partially
disinherited, for years his life was almost
bread aud butter struggle. Long nights
in the house were succeeded by busy
mornings at the desk. writing for maya
zines the articles which maintained his
modest establishment. Great Britain has
reason to thank those early strenuous
days in the education of her premier.
They taught him his own strength. and
in the contest of will with his father, he
learned self-reliance
The first important recognition of his
ability came in his appointment in 1866,
to the post of Secretary of State for In
dia. Two years later he became the
Marquis of Salisbury, upon THE death of
his father. The next year saw him elect
ed the chancellor of Oxford University,
and in 1874 he was made secretary for
India
In 1876 he took his place among the
worlds greatest diplomats. when at the
close of the war between Turkey and
Servia, he was sent as special ambassa-
dor to the Sublime Porte to arrange the
difference between Turkey and Russia.
AT the conference of the powers in Con-
stantinople ne represented Great Britain
and was accounted the leader Of the con-
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TI72|>|s!s,glHELL


Finley Nelson, 16, Dyersville. Ohi5.
stabbed to death jesse Hudnall, Is.
while at a church festival
The Supreme Court of the State of
Washington upholds the constitutionality
of the law making gambling a felony.
George Creighton, New York. is charg-
ed with embezzling $4,000 from Town
send & Wandell, lawyers, for whom he
worked
The Home Riverside Coal Company of
Leavenwo-th, Kan. has filed a petition
in bankruptcy. 1t is capitalized for ST.
100000.
Harry Simpson. Ashland. Ohio. is I'M
der arrest, charged with poisoning his
condition.
1t is said that grasshoppers are driving
cattlemen from the ranges of Eastern
Montana
The rural letter carriers of Kansas
will meet in Emporia Sept 8 to form
an organization.
Postmaster Ennis, at Reams Station,
Va, shot and killed a negro who was
trying to rob the Office.
Miss Kate Augusta Carl. an American
artist. of Paris, France, is TO paint a
portrait of the Empress of China.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the city
of Dublin the sum of $4,000 towards
the erection of a free public library.
Charles NJ. Schwab fatty contradicts
the statement that he is engaged in or
CANNING a combination of tailors in the
United States.
Frank Robertson. colored. was hanged
at Jacksonville. Fla. for the murder of
Deputy Sheriff Sadler at Pablo Beach
four years ago.
Two negroes arrested for disturbing
the meeting of Booker T. Washington in
Boston were sentenced TO thirty days in
jail and the third was fined S25.
BIZ the actin of the New England
Methodist Episcopal Society Willard B.
Allen. defauling treasurer of the So
ciety. was formally removed as treasurer
and librarian.
P. d. Mcmillan Of Minneapolis receir-
cd letter from his daughter. Emily d.
Mcmillan. which was mailed thirty-one
DAYS before II mid-Atlantic by means
of a bottle. in which il was inclosed and
SET aAoat The posrnark shows that
the boTtle was picked up and taken 10
coast town of Portugal
Ernest Ballinge. freight conductor.
was killed; C. T. Barker. fireman. was
fatally scSkied. and Thomas Armstrong.
engineer. and DSniel Miller, conductor.
of North hudson. were injured by an &C.
cident ar Wynn on the Chicago. Cincin-
matt and Louisville Railway An eccen-
tic strap and side rod broke. the latter
crashing into the cab Of the engine.
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The International Association of Rail-
way Ticket Agents will hold its annual
convention in Salt Lake City Sept. u, 10
and Il.
A territorial charter has been granted
to the Kansas Central, Oklahoma and
Gulf Railroad Company, win $4,000
600 capital.
The general managers of the different
lines running into Ell Paso have adopted
plans and specifications for union depot
to cost $4,000 at that point
Gross earnings of ali United States
roads reporting for the month are $44.-
903, 1871. gain of 1921 per cent over last
year and 20.2 per cent over 1901.
North Pacific coast traffic is develop
lug at a rate that is causing the rail
vide facilities fast enough to take care
of IT,
The annual report Of the Atchison for
twelve months ended July 80 shows
Gross earnings, SCI. $50, 397: increase.
$3215.312; operating expenses, $3S, 427, :
III; increase, $4,527 $40; net earnings.
500. 913. 2S7.
E. II. Hartman, head Of the syndicate
which controls the California Northwest
ern. is planning to make that road part
of a coast system that win eventually
have its northern terminus at Astoria,
where connections will be made with the
Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany's line.
The British government has approved
plans for a ship canal through Scotland
from the Firth Of Forth to the Clyde, at
the estimated cost Of $J0O00,000. When
completed II will increase commercial
FACILITIES between the North Sea and the
Atlantic The benefits are to be STRAIT
egic as well as commercial.
Railway postal clerks from Missouri.
Kansas. Colorado and New Mexico. in
convention at Kansas City, passed a res
olution to require al railways TO build
steel frame mail cars.
lis Sunset Limited train between
New Orleans and San Francisco, 70 be
operated next season, win be run daily
and make the distance between the two
points in seveuty-twp hours.
The Knoxville and Ohio. which Is leas-
ed by the Southern. has purchased the
Knoxville and Bristol. forty miles Iong.
and also the Tennessee Northern. own
ed by the LafoIierte Coal and Iz.1S Com
pany. The price paid Is said to have
been 100000 and 800 onc RESPECTIVELY.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-01
NUN ELcPEs AND WEEDS.

Sister Nary Louise of Omaha Convent
Taken Away by Edward Johnson.
Edward johnson of Omaha and Sister
Mary Louise, a nun in ST. Agnes con-
vent, have eloped and are now man and
wife. The boyhood lover of the Sister
of Mercy employed strategy to get her
from behind the convent walls Seeking
employment as a mechanic and errand
messenger, he carefully laid his plans
and succeeded. Sister Mary Louise lefe
the convent one evening at the time of
prayers. A note was left pinned TO her
cot, asking for the forgiveness of the
mother superior if her running away was
a sin. The sisters knew of their sis
ter's infatuation for Johnson and tried
to prevent serious consequences by hav-
ing the man arrested and held at the city
jail three days as suspicious charac-
ter. The Johnsons formerly lived at
OConnor, Neb., where Sister Mary
Louise entered the convent. Johnson's
father was custodian of the grounds, and
it was when his son was doing work on
the gardens that the acquaintance with
the sister began.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-01
BIG STORMS IN SEPTEMBER
Predicted by the Man who Foretold
the Galveston Horror.

the O0lVeSIOu HORROR
The man who claims to have foretold
the Galveston and Martinique horrors,
who gave the country prophetic informa-
tion of the floods of March, 1903, says
that September is to be a month of dis
aster. The storm-god is to work most
destructively, says III. x Edens, who has
in recent years given much attention to
the perfecting of an instrument which
responds to astronomical pressure like
thermometer to the changes of tempera-
ture. 1t is styled an astro-barometer and
by means of it accurate prediction can
be made months ahead as to VIII at the
barometer will read on a certain date
it indicated the disasters above alluded
to; hence the faith which it's maker has
in It.
This Is the most ominous period"
says Mr.. Edens, that it has been my lot
to figure out ard happening as il does in
the midst of the West India cyclone sea
son makes it more ominous still. Add to
this the fact that the center of this phe-
nomenal depression VIII reach a crisis
over the West InGm Islands, and you
have a period that bodies Of evil for all
who dwell thereon-and all who dwell
coasts.
But the shock of this tremendous
period wilI' be felt all around the globe
wherever local conditions are the most
favorable. Though. astronomically, Eng
land, Russia. Persia. India, Japan, Cuba.
the United States, China and the Philip
pine Islands will be in the greatest dan
ger. Watch and see! Cyclones. earth
quakes, eruptions and many like phe-
nomena of a dangerous character can no
more fail to result from this Soli-lunar
combination than the tides can bid def
ance to the sun and moon. So again |
say watch-watch the whole of Sep
TENDER. The storm god will write one
of the saddest pages in modern history
The most ominous period is from Sept.
10 to 20, when great disasters will occur
on land and sea.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-01
CHlCAGo's CENTENNIAL.
An Entire Week VIII Re Given over
to Snita BILE Exerciaes


Monday was the centennial of the be-
ginning of Fort Dearborn. the pivot
around which Chicage's history turns.
One hundred years ago the first shoyelful
of earth was turned to make room for
the fortress on the prairies that was to
protect handful of settlers 1t marked
the permanent settlement of the village
at the mouth Of mild river. This tiny
village, almost in the space of a life
time, has leaped and become the second
city in the United States, with popu-
lation of 2231. 600
Its growth by decades is interesting
In 1910 it had a population of 4.S53. Ten
years later the number was 29,963. In
1870 the population had reached 29S,000
and a decade later $4,000. The census
of 1900 gave Chicago l,69S,5775, and now
the population is estimated at 2,231, 900.
The first rude cabin to appear in what
Is now Chicago was that of Baptiste
Pointe de Sable. a negro from San Do
mingo, who established his home here
July A, 1T79 according to the record Of a
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GIRLS FORCE STORE STRIKE.


e. III. Kroger's Employees in Hamilton,
o., Want Handsome Manager Back.
Because Frederick Jansen, the hand
some young bachelor manager of the B.
H. Kroger chain of groceries in Hamil-
ton, Ohio. had been summarily deposed
there was nothing doing" in any of the
Kroger stores the other day. The girl
cashiers and clerks took up the cudgel
in behalf of their young chief and noti-
fed the new manager that they would
not work for him. They prevailed on the
men clerks and even the drivers to quit,
and though the doors were kept open the
stores were without employees. The girls
say that they will stand by Jansen and
will not return unless he is reinsLa ted.
Jansen is 4 brother-in-law of B. H. Fro
ger, the millionaire owner OF big string
of stores in Ohio.
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KILLING IN HOTEL HoLD-UP.
Deputy Constable Dead and Another
Mortslly Wounded at st. Louis.

Deputy Constable Dead and Another
Mortslly Wounded at st. Louis.
Two highwaymen who attempted to
rob the st. Charles Hotel office in St
Louis were put to flight by Clerk Daw-
son with revolver. and one of them.
giving the name of Joseph Wright, was
probably MORALLY wounded. Policeman
Cremins, attracted by the shots, received
a bullet in the leg. Twenty minutes later,
John McAuliffe. a deputy constable, who
was driving rapidly several blocks from
the hotel, was shot and killed. 1t is not
known who fred the shot. McAuliffe,
the police say, had a criminal record, and
they are working on the theory that he
was implicated in the attempted robbery.
At the hospital the prisoner Wright ad-
mitted seeing McAuliffe in the vicinity
of tie hotel earlier in the night.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-01
RUNAWAY AUro KILLS WOMAN.
Others Are BADLY Injured in an Acct
dent Near Cleveland Ohio

Others Are BADLY Injured in an Acci-
dent Near Cleveland, Ohio.
While climbing a hill toward Little
Mountain, summer resort twenty five
miles east of Cleveland, an automobile
containing four people suddenly became
unmanageable and started backward
down the hill. At the bottom it was up
set and the four people thrown out.
When picked up it was found that Mrs.
w. II. kirkpatrick of Cleveland was
dead, and the three other occupants seri-
ously injured. The other three occu-
pants were w. III. Kirkpatrick, his moth
er, 40 years of age. and a man named
Cavanaugh. The elder Mrs. Kirkpat-
rick was the more seriously injured, but
it is thought she will recover. The other
two. while seriously, were not danger
ously injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-01
DANvIL'.E RlOTER GUILTY.
First Conviction Following Recent
Attack on the Jail.

Winfield Baker, young man who was
one of the leaders of the mob that storm
ed the Jail at Danville, H., few weeks
ago, was found guilty on the charge of
assault with intent to murder Sheriff
Whitlock This is the first conviction
growing out of the recent rioting. The
punishment is confinement III the State
prison on an indeterminate sentence from
one to fourteen years.
The second trial has begun. 1t is on
an indictment charging Winfield Baker,
John Walton, Edward Hart, Clay Biddle,
Adam Murray, William Redwine, Isaac
Slade, John Robertson. Thomas Bell and
Bessie Armstrong with rioting, this be-
ing misdemeanor punishable by fine
and Jail sentence. Hart forfeited his
bond of $500, which was paid by his
father. Bessie Armstrong was too i'll
to appear and her case was continued.
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FIGHT FOR $500 IN A SAFE.
Courts Take Hand in Case of Missouri
Ennf Pc Sr,a,cf.

Courts Take Hand in Case of Missouri
Foot Race Suspects.
The federal authorities intercepted at
Joplin, Mo, a steel safe, said to contain
$4,000 in gold, in transit from Kansas
City TO Neosho, Mo, and consigned to
George K. Clay of that city. The pack
age was shipped by Robert Boatright,
said to be leader of the flake" foot
race, who is alleged to have pocketed
half million by his operations in Mis-
souri, and other States. A bitter fight is
being wazed for possession of the safe,
Attorney Clay having taken legal steps
to secure its possession, while II. W.
Currv, attorney for the foot race vic
tin is also trying to get the property.
BOstright, who is under bonds in other
States to the extent of $4,000, is spend
ing the summer at some northern lakes
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Made a Tenant Eat Gravel.

Accused of having compelled F. o.
Marshall at the point of weapons to get
down in the road on his stomach and
crawl and eat gravel, sand, weeds, grass,
etc, Charles and John Bostick were ar
rested and held in $3.50 bonds at Gran
bury, Texas. The trouble arose in the
effort of the Bosticks TO get rid of Mar
shall as a tenant.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-01

blowing up at any moment, the ordnance
tug Pontiac's crew bravely stuck to their
posts of duty and. aided by the .jackies''
on the cruiser Chicago, extinguished the
flames. The powder was uninjured by
the water because of the tightness of the
kegs, and it was this which saved the
crew from death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-01
Fire Destroy. Ribbon Mil.

Fire destroyed the Columbia Ribbon
Company's mill at Haledon, n. ]. 1t
was a two-story structure a block in
length. The fire started in the boiler
room of the new annex and spread with
grea. rapidity 10 the main building. The
loss is about $150,000.
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Hawaii I. F1oat Biz Lonn.

Gov. Dole aud other territorial officers
at Honolulu have decided TO try to float
the S2,000,0oO loan authorized by the last
Legislature. 1t is Cnought that the local
banks will take the entire issue. An ex-
haustive statement has been sent to
President Roosevelt in response to his re-
quest for information before approving
the linn
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Following is the standing of the clubs
nnel Over Ynnnr Woman.

\ fatal duel over a girl occurred on
ferryboat in Point Township, Ind. be
tween Edward Robinson and Samuel
Lusk. Robinson stabbed Lusk over the
heart and then cut his throat, severing
the juguiar vein. Lusk died in a short
time. Robinson gave himself up to the
Kentucky officers. The girl over whom
the fight occurred saw the tragedy and
fainted
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Strife OH ON Fnahionnb1e Street.

While excavatin.; for an addition to
his building, L. L. Pfarr. residing in a
fashionable district Of Pittsburg, struck
a gray oil shale from which oozed
greenish-brown oil. A derrick will at
once be erected amid the elegant resi-
dences which grace this district. A well
sunk 1I6 feet for water is Sc impregnat-
ed with oil as to make it unht for drink
ing
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ORGANIZE TO OPPOSE NEGROES.
Indianans Disturbe5 Over Reported
Extensive Colonization Plan.


A philarehropic organization in New
York City has 9nIounced a plan TO col
onize so families Of negroes from the
South in each county in Indiana and
southern Michigan. In the regions nam
ed there arr few negroes, and the white
popui. Il on are aroused over the prospect
of having the race QUESTION brought to
their doors. An organization, originating
with the editor of the Chesterron, Ind,
Tribune, Pa influential Republican. is In
process of formation to discourage the
negroes, some Of whom have already ar
rived in Porter County, the idea being
to adopt a policy of pon-intereourse with
the blacks, refusing to employ them, sell
them supplies, or rent or sell real estate
to them.
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Suicide at Fnucet,s End.

Andrew Adams, a waiter, committed
suicide at Holy Cross hospital in Salt
Lake. He evaded his nurse and went
into a bathroom. He got into the tub
and, placing his mouth over the faucet,
turned the water on full force He
clenched the faucet between his teeth
and held on until unconscious. He died
within a few minutes