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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
placed lighted candle in the cradle and

placed a lighted candle in the cradle and
forgot it.
Spain viii appropriate 100000 pesetas
for an exhibit at the St. Louis worlds
fair.
Nine main buildings of the st. louis
worlds fair are in process of construc-
ton.
James Kline. Boston, swallowed poi
son ana died. a girl had refused to mar
~ him.
People of Port Morris. " Y. tore
down vacant house and used the timber
for fuel.
The 2-year-old baby of William Cason.
Covington, Ky, fell in the fire and burn
ed to death.
Independent tinplate manufacturers
will cut prices So ton on sheets and st
TO $3.50 box on tin.
Gunners on the warship Kentucky, at
Manila, out of q shots, hit the target 10
times. The best ever.
Clarence Schimelpfennig was Droba-
bly, fatally burned at Plano, Texas, by
his clothing catching fire.
Charges have been preferred against
Macarthur johnson, inspector of weights,
ST. Louis. and he has been suspended.
Curran Gimmel. a salesman, Washing
ton. cut his throat and jumped from a
third-story window of the National 10
tel. Dead when found.
DR.. Bushrod James, who recently died
in Philadelphia, willed $4,000 for free
public Hbrsry. Money was also left TO
Oakland, Cal, and Colorado Springs,
Colo.
Engineer Wolf leaned from a Big
-Four engine cab to look at hot box.
near Alexandria, Ohio. His head struck
4 mail craze. killing him. His home was
in Delaware. Ohio.
DR.. Parkhurst's church in New York
has been sold 10 an insurance company.
which win erect business block on the
site.
Bishop Moore Siethedist) declares
that the hospital in Pekin. built since
the Boxer uprising, IS the finest IN the
Chinese empire.
Some Of the Roman Catholic orders
which left France since the recent laws
against them in that country have open
81 M ia Switzerland. only TO meet with
similar rebnE. The Swiss constitution
forbids the Foundation OF new converts
or religious orders. or the re-establish-
ment of those which have been suppress
ed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03

ress fred with SHE'LL and instantly the
Panther, at 1900 yards range, answered
with twelve guns, followed by hundreds
of shots.
1T Is reported also that the Panther
carried a red flag as the signal, but as
the fortress possessed no signal code and
could not interpret the red flag as a peace
symbol. white being the color of par
liamentary flag. it regarded the action of
the Panther as a premeditated agrees
sion.''
A foreign Office representative in Ber-
lin said: THE Panther's action, the
official report shows. was strictly within
the limits of international law. She was
proceeding past the fort to enter the
lagoon of Maracaibo in order TO prevent
the importation of contraband articles
from Colombia, and in doing so was fired
upon. The Panther. of course, answered
the fire, as she was entitled to do. The
attack was not made by us, but by the
Venezuelan fort. We are quite unable
to see why anyneutral should express dis
approval because our vessels leveled the
fort to enforce the blockade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03

a detailed narrative of the bombardment
and a justification of it from the German
Apoint of view.
The United States had not asked for
this explanation. 1t had entered no pro-
test against the bombardment, either at
Berlin or London. Though greatly dis
pleased the American government con
Guided to await developments. Its pa
thence is now rewarded by a voluntary
explanation on the part of the German
government, and the fact that Germany
thought it wise to offer an explanation
unasked is deemed of great and pacific
significance.
Incidentally the United States govern
ment has learned beyond doubt that Ger
many has no intention and has had no
intention of taking any action in South
America that would bring on test of the
Monroe doctrine. 1t is not denied that
for sewers! days there has been much
anxiety in official circles in Washington,
and this anxiety has been shared by the
highest and best-informed members of
the government. But assurances have
been conveyed which put at rest all such
fears, in so far as words can quiet them.
1t is claimed by the German govern
ment that Fort San Carlos fred the first
shot, while the Venezuelan officials aver
that the German gunboat Panther was
the aggressor.
The United States legation has been
conducting an investigators in Maracai~
DO for six days, but the point has not yet
been elucidated. A reliable person says:
"The foreign element, who are in close
touch with the civil authorities. know
that Fort San Carlos had receiveA orders
from Caracas that in case the Panther
attempted to cross the bar and pass be-
fore the fortress the latter was to fire on
the German vessel, first with powder to
call attention.
when on Jan. 10 the Panther entered
the narrow channel inside the bar, four
miles from the fortress, heading for the
interior of the lake, the fortress fired a
round of blank shot. Then seeing, after
the third blank shot, that the intention of
the Panther was to pass up the channel
and force passage past the fortress to
gain Lake Maracaibo and capture the
Venezuelan gunboat Miranda, the fort
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
DAY FOR SUPREME BENCH.
Position rendered by President Roosc-
Welt Has Been Accepted.

Welt Has Been Accepted.
Judge w. r. Day, of Canton, Ohio,
has accepted a tender of appointment
as Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court. Judge Day said in an
swer to query as to his appointment:
Il received the tender from President
Roosevelt Saturday. | mailed my ac-
ceptance at once"
Judge Day was born at Ravenna,
Ohio, near the old home of Garfield. He
was educated at the University of Mich
igan, being graduated therefrom in 1872
and entering the practice of law during
the same year. Fourteen years later he
was elected judge of the Common Pleas
Court. The next honor which came to
him was the appointment to the bench of
the United States District Court for the
northern district of Ohio.
In view of the impending physical col
lapse of John Sherman, President Nc
Kinley selected Judge Day at First As
sistant Secretary of State after his cleo
ton to the presidency.
!. After Mr., Sherman's resignation
Judge Day was made Secretary of State,
which office he resigned to take a seat
upon the commission which was sent to
Paris to negotiate a treaty of peace with
Spain. After the conclusion of this duty
he accepted an appointment to the Uni
ted States District Court 1t is from
this position that he is elevated to the
bench of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
ROB A BULLION CAR.
MExlCANS STEAL SILVER BARS
WORTH $40, 600
Precious Metal Was En- Route from
FL Paso s,neIter to Chicago-Atchi-
SON Railway May Afford Rock Island
Way OF Reaching the Pacific.

Somewhere between Alamogordo, n
NJ, and I'll Haso, Texas, a United States
bonded car, i'm transit from the Ell Paso
smelter to Chicago, loaded with 600 bars
OF silver bullion, was entered by robbers
and eighty of the bars stolen. At Jarilla
junction the broken seal was discovered
and an investigation revealed three Next
cans in the car. When an attempt was
made to eject them they pulled knives
and a lively fight took place, in which
the crew was victorious and drove away
the robbers. At Dog Canyon Sheriff
Hunter saw three Mexicans who took
to the brush. A call to halt was answer
ed by a fusillade. A running fight en-
eued Hunter shot a Mexican through
khe heart. The other two men escaped.
Officials are of the opinion that the bond
ed car was entered by robbers just out
side b Paso, who threw the bars out
o. the car, to be gathered up by confed
e.'ates. The value of the missing bullion
is estimated at $4,000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
DETECTIVE Is SHOT DEAD.
1t Is Supposed slayers Are Respon-
sib1e for Recent Robbery.

II Is Supposed S1ayers Are Respon-
sible for Recent Robbery.
Two men, who are supposed to have
robbed the bank at Union, Mo-, during
the recent holidays. were located several
miles west of there in a cabin by u Pin
kerton detective. c. ]. Schumacher. The
detective, disguised as a hunter, called
at house and found two men heavily
armed. He organized a posse and re-
turned to attack the house. He was shot
dead, and the posse fed. Later the posse
obtained re-enforcements and returned to
seek the supposed robbers. In a country
by-road William Meyersieck and G. f.
Nieheiser, who composed one of the
posses, met two men on horseback. The
horseback riders ordered the men to stop,
and upon their refusal drew their revol-
vers. Meyersieck and Nieheiser opened
fire and emptied their revolvers. 1t was
nearly dark. and they could not ire to
the best advantage. One shot at least
struck its mark, for one of the suspects
rceled and fell from his saddle. The 9TH
er man quickly climbed down and helped
his companion back on his horse and
they rode away
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
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1t is reported that there are at work
$50 more foreign missionaries this year
than ever before.
A John Wesley rescue mission is to
be established in the Bowery. New
York. by the Methodists of that city.
The work of the Bible schools In Yer
mont is being pressed with new yigor and
with increased regard to the scientific
method.
1t is announced that at his recent jllbi-
lee TIE Pope received 1000 gifts, which
have since been bequeathed to the Holy
See. Gifts received at his three jubiIeets
are valued at S2,500,000.
One Of the largest Swedish churches
in the country. the Augustana Lutlsegan
Church of Minneapolis, has adopted the
English language for use in the puipif
and for the church paper.
The Rev. g. E. Little6eld Of HaFer-
hill, Mass, is organizing new sort Of
church. WHICH he describes as a 'sys.
TEN Of cooperation departmental
churches" in which he hopes to merge All
the liberal and reforming Interests. The
zsy creed proposed is the golden rule. .
Owing 10 opposition in she congrega.
ton the Baptist temple 81 Philadelphia
has abandoned its project 10 erect d
tablet as a memorial to Miss Winnie pa
Wis. daughter Of Jefferson Davis.
The American board Of foreign mis-
sions reports for the last year an ineome
Of SIS. 1863. 1s3 and an increase Of 1856
foreign missionaries. $500 native Ltbur-
ers. 10000 COMMITMENTS and 1880
churches.
The Christian Church Of Lexington,
KY. has voted, 381 10 302, to retain the
use Of the organ in lis services. Arlcng
those who violently opposed the organ
as un-Christian was President McGarvie
Of Bible College
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
OVER A SCORE KILLED.
Twenty Dead in Arizona Wreck and
lively Perish in Blazing Cars.


Twenty dead, with perhaps dozen
Others cremated iii the fierce FIRE that
followed a collision between two fast
trains on the Southern Pacific Railroad,
and at least sixteen persons seriously
huEt, is the shocking report that comes
from the scene of the disaster near Walls
burg, Ariz. Tucson gained its first It'd
ings of the disaster when tourist coacn,
torn away from the other cars, thunder
ed with terrific speed down the grade
upon which the road is built between
that city and Vailsburg, and the frantic
Passengers shrieked the dread intelli-
gence to the men at work in the railroad
yards. a dispatcher stationed at Es-
mOnd, midway between Tucson and
Vailsburg. IS responsible for the accident.
He made a blunder in carrying out his
orders regarding the trains, and instead
of sidetracking one of them he caused
the two to dash together in a head-end
collision at point where each engineer
considered that he had a clear track
ahead. Oil from the locomotive reser-
voirs caught fire and was scattered over
the wrecked coaches, destroying eleven
of them and burning to death the pas
sengers who were pinned down in the
Wreckage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
FRAUD IN NATURALIZATION.
Two Men Arrested on Charge of Aid
ing Aliena to Recorne Nnfers

Two Men Arrested on Charge of Aid
ing Aliens to Become Voters.
Police Officer Kaplan and Nathan
Levin, proprietor of a saloon, were ar
rested in St Louis on an Indictment re-
turned by the federal grand jury charg-
ing them with fraudulently obtaining
for aliens certificates of citizenship, COM
monty known as naturalization papers.
The indictment charges that Oct. l last
haplan and Levin, in company with
Bernhard Feldmann, an alien, visited the
St Louis Court of Appeals and acted as
prompters to Feldmann, who made APP
phcation for naturalization papers. The
defendants, it is charged, Instructed Field
mann to make oath to statement that
he had resided in the United States for
three years previous to the date of his
attaining his majority On tie day fol
lowing he trio again appeared and Field
mann, ~ swearing to his statements of
the prl yious day, obtained the documents
emitting him to vot4 United States Dis
trict Attorney Dyer stated that by the
evidence secured ne would be able to
prove that hundreds of aliens had OBJ
tanned naturalization papers through
fraud previous to the election last No
vember.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
COURT FAvoRs SETTLERS.
Supreme Court Hand. Down Decisie

Supreme Court Hands Down Decision
Adverse to Northern Pacific Road.
The United States Supreme Court rem
dered through Justice Harlan an opinion
affecting the Northern Pacific Railroad
land grant. The case was that of Peter
and Henry Nelson, who located upon
6nsurveyed land within the Northern
Pacific grant, in the then Territory of
Washington, in 1881. This was after
the railroad company had filed its gen
eral map showing its proposed definite
location. In the opinion handed down
by the court it was held that the title
OF the settlers was better than that of
the railroad company. and that until the
definite map was fled Congress had con-
troll of the lands within the grant re-
gardless of the general map. ln Il dis
senting opinion, Justice Brewer said the
opinion reverses the judgment of the
court of twenty years ago, by which the
Interior Department had ever since
been controlled in dealing with disputes
between the railroad company and set
tiers ike the Nelson's. Millions are in
yolved in the decision.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
DIE I'M a WRECK.


Twepty-four Persons Are Killed by a
Train Collision.
In an appalling train crash at Grace
land, y. j., twenty-four persons wege
killed and over thirty seriously injured.
Death came to most of the victims in
horrible form, those who were not BILLED
outright being cooked in scalding steam
or roasted alive in the blazing wreekage
The Royal Blue Line express, the most
elegantly equipped train in America.
crashed into the rear of a local passen-
ger train, crowded almost to suffocatiNn
with commuters returning TO their homes
from New York City. Owing to the
hour, 6:45 p. m, there was not vacant
seat, and When the last three cars we've
telescoped and the two remaining CATS
seriously wrecked the carnage was ex-
IRENE. The express was running at a
speed of over sixty-fye miles an hour
when the accident occurred.
Men. women and chit!sen were killed
and MANNED. even before they realized
the fate that had overtaken them Sit
ting in their seats unconscious of harm.
they did not know that the huge ircn
engine crashing through the train men
aced their lives before death, in many
instances, had come. The last three cars
of the local train were smashed into kiul-
ling wood, and to add to the horror IF
the accident the wreckage took fire.
Pinned under the debris, many who had
been only slightly injured by the crash
We're roasted to death before the eyes Of
the survivors. The cries of the wounded
were intermingled with the roar Of cs-
Gaping steam from the engine If the
flyer.
The crash of the two coliding trains
was heard for miles around and the
townspeople rushed to the assistance of
the stricken passengers, while the sur
sivors from the Inflated local and the
passengers on the Royal Blue Line train
rendered aid in every way possible.
Before the wreckage had cooled the
work Of getting ont the charred bodies
began. Men attacked the heap with poles
and rods of iron taken from the Pile of
debris and raked out several arms. legs
and heads. Many of those who died VIII
never be recognized, the bodies being
burned to crisp.
The local had left New York fifteen
minutes before the express, bat had to
stop at several more stations. When the
local came to the switch where il had
been ordered to change onto the other
track to allow the express to pass il was
found that a freight train Blocked the
track and new orders were given to pro-
coed to Dunelen before crossing ON the
other track. Shortly after receiving the
orders the local was forced to stop be-
cause of a hot box and this delayed her
for some moments y flagman was sent
back to flag the express and also given
instructions to place torpedoes on the
line Whether he did so or not can never
he known. as he was aIq'g those who
were killed by the collision.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03

William Z. Curtis says New York
Democrats are united on Alton Il. Par
ker as presidential candidate aud are
actively booming him.
Agricultural Department experiments
VITA adtlterated foods may be abandon
cd by Dg. Wiley because people hail him
on streets as "borax" and regard bis
tests as joke.
Commander Thomas y. Howard. now
at the naval academy. has been selected
rs the 1f~t commanding officer Of the
monitor Nevada, which viii be placed
in commission during February.
The senate committee on foreign rela-
tons has agreed 10 recommend an in
crease ii. the diplomatic representation
Of the UAited States iii Siam. At pres
eat there il a minister resident at Bang
kok. WIG IS also consul general Tho
COMMITTEES recommends two officers in
stead of one.
The senate committee on. military If
fairs has ordered a favorable report On
the bill 5ntrodnced by Senator Foraker
appropristing money from tie national
treasury FOR the erection Of headstomes 10
mark the graves Of Confederate soldiers
buried in: the North The amount to he
used for tAis purpose was placed NJ $200.-
900 at tie suggestion of Secretary Root.
treaty submitting Alaskan bound3rz
dispute 10 arbitration is criticised by
Represen satives. who declare Tn;seJ
States tisle is clear; Senators favor rat.
ifcation, British commissioner expected
to vote ys.ith Americans.
The Diplomatic and consular appropsi-
alton bill. as reported to the Senate, car
ries $4,000 more than the amonat APP
propriated by the HoEse II authcrizqs
the payment 10 the widow Of the late
minister 90 Japan. Mr. Buck. Of $1,000
and the heirs of THONGS Z. Preusis, :ate
consul az Martinique, who lost his ife
in the Mount Pelec disaster. Of 5000.
The otheg increases are mainly il ths.
rank and pay Of c0nsr1,S
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
BOLD BANK ROBBERS.
bandits Blow Open Vault at steelviIIe,
Ill. and Esr.s.r ne with se 600 u.

~~eAAu It's dow open vault at SteekvIlle,
Ill, and Escape with $4,000.
kobbers blew open the vault of the
bank OF Steelyille, ILL.,, at O'Clock on q
recent morning and secured $1,000, with
which they escaped in carriage. Nitro
glycerin was used to open the vault, and
Tour explosions were necessary before the
robbers could gain entrance One man
did the work inside the building. while
another stood guard on the sidewalk ut
side. Paul thinner, an engineer in Glis-
er's mills, was awakened by the report
Of the first explosion. He glanced out of
his front window toward the bank and
Jaw the man standing ON the sidewalk.
He hurried to the mill and informed the
employees. They then armed themselves
and started back toward the bank. Three
other explosions were heard ia the bank
building in quick succession. Mrs. Iim-
mer, in the meantime, came out of the
house and began shouting to her husband.
The robber on guard turned toward the
woman and, fourishing a revolver at her,
said: shut up, or I'll blow your head
off," Turning to the bank, the robber
asked his confederate: Are you all
right, Jim? Hurry up and scrape up the
cash, for they are after us, but l will
blow the head off the first man | see"
The robbers then took to fight and es-
caDed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03

Lumber pliers. Duluth, Mimi, stuck
fer $z-35 a dag.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
FIFTY DEAD IN a FIRE.
Wing of Co1ney Hatch Insane Asylum
in England Is Burned Down.


About fifty insane patients were burn
ed to death by FIRE at the Colney Hatch
asylum in England. The outbreak &C.
Cured in the Jewish wing of the institu-
ton. The flames spread with great ra-
pidity and before they could be got I'M
der control FIVE wooden buildings, in
Guiding dormitories and the doctors
apartments, were wiped out
All efforts of the officials were direct
ed to removing the insane inmates. who
became wild with excitement and We're
so panic-stricken that not only were they
unable to help themselves. but they great
~ impeded the operations of those who
were trying to save them.
There were nearly 600 women in the
burned annex at the time the fire was
discovered and most of them were safely
transferred to the main building, which
was uninjured. Some. however. escaped,
rendering it difficult to ascertain the ex-
act number of those burned to death
All the victims were lunatics. Their
charred bodies presented a horrifying
spectacle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
ROCK ISLAND PLANS COUP.
May Use the Atchison as Outlet for Its
Pacific Trade.

Officials of the Rock Island system and
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
were in conference discussing details of
the proposed traffic agreement between
the two. The Rock Island people, dis
satisfied with the present arrangements
with the Southern Pacific, have made L
twofold proposition to the Atchison. They
propose to purchase an interest in the
Atchison large enough to give it repre-
sentation on the board of directors and
to form a traffic combination whereby
the Rock Island may reach the Pacific
coast independently of the Southern Pa
eifc. AS the proposition does not con
template control of the Atchison, it is
likely to be accepted.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
$4,000 Bank Loot Found.

1t is reported from Stanton, Mo-, that
securities to the amount of $4,000 were
recovered from the house of Frank Ru-
dolph by party Of detectives. These
securities were part of the loot of the
Bank of Union, Mo-. which was robbed
two days after Christmas, when money
and valuable paper amounting to nearly
$4,000 were taken.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
coNFEssEs ATTEMPTS TO KILL.
Nellie kuiseiey, 3 Years Old, Admin
istered Poison to Her Benefactors.

istered Poison to Her Benefactors.
Nellie Kniseiey, the 13-year-old adopt
ed daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Isaac B.
hniseley, of Corning. n. Y, who was
recently sent to the Susquehanna Val
ley Home, at BinghaInton, has written
home confession that she had been
Systematically administering poison to
her foster parents, with the hope of kill
ing them so that she could obtain their
property. Mr.. and Mrs. Kniseley have
been made very i'll lately after their
meals, and Mrs. Kniseley is now an in
valid as the result, it is alleged, of the
poison taken into her system. A neigh
Dor informed the Kniseleys that Nellie
had told their daughter that when her
foster parents We're dead she would have
their property and that she had given
them n dose which should kill them. Mr..
and Mrs. Kniseley then recalled that
the girl asked them who would get their
property if they both died. After they
had become i'll again they discovered
that package of rat poison had disap-
peared.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
Eivht Tenuesaee Cities aWet -

In a short time only eight cities in the
State of Tennessee will have the priv
ilege Of selling intoxicating liquors as a
beverage. This revolution in the liquor
traffic in Tennessee will be brought about
by the Adams bill, which prohibits the
sale of liquor in towns of less than 5000
inhabitants.