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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
BANDITS TO HANG.
Chicago Car Earn Murderers Given
the Death PenaIfv

NnicaXo Sar- Earn Muruerers Given
the Death Penalty.
Gustav Marx, Peter Niedemeyer and
Harvey Van Dine, the Chicago car-barn
ba,dits.' must hang for the murder Of
Francis w. Stewart in the 61st street
barns Of the City Railway Company.
Such was the verdict of the jury re-
turned in Judge Kersten's court at 10
o'clock Saturday morning. The decision
came as surprise, for the long delibera-
tion-since 1916 p. m. Friday-had led
to a belief that lighter punishment was
ants. When court convened the mothers
of Van Dine and Niedemeyer were in
the room. They looked worn and sad.
Van Dine turned and smiled at his
mother while the jurymen were fling in.
Mrs. Marx was at home in state OF
prostration.
When the jurors appeared they were
pale ard disheveled. The verdict was
read. Then the formal question was
asked of each: WAS this and is this your
yerdictY An affirmative reply was Civ
en- by each of the twelve.
Mrs Niedemeyer stood in the center
of the court room for over an hour after
the verdict came. She seemed TO be in q
daze. Standing near the chair where her
son had sat. she held her hands over hel
face and said to attorneys and friends
"Lct me alone" Mrs Van Dine pitched
forward in her chair as if about to faint
and then recovered herself
One juror, Charles Walton, caused the
long delay. He insisted that Van Dine
had some good in him because he die
not kill Cashier Edmond, who WIS il
the ear barn at the time of the raid.
With the exception of the Luetgert
trials, the case has been the longest
drawn out and most expensive ever tried
in the Chicago criminal court. The work
of securing jury commenced on JAN 6
-Four weeks were consumed in filling the
panel, one juror having been dismissed
after he had been accepted because OF
his false answers to questions put him In
qualifying for service. The time of the
jury was 663 days, which, at 50. makes
a cost of 81 ,266, exclusive of mileage anC
their board at the hotel. The time OF
the court, prosecuting attorneys, polic'
and deputy sheriffs represents an outlay
in salaries of $4,000, exclusive of tn,
cost of the stenographic report of tn,
case.
Another item of expense in the cas-,
was the pay and mileage of some 70t
veniremen who were summoned for jur!
service and not accepted This will ag
gregate at least $1,000. Other expenses
including expert testimony. expenses OF
travel of detectives, and the fees anC
mileage of witnesses, who were called
from Indiana, Denver and other point.
outside the State. will bring the total ex
pense of the trial to about 100000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
USE THE MAILS TO DEFRAuD.
Charge Against Kansas City Men
Leads to Their Arrest.

Charge Against Kansas City Men
Leads to Their Arrest.
Albert II. Brown, William Marvin,
Joseph L. Kicker, Charles Kicker and
Edward Moore were arrested in Kan
sas City on complaint of Postofice In
spector Mckee. who charges them with
usirg the mails with intent to defraud.
The men were arraigned and released
On bonds. 1t is asserted by the postoffice
inspector that the five men have been
conducting brokerage business Ill Fan
sas City under the name of A. III. Brown
X Co. since 1902 1t is charged that the
t.sn advertised in Kansas City. st.
Louis, Chicago and indianapolis papers
offering a stock of goods for sale for
cash or trade and. it is alleged, caught
many victims. When prospective pur-
chaser came to inspect the stock he was
told that a Maynard nephew whom
fond uncle had set up in a general mer-
chandise business had failed and that the
uncle was not in position to conduct
the business aud would sell it at a sac
riGce. Marvin acted the aged uncle and
one of the other partners played the
nephew. The purchaser was shown an
excellent stock of goods worth about
$4,000, but after buying it the sellers
would send him almost worthless mer-
chandise
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22

ADMIRAL TOGO. later report mas II,
because they lacked ammunition. most
of it having been sent to Port Arthur.
a woman was killed by a shell and
several sailors wounded
Several bombardments of Port Ar
thur and Dalny eliminated in battle
between the Russian torpedo flOtilla
and Japanese torpedo-boat destroyers
encountered in the Lao THE Shan
strait. One vessel was sunk on each
side and there must have been con-
siderable loss of life. This was follow
ed by a severe bombardment of the
harbor, in which there was some loss
of life, two women in the town being
among the victims.
st. Petersburg promptly denied the
story that Port Arthur had been ADAM
doned. When one reflects That such
action would necessarily Include the
destruction of the Russian fleet and the
abandonment or removal inland of the
many coast defense guns i'll the forts
about the city. not to mention those at
Dalny, and the surrender of authority
over southern Manchuria to the Jap
anese, one can understand how improb-
able was the story.
1t must be conceded that the Rus
slams are making an astonishingly fee
BILE display of ability and resourceful-
ness in meeting the attacks of Admiral
Togo. Their losses are heavy and they
do not retaliate upon the enemy in n
way sufficient even TO dampen his ar
dor. The battle of the torpedo boat
destroyers showed courage, but from
the Russian and Japanese official re-
ports it is clear that the Russians
failed to hold their own against an
inferior number of Japanese vessels.
The fighting was close and furious
until the Russians retreated. Other
Japanese torpedo boat destroyers cap
tured Russian destroyer, which sunk
while being lowed away.
Apparently the gunnery of the Jap
anese is distinctly more effective than
that of the Russians Capt Shokiro
Asai seems to have fought as did
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
BOOM FOR CANNON.
On Floor of the House His Name Is
Mentioned for President.

After a. day of anger, hysteria and
panic. the national House of Representa-
tives Friday evening adopted resolu-
ton for the appointment of special
committee of seven to investigate the
so-called Bristow report accusing mem
bers of having used their Influence inn
properly and illegally to obtain from the
Postoffice Department increased allow
ances for clerk hire and rentals in post
offices in their districts. The excitement
reached its height when William Alden
Smith of Michigan dramatically eulogiz-
ed the greatness of the House Of Rep
resentatives, which had been assailed by
the executive branch of the government,
and closed by naming candidate OF the
Republican party for President Of the
United States: "a candidate who would
be foe to corruption, the great man
who has given thirty years Of has life to
the service Of the country-Speaker Jo-
seph G.. Cannon Of Illinois" This SEN
sational defamation was greeted with
wild applause.
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short News Notes.

1t is estimated that the damage caused
by the earthquake at Lima Peru, viii
amount to 100000.
The Crystal ice plant and three Mis-
souri, Pacific cars we're burned at Wi
chita, Kan. LossS $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
The Merchants and Miners steamship
Essex colIided with and sunk an un-
known fve-masted schooner in Chesa-
peake bay. The crew is reported to
have been saved. The Essex was only
slightly damaged.
The Huntington estate has been given
judgment for s761,97s against sylves-
ter H. Kneeland, In a decision handed
down by the New York State Supreme
Court.
Frank Rose, who on Christmas day
shot and killed his wife and left lis 2
year-old boy for two days without food
and alone in the room with his murdered
mother at Salt Lake City, Utah, was
sentenced to be shot April %.
The "Niederoesterreichisch Reverb
verein," the most ancient industrial and
technical corporation Of Austria, VIII
visit the st. Louis fair in August, and
viii sion at Chicago and other leading
cries to study technical affairs.
The Burkeville, Mass, wooden mill
owned by the Delabarre estate and ieas-
ed BY James Hennessey Of Garheid. ~
j., has been destroyed by IRE Loss
$4,000
Fx-congressman John n. Glover has
fled suit for $4,000 damages for false
Imprisonment against Gov. PEABODY sey-
eraI mining companies and ofneers OF me
Colorado militia az a result Of bis arrest
during the miners strike.
The palatial home Of the late Henry
Farnan at New Haven, valued with It's
art treasures, at $4,000, Is TO 90 10
Yale for home for the president Of the
university on the death Of the testator's
son, Prof. Henry W. farzam Of YalA
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
DISEASE GERMS ON MONEY.
Report of Gotham Bacteriorogist Sub

Report of Gotham BacterioIogist Sub
mitted to the congressman.
DIR. Thomas Darlington, commissioner
of health, has made public the report on
the contamination of metal and paper
money by disease bacteria, which he sub
mitted TO the House committee OH bank
ing and currency at Washington. Tie
report is the result of experiments con
Quoted by DIR. William II. Park, bac-
teriologist in the Research laboratory Of
the department of health, and it holds y
warning against the habit of placing
money in the mouth. 1t shows that
while the metal in coins possesses anti
septic properties. infected coins may
spread disease if distributed within a
few hours after contamination. The ex-
periments with paper money will not be
completed for several weeks, but the in
vestigation so far has established the
fact that paper money contains no sub
stance which will kill bacteria.
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WILL LET SETTLERS REMAIN.
Northern Pacific Promises I.eniency to
Those Defeated in Court.


Those Defeated in Court.
President Howard Elliott of the
Northern Pacific has decided that set
tiers that have taken up land in the tract
involved in litigation known as the
overlap" land case. which was recently
decided by the United States Supreme
Court in favor of the company, shall
be allowed to retain their holdings. 1t
has been announced that the company
desires to take up with the settlers the
question of sale of the lands occupied
and that a commission will be appointed
to appraise the land. 1t is stated that
no advantage will be taken by the COM
pany of the settlers and that in fixing
the price of the land no consideration
shall be taken of the increased value re-
sulting from the improvements and culti-
walton by the settlers. The land affect
ed by the decision consists of a tract
about forty miles square, lying on the
east side of the Northern Pacifics track
between Tacoma and Portland and on
the north bank of the Columbia river,
including all of Clarke County and por-
tons of Skamania, Cowlitz and Klickitat
counties.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22

Wainwright at Santiago. going close
in and hammering away regardless of
consequences, though coping with su-
perior numbers.
The heavy bombardment of the forts
and the city which the big guns of the
battleships carried on for three hours
and a half ON Thursday was more eff
fective than such bombardments usual
ly are, Admiral Togo having arranged
his cruisers in such a manner that they
could observe the effect of each shot
and signal TO the battleships to correct
the aim.
Russia is slowly assembling its
armies on the Yalu and making prep
arations for great battle. Japan is
landing troops in Corea, and rushing
them TO the front with the prospect
that she will compel Russia TO accept
her position. simply because the move
ments of the latter's army are so slow.
Taken all in all, the past week has
been a period of preparation for com
Ing events which will crowd each
other
The attitude of China is one of
doubt. The imperial forces have been
assembling on the Manchurian border,
ready for an opportunity for forward
movement. Large bands of Chinese
bandits have been harassing the Rus
sian rear and committing depredations
which may call for serious attention.
The Chinese are manifestly hostile 10
Russia. and may not much longer be
held in restraint If they should bre.1k
loose. there would be an Eastern war
Of SO large proportions as to involve
more than one European nation This
possibility keeps Europe on the qni
vive.
The international situation is better
Russia has warned China that she win
be held responsible If her troops are
not kept in check President Roosevelt
has issued an executive order that
civil. military and naval employees OF
the government must refrain from ae-
tons or expressions which would tend
10 irritate either beiligerent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22

from the experiences of the Boxer out
break, he says, and she has no forts or
gunboats on the river. 1t is probable
that when the ice disappears the Jap
anese viii send feet of gunboats into
the river and make themselves felt along
its entire length.
1t is stated that explosives are being
placed in houses in Dalny in preparation
for the occupation Of the town by the
japanese, which is apparently regarded
as inevitable in the near future.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
RUSSIA WARNS CHINESE.
Troops of Yuan Shi- Kai and Ma Mus
BE Kept in Subsection,

Troops of Yuan Shi- Kai and Ma Must
BE Kept in Subsection.
Russia has served notice on China that
the latter must not send troops beyond
the great wall and that she must exer-
else her influence to restrain the Chinese
bandits, who are partially under the con
troll of Chinese officers, from interfering
with the railroad and telegraph lines. A
refusal to heed this warning will be con-
sidered breach of neutrality
The Chinese troops which threaten to
make trouble are those of Gen Ma and
Gen. Yuan-Sh iKai, the commander-in-
chief The latter is the viceroy of Chez
Lee province and his troops originally
were organized by the late Ii Hung
Chang. Therefore they are subject to
provincial instead of imperial control
A St Petersburg paper declares Japan
is beginning to lose her illusions regard
ing Anglo-American support, but still
looks to China forgetting that Chinese
intervention will be the signal for the in
reference of European powers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22

The Japanese steamer Shlnshlu-M aru
has been wrecked off Chemulpp.
A military train bound for Irkutsk,
eastern Siberia, was derailed near
Tomsk.
Admiral Birilef has inspected the ships
which are at Kronstadt preparing to be
put in commission.
George KEENAN,, the noted traveller and
writer, expresses the hope and belief
that Japan will win.
An imperial ukase has been issued pro-
hibiting the expectation of horses from
Russia until further notice.
Russian and japanese mounted scouts
met north of Pmgyang. After a brief
engagement the Russians retreated.
A London military correspondent says
it is Russia's time to strike the japanese
Arp,ada or abandon hope of interfering
with its landing.
1t is reported that tie Russians have
$4,000 tons of coal at VIII which they
keep drenched with kerosene in readiness
TO burn should the japanese land there.
Vice Admiral Kamimura. in command
of the Vladivostok naval expedition. re-
ports that he searched the coast after
bonlbarding the city. but was unable to
find any Russian warships.
London military writer's suspect the
armament OF the forts at Port Arthur is
outclassed by the guns of the japanese
feet and see signs that the Russians will
withdraw from Newchwang.
Gen. Kouropatkin boasts that the
cars army will march over the Mi
taso's islands to teach the Japanese a
lesson and that peace viii be signed in
Toxic. He predicts that the conquest
win be completed by August.
The crews Of the merchant vessels cap
aired By japanese warships since the
var began have been released and IA all
400 Russians, Chinese and Germans
have been turned over to various con-
suls TO be sent back to their own coun-
tries.
A newspaper editorial gives striking
evidence OF absence OF unanimous sup
nort of the Gar by the Germans The
naper says Russian ascendancy in the
Orient is no less a disadvantage TO Ger
man than menace to the people of the
far East.
A telegram from eekln states that
England and America have protested
against the Russian action in sinking q
funk at Newchwang because it would
block the egress Of their war vessels.
High Russian officials, in a statement
N the Associated Press, declare that the
United States State Department is the
unknown quantity in the worlds diplo-
msev. which causes great uneasiness
among the powers
The decoration Of the military order
Of st. George has been conferred on the
commanders OF the Russian warships
yariac and Koreitz on account OF taeil
! heroic conduct in the engagement with
the japanese at Chemulpo-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
TOY PISTOL cAPs KILL.


wrecked IN Explosion and Fire.
Crumbling like paper, two-story
brick manufacturing plant at Western
avenue and Vest Eighteenth street. Chi
cago. was blown to pieces by an explo-
sion of toy pistol caps. which left in its
wake three mangled dead. two of them
being boys. and over half a dozen torn
and injured victims. Within half an
honr what had been manufacturing
plant sheltering three firms and occupied
by nearly 100 persons was a snapeless
pile of bricks Fire finished what the
explosion had failed to do. and lhe bodies
of the dead were so badly burned that
it was impossible to recognize them ex-.
crpt by remnants of clothing. The ex-
plosion occurred in the factory of the
Chicago Toy Novelty Company, on the
second floor, where 15o gross Of toy
pistol caps blew up. 1t is not known
what caused them to explode. The fire
was replete with sensational incidents.
Heroic rescues were made by employees
of the II. w. Caldwell Sons Co., whose
plant is directly across the street.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
FLAMES DESTROY STREET CARS.
Union Traction Company's Blue Island
Avenue Barn Wrecked by Fire.

Union Traction Company's Blue Island
Avenue Barn Wrecked by Fire.
Fire completely destroyed the ear
barns of the Union Traction Company
at Leavitt street and Blue Island ave-
nue., Chicago. burning $50 cars, and so
Gripping the company that nearly the
entire Southwest Side of the city was
without transportation service for
time. Six men were injured in the fire
and a property loss of $225,000 was en-
tailed. Over 400 men will be out of EN-
ployment temporarily, and thousands had
to tramp for miles in the blizzard to get
to their work The conhagration was
spectacular and marked by several thrill
ing incidents Tangled electric wires
and exploding barrels of varnish added
to the danger and difficulties the 6remen
encountered
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
ANOTHER MASSACRE BY TURKS.
Enraged, They Ruthlessly Kill Male
Inhabitants of armenian Village.

Enraged, They Ruthlessly Kill Male
Inhabitants of armenian Village.
Additional trouble is reported in the
Armenian village of Human, as result
of which all of the male inhabitants
have been massacred and the women and
children driven out. While a detach-
ment of Turkish soldiers was accom-
panying the tax collectors on their
rounds they were informed by spies that
four suspicious characters had been seen
entering the house of an Armenian, who
was ON the list of suspects The soldiers
fred on the house and the fire was re-
turned so brskly that the Turks fled to
the nearest garrison for re-enforcements.
In the meantime the strangers had sue
ceeded in making their escape and when
the Turkish soldiers returned they found
everything quiet. Enraged, they attack
ed the village and ruthlessly murdered
all of the men.
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RUSSIAN losses Oh
the Yalu river are
reported to reach
a total of 1000
men.
The l. on d 0 II
Standard publishes
an article in which
the writer points
out the defenseless
condition of the
Amur river. Rus
STA never pro6ted
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
Rir Arnr for korea.

The japanese viii have en- army Of
10000 in Korea within three weeks,
including the 5000 already landed al
Chemulpo. The scene there daily is one
Of disorder and chaos. The harbor' 5
edge is piled with 100000 tons Of stores
paeks OF equipment. light guns and car
riages and bulIet-prOof shields, and there
are 5000 cavalry and pack horses there.
A perfect system obtains. Troops
daily entrain from Seoul, whence they
advance to the north in bodies OF few
hundred or march direct overland or pro-
cod in open boats ffty miles TO HaiJu-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
CRIME CHECKS GROWTH.
Chicago Seriously Affected by It's Bad
ReDutation,

Reputation.
Many of the business men of Chicago
are becoming alarmed because of the eff
feet which the city's reputation for crime
is having upon its growth. The increase
in population has been checked and,
while there is still a gradual enlargement
of the figures representing the popula-
ton, the people feel that it should be
larger and that what keeps it down are
the reports constantly sent out from
there, and for which there is ample basis,
that crime is rampant and the police do
not control it. The Citizens Alliance
has taken the matter in hand and will
try to remedy the evil.
"By virtue o. its geographical and
commercial location Chicago should be
growing more rapidly than it is" declar-
ed James W. Nye, the new president of
the alliance. "The wealthy men from
all the central States should naturally
gravitate to this city as to a center.
They should come here to live when
they have made their fortunes, and
should add to the revenues of the muni-
cipality. We should receive a great
summer pilgrimage from the Southern
cities. Our summer climate is unrivaled.
But the people from the warmer sections
of the land, scared away by the reports
circulated of Chicago, pass us by and
hasten to the Northern resorts.
mo city in the world has better and
cheaper fuel. Our transportation facili-
ties excel those of any other place on
the globe. Why, we ask, has Chicago S
growth slackened in the last few years
Labor and capital have been fight
ing almost constantly There has been
too much of strikes, lockouts, boycotts,
of intimidation, and street rioting. Man
ufacturers fear to come here lest they
become involved in the struggle, and
many already in the city talk of moving
away. The city ordinances are not en-
forced and the sky is overcast with
smoke and the streets go uncleaned.
Remedy these evils and Chicago will at
once take its place in the leadership Of
American cities"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
Gnne, VnIet in can.

Nat c. Goodwin, the actor, caused the
arrest of his English valet, A. Mitchell,
on the charge of stealing from him jew
elry valued at $1,000. Three weeks ago
a four-karat ruby ring, valued at S1,T00,
disappeared while Goodwin was playing
in New Orleans. Later Mitchell was
caught in the act of pawn.ng a watch
and a Dearl min
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Tanare.e woman Ia a Heroine.

A daring and clever feat has been per
formed by a japanese woman who escap-
ed from Dalny by means which are still
shrouded in secrecy, says 4 dispatch
from Tientsim 1t is said she secured
Official plans Of the harhors of Dalny
and Port Arthur, took them to Toxic.
getting away simply as an ordinary refu-
gee. A decoration for her heroism rs
the reported reward
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
FOUR DIE IN FLAMES.
Father and Three Children Lost in tiNs
Destruction of Home.

fatner ana iHree Children Lost IN tIN0
Destruction of Home.
Fernando Walters and his three ;hil-
dren. Claude, aged A; Gertie, II, and
Melvin. 10, were burned to death in the
destruction of their home, fourteen miles
north of Rogers, Ark, near Garfield.
A brother of Mr. Walters, aged 10 years.
was SO seriously burned thaksdeath is
expected hourly. The fire wasNA rted by
a spark from an open fireplace. The
father, mother and four children slept
downstairs. Upstairs were four boys
Walters got those downstairs out in safe
ty and then rushed back to warn the 9TH
er boys.