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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01

ing the Moulmein. They steamed away
however, and soon the fishermen were
Mortified to find they were being fired
upon.
First one and then another trawler
was struck by flying shot What seem
ed to be a round shot went through the
Moulmein's galley The Mino, lying
near by, also was struck with many
shots, but fortunately the damage was
above her water line and none of her
crew was struck.
Warships Sail Away.
The bombardment lasted about
twenty minutes. When it had ceased
the fleet sailed southwark, and some
of the trawlers sent up rockets. The
Moulmein steered in the direction of
the rockets. Soon cries were heard,
and the Crane was found sinking with
another trawler taking off some Of her
crew. Those seriously injured were
removed to a mission ship and the
bodies of Smith and Leggett were
placed aboard the Moulmein. The 9th
err men with minor injuries were put
aboard the trawler Sea Gull.
No Mistake Possible.
According to other reports the affair
occurred 200 miles off Spurn Head.
The Russian ships were steaming in
line. The leading ship passed without
incident, though most Of the vessels
turned searchlights on the trawlers
long enough to prevent any mistake
as to identity. After the bulk of the
squadron had passed it opened fire,
nearly all participating in the firing
The Crane was struck below the water
line and raked above deck. Skipper
Smith and Leggett had their heads
carried clean away by a shot, many Of
the crew being seriously wounded.
No motive can be assigned for the
extraordinary procedure of the Rus
sian war ships.
A. NJ Jackson & Co, solicitors for
the owners of fifty Hull fishing boats,
have notified the foreign Office and adj
miralty of the attack on the fishing
feet.
From interviews with members Of
trawler crews it appears that the adj
miral of the fishing feet burned green
flares to show that they were harmless
fishermen, but these signals were ig
nored.
British wrath has been aroused to
the bursting point and talk OF war
with Russia is on the tongues of
crowds that have thronged Downing
street since the news came. The Cars
Baltic feet has fired ON the British
flag. II has shed British blood. It's
victims were steam trawlers and their
crews. all defenseless and engaged IN
the peaceful occupation of fishing in
the North Sea.
A survivor Of the Crane who has
reached Hull is ]. A Smith, son Of the
dead skipper. Young Smith was asleep
in his bunk when the firing aroused
him. Just as he was getting up a shot
struck the starboard and penetrated to
the forecastle, smashing lamp near
which he was standing He rushed
on deck, wbs-e the searchlights re-
vealed the horrible sight OF his father
and Leggett, lying headless. and the
deck strewn with the injured. 1t was
soon found that the vessel was sink
ing
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
Dun's weekly review
of Chicago trade says:
The variable weather
GhisdQa

The variable weather
conditions We're somewhat of a him
dranee 10 retail lines. but notwith-
standing this there was little indica-
ton of reduced consumption in the ne
cessiles. The production of leading
manufacturers maintains a steady adj
vance and is better distributed wh,'e
prices exhibit a rising tendency in fur
mace product.
New orders are notable in ship-bulld.
ing and rolling stock in anticipation OF
transportation expansion by lake and
rail. These commitments involve large
expenditures and are Indicative of the
improved confidence felt throughout
business circles,
Developments in the line of new en-
terprise are found encouraging and
building requirements disclose no
diminution. Lumber receipts, 45,4S6,-
eco feet. are the heaviest this Season.
and compare with 39.134.O0o feet a
year ago. The recent drain on yard
stocks is followed by a prompt replen-
ishment and heavy factory needs are
being provided for Distribution of
other commodities has widened. and
railroad traffic returns exceed those OF
the corresponding week last year.
East-bound forwarding made a sharp
gain in foodstuffs, especially Of pack
ing-house product Wholesale dealings
make the best showing within the last
two yeas Buying is more character
lied by discount taking, and. while
merchants select cautiously. the dispo-
sition to limit their extent is less APP
parent than during last month. In
terror advices generally arc satisfac-
tory as to merchandising and crop con-
ditions, winter wheat having made an
excellent start,
The situation in metals attracts con-
siderable attention, and the remark
able reawakening to activity imparts
much strength throughout other indus
trial departments. Aside from rails,
contracts reached a heavy aggregate,
and while pig iron is in best demand
there was also liberal buying of struc-
tural material, plates and merchant
forms. Factory supplies have run into
much tonnage for early consumption
by car and machinery interests Hard
ware and farm machinery producers
report steady gain in output and
the furniture and Woodworking
branches are all busy,
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trlct number thirty-five, against TWEEN
ty-one last week and twenty-elght
year ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
FLAMES KILL HORSES.
CHICAGO LIVERY STABLE is DE.
STROYED BY FIRE.

Eight Animals Die as Result of Blaze,
and Ten Others Are Saved-Tramps
Put Off Train Three Times Return and
Are Slain.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
| New York.

New YOrk port for the week has
--- --I this TO say:
Good feeling, in some instances
closely approaching optimism, domin-
ates the general trade situation, bur
the undertone is withal one of conserv-
atism, and there is a general desire
to avoid overtrading Past reports Of
good wholesale trade are reflected in
an increased speeding of the wheels
of industry, but, except in portions of
the West and Southwest, where cool
weather has helped retail distribution,
and in the South, where good prices
for cotton induce free marketing OF
the crop, there is a disposition TO re-
gard the weather as too warm for best
results in final distribution. Railway
earnings turned the corner in August,
the roads of the country showing n
gain of fraction of ! per cent in net
over 1908. Collections have continued
to hold the Improvement noted last
week, being especially good at the
South.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending Oct. 20
number 227, against 1876 last week,
2I6 in the like week in 1908, 194 In
1902. 223 in 1901 and 1G1 in 1900. In
Canada failures for the week number
80, as against IS last week and % in
this week a year ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
LIFE Term EoR THUGS.
Chicago Resurrects an Old Law to Az
ply to ssHoId- UNI Men.

A~&Al~9ttsO n CcuIECCtS an Via Law TO AD~
ply to 'sHold-Up" Men.
Imprisonment for life is the new rem
edy for the .'hold-up" evil in Chicago.
Within a week no fewer than nine con-
yicted robbers have received life SEN
fences IN the Cook County Criminal
Court.
That the nefarious business Of the
hold-up man and the man guilty OF muir
derous assault with revolver or other
deadly weapon has received a severe
blow in the new Departure whereby
life sentences are inflicted, is freely pre-
dicted in police circles and among the
attaches of the States Attorneys office.
Lawyers also are of the opinion chat
the life sentence will have whole
some effect upon the footpad and cause
him to step and think before he ventures
to risk passing the remainder of his life
behind prison bars as the penalty for
assaults or robberies in which deadly
weapons are used as the means of hold
ing up the citizen whose money or other
valuables are sought or obtained with
the aid of armed force or violence.
1t is the recrudeseence or resuscita-
ton of an ancient and forgotten law,
that has brought this new weapon with
in reach of the courts for the punish
ment of hold-up men. UaIer the Ill
nois- statutes ordinary burglary is pun
ishable with Imprisonment for from FIVE
to twenty years, and ordinary robbery
with Imprisonment for from one TO four
teen years. But ii has always been the
real law, under the statute now resusci-
tated, that the robber or burglar who
commits an assault in connection with
his crime. or has deadly weapons on his
person at the time, could have been pun
ished with imprisonment for his natural
life. He was not So punished in recent
years and it is the revival Of this legal
proviso, which had been suffered to be-
come obsolete that the authorities and
citizens in general are at last finding
what appears to be an efficient remedy
for lettering the further development of
the local hold-pp N'industry," if, indeed,
it does not fectually solve this most
perplexing problem of the Chicago police
in these latter days.
When the constant menace to society
and the public safety that obviously re-
suits from the presence of an armed
horde of thugs is considered the extreme
penalty of life Imprisonment does not
seem too harsh. 1t will always be in
the power Of the board OF pardons to re-
lease men for whose reform there is
hope. The other conyicts those whose
deeds of blood and terror show that re-
lease would mean only a renewal of
crime, can be safely kept out of temp
tation under this new enforcement of an
old law, so long as life remains to them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01

Before they could be rescued from
burning livery barn at 355 West Taylor
street, Chicago, eight horses were smoth-
cred to death. The FIRE started at the
rear of the building, which is a one-story
frame ard brick structure, and caused
damage of $500. Henry Massey, the
owner of the livery stable, told the po-
lice that he had left the barn a short
time before the fire was discovered and
he could think of no reason for the fire
other than incendiary causes. The blaze,
which vas discovered by a citizen, was
burning fiercely, and before the iremen
arrived the entire rear of the building
was afame. Several persons living in
the vicinity rescued ten horses.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
MUTILATED BY sLAyER.
Rhode leland Man Killed and Almost
DisembowIed in Minnesota

y
AS the story of the death of the man
supposed to have been Thomas Fontaine
OF Woonsocket. r. l.. whose body was
found one mile from Mentor. MINI. be-
comes known. it indicates that a brutal
murder was committed Fonta;ne and
Joseph Guilmette. both of whom came
from Rhode Island. had been in the vi
cinlty of Mentor for several days. Last
/ riday they appeared at the Lapage
farm. and in a conversation with Fon-
tame discovered that he and Lapage
came from the same vicinity in the East
ana knew many of the same people. Fon-
tame owned farm in the East and
was fairly well-to-do He carried con-
siderable money. but the amount is not
knowa- Monday afternoon the two men
were seen passing along the railroad by
several members Of the Mareaux family.
fontaine later was found beside the
track. A bullet had entered the head be-
hind the ear. and the body had been
dragged face downward over the ties.
After being rolled down an embankment
and dragged into the brush along the
track the remains were almost disem-
boweled
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01

Kouropatl1in and Oyama more serious
than occasional skirmishes between
outposts, or a little desultory artillery
fighting. Both armies seem to be well
concentrated, and facing each other at
distance of only two or three miles,
except possibly on the japanese right,
which is the Russian left, where the
billy country necessitates division of
forces.
1t may be, the Chicago Record Her
aid says, that the heavy rain, flooding
the rivers, has been the main factor
which has occasioned the temporary
lull in the fighting. Again, the ex-
hauStion Of the men and the need of
bringing up fresh supplies of ammuni-
ton may have had more to do with it.
Neither army seems inclined to retire,
but which will first take the offensive
no one can say. The Siberian Railway
seems to be given over entirely to
troop trains Fastening re-enforcements
to Kouropatkin, but if his losses are
nearly as great as seems probable it
should take perhaps three weeks mere
ly to make them good with new
troops. However, a Mukden dispatch
says that had it not been for a new
downfall Of rain Thursday Kouropat-
kin would again have taken the ag-
gressive that night. Oyama, it will be
remembered, said in one Of his dis
patches toward the end of the hard
fighting that he had attained his first
object, leaving it to be inferred that
his plans included a second object al
ready definitely determined upon. That
may be an advance upon Mukden.
The weather in Manchuria will not
seriously interfere with fighting for at
least a month more. Then the rivers
will begin to fill with floating ice,
making them difficult to ford, especial
~ for transport services. The surface
of the ground will freeze about that
time and form a crust, which, over
soft mud beneath, will only make
teaming more difficult for the time.
BY Christmas the ground is usually
frozen to a depth that makes trenching
Impossible. Inc Iuel proDlem VIII De
very serious for both armies. as there
are said to be no forests on the hills
within the sphere of the present oper-
atoms, except in the neighbOrhood Of
the imperial tombs near Mukden
Port Arthur is steadily weakening.
The investing lines are constantly
growing tighter The garrison per-
sists in desperate sorties, which are
invariably repulsed with slaughter. 1t
is said that the defenders now number
less than 5000. That is below the dan
ger line Such a slender garrison could,
with difficulty, man the long perimeter
of the Russian defenses A few more
sorties, a few more bloody repulses.
and the place must fall Of its own
weight-because its defenders have
been killed off.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01

remaining 1900 fighting their way
back to the main body. This exploit
occurred on the evening of Oct, 16.
simultaneously the Russians made
their gallant attack on Lone Tree hill,
a PERCEPTIONS and tactically valuable
eminence on the Shakhe River. The
Japanese thereafter failed in several
efforts to retake Lone Tree hill. From
the evening Of the 10th to the end Of
the fight the current set against the
Japs; they gained no further positive
advantages, though on the night of
the nth they successfully repulsed a
general Russian assault on the whole
Japap5se line.
Tacically. therefore, the advantage
lies wish she japanese, though not
overwhelmingly They captured q
considerably larger number Of guns
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01

than they lost and at the end of the
fighting they occupied the battlefield
from which they pushed their enemy.
Why is it that the Japanese, neither
in the battle of the Shakhe River nor
in that of Liaoyang, did not achieve
a more complete victory? There was
a point in each of those fights when
the Russians Were in Il bad way, when
it looked as if the Japs could involve
them in disaster by one more lift Why
was the one more lift not forthcom-
ing?
Probably because the Japs did not
have one more lift left in them They
had thrown their reserves into the
battle line already. They had no
more fresh weight to throw into the
scale.
The Lu1I in the Fighting.
Since the fighting of last Sunday af-
ternoon and evening we have no news
of engagements between the armies of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
DEATH PREVENTS ESCAPE.
Prisoner in Dash for Liberty Is Killed
by Guard.

Fred c. Mathews, a general prisoner
at Fort Wayne. near Detroit, serving o
sentence for desertion, was shot and kill
ed by Private Frank j. Hilla while try
ing to escape. Guard Hilla was con-
Quoting Mathews to the wood pile for
his days work when he broke away and
ran toward the fence about the fort
grounds. Hilla ordered him to stop and
when he failed to do so shot him in the
back. Mathews lived but twenty min
utes. 1t is believed at the fort that
Mathews. who had been respondent for
number OF days, made the attempt to
escape, with the deliberate purpose OF
being shot by the guard The other day
he tried to hang himself, but was dis
covered in the attempt and prevented.
On the fatal morning he said to Ser
geant of the Guard Young before being
taken from the guardhouse: I'm going
to put myself out of the way. I'm going
to try to duck this morning and | hope
III get plunked."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
ATTEMPT a DAYLIGHT HoLD-UP.
Gotham r o5bers Attack Paymaster in
Cab .,.-d E,at..Il., NNnrr,d nriver-

Ootnam IL oODerS Attack PaymaSter IN
Cab AID Fatally Wound Driver.
Leaping out suddenly from a place OF
concealmelit with drawn revolvers, three
highwaymen attempted to hold up and
rob Lemuel Durham, paymaster of the
Consolidated Gas Company of New
York, of $1,000 The attack took place
on the shore road leading to Astoria.
The bandits opened fire at once, wound
ing Leroy Williams. the driver, so seri-
ously that he will die. James Phillips,
n special policeman, who accompanied
Durham, drove away the robbers. Phil
lips had two revolvers. and, throwing
open the door Of the cab, he leaped out.
The highwaymen fired several shots and
then fed. Phillips started in pursuit.
By the time the three men had reached
the edge of a wood Phillips had exhaust
ed his ammunition and gave up the pur-
suit.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
Timber SoId At Auction.

State Auditor Iverson of Minnesota
has sold at auction twenty-eight out OF
ia parcels of pine timber offered for
sale at the State capitol. The timber is
located in ST. Louis, Lake and Itasca
counties and the prices ranged from 81
to 50 per 1000 The Sheevlin Carpenter
Company of Minneapolis paid 50 per
ZOO for 100000 feet of pine. The
total sales were SoS9,6T1.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01

The first conviction under the new
Massachusetts, antitrust law was OBJ
tanned Monday in the Superior Court in
Plymouth. Abe Strauss, one of three
drummers for the tobacco trust who
offered dealers an extra discount of 6
per cent if they would handle only trust
goods. was found guilty and fined $50
He appealed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
Banker Gone with $4,000.

Allen Parker, cashier Of the First Ma
tional bank of Tulahoma. Tenn. is
missing and is alleged TO be short about
So. 900 in his accounts. He is also dep
uty revenue collector ut Tullahoma.
Bank Examiner r. ID. Garrett has taken
charge of the books of the bank. whose
officers will make good the shortage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
wnrNeuni in Brief.

Gen. Bilderlng lost nearly whole
brigade out of his corps
The Dowager Empress has broken
down on account of Red Cross work
The japanese have withdrawn troops
from Newchwang and sent them to LAO
yang.
The contraband question reached an
acute stage at St Petersburg, but has
eased up.
Gen. Kuropatkin had a narrow IS
cape from being killed with biz whole
staff by s Japanese attack on his head
quarters. He was obliged TO fee sud
de1ly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01

The Baltic feet was inspected by thu
Emperor at Reval. and viii sail in
few days for the Pacific.
Japs are reported 10 have crossed the
Hun river ready to attack the Russians
ii the rear, when they are driven
across Il.
The Russians are supposed 10 hava
lost from 20,0O0 10 10000 in the six
days fighting. Tb4re were $500 dead
In front OF on2 Japanese army
A mail pouch for the cruiser Cincin-
mad was seized by Russians from Cal
chas. and opened and Afterwards return
ed. The government win make & strong
protest
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
NO CHANCE FOR THE scuLLYs.
Cotton Growers Will No Longer Sell
to Market Manipulators.

Never in the history of cotton growing
in the South has market presented
such a perplexing problem as that of to-
day. Veteran spectators and the most
eminent crop experts candidly admit
that they have encountered a veritable
Chinese puzzle, and will not attempt to
predict the end new and decidedly
novel element has entered the market.
For the first time on record the control
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
Romb Turnover Loses Life.

A telegram from Bialystok, govern
ment of Grodno, Russian Poland, states
that a workman, aged 20 years. threw a
bomb into the office of the project of po-
lice and was himself the only man killed.
A terrible explosion followed, almost
wrecking the building.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
Attacks Republican Policies,

Grover Cleveland delivered his first
speech in the campaign before a large
meeting in Carnegie Hall, New York
vigorously attacking the platform and
policy of the Republicans on the tariff.
trusts. imperialism and the Panama
canal and urging support of the Demo
cratic national and State tickets
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
BURNS OUT wIFE,s TONGUE.
New York Man Confesses to Most Re-
voting Atrocities.

voting Atrocities.
Joseph @. Riley was arrested in Ell
mira. \. Y. charged with murderously
assaulting his wife at their home in that
city. The woman is in a hospital aud is
not expected to live In his cell Riley
talked freely Of the assault. He said
that he had had a dispute with his wife
over money matters. He first attacked
her with mis- fists, knocking her down.
Then he stripped off her clothes and
whipped her with the butt end of a
heavy whip into insensibility. The flesh
was horribly cut. He then thrust hot
iron into her mouth, burning away part
of the tongue. Riley also applied the
iron to her body and kicked the uncon-
sclous woman. He then left the house.
recovering consciousness, the woman
made her way to the home of a neigh
Dor, who cared for her until the next
day. Riley is held to await the result of
his wife's injuries. The couple have been
married ten years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
Imprisoned on Steamsh,p.

Twenty persons are virtually being
held prisoners ON the Allan line steamer
Ionial. in Montreal at the request of
United States immigration officials. They
have United States naturalization papers
and some thousands of dollars. 1t is un-
derstood that there is some irregularity
IN their naturalization papers and the
matter has been referred to Washington.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
s,,e,eto, 90 nIastodon Found.

Workmen tearing down a bluff on the
Missouri river front in Kansas City
found the skull of a mastodon with
seven-foOt tusks. Work was discontin-
ued to be resumed carefully with a view
to saving the whole remains. Other
mammoth bones We're once found near
the same place.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
NAB OMAHA BOY BANDITS.
Police Arrest Young PIotters Red
Handed at Rendezvous.

Handed at Rendezvous.
En- route to the Omaha street car barn
which they intended to destroy with
dynamite after robbing the cash vaults
and shooting any employees who inter
fered with their operations, FIVE youthful
bandits, the Oldest 81 years of age, were
arrested by the Omaha police The
plans of the quintet had been tipped off
and as each boy arrived at the rendez-
vous he was taken in charge by officers
in waiting. The boys were armed with
magazine guns and dynamite. They were
led to the deed by reading of the car
barn bandits in Chicago. -Four of the
FIVE have confessed and admit having
taken part in eleven robberies of saloons,
stores and pedestrians. They are all
sons of respectable working people.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
Chaplain Drummed from Navy.

Chaplain Joseph f. McGrail is report
ed to have been dismissed from the navy
on a charge of scandalous conduct, the
edict being issued by a court martial on
the Asiatic station. Chaplain McGrail
sought to resign, but Admiral Folger in
sisted on the trial.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
Minneapolis Murder and Suicide.

Charles Brown, 30 years of age, IS
dead at the county morgue in Minneapo-
lis, and Mrs. Pauline Weislle, aged SO
years, is in the city hospital, probably
fatally wounded. She was shot by
Brown because she refused to marry
him. Brown then shot himself dying al
most Immediately.