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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20

concerning an alleged Inheritance
placed in Mr.. Canegie's keeping, the
estate of supposed uncle of Mrs.
Chadwick, named Frederick r. Mason.
In another packet there also is
promissory note for 1880, signed by
Emily and Daniel Pine, and a mort
gage securing the same. This Carne-
gle paper with the $1,250O00 in notes
bearing the iron masters name previ-
ously accounted for bring the total of
this class of securities" to 16,496,OOO.
With the denouement concerning the
securities there comes the story of
ruin wrought by Mrs. Chadwick S oper-
atoms and the consequent failure of
the Citizens National Bank of Ober-
lin. Iri Reynolds, it is declared, is
sufferer financially as well as other
wise through being the prize dupe of
the case. The faithful guardian of the
securities on which the Chadwick
financial system was based for three
years or so. it is stated, let Mrs. Chad
wick have nearly all the money he
possessed, but his entanglements are
personal and do not involve the Wade
Park Banking Company, of which he
is secretary and treasurer.
1t is among those of meager cir
cumstances, however, that the greatest
real suffering falls. From 0berlin it
is reported that the student body of
the college located there has been hard
hit. At least fifty students had their
savings on deposit in the Citizens Ma
tional Bank. and these have been
wiped out. Many of these students,
some of whom are in their senior year,
will be obliged TO leave their college
course uncompleted as a result of los
ing all. Several student boarding
house keepers also have been bank
rupted by the failure.
Coincident with the examination of
the package of securities the Federal
auth rites got busy with the organi-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20
TROUBLEON WARSHIP
SEAMAN WOUNDED BY ENRAGED
NEGRO.
CoIored Man Makes Desperate Effort
to Escape, but Is Captured and Taken
Back to VesseI-A Minnesota Stage
Coach Attacked by Wolves.

A double fatality ON board the battle
ship Illinois in The New York navy
yard was narrowly ayerted when George
Washington, a negro seaman, shot and
wounded two others of the ships crew.
Henry More, an apprentice, received a
bullet in the arm and Sea nan Shap got
another in the back. Shap is seriously
wounded. More and the colored man
occupied adjoining hammocks md Wash
ington was said to be jc0fensive till
More's tantalizing got me better of his
temper and he drew a revolver and shot
More in the arm. Ship interfered and
was shot in the back. Pursued by
crowd of sailors and with his revolver in
his hand, Washington fed to the deck
down the gang plank to the Cob dock and
tried to enter the ferry to reach the main
land. On the way it is said that Wash
ingtOn fired several shots at his pursuers.
but they never halted. \ corporal stop
ped him at the ferry, whereupon Wash
ington jumped into the icy water and
tried to swim ashore. Two sailors
promptly followed and struggle ensued
between the swimmers. The negro final
ly yielded to force of numbers and was
made prisoner.
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interesting News Items.

Quentin Roosevelt spelled down" the
entire school in the institution where he
is laying the foundation Of his educa-
ton.
President Rooseyelt's secretary has is
sued a denial Of the story published in
tbe Boston Herald that his children tor
tured q turkey sent to the White House
for the Thanksgiving dinner.
Because Of love affair, Hugh s. Web
ster. aged %, craftsman in the employ
of Camden. ~ j., company, has com
nitted suicide in Newport News. Va.
Holm Winters, Harry Wolburn and
Henry Clay were dropped 200 feet and
killed by the breaking Of a cable in the
Loon River mines near Toloquon, W. Va.
The Secretary Of the Interior has set
aside for irrigation purposes the North
Platte project. Wyoming, 1850 acres;
tbe Colorado river project, 13,440 acres
in California and $4,000 acres in Nevada,
and the Milk river project Montana,
4G.0s0 acres.
Engineer Benjamin Cunningham was
killed and three other persons injured
n a freight wreck on the Cincinnati.
New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad
~ High Bridge, near Lexington, Ky.
THE spauish bark Tafalla, with pumps
broken and crew Of fifteen exhausted,
went down with all hands aboard within
short distance Of the British steamer
Arcs Castle, 200 miles east Of the Ber-
mudas.
A daughter was born TO Mrs. H. Car
roll Brown Of Brookiandyille. Baltimore
comfy. Nd. Mrs Brown is the daugh-
fer 81 the late Marcus DAILY and sister
;n-law of Mrs. Stanley Field and Mrs
Honore Palmer Of Chicago
John II. Hunton. Jr.. former depEty
sberiF. was arrested ia ROserille OHIO.
CHARGED with setting fouF hres in two
days.
ysia University has obtained for its
f1-Sss school all the forestry exhibits at
80 Ct Louis exposition Of Cuba and
aovti and also large and important parts
80 lie exhibits Of the Philippines and
Japan
A romance which began with a photo
vranh ended in a divorce bin at Tama-
era pa. 80 which May NJ. Beddail. for
nerIy Mrs. Mary ". Gardner Of Chicago
.aked for a legal separation from her
husband, s. A. Beddail, a wealthy coal
operator.
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to 5000: hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $4.62 sheep. fair to choice, $500
to S47J: wheat, No. .. Sill to $l.13;
corn, No. ., 47c to ASc; oats, standard
2Sc to zoe; rye, No. 2. 73c to zoe; hay,
timothy. $3.50 to $3.50 prairie, $500 to
$1,000 butter, choice creamery, 23c to
2Gc; eggs. fresh, 1Sc to 26c potatoes
CSC TO 37c.
Indianapolis-C Cattle, shipping, $500 to
5000; hogs, choice light $4.O0 to S4.35;
sheep, common to primo, $3.50 TO $500;
wheat, No. ,, $1.13 to $1.15 corn, No. 2
white, new, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2
white, Doe to sc.
ST. Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to $3.50; hogs
$500 to S4.65: sheep, $500 to Sl75.
wheat, No. 2, S1.07 TO 1.0S; corn. No. 2,
42c to 43c; oats, No. >, 29c to soc; rye,
No. =, zoe to lie
incinnati-Cattle. 800 to $3.50:
hogs, $500 to S4.50 sheep, 500 TO
$3.50 wheat, No. .. S1.17 to Sis;
corn. No. . mixed. 47c to 4Sc oats. No
2 mixed, &c TO 34c: rye, No. >, Sic TO
e2c.
Detroit-Cattle. $3.50 TO $3.50; hogs
800 to $500: sheep $3.50 to $3.25;
wheat, No. ?, $11G to S1.1S; corn, No. 3
yellow, 46c to Ale; oats. No. 3 white,
32c to 33c; rye. No. ., SIC 10 S3c.
Milwaukee--Wheat No. ? northern.
S1.04 to S1.09; corn. No. 3, 42c 70 43c;
oats, No. white, Doe TO Bic; rye, No. j.
SOC to Sic; barley, No. 2. sic to 52c;
pork, mess, S12.G0.
Wheat, No. mixed, Sl14 TO
S1.1G; corn. No mixed, 47c to 49e.
oats. No. . mixed. 30c 70 &c; rye, No. =,
SIC to SAC; clover seed, prime, S777.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$500 70 $3.50: hogs. fair to choice. 500
to $50: sheep. fair to choice. 500 70
$3.50: lambs, fair TO choice. S4J0 to
$40.
New York-Cattle. $3.50 to $40:
hogs. 800 to $500; sheep, $500 70
$500; wheat. No. red. $1.15 20 SI.1G:
corn. No. 2, sic 20 SIC; oats. natural.
white. 3Gc to SIC; butter, creamery, &c
TO &c; eggs, western. &c TO 32c
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20

There should be rich picking in Port
Arthur harbor for the old junk man.
aHuckleberrl Finn" aud ''rom Saw
yer" have BEN barred from the public
library Of Dds Moines.
Republican agents who have cauvassed
the lodging DO Use district Of Denver de-
clare that they have found 300 fraudH-
lent votes cast at the last election.
Ed Huey. colored. was hanged AT
Edgewater. Aik.. Tor the murder Of lar
shall Lawrence Johnson. committed last
May at Fclsenthal while Marshal JOHN
son was trying 70 arrest tie negro.
Rev. II. u. Folk Of Nashville, Tenn,
brother Of Joseph w Folk. Governor
elect 81 Missouri. has accs pied a call TO
the Baptist church Of Midway, KY
The yarn mill of Andrew Flanagan at
Manayunk. a suburb Of Philadelphia.
was partially destroyed By fire. Eighty
girls became panic stricken, but neae
was injured. The loss IS placed at 800
90, insured.
The body Of Thomas McGraw, super
intenaent Df the Dallas. Texas. water
works, was found under trestle Of the
Texas and Pacific railway across Trinity
river. The body was badly bruised and
one leg and arm .sere broken- He Is
supposed to have fallen from the trestle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20
KIDNAp YOUNG sTEPFATHER.
Seeks Refuge at Mothers Home, but
Is Forced to Return to Wife.

Seeks Refuge at Mothers Home, but
Is Forced to Return to Wife.
Mrs. Anna Jackson of Corryville, Ohio.
was a widow sixty years old with two
grown sons when she met Charles Es-
chenbrenner, 81 years old, few months
ago. They were soon married. The 9TH
er night Charles says his wife would pre-
pare him no supper nor would she give
him any breakfast the next morning, and
he went to the home of his mother. Mrs
Eschenbrenner told her sons that their
stepfather, who is younger than eithes
of them, had deserted her. The sons
went to the home Of Charles mother
and deman6 ed the youthful husband. The
storp4ing past5y found locked doors and
4 SHOTGUN sticking out the window. They
broke in the door, grabbed the gun, which
was empty, and carried the husband to
the home of his wife and then locked
him in. Charles mother reported the
kidnapping to the police and they went
to the Estchenbrenner house, only to find
1t barricaded. and as they had no war
rant Charles had TO be left to his fate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20

stores of the city began to consider
her their best customer, for she bought
in large amounts and always paid
cash On a Christmas eve she invited
her husband to go to the theater. Be
fore leaving the house she had talk
over the telephone with furnishing
house When DR. Chadwick returned
had been completely transformed in
equipment as though some fairy god
mother had waved her magic wand
over it. Not a piece of furniture, not
hanging, rug. picture, ornament, not
a single thing that had formerly been
there remained. Everything was new.
''This is your Christmas present" she
said to the doctor.
Some time ago she took twelve
young ladies out of Cleveland society
on a trip abroad When they returned
she had a miniature on porcelain Of
each one. These she had framed in
1S-carat gold and presented to the
young ladies as souvenirs. One of her
favorite pastimes was to walk into a
store and ask to be shown diamond
rings. She would buy half the con-
tents of a tray-enough 10 pay the
rent of a castle. Once she sent To-
ronto jeweler abroad to buy a certain
gem for her and be travelled 1900
niles to get it, she paying his expenses
and $1,000 for the gem. She bought
ffty-six rings of one firm. One day
she purchased eight pianos and had
them sent to friends. she gave her
cook a sealskin coat which reached to
the ground.
The tabled caves to which Aladdin's
lamp guided him were little richer
than this woman's surroundings at her
home in Cleveland. Bedrooms, hall.
ways. paYlors-all were covered with
articles of great value. Every inch Of
wall space was covered with costly
paintings, each one in a frame of gold
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20
Tntbe National Capital.


Two bills were introduced in the House
for appointment of a commission to re-
wise the tariff.
House renewed annual attack on civil
service commission, and redaced salaries
Of committee stenographers.
Senator Cullom praises the stand taken
nv the President on railroad rate evils,
but says present laws are sufficient 80
meet the case if enforced.
Senator Platt introduced a bin to re-
dnee by nineteen members the repre-
senrafion in Congress Of Southern States
that have disfranchised negroes.
4 law strengthening the power Of the
federal court. permitting it 10 arrest de-
PENDANTS wherever found in United
states territory. is asked Of Congress by
Attorney General Moody.
Attempt Of railroads TO force uniform
bill Of lading upon shippers is viewed
with concern BY railroad men in Con-
eress. il Is feared Congress viii be com
PEELED TO give interstate commence com
mission more power.
Secretary Of the Treasury Shaw. in his
animal report. points out that non-elas-
t;c;tv in the monetary system is a v'eak-
mss. and advocates remedial legislation
To also urses a law TO place the big trust
COMPANIES under federal supervision
Special efforts are being made 10 get
IN the river and harbor bin a prTision
for the beginning Of work on a water
wa1 from Lake Michigan to the AIissis-
sippi.
Comptroller Of the Currency Ridgely.
N his ann,.aI report. tells Of tire splendid
financial condition Of the country. and
declares that tie people IF the United
states are the richest in the world.
Walter Wellman says President Roose-
velt and Wall street have locked horns
over the executives rate regulation plan.
and the effect is seen In the slump IN
prices Of stocks. Signs Of opposition b.
the railroads TO the legislation asked b.
the President are Increasing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20
LEADS DOUBLE LIFE.
superintendent of Printing Concern
Turns Highwaymau at Night.

superintendent of Printing Concern
Turns Highwayman at Night.
To furnish a pretty fat for his young
wife and enable her to travel abroad with
him, Edward B. Clark of Chicago says
ne supplemented his earnings as respec-
table workingman in the daytime by high
way robbery at night. With Herbert
boyer he is locked up at a police sta
tlon, charged with four daring robberies.
Clark by day has been foreman in the
printing department of the Dennison Tag
company. Boyer has been employed at
Rand, McNally & Co.'s. Both confessed
TO inspector LAWN that they had com
united the following robberies in the last
lew months: Hotel Cecil. So; FRANK
Leoni, $50; saloon 1910 Cottage Grove
avenue, $50; saloon Thirty-ninth street
and Indiana avenue. Clark says the pro-
ceeds went to buy pretty things Tor ms
home. Among the appointments OF ms
apartments is grand piano for whlch
ms hIghwayman's pistol enabled him 70
pay. He has confessed that four years
ago, while travelling to japan, he killed
a sailor and threw his body overboard
Clark is 30 years of age, good looking,
and well dressed. None was more sur
prised when the news of his arrest as a
robber became known than the men with
whom he worked daily in the printing
shoD
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20
WHAT PLEASED FOREIGNERS.
The Splendid Display of Butter at the
St. Louis Fair.

St. Louis Fair.
The crowning triumph of the farm
exhibits in Agricultural Hall, ST. Louis,
from the viewpoint of foreigners, was the
skill shown in butter in the large glass
case which contained the trophies. These
consisted Of scenes, figures and busts
made entirely of butter. Among the
noticeable ones was Missouri's repre-
sentation, a heroic, sitting figure of
woman, and on either side were cows
heads, upon which rested the woman's
hands: an equestrian statue of President
Roosevelt in Rough Rider costume and
also his bust; a good-looking milk maid
smiling and standing beside a COW with
n pail of milk in her hand; another maid
in the act of milking a COW and sending
a stream into the mouth of Il cat stand-
ing beside her-these figures were life
size. Father Hennepin in tie act of
discovering st. Anthony's Falls Mimi,
required 1000 pounds of butter to delin-
cate Beside the discoverer there was
an Indian and a French soldier in the
canoe which was gliding in the river to-
wards the falls. Two of the figures were
erect, and all life-size. The busts of
Lincoln, Garfield and Grant were fine.
Liberty Bell and its crack was there in
size and fidelity. The dairy school house
of Ames, Iowa, stood for the construc-
ton skill in churned milk. CALIFORNIA;
contribution was her coat of arms with
heroic female figure and two wolf dogs.
Shaded grapes gave variety to the color
ing of wine color hue. This was con-
sdered the most beautiful in the collec-
ton. a huge horn Of plenty with the
corn coming out in generous quantity
completed this fascinating exhibit. All
told some 10000 pounds of butter were
used in these representations.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20
TeIegraphic Breviti..s.

Announcement has beer made officially
that a freshman has been expelled from
Princeton university for violating the
'shonor system"
George Rosenberg, cashier of the Pa
cific Coast Steamship Company's Office
at Skaguay, Alaska, was robbed of a
sum of money estimated 1T $500 when
alone in the Office
NachiniSt Samuel Massey and Master
Mechanic Briggs were injured in IRE
which destroyed the St Louis and San
Francisco Railroad shops at Scuth Mem
phis. Tenn. Loss $4,000
Hungarian societies throughout the
United States have arranged 10 give en-
refreshments Feb 81 for the purpose Of
raising the money necessary TO erect 4
monument 10 George Washington in
Budapest.
DIR. Louis Duncan. who recently retir-
Cd from the chair Of electrical engineer
ing at the Massachusetts, Institute Of
Technology, has been retained by tia
Allis-C Chalmers Company as an expert in
electrical patent work
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20
Boston TroIIeys Under the Sea.

Boston's underwater trolley route the
tunnel to East Boston, the island wards
in the inner harbOr which have a popu-
lation of 10000, is a municipal project,
built under the direction Of city com
mission, which built the fremont street
subway, and which is row building an
other long subway in Washington street,
the main business street of the city.
The subway is Z AGO feet long, n feet
wide and % feet from floor to roof. 1t
runs 200 feet under the waters Of the
harbor. and the remainder is under the
streets Mt the terminals. It's lowest point.
in the center Of the harbor, is 30 feet
below mean high water Ii has taken
four years to build it and the cost is
well inside the first estimate and the APP
preparation. S3.000,000 The tunnel is
said to be the finest in the world.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20

SdNSs
Retail operations at this time of the
year usually are a fair index of the
buying power of the people. The test
thus far presents satisfactory response,
consumption being heavy in the princi-
pal branches and suggesting a strong
probability of decreasing activity dur
ing the coming weeks. Christmas
wares never before were so varied and
well displayed throughout the shop
ping district. and, under the stimulus
of ideal weather and liberal buying, it
is not surprising that sales have made
rapid progress and already compare
favorably with those of year ago.
With these encouraging factors in
evidence. the outlook has become much
improved, resulting in the placing of
many orders for reasscftments for
both city and eourTy stores Jobbers'
reports exhibit augmented purchases
of heavy dry goods, clothing. woolens
and cottons for prompt delivery. Large
shipments have been made of gro
ceries, canned goods and other table
needs to western points, and the cur
rent demand is better for art goods,
silverware, jewelry and novelties.
Wholesale departments are doing a
good house trade in the staples. Tex
tiles lately have been in wider request.
and with cheaper raw material the
cotton goods market is healthier NIer-
camille collections remain prompt and
discounting of bills is more common.
Railroad earnings again disclose
gain and reflect an expanding move
ment of general merchandise. factory
and farm products Important indus
tries find the new demands advancing
and gradual Improvement in the bust
ness outlook. Improvement is noted
in the demand for heavy machinery,
electric equipment cars and rails. all
providing considerable future employ
ment.
Breadstuffs We're in slightly larger
demand, but there were heavy offer
ings and values declined in wheat,
corn and oats. Shipments of grain ag-
gregated 3,210,3O4 bushels. an increase
of 40,S per cent over those OF CORE
spending week last year. Receipts
also swelled, new corn coming forward
heavily. Receipts of live stock, 115,917
head, provided ample selections and
values closed lower, hogs being weak
est.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered p, against % last week
and AZ a year ago,
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GREAT LOSS BY FIRE.
MINNEAPOLIS DEVASTATED BY
FIERCE FLAMES.
Pert on B1siness Section Is Destroyed
Property Worth 100000 Goes Up
in Smoke and Three Men Are Killed
Big Stores Ruined.

Three kdled and property valued at
100000 destroyed is the result of a
| disastrous fire which for nearly six hours
threatened the destruction of the entire
business portion of Minneapolis Tuesday
night and early Wednesday morning. The
entire FIRE department of the city, assist
ed hyrelief companies from St. Paul, bat
tied heroically with the raging flames,
which We're famed 10y a brisk northwest
wind, until 4 o'clock before the Gre was
placed under control
The firemen permitted the fire to burn
itself out il enc or two of the buildings
almost destroyed and directed most of
their work entirely in an effort 20 save
the buildings in close proximity.
The fire started in the Photographic
supply house of o. Ii. Peck & Co., on
9th street and 1st avenue south. and in
less than one-half hour this building was
mass of wreckage Next to the Peck
building is the furniture supply house of
Boutelle Brothers, the largest house of
its kind in the Northwest
Sparks Cause other Fires.
This building soon caught fire and
burned, the sparks from it, waited
blocks by the cold north wind, causi 8
several small fires throughout the city.
Firemen of Minneapolis and ST. Paul
paid no attention To the burning build
ings but gave all their efforts toward saw
ing property within the block by throw
ing water on the adjoining property.
Boutell Brothers and Peek 5 stores are
total wrecks. and though the Powers
Mercantile store was saved from the
flames it was damaged to the extent of n
million or more by water.
Every electric light in the city was
burned out and the dense smoke greatly
hampered the firemen iii their work One
man was killed by the burning of live
wire which dropped in the street. 1t is
reported that many others have been in
jured by wires
In the front of the burning Boutel
Brothers building there stood a street
car totally demolished by fallen electric
line pole, from which several live wires
were burned.
Without doubt the confiagration was
the most disastrous that has ever visited
the city, through the loss of life and
property, striking the richest and biggest
firms of the city
With the fremen working ON Boutell
Brothers building, the walls fell with
crash. Two firemen were seen in the
glare that lighted the whole city to be
buried beneath the avalanche of brick
and mortar.
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The next annual reunion of Confed-
crate veterans. set for Louisville by the
last encampment, viii be held in Nash
vile on June ), and :.
DR.. J. Macintosh Bell, instructor in the
mining department of Harvard Univer-
sity. has received the appointment of
official geologist for the government Of
New Zealand, 10 succeed Sir James Hec-
tor.
Secretary Morton has received the re-
ports Of the naval board Of inspection
and survey in regard 10 the Official trials
of the arm0red cruisers Colorado and
West Virginia showing that they main
tanned q higher average than the requir-
ed speed Of twenty-tws, knots an ho-r
and net all other requs ements.
The Fifth Battery Il the United
States field artillery. now stationed at
the Preside IN San Francisco. the TWEEN
ty-sixth Battery from Vancouver bar
racks. Wash. and the Twenty eighth
from Leavenworth, Kan. have been or
derea TO sail from San Francisco on jan
on the transport Thomas for the Phil
ipDinez.