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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
Forty Years Ago.

Gen. u. S. Grant was brought out
by the New York Herald as Democratic
candidate for President against lincoln,
and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon
Z. Chase was proposed by Horace Gree
ley in the New York Tribune, also in
opposition to Lincoln.
Gen. Benjamin f. Butler urged Presi-
dent Lincoln to issue a call for 100000
volunteers to march on Richmond, Va,
and liberate the thousands Of Union pris-
oners there.
Andrew Jackson Donelson adopted son
of former President Andrew Jackson,
was arraigned at Richmond, Va, for
saying that Jefferson Davis could not be
trusted farther than blind mule could
kick"
Seven million dollars In Confederate
treasury notes, with the plates on which
they were printed. were seized by fed
eral officials at New York.
The Illinois State Teachers Associa-
ton. in session at Springfield, took the
oath of allegiance to the United States
on request of Gov. Yates, Sr., who de-
clared that it would encourage the sol
diers in the field.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
Fifty Years Ago.

Congress approved the "Gadsden pur-
chase" which included 1885 square
miles of Mexican territory in the South
west, costing $10,000,000.
Proposals were asked for the construc-
ton of a railroad across the isthmus of
Panama.
Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illi-
nois reported in the United States Senate
bin for the organization of Nebraska
territory, with amendments questioning
the validity of the famous Missouri COM
promise.
George Washington's heirs demanded
100000 from Congress Cor what was
left of his Mount Vernon estate, although
it was said to be worth only $4,000.
The new railroad between Chicago and
Rock Island was reported built to with
in twenty miles Of the latter city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
CHAPTER XVI.


A mans virtues and offenses are al
ways in accord with each other. This
dogma is neither so profound nor so
shallow by a good half as it may seem
at first sight to different minds. The
mean mans virtues are mean, the brave
mans vices have at least the credit of
being courageous. ~
This being admitted as it must be, 1t
becomes meter Of profound surprise
to detect Ned Blame in the act of for
gerry. Yet, when he had sat in his own
bedroom for some half hour he arose and
shook himself. and set about that task
with an air Of resolution. He took pen.
ink and paper, and having set a page of
his own handwriting before him, he be-
gan to write in a legal-looking hand,
pausing every now and then to make
sure of the form he commonly employed
for a given letter. and then painstak-
ingly avoiding a likeness to it. The let
ter, when completed ran thus:
"Keston Square. Brocton.
"Madam-I am instructed by Mr.. Viii
liam Hackett to forward to you the en-
closed. Your obedient servant,
"JNO. HARGREAVES."
He addressed an envelope. and then,
having unlocked a drawer in his dress
ing table, took from it a twenty-dollar
bill and folded it up and sealed it with
the letter.
81 have business in Brocton, mother,
he said as he entered the kitchen with
the forgery in his pocket Il shall be
back before dark if l can catch the bus,
but if l don't manage that, you're not
TO sit up for me-"
Hepzibah looked at him with timid
inquiry. and as he left the room arose
and followed him, laying a hand upon
his arm.
ITO ne continued
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
One Hundred Years 400.

The Legislature of South Carolina
passed bill allowing the free importa-
ton of negroes.
The national debt of the United States
was reported at $S6,427. 120.
Irish convicts who had been deported
to New South Wales started an insur
rection which was suppressed by British
troops.
Gen. Jean ]. Dessalines, successor OF
Toussaint rOyerture. was declared gov
ernor for life of the new republic OF
Hayti.
Resolutions were introduced in Con-
gress imposing tax of $40 on every
slave imported into the United States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
UNCLE SAM AS A BUILDER.

Construction Work Planned or Under
Way Which Will Cost $53,OO0,OO0.
The government is just now carrying
on the greatest building boom in its his
tory, says a Washington correspondent.
At time when private investors were
retrenching and curtailing their building
operations because the cost of materials
has gone up fully 80 per cent. Uncle
Sam is pushing forward the biggest pro-
gram in the way of new construction
which he has ever undertaken.
Public buildings which will aggregate
in cost not less than $53.c00,000 are now
being planned or are under construction.
Nor does this tremendous aggregate in
clpde many costly buildings in the ma
tional capital. which would, of course,
run up the total without necessarily in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
twenty Years Ago.

The British cabinet decided 20 continue
It's government in Egypt until certain
reforms had been effected" i spite Of
Gladstone's opposition.
Henry Georg, was welcomed to Lon
don by immense crowds, to whom he de-
clared that the world was on the eve Of
q single tax revolution.
Benjamin y. Butler's career as pub
lie official, which had begun during the
presidency Of Martin Van Buren,. finally
ended with the expiration of his term as
Governor Of Massachusetts,.
Gen Chinese" Gordon, then en- route
to succeed Henry NJ. Stanley as agent
Of the Congo country, was offered com
mand OF the Egyptian forces in the Sou
dan. where he met death year later.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
Seventy-fNe Years Ago.

One of the first transatlantic steam
ship lines began operation between Ire
land and Halifax, \. S.
Hundreds of protests were fled in
Washington against the dispatch or de-
livery of mails on Sunday.
Congress considered plans for terri
torial government in the extreme north
west territory.
Over 200 slave owners notified the
American Colonization Society they
would free their blacks if the latter
would emigrate TO Liberia.
President John Quincy Adams declar-
ed that troops would have to be stationed
on the Niagara frontier to prevent SNUG
Cling under the new high tariff law.
The total consumption of sugar in the
United States was reported at 100000
600 pounds yearly, with 100000 gal
Ions of molasses.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
CHAPTER xIv.-(Continued.)

OAAAI l. I'm AIN.--tCOntlnue0.)
"A pretty market you've brought your
pigs to, miss" said he.
OF the two he had been rather more
eager for the marriage than she had.
1t had been half to please him, and be-
cause his consent seemed partly to sane
tify the effort, that she had imposed
upon herself the task of drawing the
prodigal from his evil ways.
You speak," she said, las il l had
been to blame"
Il reckon" he said. with some asper-
ity. las when a CELLS husband runs away
from her after no more than three
months as there's pretty likely to be
some sort of reason for it,"
Mary's reply to this was disingenuous,
or at least she felt it to be so.
You have no right to say he has run
away. lie has left home on business.
There is his letter.
HIM." said Howarth, after having
deliberately read the letter through and
handed it to his wife. Thinks he's GO
ing to be prosperous, does he? Well, |
hope he may But it looks very mach
as if I'd got a burden back again as
thought I'd got rid on"
This was intended to mean no more
than that his daughter should come home
with a due and proper sense of her own
poor deservings and of the parental
magnanimity. In point of fact, it was
Howarth's way of approach to a friend
ly understanding. but there are methods
of approach which have the look of re-
treat. and this was one of them"
you need not fear, father" answered
Mary, that shall be a burden to you"
nor" said Howarth satirically. well.
that's a blessin', anyway"
Its never been my way to be one o
them complainin' creatures as nd made
you believe as all the worries i the
world was On their backs and none of
'em on my shoulders" said Mrs. How
arth. But if I've held my tongue it's
niver been for want o. troubles to talk
about, if I'd been one O. them as does
the talkin' easier than the sufferin'. I've
had enough to put up with this last five
and-twenty year, and If I'd been one of
the complainin' sort I've had plenty to
complain about. But that was niver my
fashion, and I'm not a-going to alter my
ways at my time O life. But this | will
say"
And the hearers bowed themselves be-
low the vocal storm.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
thirty Years AGO.

Agitation was begun in Chicago,
Pittsburg and elsewhere which led to the
great railroad strikes Of 1873.
President CASTELAR, of the Them Span
ish republic was outyoted by the Cortes,
or Parliament, and Gen. Payia, his
friend, occupied the Madrid government
building with 1900 troops, to prevent
an instruction.
President U. S. Grant created excite
ment by going to the capitol at Wash
ington, sending for members of the SEN
ate individually, and urging them to sup
port the nomination OF Attorney General
Williams for chief justice of the United
States Supreme Court, which nearly all
OF them refused to do.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
NJ Accountinu for TASTES

The pretty girl left her seat ane
went over to the other side OF the car
to set away from passenger who
smesled strongly of tobacco.
Il don't see how man can bear to
put a nasty old pipe in his mouth
she muttered-
But she muttered it rather indis-
tinctly.
She was holding between her rosy
lipS the battered old scent coin with
which she was about to pay her car
fare.-Chicago Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
&EZZS
or
SpS9SR

Frank Robson. OF the st. Louis Ma
tionals, is said to have offered Joe Cor
bett 5000 for next season.
The American League was igst as en-
phatic in condemnation of tbs, foul strike
as the National League was ecstatic
in favor of it.
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien was re-
Gently examined by Chicago physician.
who told O'Brien that he could not live
two years il he continued to battle so
often.
Sammy Smith. Of Philadelphia. is look
ing for a match with Benny Yanger.
Smith is one of the new stars of the
featherweight division, his recent work
in the ring being of a high order.
Roger Bresnahan. formerly of Balti-
more, the best all round utility man the
New York baseball club ever had, is en-
ployed for Toledo detective agency to
drive shoplifters out of business.
The increase of President Ban John
Gus protest was in some respects the
most significant feature Of the recent ses-
sion of the American League magnates
IN 0HiCASu
Joe Cans has declared off all his
matches for the near future because of
an attack Of pneumonia The colored
champion has been ailing since his bout
with Sam Langford at Boston, which the
latter won.
1t is expected that Bergen, Poole and
Beckley. OF Cincinnati, win so to St
Louis, Burke and Barclay TO Detroit,
Barnett TO Cincinnati and Seymour TO
the New York Nationals for 5000 in
one big deal
There are indications that wrestling
viii be prominent as a college sport this
season. Harvard. Yale, Princeton, Penn
syivania and Columbia have all formed
clubs and are considering holding 2 tour
nament. Arrangements nave already
been completed whereby the wrestlers
of Harvard and Yale viii hold COMPETE
ton either at Cambridge or at New Ha-
ven
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
Oshkosh ManIs Missing.

Because of the disappearance of for
mer agent Major z. McGinty. the office
of the Coe Commission Company in Osh-
kosh has been discontinued and officials
are hunting for McTinty Investigation
reveals that three women claim to be
the wife of the missing man. One lived
with him in Oshkosh and disappeared
when he did. Another lives at Stevens
Point and a third makes her home at
Minneapolis. The last has a son.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

W men TIE Oulteu
States Circuit Court convened Judge Van
Devanter handed down decision sus-
tanning the demurrer interposed by coun-
sci for Senator Dietrich. The demurrer
was made to the introduction of evidence
on the ground that Dietrich was not ac-
tually a member of the Senate when the
alleged bribery took place. The effect
of the decision is that a man is not an
actual member of Congress from the
time of his election until he shall have
taken the oath at the bar of the House
TO which he is elected
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
EmbezzIed Bows Money.

George Lavine, who was brought to
Superior from near Wausar to answer
the charge of embezzling $500 belonging
TO his orphan ward, Peter Odds, pleaded
guilty before Judge Smith and was SEN
fenced to one year in the State prison.
Several years ago Lavine was named as
guardian for Peter Olds, who is now of
age. AS Lavine had given surety
bond, the boy lost nothing. but the bond
company saw the prosecution through.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
In Chicago.

Mrs. Porkchops Mrs. GraiR-
pit is trying 10 introduce 81 me new
tangled ideas in society.
Porkchops What's the matter with
her nowg
Mrs. PoTkchops-Why, she says it's
no longer good form 20 take stran-
gers TO see the abhatoir---Puck-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
svmpatav Dodosr Gets Sentence.

Harry Atlas, alias Paul Busch, was
sentenced in Madison to eighteen months
in State prison ar Eaupun, after a plea
of guilty to obtaining money under false
pretenses. Atlas had been working the
sympathy dodge in the county, and for
six months had successfully eluded the
officers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

=
instructed the jury
to bring in a YER
dict of not guilty.
and the district at
toFney entered a
nolle in the other
cases against Diet
rich. Jacob Fisher,
postmaster at Hast
ings. Neb.. also was
given his liberty, a
nolle having been
e ntere d in each
of the indictments
against him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

and made a movement toward him with
her hands outstretched, as if she would
fain protect and soothe him. He seemed
to hear the step behind, and, as Ii to
avoid it, he walked from the kitchen
without looking behind him and went
heavily up to his own room.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
Hold on Murder CharRe.

Charles Crump, colored. is in jail on
the charge of numbering Gordon III.
Campbell. white, at his home in Superior.
No one saw the murder. but it is said
Ciump came out of the room immedi-
ately after three shots were heard. His
wife and the wife of the dead man are
held as witnesses. Campbell was about
80 years of age. Crump is %. He has
a white wife, who is the mother of Camp
bells wife by former marriage. There
is no cause knowfq for the affair.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
NISCONSIN'S RECORD.
FAITHFULLY TOLD IN READABLE
SHAPE.
Trampled In Church Panic - CoIored
Man Held for Murder-ushkosh Busi-
ness Man Missing-HoId Up Men Get
Three Years in Prison.

Panic-stricken by cloud of black
smoke that came from a defective fur
mace and enveloped the altar where Rev.
NJ. f. Boyce was celebrating late mass,
a large audience IN the Roman Catholic
Church of the immaculate Conception
in New Richmond. made frantic rush
for the outer air. Wild cries of Fire.
added to the general fright. But for
the heroic work of a few cool-headed
men many lives might have been lost, as
scores of persons were thrown to the
floor and trampled on AS it was the
men fought the fear-crazed people and
eventually stopped the panic. Women
and children We're three deep on the floor
and WERE being trampled on. when a
few strong men threw themselves
against the panic-stricken people and held
them back until the fallen could be pick
ed up and carried out. A number of
persons suffered bruises and scratches
and minor hurts and their clothes were
badly torn. Several others tainted, but
no one was seriously hurt. After quiet
had been restored the services continued.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
Ten Years Ago.

The national income tax biz was
agreed on by the Democratic ways and
means committee at Washington. persoLs
earning over $4,000 to be taxed , per
cent.
Every citizen Of Chicago was asked
by the Central Relief Association TO con
tribute one days wages to the thousands
OF unemployed workingmen.
Six thousand retail clerks in Chicago
were discharged because Of the prevailing
hard times.
The proprietors Of American potteries
voted TO adopt the lower English wage
scale because Of the prevailing hard
times.
Andrew Carnegie was accused by rival
steel magnates OF troachery in indoIs1ug
the Democratic tarin reductions, il being
charged that bis more modern plants
were able 10 outsell them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
Hold-Up Man Sentenced.

Antoine Peterson pleaded guilty before
County Judge Quinlan in Marinette to
highway robbery. He was sentenced to
three years in Waupun. Peterson, it is
charged, held up a number of farmers
and terrorised a section of the county for
several weeks
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

Respect for the min 'Sho is a bet
ter financier than yos.ssalf doesn't in
dictate .aat you would be willing TO let
Kim run your business.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19
DIETRICH GOES FREE.

Judge Van Devanter Orders a YER
dict of Not Guilty.
United States Senator Dietrich Of Ne
braska has been released from custody
Judge Van Devanter, at Omaah Friday,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

Charles ". Sargent Of St Louis was
elected president OF the Western Com
mercial Travellers Association At the an
nuaI meeting Of that organization
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

Only those get TO heaven who help
others get there.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

J. f. Zimmerman, Jr.. received inror-
matiea from England that the lord cham
beyia;n would not permit the presenta-
ticu OF Dorothy Vernon Of Haddon
HAir' anywhere in the Kings domain
unless certain Objectionable matters were
expurcated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

Chile exported l.66s, $50 tons OF nj
trate OF soda last year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

f. r. Scndmore. John a. Yananaugh
and William Binswanger. Judges al the
recent Colorado State eisStion, were held
for trial at Denver on charges Of fraud.
Several hundred more votes are said 10
have been cast In their precinct than
thene are residents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

PatrOnl.s those who advertise.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

John Doe. an Indian who is a State
patient at the ManitowCc county insane
asylum. escaped from the institution. and
was abroad all night. having been taken
into custody at Valders. Officers from
the asylum returned Doe and he has suf-
fered no IN effects from the exposure and
cold
The funeral Of Mrs. Carl Rickert Of
Oshkosh was stopped at the grave, the
relatives fearing she was being buried
alive. The casket had been lowered into
the grave when the family insisted on
its being taken up and opened. Tie life
like appearance Of the body led some to
think the woman w-s in a trance.
The jury in the case of the estate OF
the late Senator c. Sarau against the
Winnebago Traction Company agreed.
after nine hours. and rendered a verdict
in favor OF the estate for s.. 496. $500
for damages and $500 for suffering. The
case may be appealed. Mr.. Sarau was
killed Aug. &c by an Oshkosh day car
Oh Merritt street
Miss Lula Cosgfif was badly burned
r. an explosion in a vault in the Rusk
block In Chippewa Falls Gas had form
ed in the vault during the nighe and
when she opened the door the explosion
occurred. breaking the door and plate
glass windows. The noise Was heard for
blocks. She will recover.
Sheriff Mcmillan Of Eac Clsire return
ed the other day from Whitehall with
Mike Davis, who is charged with robbing
a box car. with attempting TO blow Mel
denhauer & Damm's safe and with be-
ing one Of the desperadoes xho held Up
ex-AId. Hinrichs. VIII Dayis ID held at
Whitehall on the charge OF shooting at
the village marshal there.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-05-17

If defeated stop will be made Mukden but the retirement
will continued Theng head OF navigation for
Lao miles north Of New Chwang AT
will be employed in the
the of the Yau harasng the troops and inter-
fering with its communication
1t believed that the Japanese will into the interior
they thoroughly established their base here repeating
the which they made during the with China
JAPS NEAR HAICHENG
The Russians admit the advance OF the Japanese army to point
within Haicheng their wounded entering there
The fighting expected before the Japanese reach New
Chvanp will be at Tashchao will much This
city is guarded Chinese police and everything quiet
The Tapanese Kaichau reported strong
STILL REMOVING MINES
Toxic Nav 1z-Admra Kataok reports that the 18th the
onerao of removing continued by the
protection OF bombadmen by the feet
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-05-17
ATTEMPT FAILED.
Three Men Make Unsuccessful Effort TO
Rob Mall Wagon

Chicago. May 17.-Three highwavmen
attempted to rob United States regis
tered mail wagon early today near the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway station.
The accidental discharge OF a revolver
frustrated their plans and they ESCAPED
after street duel with the police.
II was this wagon that Marx. Van Dine
and Neidermeier the car barn bandits
planned to rob during their brief career
as desperadoes Their plans miscarried
however. The police believe today's high
waymen were inspired 10 attempt the
daring crime by the story OF the men
hanged on April % The contents OF the
wagon we're valued at several thousand
dollars
When the wagon was passing an alley
three men ran out in front of the team.
Two grabbed the brides and the third
undertook - climb on the seat An ac-
c!dental shot caused the horses 10 lump
forward and Driver Graf piled the whip.
leaving the woud-be bandits behind
They shot several times at the wagon
but missed Two policemen who ran TO
the scene Immediately opened fire and
the robbers fed.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-05-17
FEARED
To FACE
TRIAL

New York. May r.-Rather than face
the disgrace Of public trial John d.
Budd. a well known resident OF Hoboken,
n. j., has siashed his throat with pocket
knife and will die. He was arrested a
few days ago, together with a lawyer.
and four other residents OF Hoboken
charged with having abused young chill
dren.
Fifteen charges have been made thus
far against them The expose caused
great sensation.
Budd, who Is bookkeeper. IS years Of
age, had been released on 5000 bail after
night In jail He went to his bachelor
apartments and barred the doors to all
callers. After brooding several hours he
slashed his throat repeatedly and had
bled almost 20 death when found and
taken to the hospital