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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
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A winter which will try the soul of the
innocent bystander is threatened in Muk-
den.
Turkeys are so plentiful this year that
their price will be higher than ever be-
fore.
In looking for place to make his last
stand Gen. Stoessel finds the standing
room scarce.
Gen. Nogi has a faint idea as to where
he will eat his Christmas dinner if he
cares to do so.
Russia is going in for reform and can
stand a lot of it without feeling any
particular surfeit.
In taking Port Arthur the finishing
touches appear to be about as diflcult
as the preliminaries.
St Louis wants to run the fair while
the weather permits. That should be all
winter along the Pike.
In other words, Gene Ware is going
to mount his old reliable Pegasus and
canter back to Kansas.
Perhaps Port Arthur has had so much
practice in not falling that it does not
know how to do the falling act.
Everybody has to tread lightly in the
vicinity of the French cabinet these days,
for the slightest jar might upset it,
1t is a pity that Harry Thaw's mother
did not have a barrel stave at hand and
the ability and inclination TO use it.
When Gen. Kuroki decides to have his
obituary written he viii not hire a Rus
sian correspondent for so particular a
job.
Unconfrmed rumor win have to eat
several hoSses and thinks like that be-
fore it win be able to kill of Gen.
Kuroki.
When the cruel siege of Port Arthur is
Ger Japan will have a lot of second
hand tunnels for which il viii have no
earthly use.
Uncle Sam is telling the hopeful Fiji
pino that if he VIII watch Congress close
II he win see little bird come ont and
sing for him.
With John Alexander. Elijah and
Dowie ali On hand. at least three OF the
vacant apostleships may be considered
already filed
1t Is announced that Russia VIII fight
to the end. Perhaps some one who is an
expert on these things VIII tell Us what
else il could DO.
If ii Is tine that farmers Of New
York State have formed a turkey trust
complaint cannot be made that others
did not show them how.
Over in Europe they are saying that
John Hay is the greatest diplomatist Of
them all Even this. however. does not
fuily Justify his style Of whiskers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
GAS TANKS BLOW Up.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSIONS IN CHI
CAGO sAcETYLENE PLANT.
Many workmen Killed AMI Injured
Fatal Blasts Come in Close Succession
Tanks Used in Equipment of Rail-
way Cars-BuiidinSs Are Wrecked.

Death and chaos attended the explo
sion of twenty-five acetylene tanks in
the gas-charging station of the Chicago
Aeetyline Gas Manufacturing Com
pany at Seyentysthird street and South
Chicago avenue station, Friday morn
ing. BY noon ten bodies had been re-
moved from the ruins and it was said
that perhaps dozen more employees
We're missing The tanks We're of the
style attached to railroad cars for
lighting purposes
Eleven of the tanks exploded in
rapid succession. and were followed at
short intervals by the blasts of the
Others The fire spread to the build
ing adjoining, belonging to the Peoples
Gas Light and Coke Company, and
threatened to reach the large storage
tanks of that company. Policemen
were sent about for a mile radius
warning persons to move from their
homes
The explosions were so forceful that
for radius of half mile windows
were breken and walls of buildings
thrown out of plumb. For fear that
the explosions might continue and
cause the blowing up of the two big
tanks, which hold millions of cubic
feet of gas, no one would venture near
the ruins of the plant. The ,firemen
and the policemen Mt first refused to
venture near the place, because it was
known that the lead pipes into the
larger tanks might be at any moment
a yeritable fuse to set off enough gas
TO raze the vicinity.
At the first explosions many OF the
men employed in the plant fled to the
street These escaped with slight in
juries. Persons living in the vicinity
deserted their homes, storekeepers left
their stores and all fed with what val
uables they could seize amid the rum
bling and crashing of the tanks as
their steel sides were rent asunder.
Within a few minutes not one house in
half a mile radius of the gas plant was
occupied.
1t was momentarily expected that
Jne larger TANKS would eAplOue. Inc
heat was so tremendous that it drove
the firemen back, and for time they
were forced to throw water on the
blaze from a blocks distance, momen-
tarily expecting to be hurled to the
earth by the explosion of the big tanks.
The flames were shooting hundreds of
feet into the air, accompanied by
clouds of black smoke from the burn
ing gas. At intervals clouds of debris
consisting of bricks and iron from the
bursting tanks We're thrown into the
air by explosions.
The explosion is believed to have
been caused by a search for leaks in
supply tanks made by one of the en-
ployes. The sswentg two small tanks
in the storage building We're each
stored with $3.50 pounds to the cubic
inch of space of acetylene gas. The
tanks are used to place beneath Pull
man sleeping cars and other railway
cars, and will supply one car with light
for six months. The twenty-five tanks
had been charged and were in readi7
ness for attaching to cars.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
FIRE DESTROYS FREIGHTER.

Steamer Catches Fire on Long Island
Sonud and Explosion Then Wrecks
While bound down Long Island sound
on one of her regular passages from New
York City and New London, Conn. the
big freight steamer Mohawk of the Cen
trail Vermont railroad took fire off Hor-
tons Point, L. l.. and was burned to the
waters edge. Her crew, except the
watchman, was rescued by passing
steamship. The Mohawk left New York
with full cargo of general merchandise
ana twenty-five persons on board. As
the boat passed Horizons Point the light
house keeper saw flames breaking out.
A few minutes later she was wrapped in
their embrace The Fall River line
steamer Boston, which had followed the
Mohawk down the sound, went to the
rescue of the crew. A few moments after
the Boston had resumed her interrupted
voyage there came the sound of heavy
explosion and a mass of blazing debris,
accompanied by a burst of flames, shot
up from the center Of the abandoned
freighter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
short News Notes.

Gov. Odell of New York, according TO
the New York Times, has been offered
the presidency of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company and will accept after re-
firing from office as Governor.
At the Russian embassy in Rome the
belief is expressed that the Russian sec
ond Pacific squadron will go from Suez
direct to Jibutil. as Massowa and Assab,
the ports Of Erythrea, lack provisions,
coal and dockyards; but. if necessary for
urgent reasons, there is nothing to pre-
vent them from landing there if they re-
spect Italian and neutrality laws.
Clifford Hawley shot and instantly
killed Simon Donahoe and wounded Will
liam Mordow at Masontown, Pa, over
a political argument
The light-grade rail plant at the Ed
gar Thomson steel works at Braddock.
Pa. went on double turn, giving en-
ployment to 200 men,
NJ. ]. Kelley. secretary of the Booth
Kelley Lumber Company, says there has
been no sale OF a half interest in the
company's holdings to eastern capitalists.
Notices have been posted announcing
a susetnsion of work at the collieries of
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company in the Sebuylkill region
Plans are about complete for building
an electric railroad from Cleveland. Ohio,
to Meadvilie. Pa. 4 New York trust
company Is behind the project and the
cost viii be about S1.5090)0.
Douglas Neare Of the firm Of George
". Ne.ire & Co. marine underwriters.
was killed in an automobile accident in
Ohio. While turning his car he plunged
over a 1s5-fooE pEecipiee.
Harry Thaw. son of the millionaire
Pittshurg family. who IS said to have
married EVELYN Nesbif. the artist model
and chorus girl, IS begging his family
nor 10 cut of his STT.;500 annual income.
expressing a willingness To give up Eve
lyn-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
| New York. |
country SAYS:

country says:
Reports from the great basic indus
tries are more favorable and whole
sale and jobbing trade in holiday and
spring goods displays a more confident
tone. Interior buyers appear more
willing to stock up, and are meeting
with fair success, despite the fact that
unreasonable weather, activity in fall
farm work and some holding back by
farmers retards retail trade and coll
lections in the West and Northwest.
Cold weather at the East and season.
able conditions at the South induce
better reports as to distribution from
those sections.
Trade generally is showing gains
over corresponding periods a year ago,
and the aggregate years business In
most lines will make better compari-
sons than at one time seemed possible.
Money displays remarkable ease, crop
moving necessities are about satisfied
and a return flow from the country is
apparently in sight Gross railway
earnings show tendency to increase
late gains and to swell earnings for
the year to totals above those of 1903.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending Nov. II
number 100, against 1S4 last week,
234 in the like week of 1903, POI in
1902. 223 in 1901 and 215 in 1900. In
Canada failures for the week number
24 as against % last week and 16 In
this week a year ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

reports that conditions are good, and
that he will be able to hold out fer
months to come Rumors, neverthe-
less. persist that he has Informed the
Gar that unless he can be supplied
with food and ammunition the end of
his power of resistance will soon
come. The general has himself been
wounded in the head, but not seriously
enough to prevent his continuing to
exercise the command.
Artillery duels along the Shakhe
River seemc to be increasing in sever
ity. The Russians attacked Oku on
the west of the line early in the week,
and later Kuroki made an attack on
the east Neither attack was on a
large scale. Winter weather has now
set in, introducing entirely new condi-
tons for fighting
A Shanghai correspondent says
steamer which has arrived from Che
foo reports that three other Russian
torpedo boat destroyers left Port
Arthur with the Rastoropny, which
was sunk by its commander in Chefoo
harbor. The Japanese caught two Of
them, but the other escaped and has
not been heard from since.
An official report received at Toxic
states that as result of the success
of the Japanese in blowing up Song
shushan fort the occupation of the
"outer embankment" of Port Arthur
became complete.
Another official report says that
shell from Japanese naval gun ex-
ploded powder magazine on Satur-
day, near the arsenal at Port Arthur.
The words "outer embankment" i'll
the first official report are believed
here to mean that the Japanese at last
have succeeded in capturing the chain
of forts constituting the fortified
eastern ridge" Including the forts on
Songshushan, Erlung and Keel1wan
mountains.
1t is declared at st. Petersburg that
there is every Indication that Field
Marshal Oyamq is gradually develop
ing big movement with the object of
occupying Mukden.
Dvseatery and typhoid fever have
appeared at the fortress, and the
deaths from these diseases average
ten daily. 1t is stated also that the
dissatisfaction among Gen. Stoessel's
suhordinates is increasing
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
ChiGdQa

Co, says:
Bank deposits and clearing house ex-
changes are largely ahead OF those
year ago and for the first time in To-
cal history both simultaneously record
their greatest volume. While official
statements disclose ample cash re-
sources. there are indications that
money is now working into better gem
eral demand, and the discount rate
soon may advance from its present
minimum.
Trade has fully sustained recent IA
vorable developments. Heavy distri-
button of manufactures continued and
freight tonnage gained but while. the
weather was good for shopping it held
too mild for satisfactory disposition
of seasonable retail wares Wholesale
shipments of staples and holiday lines
to interior points made a good aggre-
gate.
Late buying has been well main
tanned for the country, and city mer-
chants bought more freely, most of the
demands including dry goods, milli-
merry, mems furnishings, woolens and
food products Demand for jewelry,
silverware and smokers articles show
ed a moderate gain. Orders for reas-
sentiments were of limited extent, but
discounting of bills purchased was fire.
quent and mercantile collections gen
orally We're reasonably prompt
Raw materials exhibit increased re-
ceipts. Iron ore, coal, lumber and
hides make the best comparisons with
a year ago and provide against ex-
panding needs of manufacturers
Prices disclose firmneSs in all sup
plies for factory consumption. Adj
vances were effected in quotations for
pig iron, bar iron and wire product
without creating lessened demand.
Metal producers have booked many
orders for future delivery aad there
are commitments indicating n variety
Of finished materials required for rail-
roads, shipyards and business srue-
lures.
Lumber receipts exceeded 4S,000,000
feet, the largest quantity in long pc
creased figures, country demands
having shown notable improvement
Woodworking, electric machinery and
shoe factories report gain in .produc-
ton and new business coming forward
more literally.
Operations in grain were Influenced
by poor outside buying and heavy Ar
gentine shipments Forwarding from
this port was only 2,674,32T bushels, a
decrease of 81 per cent as compared
with corresponding week last year.
Values suffered sharp decline, corn
being weakest and closing > cents a
bushel under a week ago. Provisions
were in fair request, but producers
made liberal offerings and quotations
ruled slightly under last weeks, Re-
ceipts of live stock, 301,071 head, fell
considerably short of those year ago.
Sheep brought an advance of 10 cents
hundredweight, while hogs and
choice beeves both declined 20 cents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
PREACHER STOPS LYNcHING.

Feeling Runs High in Roseyi11e, Ohio,
Over Incendiary Fires.
Three alleged incendiary fires occurred
In the village of Roseville, Ohio, during
twelve hours. The money loss is small,
but the excitement of the residents reach
ed a crisis when q crowd of men gath
cred in the center of the town intent
upon doing violence to two men, Kid Will
son, colored, and Charles Carnes, white,
who had been arrested on suspicion. Rev.
Luther j. Smith, the Methodist minister
of the town, mounted box and dissuad-
ed the crowd from doing any unlawful
act. The authorities believe they know
who the firebug is, but deem it unsafe to
take him into custody now, fearing yio-
lence of an extreme character.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
MRS. BONNIE KILLS SELF.
woman Acquitted of Murder in Wash
ington Cuts Her Throat.

A woman said to be Mrs. Mary Bo-
nine, who, according to neighbors, came
to Philadelphia three years ago from
Washington after being acquitted of the
murder of a clerk in the census bureau,
committed suicide by cutting her throat
With her husbands razor. The woman
had been in i'll health about two months.
May 10, 1901, James Seymour Ayers,
resident of Michigan and clerk in the
census bureau at Washington, was found
dead in his room at hotel with bullet
wounds in his head. Suspicion rested on
Mrs. BONNIE, who occupied apartments
in the same hotel. She was arrested and
admitted being in Ayers room, but de-
MED knowledge of the murder The trial
resulted in her acquittal Mrs. Bonnie
was 81 years old.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
JEALOUSY CAUSES DOUBLE CRIME
Wichita, Kan, Man Kills Woman and
Then Ends Life.

She was false to me-" These words,
written by John Bath while he lay with
ing from self-inhicted wound, gave the
key to the tragic death of Mrs Katie
McColgan. Ten minutes after writing
the words Bath followed his victim The
double tragedy took place in the woman's
apartments in Wichita, Kan. Bath, who
was widower, was infatuated with Mrs.
McColgan, whose husband died one year
ago. She repulsed his advances, but he
persisted in his suit. While the woman
was dressing to attend the tbeater Bath
suddenly forced his way into her rooms.
Selling her, he cut her throat and stab
bed her score of times. When she fell
he slashed his own throat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
FIRE FAILS TO HIDE CRIME.
Finding of Body in Ruins of Shanty
Gives Coroner Work.

G1Ves coroner W Ork.
The finding of the body of John r.
Perkins in strip of lonely woods one
mile south Of Granger, Ind, and the pc
culiar circumstances surrounding his
death suggest murder mystery. The
remains Were discovered under the char
red ruins Of Il shanty and were in hor-
rlble condition, the top of the head being
crushed in and the body burned almost
TO a crisp. When the coroner reached
the clearing where once stood the shanty
nothing remained except the smc'dering
timber, in the center of which lay the
body, the head thrown back and the
arms extended. The supposed murdered
man was 60 years old. Several years
ago he lived in South bend and at that
time it Is known that he had considera-
bic money. Those who hold to the MUIR
der theory think Perkins was attacked
during the night and that he was killed
before he could defend himself. Then,
to conceal the crime. the body was put
IN the shanty and a fire started.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

dered to the President and accepted, TO
take effect Jan. /. Commissioner Ware
at the time refused to discuss his action,
except to state that the newspapers had
been 'resigning" him for the past two
years. /. For at least one year, however,
it has been definitely known that he
would retire soon after the fall elections
and return to his home in Kansas to
resume his law practice.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
FIRE HITS FAIR PALACE.
Spectacular Blaze Destroys Missouri
Building at the Exposition.

BniIdIng at the Exposition.
The worlds fair grounds in St Louis
was the scene of fatal FIRE Saturday
night. The Missouri State building was
destroyed by q blaze which started from
the explosion Of hot water heater in
the basement. One fireman was killed
and two We're seriously injured in max
ing RUIZ to the burning building, their
truck striking a tree when the horses left
the road in crossing the mining guich.
shortly afterward falling wall buried
two hremen under a mass o. debris, seri-
otsly injuring both. The loss will reach
$4,000. The building cost $150000
and its furnishings $4,000 In the latter
were portraits of all former Governors
and Supreme judges of Missouri. These
cannot be replaced. There was no insur-
nnce
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Mystery in Sudden Death.

Much mystery is attached to the sud
den death in Cincinnati Of G. A Parker,
second vice president of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railway. Parker
had been respondent since the suicide Of
his son in st. Louis, six months ago, and
it is stated he had been worried over
rumors of the roads sale to the Erie line
and the possibility of his losing his posi-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Foes in Daily Clashes.

The Russians fled from Da Pass, near
Mukden. on the advance of strong
force of Japanese. The Japanese are
said also to be moving on Sintsintin.
Daily clashes are reported between the
armies on the Shakhe river.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

acetylene gas branch of the Pyle Nation
al Electric Headlight Company. spread
ing death and destruction. Forty men
we're az work close by when the blast
came. Many of them were picked up
crushed and mangled at long distances
from the scene of the explosion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Three Big Lions Escape.

Three full-grown African lions of the
Robinson circus escaped while being
transferred from the railroad cars to
their winter quarters at Terrace Park, a
suburb of Cincinnati. They were cap
tured several hours later. William John
son. an employee was slightly injured by
being struck by one of them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

under President Cleveland and was the
last man to fill the office without criti-
cism. He was a Democrat until 1896,
when he voted for Mckinley Gen. Black
draws pension of $1,000 a year in a6di-
ton to his present salary of $500.
The resignation Of Commissioner of
Pensions Ware was some time ago ten
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
100000 Destitute from Flood.

The Talautse islands, northeast of the
Celebes, Malay archipelago, have been
visited by disastrous hurricane, causing
the sea to rise to such an extent that it
flooded the islands and left 10000 per-
sons destitute, their homes, boats and
plantations being destroyed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Robbed of S3. OOo I'M levels.

Jewels valued at $4,000 have been
stolen from the apartments of Mrs. Flea
nor Lorraine-Beatty, a well-knOwn so
ciety woman of Pittsburg and New
York. simultaneously with the theft of
the jewels the butler disappeared. His
wife, who was employed as housekeeper,
was at once arrested and is said to have
confessed that her husband was guilty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
weman Doomed to HING.

A bill to abolish capital punishment in
Vermont, upon which hung the life of
Mary NJ. Rogers of Bennington, was de-
feated in the House of Representatives,
the vote standing SO for the bill to 1913
against it. AS consequence the SEN
tence of Mrs. Rogers who was convicted
of tae murder of her husband and conA
demned to be hanged. will be carried out.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
President Roosevelt Speaks.

Greeting to the German people as
friend and kin and an earnest expression
of hope for the continuance of good will
between the two nations We're the fea-
lures of an address by President Roose-
welt at the unwilling in Washington of
the statue of Frederick the Great given
by Emperor William to this country
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
CODY BANDITS IN BOLD RAID.
Hold Up a Wyoming Gambling House
for a Large Sum of Money,

The two outlaws who made raid on
the First National Bank of Cody, Wyo.,
recently and killed Cashier Middaugh,
and who since have been pursued by
posses, came out of their hiding place in
the Owl Greek mountains and held up
and robbed saloon and gambling house
in Thermopolis. The two robbers en-
tered the place each heavily armed and
ordered everybody to holG up his hands.
This the occupants of the place did and
they were lined up. One of the robbers
covered the customers while the other
went through their pockets. The report
also says large sum of money was Sc
cured. The men backed out of the place
and made their escape on fast horses.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
President Makes a CLEARANCE.

President Roosevelt has removed from
office Frank II. Richards, United States
marshal for the Nome district in Alaska,
and has requested the resignation of
Judge Melville c. Brown of the Juneau
district. This is the result of the inves-
tigation of the Alaska judiciary by AS
sistant Attorney General Day.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Dock Fire Costs 5000, ooO.

The London pier and shed of the War
rem line in Charlestown, Mass, filed
with oil, wood pulp and other highly IL
flammable material, was completely con-
sumed by fire and it was only by the ut
most exertion that the firemen were able
to save adjoining property. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Nay Indict a BOY of 0 Years.

The federal grand jury is considering
the case of the youngest Indiana prisoner
ever arrested. Gale Smith. aged years,
living at Wheatield, is charged with
sending unlawful matter through the
mails. Government officials are puzzled
as to what to do with the youth