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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
slxTY.Two DIE IN WRECK.
Mistake of Engineer on Southern Rail-
way Causes Great Loss of Life.

Mistake of Engineer on Southern Rail-
way Causes Great Loss of Life.
Sixty-two persons We're killed and
40 injured (many Of whom will diel
in head on collision on the Southern
Railway nineteen mines east of Knox
willie, Tenn, at 1918 Saturday morn
ing.
The engineer of the west bound
train, so investigation shows, was di-
rectly responsible for the disaster. He
deliberately disobeyed orders. Why,
will never be known. for he was
crushed to death beneath his engine
and his fireman suffered a like fate.
The crash came on n sharp curve,
between high banks. The west bound
train was a heavy one, it carrying the
sleepers from the east for Knoxville,
Chattanooga, and other Southern
cities. The east bound train was light
er, consisting of day coaches and chair
cars. 1t was going thirty miles an
hour, the other forty, The heavy
train crashed into the lighter one with
the force of q giant missile hurled
from a catapult. And, by the irony Of
fate, the engineer and the fireman Of
the train at fault We're the only ones
on that train to lose their lives, while
ffty-three travellers were killed on the
train that had the right of way.
Expert railroad men who have seen
scores of wrecks unite in saying that
never have they seen such an inexpres-
sibly thorough smashup. The two en-
gines and their tenders We're simply a
mass of scrap iron, from which vom-
tied fire, smoke and steam. The light
coaches of the local train were literally
knocked into splinters. Roofs were
smashed like crumpled envelopes, two
cars had both sides torn out, floors
were driven up and forced through the
ceilings, catching and crushing men,
women, and children as if in wise.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
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Chicago-Cattle. common to prime.
| $500 to $G.2J; hogs, shipping grades.
! $500 to S625; sheep fair to choice. 81 %
10 $500; wheat No. > red, Sill to 81. 10;
corn, No. >, SOC TO 52c; oats, standard,
Doe to 31c rye, No ,. T2c TO 74e; hay,
timothy, $3.50 to $3.50; prairie, $500 to
$1,000; butter, choice creamery, Ice to
! 19c; eggs. fresh, 14c to lie; potatoes,
37c to 43c.
napolis-Catte shipping, $500 to
$3.50; hogs. choice light, $500 to So. 10;
sheep. common to prime. $3.50 TO $500;
wheat, No. ;, $1.13 to $1.15: corn, No. ,
white, 53c to Ole; oats, No. > white
Sic to 32c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $6.05; hogs,
$500 to SG.25 sheep $500 to 1913;
wheat. No. >, 81 IA to S1.15; corn, No. ..
49e 10 J0c; oats. No. >, 30c to Bic; rye,
No. ,, zoe to 71c.
Cineinnati--Cattle. $500 90 $500;
hogs. $500 to SG,25; sheep $500 TO
$3.50; wheat. No, >, SLY to $1.1S;
corn. No > mixed &c TO SIC; oats No.
? mixed, 32c 90 34c; rye, No, >, 7Sc 10
soc.
Dctroit-Cattlc, $3.50 to $500; hogs.
$500 to $3.50: sheep. 500 to $50;
wheat, No. >, St.21 to $l.23; corn, No. 3
yellow. J4c to 5Gc: oats. No. 3 white, Bic
to 32c; rye, No. >, re TO 79c
Milwaukee--Wheat, No. northern,
$1.14 to $1.1J; corn. No. 9. 52c to 53c;
oats. No. white. Bic TO 32c; rye, No. l..
Tie to Zoe; barley, No 2, 54c to 51c,
pork. mess, SLIGO
Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.16 10
S1.1S: corn. No. mixed, soc TO 5Gc;
oats, No. > mixed, 3Or to Bic; rye, No. ,.
7Gc to ne; clover seel, prime. $40.
New York-Cattle. $3.50 TO 1928;
hogs. $500 10 $500; sheep, $500 TO
40: wheat. No. > re'i. Sl,1S TO SLID;
corn, No. >. .I5c to jIc5 oats, Ne. white.
Soc 10 3Sc. butter. creamery, l6c 70 l9c;
eggs, western, lie to ne.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
ONE MAN HAS 100, 900 ACRES.
Investigation of Indian Territory At
fairs Shows Many IrreUuIaritia.

Investigation of Indian Territory At
tairs Shows Many Irregularities.
CHARLES ]. Happier, chief clerk of the
United States Senate committee on in
dian affairs, has completed weeks trip
through Indian territory with Senator
Stewart, chairman of the committee Mr.
Happier said that the trip had opened
their eyes to many Irregularities in the
affairs of the Indians that they would
never have known without personal an
vestigation. I'VE found that the Dawes
commission had done good work. he
said. The negroes in the Greek nation,
though, are selling their lands for a song
and spending the money rapidly. They
VIII be paupers in FIVE years The In
dams in the Chickasaw nation are leas-
ing their lands at ridiculous figure
There are only 100000 acres in the ma
uon and we found one white man in
control Of 10000 acres. He boasted
OF the fact that it had taken him nine
months to get the land and that it would
take Congress nine years to get it away
from him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04

post skirmish it seems to him like the
last desperate general assault, and
when he reaches Chefoo he reports OF
'hails of shot" cyclones of shell,
and -earthduaking mines"
In the latter part of August the Japs
took four outlying forts in front of
Rihlung and Kikwang. They immedl-
ately set out to strengthen these
places, and made them into most re-
spectable fortifcations. When the
next general assault starts these forts
will try to silence the guns of their
Russian opposites before the infantry
come into operation. If the new Japa-
nese forts can obtain a preponderance
over Rihlung and Kikwang those
places may possibly fall to general as
sault But the whole operations at
Port Arthur up TO the present date
merely confirm the old lesson that de-
lenses adequately manned by resolute
troops cannot be taken by frontal at
tack. The Japanese are desperately
brave; they are especially good on the
offense. They started at Port Arthur
flushed with victory. They considered
the place as holy and and went at it
like crusaders. But they have come
nowhere near storming it. Strong forts
Containing good men cannot be storm
~ ~-r ~-'-s"- - s~.-
eu. " :. 49, ~ al ~
The Russian tried their hands at
storming when they made sortie at
Fort Else, but were driven back The
condition as to Else is not clear Ger
tainly the Russian do not hold it, but
neither, it seems, do the Japanese. 1t
is a low lying fort, dominated by the
Japs from behind, and by the Russians
from in front. Neither side can live
in it, apparently, and it remains I'M
occupied.
Not infreQuently there is a feeling
of good fellowship between two hostile
armies. The outposts meet and ex-
change tobacco. If they speak differ
ent tongues they swap lies by the sign
language. But at Port Arthur the
lighting has been so bitter and desper
ate that the japanese and Russian sol
dfers individually abhor each other, re-
garding each other not merely as ma
tional but also las personal enemies.
General Stoessel. acutely playing on
the venomous spirit between the be-
siegers and besieged, has told his
troops they will receive no quarter II
they surrender. and that they might as
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
JUDGE PAakER's LETTER.
Attacks Imperialism and Advocates
Tariff Reform.

ATTACKS Imperialism and Advocates
Tariff Reform.
Arrangement of imperialism and ex-
ecutlve power based on individual
caprice, demand for tariff reform on
prudent lines so as not to work revo-
luton in existing conditions. unequiv-
ocal declaration in favor of Filipino
independence. the urging of the i'm
mediate curtailment of expenditures
and return TO economical administra-
ton, and promise Ola sweeping inves-
tigation of all departments of the gov
eminent in the event of party success
these are the distinctive features of
Alton Brooks Parker's formal letter
accepting the Democratic nomination
for the presidency.
Judge Parker digresses from the Is
sues he regards as standing forth pre-
eminent in the public mind TO answer
RooseYeltian epigram and interroga-
ton with judicially constructed state
ments on few of the other issues in
volved in the campaign Characteriz-
ing the service pension order of the
President as usurpation OF legisla-
tive power, he qCotes from Mr.. Roose-
yelt'S letter of acceptance, and accepts
the challenge contained therein by de-
claring that if elected he will revoke
the order He adds, however, that,
having done so, he will contribute his
effort toward the enactment Of an age
pension law by Congress. The lam
guageof the Presidents letter. Judge
Parker says, suggests the suspicion
that the order was made to create an
issue.
The duty of proceeding with due dill
igence in the work of constructing the
Panama canal is imperative, Judge
Parker declares, but he says the meth
DDS by which the executive acquired
the canal route and rights are a
source of regret TO many.
Another matter discussed briefly is
American shipping, forty years of de
cadence being deplored, and the rec
ord of the Democratic party being
PSAANNa w 40 SAN LIS SSSuA dlANC AlItA
the work of restoration can be more
wisely intrusted to it. The remedy,
it is declared, does not lie in subsidies
wrung from the taxpayers. Attention
is directed also to the officers and men
of the army and navy, both. it being
declared, having suffered from the in
lection of personal and political in
fiuence.
In paragraph devoted TO foreign
relations, Judge Parker says the new
conditions call for a management Of
foreign affairs the more circumspect
in that the recent american inva-
sion" of markets in all parts of the
world has excited the serious appre-
hension Of all the great industrial peo-
Piles. 1t is essential, he believes, to
adhere strictly to the traditional pol
icy regarding friendship and entang-
ling alliances, which means the "cul-
tivation of peace instead of the gloriti-
cation of man, and the minding of our
own business in lieu OF spectacular in
termeddling with the affairs Of other
nations"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04

Eighty negroes. thirty of them women,
have arrived in Harrodsburg, KY. from
South Fork, which place they were or
dered to leave by the whites because
one OF the negroes stabbed a farmers
wife. 1t is reported that the white
woman as dead. The negro men were
working on a railroad near South Fork.
One of the women at the railroad camp
went TO n farm house and demanded Il
lunch. This was given her, and while
the hostess back was turned she snatch
ed some clothing and ran away. The
farmers wife pursued and caught her.
but was stabbed by the negress. In a
short time a posse of 200 white men had
driven the negroes from the vicinity.
Blacks will not be permitted to rem":2
i'll Harrodsburg
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04

well die fighting as be massacred. The
white flag and the red cross are disre-
garded by both sides, and fired into
whenever seen. The stencil from the
decomposing bodies left on the slope
of the forts makes Port Arthur almost
uncomfortable when the wind is from
the north. When the wind blows from
the south the poisonous odor reaches
Dalny, thirty miles away.
Kuropatkin is evidently at sea as to
the japanese plans Several times late
-ly he has telegraphed that a general
attack seemed imminent But the gen
eral attack never came 1t is improb-
able that the Japenese are undertaking
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04

food, for water and for coal. But
what weight to give TO the reports we
do not know.
For some reason the japanese gov
eminent has thus far declined 70 pub
lIsh any account of the fighting at the
southern tip of the Liaotung peninsu-
la. SO what IS happening must be
pieced out from the story of Lieuten-
ant Radziwifl. who reached Chefoo
with dispatches from Stoessel, and
from reliable Chinese who. in mill
tary matters, are the most unreliable
people on earth. There is no one SO
afraid OF powder and ball as the China
man. When he sees or hears an out
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04

the Hun river TO the east and is moving
on Mukdeu without opposition.
It is stated that the japanese hold four
forts near the main defenses Of Port Ar
thur. from which the garrison has been
unable to dislOdge them.
Ambassador Mccormick reports 10
Washington that the Russian govern
ment practically has adopted the position
OF the United States with regard 10 con-
traband OF war.
japanese losses in the recent attacks
are said 70 be 1900, although Russians
say they were double that number The
Russian garrison Of one fort was wiped
out In a hand-tO-ha1d battle
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04

auese are increasing at Yentai and Bent
ssipntze.
The Russian cruiser Lena has been
dismantlei al Mare Island. where she
will remain until the end OF the war.
kHropatzin reports thar the japanese
made an attack on Da Pass, south Of
afukde1, on Tuesday and were repulsed.
Dispatches from Shanghai state that
the japanese have captured two more
Port Arthur forts and are assisted by
the feet
TIE Japsnese are advaue.ng. eight CT
nine divisions strong, or the Russian
front ~ the Esa river A report reaches
81. Petersburg that Kuroki has crossed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
Dun's review of Chica-
go trade says: Business
have ham
CHICAGO.

I Developments have been
OF an encouraging nature. A few in
dustries are yet in a waiting attitude.
hut aside from these there appears
more distinct activity i'm manufacture
ing and distribution. Wholesale deal
ings reached satisfactory aggregate
In fall and winter merchandise. retail
sales reflect improved consumntion
and there is enlarged demand nj better
prices for furnace product. Marketing
of cereals aggregates unusually high
and indicates the extent to which
growers are securing The benefit Of
prevailing profitable returns. Other.
classes of freight, especially general
merchandise, show an advanced move
ment and railroad tonnage includes
wider variety of commodities. Cur
rent buying for interior requirements
is well sustained in the staples. The.
Jobbing Interests maintained firm price
lists, and mercantile collections gener-.
ally show WE'LL failures being fewer in
number.
BreadstuffS exhibit more assuring
tone aud market operations denote a
stronger domestic demand, particular
ly for wheat ana flour The produc.
ton of the latter is less curtailed, mill
erS being influenced by low stocks on
hand and reyiying export inquiry.
Grain shipments. 100000 bushels. are
l0.l per cent over those of year ago
and thus far the heaviest this year
Compared with the Blessings last week.
wheat advanced Is cent per bushel
but oats declined y cents and corn
"A cent Live stock receipts 29S,91S
head, ran slightly over those a year
ago The market ruled favorable to.
shippers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
BOY DIES INHALED ON STUMP.
Brooklyn Lad Meets Strange and Hor-
rible Fate While Chestnutting.

Impaled ON the stump of a tree by a
large splinter that had penetrated his
right breast TO the lung, Alphonse Pede
of Brooklyn, n. Y, died in the presence
Of a score of Mortified boys and girls
with whom he had been chestnutting
near Jamaica. Pede had been sitting on
the branch of tree knocking the chest
nuts down to his companions when the
limb on which he sat broke and he fell
horizontally and face downward upon a
Jagged stump below. Most of the children
became frightened and ran away. When
doctor arrived he found the youth
dead. One of his playmates was praying
beside him
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
Find ola Fort i'm Minnesota.

After a long search representatives of
the Minnesota State Historical Society
have located the fort that was built in
100 by lie Sueur and his party of thirty
men. 1t was found to have been on a
large mound where she lie Sueur river
flows into the Blue Earth river, three
miles from Mankato
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
RICH MERCHANT is SLAIN.
Found Dead in Plant, Victim of I'm
known Assassin,


Murdered and his body thrown into the
bottom of an elevator shaft at his great
cold storage plant, Frank c. Austin was
found in Medina, \. Y. A great cut
over the right eye and fractures of the
skull in several places showed the cause
OF death. Evidently TO give the appear
ance of an accidental fall bicycle haG
Deem thrown on top Of the body. Austin
was the head of the great cold storage
frm of Austin & Dye. They were just
beginning to buy thousands of barrels of
apples. partly to fill their cold storage
warehouse. Large sums of money are
handled daily. A pocketbook containing
800 IN his pocket had not been disturb
ed. But another book. which he is said
% have carried in his inside vest pocket,
is missing. This book sometimes contain
ed sums of money, but more often val
liable and important papers. Every clew
and theory is being followed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
STRIVING FOR PENNANTp.
Standing of Clubs in the Two Princi-
pal Leagues.
lowing is the standing of the clubs
WRECK BURNS, SEEK BODIES.
Victims Cremated in Debris of De-
stroyed Ohio Trolley Cars.

Every person on two Scioto Valley
traction cars was injured in a head-on
collision near Hookers, twenty miles
south Of Columbus, Ohio, and it is feared
several were burned TO death. The
wreckage of both cars was completely
consumed by the fire that followed the
collision, resulting from the contact Of
splinters with the third rail used. The
collision was between a south-bound pas
senger car from Columbus and north
bound combination baggage and work
car. There were eleven passengers on
the south bound car and FIVE on the
other. The two cars were telescoped TO
about half their length.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
Militia VIII Re Mustered Ont

Gov. Cunningham of Alabama has re-
ceived the report of the military court OF
inquiry appointed 10 investigate the con-
duct of Company +, Alabama National
Guard, that was Overpowered by the mob
which lynched Horace Naples, a negro,
at Huntsville, Ala. The report recon-
mends that Company f be mustered out
for inefficiency on Oct. IA.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04

probably be vastly more interesting
and important than that from the ar
mics farther north. But we have still
nothing but rumols gathered at Che
foo from refugees from Port Arthur
and Dalny. The accounts agree that
another general assault has been be
gun, with Japanese successes at seY-
eraI points, and we are also told that
Port Arthur is in desperate straits for
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04

The main Russian arET Is oeiieYed to
be at Tie Pass
Seven Russian corps. in addition 70
two already m0bil;zing, are 10 oe called
out.
Preparations for the attack on Port
Arthur have been pushed for nineteen
days
Upon the adsice OF his military advis-
ers Emperor Nicholas decides TO organ
lie the seco-4 Nanchnrian army.
Kuropatkin reports that important
reconno ssances south and southeast Of
Mukden have resulted in many casual
tses Sut disclosed the fact that the Jap
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
MORGAN AND PRIMArE CRASH.
Special Carrying Financier and Arch
bishop Hits Engine.

A New York Central two-car special
train, carrying a party that included the
Archbishop of Canterbury and J.. Pier
pont Morgan. struck a light engine at
East Brookfeld, Mass. The special was
running at sixty miles an hour, but no
one, even the crew of the light engine,
was hurt. Mr.. Morgan was at breakfast
and was considerably shaken up, as were
the Others in the party. Mirrors and
other articles were broken by the i'm
pact The special remained on the
track and carried the light engine 100
yards. The party was ON the way from
Bar Harbor TO Washington.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
TRAIN ExPLoDEs DYNAMITE.
Driver of Wagon Loaded with Exp1o-
sive Stops Horses on Track.

Fast freight No. 81 on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad struck a wagon loaded
with 100 pounds of dynamite at the
crossing at North Branch, W. Va. Two
persons were killed and nine were in
Jured, three of them seriously. The
Baltimore and Ohio tower was wrecked.
as were several residences near by.
James Laing, who drove the wagon, es-
capped with only trivial injury, as did the
two horses, although the latter were
blown nifty yards into a field. Accord
ing to eye witnesses. Iaing, hearing the
train, became terrified and stopped on
the track. The wagon was three feet
of clearing it when the engine struck the
rear end, carrying it fifty feet before
the explosion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
Fifteen Injured in Fall.

Two hundred persons We're thrown
from platform and fell thirty feet ar
the launching of the schooner Charles j.
Dumas in Milford. Del. Fifteen persons
were seriously injured. 4 spike which
held the platform gave way and the en-
tire structure fell.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
Railway Cuts OFF a Town.

The Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail
way company demolished and removed
its station buildings at Savanna, l. T.. a
town of 600, and issued orders terminal
ing permanently all business relations
with the place. This order was the out
growth Of opposition from the town to
the employment of non-union telegraph
operators.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04

Exact figures Of the Russian losses in
killed. wounded and missing in the OBJ
erations before Haoyang from Aug. 10 TO
Aug % have been received by the gen
eral staff. according 20 ST. Petersburg
correspondent. These amount TO two
generals, 256 officers and 2.1O0 soldiers.
In addition 133 guns were lost. The ma
terial Losses inclnde Notifications cost
ing S300O0.000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
Eire Panic in a H6suitai.

An explosion of alcohol ~ the base
ment of the Marion; Ind, hospital re-
suited in the fatal burning of Burr Wal
lace. an employee. and panic among the
patients. DIR. Albert Davis, superintend-
ent of the hospital. was painfully burned
about the hands and face. The patients
were all removed to private residences in
the neigh borhood
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
Iewels and Furs Stolen.

Jewelry and furs valued at nearly S4,-
600 were stolen from the home of
wealthy resident of Philadelphia. While
il is said to be probable that the rob cry
was done by professionals, there was in
timation of possible sensational develop
uentS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
Oppose Church Union with North.

After a sharp debate the Knoxville
Presbytery OF the Cumberland Presby-
serian church. in session near Concord,
Tenn. defeated the proposition Of union
with the northern branch Of the church
nv vc;e of 20 % Is. Only FIVE minis
ters voted Tor union. Chattanooga Pres
evte-y also opposed union.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
win Pine oil 500 Miles.

The Standard Oil Company is about TO
attempt the greatest pipe line in the his
tory Of the world. 1t will construct
system extending from the Indian Terri
tory fields to Bsyonne, \. j., distance
of 800 miles
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
SAYS HE STOLE TO BUY BREAD.
DIR. Edward T. w. Ellis Pleads Guilty
to RobbinR a Dentists Office.


DR.. Edward I. w. Ellis, whose faith
er is said to have been a colonel on the
staff of Gen. Grant, and president of
Rockford Qll.) bank, appeared before
Recorder Golf in New York for SEN
tence, having pleaded guilty to stealing
gold from a dentists office In court
Ellis made the plea that he had stolen
so that he might buy bread for his wife
and 6-year-old daughter, whom he rep
resented to be in starving condition.
Mrs. Ellis later denied the statement and
said she had supported herself and
daughter for some time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04

distanes east of Lyons, \. y Three
slees,ers on the western express left the
track because of split rail, and threw
the passengers to the floors of the
coaches. just as the train came to a
standstlll fast freight, east bound, ran
into the derailed cars.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04
Girl Victim of Murderer.

The body of Miss Bessie Davis, a
woman % years old, who had been en-
plOyed as a governess at Beverly Farms,
Mass, was found in the water OF Lees
Beach. On the head were two wounds.
Medical Examiner Stickney said he was
not prepared to state whether it was a
case of murder or suicide.