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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
ON Is CENTS A DAY.
Army Comm issary Officer Says Man
Can Live on This Amount.

Army Com M issary officer Says Man
Can Live on This Amount.
Will 10 cents worth of food supply
plentifully a laborer who works hard
for eight hours, or soldier who fights
or marches all day? That is a question
which is at present bothering United
States army officers. Major William III.
Bean of Omaha, chief of commssary of
the Department Of Missouri, thinks that
he has solved the problem of feeding
soldiers in his department plentifully up
on 10 cents day. To substantiate his
opinion the major is feeding ten OF the
most able-bodied laborers he can find,
STIMULATING that not more than 5 cents
will be spent on any one meal and giving
assurances that when five days are up
not one will find fault with the fare.
The first day the ten dined at the ma
jor's table. Hundreds of workingmen
crowded about the commissary depart
ment to see what the fare would be and
what the verdict, OF the men on whom
the experiment was conducted. Roast
beef, brown gravy, baked potatoes. ba-
con, beans, tomatoes, pickles, prunes,
two kinds of bread and customary sea-
sonings were on the bill. The majors
guests were enthusiastic over the feast.
THE idea was suggested to me by tie
thousands of families who find support
on laborers' wages difficult and by criti-
cisms of those who see in bills for the
army's support that American soldiers
cannot live WELL" said Major Bean.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
odds and Ends.

An epidemic Of CHAMBERS has broken
out among the horses at West Pcint.
II is thought the disease was brought
there by polo pony recently purchased
in the West.
After flying with her Chinese sweet
heart 10 escape the wrath Of her parents.
Miss Roberta Lang OF San Francisco has
been married to Lum Tan Tsee 10 China
town, New York
The Greek patriarch Mt Consianiinopie
has received replies TO bis proposition "
union Of the Roman Catholic reformed
and Orthodox churches and tie majority
are In the negative.
The $4,000 breach OK promise suit
by Katherine Wolverton. tue handsome
Sew York cloak model. against Dudley
Baldwin. a wealthy ClevelanS bachelor.
has been settled fer ab0nt $1,000
A dispatch 10 Berlin reports tlat
number Of Russian soldiers mastered
seven members Of Jewish family aeaT
Warsaw. The soldiers then piundersd
the house and occurred $1,000 IN cash.
The first slsovelsul Of earth was tarred
on the Huntley fats irrigation canal
project. which has FOR iss purpose tho
reclamation ~ 3a0o0 acres near BIZ
Iiugs. Mont. a canal fifteen miles long
END piercing a small mountain VIII De
constructed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
ASK MILLIONS FOR RIVER.
Delegation to Go to Washington in In
terest of Upper Mississinpi.


In accordance with resolutions adopted
at the convention of the Upper Mssis-
sippi River Improvement Association in
Davenport Oct. 21-22. Thomas .Nilkin-
son of Burlington. president of the asso-
citation, has appointed a committee con-
sisting of Gov. S. r. Van SAINT of Min
nesota, chairman, Ellis B. Usher, La
Crosse, Wis; Alonzo Bryson. Davenport
Iowa; Lewis B. Boswell, Quincy, ILL.,,
and Frank Gainnie, st. Louis, Mo-, to go
TO Washington and there present before
the proper authorities the purposes of
the association and endeavor to secure
favorable action upon the memorial to
Congress adopted by the convention. The
memorial sets forth the Importance of
the FIVE great States of Minnesota, Wis
consin, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, con-
tiguous to the upper Mississippi river,
and the necessity for permanent improve
ments of the river so as to establish and
maintain a steamboat channel of six feet
in depth at low water from St. An
thongs falls to the mouth of the Ohio
river, distance of ], 100 miles, Cor which
Congress is asked to appropriate the sum
of $15,000,0O0.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
thirty Years Ago.

Discovery was made by a United
States Senate committee that Attorney
General Williams and other members of
President Grants cabinet had purchas-
ed carriages for their own use from gov
ernmcnt funds.
A magazine at Cartagena, Spain,
which the revolutionists were lombard
ing, exploded ana killed eighteen per-
sons.
Tammany Hall issued an address con-
graduating the citizens Of New York on
the conviction of Tweed and members Of
his ring"
A great mass meeting of the unem-
ployed was held in Twelfth Street Tur-
ner Hall, Chicago, at which ''bloated
aristocrats" were denounced, and charges
made that the Northern laborer was
worse off than the Southern slaves.
Five hundred Spanish troops were am
pushed near Guaimaro, Cuba, by in
surgents under Maxine Gomez, and all
but 100 captured.
The House Of Representatives passed
a repeal Of the salary grab bill, fixing
the salaries of Congressman at $500
yearly and reducing that Of the Presi
dent of the United States to $4,000 af-
ter the current term.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
STARVING WITH $4,000.
Aged Miner with Fortune in His Room
Is Discovered Dying.

Starving to death with $4,000 in gov
ernment bonds in the same room, was the
plight in which Bert Hartman, a hermit,
so years old, living near Weeping Wat
er. Neb., was discovered. The old man
was unconscious when found and died
an hour later. Hartman had long been
known as a miser and is supposed TO be
without relatives. He had not been seen
for several days, and the other morning
neighbors went to the house. which was
found bolted and barred from within. BY
the aid of ladders entrance was gained
and in the attic, without fire or food,
Hartman was found dying from starva-
ton. A horse in his barn was almost
dead from lack of food In addition to
his $4,000 in bonds, Hartman owned the
same amount in real estate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Seveaty-tive Years EGO.

Lord Liverpool. British premier, was
killed at the opening of the first railroad
into the city of Liverpool.
Flour was quoted at SIS a barrel in
the island of Cuba.
The public debt of the United States
was announced by the Secretary of the
Treasury as S50,000,000
Mrs. Andrew Jackson, wife of the
President-elect, died suddenly near
Nashville, Tenn, of heart disease, caus-
ed, her friends asserted. by campaign
charges that Jackson had married her
without waiting for her first husband to
be DIVORCED.
The city of Boston was unable to find
candidate for Mayor because the Office
was held in so little repute.
The State of Georgia formally extend
ed its criminal jurisdiction over the lands
claimed by the Cherokee Indians.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
BUSHES ON TO DEAF
Train Fails to Stop with Signal Lich
Gone.

Tone.
One of the worst wrecks in the lor@
list OF railway horrors occurred Saturday
night on the pere Marquette Railroad
six miles east of Grand Rapids. Mich.
Twenty-Five persons were killed outright
and twenty-nine persons were injured.
Many of the injured We're crushed and
manned in a frightful manner
The wreck was the result of a head-on
collision Of an east-bound aud a west
bound passenger train and was due to
the high wind blowing out the red signal
,ight set at AIcCord's for the purpose. of
stopping the west-boand train. As the
west bound train rushed past the opera
tor at McCord's Immediately reported
the fact to the dispatcher, and running
to the signal board found the light was
out
The two trains were running at full
speed and the engines were reduced to
tangled bits of wreckage. The first cars
were also demolished and the entire
trains left the track except the last
coach on each, so great was the force of
the collision.
The east-bound train was crowded
with passengers when it left Grand
IAdDitS. II GdIhitQ sC0ItN VI
visitors returning to their homes along
the Pere Marquette line after spending
the holidays in the city. The train Sas
much heavier than usual on account of
this extra rush. The incoming train also
was heavily loaded. 1t. too, bore a hol-
Iday crowd as well as the regular Satur-
day rush of passengers. As usual, the
smokers were damaged more than any of
the other coaches and in the smokers ev-
cry seat was occupied.
The wreck took place about half a
mile west of East Paris. There is
curve at thai point and long grade
extends from half a mile east OF East
Paris to near the scene of the wreck.
The west-bound train had just descended
this grade when the collision occurred.
The speed of the train must have been
very high because of the velocity by the
descent of the grade and of the fact that
the train was trying to make MP time.
While the two fast passenger trains,
beyond human recall rushed through the
binding blizzard to meet in crash that
snuffed out twenty-five lives and injured
twenty-nine persons, many of them fa-
tally officials of the Pere Marquette Rail.
road kept a CHASTITY vigil with death.
When the terrified operator at McCord
had licked off his hating message that
the west-bound train had whirled past
his station and was beyond reach the dis
patchers could do naught but call for med
ical aid and order the fastest engine at
tached to the wreck train. Then they
bent over their silent instruments. await
ing in agonized suspense the dread mes
sage they knew would come.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

Want and woe will stalk through ziaa
City this winter unless money comes in
literally to relieve the situation, writes
correspondent The fue. supply OF
many families has rua ont entirely and
the food stocks IN the general stores are
low. Few Of the working class among
the Zionists have any money other than
the scrip issued by pIvie in lieu of
money in payment of wages, which is
redeemable only at the Zion general
store. But with the store stock exhaust
ed the unfortunate persons will be ut
terly unable to procure the necessities of
life. Then will come the desolation and
suffering OF Dowic's faithful.
The weil-to-do among DR.. Dowie's fol-
lowers though sore perplexed by the
present trials and fluctuations of the
head of their church and community, will
probably come ont of the ordeal with
only the experience of inconvenience TO
remind them that they have been dis
turbed for once in the even tenor of their
contented living. But this is not so of
the rank and file of the Dowieites. They
have nothing. no money to live on, much
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
SAM PARKS.

goes well. According to Warden John
ston, Parks viii be put at light work in
the brush shop. more to occupy his mind
and hands than to accomplish any ma
terial results.
The prison doctor is authority for the
statement that both of Parks lungs are
solidified and that he has daily hemor-
rhages. There is no hope for his recov-
cry, it is declared, and he will not live
ont tha SDriDO
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
TIMES SUICIDE TO GAIN $4,000.
Geo. w. Adams of Chicago Kills Him
self Before Life Policy Expires.

George w. Adams, a prominent insur-
ance man, formerly of Chicago, whose
suicide was discovered the other morning,
had timed his death just ahead of the ex
piration of a policy for $4,000 on his
life. Mr.. Adams. who was 20 years old,
killed himself at his room in the Empire
House in Tiffin, Ohio, by shooting him
self through the breast while in bed. His
body was found by friend, who had
spent the previous evening with Mr.. Ad-
ans and had been requested to bring Mr..
Adams mail to the room in the morning.
The revolver had been held under the
bed covers as the shot was fired He
carried total life insurance Of $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
CHICAGO.

| ~. Aetoll merchandising at
| Ulll6dUO tanned proportions exceed
- ] ing all previous experience.
and closed for the holidays with total
sales much ahead of the corresponding
period last year. Demand was better
sustained than had been anticipated, and
the buying power of the people disclosed
no diminution. An seasonable stocks
show the effects of unparalleled CON
sumption. \ gratifying feature was the
improvement in purchases made of high
priced wares and articles OF luxury. 9th
er goods especially adapted to Christmas
trade sold very freely, and the staple
lines of wearing apparel household
needs and footwear We're readily dispos-
ed of. Estimates of the gain in sales
made indicate a probable average of 20
per cent over year ago. Dealings in
hats and caps. smokers articles aud gro
ceries were largely swelled. Wholesale
trade reports Improvement in collections
and sales satisfactory, both in reassort-
ments and advance selections for spring
delivery. The west-bound movement of
merchandise shows well-sustained vol
ume but decrease appears in the east
bound shipments of foodSuffs.
Conditions in the principal manufac-
turing branches are without important
change. Failures in the Chicago district
number % against 3 for the previous
week and % year ago
Grain shipments aggregate 1901 507
bushels and are one-ffth under the cor
responding period Of 1902. Reports indi-
cate a more favorable condition in win
ter wheat growth. The interior move.
ment of grain is much heavier and taxes
the ability of railroads TO supply neces-
sary cars. The domestic demand for
wheat is only moderate but the price
was forced up ON the uncertain outcome
of the Russia-Japan dispute Compared
with the closing a week ago the net add
vance is u cents. Coarse grains were
in ample supply, and on light foreign
buying oats declined / cent and corn u
cent. Provisions developed strength on
better domestic sales. pork advancing So
cents and lard 80 cents. Live stock re
ceipts 3S7 743 head. are Is per cent over
year ago. The general demand was
good, and values gained in cattle and
sheep - cents per hundredwcight, anF
IN hogs 10 cents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Grated Wife's skin.

After shooting her husband, whom she
mistook for a burglar. Mrs. A. F. Butler
of Austin suburb. Chicago, induced the
physicians to graft from her own body
the flesh necessary to save his leg from
amputation. For days she has lain on
a cot by her husbands side at the Gar
field Park sanitarium and without co.'s
plant undergone the tortures of sur
gical operation each day as the doctors
transferred, bit by bit, the particles OF
flesh and pieces Of the "a inches of cuti-
Gle which she heroically gave up that her
husband might not lose his leg
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
QUAKE ROCKS MANY Ho6sEs.
Earth Distur bance in New York State
Gives Sounds Like Thunder.

Earth Disturbance in New York State
Gives Sounds Like Thunder.
A distinct shock was felt throughout
Ogdensburg, n. Y. Telephone reports
show that it was noticed all through st.
Lawrence County, being severest along
the st. Lawrence valley Buildings
trembled violently at Madrid, sixteen
miles cast. The earthquake was accom-
panied by noise resembling thunder,
which was sufficiently loud to awaken
people. A severe earthquake shock last
ing about eight seconds occurred at Los
Angeles, Cal. The big buildings in the
business center swayed for an instant as
though they would fall and people rush
ed into the streets, thinking some explo-
sion had occurred. No damage is re-
ported
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
srAMP cosrs Is YEARs.
Man Who Held Up Mail Carrier Is
Now Free.

Ellsworth p. Defrance the other day
left Sioux Falls, S. D., penitentiary a
free man after having served a term of
fifteen years, less good time allowance,
for the theft of a 2-cent postage stamp.
The case is one of the most remarkable
in the history of western courts. De
france was convicted in the United
States Court for Nebraska of holding up
mail carrier Although it was shown
at his trial that he secured only a post
age stamp, he was sentenced to imprisop
ment in the Sioux Falls penitentiary for
life. President Mckinley committed this
to fifteen wears
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Fire Los. Almost . NTil1ion.

Fire in the storage warehouse of
Haugh & KEENAN,. Third street and Du-
quesne way, Pittsburg, which burned
twelve hours, caused loss of at least
100000 and it may reach $700,000 The
Carnegie Museum may lose considerable
on its Bayet collection of fossils, which
were stored in the building for want Of
room at the Carnegie institution building
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
MARINES RUSHED TO COLON.
Dixie Sails with 900 Men and Five
Months Supplies.


The auxiliary cruiser Dixie sailed from
the League Island navy yard, Philadel-
phia, the other day EN- route for Colon,
carrying COO marines and five months
living and fighting supplies for 1000
men. Six companies of marines divided
into two battalions sailed on the Dixie.
Company A is composed Of men from
Boston, Company B Washington, Com
pany G Annapolis, Company d Phila-
delphia, and Companies + aud F Brook
Ign.
Nearly a train load Of army supplies,
hospital tents and blankets has arrived
at San Francisco under rush orders. hav-
ing been expressed by the government
from Omaha to the superintendent of the
transport service in San Francisco. The
consignment had been carried on the fast
est trains through the West.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
General Reyes Make Demands.

Gen. Reyes. in behalf OF Colombia, de-
nands that former conditions on the 18th
mus be restored and his country allowed
IA nat down the rebellion alone.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
GIVES UP LABOR TEMPLE.
Chicago Typographical Union Votes
to Abandon Building Project.

After considering the business outlook
and perils involved in trades unions own
ing real estate, Typographical Union No
16, of Chicago, voted to abandon build
ing project that has been contemplated
for some time. The union has been ne
gotiating for property for several
months, the aim being to purchase and
erect a building to be used as a labor
temple Arguments which resulted in the
abandonment of this scheme referred to
the recent experience of Franklin Union
in the courts and to the present unsettled
business outlook.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Twenty Years Ago.

The last drawing of the Louisiana lot
terry was held at New Orleans.
Mile. Marie Colombier, author of the
purported memoirs Of Sarah Bernhardt,
was horsewhippei at Paris by the latter.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt and 9th
er guests At a dinner given by Glad
stone at Hawarden were surrounded by
detectives because of threatened attack
by Fenians.
Brick Pomeroy declared there was
more wickedness TO the acre in New
York City than on any spot OF this or
the next world.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Thousands of Poor Are Fed.

Between 5000 and 10000 hungry PEG
pie were fed at the annual Christmas
dinner given by the Volunteers of Amer
lea at the Coliseum annex in Chicago
Baskets of food were sent to $500 PEG
pie unable because of sickness or lack
of clothing to attend the feast.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Caught by Belt and ScaIped.

Ollie Holhrook. Ii years old. employed
in bakery in Nebraska City, Neb.. step
ped too elese 10 the Shafting operating 4
large mountaineering apparatus. Her
hair was caught in one of the belts. she
was jerkea OF her feet. and before help
could come the scalp was literally tom
from her head
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

Commissioner Richards of the general
land office has announced his awards
under the sealed bids received for timber
on the coded Chippewa Indian lands in
Minnesota in the vicinity OF CasS Lake.
The total amount covered by The accept
ed bids is $1,4S2,7I2
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
High Wind Strikes Omaha.

A stiff Northwestern, which at one time
reached a velocity of fOrty-ive miles an
hour, struck Omaha, doing considerable
property damage. Martin Geisler. a la
borer, was blown from scaffold and re-
ceived fatal injuries. A number of plate
glass windows were blown in and large
signs torn from their fastenings.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Albert Lea College Assigns.

The trustees of Albert Lea College
at Albert Lea, Mimi, have made an as
signment for the benefit of creditors of
the college. The liabilities are from 49,
600 to $4,000 and the assets five times
rs much, including school buildings. resi-
dence. and property. The downfall was
brought about in part by friction between
Albert Lea College and MacAlister Col
lege. another Presbyterian State school
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
GETS Rich Mineral Lands,

The Minnesota supreme Court has
fled a decision affirming the findings OF
the lower court in the big land case of
f :. KoSmerl ct al against Katrina
Mueller CT al. This action originated in
Duluth and concerned the ownership of
rich mineral lands in the MeSaba range.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

The creation Of a buffer state be-
tween French and British possessions in
Asia was proposed
Four hundred men were killed in Bra.
I'll in a battle between government troops
and revoIutionists.
Hundreds of families in Brooklyn. \.
T.. were reported by Father Mahoney
OF that city as literally starving because
Of lack OF work.
The St Nicholas bank Of New YORK
City closed lis doors. its capital impair.
ed and surplus Of $4,000 gone.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Struggled Bomb Kills Twelve.

Twelve persons have been killed at the
village of Resina near Genoa, Italy, by
an explosion of dynamite while they were
preparing bombs to fire off in a celebra
ton. The police forbade the use of dy-
Mantle, but the villagers had eluded their
vigilance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
seri Indian. on a Raid.

The Seri Indians, who occupy Tiburon
island in the Gulf of California, have
gone on the warpath, and, according to
information received by the military au-
thorities at Hermosillo, Mexico, the saw
ages are raiding ranches and committing
depredations ON the mninlang
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Receive. united state. ENVOY.

w. l. Buchanan, United States minis
ter TO the republic of Panama, presented
his credentials to the provisional govern
ment Friday. His reception was most
enthusiastic. He was met at the palace
by a guard of honor and all the digni-
taries of the republic now in Panama
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Nineteen Slain In Mission,

Minister Lyon has reported to the
State Department from Monrovia, Ii
IBERIA. the details of the massacre of a
white missiOnary-JOhn G. Tate-with
all of his following, eighteen in number
in the depths of an African forest 1t
appears that the massacre took place as
far back as March 10, 1901.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Brothers VIII nie Together.

Gov Van SAINT fixed Feb. 10 as the
date of the execution of Charles and
Henry Nelson, the two brothers whose
conviction of murder in the first degree
was recently confirmed by the Supreme
Court. They were convicted of having
killed saloonkeeper at Owatonna,
Mimi. last August
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Sends TO Gallovu Kill. self.

In Lebanon. Pa. John L. Fisher.
charged with the murder of ]. Marshall
Funck, swore on the stand that Funek
committed suicide because he believed he
had, rs prosecuting attorney, caused an
innocent man 10 go to the gallowS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Head Cru.hed, Pocket. Emnt,.

Dying of a wound that had been in
fiicted from behind and evidently without
warning, DIR. Seymour t. Jarecki, assist
ant city health commissioner, was found
in his office at the court house in Den
Yer. He had been robbed of 500 and
his gold watch
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Date of Ohio Republican Convention

John r. Clingerman, chairman of the
Republican State Central Committee.
announced that at a conference with
General Charles Dick and other party
leaders it had been decided that the Ohio
State convention would be held about the
middle of next May.