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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
POLES PILLAeE IN REVOLUTION.
Warsaw Stores Wrecked. People Slain,
Soldiers Drunk Amid Slaughter.

Alarming news of the revolution in
Russia was received in Berlin early
Monday morning. As expected, Poland
Is the scene of bloodshed. of pillaging
by mobs. of battles between citizens and
soldiers and of CONGREGATIONS set by in
cendiaries. All Sunday mobs pilaged
and wrecked stores in Warsaw All day
the rifles of the soldiers were splitting
bullets at the pillagers. In one instance
in working class suburb even can
non was fired into crowd In addition
to the general chaos created by strikers
and revoutionists, several companies of
soldiers drank vodka and ran amuck ID
the streets riding down the people ana
firing wildly in every direction. Hun
dreds We're slain.
From the country districts of Poland
come even more alarming news. There
the police and the military have no such
chance to crush the people as in the
cities. Consequently the revolution APP
pears to be gaining more Roadway. In
making war ON the government some of
the people piled the torch.
Thousands of persons are fleeing from
Poland across the border into Germany.
The refugees report that Warsaw was
a veritable slaughter house all Sunday.
The volcano burst early, when the strik-
ers began to parade and the police and
troops tried to suppress them. by their
attacks the authorities only enraged the
masses. who broke into the stores and
the State vodka shops and seized all
the vodka obtainable The fiery liquor
transformed the crowds into mad and
bowling mobs.
There was no limit to the dangers the
mobs hraved in their defiance of consti-
tuted authority. They fought the police
and the soldiers They smashed store
fronts and sacked business houses of all
kinds. They stopped all traffic When
night fell on the ruins. or half ruins, of
hundreds of mercantile. houses. Warsaw
was in a state of anarchy. not a street
lamp was lighted, those who had taken
no part in the days rioting were terror
stricken.
Vodka proved almost as alluring TO
the soldiers as to the mobS. The troops
drank freely. in some cases joining in the
looting TO secure their fayorite beverage.
Then the drunken troops singly and in
small squads attempted to show what
the could DC,
A group of hussars ran down the Brit
ish Vice Consul Muoukain Saturday
night in Marshal Kovski street. Two
hussars rushed at him with their swords,
inficting severe cuts across his face and
lower lip. Dripping with blood Muou-
| kahn was conveyed to the hospital.
Many have been killed or wounded in
charges by troops, AMI the recklessness
of swashbuckling hussars. During the
pillaging of stores many merchants put
chalk crosses on their doors or lighted
ikons in their windows and thus seeur-
ed their safety. The rioters paused be
fore the sacred embems
The hoarse murmurs of the mob
drowned the church bells. Intermittent
firing was proceeding all day. Hun
dreds of shops were wrecked and several
stores were burned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
Excuse to End War.

Belief in London financial and other
well-informed circles that the crisis in
Russia viii soon compel even the grand
ducaI regime to seek peace with Japan
grows stronger. The logic Of the situa-
ton points in this direction. 1t may be
said that those at present controlling the
Russian policy we're practically convinced
of the necessity for bringing the war to
q speedy close before the recent disas-
trous events made such course absolute
" imperative.
1t is hardly TO be expected that peace
nec3tiations will be opened tomorrow or
next week Russia viii probably make
an effort to restore a seinblance Of order
before praying for peace On the other
hand there are those who believe that
the authorizes secretly fomented the
present uprising in order to present 10
the world The spectacle If virtual civil
war. Then naughty Russia could say 70
the enemy whom she still pretends to de-
spise. we are compelled TO devote our
entire energies 70 the solution Of grave
domestic problems. Take Manehuria If
the other powers will let you have IL II
is not worth more Russian blood.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
oueerlY Procured Evidence.

Many years ago a ship was chased
at sea on the suspicion that she was
a SLAYER During the pursuit her cap
tain dropped something overheard,
When overhauled the old tub was TAX
en- to Port Royal for trial. There was
nothing on board to sustain the charge
of slave dealing, and there seemed ev-
cry likelihood of its owner recovering
damages for illegal seizure and deten-
ton. But another ship had passed in
the night in the wake of the others.
She had witnessed the chase and
flight. but had stopped to catch a
shark by the way. In the stomach of
the shark the sailors found Tin box.
In the box were the papers of the
fugitive vessel. These proved her 10
be a slaver of the most unequivocal
character, and upon their evidence shs
was condemned and confscated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07

NEW SENATOR WILL FIGHT.
La Toilette Says he Plans TO Keep up
Railroad Crusade.

Gov. Robert NJ. La Follette's election
as United States Senator was ratified by
both houses of the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture Wednesday before a great throng
of people. Unless the Legislature en-
acts into laws the reforms advocated Ia
the State Republican platform Gov. La
Toilette will decline the election to the
Senate and remain in Wisconsin to con-
tinue the battle for regulation Of rail-
roads.
The Governors speech was the most
sensational ever delivered in the West
IL was the first time in the history of
the country that a man conditionally &C
eepted an election to the United States
Senate. Gov. La Toilette said:
If Mt the beginning of the session,
before any legislation has been enacted,
l accept without qualification or expia-
nation the honor you have given me,
fear it may lead to misunderstanding
by the people of the State; that it may
undermine their confidence in the final
fulillment of the issues made by them.
Il cannot believe that we can even
partly fail in performance of our duty.
| cannot at present see what | could do
as Governor for these issues, for their
fulfllment either in whole or in part,
which l could not do equally well, and
perhaps more effectively, as United
States Senator, in cooperation with the
people of the commonwealth.
But, recognizing, as | must, the pres
ent obligations which re. upon me, l
am compelled to be in readiness to meet
any unforeseen issue which may develop.
For this reason l say, in accepting your
high commission, that if there should APP
pear any conflicting obligation which
should be impossible for Inc to meet as
United States Senator, although elected
to that position, / shall ask you to re-
cede the honor from me and place it upon
another man of your choice
Your call invites me to participate
in the work which is to deal Immediately
with the problems which President
Roosevelt courageously has pressed upon
Congress for solution.
81 appreciate that you have the same
sense of obligation TO the people of Wis
consin which / have. | realize that IL
you had not believed that | could better
serve the peoples interests as United
States Senator than as Governor you
would not have taken this action to-day"
Gov. La Toilette was born III Prim-
rose, Wis, June Il. 1855, and was grad
uated from the University Of Wisconsin
in 1879 The next year he was admitted
to the bar, and from then until 1884 was
district attorney of Dane county. Elected
to Congress in 1887 he remained mem
Der until 1891, and as a member of the
ways and means committee took promi-
nent part in framing the Mckinley tariff
bill. In 1901 he was elected Governor
of his State on the Republican ticket
and reelected last year after n fight
against the machine. Gov. La Toilette
is leader of the reform forces.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
WHAT THE SEA YIELDS.
Annual Value of the Aquatic Flu
Trade

Annual Value of the Aquatic Fur
Trade.
The total value of the annual prod
uct of such things as furs and leath-
ers, bones and worries, glue and sea
weeds, roughly approximates through
out the world $40, 100000, to which
sum the United States contributes
S11.OO0,O0O SO Charles Y. Stevenson
writes in two monographs published
by the fish commission.
1t is known that some twenty kinds
of products issue from crude petro-
leum. running all the way down from
benzine TO chewing gum. But it may
be surprise to learn that in refining
sperm oil. the spermacet which is OBJ
tanned is used in candle making, as an
ointment for medicinal purposes, as
polish on linen in laundering and for
lubricating cartridges.
Take ambergris, a valuable sub
stance. found at rare intervals but
sometimes in large quantities, in the
intestines of the whale or afioat or
cast upon the shore. A single whale
has yielded $4,000 worth of amber
girls, which is used as an incense, in
cookery. as a medicine and as a per
fume. The aquatic fertilizers pro-
duced in the United States approx
mate at present 10000 tons and are
worth about $2,210O0O
Writing in a general way, Mr. Ste
venson says that 30 per cent of the
worlds stock of furs is obtained from
aquatic animals. He says this per-
centage was formerly greater, but il
has been reduced by the decrease in
the product OF beaver, fur seal, otter
and the large increase in quantity of
certain land fur bearers. Yet 20 per
cent of all the furs produced in the
United States comes from aquatic ami
mails and the value OF the annual out
put is close upon S2.5o0.oo0 in the raw
! or undressed state.
There is the leather. aside from the
/ fur. and it is made from the skins of
/ nearly all the aquatic mammals and
of many of the species OF fish. Then
there are the hard substances existing
in the torn of shells. bones and scales
/ Almost 100000 tons are yearly Sc
| cured in the United States. the supply
consisting of the shells of oysters
/ clans and mussels. A fair valuation
of these. with the pearls found. Il
placed ar about S2.ooo,ooo. The yield
of whalebope n our fisheries is lesS
by 3 per cent than it WAS half a cen
tury ago. but the value has correspond
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
LABOR CHURCH FOR CHICAGO.
Pastor, Pulpit and Choir Must Have
Union Label Stamp.

Pastor, Pulpit and Choir Must Have
Union Label Stamp.
A union label church, with a union
pastor, union sexton and union Sunday
school superintendent is proposed by the
Flat Janitors' Union of Chicago, says a
dispatch from that city. A committee is
preparing a report ON the feasibility Of
the proposition, which also provides for
a union choir and the pulpit to be union
made.
The proposition was made at recent
meeting in Chicago by John Higginson,
president of Local No. 100 of the Flat
Janitors' Union. He and John Bent OF
the South Side Janitors' Union were APP
pointed committee to establish a union
church, If they found it possible to do
So Higginson, in proposing the church,
said:
'srhe bulwarks of trade unionism to-
day are purely commercial and social.
without religious fraternity we are weak.
Let us take another step and bring the
pulpit within our realm"
The idea took the meeting by storm.
In reply 10 a question as 10 what the
creed would be, Higginson said i. would
be non-sectarian. There will be no
s.isms" or "ologies" liz the belief, he said
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
HOUSEWIVES WORK TOO HARD.
Writer Thinks American Women Are
ImpeIled by Ambition to Overwork.

Writer Thinks American Women Are
Impelled by Ambition to Overwork.
l hold that that class of women in
America (the Woodworking house
wives is not only hardworked, but
is far too much over-worked. The
number of house servants in the Unit
ed States is not half so large as that
in little England. This entails an enor-
nous amount of household work to be
done by untold thousands of American
housewives. l know it; L have seen it
for years. In factories, in public IL
braries, in postoffices, and other State
offices, in private offices, and in the in
finite number Of schools, American
women are working very hard, fire.
quentiy to the detriment of their con-
situations. But herein is found the
great difficulty in summing up correct
ly the state of women in given coun-
try The hard-worked the over-work-
ed women are of the same type and
class all the world over. They do not
constitute the distinctive type of wom-
anhood of country. We must estimate
them, not by what they are actually
doing, but by what they are aiming at
The very American housewife whose
husband has heretofore been unable to
give her sufficient "help" will, as soon
as her husband is financially success
full, turn out type totally different
from what she has been. 1t is this
ever-present tendency toward the dis
tinctive American woman-type, even
in the lowliest of American house
wives, that constitutes the essential
feature in American womanhood. As
in England there is no bourgeoisie pro-
per, not because there are no middle
class families, of which, indeed, there
is no lack, but because in every Eng
fish middle-class family there are an
ever-present desire and a restless am
bition to get socially out of that mid
die class; even so there is in america
no real bourgeoisie woman, owing to
the unmistakable, ineradicable tenden-
cy in every American woman to reach
the type of that American woman
whom my critics think they can re-
strict to limited number with worldly
Success Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
SCENE OF RUSSIAN SLAUGHTER.
Bire's-Eye Diagram of the Yone of
Awful st. Petersburg Massacre.

Bire's-Eye Diagram of the Yone of
Awful st. Petersburg Massacre.
From the accompanying bird's-eye dia-
gram of the zone Of the awful st. Peters
burg massacre and the barricade battles
of Sunday and Sunday night, prepared
by the Chicago american from cabled re-
ports sud photographs, the readers will
be able to infoIm themselves as to the
"lay Of the land" and the real events of
that day and night Of slaughter, On
Vassili Island (see Cross, where the
great government iron works in which
the first of the strikes was declared are
situated and where the great mass of the
st. Petersburg industrial class lives, the
concentration for the march of the strik-
ers to the Winter Palace took place.
The great assemblage of peaceful-mind-
ed artisans, intent only on presenting a
humble petition to the Car, their little
father" and the head of the church to
which they are devoted, then split into
two sections, one taking up the march
to the palace from Vassili Island via the
Troitsky bridge lin the background and
the other section going over the great
Nicholas bridge (see arrow. Large num-
bers of both sections reached unmolested
the splendid section of the city occupied
by the Winter Palace, the spacious gar
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
CRIMES REIGN IN NEW YORK.
Twenty-One Murderers in the To4nbs
Awaiting Trial.


Awaiting Trial.
Every class of crime, including murder
robbery and burglary, has become so
rampant in New York that District At
-torney- Jerome has acknowledged in court
that murder is being committed with
impunity in the metropolis and Magis-
trate Crane. who sits ON the bench in
Jefferson Market Court, admitted that
human life is no longer safe there.
Mr.. JerOme's remark was called forth
during the trial of Herman Miller, a
bartender, who killed one person and
shot three others, for which he was SEN
fenced TO prison for twenty years.
Life and limb in this city is practi
cally valueless," said Mr. Jerome.
Great numbers of murders are being
committed with impunity. There are
at this time twenty-one prisoners in the
Tombs awaiting trial for murder in the
first degree"
1t is admissions by public officials like
the district attorney and Magistrate
Crane, coupled with such daring hold
ups as took place at the homes of DR..
r. B. Talbot, near Central Park. and
that of Millionaire Brewer +. G.. Woerz,
at Fifth avenue and Sixty-third street
that has brought into being a vigilance
committee composed of New York's best
citizens.
This new organization, the first Of its
kind in the city, will be called the ''Co1n-
Gil Of Civic Organizations in the City of
New York" 1t will be in reality
powerful, centralized vigilance commit
tee. representative of and backed by a
large nuIaber of organizations and clubs.
Abundant funds, enabling it to prosecute
to the limit any work or campaign it
undertakes. are guaranteed it.
The entire police force is in a state
of Generalization because Of charges Of
corruption and neglect against several
commanders of precincts, and the great
est shake-up ever known is promised.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07

dens of st. Isaac's Cathedral, the Nevsky
prospect and the government buildings,
where they were REINFORCED by thou
sands of other striking workmen and also
by revolutionists. Then. when the great
throng of marching workmen were fairly
in the great military trap prepared by
the authorities ito teach them lesson, :"
merry trumpet call rang out. 1t was
the signal for slaughter. Stopping their
merry games and fun, the soldiers of
''the little father" drew up in line of bat
tie at the bridges over which the two
professions were still passing, in the pal
ace square, on the Nevsky prospect and
in the cathedral gardens. Another sig
nal and the first volley was fired. 1t was
of blank cartridges. Thank God" cried
the leaders of the marching host. "the
Gear will not kill his children" The sol
diers grinned. Another signal And an
other volley. Real bullets this time.
Scores fall in every spot where the troopG
are met. Then the fighting began. Bar
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
NOT YET A REVOLUTION.
Disturbance in Russia Not Like that
Which Rafhed Erauce In Blood


Which Bathed France In Blood.
Many thought that the scenes in st.
Petersburg were but the opening Of "
revolution similar to the tragedy that
oathed France in blood. There was lit
tie similarity between the two.
In Russia we have on the one side the
nobility; the rich and powerful On the
other side, the poor and ignorant, who
have never had any voice in govern
ment nor single right that the throne
was bound to respect. The line is sharp
ly drawn. The ruling class has soldiers
and the will to use them. In France
the people had been given q taste of
government in the assembling of the
States General. They wanted more of ii.
Not only that, but in their ranks were
many men and women of the titled class
who believed that the governed should
have a hand in government, that the
power of the monarch should be strictly
limited On the throne was Louis XVI,
mild-mannered individual, without any
great amount of force. Leaving the jus
tice of the peoples cause out of the ques-
ton, there isn't doubt that if he had
had the soldiers and the nerve to use
them, as they were used in st. Peters
burg, there would have been no French
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07

Maxim Gorky, the great Russian
novelist and ardent revolutionist,
shortly before his arrest wrote as fol
lows:
The bloody dawn of the day of free
dom will be followed by more slaughter,
but in the end the people viii triumph.
The people carried their faith in the
Little Father" up to the Neva gate.
In one volley the soldiers of the Gar
destroyed the power of his name.
Every widow and every orphan that
was made has voice that will pronounce
the end of absolutism in Russia.
Instead of supprcssing by terror they
have aroused a spirit that will never die
until the old order of things is forever
buried.
January % will be a date in the his
tory of the worlds progress that will
never be forgotten.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
THE POET TO DIVES.

You dine in state. from silver plate
Your wines are rich and red;
l, in a garnet, fight with fate
And MUNICH a crust Of breadl
Bright chandeliers
Above you CLEAN;
| dwell in darkness,
With dream.
Slaves at your bidding come and go
Your hayward will they wait;
| could not cringe and grovel so,
And hence, 1 starve in stated
Starve for dream
That ever flies,
Yet dies it not
Though the dreamer diesl
Yet. for that dream. still wearing now
The livery of a slave,
Full oft the unlaureled head would bow
The Lazarus crumb to Gravel
To you-earth's gold,
Of dying CLEAN;
God gives to me
An immortal dream!
Atlanta Constitution
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
TURMOIL IN EUROPE.
Politics and Social Conditions Are
Widely Disturbed.

Politics and social conditions in Eu-
rope are more disturbed than at any pre-
vious period since the Franco Prussian
war Russia is battling with ineipient
revolution. Germany is involved in a
coal strike. In both Russia and Ger
many these disturbances are partly in
dustrial and partly political. In France
the ministry has just fallen and a new
one has been appointed, but it will con-
tinue Premier Combes' policy, which
caused the downfall of his own cabinet
There may be hostility to the new cabi-
net. There is smoldering fire along the
Italio-Austrian border Domestic poll
cies in Austria Hungary constitute vol
cano that may break forth at any time. !:
The Balkan peninsula is threatened with
an uprising along with a Turkish cam
paign of repression.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07

The backbone of the strike, riot or
revolution-cal it what you within
Russia will be broken by force; but the
lives sacrificed will not have gone out
in vain, for the time will come when the
people will have voice in the govern
ment of Russia. Whips, bayonets, sword
thrusts and double-shotted guns may de-
lay it, but it will come. The road to lib
erty is strewn with corpses. 1t was so
from the beginning.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07

ricades were thrown up in the places
shown in the diagram. Before the day
and night of slaughter had ended 1000
had been killed and 5000 wounded, these
awful figures being maintained by corre-
spondents in face of official reports min
imizing the massacre and which are said
to be prepared with intent TO receive the
Gar and the outside world On Nicholas
bridge the infantry at first refused to fire
on their brethren and threw down their
arms. Then the merciless Cossacks,
armed with sabers. We're turned loose on
the by this time fleeing populace And
this is the story of Russia's est Bar
tholomew."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07

revolution, but only modification of the
existing government
The situation in France. the Cincinnati
Post says, was nothing like that in ST
Petersburg. In modern times, with mod
ern soldiers and modern methods of as
sembling troops, Paris could not again
swing France. This was shown in 1870
1871 during the Commune
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07

man violinist, born at Essen, Ger
many, in 1885. He came to this coun-
try when 10 years old. AS youth he
created a sensation as a violinist and
played for Jenny Lind and other stars.
He gave concerts in New York, finally
went west and since 1891 had made
his home permanently in Chicago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07
A FAMOUS MUSICIAN.

Theodore Thomas, Who Died Recently
in Chicago.
The death in Chicago of Theodore
Thomas removed one of the foremost
musicians OF the world For fourteen
years he had been at the head of the
Chicago Orchestra, and had recently
erected an orchestra hall costing near
ly $1,000,000. He was a son Of a Ger
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07

ers daughter, you're worth two of
me-
Very well. then; I'll remain Enda
Murphy"
Until you become Mrs. Spencer"
Then he went to send the doctor
home.-Indianapo Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07

A FIGHT WHICH IS DESTINED TO BE HISTORIC
When historian Arthur
will thrilling will be called
depict deals with deadly of
Okeshan dubbed
rifles
Illustrated London News from which reproduce the
only by standing with their backs to the rocks and firing their rifles
finding
bouders
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07

The international Commission appoint
ed to inquire into the North Sea incident
has prepared protocol Of over twenty
articles governing the procedure.