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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
In the National CanitnI.


Cornelius Vanderbilt is said to be
slated for the ambassadorship TO Ger
many.
Secretary Hay and Minister Corea
| have signed an cxtradition treaty for the
United States and Nicaragua.
The Senate in executive session rati-
fed the international sanitary treaty. and
that designed to repress the trade IN
white women.
Owing 10 the failure of Congress to
provide new legislation for the Cover
ment of the canal zone Secretary Taft
has decided that he can continue to adj
minister its affairs.
Frederick Il. Rttman Of Cleveland.
Ohio, auditor for the War Department.
has rendered his resignation, and b. +.
Harper of Fort Wayne, Ind, will be
appointed TO fill the vacancy.
James D. Reynolds of Boston. former
ly secretary of the Massachusetts Re
publican State committee, has taken the
oath of Office as assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, succeeding Robert b. Arm
strong, resigned.
Captain George w. Kirkman of the
Twenty-ifth infantry, who is being tried
by court martial at Fort Nlobrara. Neb..
On charges of conduct to the prejudice of
good order and military discipline, has
rendered his resignation.
For the first time within the range
Of memory the Supreme Court was late
the other day in coHyening. Owing TO
n misunderstanding among the justices
there was no quorum until fifteen minutes
past noon, the time Of opening.
A peace jubilee to celebrate the Fiji.
eth anniversary of the close of the Civil
War was proposed to President Roose-
Welt by Newell Sanders If Chattanooga
Tenn, who suggested that the exposition
be held at Chattanooga in 1915.
The Comptroller Of the Treasury has
revised the decision Of the auditor for
the War Department on the claim az the
State of Wisconsin for interest maid ~,
bonds issued to raise money 10 mia lie
United States in the Civil War m.
State has already been paid S45s g77
and the comptroller Gnds still due S725-
9S1.
Sir Mortimer DuraDd, the British am
bassador, signed with Secretary Hov a
treaty providing for the relinquisbmeBf
Of this governments extra territorial
rights in Zanzibar.
The State Department has received a
cablegram from Mr.. Russell. the Ameyj-
can minister to Bogota. announcing the
appointment Of Diego Mendoza as minis
ter from Colombia TO the United State
The act prohibiting the selection Of
timber lands in exchange for lands which
have been included within forest reserves.
which was passed during the closing
hours of Congress. will. IL is estimated.
save the government 100000 acres Of
timber land.
Secretary Morton has reconsidcred his
decision 70 reject armOr plate bids of the
Midvale Steel Company, and VIII award
10 that company. which was the lowest
bidder. contract for 1000 tons.
treaty between virtually all nations
for the exemption Of hospital ships in
lime Of war from the payment of all dues
and taxes imposed for the benefit Of the
state was ratified by the Senate.
John O. Jones Of Chicago, a former
member of the Illinois Legislature has
hem elected president Of the Central
American exposition to be held in Wash
inrton on Sept. II to show the progress
made By the negro in the United Statx
In the last Fifty years
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
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The iourneymen tailors have voted to
have a regular convention date once in
four years.
OF the 13G,5G1 freight cars ordered for
American railroads last year $4,000 were
of steel construction.
A machine is being perfected in a
Birmingham shop that is to turn out
from 10000 to 100000 finished wire nails
an hour.
The American inventor, apparently,
never takes a vacation. The government
issued 597 patents one day last week, and
there are plenty more applications pend
ing.
The manufacture of motor cars and
their accessories has become one of the
most important French industries. From
a total Of $50 automobiles in 1898. val
ued at 81, SOP. 900, the output in 1904, ao-
cording TO the Chamber syndicate dc
FAutomobile de France, has grown to
30 600 cars, Of an estimated value of
So, 100000.
A colony Of railroad men from this
country will go to Japan in the near
future to assist in Americanizing the
railroads there under japanese govern
ment control.
A general movement is on foot at New
York to increase the wages of washer
women to $50 a day and car fare. Now
the women get SIS for a days work
away from home.
Twenty-seven thousand men are now
employed at the Krupp works at Essen,
Germany, the highest number ever en-
ployed there. In the heavy gun depart
ment men are working in double shifts.
From the governments lsust reports
Of Industrial statistics P4nnsYlvania IS
first on the list in the number Of children
employed under is yea.s Of age. with
%. 135. New TCrk is seaond. with 13.1S9.
Softening Of the brain. brought about
by lack Of mental exercise. causes the
Isath Of one-third Of the rural laborers
Of England, was the remarkable stare
menr made in court in London by DR..
Duke.
The total output Of the oyster indus
try in New York during the last year
was 6.Gis2. go bushels. according TO the
annual report Of Superintendent Wood Of
the shelIfish bureau. Their value Is es-
timated at S7,603,7O0.
Seven thousand factories in the State
of Michigan have been inspected in the
last year and The evil Of child labor has
been practically eliminated
Under the operation of the New York
child labor laws, enacted in 1903, the
number Of children permitted to work
in factories continues to decrease.
Louisiana birthstone is now added 70
Texas petroleum. Alabama iron, Caro-
Ina cotton goods and Southern cotton.
rice and sugar. as a commercial article
in which Dixie is price maker and inn
portant source % supply. The sulphur
mines Of Louisiana produce a pure brin-
stone in great quantity. which can be
sold in competition with that Of Sicily.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
TWO FORTUNES TO POLICEMAN.
New York officer Loses a Wealthy
Uncle on Each Continent.

New York officer Loses Wealthy
Uncle on Each Continent.
Jeremiah Barber, policeman who has
served New York City four years, has, It
is reported, fallen heir to two fortunes
aggregating nearly 100000. The first
notice of his good fortune came from
Oakland. Cal. where the polceman's
uncle. James Elgar, died recently. Bar
Der was on strike duty and had not been
nome in four days when his wife hurried
to the station with letter announcing
that her husband had been willed the
bulk of his uncle's estate. When the
husband and wife had embraced each
other over the sudden 'opulence. the force
gathered about and wrung the police
mans hand until it ached Barber went
out on post and his wife went home. At
midni hit she came back in a cab with a
cabiegram announcing the legal disposi-
ton OF the estate of another uncle at
Hamsgate, England which had been in
litigation two years. The policeman, ac-
cording TO the cablegram. was entitled
under the decision to about 100000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
LOOT MAY REACH $4,000.

Home of Rich New-Xorker Robbed
While Family is in Europe.
Property valued at from $4,000 to
$4,000 consisting mostly of gold and
silver tableware, has been stolen from
the home in East Oath street, New York,
of Joseph h. Schoenberg, a wealthy mer-
chant. who has establishments through
out Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA. The mer-
chant and his family are now travelling
ia Europe The house has been boarded
up both front and rear. Bric-a-brac, sill
verware, paintings and other household
articles valued at nearly 100000 We're
left there without a caretaker. Inspec-
ton of the house by Schoenberg's daugh-
ter and son-in-Iaw disclosed the robbery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
KEYSTONE MINERS TO FIGHT.
Advised Not to Work After March 81
Until Operators Sign Agreement.

The sixteenth annual convention of
District No. >, United Mine Workers
of America, opened in Altoona, Pa.
There were go delegates, representing
154 local unions and 35.640 miners in
the central Pennsylvania bituminous dis
trict, present. Great interest is shown
by operators and miners in the gather
ing. President Gilday in his report says
that never before has it been so difficult
to force agreement with the operators
as during the past year. He advises all
miners to refuse to resume operations
after March 81 until the scale agreement
is signed by the operators.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
ANOTHER BIG OIL SCHEME.
Gates and Cudahys Reported Interes
ed in 35O-MiIe Pine Line.

1ot~S dho Nuudny hCpOEtC0 AhtCtCst-
ed in 35O-Mile Pipe Line.
As a result of the fight against the
Standard Oil Company in Kansas elab-
crate plans for the erection by indepen-
dent companies of pipe lines and REIN
cries are in progress of formation, ac-
cording TO the Kansas City Times. j.
Il. and A. l.. Levy, oil men formerly
from the Lima (Ohio) field, are credited
with having planned the erection of 4
refinery at Kansas City for the produc-
lion of fuel oil, the crude material pro-
duct to be piped from Kansas. The
plans call for an outlay of $4,000 and
daily output of 100000 barrels of crude
oil. AT Chanute, Kan, meeting of pro-
ducers has been held to consider the pro-
Ject for pipe line to Port Arthur,
Texas. At the meeting Chanute bank
er asserted that he had sold to an Eng
ilsh concern, operating largely at Beau
mont, Texas, and in the Russian fields,
s',5oO,OOO in bonds to push the enter
prise The line would be $50 miles in
length and have a capacity of 10000
barrels of oil day. The Cudahys, the
packers, and John w Gates are said to
De interested in the Port Arthur project.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
PRAIRIE FIRE KILLS STOCK.
Fierce Flames in North Dakota De-
stroy Valuable Property.

Fierce Flames in North Dakota De-
stroy Valuable Property.
The hercest and most devastating
prairie fire which has visited that section
in years swept past Glendale, n. d.,
late the other afternoon and evening,
entailing heavy loss. Starting the other
side of the hills, eighteen miles west of
there, 1t travelled with frightful speed
straight for the town, but before it
reached there the wind veered into the
north and carried the FIRE south. Thou
sands upon thousands of tons of hay
have been burned and hundreds of heads
OF stock lost. Christ Shea lost seventy
i've head of cattle and Richard Mock
lost everything that would burn-his
house and barn, two large haystacks,
his horses and cattle and forty hogs.
Others have met with even greater loss
es. No lives were lost so far as known.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
BURN A WOMAN'S FEET
BURGLARS TORTURE WIFE OF
NORTH DAKOTA POSTMASTER
Pain, However, Fails to Make Her Re-
veal Hiding Place of Nloney-H ouse
of Wealthy New-Yorker Looted Dur
ing His Absence.

Four men are under arrest in Ham
kinson, \. d., charged with burglary at
Fairmount. and they have been identified
by Postmaster james Engels of Thiede
as the men who entered the postoffice at
Thiede and after having Overpowered
him, tortured Mrs Engels by burning
her feet with matches to make her re-
veal the location of $500 The police re-
fuse to give the names of the men. The
$500 was the proceeds of a sale of a
team of horses Before the robbers
could make Mrs. Engels disclose the
hiding place of the money her husband
broke away from his captors and ran for
help. The robbers took $40 from the
postoffice and tl.an escaped
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
PERISH IN FIRE.
Score of Persons Burned to Death In
New York Tenement.

New York Tenement.
At least score of persons were burn
ed to death, several We're so badly hurt
that they may die and forty others re-
ceived slighter injuries in a fire that de-
stroyed a fve-srory New York tenement
house early Tuesday. The fire had gain
ed great Roadway before it became
known to most of the tenants and many
of them were cut off before they could
make an attempt to save themselves.
building. Firemen climbed the walls ON
their ladders, braved the flames and
reached the imperiled tenants.
Crowded FIRE escapes in the rear of the
tenement house were largely responsible
for so many deaths and injuries among
its population, which approached 200.
The scenes about the building after the
fire when the search for the dead was
begun were heartrending. Nothing so
pitiable had been seen in New York
since the Sloeum disaster
The hre started in the basement. oc-
cupied by Isaac Davis, his wife and three
children. Davis had been out Monday
night and returned to his home early
Tuesday morning. went into his store ON
the same floor just in time to see a kero-
sene lamp in the rear explode. He awoke
his wife and both tried to put out the
flaming lamp, but without success, and
then gave all their attention TO getting
their children out of the building. A POI
liceman who heard the cry of alarm
rushed to the scene and every effort was
made to rouse the sleeping persons in
the house.
Meantime the flames had spread with
startling rapidity, and when the persons
who had been asleep on the upper floors
awoke they found themselves confronted
by wall of flames on nearly every side.
On some of the fire escapes the rubbish
was packed so closely that it became
impossible to pass certain points, and
men, women and children stood literally
roasting to death as the flames roared
through windows around them. Many
women flung their children into the arms
of men standing on the sidewalk.
A frenzied crowd gathered in front of
the police station, weeping. wailing and
lamenting for the dead. AS rapidly as
possible they were permitted to examine
the bodies in the court yard. where their
laments grew louder Unable TO recog-
nize their missing relatives in the char
red, almost formless bodies they saw be-
fore Them many turned away, faint and
sick at the awful sight.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
woULD-BE SLAYER GIVES cLEw.
Writes Letter Telling of Self Murder
to Hide His Crime.

In the mail of the city marshal of
Cottage Grove, Ore, the other day was
a letter purporting to be written by John
Fletcher, stating that the writer was
tired of life and had decided to commit
suicide and telling the marshal where to
find the body. Fletcher was found, as
indicated, with bullet wound in his
head, but alive. Developments tend TO
show that he was shot by John Bran
ton, who, it is said, wrote the letter, the
crime being for the purpose, it is alleged,
of getting life insurance of $4,000, paya-
BILE to Branton at Fletcher's death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21

the history of war. In no other COM
bat is there record of & million men
and more being locked in mortal COM
bat for eighteen consecutive days be-
fore the defeated army was dislodged
from its position.
The battle extended along front
of eighty miles, through mountains,
across frozen rivers, over broad plains.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
Retreat Was a Battle.

The mighty roar of the battle rising
from the incessant thunders from $500
guns swept over Mukden from east.
west. north and south. The city was
completely encircled by the combat.
The retreat was a battle itself, the
Russians being closely pursued from
the rear and hard pressed on both
TANKS. Every hour added TO the al
ready enormous "butchery bill" Kur-
opatkin burned his stores for three
DAYS. hundreds of tons of clothing and
provisions having been destroyed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
TRADE IN CHILD WIVES.
Chicago Discoveries to Lead to Estab-
lishm emit of Separate School for Them.

a school. or, at least, a special room,
for child-wives may be established by the
Chicago Board of Education as a result
of Investigations by the compulsory edu-
cation department The search for wives
OF compulsory school age was made by
Supt. Rodine and more than a score of
wives under II years are said to have
been found in one Italian tenement dis
trict alone. The investigation also is
said to have proved the existence of
traffic in child-wives between this coun-
try and Europe. A majority of the
school trustees hold that unmarried
school girls should not be put in the
same classes with the so-called child
wives
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
HOLD FIFTH OF WHEAT YET.
Men Who Raise the Grain Retain Much
as Shown by the Government.

Men Who Raise the Grain Retain Much,
as Shown by the Government.
The monthly report of the chief of the
bureau of statistics of the Department OF
Agriculture shows the amount of wheat
remaining in farmers hands March J
to have been about III 100000 bushels,
or 20.1 per cent of last years crop, as
compared with 20S per cent of the crop
OF 1908 on hand March l, 1904, and 24.5
per cent of the crop of 1902 on hand at
the corresponding date in 1903. The corr
IN farmers hands is estimated at about
100000 bushels, or 3S.7 per cent OF
last years crop, against 37.4 per cent
OF the crop of 1903 on hand March j,
l9o1, and 41.6 per cent of the crop OF
l50z ON hand at the corresponding date
IN 1908. Of oats there are reported IL
be about 341 100000 bushels, or 1873 per
cent of last years crop, still in farmers
hands, as compared with 34.9 per cent
OF the crop of 1903 on hand March i,
1904, and 800 per cent of the crop of
1902 on hand at the corresponding date
in 1909
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
BUY VAST AREA IN TEXAS.
Officials of Dozen Systems Form Coiu-
pany to Establish Model Farms.

One of the greatest land colonization
enterprises yet conceived has been under
taken by number of railroad officials OF
the Santa Fe, Rock Island, Union Pa
ciic, Burlington, Fort Worth and Den
yer and other western and southwestern
and southeastern roads. 1t is the direct
result of the efforts put forth by the diff
ferent systems throughout the West to
develop to the fullest extent the most
important industry of that section by the
advocacy of the universal adoption of the
latest, most improved and highly scien'
tifc methods of tilling. seeding and 9th
wise treating the soil now under cultiva-
ton, and which has yet to be made trib-
utary to the wants and enrichment OF
its owners
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
Asintic nMonroe Law.:''

The Japanese successes in the present
war. a Berlin cablegram SAYS, have eEI-
IDENTIFY been too much for thoIn, and the
tone Of the japanese press Is growing
more and more anti-foreign. Toxic pa
pers begin 10 threaten that wars with
France. Great Britain. Germany and
the United States are TO follow the hui
initiation Of Russia and say tlat Japan
will in time enforce an Asiatic Monroe
doctrine as the United States does in
America. and win make it their object
10 drive al Europeans out Of Asia. be-
ginning with driving France from Ton
auin and ending with oIissing tire Ame-i-
cans from tae Philippines.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
SAYS CHRIST is NOW ON EARTH.
Predicts Announcement of His Bodily
Presence for October, 1909.

Fully believing he has an inspiration
from heaven, Bunyan Turton of Farm
ington. Iowa, solemnly insists the second
coming of Christ has been revealed to
him and that the Lord will publicly an
nounce his second existence on earth
Oct. IA, 1909. He says Christ is now
on earth in the form of man, but will not
declare himself until the fortieth year of
his second manifestation in the flesh. He
predicts Christ will be acknowledged
king and rule the world.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
Reprieve for Mrs. Edwards.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court hav-
ing decided to send the case of Samuel
GreasOn, colored. under sentence of
death at Reading for the murder of John
Edwards in 1901, back to the Berks
County Court, the board of pardons has
granted a continuance in his case and
also in that of Mrs. Kate Edwards, who
is condemned to die for the same crime.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
Fish Die; Show Mater Peril.

The death of thousands of minnows in
tanks has led to an investigation of the
st. Louis water supply, and City Chem
list Bernays reported that the solution
of lime used in clarifying the water was
too strong, even for the fish. Steps We're
taken ut once to remedy this condition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
Disputes Garfeld's Figures.

Commissioner Garheld's report upon
the earnings of the beef trust is contra
iicted by Cuthbert Powell. a Missouri
editor. who gives hgurcs 10 prove the
profit on cattle averages $7.41 per head,
instead of % cents, as estimated by the
commissioner. and that the stock of the
nacking industry earns 43 per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
/ UNITED STATES SENATE +"
B SPECIAL SESSION.
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Thursday the committee on foreign re-
lations 10y Il strict party vote reported
the amended treaty TO the Senate. All
the members of the committee were pres
ent and the vote was accorded as fol-
lows: For the treaty. Senators Cullom.
trye, Lodge, Clark Of Wyoming Fora
ker. Spo0ner and Kean: against the
treaty, Senators Morgan. Bacon. Money,
Clark of Montana and McCreary. All
the amendments which were agreed upon
previously and an additional amendment
altering the language of the second ar
ucle OF the treaty were formally adopt-
ed without division. The protest of SEN
ator Morgan and his Democratic col
leagues against further consideration of
the treaty was laid upon the table after
very sharp colloquy in which all of the
members of the committee took part.
49,
Only one amendment to the San Do
mingo treaty was offered Monday. That
was presented by Senator Bacon and
provided that such expenses of the army
and navy as may be incurred in carry
ing out the provisions of the treaty shah
be paid from the revenues of San Do
mingo. This amendment was pending at
the time the Senate adjourned. Senator
burrows read a statement which de-
clared that the original investment of
the San Domingo Improvement Com
pany was only $1,000 and that II has
grown TO S4.500.000, drawing 4 per cent.
Senator Teller made an earnest plea for
consideration of the treaty With omen
doris so that the position of the Senator's
might be perfectly understood. but his
motion WIS voted down without divis-
ion. He then moved that a stenographer
be present to record he debate, but that
also was defeated.
-
Developments Tuesday make it plain
that there is little chance that the San
Domingo treaty will be ratified Party
lines were drawn sharply in the discus
sion of the treaty by the Senate in exec
utive session, and the support ef several
Democratic members. on which the
friends of ratification were depending,
apparently is not to be had. The Dem
oerats will return to the fold and on
both sides il is admitted there Is little
prospect the convention will be ratified
The Republicans have counted as GER
tam the votes oil senators McEnery and
Foster of Louisiana and Clark of Arkan-
sas. Senator German, the minority lead
or, gave notice that these Senator's are
now pledged against the treaty. Ii is not
expected that Mr.. McEnery or Mr.
Clark will return to Washington to vote.
The discussion took on decided purti-
san basis Senators Teller, Morgan and
other Democrats criticised the admins
tration severely. Senator Teller assert
ed that the administration could not be
blameless in permitting Commander Din
lingham TO exercise so much authority.
| Senator Spooner defended the course of
the Department of State. Senator Fora
ker and Cullom followed along the same
lines. Senator Bacon started to address
the Senate. but was seized with gastritis
and was unable to go on. The Senate
| then adjourned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
Enmnns rndinninn nies.

John Cavins. one of the best-known
men in Indiana. died in his rooms in In
dianapolis. He was five times elected
Mayor of indianapolis and was pioneer
in the development of the coalmining
industry of western Indiana. He was
N wears old and unmarried.