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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
BIG FAIR PAYS DIVIDEND.
Remarkable Showing Made at Port
land Exposition,s Close.

hemarkable showing Made at Port
land Exposition's Close.
The Lewis and Clark exposition came
to close at midnight Saturday, com
pleting the biggest enterprise of its kind
ever held on the coast. The closing cere
monleS were appropriate. When the
gates of the exposition closed at l o'clock
Sunday morning, a total attendance of
$500 for the day had been registered,
making a grand total for the entire fair
period of 2,545,509. The attendance for
the last day ranks third in point of num-
bers, Portland day and Fourth of July
being the only greater days
The exposition was entirely successful.
In point of attendance all predictions
were beaten. While the fair was well
patronized by the home people, great
thrOngs of visitors from all parts of the
United States were constantly in the
city, often taxing the hotel capacity to
the limit. Naturally the merchants are
well satisfied with the success of the ex-
position. Financially also the exposition
went beyond all expectations. 1t is
known beyond a doubt that the stock
holders viii receive a dividend of at
least 80 per cent, while it is more than
possible that a 40 per cent dividend will
be declared. This places Portland sec
ond only to Omaha in financial records
for worlds fairs and fourth in point of
attendance among twelve that have been
held.
The State of Oregon appropriated
100000, of which $4,000 was expend-
ed in making an exhibit at st. Louis and
100000 in the erection of a building
and expenses of the exhibit in Portland.
More than $4,000 of the appropriation
will be returned to the treasury un-
used, with additions from salvage.
Alone of all structures of the 1905
fair the forestry building, the largest log
house ever built, viii remain. 1t is the
purpose to retain it as a permanent ex-
hibit building and several acres of land
surrounding it will be acquired as part
of the park system of Portland.
Population of Portland by recent cen
sus of assessor is $4,000 and of entire
Northwest within a radius of 200 miles
of Portland 100000, hence the attend
ance was most gratifying. Official esti-
mates were 100000 below the actual
figures. The greatest benefit of the fair.
however, is the permanent good it has
done to the city of Portland and the Pa
cific Northwest in general
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
HURT IN A FIRE.
Thirteen Persons Injured in Chicago
Stable Blaze.

Thirteen persons were injured, two
probably fatally, a dozen horses were
burned to death and property valued at
$4,000 was destroyed when the three
story brick building in Chicago occupied
by the La Sale Avenue livery, was burn
ed. The fire burned until long after
dark and for a time threatened large
buildings in the vicinity. The destrnc-
ton of the barn was marked with many
incidents and rescues and thousands of
persons gathered in the neighborhood to
watch the blaze. While the fire was at
its height the roof and third floor col
lapsed. carrying with it the eastern por-
ton of the building. Seven members
of engine company No. 90 were carried
down in the collapse and all were injur-
ed. One fireman jumped from the sec
ond floor. His injuries are serious and
may cause his death. Two men were
rescued from death after being severely
burned by sliding down a refuse chute in
the rear of the stable.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
CLEVELAND BANK ASSIGNS.
Indemnity Savings and Loan Company
C1osea Its Doors.


The Indemnity Savings and Loan
Company in Cleveland failed to open its
doors for business Monday morning. The
following notice was posted at the en-
trance of the bank: This company has
made an assignment for the benefit OF
its creditors to III. X. Sanborn, who will
make financial statement as soon as
an inventory can be made" The lndem-
nifty company is the concern against
which Attorney General Ellis began quo
warranto proceedings with view to pre-
vent the company continuing business In
the State. The Attorney General charg-
ed that the company had violated the
State banking laws III. X. Sanborn,
who is named as assignee, is the presl-
dent of the company. Officers of the in
stitution declare that it is absolutely SOL
vent and that depositors will be paid in
full. They also state that the Attorney
Generals action was without due cause.
The bank had, when its last statement
was issued in June Of this year, assets
and liabilities amounting to $780, S1.
The deposits We're then $63S, 661. The
bank will resist the attempt to take
away its charter and has filed motion
in the Circuit Court to quash the sum-
mons of the Attorney General.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
BURNED IN GRAND STAND.
County Fair Visitors Suffer in Fire
Panic in Bucyrus, Ohio.


While the races at the county fair in
Bucyrus, Ohio, were on, the grand stand
was discovered to be on fire. A panic
followed the first announcement. Spec
tators in the grand stand rushed for the
exit, which soon blocked the only pas
sage to safety. Excited women,
children and men leaped over the
front of the stand upon the track, twelve
feet, and many were injured. Those
who left the grand stand last were bad
~ burned, as the big pine building went
like finder. Three minutes after the
fire was discovered the stand was
wrapped in flames. The fire was caught
by stiff breeze and was driven across
the grounds, communicating from build
ing to building. The horticultural hall
went like powder. The Photographic art
building and newspaper headquarters
were destroyed. School exhibit hall was
badly damaged, and some of the stables
We're burned. In less than a half-hour
the entire fair was wiped out.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
TORNADO HITS A TOWN.
Kills Four Persons, Injures Thirty
five and Wrecks Sorrento, Ill.

five and Wrecks Sorrento, Ill.
\ tornado struck the village of Sor-
ento. ILL.,. thirty-two miles northeast of
st. Louis, Tuesday night. killing -four
persons, injuring thirty-tive others, of
whom three will probably die, and do
ins great amount of damage to prop
erty. Forty houses were blown to
atoms or carried from their founda-
tons. complete swath was cut
through the town. Everything in the
track of the tornado was reduced to
debris or blown away The four per-
sons killed We're in their homes in diff
ferent parts of Sorrento. All were bad.
ly crushed.
The storm approached from the
southwest and swept through the main
residence portion of the town. The
work of the wind was quickly done
and then followed heavy downpour
of rain, accompanied by vivid light
ming and deep thunder. Those who es-
capped injury We're for the time panic
stricken, but finally rallied and set to
work TO rescue the injured.
So violent was the tornado that
some residences were swept away
completely. Houses that remained
standing We're converted into temper
airy hospitals and refugees and the peo-
pie by lantern-light, in pouring rain,
searched through debris and dragged
out the injured, who were Immediately
taken in charge by all the doctors in
the vicinity. The population of Soren-
to numbers 100 persons.
The storm that wrecked Sorrento del
uged Alton, H., few miles south of
Sorrento, in the nature of cloudburst.
st. Louis also suffered the fury of a
terrific thunderstorm. Atoms streets
were turned into temporary rivers.
Fourteen miles distant the village of
Grafton was deluged and the main
street was three feet under water.
Ten miles north of Alton a Chicago.
Peoria and ST. Louis freight tram
struck washout in the storm and
plunged down an embankment into
Branch Creek, containing six feet of
water. Two cars contained cattle and
horses and only a few of the animals
escaped death. Several tramps seen
to swing on the train previously are
believed to have persisted. At st. Louis
the lowlands of the River Des Peres
were flooded.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Sparks from the Wires.

A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change was sold for $4,000, new high
record.
A frst-class torpedo boat for Turkey
was launched at a Chalon-sur-Saone
shipyard, in France.
The seventh annual American royal
live stock show opened at the stock yards
at Kansas City with 821 individual en-
tries of fine cattle.
In an explosion ia coal mine near
Gratiot, Ohio, Charles Smith was killed,
Lyman Chaplin fatally injured and Fred
Hea5ley badly hurt.
Gov. A. e. Mead of Olympia, Wash,
has offered reward of $1,000 for the
arrest and conviction of the bandits who
robbed the Great Northern train near
Ballard Monday. 80
When the Leyland line steamship Ang-
liam sailed from Boston for London, She
had one of the largest shipments of grain
leaving there in recent years; Nearly
100000 bushels of oats and corn We're
taken out by the steamer.
It was announced in New. York on
behalf of the New York section of the
Social Democratic party that the late
Mrs. E. d. Rand, mother-in-lawcof Prof
George ID. Heron, had bequeathed
100000 to, found a school for Socialism.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
GUILTY OF LAND FRAUDS.
jury in United States Court at Portland
Convicts Alleged Conspirators.

Shortly after session of the United
States Court in Portland, Ore, which
lasted all day and far into the evening,
the jury in the case of the United States
against Willard N. Jones, former repre-
sentative to the State Legislature; Thad-
deus Potter, a local attorney, and Ira
Wade, a timber locator, returned YER
dict finding Jones and Potter guilty of
conspiracy to defraud the United States
of a part of its public domain. Wade
was acquitted. The charge against the
defendants was that they secured per-
sons to locate on lands in the Siletz In
dian reservation in western Oregon and
to swear falsely that they had occupied
the land, when, as a matter of fact, the
land was secured for the benefit of the
defendants
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
GIRLS SOLD AS SLAVES.
Washington and Chicago Authorities
Cooperate to Stop Traffic.

Cooperate to Stop Traffic.
As Il result of the revelations of a
traffic in American girls in the Orient
United States authorities are continuing
with the police of Chicago, their inves-
tigation to uncover the operations of a
band of women in New York, Chicago,
San Francisco, Hongkong and Shanghai.
Enough has already been learned to
move Chief of Police Collins of Chicago
to order one woman to leave the city.
Chief Collins declared he had informa-
ton that the system of enticing white
girls from the country to become the life
long slaves of rich merchants and man
darins in China is national in its scope
and is controlled by a regularly organ
lied syndicate having Chicago Tor it's
headquarters. 1t is also revealed that
the immigration officials at Washington
have been conducting a secret investiga-
ton into this form of white slave traffic
for some time.
The authorities encounter the principal
difficulty in attacking the system because
of their inability thus far to secure the
testimony from the victims. In almost
every instance the women leave this
tOuulIy NEVER W ItluII. AlleE DelHS
enticed to the Orient by agents of the
syndicate, who hold out promises of re-
munerative positions as mattresses in
American hotels or other employment,
the women are declared to be sold for
prices ranging from $500 to $1,000
Taken into the interior, they become the
slaves of their masters and are heard
from no more. In his possession, Chief
Collins has the names of many women
who are now supposed to be in China
and whose chances for escape are hope
less.
The disclosures affecting the women in
Chicago came from an investigation by
Canadian officials into the disappear
ance from Chicago of four young women
from Montreal and the sale of one of
them in Shanghai later.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Short Personals.

The late G. j. Hamlin of Buffalo.
n. Y, the veteran trotting horseman.
left an estate of $1,54300J, mostly in
gilt edged bonds, to his wife and three
sons.
Marshall Field is described by an east
ern writer: He never borrows money.
never gives a note or a mortgage. never
deals in margins on slocks or grams.
sells on short time ana narrow margins.
always buys goods for cash. and insists
to the last letter ON the fulfllment of
every contract between him and his Gus
TONER"
Mr.. Edison has but one speech TO his
credit. He was to lecture on electricity
before a girls seminary and was TO be
assisted by a friend named Adams to
when he arose that he simply said:
Ladies. Mr.. Adams will now address
you on electricity, ard l will demonstrate
what he has to say with the apparatus .
Gen. Booth, head of the SaIr,a ton
army, is back in London. none the worse
for his recent trip of 10000 miles.
The late sanitary expert, DR.. Gobun-
rex, left 100000 marks to be lent without
interest to women who study medicine in
Germany and Austria
Ex-Congressman l.. Cass Carpenter of
Denver owns the first American flag
fred upon in the Civil War. 1t is 6x3
feet and was the storm flag of Fort
Sumter.
Gov. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania
contemplates the sale of his reraarkably
fine historical library this fan, it is said.
1t conta.ls some Franklin reprints and
is valued at $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24

wealthy planter. Here his daughter
married Theodore Roosevelt, ST., of New
York, and there are many still in Georgia
who cherish tender memories of the
Presidents beautiful aristocratic moth
er. Throughout her girlhood she was a
noted belle, admired for her beauty, ac-
complishments and strong mentality. She
was proud of her southern birth and an
tecedents, one of ner forefathers having
been Governor of Georgia. Her brother
was sailing master of the Alabama when
she fought the Kearsarge, another was
the Confederate naval agent abroad and
third was a major in the army. 1t is
also a fact that one of President Roose-
velt's maternal great-grandfathers was
Kenneth Baillie, descendant of Robert
Bruce. King of Scotland.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Falls Six Stories unburt.

John Underhill, busily laying brick at
the top of the six-story building under
construction at Central Park west and
Sixty-third street, in New York, startled
by an automobile ''honk," looked down.
In the act he lost his footing and fell
to the sidewalk. Underhill, with a look
of annoyance, arose, brushed the dust
from his clothes, climbed back to the
sixth story and began laying bricks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
seveu-Hour CHICAGO Fire

Fire in the paint and oil establish
ment of Podrasnik, Klapperich & Co., at
1911 Lake street, Chicago, burned for
seven hours. affording a spectacle for
thousands of sghtseers, defying the eff
forts of twenty-five engine crews and
surrendering only after loss of $780,
600 had resulted.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
FAMILY IN TERROR AT GHOST.
Ravenna Household Ready to Flee
Home at Unexplained Night Sounds.

NaNehna hOuSehOld Ready TO Flee
Home at Unexplained Night Sounds.
The home of Sidney Veon in Ravenna,
Ohio, is said to be haunted and so ter
rihed have he and his family become that
they declare they will move. A ghost in
the form of an aged man is said to APP
pear each night between 8 o'clock and
midnight. Doors and windows open and
close, the furniture moves, the piano is
played, and fiendish laughter is heard.
Recently the music of "Blue Bells was
heard when no one was near the piano.
When the window opened the otner night
and the ghost appeared Veon made a
grab for him, but he vanished with a
laugh. The family says a bed was turn
ed completely around the other night,
and Veon's hat, hanging on a peg,
whirled about like a buzz-saw.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Texas Plans a Stiff Law.

Life insurance companies seeking to
enter Texas after this year will have
to answer numerous and largely person
al questions before a permit is given
them. Every business deal or money
operation of a company, large or SMALL
will be inquired into, and promises of
quarterly statements under oath will be
required.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Printers Strike in Omaha.

Union job printers to the number of
seventy-fve, employed in seventeen
Omaha shops, did not report for work
the other day. They were paid the pre-
vious night, when the employers declar-
ed their shops open to union and non
union printers alike. Every large shop
in the city is affected, with one excep-
tiOn.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Flyer from St. Louis Wrecked.

Seventeen passengers, one of whom
may die, were injured by the wrecking
of the west-bound st. Louis-Denver flyer
on the Missouri Pacific railroad near
Sugar City, sixty miles east of Pueblo,
Colo. The accident was caused by
Snreadinp rails
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
DE4S lIAll21[5RS
..a,es;e9i NsSl-1G-.
aSs44A5 Tss a. = CO..
I'D. SSA2Ge
@%~%-~~ONN

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $500; hogs, prime heavy. $500
to $3.50 sheep, fair to choice. $500 to
No. 2, SOC to sic; oats. standard. PC to
2Sc; rye, No. 2, Csc to 69c; hay timo-
thy, $3.50 to $500; prairie, 5000 to
$11.50; butter, choice creamery, 1Sc to
dc; eggs. fresh, lie to 19c; potatoes,
per bushel, Acc to Doc.
polis-Cattle, shipping, $500 to
$50; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to $3.50;
sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.25;
wheat, No. 2, Soc to SIC; corn, No. 2
white, 53c to soc; oats, No white,
27c to 29c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $500: hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $500;
wheat, No. q SEC to SSc; corn. No. 2,
49c to SOC; oats, No. 2, &c to DC; rye,
No. 2, SIC to Coo.
incinnati-Cattle, $500 to S4.75;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, SIC to soc; corn,
No. 2 mixed, sac to soc; oats No.
mixed, 2Sc to 29c; rye, No. 2, 69c to roc
Detroit--Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
$500 to 1925; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
WHedls NO. OOC " COts GULL W. -
yellow, SIC to CSC; oats, No. white,
28c to 30c; rye, No. 2, &c to Csc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
SIC to S5c; corn, No. 3, sic to 53c;
oats, standard, 29c to zoe; rye, No. 1,
Csc to roc; barley, No. 2, 52c to 53c;
pork, mess, $15.75.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, S5c to
SEC; corn, No. mixed, sic to 53c; oats,
No. mixed, 30c to &c. rye, No. 2, SAC
to &c; clover seed, prime, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $500; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $7.75.
New York-Cattle, $500 TO $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $5.75; sheep. $500 to
$525; wheat, No. red, SOC to DOC;
corn, No. 2, 60c to Gle; oats, natural,
white, 33c to 34c; butter, creamery, 200
to &c; eggs, western, zoe to 23c
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24

Brig. Gen. Constant Williams. COM
handing the department of Columbia,
in his annual report, made public at
Washington, declared that the w. C. T.
U. and the saloon interests are working
hand in hand against the best interests
of the soldier in their opposition to the
army canteen.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Four Injured in Race Riot.

AS the result of a race riot in Belve
dere hollow, near 9th street and Lydia
avenue, in Kansas City, in which a
dozen negroes were pitted against as
many whites, and in which shots were
fired, four men are known to have been
wounded, and others, who ran away
from the police, are believed to have
been hurt
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
SECRET BAND BATTLES LAW.
New York at Mercy of Camoristi, ItaI-
ian BriRand League .,,a

TT @1HH1NN 11NuAHNs -TS1iHI
Unless more effective measures are
taken. it is admitted by the police that
they are powerless TO defeat the army
of 5000 Camorristi who infest New
York. So bold have these brigands be-
come because Of their success in black
mailing Italian merchants, and escaping
even suspicion of completely in the crime
that their demands are increasing at an
alarming rate. Only the national gov
eminent can save this situation for us"
declared Sergeant Petrosino. II have in
formation that there are not less than
10000 members of the CamOrra in this
country, working under twelve leaders
stationed in the principal cities"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Find Dive in Navy Yard Rutter.

That butter supplied to the League
Island navy yard at Philadelphia was
colored with coal tar dye is the sub
stance of a report which Chief Chemist
Wiley of the Department of Agriculture
has submitted to Secretary Wilson. The
dyes though unwholesome, are not par
ticular!y harmful.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Mother and Children Burned,

Mrs. Alice Hartman and FIVE children
were burned 10 death and their home
was destroyed by fire at Port Royal,
Mo. The husband, William Hartman,
escaped from the two-story dwelling, but
was unable to save his family.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Dies Rather than Paw 5000.

Rather than pay 5000 for surgical
operation, which he was advised would
save his life, ]. w. Denton of Bloom
ington, H., well-to-do horseman, died
at the Missouri Baptist sanitarium in
St Louis from injuries received by being
kicked by a horse at the horse show.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Bolt Kills Girl in Red

Jennie Chifftchok, aged Is, was in
stantly killed in bed and her sister. who
was sleeping with her. was fatally hurt
by bolt of lightning which struck the
house during a terrific storm in Montello.
Wis. The parents of the girls, in the
room below, were also stunned. but will
recover. The bolt did not set fire to the
house
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Frost Lifts Fever Eubargo-

Immediate results are promised in the
modification of lifting guarantees, fol-
following the appearance of frost over
large section of Louisiana and Missis-
sippi. Baton Rouge has thrown open
its doors to the world, and other places
promise to restore communication within
a few DAYS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Fire Attacks Portland Fair.

The Missouri State building at the
Lewis and Clark exposition grounds,
Portland, Ore, including the various
exhibits, aud the art and statuary col
lection. was burned Friday night. The
blaze was confined to the one building.
The loss is 5000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24

Judge Willis Handkerchief in the Uni
ter States Court of Appeals in st. Louis
announced that he had sustained tho de-
murrer to the indictment of Cnitcd
States Senator Burton of Kansas on the
ground that the Indictment was faulty.
He ordered that another Indictment he
returned at once.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Father KILLED by His Son.

William T. Bevins, Jr., aged % years,
in defense of his mother shot and kill
ed his father at Trenton, n. j., in a
houseboat on the Delaware river. The
father and mother had not been living
together lately, having been obliged to
give up housekeeping because of the
fathers drinking habits.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24

pone for one week the sentencing OF
twenty-one men convicted of violating
the liquor laws. Other Kansas jails
that have been tenantless for months
are being filed with "jointists," all due
to Governor Hoch's crusade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24
Fatal Explosion In Steel Mill.

Two men are dead and seven seriously
burned as the result of an explosion of
molten steel at a converter at the Joliet
plant of the Illinois Steel Company.
Half a hundred men were within range
of the molten steel, but most of them
escaped with minor burns.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24

Pleaded with from the bench by Fed
eral Judge Burns to withdraw his plea
of guilty, offered the services of the
best attorney at the bar free of all cost,
whitehaired William McDermOtt, 60
years old, insisted upon his plea of guilty
at Houston, Texas, to the charge of
counterfeiting and was sentenced to thir-
teen months.