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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
BANK SCANDAL is BIG.
Political Loans Al Said to Have Ruin
ed the Penusylvauia Tusti+ution

Ifoahs Al : Sa1u TO Have Kuhn
ed the Pennsylvania Institution.
Startling developments have followed
the investigation of the Enterprise Ma
tional Bank at Allegheny City. Pa,
which closed the other day. Names of
several prominent citizens active in
State politics have become more deeply
involved in the scandal. Subsequent
events are expected to be far more SEN
sationai than the suicide of T. Lee Clark,
cashier of the bank.
This bank, which had on deposit $780,
600 of State funds, has failed Accord
ing to the president of the bank, who
calls himself a dummy president, "
nearly 100000 Of the 100000 is out
on paper of State politicians" Consid-
cradle of the money was loaned to carry
out railroad deal which promised large
profits. 1t fell through with much loss
to those engaged in it.
The practice of placing State moneys
where politicians could use them for
speculative purposes and private gain is
one of long standing in Pennsylvania.
The funds are deposited in a bank or
banks whose officers understand their
business and make loap- to the politi-
clans who are in the ring" without scru-
tinizing too closely the security they give.
There have been occasions when this
method of doing usiness came near
proving disastrous to ali concerned. I'm
successful speculation put in peril the
funds of the State and threatened I'M
pleasant consequences for those respon-
sible for their safe keeping. The pitch
er has gone once too often to the well,
and much explaining will have to be
done by somebody.
The politicians are using their utmost
efforts to throw all the blame on the
dead cashier. Directors of the bank de
clare Senator Penrose had a $75, 900 note
in the bank, but it is understood the
latter denies it.
A rapid inquiry is being made into
Cashier Clark's personal affairs. He
was estimated to have been worth $780,
900, but his friends say that he sank
all his assets in an attempt to reim-
burse the bank and that his suicide fol-
lowed his failure to stem the tide.
Clark's friends believe that investi-
cation will show that he leaves no prop
erty and that he had given the bank all
he had after his own bad investments
were cared for. They declare he was
ruined by business associates and that
it will be found he is a defaulter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
RABIES FROM OLD poG BITE.
Young Woman of New York Has Epi-
IeDtic Hysteria.

Young Woman of New York Has Epi-
Ieptic Hysteria.
Apparently suffering from rabies as
the result of a dog bite thirteen years
ago, Amanda Jones' aged ~, was taken
from her home in New York to a hos
pltal and she will probably be sent to
Bellevue for further observation of one
ef the most extraordinary cases in the
experience of the physicians. According
TO her family the patient when II years
Old was bitten on both hands by a dog,
put the wounds were cauterized and no
Ill effects appeared until last June, when
she suddenly developed all the usual
symptoms of hydrophobia and became so
violent that the combined strength of
four men could hardly keep her in re-
straint. She recovered from this attack
and was in good health until a week
ago, when the spell required. Removed
to a hospital, she apparently recovered,
but later the same symptoms reappeared.
Roaming at the mouth and barking like
a dog, the young woman rushed about
the apartments, wrecking furniture and
attempting to injure every one who APP
preached her. She was controlled only
by the use of opiates. The physicians
are inclined to believe that the disease
Is a kind of epileptic hysteria, itself a
rare occurrence
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

Death and destruction resulted from
one of the fercest gales that ever
swept the lower lakes, which lasted
for twelves hours Thursday and Fri
day. Hundreds of thousands of do
lars worth of property has been lost
Crippled vessels sought refuge in Chi
cago harbor, and al every other lake
port. Many wrecks were reported.
The east shore of Lake Michigan
suffered severely, dock property worth
thousands of dollars being swept away
at st. Joseph, South Haven, Holland,
Grand Haven, and Muskegon. Heavy
waves bombarded the coast and the
Perre Marquette bridge, spanning the
st. Joseph River near its mouth. seem
ed in danger of being swept away.
Summer resort property has been de-
stroyed. At least two sailors lost their
lives in the wreck of the steamer Sarah
e. sheldon off Lorain, Ohio. The hur-
ricane is one of the worst in recent
years. and it is believed shipping in
terests will be fortunate if many more
wrecks are not reported.
Three vessels that made port at Chi
cago came in badly disabled. The AL
Williams of Sheboygan was crippled
to such extent that Capt. Charles Car
land and his crew at the life-saving
station prepared to go to the aid of the
boat, but a tug reached the vessel and
lowed it into the harbor. Its canvas
was torn into bits, it's masts broken.
and it showed the battering Of the
storm in other ways. The schooner
Kate Lawrence, from Fort River. and
the schooner Lotus, from Menominee.
both lumber vessels, got in with diff
Guilty, badly damaged.
The storm damaged portions of the
sea wall along the Chicago north shore,
and washed out huge chunks of the
bluffs north of Evanston
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
SOUNDS A RATE LAW CALL.
President Roosevelt in Speech Urges
More Power Over Railroads

More Power Over Railroads.
In his tour of the South President
Roosevelt has spoken many times. Al
Raleigh, \. c.. the President in be.
ginning his address reviewed North
Cardinals part in the making Of the
history of the republic. and alluded tc
its present condition of prosperity. He
spoke of the duties of the individual
citizen to the nation and to the State
and then launched into the main pur.
pose of his address, the government
supervision of railways. On this sub.
ject he said:
l do not believe in government owner
ship of anything which can with pro-
priety be left in private hands, and in
particular | should most strenuously OBJ
ject to government ownership of rail-
roads. But / believe with equal firm
ness that it is out of the question for
the government not to exercise a super
visory and regulatory right over the
railroads; for it is vital to the well be-
ing of the public that they should be
managed in a spirit of fairness and JUS
tice toward all the public
2ctual experience has shown that If
is not possible to leave the railroads
uncontrolled. Such a system. or rather
such lack of system, is fertile in
abuses of every kind, and puts a pre-
MUM upon INSCRIPTIONS and ruthless
cunning in railroad management: for
there are some big shippers and some
railroad managers who are always will
ing to take unfair advantage of their
weaker competitors, and they thereby
force csher big shippers and big railroad
men who would like to do decently into
similar acts of wrong and injustice. IN
der penalty of being left behind in the
race for success. Government superyis-
ion is needed quite as mach in the in
terest of the big shipper and of the rail
road man who want to do right as in the
interest OF the small shipper and the
consumer.
Experience has shown that the pres
ent laws are defective and need amend
ment. The effort to prohibit all re-
straint of competition, whether reason
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
ELopING WIFE BRINGS EoDY.
Burial of Child Closes Chapter in Story
of Marital Troubles.


With the burial of little Harry Mar
tin, who was drowned in the Ohio river
at Cincinnati, closes the third ctapter
of sad story which involved the boy
in the marital miseries of the father
and mother. Last April, as charged by
Albert Martin, stabjeman of St. Louis,
his wife ran away to Cincinnati with
another man. The couple took little
Harry Martin along. He is merely an
adopted son of the Martins, but Martin
loved the boy dearly, and ever since the
disappearance and up to the news of the
drowning of the lad, searched many
places for him. The body was not re-
covered for four days after the drown
ing, and then the mother brought it to
st. Louis. The man with whom she
ran away had disappeared in the mean
tlIhe and the woman took the body to
Martins room. After keeping it there
one day, the father grieying over it, the
mother had it shipped to Farber, Mo-.
near her old home, and there, with only
herseLt as mourner, the funeral of the
boy was held. The couple did not speak
TO each other, it is said, when the moth
er brought home the dead son, and their
relationship is said to be just as strained
vet
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

SENATOR FULIoN. having been con-
victed of criminal acts in connection with
the government lands in the Northwest.
The three whose seats will be vacant
are Senator John H. Mitchell, Repre-
sentative Binger Herman and Repre-
sentative Charles n Williamson.
Senator Fulton was born in Lima, o.,
Aug. "a, 1858, and moved to Iowa,
where the family lived 16 years There
he was educated. Next the family NOV
ed to Nebraska, where the future Sen
ator studied law at Pawnee City. He
also taught school. In 1875 he landed
in Oregon. taught school for a while
and then began the practice of law.
Within three years after entering the
State he was a Senator in the Legisla-
ture. Later he was city attorney of
Astoria and then returned to the State
Senate for several terms, being presi-
dent part of the time He succeeded
Joseph Simon in the United States Sen
ate in 1908.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

took place at Wichita under the aus
pices of the Masonic order. This last
illness attacked the noted Kansan in
New Mexico.
Mr.. Simpson was born in New
BrunsN Ick in 1912 and ldisetii as a boy
in Oneida County, New York His
early days We're marked by so bitter
q poverty that he said one day, after
means and fame had come to him: IN
those days God seemed to have select
ed my branch of the Simpson family
for every kind of a hard knock. The
knocks came to us in lunches"
He was a lake captain of note in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
ASKS REMOVAL OF HIS SON.
Appeal Made to Governor by Father on
Unworthv SherifF,s Bonds

Eric Erickson has filed with Gov.
Johnson of Minnesota a petition asking
that his son, Charles NJ. Erickson, sher
III OF Roseau county, be removed from
the office. Gov. johnson wired Sheriff
Erickson to place the office in charge of
his deputy, a. T. Allenson, until his
fathers charges could be investigated.
Eric Erickson in asking for the removal
of his son as sheriff, for whom he is act
Ing as bondsman, says in his petition
that his son has been drunk almost con-
tlnuously since elected. The father also
charges the embezzlement of $500 col
lected on IN execution by his son, which
he had to pay. The father says his
son is not fit to have charge of the
county's affairs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
DElE As@2;2Ez{[ERS
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$500 to $6.25; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $500; sheep. fair to choice. $500 TO
$5.75; wheat, No. 2 SEC to SIC; corn.
No. ,, SOC to SIC; oats, standard 27c TO
&c; rye, NO. Z, 6S0 to Csc; hay, timo-
thy, $3.50 to $3.50; prairie. $500 to
SlL9O; butter, choice creamery. 1Sc to
21c; eggs, fresh, 1Sc to 21c; potatoes,
per bushel, 5Sc to Csc
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 1913; hogs
$500 tG $40; sheep. $500 to $40:
wheat, No. ,, SEC to Sc: corn, No. .
49c to soc; oats, No. .. &c to 2Sc; rye
No. 2, 5Sc to 60c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to S4.75:
hogs, $4.O0 to $5.45; sheep, $500 to
S475; wheat, No. 2. SIC to S9c; corn
No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats. No. 2
mixed, Boo to Gle; rye, No. .. G9c to Tic.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs.
$500 to 1925; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50:
wheat, No. 2, Soc to SEC; corn. No. ,
yellow, SIC to SOC; oats, No. 3 white.
29c to Bic; rye, No. 2, &c to 69c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed. Soc to
SEC; corn, No. mixed, sic to 53c: oats,
No. mixed, SOC to &c; rye. No. .. SIC
to 62c; clover seed, prime, $S.15.
Buf5alo-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 $500.
New York-Cattle, $500 to S525:
hogs. $500 to S575; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. red. Ole to 92c;
corn, No. 2. SOC to Gle; oats. natural,
white 33c to 35c; butter. creamery. zoe
to 23c; eggs, western, 23c to 25c.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Mo northern.
see to SEC; corn, No. 3. sic TO 53c:
oats, standard, 29c to 3Oc: rye. No. 1.
Csc to 69c; barley, No. 2, SIC to 53c;
pork, mess, $16.10.
Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500 to
S5.7j; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to $3.50;
sheep. common to prime. $3.50 TO S425:
wheat, No. 2, SIC to SIC: corn. No. 2
white, 53e to soc; oats, No. 2 white,
&c to 29c.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
UNCLE SAM MAKES TOWNS.
sites Chosen on Desert Waste in Idaho
Auction Sale as Starter.

sites chosen on Desert Waste in Idaho
Auction Sale as Starter.
Two towns, for which the United
states government will act as sponsor,
will be created next month in southern
Idaho, on sites which now are desert
waste. Names already have been chosen
for tAem-Heyburn for the first which
officially is to be created Nov. IA, and
Rupert for the second, which is to be
created one week later The two towns
VIII be seven miles apart Sales of town
lots VIII be conducted under government
auspices on the days the towns are es-
tabllshed. The lots will be sold to the
highest bidder While the country is
now a desert, it is expected that the
great irrigating canals which the govern
ment IS constructing at a cost in excess
OF S3OOO,0OO will make it productive.
The towns are located on the recently
constructed branch of the Oregon Short
Line railroad.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Takes Fund-Looting Lessons.

Nelson Johnson, who was arrested in
Denver on five charges of embezzlemcnt
from the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of New York said that while he
might not plead guilty, his alleged offense
was committed after he had read the re-
ports of the McCurdy-McCaIl eXpendi-
lures of funds, and that he could not be
more guilty than those high officials.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
FRIAR LANDS CASE SETTLED.
Government Pays Dominican Ordea
S3,OOO.OOO in Adir,strrnnt nfH1ni,un

Government Pays Dominican Ordea
S3,OOO,O0O in Adjustment of Claims.
The question of the friar lands pur-
chased in the Philippine Islands was
practically settled the other day when
the War Department, upon the cable re
quest of the commission, directed the
International Banking corporation in
New York to pay to Francisco Gutter
rez, representing the Philippine Sugar
Estates Development Company and the
University of st. Thomas, the sum of
$3,521,G51 (gold in settlement of the
claims. The payment is to be made in
New York City, except the sum of $780,
600, which, is to be paid in Manila.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Minnesota Potato Crop a Failure,

Potatoes in northern Minnesota are
nearly as costly as apples. Farmers who
planted quarter sections of the tubers
are not receiving yield large enough
to warrant digging and thousands of
acres will be allowed to rot in the
ground rather than create expense
through digging operations.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Iowa Official Shot Down

Constable p. NJ. Martin was shot and
instantly killed in Cedar Rapids. Iowa.
by Mrs. leila Eckles while attempting
to take small amount of household fur
niture under an execution of $685.. The
woman was arrested. Martin was a vet
eran of the Civil War and was peace
officer for nearly twenty years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Want Another Ocean Race.

Herr BALM, who arrived in New
York on the steamship Amerika, denies
the report that Emperor William of Ger
many will contest for the Americas
cup. He adds, however, that the Kaiser
is very anxious for another ocean yacht
race and will give a cup similar to the
one last year as an incentive to yachts
men to compete.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
JUST COMMON BEER SELLERS.
Court Denies Express Compauy's Right
to Deliver liauor in North Dakota

to Deliver Liquor in North Dakota.
Judge Phillips in the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals in ST. Paul,
IN affirming the decision of the federal
court for North Dakota in the case of
TIE government against the Western Elk
press Company. decided that the ex-
press company in furnishing beer to
customers was acting not as a comm on
carrier, but as a wholesale and retail
dealer in liquors. The lower court as
sessed the express company $500 for
violation of the national excise law in
selling beer at twenty-six stations on
the 500 road in North Dakota, which
IS a prohibition State The evidence
showed that the agents of the express
company would, on request, send orders
to breweries for beer in quantities de-
sired by the consumers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Reform Closes Up a Brewery.

Upon petition of creditors. e. ].
Becker of Kansas City was appointed
receiver for the Imperial Brewing Com
pany of that city The company owes
about $625,000, including $685.. 900 in
bonds. The failure is attributed to the
reform movement in Missouri and Kan
S9S
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

-
He is one honest
man out of four
sent by his State to
Congress and will
be the only one to
meet with the ma
tional lawmakers
when they assemble
at Washington in
December. Il II e
other three are eth
err in State prison
or on their way to
t h a t institution,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Crew Leans Into Lake.

In fierce storm on Lake Erie the
steamer Sarah e. Sheldon went ashore
four miles east of Lorain, Ohio. She
carried a crew of thirteen men, a num-
be- of whom jumped overheard when the
vessel began to go to pieces. 1t is be-
Eeved that at least two of the crew
were drowned. The Sheldon will be a
total wreck
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
He's Mvsterious Thief

Charles Boos, until few days ago
superintendent of the Waikiki Transit
COmpany's lines in Orange county, ad,
mitted to the police of Middletown, n.
Y, it was he who had robbed one of the
largest department stores of the city,
besides several residences in the last few
months, which crimes have mystified the
police
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Pearls i'm Kanlxakee River

Quantities of valuable pearls are be-
ing found in the Kankakee river near
Laporte, Ind, and hundreds of persons
have gone to the river to hunt for the
gems. The operations of the huge
dredges, which have reclaimed thou
sands of acres of land uncovered the
pearls, the search for which has become
an industry
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

As a result of the restriction of
American fishing rights on the coast of
Newfoundland, Congressman A. z.
Gardner and Benjamin A Smith, large
vessel owner, left Gloucester, Mass, the
other day TO get an Interpretation of the
treaty of 1918 from Secretary Root pre-
paratory to a test case.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Thirty Injured in Wreck.

West-bOund Missouri Pacific passen-
ger train No. 40, carrying cars from
Kansas City and st. Louis, was wrecked
five miles west of Fort Scott. Kan, the
result of broken rail. The baggage
and express cars, mail car, smoking car,
chair car and a sleeper left the track
and turned over. Fully thirty persons
were more or less injured, but no one
was killed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
lAttempt to Wreck Train.

the southern express on the Philadelphia
and Erie railroad was prevented by the
track walker, who found large pieces
of iron on the tracks near Dauphin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Bank Funds Are Low.

A Pittsburg lawyer says that of the
81, 100000 resources of the failed Enter
prise National Bank of Allegheny only
$4,000 was on hand when the institu-
ton was closed, and that collateral de-
posted to secure loans was rehypothe-
Gated
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
INDIANA PHONE WAR is ON.
Independent Companies Merged for
Fight on Central Union.

The property of the Indianapolis Tele-
phone Company and that of the new
long-distance telephone concern have
passed into the control of Breckenridge
Jones of st. Louis, William ]. Bradley,
Jr., of Toledo, and other capitalists who
recently contracted for the purchase of
the controlling stock of the two com
panies. at is the intention to spend
$1.000.O00 a year for three years in push
ing this company said one Of those in
terested. '"The fight against other COM
panies will be taken up with new in
terest and the new ownership is the
death knell of the Central Union Com
Dany"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Police Kill Ten in Cbarg;rg Mob

A meeting called in Santiago, Chilli,
to petition the government to abolish
the import tax on Argentine cattle de-
generated into riot owing to the alb
sence of the troops, who are now en-
gagged in maneuvers. The police. who
were unable to maintain order, charged
the crowd and killed ten persons and
wounded hundreds
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
JERRY SIMPSON is DEAD.
Noted Kansas Ex-Congressn1an Passe
AwaY at Wichita

Ex-CongresSman Jerry Simpson died
in Wichita, Kan. early Monday morn
ing. The patients condition became
hopeless ten days before, and since
then he had kept alive chiefly through
with yalvular ailment of the heart.
Mr.. Simpson had been in ili-health for
nearly year. Six months ago he con-
suited a specialist at Chicago. who
pronounced his case hopeless. Burial
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Sentenced for Old Crime.

Thomas X. Wilkins, recently indicted
together with Elijah Bowsher for the
robbery of the American National bank
in Lima, Ohio. seven years ago. pleaded
guilty to the charge of receiving stolen
money from BoWsher. who is now in the
penitentiary. and lie was sentenced to
five years Imprisonment.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Torrcx surrenders Chicago Pulpit.

Announcement was made the other
day Of the resignation of Rev. DR.. Il.
A. Forrey from the pastorate of the
Chicago Avenue Moody's) church in
Chicago. DR.. Torrey's resignation was
placed with the committee of the church
two years ago, but he consented to re
tain the position until a successor could
be found
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

VI W cuucSId III
conferences in the
hope of finding
some way out Of
the crisis into
which the revolu-
tionists and the So
cialists have east
Russia.
L h e g e II RI |
strike on the rail
roads is complete
except in a few
border provinces,
.ip1 81 Dntarcbllpo
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

In compliance with the opinion of the
Attorney General of Montana that all
bonds based upon land grants to State
educational institutions are illegal, Stace
Treasurer Rice at Helena refused to pay
warrants drawn upon the normal school
issue of $4,000 and the case will be
taken to the Supreme Court
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Wet rails Cause Crash.

Twenty-siX persons were hurt in a col
lision between a rapid transit railway
electric car, south-bound from Port HUI
ron for Detroit, and a construction train
of four cars, at the power house switch
in the eastern part of New Baltimore,
Mich
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
H. H. Rogers in Car Accident

The Henry II. Rogers special train.
while standing in the yards at Leaven-
worth, Kan, was struck by runaway
section of a freight train. Mr.. Rogers,
. who was asleep, was thrown across his
berth, striking his head upon the wood
en- partition. Panes of glass were brok-
en- in the sleepers