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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
The Storm Season.

May and June are the tornado
months. II is in this period THAT the
king of storms is most frequent and
most severe, due to contrasts in tenn
perature, always greatest when spring
is changing to summer His few winter
visitations are confined to the Gulf
States, but as the weather grows
warmer he strikes more nOrthward.
He made his first appearance this sea-
son on April in North Carolina.
Twenty-Five tOrnadOes per annum is
our average, and this frequency is
quite uniform from year to year. There
are about three destructive tornadoes
of great violence each season and there
seems to be no annual increase in such
phenomena.
The Mississippi and Ohio valleys are
the regions of greatest tornado fire.
Quency. The ROcy Mountain plateau
and slope are free from such convul-
sions, but thence eastward to the At
lantic there are few States, if any,
not occa sionally devastated. Nebras-
ka, South Dakota. Iowa. and Mime
sofa are the tornado States par excel
lence. There is believed to be some
connection between tornadOes and sun
spots, but our weather bureau has not
yet worked this out to its satisfaction.
The tornado is the most violent wind
disturbance known to man. It's vortex
is only few rods in diameter where il
sweeps the earth, whereas that of the
cyclone is perhaps 1000 miles and that
of the hurricane somewhat leSs-abOut
600 to 40 miles. TOrnadoes are almost
invariably referred to as cyclones in
the popular literature of the day. al
though the later phenomena are our
general storms, always present some
where within our boundaries. The tor
nado cloud is a long, slender funnel
tapering from the sky toward the
ground In the innermost part the wind
is blowing at a speed of 200 or more
miles an hour. This Force will exert
against the wall of a building pres
sure of 200 pounds or more per square
foot The danger zone is confined pref
ty closely to the path of the funnel.
In the northern hemisphere. for some
undetermined reason, the violence of a
tornado is always greatest on the
southern side of this path; in the
southern hemisphere the reverse is the
case.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
PANAMA'S NEW NAVY.
DEDICATED AT a SOUTH BROOK
LYN SHlPYARO.
Ensign of New Republic Is Run Up to
Masthead by Secretary Arosemena of
Panaman Legation Gear Grants Re-
forms for Poland.

Representatives of the Panama repub-
lie have formally dedicated their navy
at shipyard in South Brooklyn, n. Y.
The force atlOat consists of the steam
yacht Orienta. commanded by Captain t.
L. Lovelace. formerly of Kansas City.
The yacht was recently purchased from a
New York man for $4,000 and has been
thoroughly overhauled preparatory to
taking up the duty Of guarding the east
ern coast of the isthmus. For the occa-
sion of hosting the Panaman ensign,
the Orienta was in gala dress and large
party went aboard, headed by Carlos
ArOsemena, secretary Of the legation.
Luncheon was served ON board, after
which the flag of the republic was
brought from locker and raised by Sec
rotary ArOsemena. The emblem consists
of four squares. two of white. one in
the upper left and the other in the lower
right-hand corner. and two squares, one
each of red and blue. In one of the
white squares there is single star of
blue and in the other red star. The
Orienta left for Colon Friday. Arriv
ing there. she will be fitted with two 8
FOUNDER guns and two automatic rapid
firing guns
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23

transfers strike is different frons
any other kind of strike. If the men
in factory go out, the center of dis
turbance is the factory. 1t is the same
with mine or a store If street car
men decline to work themselves or to
let others work the base of operations
must necessarily be at the barns and
along the tracks where the ears should
run. If there is strike at the pack
ing houses they simply build a stock
AIDE around them and herd their strike
breakers within it, Not so with a
teamsters' strike. The teams. driven
by strike-breake.s. go everywhere.
They appear on the street and the
strikers are on as many streets as
they are. Thus when Il teamsters'
strike gets good, as this one has been
in Chicago, there is a wake of tumult
and rioting and a trail of broken heads
from one end of the town to the other
Mayor Talks of Troops.
Aside from action. as outlined by
the teamsters and team owners, one
of the principal developments Monday
was when the Mayor gave a first init
nation that perhaps it would be neces-
sary to ask for the help of the militia
to keep order in Chicago He did not
say the necessity existed. and would
not say he thought the time would
come when it did, but he declared:
If this strike spreads and more VIC
lence results it means troops. If it be-
comes evident that violence has reach
ed point where the police cannot
handle it | will not hesitate moment
in calling on the Governor for aid"
Scores of threatening letters have
been received by Levy Mayer, Robert
]. Thorne. Frederick W. Job. Victor
W. Sincere and others who have been
identified with the employers associa-
ton in its struggle The sentiments
in the communications are in language
varying from most complimentary
terms to scathing invective.
Fifteen dollars for life is the price
in Chicago to conduct an educational
campaign" according to the alleged
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
WILL END PUPILS STRIKES.
Chicago Board of Education Threatens
Arrest of Parents.

The school strike in Chicago has con-
tinued to spread, while the authorities
are taking measures to put quietus on
the epidemic SO far there have been
strikes at eight school buildings because
these schools have been receiving coal
delivered by non-uni0n teamsters. Near
ly 1000 school children left their desks,
and much rioting ensued
W. l.. Bodine, superintendent of COM
pulsOry education, detailed thirty-six
truant officers and special policemen to
serve warning notices upon parents of
striking school children. The notices
read that unless the children are sent
to school at once the parents will be held
responsible to the law. The Illinois law
requires parents to keep their children
at school. It also requires the children
to attend school and obey the rules there
of The law, the superintendent says,
will be strictly and promptly enforced
against the parents for failure to send
their children to school and against chill
dren for failure to attend and obey the
rules of the school.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23

written confession of a business agent
of a union, who, with two other union
men, and three of the alleged sluggerS,
have been taken into custody and are
now being held by the police.
Working continuously, the police
have finally taken Charles J. Casey,
business agent; Henry J. Newman. sec
rotary; George Miller, John Haiden
and Frank NOvak, the last three being
member Of the executive committee
The three alleged sIuggers arrested are
Charles GilhOoley, Edward Feeley and
Mark LoOney.
Marching with draped banners and
muffied drums. more than 1000 union
men followed the remains of strike vic
tim George S. Pierce from his late
home to the Union station Sunday.
The body was taken to Louisville, Ky,
for burial
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
Fills Places of Removed Men,

Pension Commissioner Warner has
closed the board Of review incident in
Washington by filling the vacancies
caused by his removal of ten members
for allowing claims of men who had not
seen service. Experienced clerks from
other divisions were transferred TO the
board. ,yEg.. .
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime
| $500 to $500; hogs, prime heavy
S4.OO to $5.37; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $40; wheat, No. ,, 97c TO $1.00
| corn, No. ., 4Sc to soc; oats, standard
29c to Sic; rye, No. l, Tic to 7Sc; ha 4
| timothy, $3.50 to $3.50; prairie, 5000 q
| $11OO; butter, choice creamery, zoe tt
pc; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes
1Sc to 24c
indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $500 &c
SG.25; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to $500
sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to $500
wheat, No. ,, 93c to 95c; corn, No. :
white, soc to 52c; oats, No. 2 white
zoe to 32c.
st. Louis-Cattlc, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs
$500 to S5.35; sheep, $500 to $500
wheat, No ., 96c to CSC; corn, No. ,
4Sc to 50c oats, No. 2, 2Sc to Doc; rye
No. >, zoe to re.
Cincinnati Cattle. $500 to 1915
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 &c
$500; wheat, No. 2, CSC to $1.0O; corn
No. , mixed, Sic to 53c; oats, No. :
mixed 29c to 31c; rye, No. 2, SOC tt
SIC.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to Sj8j; hogs
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $40
wheat, No. ., Csc to $1.0O; corn, No.
yellow, SOC to sic; oats, No. , white
&c to 33c; rye, No 2, zoe to soc.
Observation-Disclosures, No. , northern
S1.O3 to S1O9: corn, No. ;, 47c to 49c.
oats, No. 2 white, SIC to 33c; rye, No J.
nc to 7Sc; barley, No. ,, SOC to 52c.
pork. mess. S12.3j.
Toledo-Wheat, No. > mixed, 99c tc
Sl.O1; corn, No ? mixed 4Sc to soc
oats. No. mixed, zoe to 32c; rye, No.
Sic to SIC; clover seed, prime, $500.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers
$500 to $3.50; hogs. fair to choice, $40C
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 tc
$4.S5; lambs. fair to choice, $500 to
S6.75.
New York-Cattle. $500 to S6,40.
hogs, $500 to 1913; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 97c to 500
corn. No ., 53c to soc; oats, natural
white, Soc to SIC; butter, creamery, 2Oc
n. DC. eggs. western. 15c to 1Sc.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23

frequency of its tornadoes. Like all
storms of that character, it approached
from the southwest. Making its APP
pearance shortly before 8 o'clock in
the evening, it tore path through the
town, demolishing houses. injuring
hundreds and causing the loss of 100
lives. Every building in Snyder, eX-
cept six, is said to have been wrecked,
while. the business portion of the town
is entirely destroyed.
Freaks of the wind are reported by
the hundred. On the place of ]. B.
RalStOn, who was killed, there is Il
bored we'll When the cyclone struck
this place the well bucket was in the
well suspended by a rope fastened to
a regulation pulley shaft. This pulley
shaft was blown to atoms. Investiga-
ton showed that the force of the wind
against the rope had lifted the bucket
full of water from the bottom of the
200foot well to the top. The 200-f0ot
rope was actually buried from one to
three inches in the earth made soft by
the rains in a bee line direction north
east from the well.
One of the children of C. p HILBERT
met his death in a peculiar manner.
When the body of this child, lad of
about 10 years of age, was brought to
the temporary mOrgue and examined
it was found that a wheat straw had
been driven fully eight inches in the
abdomen upwards, the end of the straw
having passed through the diaphragm,
and it is the opinion of the physicians
who extracted it that it penetrated the
heart
Here are some of the otho' things
the freallish wind did:
Tore up trees and set them upon house
tops.
Severed a woman's head from her
body.
Tossed steel railroad rails in air like
straws.
Carried boy out of bed. through win
dow and a block distant without harm.
Shot pole through roof and into
sleeping mans breast like dart.
Sucked furniture from rooms and dis
tributed it over yards and fields.
Snatched baby from mothers breast
and dashed it to death against a stone
wall, leaving the woman unframed
Lifted passenger and freight cars be-
yond the right of way, digging up the
ties.
Moved buildings from their stone fOun-
dations with great damage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23

the transportation business, and some
of them employ several hundred team
sters The members of the association
have contracts in large measure for
the hauling of goods between the large
business houses of the city and the
railways, and they have heretofore
rather sided with the teamsters than
with the members of the Employers
Association. They decided, however,
that they could no longer refuse to
make deliveries.
President Shea of the Transfers
Union was defiant and went into the
meeting with the declaration that the
teamsters of Chicago would strike to
a man rather than to agree to permit
the delivery of goods to houses where
strikes have been called. There was
however, a strong element in the union
opposed to a general strike, and many
OF the officers of the local unions went
into the meeting with the avowed in
tention of preventing a spread of the
strike if it was possible.
The employers, realizing that the
strike was either won or just about to
spread, mailed to 10000 business
houses in Chicago a statement of the
strike as viewed from their stand
point. The document went over the
causes of the strike and called on all
bushes men to uphold their right to
send wagons through the streets with
out molestatiOn, and to join with the
Employers Association in refusing to
yield ito the dictation of labor unions
in the control of our business"
Police on Wagons.
Last week, when the strike riots be-
came so numerous an order went out
from police headquarters for two po-
licemen to ride on every wagon. This
was strongly opposed by the labor lead
ers, but it did no good. Now the big
stores and express companies have
about 600 wagons out, which is a little
over 80 per cent of the regular opera
tons.
The investigating committee appoint
ed by Mayor Dunno has accomplished
nothing. In a statement over their
own signatures several of the employ
ers assert that President Shea of the
union was willing to accept the terms
offered by the employers provided they
would reinstate the strikers for twenty
four hours until Shea could get out of
town. Shea declares that there is no
truth in the statement of the employ
ers.
Acid in eggshells has been thrown
from windows on horses. Negro strike
breakers have assaulted innocent citi-
zens and beaten them ferociously. Eff
teen hundred policemen have tried to
keep order and have failed The peo-
pie who have no concern in the affair
either way have been Inconvenience
most. The big stores could not deliver
their goods. Many groceries could not
get purchases to customers. Trunks Of
incoming visitors have been delayed.
Coal has run short in some of the big
buildings
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
THREE CANAL PLANS.
il Trio of Projects for Building til
Isthu,ian Waterway.

il Trio of Projects for Building the
Isthmian Waterway.
There are now under consideration
three distinct projects for the canal One
is the sea-level plan. 1t is favored by
Engineers Parsons and Burr, and to a
limited extent by Chief Engineer Wal
lace.
The second is revival of the plan OF
the French Comite Technique. Bunau-
Vanilla. the man who organized the revo-
luton at Panama and who was the first
minister Of the fedgling republic at
Washington, recently crossed the ocean
to urge this plan upon the President.
His idea was that its adoption would
save the honor of France" by demon
strating that, though the French had
failed as canal builders, their engineers
were men of genius and far-seeing wis
dom.
The third is the Bates plan. 1t strikes
happy mean between the other two.
The French plan called for a summit
level 625 feet above the ocean, though
Mr.. Bunau-Varilla advocates making the
level 1O5 feet at the start. His idea IS
that a canal at that level could be COM
pleted in FIVE years and aftcrward could
be sunk by dredging in the channel to
any depth desired, even to sea level.
Among engineers there are differences of
opinion as to the practicability of this
scheme.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
Short News Notes.

Fire destroyed fifteen business build
ings at Home City, Kan, leaving only
the railway station and two elevators
standing. Loss 100000.
Application for a receiver fog the NJ.
S. Benedict Manufacturing Company of
Syracuse, \. Y, has been made by cred
itors. the liabilities being estimated at
100000 and the nominal assets at the
same figure.
Hundreds of homeseekers and prospec-
tors are focking to the Kiowa-COmanche
country to select leases of the pasture
lands soon to be opened for agricultural
purposes.
The grand jury Of Franklin county,
Mississippi. has returned 300 indictments
for whiteclpping. Among those injured
are the sheriff and all the members of
the Law and Order League.
Wilhelm Deitz, who killed Russell NJ.
Lindsay. a brother-in-law of William AL
len White, the author-editor. near Kan
sas City, Kan, April %, 1897, has been
given an absolute pardon by Gov. Hoch.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
Standing of the Western League:
REFORM IN CzAR'S EDICT.
No Doubt Exists as to Commences OF
Emperor Nicholas Broad Police.

There is little room for skepticism as
to the commences of the broad policy of
imperial reform after the remarkable
steps sanctioned by Emperor Nicholas in
the imperial rescript modifying the re-
strictive DEGREES in nine of the western
governments of Russia. giving the Poles
greater freedom for acquiring farming
lands and purchasing landed properties
and industrial premises and giving per-
mission to introduce the Polish and Lith-
uanian languages in the primary and sec
ondary schools where the majority Of the
inhabitants are non-Gussian. Almost at
one sweep the whole burden of the veXa-
tiOus restrictive laws in Poland and the
Baltic provinces has been removed and
the privileges for which the natives have
been fighting for years are restored.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23

the condition of their business made it
necessary for them to make deliveries
to houses which have been boycotted
by the unions, and that they would do
so next week Needless of the fact
whether or not a strike existed at such
places. The Council was urged to
agree to this procedure and avert a
general strike. After an extended de-
bate the members of the Transfers
Council decided that it would not
agree to the delivery of goods to any
of the boycOtted houses by union team
sters, and that strikes would be called
whenever a man was discharged for
refusing to deliver goods. There are
$4,000 transfers in the unions which
will be affected.
Among the members of the Team
Owners Association are many of the
largest firms in the city engaged in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
| New York.

~ Wholesale trade for fall
NV lUlk. delivery has been Stimu-
lated by good public and
private reports as to winter wheat but
heavy rains or continues cool wealth
er have interfered with retail trade,
except in a few sections, and retarded
corn planting. Spring wheat seeding
however, has been finished, and the in
creased acreage, helped by abundant
moisture, has had a good start. The
iron trade displays increased quiet
with price concessions offered. The
building trades offer an immense out
let for lumber, hardware and mate
rails generally. Railway tonnage in
April fell somewhat behind March, but
the gain in earnings over April, 1904
is fully 81 per cent, against a gain
in March of 1913 per cent
Business failure for the week end
ing May II number 1913, against 1913
last week, POI in the like week of 1904,
1872 in 1908, 100 III 1902 and 1872 in
1901. In Canada failures for the week
number Is, as against % last week
and % in this week a year ago.
Bradstreets' Commercial Report
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
America Leads in Coal Wealth.

1t is estimated by experts that the
area of American coal fields, at present
open to mining, is more than FIVE times
as great as that of the coal fields of
England, France, Germany and Belgium,
the great coal producing countries of Eu-
rope While practically all the available
coal areas of those countries have been
opened to mining, ours have scarcely
been estimated. When we take into con-
sideration the fact that coal is one of
the great motive powers in the manufac-
turing world, it is evident that this i'm
mense wealth of coal will be of such an
advantage to the United States as to be
beyond any mans calculation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
NAN PATTERSON OUT OF ToMBs.
Jerome Takes Shot at Newspapers as
He Sets Show Girl Free.

Nan Patterson, the one-time Florodora
show girl, has been released from the
Tombs prison in New York, after almost
a year within its walls awaiting a de-
termination of the charge that she had
murdered Caesar Young, a race-track
boOkmaker. She left for Washington the
same afternoon. She was loudly cheered
by crowd of 1000 persons as she left
the prison. Her release was made at the
instance of District Attorney Jerome,
who said he did not believe another
trial would result other than in dis
agreement. At the same time he declar-
ed that there had been serious miscar-
riage of justice He said many of the
newspapers had labored to create sym
pathy for the girl and that this case had
caused one more step in this country
toward trial by newspaper rather than
trial by jury" As Miss Patterson left
the criminal court room she was met at
the threshold by her father who threw
his arms around her and exclaimed,
THANK God, my daughters
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
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a.. Adverse weather and
GllGdQU. continued strike troubles
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| <AuNGISG M0dlACA oA0
UllGd0O. continued strike troubles
I-1nterfered with a we'll
rounded volume of local activity, but
Notwithstanding these Instructions the
inherent strength of trade has not been
affected Except a lull in the demand
Tor furnace product, almost similar to
that of year ago, new business APP
peared in satisfactory volume through
out other leading lines of industry.
production shows no curtailment and
the distribution of manufactured ma
terlal and staple commodities is heavy,
indicating sustained consumption.
Other encouraging conditions are
seen IN uninterrupted factory work,
building construction and improved
dealings in State street trade. Agri-
cultural reports of late had such an
optimistic tone it is reassuring to find
them amply confirmed by official au-
thority and the promise of larger crops
adds to confidence in the general out
look. Interior advices show farm work
advancing rapidly and country stores
meeting with good demand for sup
plies. Mercantile collections make a
good exhibit and defaults again are
small.
Manufacturing branches have not
been directly impeded by labor trou-
bles and the output exceeds that of q
year ago. Steel mills have all the
work their capacity permits, and the
finished product remains in good re-
quest.
Receipts Of grain We're 1.747912
bushels, against 2,446,690 bushels
year ago, and the shipments aggregat-
ed 3,420,0S2 bushels, against 1.9S0.O57
bushels. The general demand for
breadstuffs was slightly stronger, but
poorer export sales weakened the sit
uation. Provisions were in better re-
quest and shipments have expanded.
Live stock receipts, 252, $50 head COM
pared with 239,345 head a year ago,
and are under expectations. Com.
pared with the closing a week ago
prices are higher in corn IL cents,
oats rs cents, wheat l cent, pork 80
cents, ribs 10 cents, lard > cents, sheep
% cents, cattle 10 cents and hogs 8
cents.
Bank clearings, S17S,91O,31S, exceed
those of corresponding week last year
by 81 per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23
LAIN BY REJECTED sUIToR.
Girl Officer of Volunteers of America
Shot-Murderer a Suicide.


Because of unrequited love, Peter Ka-
theiSer, a millwright, shot and instantly
killed Miss Grace Townsley, IS years
old, and a lieutenant in the Volunteers
of America, in Lincoln, Neb. The tragedy
occurred in a stairway leading to room
ing block Miss Townsley was going up
the stairway and katheiser was just be-
hind her when he shot. After sending
three bullets through her body, he went
outside and on the sidewalk in front OF
the place shot himself twice. He died
few minutes later. According to the
statements of Mrs. Belle G. Hubbell,
captain of the Volunteers. who was with
Miss Townsley at the time, the refusal of
the girl to return Katheiser's love was
the cause. Katheiser had been playing
the violin in the Volunteers street band.
He was not member, but took part IN
the services in order that he might be
near the girl who rejected him.