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Cticago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $6.75; hogs, prime heavy, $4.OO
to 5000; sheep. fair to choice $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. ,, Soc to SEC; corn,
No. :, 45c to 47c, oats, standard. 2Sc to
29c; rye, No. .. &c ~ Csc; hay, timo-
thy, $3.50 to $3.50; prairie, 5000 to
$3.50; batter, choice creamery, pic to
DE; eggs. fresh, DC to 29c potatoes,
per busbel, SOC to 66c.
apolis-Cattle, shipping. $500
to 1913; hogs, choice heavy, $4.OO to
500; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, SAC to Soc; corn. No.
white, 41c to 42c; oats, No. white,
SOC to 32c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $685.; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $500 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, SEC to SOC; corn, No 2,
4lc to 42c; oats, No. ., poe to zoe; rye,
No. 2, &c to Csc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $4.O0 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$4.75; wheat, No. ., 90c to Ole; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 4jc to acc; oats, No. 2
mixed, Bic to 33c; rye, No. >, zoe to Tic.
DetrOit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $40; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat No. 2, SIC to Sc; corn, No
yellow, 45c to 46c; oats, No. white,
Bic to 32c: rye, No. 2, 69c to zoe.
Observation-Disclosures, No. . northern,
SIC to Soc; corn, No. 8, 43c to 45c;
oats, standard, 29c to Gle; rye, No /,
Csc to 69c; barley, No. 2. 53c to soc;
pork, mess, $500.
Toledo-Wheat, No 2 mixed SIC to
SSc; corn No. = mixed Acc to 46c; oats,
No. mixed SOC to 32c: rye, No. 2, &c
to 69c; clover seed, prime. $S.07
Buffalo-Cattle choice shipping steers,
$500 to 1913; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to SJ.25; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1925; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $500.
New York-Cattle, $500 to S5.T5;
hogs. $500 to $40; sheep, $500 to
$780, wheat No. 2 red, 94e to 95c;
corn, No. ., SIC to SIC; oats, natural,
white, 35c to SIC; butter, creamery, dc
to 24c; eggs, western, 2Sc to 32c.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
WEATHER FAvoRs CROPS.

Government Bulletin Reports Mo-
vember a Good Month.
Crop conditions are summarized by
the weather bureaus monthly bulletin
for November, as follows:
While the Atlantic coast districts es-
perienced droughty conditions, and heavy
rains proved detrimental in the west
gulf States, the weather conditions dur
ing November, 1905, generally were ia
vorable for farming operations in nearly
all districts, being exceptionally so in
the central valleys. The long contin-
ued drought i'll California was relieved
by generous rains near the close of the
month, when a heavy fall of snow oc-
Cured throughout the northern Rocky
mountain region and thence eastward to
the upper lakes.
The reports indicate that in the prin-
cipal winter wheat States winter wheat
is entering the winter in excellent condi-
ton In the middle Atlantic States, how
ever, the termination of late sown wheat
was not wholly satisfactory, but that
seeded early is in promising condition.
The Hessian fly is reported from Scat
tered localities i'll Missouri and Pennsyl-
vania and also in Michigan, being confn-
ed principally to the early Sown in the
last mentioned State. On the north Pa
cifc coast the conditions have been fa-
vorable for seeding, but termination has
not been satisfactory. Except in a small
part of western Mississippi and scattered
localities in Alabama practically all Of
the cotton crop in the districts east Of
the Mississippi had been gathered by
the close of the month, the same being
true of Louisiana, but in Missouri, Ar
kansas and Texas, and Oklahoma and
Indian territories a small part of the
crop is still in the fields
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
FINDS MAGNETIC POLE
NORWEGIAN EXPLORERS RE-
MARkASLE DISCOVERIES.
To Reach Present Location He Must
Have Passed Through Northwest
Passage So Long Sought by Old
Navigators.

Major Glassfod. in charge of the gov
eminent cable office in Seattle, has re-
ceived a message addressed to Nansen,
the Norwegian explorer, at Christiania,
from Captain Ronald Amundsen of the
ship Gjoa, at Fort Egbert, Eagle City,
Alaska. telling of trip by dog team
from Hcrschel island TO Eagle City.
While the message is incomplete in de-
tails, it purports to be from a member
of an exploring party sent out by Nan
sen and states that the party is safe
with the ship Gjoa. wintering at King
point. The trip from Herschel to Eagle
City was made up the Mackenzie river
to the Peel river and over the divide to
Fort Egbert, through an entirely unin-
habited country and Il section that is
practically uneXplored. Captain Amund-
sen, who set out in a small craft with a
crew Of but eight men, found the north
magnet pole, whose discovery is original
ly accredited to Ross in 1881, although
scientists doubt that Ross really located
this elusive guide to the compasses of
the world. The north magnet pole has
been generally assumed by geographers
as being on Bothnia, the most northerly
peninsula of the American continent and
close to King Williams island 1t is
supposed to be shifting sphere of in
fuence, though its variations are not
great. Having gone from Greenland to
Ii point in the vicinity of Herschel isl
and, it would seem as though Amund-
sen has at last found the north pas
sage for which arctic explorers nave been
searching for YearS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
RUSS REBELS LOSE.
LOYAL FLEET DEFEATS REDS IN
SEVASToPoL FIGHT.
Ten Battleships, Cruisers and Tor
pedo Boats Under Red Flag Put
Out of Action-Forts Carried by

A terrific naval and land battle oc-
CURED at Seyastopol between the mutt
neers and the military and sea forces
that remained loyal to the Car. The
mutineers were defeated and two or
more of their vessels We're sunk and
the remainder surrendered.
The sailors and soldiers intrenched
in the north fort, after sanguinary
battle lasting three hours, were driven
o-lt by a bayonet charge, every man
being killed, wounded, or captured.
The town sustained enormous injury,
one report saying half of it is in ruins
Fire, produced by the rebel lombard
ment, did vast amount of damage
Before the battle started the town
practically was deserted except for the
troops. The scared population had fled
in all directions, and Balaklava and
neighboring towns were filled with
refugees. During the battle the town
and the forts were bombarded by the
guns of the cruiser Otchakoff, which is
now a wreck off Admiralty point, its
hull riddled with shells and its faunt-
ing red ensign of revolution hauled
down.
With mutiny at Sebastopol, where
from 700 to 5000 rebels and loyal sol
diers have been killed in battle. with
disaffection in the army growing until
1t has reached the bodyguard of the
emperor himself and imperils his life.
with more than 100000 workmen lock-
ed out in st. Petersburg and the in
dustrial situation hourly becoming
more acute there and in Moscow. Rus
STA has been all but cut off from com
munication with the outside world.
The general strike of telegraphers is
OF and practically all wires between
the capital and the interior of the en-
pire are idle. Poland is on the verge
of an uprising, agrarian disorders CON
tinue and doubt as to the ability of
Count White to check the demoraliza-
ton and restore some sort of political
balance in the empire increases.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12

Max Cohen, bunco man, known as
"Sheeney Nike" was sentenced to Sing
Sing for seven years.
The canvass of the official vote Of
Ohio gives Pattison, Democrat, 1851
plurality for Governor.
Repairs on the turret of tie monitor
Wyoming, now at Vallejo, Cal, will cost
$20,075. The work will be begun at
once.
The battleship Oregon, now in the
Asiatic station, is to be thoroughly over
hauled on its return. The Massachu-
sets will be put out of commission.
Fumes from a cargo of redwood
ruined provisions and water cn the Ger
man bark Vera. The crew nearly stary-
ed before the arrival at Port Natal,
Africa.
A change in the law requiring four
officers for a summary court-martial in
the navy for minor offenses IS being
sought. One-oficer courts may be sub
stituted.
In report to the Department OF
Commerce, Special Agent Charles NJ.
Pepper says the United States, besides
selling Canada exports to the value of
S166. coo, 900 last year, sent $4,000 set
tiers into the dominion between Janu-
airy and October this year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
snnrks from the Wires.

Fire destroyed the laundry of the
State hospital for nervous diseases at
Little Rock, Ark.
Lieut.. Hugh Kirkman, Eighth cavalry,
has been arrested at Fort Mckinley,
z. l., charged with forgery.
Notice was given by the Pennsylvania
railroad that it would issue no more
passes to Pittsburg politicians because
the privilege had been abused.
Secretary Root, it is reported, win
soon go to Brazil on an important mis-
sion for the Roosevelt administration.
1t is understood that he will seek tc
arrange for better trade relations.
Leaders in the recent reform campaign
in Cincinnati met and resolved to con
tinue the fight and to appoint a COM
mittee to compel the restitution of city
and county funds wrongfully diverted
from the treasury.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
been advised that by order of the board
of directors the First National bank of
Leesville, La, has closed its doors. No
cause is assigned.
Gov. Folk was the principal speaker
Il
passed resolutions indOrsing the issue of
81. O00, 900 of bonds for a free bridge
across the Mississippi
A. B. Driscoll, chairman of the Y.
NJ. C. A. building fund of st. Paul,
Mimi. announced that $150,000 in small
subscriptions had been raised, thus Sc
curing a conditional subscription of
S1O2, 600. making a total building fund
of S252, 900.
A huge crowd of curiosity seekers
thronged the apartments Of James Ha.
zen Hyde, on Fifth avenue, New York,
and paid high prices for the former life
insurance mans furniture.
The tariff commission held sessions at
Chatham. Ont, and at Wallaceburg. In
creased duties were asked for on -four,
barrel slaves, beet sugar and gasoline
engines. An export duty on fish was
urged.
Cephas Poindexter, the murderer of
Deputy Marshal Y. B. Wade, was hang
ed at Rocky Mount, Va. When taken
to the scaffold he was asked if he had
anything to say and he replied: 'They
are hanging an innocent man"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
Hnmorons News Nntea.

The Spanish minister of war has ask
cd an appropriation of $4,2O0OOO for
The purchase of 200 field guns.
Mrs. Thomas Stewart Of Columbia,
Mo-, was killed and her husband and
3-yeAr-old child probably fatally injured
in a runaway accident.
Mrs. Isaac Barnes of Presque Isle.
Me-, has been arrested on a charge of
poisoning her stepdaughter, Pearl
Barnes, 10 years old.
The Countess Castellane is said to be
rapidly recovering from the effects of
fall from her horse, received in Bon
nelles forest while hunting.
President Roosevelt has amended his
recent civil service order increasing the
power of himself and the heads of de-
partments to dismiss from the classified
service employees whose actions displease
them.
The report of the receivers of the
coal and ether properties Of the late
G. J. Devlin, as made in Topeka, Kan,
showed the total assets to be 1885,
94S, and the total liabilities 1882, POS.
J. w. Belcher, the missing govern
menk printing office employee and treas
urer of one of the money lending con-
Germs in the office at Washington, D. c.,
is supposed to have committed suicide
by drowning in the Potomac river He
was brother of the missing Mayor of
Paterson, n. j.
NJ. Camille Flammarion, an eminent
French astronomer, writes that the OBJ
servatory of La Plata announces the
discovery of the Bernard comet of 1892
in the neighborhood of Saturn. NJ.
Flammarion says this comet is probably
a fragment of The Wolf comet, which
presumably broke up in 1910.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
ILLITERACY DYING OUT.
Comparisons with Foreign Nation
Show EaVorahIv

comparisons with Foreign Nations
Show FavOrabIy.
According to a bulletin issued by
the census bureau about 100 persons
out of 1000 in the United States over
IL years old are unable to write.
which is equivalent to about one in
ten Of the native white population
only 46 out of every 1000 or fewer
than one in twenty, of the foreign born
whites, 12S out of every 1000, and of
the negroes 445 out Of every 1000 are
illiterate.
international comparisons, restricted
as far as possible to corresponding
classes of the population, are on the
whole, favorable to this country, indi-
eating that in most European countries
illiteracy is much more prevalent
than it is here, although the United
States is still far behind Germany,
Sweden, Norway. Denmark and Swift
erland. There also is ground for salts
faction in the statistical evidence that
illiteracy is being reduced steadily. In
1890 the number of illiterates in every
1000 was 1873 for the total population,
62 for the native white population, 1870
for the fOreign-born white and 56S for
negroes, Indians and Mongolians.
The women are shown to be more
illiterate than the men, the illiteracy
for women being 112 in each 81 900 and
for men 101. But the contrast is less
marked than it was in 1890, when the
illiteracy for the two sexes was IA
and 1913, respectively. In explanation
of the fact that the girls have caught
up with the boys, it is suggested that
boys are less subject to parental con-
troll than girls and more prone to play
truant; and that they also are more
frequently required to contribute to
the family income by becoming wage
earners when they should be in
school.
In the country the illiteracy among
children is 50 in each 1000; in the
city, using this term to designate col
lectively cities of over $4,000 inhabit-
ants, it is only 10 in each 1000. The
contrast is least in the North Atlantic
States. In this section child illiteracy
in the city is to a 1000; and in the
country to a 1000. In the South the
difference is very marked; in the
South Atlantic division, 80 and 1913 for
city and country respectively, and in
the South Central 40 and 1S1 a 1000.
1lliteracy is in general greater in
the South than the North for all class
es of the population. Perhaps the fair
est basis of comparison between the
two sections is that for native white
children living in cities of over $4,000
inhabitants. In the North Atlantic Iii
vision the illiteracy for this class of
children is 81, and in the North Cen
trail. 10; in the South Atlantic division
it is S.3, and in the South Central,
1871
There are fewer illiterates among
the children of foreign-born parents
than among those of natives, owing,
it is said to the fact that a greater
portion of them live in cities.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
Mild wpqtIlar,
| New York.
MIIu WeatDer retarded
retail trade early in the
week. eXcent in holiday

Ne
3 week, except in holiday
supplies, the widespread cold wave
later offered a needed corrective and
stimulus to the only lines hitherto
backward. Weather conditions now
are likely to bring the long continued
season for outdoor work to a close. and
especially affect the building trades.
which have had the most active wear
IN their history. Something like sea-
sonable quiet is reported in many lines
of wholesale trade, but it is noted that
jobbers and manufacturers are still
very busily engaged on holiday goods,
some lines of " inch are already report
ed overSold indicating that record
years business will be garnered. All
reports as to spring trade are satisfac-
tory, but hitherto mild weather and
car congestion are responsible for re-
ports of rather backward trade and of
slow collections in the Northwest.
Business failures for the week ending
Nov 30 number 1S5, against 224 last
week, 1S4 in the like week of 1904
239 in 1903, 1875 in 1902 and 237 in 1901.
In Canada failures for the week num-
Der %, as against 40 last week. and
70 in this week a year ago-Brad.
streets Commercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
BANK EMBEzzLER SHOWS NERVE
Chats with President While Await
ing Train on Which to Flee.

When c. NJ Gwin, cashier of the
Bank of Hayti, Mo-, walked off with
over $4,000 funds of the institution the
other day he met the president of the
bank at the railway station and engag-
ed him in cheerful conversation on local
affairs. Gwin set the time lock of the
safe for seventy-two hours, and conse-
quently he had two days start before
the directors could get into the vault.
In the safe he left two letters, one to
President Doris, saying the reason he
left was personal, not for the sum TAX
en-, and the other for j. q. Franklin,
the heaviest stakeholder, explaining that
he took the funds because Franklin had
sharply criticised his methods of conduct
ing the bank a short time before.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
DOG SAVES MASTERS LIFE.
Cur Rewards Friendship by Bring
ing Aid to Freezing Man.

By rare display of intelligence on the
part of stray dog he had befriended,
Anthony O'Dowd. a telegraph operator,
was saved from freezing to death IN Gin
cinnati. Night Clerks Robert Gillespie
and William Shipp were drowsily pass
ing through a quiet night in the receiv-
ing ward of the city hospital, when their
attention was attracted by the whining
of dog in the cold outside. They were
surprised when it darted in at the open
ed door and caught Gillespie by the trou-
ser leg and tried to pull him outside.
Believing something wrong, the clerk
followed the dog and found its master
lying unconscious on the sidewalk half
a square away. O'Dowd had fallen on
the way to the hospital and was over
come by the cold. Save for the sagacity
of his dog he would probably have per-
ished, as the street where he was found
is unfrequented. He was resuscitated
and sent to a ward.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
SCORES ARE KILLED.
Cars Rebel Soldiers Have Clash
with LoyRlist Troops

Whlle st. Peterbeurg was without tel
egraphic communication with the outer
world, belated advices received at the
frontier points by courier showed that
the situation in the Cars capital and
throughout the empire was exceedingly
grave, with promise Of developing into
complete chaos.
The Gar is beset from within and
without the palace, mutiny RACES in the
Baltic provinces. the reactionaires are
trying to override Witte and force trial
at arms with the people, and disaffection
increases among the imperial troops The
naval battalions have revolted en- masse,
and the warships have been disarmed.
Meanwhile the striking telegraphers are
defiant and the railroad employees and
workmen are considering walk-out.
The revolutionists, social democrats
and advocates of a democratic republic
are taking advantage of every turn in
the situation and working assiduously to
win the army over to their organized
plan for the overthrow of the throne,
The Jews of Odessa report a plan by
the troops TO begin another massacre.
To just what extent these various move
ments have progressed is not yet known.
A dispatch from Kev via Podwolo-
czyska says: One company of pom
toon battery mutinied. and, fully armed
marched through the streets trying to
persuade other troops to join it. Only
an engineer corps did so. The mutt.
neers, then 1900 strong, continued then
march. Two hundred CoSsacks were sent
to prevent their advance, but Gen.
Drake, in order to prevent bloodshed,
subsequently withdrew the Cossacks and
permitted the mutineers to pass. Gov
Gen. Suchomiloff then telephoned an
order that energetic measures be taken
against the mutineers and that they be
fired upon at the first opportunity. The
troops then fred upon the mutineers,
who returned the fire and fed. The
casualties on both sides were about sew
enty dead and 500 wounded. Two hun
bred mutineers surrendered.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
CHICAGO.

Onl60QU. general business has at
--i tanned is strongly out
hhed by the current volume of bank
exchanges. The latter FOR November
exceeds those of the corresponding
month last year, and a comparison of
the twenty-four working days in No
Vember with the twenty-six working
days OF October EXHIBITS an average
gam OF close upon two and a half mil
non dollars daily for the month lust
closed.
This present progress NAV he en-
tirely credited to industrial efforts tho
usual speculative channels being CON-
para1vely quiet. Money remains at
the highest value this year. bur there
is slight prospect of a cheaner rate for
mercantile needs while railroad block
AIDES delay grain remittances.
The course of trade discloses no de-
velopments this week aside from fur-
Their commitments which add STRENGTH
Prices display exceptional strength in
both raw material and finished prod-
uctS' 0hlcaSo pig IRON at $40 n ton
and bar iron at $40 reflect an excess Of
demand over supply in this market
Other quotations showing advances
appear in grain, provisions and live
stock, while recent appropriations are
firmly upheld in lumber, hides and
leather. Operations in textiles are ne.
fected by disturbing estimates Of cot.
ton growth and high wool values vet
the interior buying for spring delivery
compares well with year ago.
Seasonable weather gave an imnetus
to distributive trade, and the general
demand again drew sharply upon shin
ping facilities. The absorption Of
household needs and heavy apparel has
been large, and gratifying retail sales
were made in footwear end Christmas
goods.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %, against p last week
and % year ago.-Dun's Review of
Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
VOTERS TO PASS ON LAWS.
Petition for Initiative and Referen-
dunn in Ohio Cities,

Petitions are being circulated in all
the big cities of Ohio asking the next
Legislature to authorize the people to
vote on an amendment to provide for the
initiative and referendum system in both
State and municipal affairs. Rev. George
Candee of Toledo started the first one,
which is signed by Brand Whitlock The
Democrats are pledged to the referen-
dunn by their platform, and its support
ers hope that these petitions will have
enough effect on the independent Re
publicans to secure the enactment of the
necessary legislation. If successful, all
bills will have to be voted upon by the
people before they become laws.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
British Captain Drowus

Captain Levi Atkins of the British
schooner Myrtle Leaf was drowned in
the harbor at Norfolk, Va, in a collision
between the steamer Mobjack and a
small launch in which Captain Atkins
and other captains were being carried to
their boats after a visit 70 the city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12

sons for maintain
ing that illness
saves lives, is ser
geant surgeon in
ordinary to the
British king and
surgeon in ordin-
airy to the Prince
of Wales. He per-
formed an opera
ton upon King
Edward in 1902,
and also upon the
OTT1l on nn,rNnnr,.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
EmpIoyers, BIacIxIist Unbeld

Judge J. p. Gregory in Louisville rul-
ed in a $1,000 damage suit brought
against the Ok Brooches Company by
women formerly employed by the con-
Germ, that employers have the right to
list discharged workmen whom they re-
fused to take back and furnish other
companies with such lists, provided no
Misrepresentation of the facts be made.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12
Arizona FIood Is EntnI.

G. e. Kennedy. who has reached Ell
PasO, Tex, from Clifton, Ariz., overland,
reports that three men have been
drowned there by recent floods. The ex-
press office, station a two-story hotel
and many small buildings were washed
away. Drifting snow has caused the
ella River to rise at Silver City, n. NJ,
cutting off several mining camps from
supplies