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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
WHEAT AND CORN THRIVING.
Crops Generally in Promising Com
dition-Corn Suffers from Rain.


dition-Corn Suffers from Rain.
The weather bureaus weekly bulletin
summarizes crop conditions as follows:
In the district east of the Rocky Moun-
tains temperature conditions were gen
orally favorable, though rather cool in
the Missouri valley. Over much the
greater part of the country from the
South Atlantic and gulf coasts northward
to the lake region, Minnesota and the
Dakotas excessive rain fell, greatly him
dered the cultivation of crops, caused
rapid growth of weeds and in places in
jured hay and harvest grain. There
was practically no rain in New England,
only light showers on the immediate mid
die Atlantic coast, and none in the Rocky
Mountain and Pacific coast regions. In
central and northern California and por-
tons of Oregon and X ashington intense
heat prevailed during the latter part of
the week
The corn crop has had week of very
favorable conditions for growth, except
IN the upper Missouri valley, where it's
progress has been rath,r slow on ac-
count of insufficient heat and lack of
sunshine. While rains have interfered
as whole is in a fairly good state of
cultivation ard is largely laid by except
in the more northerly districts.
Winter wheat harvest continues in the
northerly districts and is largely finished
elsewhere. Rainy weather has extern
sively interfered with thrashing and has
caused damage TO grain in shock in parts
of the middle Atlantic States and central
valleys. The abnormal heat on the north
Pacific coast during the latter part of
the week probably caused damage to
the wheat crop in Washington.
In portions of South Dakota and Min
nesota spring wheat on lowlands has suf-
fered from overhows, but elsewhere in
the spring wheat region the crop is in
promising condition. Rust continues in
South Dakota and Minnesota, though not
materially increasing, and is beginning
to appear in North Dakota Spring
wheat continues promising on the north
Pacific coast, though exposed to trying
heat conditions during the latter part of
the week
Both standing and harvested oats have
suffered considerably from wet weather,
which has caused lodging, hindered har-
vesting and injured oats in stack or
shock. A fine crop, however, is general
ly indicated.
In Illinois frequent showers were I'M
favorable for harvesting, thrashing and
haying. Oats are ripening Many mea-
dows are Overripe, but the ground is too
wet for reapers and mowers. The con-
dition of corn is exceptionally favorable,
some tasseling. Oats generally are
standing up well, but some badly lodged.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
F1ERcE JAGUAR PERILs 1000.
Holds Up Four Trains and Injuries One
Man at a Colorado Tunnel.

More than 1000 persons and four pas
senger trains on the Colorado Midland
railroad were held at tunnel No. 6, two
miles west of Manitou, by a fierce South
American jaguar. Before he was cap
tured the animal clawed Joseph Bennett
of Colorado Springs, cutting a severe
cash across his right leg. Miss Del
mont, passenger on one of the trains,
became frightened and in endeavoring
to scale a high cliff fell a distance of
twenty feet, breaking her left leg. The
Jaguar and polar bear occupied two
compartments in a large cage that was
loaded upon a fat car of the train be-
longing to circus. The cage was too
high to enter the mouth of the tunnel
and as the cage struck the tunnel its
roof was torn off. The keeper threw on
the air brakes, stopping the train. He
threw rocks at the bear and fred blank
cartridges at the jaguar to keep them
escaping. The animal crawled under the
car and during the efforts to drive it
into another cage Bennett received his
injuries. Finally the animal was driven
into a small cage, but before the door
could be closed the train started and the
Jaguar again leaped for liberty. It dash
ed through the tunnel, but upon emerg-
ing at the other end found itself in a
narrow cut. After some efforts the ami
NAL was again captured and placed in his
cage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
WITTE FOR ENVOY.
Gear Appoints Him Chief PIenipoten-
tiary of Russia.

Gar Appoints Him Chief PIeuipoten-
tiary of Russia.
Emperor Nicholas has appointed NJ.
Witte, president of the committee of
ministers, to be chief plenipotentiary rep
resenting the Russian government in the
peace negotiations to be conducted next
month in Washington.
Sergius Witte, the Russian plenipo-
tertiary, may be regarded as the leading
Liberal statesman of Russia. For the
last thirteen years he has been one of
the strongest personalities in the Rus
sian bureaucracy, although his political
fortunes suffered a setback when he was
compelled to resign the portfolio of min
lister of finance in August, 1903, and
again when, after being appointed presi-
dent of the council of ministers in the
same month, his Office gradually lost its
Importance until rumors of his intention
to resign and go abroad had been per-
sistently circulated.
White is about 90 years old and has
worked his way up from the position of
an underpaid railroad clerk, who occa-
sionally acted as porter, to that of the
leading statesman of Russia. in spite of
the fact that his enemies are numerous
and include some of the most powerful
men in Russia. A man of large stature,
and muscular, standing over six feet
high, White has the reputation of being
harsh to his subordinates, but his ability
has never been doubted even by his worst
enemies. He was created a count in
1901.
M. White is thoroughly familiar with
the far eastern question in all its bear
ings. He understands the japanese posi-
ton and fully realized before the war
that the aggressive policy pursued I'M
der the lead of Viceroy Alexieff and NJ.
Bezobrazoff, president of the Yalu Tim
Der Company, and the coterie of adven-
turers connected with them would drive
Japan to take up the sword. At one
time White talked over the situation with
Marquis to- president of the Japanese
privy council and one of the leading
statesmen of Japan. Practically it was
Whites disapproval of Russias far east
ern policy and the creation of a vice
royalty in the far East which caused
his downfall as minister of finance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25

The striko among the Montevideo har.
Dor hands is declining Disturbances
have occurred at Villa Cerro, Uruguay
but order is re-established.
The Liberals were defeated at the
Rome election owing 70 party dissensions
The Clericals voted for the first time
since 1870, uniting with the Moderates.
George Rowe and Stephen Bedner,
mine workers of Wilkesbarre, Pa, were
killed by a water car breaking loose and
dashing them against the side of the
mine.
Jonas Coleman shot and killed neigh
Dor named Justice at Rife, forty three
miles east of Chehalis, Wash, and then
committed suicide. There had been
trouble between the two for some time.
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, director of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New
York, was given farewell banquet in
London. He was presented with SOU
venir in the form of a massive silver
bowl on an ebony plinth.
The government of Costa Rica has Civ
en- strict orders that measures be taken
to prevent possible contagion from bu-
bonic plague. A special message has
been sent ordering the stopping of ships
coming to Limon by way of Colon.
An advance in wages made by the in
dependent iron manufacturers Of Pitts
burg to meet the advance made by the
Republic company to puddlers viii affect
1000 men.
Eight relays of carrier pigeons took a
message from st. Louis to Boston in
Cincinnati and Pittsburg, the birds COW
ering 275 miles in nine hours against
strong head wind.
The jury in the case of Andrew A.
Lipscomb, an attorney of Washington,
d. c., indicted with Thomas NJ. Fields
on the charge of embezzlement from the
Washington Beneficial Endowment Assoc
citation. returned a verdict Of not guilty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Max. Prostra-

The suffering was intense among
workers in mills and factories and in
| the great plants of South Chicago,
while the jewellers in the ghetto and
the tenement districts also underwent
severe suffering. The cumulative eff
feet of three days of intense heat was
generally fit and men, women and
children were less able to withstand
the weather than on the first day
Many in the crowded tenement dis
tricts slept on the pavements or on
door steps, while thousands of others
sought the roofs of buildings in the
hope of obtaining some cooling wind
The last day which exceeded the
maximum of Tuesday was July y,
1901, when 103 degrees was recorded
This is the heat record of the Chicago
weather bureau since 1871, the first
year shown in the books In July,
1897, the mercury climbed to 100 de-
grees, and that is the next hottest day
in weather bureau annals.
Last year the hottest day was July
II, with a mark of "a degrees, while
in 1903 the record was 90 and in 1902
it was 81 degrees. The record of Tues
day has been exceeded eleven times
since 1871, but seldom by more than
one or two degrees.
Wednesday the crest of the hot
wave was on the Atlantic coast, ten
peratures in the West and northwest
having moderated slightly. New York
reported that an area of oppressive
heat, which recalls the record-breaking
summer of 1901, had settled down over
the eastern and New England States,
already having claimed hundreds of
victims and causing intense suffering
to thousands. From all points ada
cent to New York came the same story
of the hottest day of the summer.
The suffering in New York was par
ticularly great in the tenement dis
tricts. where scarcely a breath of air
relieved the sitting atmosphere. Thou
sands who could afford it flocked to the
beaches. but in the crowds that ensued
women and children tainted and men
were overcome, making the trip from
home a doubtful experiment as far as
obtaining any comfort was concerned.
To add to the misery Brooklyn was
threatened with a water famine, while
the whole city was startled by the
prospect ct a strike of the ice men.
In Boston the thermometer shot up
suddenly in the early afternoon. Re
parts received at the Hub showed that
the southern part of New England was
the hottest part of the adjacent coun-
try. At Newport, Il. l., drill at the
forts and on the warships in the har-
Dor, as well as all work which took
laborers into the glare of the sun, was
suspended at noon.
In Pittsburg the temperature was "a
on the pavement, as it was at Allie
gheny City. In the latter town coal
wagons temporarily abandoned the
coal business and peddled ice from
door to door.
From all points in the country, both
in the East and in the middle West,
came the same kind of reports, suffer
ing, prOstrations and deaths being fire.
qUent. From points throughout Hi
nois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan
came news of the hottest day of the
summer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
cREMArED IN HOTEL FIRE.
Private Gas Plant Exp1odes and Keep
err of Inn Meets Death with Guests.

Overcome by gas as they lay asleep, at
least six persons met death in flames
that destroyed the Depot hotel in Wa
basha, Mimi. 1t is believed that other
persons persisted. A gas tank that had
been used as part of the hotels private
Illuminating plant blew up, causing the
hre that caused the loss of life. All the
victims of the blaze met death in bed
indicating that the gas tank leaked until
the fumes overcame the sleeping occu-
pants of the house, filled the rooms and
then probably exploded when they reach
ed burning jet. Following is the list of
known dead: Mrs. A. Hoffman, Mrs.
Hoffnan's young baby, Robert Johnson,
expressman; Gertrude Stentsher, Rebecca
Herman, James Hunt The hotel was
well patronized, and it is believed other
persons persisted, but the books were
destroyed and at present it is impossible
to tell how many guests were cremated.
The hotel was conducted by Mrs. Hoff-
man. 1t was one of the largest build
ings in the town and constructed of
material that burned rapidly when once
set on fire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
SWEPT BY HOT WAVE.
WHOLE COUNTRY SWELTERS IN
EXCESSIVE HEAT.
Thermometer Makes High Records in
Many Cities and Deaths and Pros
trations Are the Result-Much Suf-
fering in Crowded Centers.

Chicago gasped and suffered as she
has not done for four years in the in
tense heat of Tuesday. There was
higher temperature, greater general
distress. more deaths, more prostra-
tons than on any day during the re-
cent scorching wave, while the Their
mometer stood at 80 degrees for two
hours, a higher point than has been
reached since 1901. Eight dead and
over forty prostrations was Chicago's
toll TO the burning sun for the one
day, while almost 100 lives and nearly
200 prostrations was the total tax lev
led on the people of the country.
From almost every city between the
Rockies and the Atlantic coast rose the
same cry for relief, as the pitiless sun
smote down on streets and pavements.
In every large city there were numbers
of deaths and prostrations. Philadel-
phia was the hottest place in the coun-
try, with mark of 9S degrees, while
New York City was but two points
lower. Chicago was the sixth hottest
place in the United States, being ex-
ceeded in temperature only by Phila-
delphia, New York, Albany, Concordia
and Washington, d. C.
The official thermometers located in
exposed places above the street did not,
however, indicate the temperature in
which the ordinary mortal moved and
many street thermometers in Philadel-
phia and New York indicated a tenn
perature of 100 or higher, some relia-
bic instrL-hents registering 1O4 and
1O5.
Following is the record made by tue
thermometer in various cities:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Humorous News Notes.

! Mr.. Taft to Mr.. LOOMS: Not guilty;
but don't do it again"
The bird of peace is very liable to get
shot if it tries to land in Manchuria.
When Philadelphia does get after the
grafters, she doesn't carry a fan, but a
club.
Senator Mitchell was unable to weep
favorable verdict out of that Oregon
jury.
The Gar needs a man about Secre-
tary Taft's size to sit ON the lid in Po-
land.
Look out for an execution order abol-
ishing yellow fever on the Ijthmus of
Panama.
Up to the present time neither Sweden
nor Norway has threatened to build
spite fence
Emperor Nicholas is in need of peace
plenipotentiaries nearer home than is
Washington.
The red flag on the Black sea is a
natural sequence to the white flag Cd
the Yellow sea.
Secretary Shaw talks about the S25,-
100000 deficit as if almost any man owed
that amount of money.
One De Lesseps was the only man who.
ever had a really free hand il running
Panama canal affairs.
What is the use Of other States striv-
ing to be good when Georgia lynches
eight men at a time?
The minister to a Latin-American re-
public in particular should keep clear Of
syndicates, concessions and claims.
Some people can even remember as
far back as the time people were talk
ing about Nan Patterson and Cassie
Chadwick.
The Gar hates to quit the absolute
monarchy almost as much as Mr.. Jimmy
Hyde hated to give up his leadpipe cinch
on the Equitable.
Banker Bigelow serves to illustrate
that it is but a short step for lamb
on Wall street to become muttonhead
in the penitentIary.
If the Rockefeller $10,000,O00 is toe
BADLY tainted for the colleges - use, they
can probably swap it for new bills al
the United States trea sury.
According to his schedule Of pay, Adj
miral Togo received less than SO for de-
stroying the Russian feet But he proba-
bly, would have done it for s..
In making up juries for the Milwaukee
graft trials care is used to select jurors
Of sound health and long-lived Ancestry.
Evidently these trials are expected to
be a continuous performance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
MIsER BROTHERS LEAVE WEALTH
Nearly $4,000 in Old Bills Found in
MoIdy Pocketbooks.

Nearly $4,000 in moldy bills and an
cient securities were taken from the safe
III house ten miles from Wellington.
Ohio, wherein three hermit brothers
named Meach had boarded their wealth
for more than quarter of century.
When John Meach, last of the family,
died about two weeks ago, leaving a
dozen distant relatives, an effort was
made to open the ponderous safe that
had stood for years before the old mans
bed. The efforts were futile until an ex-
pert was summoned. No gold was dis
covered, but as it was known that John
Meach exchanged several hundred dollars
In bills for gold shortly before his death,
the heirs have concluded that, fearing
burglars, he buried it about the premises,
and search is now being made of the
house and the farm. In old, rotting
pocketbooks carefully deposited in many
compartments were found bank notes and
mortgages amounting practically to $685.
600
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25

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mars death Capt. John r. King of Bal
timore, senior vice commander, becomes
commander-in-chief of the Grand Army.
lie will continue to hold the office until
the next national encampment of the or
der. Capt. King is pension agent for
Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia,
with an Office in Washington.
Gen. Blackmar's death was a great
surprise and shock to his friends at his
home in Boston. He was taken i'll q
fortnight ago and sent by his physicians
to his country home at bingham, but
soon apparently improved so much that
il was deemed safe to permit him to con-
tinue his tour of the Northwest, begun
early in the year.
The late Grand Army commander was
born at Bristol, Pa, July %, 1871. He
enlisted in the Fifteenth PENNSYLVANIA
cavalry, but subsequently joined the
First West Virginia. He served with
distinction through the war, and at Five
Forks was promoted on the battlefield
by Gen. Custer to the rank of captain
During the administrations of three Gov
ernors, Long, Talbot and Rice, he was
Judge Advocate General of Massachu-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
FALLS 5000 FEET TO DEATH.
Operator PIunges to Earth While Fly
ing an AeropIane.

At Santa Clara, Cal, more than 1000
persons saw Prof. John j. Montgomery S
aeroplane, the. Santa Clara" collapse
Monday morning at an elevation of 5000
feet. In another instant Aeronaut Daniel
Maloney was hurled to the ground and
some of the spectators picked up his dead
body.
At the height # 1000 feet AIaloney
cut loose from his balloon and began ma
neuvering the aeropiane. He circled
gracefully for some minutes, having the
machine apparently under perfect con-
troll. Then he essayed a deep dip. Sud-
denly the machine swerved, hesitated and
then turned completely over
1t righted itself, sank down a consid-
cradle distance and turned over again.
Maloney was clinging desperately to his
seat and evidently endeavoring to REGAIN
his control. Again the aeroplane turned
in the air and this time the wings came
together and the man and machine pIung-
ed straight downward, while the horri-
fed spectators gazed helplessly.
A number of cadets carried Maloney
to the college hospital. His skull was
fractured and blood was flowing from his
11IOuth. He expired within short time.
The aeroplane was ground into frag-
mentS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Rich wouisn Beaten by Robber.

Mrs. Fanny Harners and her daughter
Ida, Is years old, of Syracuse, n. Y,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
FAMED MIND IN BLIGHT.


Living ovel again the days of his glory
on the battlefield. sending messages TO
imaginary secretaries as if he still we're
one of the chiefs of the nation, Col Da-
| vid b. Henderson of Iowa is existing at
his Dubuque home in an enfeebled men
tai state that threatens to carry him to
the grave.
Calling for his musket and dwelling in
fancy amid the battle scenes of forty
years ago, the man who has devoted the
better part of his life to the service of
his country as soldier, statesman and ora
tor, is a pitiful wreck of his former self.
Paresis has set its seal upon him, and a
stroke of paralysis suffered three weeks
ago, has brought him to a condition
which physicians pronounced hopeless
Not long ago Speaker of the national
House of Representatives and therefore
second only to the President of the Unit
ed States in power, Col. Henderson now
is only the shadow of his former self
haunted by dreams of his former great
ness and cherishing an ambition that is
doomed to disappointment.
The secret of Col. Henderson's retire
ment from the speakership of Congress
and from public life in 1902 is known at
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Standing Of Tho Western 1eaoua.
WIFE MAY SEARCH POCKETS.
Kansas City Judge Says She Has Right
as Against Husband.

Judge Slower declared in the Circuit
Court in Kansas City that he would
never interfere with that ancient and
honorable right of a wife to search her
husbands pockets for loose change Will
liam NJ. Harding asked a divorce from
Ina NJ. Harding for several reasons, one
of which was his wife had a habit of
'frisking" his pockets after he fell
asleep. When the evidence was all in
Judge Slower said; Il want it distinctly
understood that l am not granting this
divorce because the wife went into her
husbands pockets. l shall do nothing to
interfere with that ancient privilege of
the fair sex. A wife has the right to
do that l grant the divorce for other
reasons"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
COLOMBO THE SOUTHWEST
Farming Lands There to Be Settled by
European Immigrants.


Prominent among the enterprises for
the settlement of the great West and
Southwest are the various colonization
projects being pushed forward by the
railroads and even by the foreign gov
ernments.
The Rock Island passenger depart
ment, after considerable effort, has sue
ceeded in locating a colony of Menonites
in Seward county, Kansas. The colony
has purchased eighty-four quarter sec
tions of land, one quarter section for
each family. This land, until a short
time ago was regarded as arid and ut
terly worthless. For a long time the
land proved utterly unfit for agricultural
purposes, but lately it has been found
well adapted to the growth of Durham
wheat, and this is the use to which it
will be put by the new colonists. Arti-
fetal irrigation in that section is not nee
essary. The colony has every chance for
prosperity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Midsummer influence
| New York.

and industry, but better
weather and crop reports make for
quite optimistic trade reports in the
surplus cereal producing sections of
the West. Very favorable reports
as to fall trade orders come from
nearly all points west of the Ale
ghenieS, north of the Ohio river, and
thence westward to the Pacific
Large, though except in few cases
not record breaking, crop yields now
appear reasonably assured in that en-
tire region, and there is general
agreement that fall business already
booked exceeds that of year ago at
this date. Less assurance is found in
the reports from the western half of
the South, where it is feared serious
damage has been done by incessant
rains to cotton, wheat, and other
crops.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending July Is
number 166, against 127 last week,
203 in the like week of 1904, 173 in
1908, ia in 1902, and 20S in IDOL
Bradstreet's Commercial Report.