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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
IreIand,s DepopuIation

The emigration statistics for Ireland
for the year 1904 furnish melancholy
reading, in that they show how Ireland
continues to lose some of the best of her
population, says a London paper. Last
year $1,000 natives of Ireland, a num-
Der equivalent y S3 per 1000 of the
population, left then .erEss, the vast ma
jority to go to the United States or Cam
ada.
The total of 36,904 is a slight falling
off as compared with several recent years,
and is, indeed, the smallest aggregate
since 1898. But unfortunately, the out
ward flow has continued, for since 1851
no fewer than 1897, 913 of the Irish peo-
pie have left their native land. This
total is equivalent to TAI per cent of
the average population. A large proper
ton of these are among the flower of the
race, for it is almost an axiom in Irish
history that the energetic and enterpris-
ing go, while the more helpless remain.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
JEWS TRIckED BY STEAMSHIPS.
Excuses Invented for Not Accepting
TherI for Passage.

So as to refuse passage to the refugee
Russian Jews in England who have
money to pay their way to America the
steamship companies have their doctors
invent excuses for not accepting them.
such as that they are suffering from some
kind of eye disease or other imaginary
i'll, according to DR.. Adolphe Danziger,
formerly United States consul at Madrid,
who has laid before the Department of
Commerce and Labor memoranda con-
corning the conditions of the Jews abroad
to be used by the bureau of immigration.
The action of the steamship companies
is said to be based on the fear that the
Jews will be declared paupers and the
companies would have to take them back
to England.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
GASOLINE FATAL TO THREE.
Women Use Explosive Fluid to Light
Fires in Kitchen Stoves.

At South Haven, Mich, Mrs. Frank
Sell was horribly burned by the explosion
of a gasoline stove and died in great
agony. Mrs. Sell had started to prepare
breakfast for the fanny and, not finding
sufficient gasoline in the tank to finish,
turned off the stove, as she supposed,
and started to fill the tank. Suddenly
the stove exploded with terrific force, en-
veloping the woman in flames from head
to foot. She ran out on the veranda,
where the wind famed the flames Mrs.
Sells clothing was entirely burned off
and her body from head to foot was char
red and blackened Notwithstanding her
burns, she lived six hours. Mrs. Leslie
Dreamer and daughter aged months,
living near Edenton, Ohio, were burned
to death. Mrs. Dreamer used gasoline
instead of coal oil in starting a fire in
the cook stove. An explosion followed
and both, with the house, We're burned
before help reached the scene.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
STARVATION IN SPAIN.
Thousands of Persons Living on Herbs,
Roots and Berries.


In Andalusia, the most fertile part of
Spain practically the whole working pop
uation is face to face with starvation.
In the provinces of Cadiz, Seville, Ma
laga and Granada the peasantry, who
comprise two-thirds of the total inhab-
itants, have been living for the past few
months almost exclusively on herbs. roots
and berries.
The bakers from the towns, who sup
ply the more prosperous inhabitants with
bread, have been obliged to make their
rounds secretly at night, for the appear
ance of a bakers cart in the day time
inevitably means an attack by a mob of
starving peasantry, desperate with want
and destitute of work, who have nothing
to do but lounge about and struggle
against the gnawing pangs Of hunger.
Many casus have occurred of isolated
country houses and villas being broken
into at night by imprOvised bands of rob
bers, who nevertheless, despite the temp
tation to general plumber, have always
confined their depredations to the larders,
and have taken nothing but food with
which to keep body and soul together.
Many poor peasant mothers, rendered des-
perate by the pitiful cries of their starv-
ing children. have been driven to take
from their little stores of medicine. put
aside in case of illness, powerful drugs
with which to send the suffering infants
to sleep, and thus still their cries.
The sole cause of the present condi-
ton of the peasantry is the iniCuitous
system under which practically the whole
of the land belongs TO a few wealthy
families. The condition of affairs is very
much the same in this respect as that
which prevailed in France prior to the
revolution. There are no small land own
ers. and the position of the peasantry is
almost as bad as that of the slaves and
serfs of the middle ages.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
To Build a So. 900, 900 Park.

Chicago is to have a new amusement
park on the lake shore just south of
Jackson Park, which, it is declared by
those behind it, will surpass anything of
the kind in the world. In addition to a
multitude of high class and novel amuse-
ments, there is to be a s1,000,000 hotel
On the lake shore, which, together with
the amusement projects and beautiful
landscape gardening and scenic effects
planned, will represent an investment
of approximately 100000. The land,
which has already been placed under con-
tract, comprises what is known as the
Willard tract, and embraces between 60
and 20 acres 1t extends from Jackson
Park to Seventy-frst street, with lake
frontage the entnre distance, and the
price to be paid for it. by the syndicate
behind the project is 100000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
PFISTER is INDICTED.
Milwaukee's Leading Capitalist and
Politician Caught in Graft Dragnet.

Milwaukee's Leading Capitalist and
Politician Caught in Graft Dragnet.
Charles F. Pfster, Milwaukees leading
capitalist-manufact banker, street
railway magnate, newspaper owner. hotel
man and head and front of the stalwart
or anti-La Toilette Republican faction in
Wisconsin politics-was indicted by the
grand jury Friday, together with four
other victims Of the graft investigation.
Aside from the Bigelow defalcaton. no
sensation ever has stirred the metropolis
of Wisconsin as did the news that flew
over the city that the wealthiest citizen
and one of the foremost business men
of the West-the man who saved the
First National Bank when its president
stole millions-had been caught in Dis
trict Attorney Francis Z. McGovern's
dragnet.
The District Attorney, when he start
ed the present graft inquiry, declared
there were big fish in sight. if they only
could be caught, Pfster is the biggest
fish in all the surrounding waters.
The Indictment against Mr. Pfster
caused double sensation, inasmuch as
persons first hearing the news assumed
lHdI IL uilSuL DC int OpeIluS 10 ulSClOS-
ures in connection with the street rail
way franchise grant of a few years ago,
regarding which there has been all man
ner of talk. The charge against the
millionaire politician, however, is that
of appropriating to his own use $4,000,
through the use of which the Wisconsin
Rendering Company had expected to get
a garbage contract from the city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
KINGS SPURN CANAL WORK.
italian and Japanese Rulers Won't Let
Labor Come to "Isthmus Graveyard"

italian and Japanese Rulers Won't Let
Labor Come to "Isthmus Graveyard"
The government has run against a snag
in connection with the Panama canal
which will in all probability delay the
work considerably. 1t had been planned
to contract for the employment of 5000
foreign laborers, 1000 each of Italians.
Japanese and Chinese, but the project
will have to be abandoned. Shortly af-
ter the plans of the canal commissioners
became known, the Italian government
objected to the employment of it's sub
jects on the canal, and sent out official
instructions to its officials to put a stop
to this project. 1nis had the effect of
depriving the government of 1000 Ital
ians. The Italian government, it is said
objects to putting the Kings subjects
on the same level with the yellow men
of the Orient. When Toxic heard of the
action of Italy the Mikado took swift ac-
ton, but tried to be polite about it. He
has decided to prevent the hiring of his
little yellow men on the canal 1t is
not stated, however, that the Toxic gov
ernment's action is directly due to the
action of the Italian government
The refusal to permit Japanese labor
ers to come is laid to the report of n
'royal Japanese commission" which has
lately been making secret observations or
the isthmus. 1t is stated in Toxic that
the report of this commission was to tho
effect that Panama is human grave
yard and therefore not a good place to
send the Mikado's subjects. In the re
port of this commission it is stated that
conditions in the canal zone are ''unsan-
itary, there being lack of medical at
tention. and the water is too vile to
drink
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
SCORES THE YELLOW PULPIT.
Religious Editor Says Sensational
Preacher Is a Freak.

"A sensational preacher, in place of
quenching the thirst of souls, administers
a dose of carbolic acid that corrodes and
destroys. He is possessed of the devil.i
He dishonors God and toys with the
destiny of deluded humanity that listens.
to his unholy performances These
we're the words used by Rev. Stephen
J. Herben, editor of the Epworth Her..
AID in an address at the Epworth,
League assembly at Lincoln, Neb. The
buffoon preacher" he continued, sis
distressing and wretched anomaly, doing
greater harm by his mouthings and an
tics than the true ambassador of Christ
can correct in many day. He is to be
stared at and laughed at as a freak"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
KANSAS FIELDS ARE CLEANED.
Twenty-three Thousand Men from Out
side of State Reap Crops.

Twenty-three Thousand Men from Out
side of State Reap Crops.
Director L. B. Gerow of the Kansas
State employment agency says it took
$4,000 men from outside the State to
harvest the wheat in Kansas this year.
1t cost the farmers $2,500000 to har-
vest the crop. Practically all this was
spent in wages. Most of the men came
from the east this year. A large portion
OF them We're of a high grade and re-
turned home with money in their peck
cts. The solution of the Kansas har-
vest problem has practically been solved, !"
said Mr.. Gerow. I'VE have been import
ing help for quite a while now and some
of the hands have been helping the same
farmers for four or five successive years
These hands find good places to work
and they go back again, year after year.
In that way the farmer gets good help
and can depend on it and consequently
the complaints are fewer and farther be-
tween. The stories about trouble are
mostly canards. There is nothing in
them"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
I a., Growing crops pro-
| Ulll6dUO. gress satisfactorily
Will, +l,o ,,aer x,vaalylo fiua

Uill6dQU. gressed satisfactorily
--I with the past week fine
weather, and while rain is needed at
a few points, early sown corn prom
ises to be unusually heavy Harvest
ing thus far makes a good exhibit lnl
marketing has increased. The excel
lent agricultural conditions impdrt
wider tendency toward further COM
mercial activity, new demands being
more diversified and prices firmer for
manufactured product.
increasing earnings of Western
roads reflect an expanding movement
of commodities. Forwarding of mill
and factory output reaches exceptional
tonnage receipts, gain in ore. forest
products, hides and live stock. While
the aggregate quantity of grain han
died is fully one-half more than that Of
corresponding week last year.
Receipts of lumber. Jl,156.OOO feet.
compared with 2S,653.OO0 feet wear
ago. Hardwoods are in better request.
Receipts of hides were larger than for
last week, and the total, 2929 9S5
pounds, compares with 2777S41
pounds year ago. Full values were
readily obtained The tanneries run
under pressure, leather is freely
bought and the shoe factories secured
further contracts for heavy weight
lines.
Grain and provisions recorded large
transactions, the former being affected
by increasing offerings, and the latter
by sharply reduced available stocks.
Flour was in better demand, but vet
suffers from poor export conditions.
The total quantity of grain handled
at this port was 9,S03,176 bushels, of
which the receipts were 6,50O76T bush
els and the shipments 1902 400 bush
els, an increase in the former of - FER
cent, AMI in the latter of 36 per cent
over those of year ago.
Receipts of live stock, 264.1SS head
compares with 237,351 head last week
and 219,633 head year ago. Com
pared with the closings last week
prices advanced, in pork 60 cents
barrel; lard, 3712 cents; ribs, 80 cents;
hogs, > cents hundred weight. and
declined in oats ~ cents a bushel;
wheat Is cent, and corn Il cent.
Bank clearings, $192, 724,075, exceed
those of corresponding week in 1904
by 21.3 per cent.
Failures in the Chicago district num-
Der twentyfour, against eighteen last
week and thirty-one year ago
Dun'S Review of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
LIFE ASSETS ARE CUT.
Examiner Fails to Find 100000
Claimed by Manhattan Company.

Claimed by Manhattan Company.
Chief Examiner Vanderpoel has just
handed in to the insurance department
of the State of New York report in
which he cuts down the admitted assets
of the Manhattan Life Insurance Com
pany- of New York about 100000. The
chief examiner finds that on Dec. 81.
1904, the Manhattan Life stated its as
sets as $1S,573, 2S5.06. He reports that
he can find assets of only ST, 961 500. In
its report the company claimed a surplus
of 1,754, 674.0S, whereas Mr. Vanderpoel
finds it is only $943, 249.0S, a difference
of more than 100000. Friends of the
company declare the reduction in the
surplus was due to a reduction in the
appraisal of its real estate, but a close
examination of the report shows that
Mr.. Vanderpoel only reduces the real es-
tate valuation from $5,2S3, AL to So
O63.5OO.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
MOSQUITO CURSE OF MANKIND.
Scientist Says Even Common Variety
Is Disease Breeder.


Next to whisky mosquitoes are the
greatest curse to mankind" said Sir
Patrick Manson X. c. NJ. G., at New
York. Sir Patrick, who is the physician
and medical adviser to the British colo
NAL office, is eminent because he was
the first to discover that the mosquito
was the host Of the malarial parasite at
one stage of its existence. I'VE are yet
in the infancy of the discoveries of the
transmission of such diseases by insects"
he said. Keep out the mosquitoes
the stegoma. the yellow fever carrier, and
the anopheles. the malaria breeder-and
do not despise the Notwithstanding pow
ers Of the culex, the common fellow who
is so plentiful and persistent in the ma
jority of places He can transmit dis
eases readily, and there is no doubt that
this common mosquito is the first cause
of many serious and sometimes fatal i'll
nesses"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Evangelist Mooushiner.

Joel Stanley, known as Rev. Stanley,
in Boone county, w. Va, where he has
been conducting a series of revival meet
ings, was arrested by United States reve-
nue. officers, who took him from the pull
pit while he was fervently exhorting a
congregation to go and sin no more The
prisoner was identified by the officers as
Stanley, moonshner of Nicholas coun-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
HAILsToRM is DESTRUCTIVE.
Damage in North Dakota Is Estimated
at 81 100000.

A destructive hailstorm passed over
Bottineau. McHenry, Rolette. Pierce and
Benson counties, North Dakota. Monday
night and the damage resulting is esti-
mated at Bottineau at $1,000.000. The
storm started in the vicinity of West
Hope. Once and Willow City and ex-
tended as far as Leeds in Benson county
The hail strip was three miles wide. Re
ports from the hail district are meager,
but the estimated damage 81 100000, if
the strip was three miles wide and ex-
tended as far as indicated in reports at
hand. seems conservative. The best crop
in the State was in this section.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
WIVES NEED "oBEY" NO MORE.
Much Discussed Word Out of Metho-
dist Marriage Service

Hereafter it will not be necessary for
the bride to promise to obey in the Meth
Odist Episcopal marriage service. The
revised report of the Presbyterian gen
eral assembly's special committee on
forms and services contains the rituals
of the respective churches, and while
very much alike in many respects, these
rituals show a striking contrast in the
one particular, the marriage service. In
the Presbyterian church as in most 9th
ers, the woman must promise to obey, in
the Methodist Episcopal church she need
take no such obligation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Tots. in Post Holes,

To prevent the Bell Telephone Com
pany erecting poles along the roads of
their locality, farmers near Cincinnati
gathered their children and placed one in
each hole that had been dug. Over half
the school children in the neighborhood
were in the earth up to their chins when
the telephone people abandoned their
work
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Disarreement in Land Cases

After being out more than forty hours
the jury in the Oregon land fraud cases
against Congressman Williamson, DR..
Van Gesner and Land Commissioner
Biggs reported that it was unable to
agree, making the second disagreement
in the same case. The third trial will
soon begin
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

=
is on somewhat diff
ferent lines. 1t is
tangled finance. "
There are no sena-
torial regulations
being pulverized,
but a popular idol
has fallen with a
crash that has
echoed through the
S I 1T e. However,
there is little con-
demnation, but much
sympathy. A eliot
of blood is response
BILE for the worst
6nanoia1 shoEo ~
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
T,ondop Discards Arc LauDs

Electric arc lamps are to be discarded
in London and incandescent gas lights
will be used for street lighting. The gas
lamps will be cheaper and more effective,
says Consul Halstead in a report sent
the State Department from Birmingham.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
YonnEest Grandmother.

The youngest Grandmother in the coun-
try was given divorce at Kansas City.
She is Laura B, AIillice. "a years old.
She has two daughters, one % years old
and one II. She has two grandchildren.
one of them years old. She was di-
vorced from Frank NJ Millice. 1t was
her second decree.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Minnesoia's Indians,

Minnesota has 1925 Indians living
upon reservations within the State, ac-
cording to figures made public by the
State census bureau. OF these Indians
only those upon the White Earth reserva-
ton are entitled to suffrage and the legal
voters upon that reservation number ex-
actIy 900
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Phone Causes Queer Accident.

Miss Gussie Stratton of Findlay, Ohio.
probably will lose her hearing on account
of having filed her ear with ink, while
attempting to answer a telephone call.
Miss Stratton hearing the phone bell.
reached for the receiver without looking
at it. Instead she grasped an ink bottle,
which she placed to her ear
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Big Money Order Business.

Chicago's money order business is in
creasing so rapidly that it is regarded
remarkable even by Postmaster Coyne
The monthly statement handed the post.
master shows an increase in business foi
July as compared with the same period
of one year ago of almost 100000, OF
p per cent. The increase in money or
der transactions is shown to be Is per
cent
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Hold Short Session.

The first session of the Russo-Japanese
peace conference was held Wednesday
forenoon and lasted about an hour. No
business was. transacted except the ex-
change of credentials and the arrange
ment of program for future sessions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Plan Great Federation.

Twenty-four religious denominations
with 100000 communicates have each
appointed from five to fifty delegates to
meet in New York City Nov. 10 to take
part in an interchurch conference on
federation, the object being the fedora
ton of the Protestant forces IN America.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Victory for Scientists.

A New York State court in dismissing
manslaughter charge against three
Christian Scientists. under whose care a
young girl died of diphtheria. holds that
a child may be treated by healers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Pythiau Finance Report.

Charles E. Shively, Supreme Chancel-
lor of the Knights of Pythias of the
World, has issued bulletin containing
the report of the committee on finance.
1t shows a balance in the hands of the
Supreme Master of Exchequer on July /,
1905, of $40, 343.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
High Jumping Hog.

A jumping hog afforded much amuse-
ment at the Kansas City stock yards.
Although the animal weighed $50 pounds
it would jump board fences FIVE feet high.
According to men who have been at the
hog yards for years, this was the first
hog that had ever leaped fence there.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

Gen. James X. Carnahan, major gen
eral of the Uniform Rank knights of
Pythias, died Thursday at his home in
indianapolis, after an illness of two
weeks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

Two ferryboats, the train sheds of the
Lackawanna railroad and a hotel were
destroyed in S1,500000 fire which
started on the docks at Hoboken, y. J..
and spread to the town. Big liners were
imperiled.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Wheat Grown without Rain.

AS a result Of experimenting with
Durum or macaroni wheat, at Canyon
City. Colo, L. L. Harding has produced
a fine crop grown without moisture, eth
er natural or artificial. Mr.. Harding
sowed fifty pounds of the wheat on one
and a half acres of arid ground, which
has never been irrigated The grain
stands three feet high and is topped with
large, well developed heads. No rain
has fallen on the ground since the plant
ing. except one or two showers in May,
which simply dampened the surface.
From present indications the yield will
be from thirty to forty bushels to the
acre. Owing to the success of this ex-
pertinent plans are being made for large
acreage next year on the arid lands lying
above the irrigating bitches in Canyon
City.
Cardinal Gibbons Of Baltimore viii be
II years old to-day. and is to pass his
birthday with TIE Rev. W. S. Caughey.
pastor Of St Stephens church. South
ampton, L. l.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
New lap Emnire.

Walter Wellman writes that the Jan
anese as the fruits of their victory will
demand an empire on the mainland of
Asia, comprising Korea, Manchuria and
probably part of Siberia, the dominance
of the Sea of Japan being considered es-
sentia to national safety.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Reward for sluggers.

A price of $500 has been placed on
the head Of each of the sluggers who in
corrupted the election of the Chicago
Federation of Labor, and murderously
assaulted Michael Donaelly, president Of
the Amalgamated Butchers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Fire Frees Car of Snakes.

The snake car of the Gaskill Carnival
circus caught fire while near Brownsville.
Neb., and the big boa and minor snakes
escaped to the bushes, where the keepers
had hard time to capture them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

county on charges connected Gith the
graft Investigation. At the same time
indictments were returned against four
others, the charge of bribery being al
legged in three Of the indictments and
perjury in one