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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11
DROWNED IN A TORRENT.
Disastrous Flood Sweeps Through
Mexico Mountain Range

disastrous rIood sweeps Through a
Mexico Mountain Range.
Meager reports from points near
Guanajuato, mining town in the
state of Guanajuato. Mexico. tell Of a
disastrous flood that swept the mou~-
tain gorge in which the city lies, on
the morning of July 1, causing great
loss of life and property damage.
The mining companies in and around
Guanajuato are operated largely by
American and British interests.
Reports from the flooded district
about Guanajuato indicate that the
loss of life has been even greater than
at first supposed and that the death
list may run away above 1,000. Dam
age to property has been enormous.
The rains which had been falling
steady for three days alarmed the
people and many of them sought safe
ty in flight. As the streams became
raging torrents and the water began
to rise in the streets of Guanajuato.
wreckage of all sorts told tales of the
disaster in the country above the city.
Human bodies in the debris which top-
ped the raging waters gave evidence
that the food was taking its toll of
human life. Steadily the waters rose
and many of the terror-stricken peo-
pie in the lower section of the city
found they had delayed their fight too
long and their bodies were drawn into
the flood. Then came the final cloud
burst Sunday night which swept all
before it. All were dashed down the
gorge. Houses went down like they
were built of sand. Bodies were flung
nigh above the line of the flood.
The cloudburst occurred in the
southern part of the city, flooding all
the principal streets. The city is built
In a great gorge in the mountains and
the streets run up the mountain side
in picturesque fashion.
The storm began on the night of
June 30 and after midnight no one Of
the inhabitants dared to go to bed, so
tremendous was the fury of the ele-
ments. The water rose in the lower
or business streets, flooding shops and
damaging thousands of dollars worth
of merchandise
The lower streets became raging
torrents as the water poured in rivers
down the upper streets. Doors were
smashed in by the force of the water
and windows were no protection
against the furious food.
The eastern railroads entering Den
yer have been experiencing the worst
tie-up of traffic that has occurred on
theA' lines in several years None of
the eastern roads was able to get its
trains into Denver on time Sunday
and those leaving the city had to go
so slowly that they were as a rule late
arriving at their destinations. The
trouble was caused by unprecedented
rains in Nebraska and Kansas.
The Burlington was the worst suf-
ferer. This road had $500 feet of
track washed out between Arapahoe
and Holbrook and it became necessary
to use the Union Pacific tracks. The
tie-up caused delay in the arrival of
delegates to the Epworth League con-
vention in Denver.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11
Bricf News Items.

The Cooper Wholesale Grocery Com
panv's establishment at Waco. Texas,
was damaged $4,000 by fire and water.
The Union Pacific roundhouse at Ev-
anston, Wyo., was destroyed by fire.
Loss $4,000. Five locomotives were de-
stroved.
Prospectors coming into Bullfrog. New.
report that they found two men wander
ing afmlessly about in Death valley
down beyond the Funeral range Their
tongues were black, swollen and protrud-
ing.
Peter Wilton, Chester Seaman and s.
A. kirkpatrick were killed and fifteen
persons injured in a rear-end collision
on the Illinois Central railroad near Vine
Grove. Ky.
Nearly 200 carriage workers at the
Barnett Carriage Company's plant in
Cincinnati struck on account of reduc-
tons made in wages and changes from
piece TO contract work inaugurated by a
new manager.
Carmeno Scillozzo, an Italian, aged IS,
was arrested at Hubbard, Ohio charged
with the murder of Michael Carrosia.
whom, il is alleged, he disemboweled
with a butcher knife because the latter
had run him down with a bicycle
The property and franchises of the Lee
high Valley Traction Company were sold
at Allentown. Pa, under an order of
the court for 100000, the purchasers
being William F. Harrity, George H.
Frazier and Harry C. Trexler. compris-
ing the reorganization committee.
Alfred r. Leith. % years old. of
Hoosac Falls, n. Y, is thought to have
been a victim of the wreck of the TWEEN
tieth century limited train at Mentor,
Ohio. Leith had been Employed at Can
ton, H., and had written to his brother,
John f. Leith, to meet him upon the
arrival of the train in New York City.
Since that time nothing has been heard
from him by his family.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11
KANSAS BANK CLOSED.
First National of Topeka Owes DEPOSIT
tors 81 100000.

The First National Bank of Topeka,
Kan, the biggest financial institution in
the city, failed to open it's doors for bust
ness Monday. 4 notice signed by w.
II. ROssington, vice president, stated:
'This bank has been closed by my or
der. The Comptroller of the Currency
has been notified and an examiner will
be sent"
The closing of the bank is the result
of the stringency in the affairs of c. H.
Devlin, one of the chief owners of the
bank. who was reputed to be the richest
man in Kansas
The First National Banks liabilities
and assets each on May 20, when the
last statement was made, were $2,351,-
304. individual deposits being 81 .226.-
$3.50 and demand CERTIFICATES $3.50, 95S.
Chief among the resources are loans of
81 .097 $50, bonds and securities $4,000.
The cash on hand at the last statement
was over ST51, 900.
The bank, it is said. owned the depOs-
itors S1.390,000. In the bank the State
of Kansas has over 100000 in deposits.
the city of Topeka $4,000 and the coun-
ty of Shawnee about $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11
JUSTICE OUT OF JOINT.
How 1T Deals Severity to Little Offend.
ers and LeniencY to Big Ones.


ers and Leniency to Big Ones.
Editorial writers throughout Iowa are
commenting on the sentence of John Nell
son of Des Moines to Imprisonment for
two years for the theft of III pennies.
as compared with the sentence of bank
ers and get-rich-quick ''grafters," who
have received from 80 days to 10 months
sentences of Imprisonment for the theft
OF various sums ranging from S25,0 OO to
S25OOOO. Nelson's crime consisted of
the taking of little girls pennies, which
she had placed in a toy bank in her
fathers library. Letson Ballet, the self
styled Cecil Rhodes of America" whose
net profits by the fraudulent promoting
of the White Swan gold mine of Balgr
City, Ore, were estimated at $3.50, 600,
was sentenced to 80 days Imprisonment
in the county jail at Red Oak, Iowa,
three months or more ago. Tom Ward,
cashier of the LeMars National Bank,
was compelled to serve only 30 days in
the county Jail at Sioux City upon plead
ing guilty to the misrepresentation OF
something like $25, ZOO of the banks
funds. and during that time was per-
United to occupy the parlor of the jailer's
residence and take a daily stroll down
town unattended. Edward Soule, cashier
of an Iowa Falls bank, received an Is
months sentence recently for misappro-
priating upward of $4,000 of his banks
funds. and vigorous efforts are now being
made to secure his pardon. Day Dun
ming, president of a bank at Mount Ayr
who was convicted of Incorporating
something more than 100000 of the
funds which depositors had intrusted TO
him. received a sentence of two and
half years. and his friends profess ALSO
lutte assurance of his early release. No
sooner had Judge McVey pronounced
sentence on Nelson at Des Moines than
the editorial writer's got busy, and since
then the Iowa judiciary has received a
calling down that subjects the writers to
contempt proceedings at the will of the
iurist criticised Chicken stealing, by a
special statute, is punishable by 10 years
Imprisonment, and a Council Bluffs thief
recently got the limit All of which is
urged as basis for saying that justice
in Iowa is sadly out of joint.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11
FIRED ON BY COSsACKS.
Russian Troops Shoot Down Striker
in St. Petersburg.

Russian Troops Shoot Down Strikers
in st. Petersburg.
Cossacks fired on the Putiloff works
strikers in st. Petersburg Wednesday
morning. The trouble was started by
the arrest of a youth who was entering
the works. The policemen who took
him into custody suspected the young
man of having dynamite in his posses
sion. The latter, on being made pris-
oner. drew a revolver and killed the po-
liceman and was himself wounded by a
bullet fired by another policeman. The
strikers quickly congregated on the Peter
hotf road and Cossacks were ordered to
dispense them. The soldiers charged,
using their whips and then fired a vol
ley, causing several casualties among the
strikers.
The Russian battleship Kniaz Potem-
kline arrived at Theodosia, Russia, and
asked for coal. provisions and medical
attendance. The mutineers demanded
that the authorities guarantee their safe
ty during the stay of the ship. Theo-
dosia is on the Crimean coast near the
entrance to the Sea of Azov.
Before the Kniaz PoteIbkine sailed
from Kustenii a delegation from the
crew handed the project a proclamation,
addressed to the representatives of the
powers in Roumania. formally declaring
war on all Russian vessels which refuse
to Join the mutineers. The proclamation
says The Kniaz Potemkine will respect
neutral territory and foreign shipping.
The delegation requested that the procla-
nation be forwarded to the powers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11
SECRETARY HAY DIES
PASSING AWAY OF GREAT AMER.
ICAN DIPLOMAT.
End of Notable Career Comes Suddenly.
When Hopes of Recovery Are Enter
tained-Was Associate and Friend of
Lincoln and Mckinley.

John Hay, Secretary of State of the
United States, died at 1925 Saturday
morning at his summer home at Suna-
pee Lake, near Newbury, N. q. The
signs Immediately preceding his death
were those Of pulmonary embolism.
Secretary Hay had been ailing for
several months, and a trip to Europe
was taken in the hope that 1t would
bring about complete recovery. Mr.
Hay, however. collapsed on the dock
as he was leaving New York, and de-
spite encouraging reports during the
voyage and his stay In Europe, his
friends never felt convinced he would
regain health. On his return to this
country the Secretary seemed In much
improved condition, but collapse d
few days ago again brought fear to
relatives and friends.
Career of John Hay.
John Hay was born at Salem, Ind,
on Oct. s. 1885, His father was a ply
sician. Young Hay was graduated at
Brown University and then began the
study Of law in the Office of his uncle,
Milton Hay, at Springfield, Ill.
Mr.. Hay was educated for the bar,
but never became a lawyer. He became
acquainted with Abraham Lincoln, for
Milton Hay was one of Lincoln's conf
Dental friends and near neighbors. John
Hay was bright, clever young man,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11

and Lincoln saw such promise in him
that he made him one of his secretaries
and took him to Washington. He did
not disappoint Lincoln, but became most
useful to him in the White House
At the close of the Lincoln administra-
ton John Hay was sent to Paris as sec
rotary of the American legation, and
there he began his diplomatic career
Hay had fine opportunity to study the
court Of the last Napoleon and the gay
Partisan world before the overthrow Of
the empire. He was transferred to 9TH
er European legations and in turn served
as secretary in Vienna and Madrid
where he became acquainted with the
most brilliant courts of Europe.
Wins Fame in Literature.
Returning to America in 1870, Mr..
Hay became an editorial writer for the
New York Tribune. Horace Greeley re-
garded him as one of the most brilliant
men on the Tribune staff During that
time he wrote Little Brooches" and his
other famous verses.
He married a woman of wealth and,
built a magnificent house in Washington,
which became one of the social centers
of the national capital, where gathered
the literary men and women, the men
of science and the diplomatic representa-
tives. He was Assistant Secretary of
State in the Hayes administration.
From 1876 to 1900 he took an active
part in presidential campaigns. When
Mr.. Mckinley was elected President he
sent Mr.. Hay as ambassador to Eu-
gland. In September, 1898, he was re-
called to become Secretary of State in
place of Judge Day.
Although Mr.. Hay secured the abroga-
ton of the ClaytonBulwer treaty,
brought about the reference of the most
far-reaching question in the recent Ven
ezuela dispute-priority in payment for
a belligerant claimant-to the interna-
tional court of The Hague and arranged
for the peaceable adjustment of the
Alaska boundary question, he is known
throughout the world principally for the
breadth and foresight of his policy in
Asia.
When it became plain that Germany,
Russia and other great powers were pur-
suing a provocative policy, aimed at the
destruction and division of the Chinese
empire. Mr.. Hay inaugurated his now
historic movement for the "open door" in
China by asking France, Russia, Ger
many, England, Italy and Japan to give
formal assurance that each nation would
agree to the open door.
That was the first step toward the
dominance of the moral influence of
America in Asia. When the legations
were besieged in Pekin and the chancel-
leries of Europe demanded the destruc-
ton of the reigning Chinese dynasty it
was Mr.. Hay alone who insisted that the
legations were safe and that the United
States at least was not at war with the
Chinese government.
And when the Chinese empire lay pros
trate at the feet of the great powers it
was Mr.. Hay who persuaded Europe to
moderate its demands for indemnity and
restore authority to the Chinese gov
eminent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11
CHICAGO.

Commerce has main
| UllGdUO tanned steady progress
----I Mid-year conditions have
been entered upon, but less than the
customary shutting down for repairs-
and inventories is contemplated, ow-
ing to the urgency of demands in the
manufacturing branches. The weeks
activity is well reflected in the volume
of increased bank exchanges, in sus-
tanning production in the metal and
wood divisions, and in a heavy move
ment of general merchandise, grain,
lumber and construction material.
The crop situation offers further en-
enlargement as a basis for future
business enterprise New wheat of
high grade is arriving, the oats har-
vest in Illinois has started. and local
dealings in cereals aggregated close
upon 100000 bushels for the last six
days.
More seasonable weather added to
the general buying in principal retail
lines. and the sales exceeded those of
the corresponding week last year in
necessaries and vacation goods, indi-
eating that the purchasing power of
the people has not hitherto been bet
ter. Interior advices reflect Iidened
trading at the country stores and salts
factory depletion of stocks. Wholesale
transactions make healthy exhibit.
there being continued growth in the
fnr nj Of Sc nj
and orders from an extended breadth
of territory in dry goods, clothing and
footwear.
Financial affairs are upon a strong
foundation. Money remains ample for
ordinary needs, security investment
has gained and labor finds steady en-
plOyment.
Primary foodstuffs again were in
excellent demand, and valhvs assumed
a higher range. Receipts of grain,
4,765,950 bushels, compare with 1885,
$50 bushels for the corresponding week
last year, and the shipments aggre-
gated 4,145,7 S9 bushels, against 2,445,-
$50 bushels. Shipments of provisions
have been unusually heavy for both
domestic and export use. Receipts of
live stock were 252,064 head, against
271, 743 head a year ago, the decrease
being mainly in cattle, and supplies
sold readily at better prices, Com
pared with the closings a week ago
quotations are higher-in wheat, 21a
cents a bushel, corn 1 y cents, oats "
cent, pork and ribs ~ cents, lard 215
cents, sheep % cents hundredweighty
hogs 171a cents, and cattle 10 cents.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 81, against II last week
and IS a year ago.-Dun's Review Of
Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11
LID is LIFTED.
Chicago Jury Arraigns Both Employers
and Labor Chiefs for Corruption.

and Labor Chiefs for Corruption.
Fifty-three indictments of individu-
ais and a report, the vital part of
which deals severely with "Driscoll-
ism" and its growth resulted from the
three weeks graft investigation by
the Chicago labor grand jury, which
adjourned Saturday. Both employers
and union chiefs are arraigned for the
corruption that is declared to have
been rampant in the last few years.
Humiliation is confessed by the jury
in reporting the seriousness of the con-
ditiOns which it finds. Business men
of honor have paid tribute to the fos-
ter.ng of blackmail," is the situation
that has been found and for which
employers are censured severely.
Men high in financial circles" the
report says, have sought to prevent
free exposure of the labor graft de-
velopment, and "the little evidence
given by them was only to disguise
their own guilty knowledge"
Two of the officials of the brick trust
NCIC AhC OA4iy CIlIJlOgClS lhNIuICu III
charges direct enough to end in indict-
ments. Other business men, both by
name and inference, draw the pointed
comment of the jurors. OF the labor
men who make up the list of defend
ants, twenty-six are charged with a
conspiracy to injure the business of
Montgomery Ward & Co. Among
them are some of the most prominent
labor leaders of Chicago. Two Others
are indicted for a conspiracy to injure
the Fuller Construction Company.
Twenty-one union workers are charged
with assault with intent to murder.
John c. DriscOll. Albert Young and
c. P. Shea are held responsible for
fostering the growth of situation
that the jury found to make graft
rife. Moral lepers" is the designation
given such men. Employers have aid
ed the rise of these leaders in the de-
cided opinion of the investigators.
These labor men are found to have
established a disease, the root of
which is declared so deep that the
present laws cannot furnish a remedy.
Because of these alleged weak laws
Driscoll was not indicted.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11
RAILROADS FOR PHILIPPINES.
The Government to Go Into Coustruc.
tim or, n Bic, Sonia

The Government to Go Into Construc-
ton on a Big Scale.
The American plan of benevolent as
similation" is going forward steadily in
the Philippines and under it the islands
are being transformed. Within a very
short time Manila will be provided with
modern docks. These will afford her
much greater economy in the handling of
cargo, and the city will be the only one
along the China coast possessing such
facilities. At Shanghai, the metropolis
of northern China, the large steamers
cannot approach within fifteen or twenty
miles of the city, and the cargo all has
to be transferred to junks, launches or
river steamers. At HOngkong the ships
must lie out in the harbor, the city not
being provided with docks, and the cargo
IS carried ashore in junks. At Singa-
pore conditions are the same. What is
needed at Manila is a system IF bonded
warehouses of a modern natur
The War Department has lde public
the invitations signed by Sc etary Taft
for proposals for the construction of rail
ways in the Philippines under the act
of Congress passed in February for that
purpose An elaborate scheme for trans
portation is involved. The Philippine
government agrees to protect all the
grantees against ladrones, insurgents,
rebels and outlaws. One-half of one per
cent from the gross earnings is to be paid
the Philippine government as taxes. The
prospectus cites the provisions of the law
guaranteeing interest for thirty years at
4 per cent on the first lien bonds, but
it is provided that not more than 81 ,200,-
600 shall be paid in interest in any one
year. Bids will be received only from
individual citizens or copartnerships of
the United States or of the Philippines
or from railroad corporations organized
and existing under the laws of a State
or the United States or the Philippines.
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| New York.

| NOH j vi Il. | IIitSuldIllN, UuS 10 LIlu~
year influences or, in
some sections, to less cheerful crop re-
ports the volume Of distributive trade
is a full one for the season, and indus
try and manufacture show less than
ordinarily the effects of the approach
of the vacation period. Optimism as
to the fall trade outlook is the main
subject of notice, but it is to be noted
that good recorders for summer fabrics
are still active at some leading mar
kets. Relatively the best reports come
from the central West and Southwest
Railway earnings continue good and
the traffic outlook is favorable Com
modify prices, particularly farm prod
ucts and raw materials for manufac-
ture, are very firm. Collections range
from fair to good.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending June 20
number 1856, against 157 last week,
204 in the like week in 1904, 1872 in
1903, 1873 in 1902 and 145 in 1901. IN
Canada failures for the week number
SO, as against % last week and 20 in
this week a year ago.-Bradstreet's
Commercial Report.
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TE42 zSEAl2;2IlERS
ssS -

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to S6.10; hogs, prime heavy.
S4.0o to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.0a
to $500; wheat. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.05;
corn. No. 2, 54c to Soc; oats, standard,
SIC to 32c; rye, No. 2, 76c to &c., hay,
timothy, $3.50 to S11.50 prairie, $500 to
S11.00; butter, choice creamery, 1Sc to
zoe; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 40c to 4Sc.
IndianapOlis-Ca shipping $500 to
So 60; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to $500
sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to $500;
wheat. No. 2, SOC to 90c; corn, No. 2
white. 53c TO soc; oats, No. white,
Bic to 33c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to 1913; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $500;
wheat. No ?, 92c to 93c; corn. No. 2,
&c to SAC; oats, No. 2, zoe to Bic; rye,
No. 2. zoe to re.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $500;
hogs. $500 to $5.57; sheep, $500 TO
S4.25: wheat. No. 2, S1.05 to SLOT; corn,
No. 2 mixed. soc to SIC; oats, No. 2
mixed. 31c to 33c; rye, No. 2, soc to
S3c
Detroit-Cattle. $3.50 to $3.50; hogs.
$500 20 $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $500.
wheat. No. .. S1.OG to S1.08; corn. No. 8
yellow, sc to Soc; oats, No. 3 white,
32c to 34c; rye, No. 2, tic to roc.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed 99c to
.S1.O1: corn. No. mixed, 4sc to SOC;
oats. No. . mixed, 3Oc to &c; rye, No. 2,
Sic to SIC; clover seed, prime, $3.50
Observation-Disclosures, No . northern
S1.O6 to S1.1O; corn, No. g. 55c to sc;
oats. No , White, 33c to 34c; rye, No. /.
SIC to 80 ley, No. 2, soc to SIC;
pork. mess, 81 -.
Bufalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $500
TO $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1925; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 to $575; sheep. $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.06 to S10S;
corn. No. 2. Coo to &c; oats, natural.
white. &c to 3Sc: butter. creamery, 1Se
to zoe; eggs. western, 15c to lie.
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TO BE CANALS CHEF.
appointment of John f. Stevens to Sue
coed Wallace Made by Taft.

John f. Stevens, another Chicago
man. has been chosen to succeed John
f. Wallace as chief engineer of the Pan
anna canal. director of the greatest engi-
neering work Of the century. Like Mr..
Wallace. he is a railroad expert. He
lives with his wife at 81 Lake Shore
drive. and for two years, until last May,
was prominent in the management of the
Rock Island railroad Mr.. Stevens APP
Dointment was announced in Washington
Friday. He is to receive $4,000 a
year, $4,000 more than Mr.. Wallace was
given. His appointment is a promotion,
since he was already in the service of
the government, entering it June 1, as
railway expert to the Philippine commits
sion. named to accompany the Secretary
of War and his party to Manila and
make a report on the feasibility of con-
struction of 1000 miles of railway in the
Islands.