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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
10000 KILLED IN YEAR.
Railroad Statistics Give Total of o.,
600 Casualties in 1904.


The Interstate Commerce Commission
has given out very interesting statistics
in reference to the railroads of the Unit
ed States. Here are some of the data
The total single track railway mileage
in the United States on June 80, 1904,
was 213,904.34 miles, having increased
5,927.12 miles in the year ending on that
date. This increase exceeds that of any
previous year since 1890.
The number of persons on payrolls
June 80, 1904, was ,296, 121, or Gil per
100 miles of line. These figures, when
compared with corresponding ones for
the year 1903 show decrease of 16,416
in the number of employees, or % per
100 miles of line. The par value of
the amount of railway capital outstand-
ing on June 30, 1904, was S13,213, 124,-
go, which represents a capitalization of
$64, 265 per mile for the railways in the
United States.
The number of passengers reported as
carried by the railways in the year end
ing June 80, 1904, were 715.4196S2, in
dicating an increase of 20,52S, 147, as
compared with the year ending June 30,
1903
The gross earnings of the railways
were, for the year ending June 30 1904,
$1,975, 174,091, being S74. 1927 1874 greater
than for the previous year. Their oper-
ating expenses were $1,33S, 1896, 253, or
$S1 ,357 ,401 more than in 1908.
The total number of casualties on
railways the year ending June 80, 1904.
was 94201, of which 10,046 represented
the number of persons killed and S4,155
the number injured. In 1904 one pas
senger was killed for every 1 go, 267 car
ried, and one injured for every 1923
carried
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

The government is being cheated out
of more than $1.000000 a year in duties
on cigars and tobacco imported from
Cuba, according to the United States
Tobacco Journal Of New York City. The
Journal instances in its last issue one
case of los bales imported through
Tampa, which now is undergoing re-ex-
animation by government agents in New
York. A large amount of duty is in
vOlved in this one transaction. Under
the reciprocity clause of the Dingley tar
if Cuban leaf tobacco suitable for wrap
pers pays $1.4S a pound; all other cigar
tobacco pays a duty of % cents a pound.
According to the Tobacco Journal about
400, 100000 clear Havana cigars were
manufactured last year in this country,
half being made at Tampa. There was
required for these cigars about 100000
pounds of wrappers, which should have
paid $1,1S4,000 duty. The revenue re
turns show, however, that of 1908, 500
pounds of tobacco leaf from Cuba only
A. pounds paid duty as wrappers,
yielding $4,000. Thus the government
through evasion of duty lost 81, 100, 900.
The government has lost under new and
old tariffs not less than $25. 100000 duty
on Havana tobacco. According to the
Tobacco Journal the bulk of undervalua-
tons has occurred at Tampa.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
gA Ne Side
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The News ~

1t seems natural that grating should
be found in the Agricultural Department.
Japan's war account amounts to $780,
100000 That is what is worrying Rus
STA mainly.
The logical time to kill the yellow
fever mosquito is before and not after
it does its biting.
So far as reported the greatest achieve
ment of the Fiala Arctic expedition was
its timely rescue.
There is a general clamor for an all
wool-and-a-yard-wide investigation into
the cotton scandal.
The assassin who shot at Pobedonos-
teff certainly ought to have been able to
hit part of his name.
Chairman Shonts and Engineer Ste
vens have gone for a visit to the principal
summer resorts of Panama.
That Pirtsburg device for making 40
pies q minute may make haste to appear
in the get-rich-quick lunchrOom.
Norway and Sweden know of a better
way of settling disputes than by killing
off thousands of each others citizens.
The striking New York bakers seem
to have become crusty because their en-
ployers refused them more dough
in trying to keep out of the frying pan
of the newspapers John d. Rockefeller
Jumped into the fire of the magazines.
Lawson failed to make as much of a
sensation as he had expected in Kansas
Kansans are accustomed to strong winds.
Every now and then a bursting bomb
reminds US that office holding in Rus
STA is not suited to a man of quiet tastes.
Senator Mitchell has not indicated
whether he will resigwn from the Senate
or Join Senator Burton on detached duty.
The Chinese decided to boycott Ameri-
can insurance agents. The Equitable
squabble has at las reached the far
East.
With a Chinese railroad problem and
a boycott to face Mr.. Roosevelt should
be able soon to translate his laundry
checks.
Admitting there is no graft in the
weather bureau. it ought to be ashamed
of itself for mixing April and August
so recklessly-
Cuban politicians have been so thor
oughly Americanized that mudslinging
has become feature of the insular pres
idential campaign.
In Wisconsin under the new law it is
a misdemeanor to offer person cigar
cite. In other States it continues to
We merely personal insult.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
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Michigan laws prohibit the employment
Of any child under IA years Old
Brockton (Mass.) steamftters have
obtained an increase to $3.50 a day.
There are more than 900 women team
sters and draymen in the United States.
General farm wages in Arkansas have
fallen from SIS a month to $40 within
fifteen to twenty years.
One business house in Chicago reports
that the abandonment of the union label
for few months cost it $4,000.
National headquarters OF the Amalga-
mated Leather Workers of America will
be removed from Philadelphia to New
ark, y. j.
Detroit (Mich) garbage drivers have
received an increase of so cents a week,
making their wages 81, and double pay
for all overtime.
A project TO establish homes for in
capacitated trade unionists has been TAX
en- up for consideration by the United
Association of Plumbers.
An effort will be made by the union
labor bodies on the Pacific coast TO en-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
TG4g lclAt'gI2N;{ERS
.sssst:tzsssSelS R$2Sl@-GN.
eaA. ~ - &
Ito SQ2Cr

ChicagO-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to S6.15; hogs, prime heavy,
$500 to $6.27; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $40; wheat, No. >, roc to soc;
corn, No. ., 53c to 54c; oats. standard,
25c to 26c; rye, No 9. SIC to SOC; hay,
timothy, $3.50 to $1,000; prairie, 5000 to
5000; butter. choice creamery, 1Sc 10
20c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 19c; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 40c to 4Sc.
napolis-Uattle shipping. $500 to
$3.50; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to $500;
sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. ,. SOC to sc; corn. No.
white, 54c to soc; oats, No. white,
Doc to pc.
St Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to $500; hogs.
$500 to 1925 sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. ,. tie to 7Sc; corn No ,,
SOC to sic; oats. No. ., 24c to 25c; rye,
No. =, JSc to 60c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to $635; sheep, $500 to
S425; wheat, No. ., Sic to S3c; corn.
No mixed, 54c to SOC; oats, No. 2
mixed, 24c to 26c; rye No. 2, SIC to
59c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $6.15; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, SIC to Sac; corn, No. 3
yellow, SIC. to 5Sc; oats, No. 3 white.
26c to &c; rye, No. 2, 60c to Sic.
Observation-Disclosures, No. . northern.
$1.05 to 81 .OS; corn, No. 3, 53c to SOC;
oats, No. 2 white, 2Gc to 2Sc; rye, No. /,
SOC to 60c; barley, No. ., 49c to soc;
pork, mess, $1400.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, S5c to
SEC; corn, No. = mixed 5lc to 53c:
oats, No. mixed, 30c to 32c; rye, No. =,
54c to &c; clover seed, prime, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50, sneep, common to good mixed,
$500 70 1925; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $500.
New York-Cattle, $500 to 1852;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. = red, Soc to SEC;
corn, No ,, G0c to 62c; oats, natural,
white, Bic to 32c; butter, creamery, Zoe
to pic; eggs western, zoe to pc.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
FEWER BABIES BEING BORN.
Census Bulletin Shows Steady Decline
in Births Since 1860.

in Births Since 1860.
There has been a persistent decline of
the birth rate in the United States since
1860, according to a bulletin issued by
the census bureau. The bulletin was pre-
pared by Prof. Walter f. Wilcox of Cor
nell university.
The bulletin shows that at the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century the
children under 10 years of age consti-
tuted one-third and at the end less than
one-fourth of the total population. The
decrease in this proportion began as
early as the decade 1910 to 1920, and
continued uninterruptedly, though at
varying rates. in each successive decade.
Between 1850 and 1860 the proportion
of children to women between 10 and 40
years, the child bearing age, increased,
but since 1860 it has decreased constant
ly. In 1860 the number of children I'M
der ) years of age to 1000 women
was 634; in 1900 it was only 474
Considered sectionally it is found that
in the north and west there has been a
more or less regular decline, while in
the south the change has been less regu-
lar and the decline less marked. In
1900 the smallest proportion of children
was in the District of Columbia. The
next smallest proportion was Massachu
sets. The largest proportion was in
North Dakota and Indian Territory.
IN The general decrease between 1890
and 1900 not a single State of the north
Atlantic division took part. In seven
other States, also, there was no de-
crease In only six States-Illinois,
Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky
and Indiana-did the proportion decrease
in each of the FIVE decades.
In 1900, for the United States as a
whole, the proportion of children was
only two-thirds as great in cities as in
the country districts. In the north At
lantic division, however, it was almost
as great in the cities as in the country.
In the southern division it is hardly
more than half as large in the cities as in
the country, while in the far west the
difference is intermediate in amount.
A comparison is made between the
proportion of children born of native
mothers and the proportion of children
born of foreign born mothers. In 1900
the former proportion was 462, the latter
10 the difference indicating the great
err fecuudity of foreign born women.
There has been uniformly a larger
proportion of negro children than of
white children. That difference more
than doubled between 1860 and 1880,
but in 1900 it was less than half what
it was in 1880 and less than at any other
census except in 1860.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
FRAUD ON UNCLE SAM.
CROOKEDNESS APPROPRIATIONS
OF CUBAN TOBACCO.

DETERMINATIONS Are Estimated to
Have DETECTED $25, 1000, 900 in Duties
from Treasury migration In
spector Looks Up Cases of Greeks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
EARTHQUAKE AT MANY POINTS
st. Louis, Springfield and Memphis
Among Cities Shaken.

Among Cities Shaken.
st. Louis and its vicinity were Wis
tied by an earthquake Monday night
shortly after II o'clock. Three dis
tinct shocks were felt by thousands of
persons in Missouri and neighboring
States. While the tremors lasted
scarcely a minute they were distinct
enough to awake sleeping residents of
the city, to cause dogs to bark and
children to cry out in alarm. The
shocks, from a comparison of the time
they were felt in the districts visited,
seemed to travel from east to west.
There was only an ininitesimal period
between the shocks. The trembling of
the earth was accompanied by dull
rumbling noise which sounded like the
passing of a distant freight train.
Springfield, ILL.,, experienced IN
earthquake shock at HIP p. m. The
disturbance lasted fully a minute. APP
parently the waves moved from west
TO east, as persons in their beds at the
time report a rocking in this direction
Dishes were ratified in pantries and
closets, windows were shaken in their
easements and there were other evil
dences of the disturbance One house
hold reports plates dislodged from a
rack.
Reports from neighboring towns in
dictate the upheaval was general
throughout the central portion of the
State. Mrs. Caldwell, wife of Con-
gresham Ben F. Caldwell, says that
at their country home near Chatham
the shock was especially severe. Sew
eral families in the village of Chatham
were aroused by the disturbance, and
some were frightened by it. The up
heaval was followed by a thunder
storm
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
EnteresfInp NeNa Items.


Lightning struck street car in New
York, causing a panic in which fourt: Ell
persons were injured.
a franchise was granted by the City
Council of Hattiesburg, Miss, for a
S12j,00C underground telephone system.
Elihu Root. President Roosevelt's new
Secretary of State, has resigned from all
the board Appropriations on which he
served as a |ector.
John r. Haynes, cotton mill operative
at Mobile Ala. was arrested on the
charge Of bigamy. it being alleged that
he has five wives in three states.
The New York joint legislative com
mittee appointed to investigate life in
surance conditions has selected Charles
L. Hughes and James McKeen as coun-
sci, and it is likely that Joseph Fl.
Choate, former ambassador at the court
Of st. James. will be advisory counsel.
While Robert Russell, aged 81. and
his daughter, Mrs. Frank Ballard. aged
So, were driving across the tracks of the
Moffatt road, north of Denver. Colo. a
passenger train ran into their buggy,
throwing them out. Mrs. Ballard was
instantly killed and her father died sew
eral hours later from internal injuries.
Theree negro employees of the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad o. Mont
gomery, Ala, confessed to thiayeTy OF
freight aided by forging way-bills, which /
netted $1,000 in two years.
William Warner, United States SEN
ator from Missouri, was caught in
sOmuambulistic walk on a Burlington
sleeper. He was standing off an appli-
cant for office when awakened by the
porter.
The report of Commissioner Yerkes,
of the Internal Revenue Bureau, shows
the receipts from internal revenue during
the year ending July 30, 1905, amounted
to 1924, 1S7, 975, an increase, as compared
with the fiscal year 1904 of S1,2S4, 100.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
WHAT THE JAPANESE PEACE TERMS MEAN

The Russian ENJOYS Thursday seem
ed ready to accede to Japan's demands
ON all but two points. These We're the
giving up of Sakhalin and reimburse
ment for the cost of the war. The
Mikado's ambassadors had allowed it
to be understood that they would insist
upon these things, but few of those
watching events believed these ques-
lions would be allowed to block the
peace negotiations. By yielding to the
contentious of Japan in every other
instance Russia acknowledges defeat
and gives to her enemy all that was
asked before the war.
The Chinese Eastern road is
T-shaped. The stem runs from Hardin
south. The top runs from the station
itchnaia, where it connects with the
goYernment-owned Usurri road to the
coast 1t was this CUTOFF which
more than anything else paved the
way for what is known as the MAN
churian adventure" changing the
whole plan of NJ. Witte, while Minister
Of Finance. His object had been only
to make of Dalny a commercial entire
port for foreign trade, but, with the
strategic railroad behind them, the
war party's" aggressive policy began.
The shares of the Chinese Eastern
III the form of single certificate, are
held in the Golfers of the Russo-Chi-
nese bank as trustee. The per cent
bonds issued from time to time for its
construction were guaranteed by the
Russian government and amount to
more than $20O,0O0,OO0.
The terms of the treaty, as submit
ted by Japan, have not been regarded
by the world as unreasonable or exor-
bitant. Nobody expects a victor to
give up all the legitimate spoils of vic
tory. Japan has won everything in
this war; but the greatest of the things
she has won is national prestige This
cannot be affected by peace terms.
Aside from this the question resolves
itself into a matter of commercialism.
an affair of 'dicker"
Komura is the only envoy whose at
titude has been characterized by aloof-
ness. The chief japanese plenipoten-
tiary is about as affable as an iceberg.
He speaks almost to no one and has
steadfastly refused to be interviewed.
A correspondent who is well acquaint-
ed with Takahira was snubbed when he
asked the Japanese minister to give
him an introduction to Komura.
NJ. Witte speaks no English, but he
has shown himself the most democrat
ic member of either of the embassies.
When he passes through the Office or
corridors of the hotel he shakes hands
with every one in sight. Many man
has clasped hands with the great
statesman who has not been certain of
his identity. Baron Rosen is almost
equally agreeable.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
RAIN INJURIES WHEAT.
Government Report Says Excessive
Moisture Does Damage.

Moisture Does Damage.
The weekly summary of crop con-
ditions, issued by the National Wealth
er Bureau. is as follows:
During the week central and western
Texas experienced unusual heat, wbre
unseasonably cool weather prevailed
in New England and the northern por-
ton of the Middle Atlantic States;
elsewhere the temperature was favor
able. The rainfall was excessive and
injurious in the Dakotas and Mime
sofa, and also in parts of the lake re-
gion, South Atlantic, and Central Gulf
States, and in Florida. Rain is badly
needed over the greater part of Texas,
IN portions of Kansas, generally
throughout the central and southern
Rocky Mountain districts, and in Ore
gon.
The previously reported excellent
coGGition of corn continues generally
throughout the principal corn produc-
ing States and also in the Atlantic
Coast and Eastern Gulf districts.
Wind storms blew down considerable
corn in Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas,
and Ohio. In some counties in Kan
sas and generally throughout Texas
the crop is in need of rain.
The harvesting, stacking and thrash
ing of spring wheat on lowlands in the
northern part of the spring wheat re-
gion, where grain is fully ripe, were
interrupted during the fore part of the
week, the fields being too wet for the
raapers. Local storms in North Da-
kota and northeastern South Dakota
caused the lodging of considerable
grain. Satisfactory yields are gener-
ally indicated over the southern pOr-
ton. Complaints of shrunken grain
are general from Washington and
western Oregon.
There is no Improvement in the gen
eral outlook for apples, nearly all re-
ports showing an inferior crop.
Much complaint OF blight and rot in
potatoes is received from the lake re-
gion and the northern part of the mid
die Atlantic States, but the reports
from the Missouri and central Missis-
sippi valleys are more favorable.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

! list the aid of the secret societies of the
country in support Of the anti-Japanese
| agitation.
There are now in California $4,000
| japanese, and on the whole length of
the coast fully 100000, the majority
having arrived in the last five years.
Representatives of fourteen of the big
structural building trades organizations
of Boston, Mass, are proceeding with the
formation of a structural building trades
| alliance in that city.
Fred Scheitinger, Louisville emnlov.
er, threatens to sue the president of tbe
Sheet Metal Workers for $4,000 dam
| ages, alleging libel in declaring Scheitin-
ger unfair to union labor.
Relatively few mechanics in the brild.
| ing trades in New York State work more
than eight hours a day, and in the build.
| ing industry of New York City the forty
tour-hour week is almost universal.
All the bottling establishments in
Alexandria, Va, have been unionized and
the employees placed in afiliation with the
national organization of brewery work
men. 1t is stated that since the organ
| ization of the bottlers they are rejoicing
an increase of wages over those formerly
received of from so to 100 per cent.
Secretary Straube of the Chicago AL
lied Printing Trades Council. has issnad
a new directory Of the union label nrint-
ing offices and binderies in the city. The
revised list shows 21S shops using the
label, and that means that they are en-
ploying union workers exclusively. The
report of the secretary also shows that
| the label has been withdrawn. for cause
from thirty-eight shops.
President c. o. Sherman of the new
Industrial Workers Of the World organ
ization declares that he expects to see
more than 5OO,00D workers in the union
within six months. The constitution. he
says, will be printed and at once for
warded to Europe, where many unions
are expected to become affiliated II ia
said the National Flint Glass Workers
have agreed TO affiliate with its 800
members.
The executive board of the Natio a,
Brotherhood of Operative Potters has
submitted recommendation, proposing
change of the present system of as-
sessment for the purposes of the defense
fund of the brotherhood 1t is PROMISED
to abolish the existing method of coI,eo+-
ing 1 per cent of the members earnings
and appoint shop collectors, each collect.
or to receive as compensation a percent.
age of the amount collected.
Boston (Mass.) Picture Franz and
Molding Makers Union is discussing re-
questing shorter workday. The Book
binders Union, whose members work
nine hours, has also begun the cohsidera-
ton of the advisability of asking for the
eight-hour workday after Jan. 1.
The international Longshoremen have
thrown down the gauntlet to the Sea-
mems National Union, which has for
some time claimed Jurisdiction over GER
tain branches of marine workers who
have voluntarily, it is said, affiliated with
the longshOremen's organization. Along
with this def is a warning to the Amer
lean Federation of Labor to keep its
hands 81
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
FIND A HOUSE OF MYSTERY.
Wreckers Uncover Weird Passages In
TiIden Home in New York.

Wreckers Uncover Weird Passages in
Tilden Home in New York.
Subterranean passages leading from
secret staircase to stone-vaulted cham
bers beneath the old Tilden mansion IN
Gramercy Park, New York, have been
brought to light by the contractors en-
gagged in remodeling the structure for
home for the National Arts Club. Other
peculiarities exist in the mansion, which
must have been the conception OF Samuel
j. Illden himself, and which have re-
NAMED undiscovered until now, although
the famous old dwelling has housed many
tenants since Tildens removal to Grey
stone IN 1879, where he died IN August,
1856 There is a legend among the old
time residents of the neighborhood that
IIlden, who reused a host of enemies by
the part he took in the exposure OF the
Tweed ring, had fear of secret assas-
slnation and built his house accordingly.
1t was found that the building had three
roofs instead of one, and that tiny
staircase led to a secret passage from the
second floor. Entrance to it was gained
by pressing knob on beautifully carv-
ed walnut panel. In the cellar a puz-
zllng labyrinth of vaults and passages
was found leading to a bricked sunnel,
the walls of which are covered with
mold, but which was otherwise perfectly
dry. The tunnel, so far as it could be
explored, led straight south from the
mansion, but its terminus evidently had
been closed for many years.