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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
SIX WOMEN DIE IN FIRE.

All Bodies Recovered Were on Top
Floor of Lowell, Mass, Hotel.
At least six persons lost their lives in
G fire which partly destroyed the Richard
ardson hotel, one of the leading public
houses in Lowell, Mass. The fire started
a few minutes before o'clock and the
flames rapidly communicated to various
parts of the structure. A large number
of guests were in the hotel and those who
were in the upper part OF the building
had little chance to escape by the stair
ways. The fremen found the dead. bodies
of six women in the top floor of the hotel.
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Chairman Shonts of the istnmian canal
commission has notified the Senate COM
mittee that he is off the salary roll of
the Glover Leaf railroad.
The famous horseshoe curve on the
Pennsylvania railroad in the Allegheny
mountains is to be eliminated, and proba-
bly, will be replaced by one of the longest
tunnels in the world.
Eighty miles an hour is the speed
promised by some of the leading railroads
over part of the lines before the year
ends. A trial trip showed that an electric
locomotive can cover 50 miles an hour.
The General Railway Signal Company
of Rochester, n Y, has a 100000
contract for an interlocking block signal
system to equip the part of the New
York Central system which is to be OPP
Grated by electric motive power.
The Duluth, Rainy Lake and Winni-
peg railroad has placed an order for
eight locomotives to be used in the inn
mediate extension of its line from its
present terminus at Ashawa to Rainy
Lake. The road is seeking entrance to
Fort Frances, Ont.
An immense scheme of amalgamation
of the companies owning all the trolley
roads in Ohio is being promoted by Ran
dial Morgan, financier, of Cincinnati.
First the Union Traction Company of
Ohio will be formed to absorb the prop
critics outside of Cincinnati then a S504,-
100000 holding company is to be organ
lied to take over the stock of the operat-
ing companies.
The disbursement of wages in Reading,
Pa, last month was the largest ever
known in its history. All of its indus
tries have been working full-handed and
some of them on double turn" Bust
ness concerns employed additional help
and everybody had work.
conference of western business men.
including number of State Governors
and general passenger agents, was called
at New York to devise ways and means
for keeping at home a part of the vast
sum spent by Americans in foreign lands.
This sum was estimated as high as $780,
100000 in 1904.
Without any idea of immediate returns
the Illinois Central railroad will in
twelve days expend $4,000. This ex-
penditure will be for a special train of
six cars to be run over 1000 miles of the
system in Illinois to stimulate interest in
better corn crops, quantity and quality.
The train will stop at 126 cities, towns.
villages and crossroads stations. The
stop at each place will be forty minutes
during which there will be a lecture on
seed and soil in each car, which will be
fitted with platforms and seats. The
tour will be in charge of Prof. HOPKINS
OF the University of Illinois, and he will
be assisted by professors from State ag-
cicultural schools.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
GREAT TRADE RECORD.
American Commerce Gained Over
$1OO,O0O,OOO in 1905.

American Commerce Gained Over
S1OO,OOO,OOO in 1905.
The foreign commerce of the United
States approached surprisingly near t.
the $3,000,000,000 point in the calendar
year 1905, according to a report ISSUED
by the bureau of statistics, Department
Of Commerce and Labor.
"The total imports and exports of mer
chandise," the report says, lis 81, SO6, 900,
300, against S2,307 100000 in 1900, an
average increase of $100,0O0,000 a year
IF to the $2,S06,000,000 of foreign
commerce in 1905 were added the figures
of trade with Hawaii and Porto Rico
formerly foreign territory and included
in our statements of foreign trade prioi
to 1901, the total would approximate
S2,9O0,O00,000, or about $6O0,O00,OOC
more than five years ago.
Another notable characteristic of the
years foreign trade is the fact that the
exports in December were practically
s200,O00,000, the largest months exporta
ton in any year prior to that time be
ing that of December, 1904, when the
total was $174,S19,566,
'The import record for 1905 is also
in excess of that of any preceding year
being for the twelve months ended will
December Sits, 35S, $40, against $1,035,
300, 100 in 1904. The growth of imports
while not rapid, has been steady and
continues to be so, keeping pace, approx
mately, with the growth of population
1.-THE commerce with the non-contigu-
Gus territory of the United States also
makes new high record for 1903. Ii
will amount to about S130,000,000 in
value, against little less than $1OO,OO0,-
Doc last year"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
FOR AND AGAINST FOOTBALL.
Harvard Banishes, While Yale De-
fends the Game.

Harvard Banishes, While Yale De-
tends the Game.
Close on the heels of Harvard's decis-
ion to Danish football as played at pres
ent, her traditional athletic rival, Yale,
has come out in defense of the game.
President Hadley, at the recent dinner
of the New York alumni, said that foot
ball was bound to be played, if properly
modified, and that, among all major
sports it has for the student ''the double
advantage of being the most democratic
and the least dangerous. Played by rich
and poor alike, it claims fewer victims
than the sports whose successful pursuit
is confined to the rich alone" He refer
red to. frequent deaths from hunting and
sailing, but said that during the thirty
years that Yale had played Rugby foot
ball no death or permanent injury had re-
suited to a Yale man.
President Faunce says that the faculty
at Brown is wrestling with the subject,
but that he fears that the public has
become historical over it, and that the
sins of all sport will be loaded on to foot
ball. After all, he thinks the physical
danger is of far less Importance than the
social and ethical side of the game.
At Chicago the representatives of the
''big nine" western colleges have decided
upon many radical changes for football
and other college athletics, with the pur-
pose of curbing professionalism. 1t was
agreed that, unless football were modified
so as to prevent brutality by the rules
committee. the ''big nine" would discon-
tinue the game for two years. 1t was de-
cided that in future the college faculties
should have charge of the gate receipts.
One rule proposed would bar all graduate
students from the matches. A player
must have as many Rotations during the
football season as at any other time of
the year. The students shall have moth
ing to do with the securing of coaches,
and the coach must be a member of the
faculty. The committee would limit the
number of intercollegiate games in a
season to five and limit the admission
fees to IN cents
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
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The Prince of Wales delights in that
delicate scent known as wood violet.
All of Sir Henry CampbellBanner-
mans speeches are prepared with the ut.
most care.
Prince Louis of Battenberg is a print
| er. and the only one known to have paid
81 900 for filling four teeth.
| Herbert Gladstone is fond of music and
is never so happy as when he is engaged
in madrigal singing. Not many vocalists
can play as he plays the piano, organ
and cello.
Aoki, the first Japanese ambassador
to Washington, will probably bring with
him to this country his wife, who is q
German lady, he having been educated in
that country.
Dr. Koch has been placed at the head
of an expedition to investigate the sleep
ing sickness of eastern Africa, for which
the German government has appropriated
$4,000.
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford claims
the distinction of being the first Euro.
pean who was allowed, by invitation, tc
gaze on the face of the Mikado Of Japan.
This was in 1868.
Sir Wilfrid Laurer, the Canadian pre-
mier, has received word that a battleshiT
will be sent to France to convey the body
of the late NJ. Prefontaine, the Canadian
minister, back from France for burial.
King Haakon VII. of Norway was call
ed the "sailor prince in Denmark. He
is a thorough sportsman and great be
ton with the sea has given him manly
disposition and his genial appearance and
kind hearted manner are likely to endeaI
him to his subjects.
The Shah of Persia, who was once din.
ing with the present King of England
before his accession, was introduced to as
payagus for the first time. Stumped, he
ate half the stalks and threw the rest on
the floor behind him. The then prince
did the same, and, to the CONSERVATION
of the servants, the guests, like good cour.
tiers. followed suit.
Francis yilliers, the new English min.
lister at Lisbon, bears a name that is ex-
tremely well known at the foreign Office
His father was three times foreign secre.
tary and his marble statue at the foot
of the grand staircase is the only memo.
rial of its kind which has been erected
in the department.
The Sultan of Turkey has a camera.
made by an American firm, the like Of
which does not exist. The metal work
is of gold the frame work of the finest
ivory, the bellows of morocco leather
lined with black velvet, and the whole in
closed IA case of white morocco with
a gold lock and key. 1t cost approx
mately $1,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
FINDS A MEDICAL TRICK.
Jury Convicts Physician of Taking
Fee for Treating Well Man.

Jury Convicts Physician of Taking
Fee for Treating Well Man.
That there are tricks in all trades, and
In some professions. evidently was the be-
lief of the jury in Judge Kersten's court
in Chicago when it returned a verdict
finding DIR. f. III. Stewart guilty of rob-
berry. The specific case of which the doc
tor was accused was making man be-
lieve he was seriously i'll and inducing
him to pay $110 for treatment. Charles
Armstrong was held as an accomplish,
but he was acquitted by the jury. Felix
Berard, a Canadian, was complainant IN
the charges. In October he caused the
arrest of the physician and Armstrong on
charge that they had fraudulently OBJ
tanned Sic from him. Berard came to
Chicago from Montreal, and on his ar
rival consulted DR.. Stewart, who, he
says, tolu him he was suffering from
heart trouble and catarrhal disorders, and
that S110 would be required TO place him
in good health. Berard said he visited
DIR. Stewart several times without MOTTO
ing any change in his physical condition,
and finally consulted another physician.
The latter told Berard he was in good
physical condition, that neither his heart
nor other organs were irregular.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
BOYS SENT INTO SLAVERY.
Employment Agent Declared to
Have Hisrepresented Facts.

Employment Agent Declared to
Have disrepresented Facts.
John n. Bogert, commissioner of Ii
censes in New York, has heard harrow
ing tales of brutality on an island camp
hundred miles from the mainland OF
Florida. They came out at the hearing
in the case of Francisco Sabbia, proprie-
tor of an employment bureau, who is
charged with giving false information to
applicants for work. According to the
testimony, Sabbia sent a gang of labor
ers, several of them being boys 16 years
old, to work for the Florida East Coast
Railway Company. They were told they
were to get $1.75 a day, railway fares
both ways and board. Instead, they were
put to work hewing trees on an island at
$1.25 a day, out of which they had to
pay their board. Five who returned told
the commissioner that when they left the
camp, after brutal treatment, the COM
pany took their return tickets, and they
walked seventy miles to Miami, and were
arrested and sentenced to thirty days at
hard labor with the chain gang.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06

were nbb tltlilItu w
immunity because their statements had
not been made under oath. In closing
for the defense Attorney Hines had
quoted from a letter written by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to Attorney General
Moody in the Santa Fe case, but what
the defense regards as an admission
that the Department of Commerce and
Labor and the Department of Justice
had worked together to indict the pack
ers. The defense argued that the Sc
curing of evidence from the packers
against themselves constituted prom
Sc of immunity.
Testimony to prove that the packers
in giving information to Commissioner
of Corporations Garfield did so with
notice that they would be called upon
to authenticate the evidence furnished
upon their oath or affirmation, which
they claim was equivalent to having
been sworn, was given Tuesday dur
ing the trial of the packers.
Charles G.. Dawes, former Comptrol-
Ter of the Currency, followed Louis G.
Krauthoff Tuesday ON the stand in
the beef case" trial. In his testimony
Mr.. Dawes testified to introducing Mr.
Krauthoff to Garfield for the confer
ence and he also sustained the conten-
ton of the defendant that immunity
was assured by the Commissioner of
Corporations if they would give the
Government full information.
| The man who is generally regarded
as the head of the beef trust and the
principal owner of the private car con-
Germ, namely, J. Ogden Armour, evil
| IDENTIFY is trying to get back at some of
the critics responsible ror the popular
outcry against his interests by writing
a series of articles in the Saturday
Evening Post of Philadelphia. Refer
ring particularly to the private car re-
| bate charge, Mr.. Armour replies that
| the whole agitation started with the
| commission men and not with the
growers. He says the former were dis
gruntled because the private car has
prevented the commission men from
doing business upon the capital of the
grower He insists that it is merely
selfish common sense to keep the re-
frigerator rates down to a point that
will foster the fruit industry.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
HURT BY A RUNAWAY
A WILD HORSE THROWS ADMl-
RAILS DAUGHTER.
Hiss Shelby Converse CIings to An
imGI for Three Miles, but lis
Finally Spilled i'm COIIisiOn-Erire
Damages Reduction Works.

After clinging to the back of run
away horse for three miles, Miss Shelby
Converse, the daughter of Rear Admiral
Converse of the navy, chief of the bureau
of navigation was thrown and seriously
injured in Washington, ID. C.. Miss Con-
verse was riding with Lieut.. Stephen
G. Rowan, L. S. n, along the Cabin
John bridge road, when the young wom
ans horse took fright, and in her efforts
TO manage the animal the curb chain
broke. Before her escort could assist her
the horse dashed forward toward the city
at a mad pace, and ran for three miles
until he turned at Twentieth and NJ
streets and cOllided with truck team,
and all the horses went down in mass.
Miss Converse was thrown over one of the
horses, and, falling, was pinioned under
one of them. She was Unconscious when
removed to a nearby drug store, but re-
vived when taken 10 her home. She may
be hurt internally.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
CONVICTED OF LAND FRAUD.
Rector of South Dakota Church
Found Guilty of Conspiracy.

Rector of south Dakota Church
Found Guilty of Conspiracy.
Charged with conspiracy to defraud the
United States out of 10000 acres of land
in Hooker county, Nebraska, Rev. George
g. Ware, rector of church in Lead,
5. D., and president of the U. b. |.
Cattle Company of Nebraska, was found
guilty BY jury in Judge Munger's court
in Omaha on every count of the two in
dictments on which he was being tried.
The case has been one of the hardest
fought of all the land fraud proceedings.
The Department of Justice was under
stood to be especially anxious for con-
viction, for the reason that Ware was
considered one of the worst offenders
against the homestead laws. The evil
dence in the case showed that systematic
filings by inmates of the Grand Island sol
diers' home and by old soldiers from
Iowa and other points were made in be-
half of Ware through the instrumentality
of Frank W. Lambert and Harry WEIGH.
co-defendants in the case. Lambert and
WEIGH pleaded guilty to the charge of
conspiracy. The penalty is two years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary and a
maximum fine of $4,000. The defend
ants attorneys gave notice of appeal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
BANDITS TERRORIzE CITY.

Two Men Are Shot Down and An
other Terribly Beaten Up.
Five armed men terrorized the village
of East Youngstown, Ohio, early the
other morning, shooting two men and ter
ribly beating third. The robbers made
a raid on saloon operated by Michael
and Alexander Dyokivic, brothers, and
with revolvers drawn, ordered them to
give up their money. They showed re-
sistance and each robber shot at them,
all five bullets taking effect. The rob
bers then escaped, taking $500 with them.
The two victims may die. Jacob d. Eidel-
man, butcher, was beaten into insensi-
bility on the doorstep at his shop and
robbed of about $500 by the same men.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
TEEz lGLEaa3lERS
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S@tN5 5000

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to 1928; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00
to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $500 to
1913; wheat, No. 2, Soc to SIC; corn,
No. ., 40c to 41c; oats, standard, CSC to
29c; rye, No. 2, &c to Csc; hay, timo-
thy, $3.50 to $1,000 prairie, $500 to
25c; eggs, fresh, tic to 19c; potatoes,
53c to Coo.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to 1918; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
S5.72; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, CSC to soc; corn,
No. 2 white, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2
white, BIC to 32c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 1915;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
1925 wheat, No. 2, Ole to 93c; corn,
No. 2, 40c to Ale; oats, No. 2, zoe to
Gle; rye, No. 2, &c to CSC.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to-
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, Ole to 92c; corr,
No. mixed, 44c to doc; oats, No 2
mixed, BE to 33c; rye, No. 2, CSC to
zoe.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to S4.75; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to S5.25;
wheat, No. 2, Soc to SIC; corn, No g
yellow, 44c to 46c; oats, No. 3 white,
&c to 33c; rye, No. 2, G6c to CSC.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 9 northern.
Sic to S3c; corn, No. 3, 4Oc to 41c;
oats, standard, 30c to 32c; rye No. /.
&c to Csc; barley, No. 2, 53c to 54c:
pork, mess, $3.50.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, SEC to
&c. corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to Acc:
oats, No. mixed, 31c to 33c; rye. No.
2, G6c to 67c; clover Seed prime, $500.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, S4.OO
to $685.; sheep, common to good mixed.
$500 to 1913; lambs fair to choice,
$500 to $775.
New York-Cattle, $500 to 1918:
hogs, $500 to 5000 sheep, $500 to
$500 wheat, No. 2 red, SSc to gOc:
corn, No. ,, SOC to sic; oats, natural,
white, 36c to Bic; buttet, creamery, dc
to 26c eggs, western, lie to 19c.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
Evidence of oil Trust Forgery

After the hearing of witnesses at CIeye-
land, Ohio, Attorney General Hadley of
Missouri announced that sufficient evil
dence had been produced to warrant the
bringing of criminal proceedings against
the Standard Oil Company under the
laws of New York. This was based large
ly on the statements of Louis III. Turrell,
an accountant of Detroit, who was for
fourteen years n employee of the Stand
ard. His testimony was forwarded to
District Attorney Jerome. Turrell says
he was induced by the trust officers to
commit forgery in the signing of impor-
tant incorporation papers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
1ND1cr FIVE ARKANSAS soLoNs.
Three Charged with Accepting
Rribe to ODDOse LEGISLATION.

Three Charged with Accepting
Bride to Oppose Legislation.
1t is definitely known that of the ten
indictments returned by the Pulaski coun-
ty grand jury in Little Rock, Ark, the
other day nine are against members of the
last Legislature. Three are against Sen
ator A. w. Covington, two against Sen
ator +. o. Butt of Eureka Springs, one
against Representative Fuller of Eureka
Springs, one against Senator B. E. Nc
Ferrin of Jasjer and two against State
Senator in New York on his bridal tour.
Senators Covington, Butt and the recent
ly married Senator were indicted jointly
on charge of conspiracy in entering
into an agreement for $3.50 each to oppose
any measure pending m the Legislature
having for its object the remuneration of
Argenta to the city or Little Rock.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06

wedding the entire OF
white
especially bride Paer
j.
hoade Miss Roosevelt selected her de-
This will in the full train of three yards while
all Of Miss ROoe
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Washington and Baltimore set Miss Roosevelt will
married robe built severely plain lines Her robe will be
dual first at
Edward VII The will
widths swell bill
chiffon peeTing beneath
being the
much thought the details of
which adorned the wedding
the the of the bride
bertha veil ule
the toilet and Miss Roosevelt
became the bride of
which Miss Roosevelt is having built
lingerie Miss Roosevelt has been equally
Washington.
Nicholas Longworh
n small picture.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
CHICAGO.

| ~. Against luTSe uuAhoNA
Ull6duU of failures and the short
interference to business
due 70 storms this week, it is TO be
noted that raw material markets con-
tinue strong, indicating that manufac-
turing holds steady. and that together
with increasing arrivals CT buyers
there IS further distinct ease in money
Transportation and outdoor work re-
covered quickly from weather inserfer-
enee and the lower temperature slim
ulated demand for fuel, retail trade
also doing better in seasonable lines,
especially warm apparel Wholesale
operations assumed more extended pro-
portions, both house and mail orders
rejecting substantial buying of spring
wares for early delivery
Selections were large in dry goods,
footwear. hardware and furniture for
the interior; new business also appear
ing in staples from south and south
western points. Agricultural reports
are favorable, winter grains being well
protected against fr0st, and there are
extensive preparations for the early
resumption of activity en- the farms.
This adds to the confidence of country
merchants in making present commit
ments for merchandise.
Conditions in the markets for pri-
mary foodstuffs reflect sustained ac-
tivity in provisions, with poorer cash
dealings in the grains and -four. Price
changes, as compared with the closings
a week ago, are mainly lower-corn,
II cent bushel; wheat, Ia cents;
pork, lard, ribs and cattle, each 10
cents.
Bank clearings, $201, 800, 1888, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1905 by 1873 per cent. Commercial
paper is in improving supply, but there
is more bidding for choice names and
the discount fell to per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number thirty-six, against twenty
five last week and twenty-four year
ago.-Dun's Review of Trade.