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David p. Kenney of Plainfeld. N. J.
has given forty acres on the slope of
the Watching mountains, commonly call
cd 1.-THE Picture Lands" Il the Sisters
of Mercy of the Trenton diocese. A
convent school will be erected.
1t seems likely that the school board of
Lexington, KY, will include in its jan
uary budget an appropriation for manual
training in the public schools. Supt.
Cassidy is heartily in favor of it and
again urges it in his excellent annual re-
port.
The fact that the overseers of Harvard
university had voted against the continu-
ance of intercollegiate football contests
by students of that university was
made known at Cambridge, the prohibi-
ton to remain in force until the commit
tee on the regulation of athletic sports
reports on changes in the game and that
report is approved by the overseers. All
depends on the degree of reformation
which the athletic committee effects. The
overseers regard the present game as bad
in every respect and say that the method
of formation absolutely encourages trick
cry and foul play. They think the result
is bad for the morals as well as for the
body, and that the present intercollegiate
rules committee are not capable of prop
erly reforming the game because they are
so far committed to the present system.
The Board of Education of Orange, n.
j. is considering a proposition to install
a printing Office in the local high school,
at a cost of about $1,000, under the SUI
pervision of a practical printer. 1t has
been stated that several citizens are will
ing to establish the plant.
Superintendent Cooley of the Chicago
schools has issued a circular to his teach
ers directing rigid enforcement of the
rule against corporal punishment of pu-
pills. Even parents are not to be al
lowed to punish their refractory children
within the school grounds, as they have
sometimes been encouraged to do.
Statistics of teachers wages in the
State of Michigan show that in forty
years the average monthly wages of men
have increased from $2S.17 to S57.33; of
women, from $1244 to S40.55. The in
crease in the last ten years has been, for
men, 1898; for women, $5.47.
In 1870 there was in the United States
but one educational journal having a cir
culation of more than 10000 and that
had $4,000. In 1884 there were eight
such with an aggregate circulation of
$4,000. In 1908 there were nineteen
with an aggregate circulation of 404 900.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
COUNT SUED FOR DIVORCE.
Casfellane's Wife, Formerly Anna
Gould, Asks for Separation.

CasfeIlane's Wife, Formerly Anna
Gould, Asks for Separation.
Counties Boni de Castellane formerly
Anna Gould) entered a plea in Paris for
divorce from her husband. Representa-
tives o, the countess aud the count APP
peared before a judge, who, according to
the French law, endeavored to arrange
a reconciliation before allowing a definite
suit to proceed.
Rumors have been current for a long
time that the countess had decided that
continuation of her relations with her
husband was impossible and her removal
from the Castellane residence to a hotel
in the center of Paris gave support to
the belief that she had decided to COM
plete the separation.
With reference TO the counts conduct
the name of prominent society leader
of Paris, a woman OF high standing, has
been mentioned But the greatest reti-
cence has been maintained by all the par
ties concerned relative to the progress
of the negotiations looking to a concilia-
tion. 1t now appears that the efforts
OF those interested in bringing about a
settlement without an appeal to the
courts have been unavailing.
Almost on the same day which brought
the news of the Yerkes- Miner nuptials
came the story that the worthless French
man of the empty pocket and empty title,
who married, and has squandered, from
$10,000000 to $20,000,000 of the wealth
which a great American brain had accu-
mulated, is to be divorced by his wife.
Following are some of the ways in which
Count Boni spent the Gould millions:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
Short News Notes.

Funeral drivers in New York have or
ganized the Funeral Drivers Union, with
100 members.
An automobile driven by Major Edwin
B. Babbitt of the United States army Gre
ated a panic among the natives in Bag
Mo, P. /.
The reelection of James P. Goodrich
as chairman of the Indiana Republican
committee is regarded as a triumph for
the Republican faction headed by Vice
President Fairbanks over that headed by
Senator Beveridge.
The Eberhart Manufacturing Company
of Cleveland is about to close "a deal for
the purchase of the Racine Malleable
Wrought Iron Company plant.
The prairie fire which began in the
northern part of Duell county, Nebraska.
swept south over forty miles of prairie
before being extinguished The loss to
ranches is $4,000.
Congressman John Wesley Gaines of
Tennessee and Robert Adams, Jr.. of
Pennsylvania are said somehow or other
to have acquired reputation of being
extremely poor speakers. When either
begins speaking the galleries become emp
ty about as rapidly as if the house were
on FIRE.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$4.0O to $575; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $685.; sheep, fair to choice, $500 to
1915; wheat, No. 2, Soc to SEC; corn,
No. 2, Ale to 42c oats, standard, CSC to
3Oc: rye. No. 2, 66c to 6Sc hay timo-
thy, $3.50 to $1,000; prairie, 5000 to
$1,000; butter, choice creamery, 23c to
26c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 1Sc; potatoes,
45c to 5Sc.
indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $500
to 1918; Logs, choice heavy, $500 to
1915; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, SIC to SSc; corn,
No 2 white, 32c to 43c; oats, No. 2
white, 30c to Bic.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to S5.95;
hogs, $500 to $685.; sheep, $500 to
1913; wheat, No. 2, Ole to 92c; corn,
No 2, 40c to Ale; oats, No. 2, 30c to
gle; rye, No. 2, &c to Csc.
Cincinnati Cattle, $500 to $5.25;
hogs, $500 to 5000; sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. 2, 90c to 93c; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 4Oc to 41c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 30c to gle; rye, No. ,, CSC to
roc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to SAFE; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to 1928;
wheat No. 2, Soc to SEC; corn, No.
yellow, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 8 white,
32c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 66c to g..
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 9 northern,
SIC to SIC; corn, No. g. 40c to Ale;
oats, standard, 3Oc to 32c; rye, No. 1,
&c to Csc; barley, No. ., 53c to soc;
pork, mess, $13.75.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, SEC to
SIC; corn, No. mixed, 44c to 45c
oats, No. 2 mixed, Bic to 33c; rye, Ne.
2, CSC to &c; clover seed, prime, $S.25.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to 5000; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $5.65; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $7.65.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to 5000; sheep, $500 to
1915; wheat, No. 2 red, Sc to soc;
corn, No. 2, 49c to sic; oats, natural
white 36c to SIC; butter, creamery, pc
to 26c: eggs western, 15c to 1Sc.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
Sparks from the Wires.

Thirteen States were represented when
the annual convention of State fish and
game wardens met in st. Paul
The grain mill and elevator of Close
Brothers at Schenectady, n. T. was burn
ed, entailing a loss of about $4,000.
Tests made at Cornell university cause
experts to fear that recent warm weather
has damaged the New York peach crop.
The Philippine commission has decided
to sell 81 100000 of per cent bonds un-
der the act of Feb. 6, 1905, proposals to
be received ap to Feb. 10.
The freight steamer Calderon, bound
for England, stove hole in her bow in
collision with a single float in New York.
She was forced to put back
The japanese legation at Rome will be
raised to the rank of an embassy and NJ.
Uchida, the japanese minister at Pekin,
will be appointed ambassador to Italy.
Frederic E. Crotois, New Jersey man
ager of the Germania Life Insurance
Company, is missing. He is s id to be
short about $1,000. He also is short
$500 with the Mystic Shrine.
The nail mill of the Southern Steel
Company at Birmingham, Ala, was burn
ed, causing a loss of $4,000.
The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld
the law governing the regulation of the
sale and redemption Of transportation
tickets of common carriers as being con-
stitutional.
The New England State Limited, an
express bound from Boston to Montreal,
was wrecked near Bolton, VT, six cars
being demolished No one was injured
seriously. The accident evidently was
caused by a train wrecker who had tam
pered with the switch, causing the train
to run into freight cars, and had set a
signal for a clear track.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
WORLDS NAVAL PROGRESS.
Year 1905 an Active One in the
Construction of Warships.

Year 1905 Active One in the
Construction of Warships.
During the year 1905 the most active
nations in the building of battleships
have been Germany and this country.
Great Britain launched during the year
two battleships and four armOred cruis-
ers. France launched one battleship and
one armored cruiser; Germany two bat
tleships; Russia one battleship; Italy a
battleship and an armored cruiser; Japan
two battleships and one cruiser, and the
United States four battleships and one
armored cruiser. The British battleships
are the Africa and Hibernia, of 1880
tons, and they are individually heavier
than any of the other battleships
launched.
The list of vessels completed and com
missioned by the various powers shows
that Great Britain has put FIVE battle
ships and four armored cruisers into ser
vice; France one armored cruiser, Ger
many two battleships and two armored
cruisers, Russia no large vessels at all,
Italy one armored cruiser, Japan no YES
sells at all, and the United States FIVE
battleships. The British battleships are
the King Edward VII. class. and are
of the same displacement as the vessels
launched; the German battleships are
the Hessen and Preussen, of 13,O0D tons,
while the United States battleships ara
the Rhode Island and her sisters, with
a displacement Of rather more than A.
900 tons each
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13

come the master of what is regarded as
d1e of the show residences in New York
and which is devised in the will of Mr..
Yerkes to the City of New York to be
used as an art museum upon the death
of his widow.
The bulk of Yerkes' vast estate was
left to his widow. She received $780,
600 outright and life interest in most
of his property, which brought her in
come up to about $7,500,OOO. The Fifth
avenue mansion, its contents, including
many rich oil paintings and other per-
sonal property of great value, all of the
horses, carriages and automobiles were
left to her.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
BARS CHILDREN FROM MINES.
Chief Orders General Crusade
AgaiSt Young LabOrers.

Chfef Orders General Crusade
AgaiSt Young LabOrers.
Chief Mine Inspector James e. Rod
erick of Pennsylvania has notified the in
spectors of each of the anthracite dis
tricts to make careful investigation at
each colliery and dismiss any boys found
to be below the legal age for employment.
The chief calls the inspectors attention
to the fact that, owing to the greed of
some parents for the youngsters small
earnings, they are furnished with false
certificates, declaring they are over the
required age, when they are not. Mr..
Roderick suggests that the inspectors
take particular pains to ascertain the real
age of boys who do not appear to be as
cid as their certificates declare. He says
the work will be hard and trying, but
that it must be continued until there is
not a boy under 16 in the mines or under
II in the breakers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13

tributed each night. Pneumatic tubes in
the new postoffice which cost $4,000 to
install are practically useless because
there are not enough clerks to take the
mail promptly to them, and they are idle
much of the time. Machinery in the new
building which cost 100000 is also prov
ing more of a hindrance than a benefit
because it requires quite a number of
clerks to operate it, and that number
has been taken from the regular force,
which was inadequate before.
While the government officials at
Washington are aware of the conditions,
they have said that Chicago cannot ex-
pect relief before July l, when next years
appropriation becomes available. Post
master Busse has gone to Washington to
make one more appeal for more help to
conduct the business as he thinks it
should be-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
PRECEDENT IN BANK SUIT.
Court Holds Directors Not Liable
beyond Interest as Stockholders.

court HOLDS Directors Not Liable
BeyOnd Interest Stockholders.
The Ohio Supreme Court established a
precedent in affirming a decision from Co
lumbiana county in the case of Charles
II. Mason against John McVicker, James
X. Frew and DR.. William Moore, directors
of the defunct First National bank of
Lisbon. The Supreme Court holds that
bank directors are not liable beyond their
liability as stockholders for not knowing
the condition of a bank which is wrecked
few months after the publication of the
annual statement by defaulting cashier.
Mason alleged that he bought stock short
ly before the failure on the strength of
the directors report. In the only similar
case yet passed upon the Nebraska Su-
preme Court held against the directors.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13

made him a multimillionaire. Since her
husbands death Mrs. Yerkes, while not
living ostentatiously, has not observed the
strict form of mourning regarded as GUS
tomary in a wife whose husband has been
dead but a few weeks
AS there were no provisions in the
Yerkes will forbidding his wife to remar-
ry, the young Californian will now enter
into full enjoyment of the handsome for
tune which was left his bride and will be-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
DIE AS LAWYERS WAIT.
Two Chicago Men XIII Themselves
Under Conditions that Coincide.

TWO Chicago Men Kill Themselves
Under Conditions that Coincide.
In less than twenty four-hour span in
Chicago two prominent men telephoned
to their attorneys, met them for counsel,
and then, while the attention of their
companions was diverted, committed sui
eide. Henry w. Howe, head of the mort
gage brokerage house of HI. w. Howe
& Co., shot himself while in the Office of
Attorney Rowland T. Rogers. James
Hedges, wealthy Chicago pioneer and
manufacturer, did the same thing at his
home, while his attorney, Charles e.
Hamill. was waiting in an adjoining
room. Financial troubles and worry over
his business affairs are believed to have
been the cause of Mr.. Howe's suicide
Grief over the death in the Iroquois the
ater fire of his daughter, Mrs. Katherine
Bergh, and her 3-year-old son drove Mr..
Hedges to his death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
LABoR's GREAT TRIUMPH.
Trade UniOnism Creates a New Or
der in British Politics.

Trade UniOniSm Creates New Or
der in British Politics.
The greatest surprise in the recent
elections in Great Britain was the large
number of labor representatives return
ed to Parliament. Hitherto labor has
been a rather negligible quantity in Brit
ish politics, Notwithstanding the fact that
workingmen have sat in Parliament since
the early SOS, but now it must be reck-
oned with both within and outside leg
islative halls. Before the onslaught made
by labor in the British constituencies,
Unionists, titled, knighted and moneyed,
went down; Conservative strongholds
were carried, and Liberals were either
defeated or had their majorities reduced.
A cotton spinner captured Sir James
Fergussons seat in Manchester; a mill
hand beat Sir Ernest Flower in Brad
ford; printers headed the poll at Nor
witch, Burnley, Manchester and Deptford;
a NAVY, who was once employed in
excavations for the Manchester ship
canal, is member for Stoke-on-Trent a
railway guard has a majority of over
1000 at Newcastle on-Tyne, where Mr.
Morley once suffered defeat. An obscure
collier distanced a mine owner; a cotton
operative vanquished Lord Goschen's son
at Bolton; a stonemason's son and a
warehouse clerk each won by 1900 votes
at Leicester over Sir John Rolleston a
laster in a boot factory carried a WolEer-
hampton seat against Sir Alfred Hick-
man; miners have been victorious at Nor
peth and in GlamOrganshire a furniture
maker, who had begun life in a mineral
water factory, triumphs at Leeds; and
men who have been carpenters, ship
wIights, steel smelters, sailors, engineers,
mechanics, pitmen and even newsboys
are sent to Parliament in place of uni
versity men, baronets with large estates,
ship owners, manufacturers, bankers and
the sons of earls. They may not be
working at their trades now, but they
have sprung from the toiling millions,
and their election in such numbers is a
triumph for Democracy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
GERMANY SEEKS PEACE.
Pessimistic as TO Tariff Trouble with
United States.


Inquiries made at the foreign Office in
Berlin regarding the German-American
tariff question elected the information
that the Kaiser's government is very pes
simistic, even doubling that it will be
possible to mate a provisional arrange
ment with the United States which Ger
many could accept. Germany is anxious
to avoid a tariff war and would go to
great lengths in making concessions
which would render possible a temporary
arrangement until a treaty could be ne
gotiated, but it is evident that the foreign
Office regards the suggestions hitherto
made by the United States as unsatis-
factory. 1t was learned at the foreign
office that the bundesrath has not yet con-
sidered Germany's course after March j,
when the new German tariff goes into
effect, in the event that no arrangement
has been made between the two countries,
but something is expected to occur within
a few days in the negotiations which may
tend to clear up the situation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
Life Inquiry Hits Officials.

Malfeasance in Office is charged against
former Insurance Commissioners Luhr,
Lambert and Durham of Pennsylvania in
the report rendered by the legislative in
surance investigating committee in Har-
risburg. The attention of the Governor
and the Attorney General is called to the
violations of the law, with the inference
that prosecutions should follow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
Notes of the National -apitaI.

Notes of the National Capital.
The House committee will report bill
carrying army appropriation of S7O,O0O,-
600.
President Roosevelt urges Senators TO
insist on the passage of rate bin similar
to the Hepburn measure.
Senator Carter, speaking for the ship
subsidy bill, declared it is favored by the
entire Rocky Mountain region.
Secretary Root, after reading the Cal
houn Venezuelan report. sent word to
Minister Russell to insist, on Castro
settling the asphalt claims.
The Cincinnati Receivers and Ship.
pers' Association has sent message to
President Roosevelt pledging him sup
port in his rate regulation fight
The President sent message to Con-
gress urging an appropriation of $25,-
600 for the employment of experts to in
vestigate the methods employed in the va
rious executive departments in connection
with the works OF the Keep commission.
Despite the opposition in the japanese
diet to the post-belIum financial scheme
of the government, information has reach
ed the japanese embassy in Washington
that the home government is confident
that the measure viii eventually be
adopted.
With the lives of their two veteran
Senators as the stake. Alabama politi-
clans are gambling with death in select
ing conditional successors to Pettus and
Morgan.
Some significance is attached to the
Change made on the membership of the
Senate committee on privileges and cleo
tons Senator Clarke of Arkansas has
never attended any meetings of the COM
mittee, nor was it known how he stood
in regard to the SInoot case, pending be-
fore the committee. 1t is known. how
ever, that the substitution Of Senator
Patterson for Senator Clarke is satisfac-
tory to those who have been opposing
Senator Smoot.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
Sunday-CIOsing for Columbus.

In obedience to an order issued by
Mayor Badger instructions were issued to
the police in Columbus, Ohio, to enforce
a strict observance of the Sunday laws in
Columbus, beginning next Sunday. These
laws forbid the opening of saloons, the
performance of unnecessary labor and the
transaction of business not specifically
exempted under the statute.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
Peorin Minister Kills HimreIf.

Death by suicide has ended the career
of Rev. George II. Simmons, clergyman
and banker, one of the leading citizens of
Peoria, Ill. A nauseating scandal in
which DR.. Simmons had become involved
made him see a welcome relief in death.
AS a direct result of the revelations one
bank was closed and there was a run on
another
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
Delay AIfonso,s Marriape.

The Madrid correspondent of the Echo
de Paris says that owing to the British
court being in mourning for King Chris
tan of Denmark King Edwards official
visit to Madrid will not take place in
tie spring and that for the same reason
King Alfonso's marriage to Princess Ena
of Battenberg has been postponed until
June.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
Indian Gridiron Hero WEEDS.

Charles Dillon, the famous Indian foot
ball guard, and Miss Rose La Fargo were
married in Carlisle, Pa, in the theater
of the Indian school in the presence of
1000 persons, all the students being
dressed in their new military uniforms.
Mr.. Dillon is a Sioux and his bride a
Crow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
BASS T,ro-Cent RniI Eare Di11-

The Ohio House, by vote of 1O4 to /,
passed the Freiner 2-cent fare bill which
was substituted for the Rathburn bill
passed by the Senate. The Senate, it is
said by leaders of that body will accept
the Freiner bill, which will go into effect
thirty days after it is signed by the Gov
ernor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
MAY ABOLISH Personal TAXES.
Folk FavOrs Change i'm Missouri to
Stop Wholesale Perjury.

Residents of st. Louis will be saved
100000 year if the next General AS
sembly votes to repeal the State law i'm
posing taxes on personal property, an in
novation favored by Gov. Folk. The Gov
ernor said that the personal tax law is
responsible for the indiscriminate spread
of perjury. 1.-THE State treasury" said
he, has surplus on hand sufficient to
justify radical change in its tax laws.
Under existing conditions we find that
the personal tax law is abused, and thel ;
IS no remedy for the abuses
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
Kills Brother to Save Mother

Believing that the life of his mother
was in danger, DR.. w. E. Meyer of st.
Louis shot and killed his brother, Joseph
W. Meyer. At the time Joseph was
brandishing a heavy iron wrench md de-
claring he would kill his mother after she
had demonstrated with him for becoming
intoxicated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13

Woman and Man Lost IL SnowstOrm
Guided Safely from Peril.

In attempting to drive from Crookston,
Mimi, to Warren to be at the death bed
of her daughter, Mrs. William Mobiles
and the driver of the vehicle were lost in
a binding storm on the prairie, having
a miraculous escape from almost certain
death. Missing a train she hired livery
rig and started across the prairie. A
storm came and the driver lost his
way. 1t was impossible to see more than
a few feet ahead. After the driver had
given up hope of finding the trail the
horses suddenly turned and started across
the country. The horses brought the rig
back safely just as movement was being
planned to start out in search of them.
Later telegram was given the woman
announcing the death of her daughter.