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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

ted the family enough to move to Iowa.
Going to Fayette County, they ac-
quired a large tract of government
land, which soon became known as
Henderson prairie and still bears
that name.
Young Henderson was a student at
Upper Iowa University at the begin
ming of the war and his love for his
adopted country led him to take the
initiative in a movement which later
resulted in a company being organized
and sent to the war from Fayette
County. Henderson was unanimously
rendered the captaincy of the company,
but he declined on the plea that he
was too young and inexperienced. He
did accept the position of first lieuten-
ant.
The company of volunteers which
young Henderson had organized
among the young men of Fayette
County was mustered into the service
as company A, Twelfth Iowa Volun-
teerS, and sent to Fort Henry, where
they received their baptism in fire and
blood Henderson fell, struck in the
jaw by a rebel bullet. The ball frac-
tured his jaw In the battle of Co.
rinth Oct. 4. 1862, Lieutenant Hender-
son was again badly wounded, result
ing IN the amputation of a leg.
When a call came from President
Lincoln for more troops the Forty
sixth Iowa infantry was organized
and Lieutenant Henderson, though he
had already given leg to his country,
rendered his service and was elected
colonel of this regiment and served
until the end of the war.
In November, 1856, Colonel Hender-
son was appointed a Collector of In
ternal Revenue He occupied this po-
sition until June, 1869, when he re-
signed to become a member of the Law
firm of Shiras, Van Duzee & Hender-
son.
Elected to Congress in 1882.
In 1882 Colonel Henderson was
unanimously rendered the Congression-
al nomination for the Third District,
and he was elected to the Forty eighth
Congress by splendid majority.
Work on the appropriations committee
and as chairman of the judiciary COM
mittee made him for several years one
Of the foremost members of that body
of intellectual giants, so it was nat
ural that when Speaker Reed laid
down the gaveI in 1899 Colonel Hen
derson was the unanimous choice for
that exalted place.
Colonel Henderson was elected
Speaker of the House when Congress
convened on Dec. 4, 1899. His re-
election to the speakership in Deem
Der, 1901, was insured by the election
of an increased Republican majority
in the House.
Colonel Henderson was serving his
second term as Speaker and his tenth
term in Congress when in the fall of
1902 he startled the country by with
drawing from the political field.
He served out his term in Congress
and when he stepped down at the
close of the session and turned over
the gavel to Speaker Elect Cannon he
was accorded one of the warmest dem
onstratfons ever witnessed in the ma
tional house.
Colonel Henderson was married
March 4. 1866, to Augusta A. Fox, who
survives him. Three children were
born to them, namely: Mrs. S. c. Peas
lee and Miss Belle S. Henderson of
Dubuque and Don A. Henderson. of
California.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
FIRE Loss Is 100000.
Steel Company Building

Bethlehem Steel Company Building
Burns, with Valuable Designs.
The general Office building and part of
a machine shop of the Bethlehem Steel
Company in South Bethlehem, Pa, were
destroyed by fire, causing loss of about
100000. The fire originated in the
kitchen of the cafe on the second floor
of the ofica building. The large drafting
rooms were on the fourth floor, in the
vaults of which were kept the valuable
designs for military equipment and other
products of the works. The vaults crum-
bled in the blaze and their valuable con-
tents were DESTROYED
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
eRosvENoR is DEFEATED.

Veteran Congressman and Party
Leader Fails of denomination.
The political world received a shock
when the Republican convention of the
Eleventh Congressional District of Ohio
refused to renominate General Charles
H. Grosyenor, known by his long ten
ure of office as the Sage of Athens
and "Old Statistics" General Grosve-
nor, who is now serving his tenth term
in Co, Isyress, is one of the floor leaders
of the House of Representatives, and
while politicians all over the county
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Defcnf fnr Three-Cent Fnres.

The Ohio House of Representatives, by
a vote of - to 10. defeated the Metzger
bill. which proposed to give the people Of
Ohio cities the right to vote franchises
for street railways without the consent
of property owners On the streets wherein
the franchises were sought. The bill was
urged by Mayor Johnson of Cleveland 70
aid his project for a 3-cent fare street
railway in that city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

Fred \. Thompson, treasurer of the
province of Moro, in the Island of Min
danao, is in San Francisco in the inter
ests of that territory. His mission is
to inform capitalists that the province
of Moro has been granted a land law
by the inSular government under which
it is permitted to sell or lease to any cor
poration which applies $500 acres of
land for the cultivation of hemp, rubber,
sugar and the other plants and grain
which may be raised in the island with
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Manned for Life by Hazers.

Paralysis of the back and legs is the
result of hazing received last September
by Everett w. Hatch, a student of
Creighton Medical College in Omaha.
Hatch was member of the class of '94,
but after one year was forced to leave
college. He re-entered last fall, and some
of his former classmates, who decided to
haze him, gave him such rough treatment
that he will be crippled for life
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Express Companies Fined.

The Texas Supreme Court has rendered
decision that the Wells-Fargo, United
States, Pacific and American Express
companies have contracts with Texas rail
road companies in violation of the anti
trust law and that they and thirty rail-
roads shall pay to the State $3,25O,OOO of
penalties.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
sixteen Hurt in Collision.

The passenger train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul road from Chi
cago ran into a South Milwaukee street
car at the Kinnickinnic avenue crossing
near the Thomas furnace plant in Mil
near the Thomas furnace plant in Mil
waukee, injuring sixteen people, complete
ly overturning and wrecking the car and
delaying railroad traffic for over an hour.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

naval tug Mohawk, with her engines cem-
pletely disabled. The Winslow left New
York Tuesday for that station and suf-
fered three breakdowns during her voy-
age, the last one Leaving her helpless off
Cape Henry. when the Mohawk was hur-
ried to her assistance
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Would Abolish Treating,

In Columbus, Ohio, the House com
mittee on temperance favora5ly reported
the Spangler anti-treating bill The
measure makes it unlawful for any per-
son to buy a drink for another in a sa-
loon or in any place where liquor is sold.
1t also prohibits bartenders giving away
drinks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
SIenths Find Kidnnned Rainy

Pauline Skillman, the Indianapolis
child who was kidnapped by her father,
Paul V. Skillman, in November and
whose sorrowing mother so excited the
sympathy of Mrs. Roosevelt that she urg-
ed Mayor Bookwalter to renewed activity,
has been found by detectives in San
Francisco and will be returned TO her
mother.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Fires Shot at Passing Trpiu.

Joseph Boyd, passenger on a Fort
Wayne railroad accommodation train,
narrowly escaped death from a bullet
which crashed through the car window as
the train was passing Glenfield Pa. The
missile struck Boyd in the head and in
ficted a bad scalp wound.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
GIVES PASTOR YEAR IN JAIL.
U. s. Court Sentences DeadwoOd Min
lister for Land Frauds.

Judge Munger, in the United States
District Court in Omaha, overruled the
motion for a new trial in the case of Rev.
George y. Ware of Lead, S. D., president
of the u. B. /. Cattle Company, recently
convicted of conspiracy to defraud the
government by means of illegal home
stead entries. The judge then SEN
fenced the prisoner to one year in the
county Jail at Omaha and to pay a fine
of $1,000. An appeal will be taken.
Ware has heen for many years pastor of
the Episcopal churches at Lead and
DeadWood s, ID.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
KILLS Rival with Pistol

In San Francisco Eugene Peguillian,
20 years old, was shot and killed in a
quarrel with Benjamin Meyers, of about
the same age. The two agreed to settle
with a fist fight quarrel over girl, and
while on the cay to the place where the
fight was to be Meyers shot Peguillian
through the brain and ran away.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
OHIO RULER A PHYSICAL WRECK
Physician Testifies PattisOn Cannot
Attend to Business.

In habeas corpus proceedings in the
Common Pleas Court at Columbus,
Ohio, the other day DR.. e. ]. Wilson,
the attending physician, testified that
Governor Pattison, because of his bod
lily illness, is incapable of sustained at
tention to any subject. To a question
put a moment later, lie said that the
Governor was sane, but that he was so
weakened in brain and body that he
could not give to any subject continued
thought. 1t is said Oh the best author
ity that the family of the Governor is
anxious that he resign and devote him
self to seeking health.
The testimony of the Governors ply
stefan created profund sensation. and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Ruin for independent OIL Men.

Kansas traffic managers have decided
to defy the maximum freight rate law
and increase the charges for Transporting
OIL The move. if successful, will ruin
Independent dealers and again turn over
the State into the hands of the Standard
Oil COmDany
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Ends Life with Freedom Near

Thomas Magic, charged with murder,
was found dead in his cell in Philadel-
phia, having starved himself because his
case was not brought to trial, although
he had been in Jail eighteen months. He
did not know that he would have been
brought to trial within a week, and there
is every reason to believe that he would
nave been acquitted.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
EIOur Mills Shut DOWN.

Over half the -four mills OF Minneapolis
have shut down. There is no demand
for flour, our sales have dropped off heav-
lily and we are forced to suspend opera
tions for two weeks at least" declare the
millerS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Robbers Get $4,000 in Hold-Up.

Two masked men. one white and one
colored, seized Frederick Radel, baker,
in Millville, n. j., while he was in the
stable near his house and, after gagging
him, marched him into his home at the
point of revolver. The men compelled
Radel to open his safe, from which they
took nearly $4,000 in cash.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

congregated is the whole subject of
conversation. The testimony that he is
incapable of sustained thought is of
grave consequence to the people, and
there is universal fear that the newly
elected executive may never be able to
carry out his plans Of government.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
GLASS workers Accept Wage Cut.

\ strike of 100000 flint glass workers
of the United States and Canada was
averted by their agreement to accept a
sliding scale, which means a reduction of
30 to 30 per cent for many of the work
ers. This will, it is said, enable the in
dependent manufacturers to fight the So
called trust
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
New York.

button, including a larger
volume of house trade and also helping
retail business in spring and summer
fabrics. Shipments on orders are heav-
Ter than ever before. and no complaints
of freight congestion are heard. At
practically all points an early AMI long
spring season is predicted. At the same
time there is an air of conservatism
as to the more distant future, due
mainly to the larger stocks of winter
goods carried over, and also because
of the recent drop in raw cotton, max
ing buyers for next season cautious in
placing orders. Like conditions are
noted in the leading industries. Bust
ness failures in the United States for
the week ending Feb. % number 1876,
against Dos last week, 800 in the like
week of 1905. 200 in 1904, 1S5 in 1903,
and 204 il 02-Bradstreet's CONNER
cial Report
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Colorado Jury Hits Trusts.

Forfeiture of the charters of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company and the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany, under the antitrust law, are de-
manded of the Attorney General by the
grand jury, which has finished its inves-
tigation in Pueblo, Colo. 1t is rumored
that officers of both corporations were in
dic+a6
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Wedding of Prince EiteI.

The Kaiser's second son, Prince Eitel
Frederick of Prussia, was married Tues
day in the chapel of the imperial palace
in Berlin to Duchess Sophie Charlotte of
Oidenburg. The ceremony was attended
by upward of 1000 invited guests, includ-
ing members of nearly every royal family
in Europe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Agitation for Popular senate.

The Iowa Senate has started ma
tional movement for reform of the Sen
ate, calling a convention of the States
with a view TO amendment of the Con
stitution so as TO permit elections by pop
Mar vote
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Bnnk Robber shot and Captured.

Three robbers blew open the vault of
the Missouri City bank at Missouri City.
Officers were aroused and the robbers fed
after a fight with pistols. One of the
robbers. Leonard Bell, alias Edward Dun
can, was overtaken at Randolph. shot in
the back and captured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Lose. 100000 in Wreck.

The loss to the Southern Pacific com
pany through tie wreck of the fast mail
and freight trains at Alazon, near Wells.
New. is estimated at 100000 Two
monster locomotives, mail and fifteen
freight cars are smashed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
plan 3-Cent city Car Lines.

Believing the Metzger bill will pass.
Cleveland officials are planning ordi-
-lances giving the right to parallel at
least five car lines to the lowest bidder.
The Meszger bin provides for a vote of
the people Should they approve, work
on 3-cent lines would start at once I'M
less the monopoly capiulated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
owns Crime 22 Years AGO,

Elwood Pfeiffer, arrested at Cincinnati
and brought to the Fulton county Jail in
Toledo, has confessed to the burning of
his harness store in Fayette twenty-five
years ago. He has also given information
which will lead to the arrest of several
other men, possibly some of them now
prominent in the affairs of Fulton county.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Girl sneezes Until She Dies.

Death came to Bessie Cole, daughter
of Stephen Cole of Bloomingsburg, Ohio,
after spell of sneezing which lasted ten
hours. A ply ician was summoned, but
his efforts to check the sneezing were of
no avail. The breaking of a blood vessel
caused the death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
stops inheritance Tax.

The Ohio House of Representatives
voted 76 to p TO repeal the inheritance
tax law. The Senate previously passed
q bill repeating the law, but it was killed
by the house committee on taxation. to
which it was referred.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Seeks to Avert Coal Strike.

President Roosevelt again has interven-
ed as peacemaker between the coal opera
tors and miners, and as a result of a let
ter written by him to President Mitchell
of the United Mine Workers another ma
tional convention will be held at which
the operators and men will seek for
naacp
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Choked in Picket Fence.

Martin Rogers, a steamftter, was found
dead with his neck between the pickets of
fence in Sixteenth avenue, Minneapolis
Investigation showed that Rogers, who is
known to have been drinking, slipped Oh
the icy sidewalk and fell between the
fence pickets, where he was strangled to
death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
mission stations Destroxed

American mission stations at Nam
chang, China, have been destroyed and
two English and six French missionaries
killed in an attack by the natives; a gun
boat has been ordered to the scene.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Mob Lawlcssness in Ohio.

A mob at Springfield, Ohio bent on
lynching a negro aSsailanc of a white
man, burned dwellings of blacks, wrecked
a saloon and injured two officers. The
calling out of troops was necessary.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Coast poxtomce Robbed.

The main postoffice in San Diego, CAL,
was entered by robbers and it is believed
a large amount of money was stolen. Dy-
Mantle was used to blow open the vault.
The discovery of the crime was not made
till morning. There is no clew.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Writes Fewer Policies.

New business of the Equitable Life AS
surance Society. owing to the insurance
scandals, shows falling off of $S1 ,000,-
600 in 1905, as compared with the pre-
vious year. while the value of policies
surrendered triples.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Assassin Stays wealthy Farmer.

David Tennyson, a wealthy farmer,
was shot and killed at his home one
mile east of Frankfort, Kan. Tennyson
was killed as he sat close to his wife in
his parlor, the murderer firing through
the window
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Woman Dies in smoke.

Blinded by smoke in her attempt to
escape from a burning fiat building at
$3.50 Washington avenue, Chicago. Mrs.
John Hanly, % years old. lost her way
while cropping for the exit, and when
found by Fire Captain Goetz she was
suffocated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Injured by Mine Explosion.

FiAy men were burned, many of them
seriously, in an explosion at the Sterling
Salt Company's mine near Cuylersville,
n. Y. The men were all brought to the
surface by rescue parties.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

The family of Anderson Fowler,
wealthy packer, learned on the arrival at
New York of a steamer on which the re-
mains were shipped, that the body was
buried at sea by the boats officers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
oner. to Give ur ROOFS.

Cashier Casey, who wrecked the Salem.
Mo-, bank, has offered to plead guilty and
locate 100000 of the stolen funds if
sentenced to not more than 1--WE years in
the penitentiary. The judge refused to
dicker with him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

Six more houses were set aire in the
race rioting at Springfield, Ohio, Wednes-
day night, eight companies of militia be
ing unable to put down the mob bent on
driving all negroes out.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Twelve Die In Mine Explosion.

Passengers from points near the Piper
mines, near Birmingham, Ala. where
gas explosion occurred, report that twelve
miners are dead, seven fatally hurt and
six others badly injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

Confession that be plotted the death OF
former Gov. Steunenberg and murdered
twentv-six persons, made by Harry Or
chard. under arrest ut Boise. Idaho, TO-
murder. has been revealed in s;atemen;
issued by GOV. Goodiag.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Decides Against stan.nrd ON

II. II. Rogers must tell Standard Oil
secrets. The Missouri Supreme Court
has decided for the Attorney General in
a case covering the points involved in .ae
New York investigation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
KILLED NEAR wIFE's BIER.
Man Shot by BrOther-in-Law, who
Then Commits Suicide.

Then Commits Suicide.
Thomas Dettman shot and killed
Thomas Fennen in a quarrel over the
death of Fennen's young wife, Dettman's
sister, whose body at the time of the
shooting lay in an adjoining room in the
same house. Dettman then put bullet
into his own head and died. The tragedy
occurred in the Flatbush section of
Brooklyn, n. Y. Dettman had come to
attend the funeral and quarreled with his
brother-in-law over an operation which
resulted in Mrs. Fennen's death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
VICTOR F. Lawson Nav Retire

1t is reported in newspaper circles tina.
Victor i. Lawson, owner of the Chicago
Daily News and Record-Herald. is con-
templating retirement from the newspaper
field owing to i'll health.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
sboots ana Burns Necro.

Wiltze Page, a negro, was shot 20
death Snd the body afterward burned by
a mob at Bienyille. La. The negro CON
fessed attacking white girl.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

United States District Attorney Dey-
lin filed in the Office of the United States
Circuit Court at San Francisco two bills
in equity for the purpose of setting aside
patents issued by the United States to
Frederick A. Hyde, John Benson and 9th
ers to lands in fourteen counties of Cali
fornia
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Death of David b. Henderson.

David B. Henderson. former Speaker
of the House of Representatives, died at
Dubuque, Iowa, after suffering for months
from pareSis.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Cnncer Mennces MansaeId,s Life

Richard ManS6eld's announcement that
he will retire from the stage in 1909 is
inspired by the report of three consult
ing physicians that he is suffering from
what is doubtless an incurable cancer at
the base of his spine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

George w. Ellis, the charge dafaires
Of the American legation at Monrovia,
has presented the National museum with
monograph of 9,0G0 words covering the
habits and customs of the Val speaking
people of west Africa and a collection Of
their work.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Enioined Against 45-cent Gas

Judge Grosscup has made perpetual
the Injunction restraining the city Of
Chicago from enforcing the 75-csnt gas
ordinance of 1900.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

Senator Foraker's speech opposing rail
way rate legislation occupied three hours
of the session of the Senate Wednesday.
A further discussion of the railroad land
grant in Indian Territory followed, with
the result that a resolution was passed
extending the tribal government OF the
five civilized tribes until March 4, 1907.
An executive session was had at 10 ..
M. but the doors were reopened ten min
utes later and the remainder of the day
was devoted to the passage of private pen
sion bills. The army appropriation oc-
cupied the attention of the House, but
it's consideration was not completed. The
discussion was marked by controversy
between the members of the appropria-
tions and military committees over the
amounts carried in the bill, and honors
were about evenly divided. A proposed
amendment to pay $1,000 each to the
widows of two San Francisco firemen
who lost their lives in the recent fire on
She transport Meade was ruled out of or
der. Provision for more than 300 clerks
employed in the staff and at army diyis-
ion headquarters also went out when it
was shown that there was no authority in
law for their employment. A resolution
was adopted calling on the Postmaster
General for all information on which ne
based his order Withholding the rights and
privileges of the mails from the Peoples
United States Bank of st. Louis.