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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
RAISES ANTITRUST WAR CRY.
Public Ownership of Railroads and
End of Tariff Privileges.


End of Tariff Privileges.
William Jennings Bryan, American
citizen. formally welcomed home from
his world wanderings by a mighty
eoncourse of his fellow countrymen
amid the spectacular settings of Madi-
son Square Garden Thursday night,
buried his cross of gold in a sea of
tumultuous applause and cheering and
struck out to lead Democracy in new
battle with new paramount issue.
Bryan. the former silver advocate at
the ratio of l6 10 /, is now Bryan the
trust7breaker. The humiliation, not
the mere restraint of the trusts is his
battle cry for 1908. The money ques-
ton, he declared, has been removed
from the field of political controversy
by changes in conditions since 1896
and 1900 The gold men, he proclaim
ed, have won their point in retaining
gold as the standard of monetary
value. and the bimetalliSts have gained
the contention for enlarged monetary
circulation. They break even, says
William ]. Bryan--now for the slaugh
ter of the octopi.
Into the trust question the foremost
leader of the Democratic forces of to-
day bracketed the tariff, with de-
mand for revision; socialism, with
declaration that Socialists are wrong
in their logic, but to be reasoned with
and not denounced government owner
ship and operation of railroads, with
proclamation that permanent relief
from present evils must be reached
ultimately through this means, adding
the admission that perhaps public SEN
timent is not yet ready for this radical
application of paternalism.
Outside of its political features the
welcome extended to Mr.. Bryan Thurs
day night and the ovation that greeted
him, mere private citizen, from the
time he set foot on Manhattan Isle in
the afternoon until he left Madison
Square Garden late at night, will stand
out in history as something remark
able. There may have been greater
demonstrations in New York over men.
There may have been bigger crowds
and louder cheers. But there never
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
PLEA FOR FARM LIFE.
JAMES j. HILL MAKES ADDRESS
AT STATE FAIR.
Tide of Immi grants and Country
Youths TO City Regarded as Mem
ace to Country-Thieves Bind
Cashier and Rob Bank.

Agriculture as the salvation Of the
country was emphasized by James j..
Hill. president of the Great Northern
road, in an address at the opening of the
Minnesota State fair Mr.. Hill in open
ing deplored the scarcity of labor on the
farms. The reluctance of immigrants to
seek the country and the rush OF youths
from the farm to the city he regarded as
menace TO the future welfare and pros
perity of the United States. Within
twenty years." said Mr.. Hill. I'VE must
house and employ in some fashion 50.000.-
900 of additional population, and by the
middle of this century there will be APP
proximately two and a half times as many
people in the United States as there are
to-day. No nation in history was ever
confronted with a sterner question than
this certain prospect sets before us. Ii
we are to walk safely in the way of wis
dom there is much to be done. 1t is time
10 begin There must be a national re-
volt against the worship of manufacture
and trade as the only forms of progressive
activity and the false notion that wealth
built uron these at the sacrifice of the
funda mental form of wealth production
can endure. A clear recognition on the
part of the whole people, from the highest
down to the lowest. that the tillage of the
soil is the natural and most desirable oc-
cupation for man. to which every other
is subsidiary and to which all else must
in the end yield, is the first requisite"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
UNDERPAlD TEACHERS.
Miserable Wages Paid to the Train
of American Ynnfh


ers of American Youth.
A report recently made by a committee
OF the Maine Pedagogical Association, APP
pointed to ascertain the salaries paid to
school teachers in that State, helps to re-
enforce the argument frequently made
that our educators in general, and public
school teachers in particular, are a
wretchedly underpaid body of men and
women. As result of its investigations
the committee received returns from 4,37S
teachers in elementary schools, and found
that a majority of the women teachers
were working for from Sc to 50 per week,
while only 575, or about one-tenth, were
paid more than $40. 1t was found thaS
half the women teachers in Maine are
working for less than $500 a year.
In comparing the pay of Maine teachers
with the wages of cotton mill operatives
in the State, the committee found that the
balance in favor of the former was very
slight. For instance, the $3.50 women
working in the cotton mills of Maine get
an average weekly wage of $3.50, while
the women school teachers get an aver
age weekly wage of $500. The men in
the cotton mills of Maine get an average
weekly wage of $S.01, while the men
teachers get S9.1S. Since it costs a per-
son much more to become properly equip
ped for the teaching profession than it
does to become an efficient mill worker, to
say nothing of the higher expense of daily
living for the former, the additional wage
received by the teachers, according to this
report, is far less than 1t should be.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11

EDW. R0SEWATER. sat down on
bench in the court room and fallen asleep,
and died of heart failure.
Mr.. Rosewater went TO Waterloo, Neb.,
Thursday afternoon to make a speech at
a Republican political meeting. He reach
ed Omaha on his return at o'clock and
went to his office in the Bee building.
He is known to have been in the Office
during the evening, but was not seen by
members of his family after returning
from Waterloo. 1t was habit of Mr..
Rosewater to go to different parts of che
building whenever his pleasure so indi-
Gated, and it is presumed he stepped into
the large court room and sat down for
minutes repose and fell asleep. When
Judge Troup arrived at the court room in
the morning he found the body of Mr..
Rosewater on a bench.
The death of Mr.. Rosewater coming so
suddenly, was a shock to the people of
Omaha. DR.. Charles Rosewater, brother
of the dead editor, attributed death to
the excitement attendant on a long cam
paign in which Mr.. Rosewater was
prominent candidate for the nomination
by the Nebraska State convention for
United States Senator.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
TRAIN is DYNAMITED.
ROBBERS ESCAPE AFTER ExPLo
SION IN MICHIGAN.
Explosive Placed to Blow Up Pas
senger Train Goes OF Under
Freight-Plotters Against Next
can Government Are Arrested.

Dynamite placed on the Wisconsin Cen
trail tracks at Ironwood, Mich, with the
evident intention of wrecking a passen-
ger train carrying valuable mail and ex-
press blew up an ore train. When the
engine struck the dynamite a terrific ex-
plOsion lifted the engine into the air, aud
II fell on its side a mass of twisted wreck
age The tender was demolished and one
of the cars was blown to splinters. Charles
Nelson, the engineer, and Patrick Walsh,
the firemen, were taken from the wreckage
badly injured. Four other cars of tho
train were destroyed and the tracks were
torn up for several rods. Ore was scat
tered over the tracks and in the fields for
a distance of more than 500 yards. The
dynamite had been placed in a switch
frog and the explosion caught the engine
Immediately in front of the cab, which
was shattered as though it had been an
eggshell. The fireman and engineer were
hurled high in the air, aIighting in the
ditch. Other members of the crew were
lifted into the air and fell at the side
of the tracks, cut and bruised by ore and
splinters. Search for the perpetrators of
the outrage, which has Infatuated the Ieo-
pie in the neighborhood. has begun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11

Jewelry valued at $4,000 was stolen
from a case belonging to some Viennese
merchants at the Earl's Court exhibition
at London.
Argentina is stirred over the announce
ment that Brazil will reduce tariff on
American -four. A reduction of 20 per
cent tariff on Brazilian products IS pro-
posed.
The Navy Department has been inform
ed by cable that the floating dry dock
Dewey was utilized at Olongapo, Manila
Bay. for the first time when the army
transport Meade was docked there the
other day.
The crop report of the ministry Of az
riculture estimates that this years Hun
garian harvest viii exceed those Of the
last twenty-five. years.
The freight blockade in Oakland, Cal,
Is at an end and wholesalers are shipping
freely into the interior, 300 cars leaving
san Francisco daily.
Ferdinand Saar, the author and mem
Der Of the upper house OF the Austrian
Reichsrath, shot himself at his residence
in Dobling, a suburb of Vienna.
Forest fires are raging in the Canadian
provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec.
st. Charles de Captain and another small
village in Quebec have been destroyed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
All Around the Globe.

Slocas City. B. c.. has been seized by
the sheriff in its entirety.
The Iron Trades Council of San Fran
cisco has decided 10 take stand for an
eightshour day.
The Bank of Mentor. MINI, was rob
bed. The robbers blew open the safe with
nitroglycerin, secured $1,000 in cash and
escaped.
sam Q. Sewer. sheriff of Ouachita
county. Arkansas. and president of the
Arkansas State Sunday School Associa-
ton. attempted suicide at his home in
Camden by taking morphine.
Crazed by the heat. James Lupo, a New
York tailor. shot and killed his wife and
then sent a bullet through his own brain,
inficting a probably mortal wound.
Mrs. Gus Harndt and two daughters,
Ella and Ida, aged Z and years, were
run down on trestle by a Rock Island
train near White, y. D.. and killed.
Twenty-Five hundred girls employed in
a Philadelphia shirtwaist factory have
struck because Of the presence of num-
Der OF employees distasteful to them
Peter Wylie, Scotch immigrant, shot
and killed the 13year-old daughter Of J..
Swackhanner. his employer. at Guelph.
Ont. His attentions caused the trouble.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
HIPPLE,s THEFTs AMAZE.
Eeavy SteaIings by PhiIadeIphia's
Sainf-Lfke Ffnancfer

The statement of Receiver Earle of the
Real Estate Trust Company that Frank
X Nipple. the late president of the con-
Germ, had stolen securities valued at &c.,,
600 and that the lending of S5,0O0000
to Adolph Segal on insufficient security
amounted to theft, created a sensation
throughout Philadelphia.
The revelation was blow TO Nipples
many intimate friends, most of whom are
prominent in the Presbyterian church,
either as clergymen or laymen So high
was their esteem for the man who abb
horred tobacco and liquor and refrained
from reading Sunday newspapers, that not
only the various organizations in the
Presbyterian church made the trust COM
pany their depository, but hundreds of
members of that denomination placed
their money in his company
The number of pastors who used the
bank for their savings was exceptionally
large. Most of them refused to entertain
the theory that Nipple ended his life and
1T was difficult to make them believe that
his secret operations were as irregular as
they are alleged to be. In addition to his
church work Mr.. Nipple took an active
interest in reform politics and is said to
have been a heavy contributor to the re-
formers campaign funds in last years
notable contest in the city.
Criticism of the failure of the directors
Of the company to discover Nipples trans
actions has increased, and many of the
larger creditors are angry at what they
term the negligence of these men. 1t is
alleged that several of the directors had
knowledge that some of Eipple's trans
actions were unsafe, but that they had
such confidence in his integrity that they
did not suspect the true state of affairs
or entertain the belief that his opera
tions were irregular.
Adolph Segal, whose borrowing from
the trust company was the principal cause
of the failure, and who had spoken freely
Of his transactions with Nipple. has
adopted a policy of silence. He refuses
to discuss any phase or development of
the affair and directs all inquirers to his
attorneys.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
BIG RAILROAD OUTLAWS.
Three Lines Are Spending 100000
900 I'm New York.

900 I'm New York.
More than S120, 100000 is being expend-
ed in the borough of Manhattan for the
New York Central, the New York, New
Haven and Hartford, and the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company. 1t is estimated
that the final station plans of the Penn
sylvania will require an outlay of $780,
100000 Up TO date the plans of the
New York Central for terminal for it
self and the New Haven road will cost
S50.0O0,000, and along with the New
York CentraPs 'electri6catiOn' of its
rails, S7O,OO0,000.
-Four hundred buildings had to be de-
molished for the Pennsylvania site. For
the station and yards of the New York
Central six additional blocks will be TAX
en- between AID and 18th streets.
Contrary to the general impression, that
which the New York Central is carrying
on. so far as the excavating is concerned,
is OF greater difficulty and dimensions
that what the Pennsylvania is doing near
Herald sauare. There is to be double
deck system Of tracks-ole below for the
suburban and one above for the through
express service. In the deepest part this
plan has required the excavation Of rock
10 a depth of 20 feet. Before the whole
excavation is done 100000 cubic yards
OF rock and earth will have 10 be re-
moved.
This is the fourth time in 40 years
that the Grand Central station has had
to be enlarged and reconstructed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
WELCOME TO BRYAN.
DEMOCRATIC LEADER RECEIVED
THUSIASTIcAl

New York correspondence

New York correspondence
William j. Bryan is home again.
Bronzed by travel by land and sea,
cheerful, and apparently physically fit
for a campaign two years long, he lit
orally fell into the arms of huzzahing
hundreds of his fellow countrymen
when the steamship Princess Irene en-
tered the harbor of New York Wednes-
day afternoon. A band on one of the
welcoming tugs played Hands Across
the Sea-" whistles and sirens screeched
and humans shouted. All this was pre-
paratory to the big demonstration to
take place at Madison Square Garden
Thursday night. when thousands of
Democrats from all over the country
gathered to pay their homage to the
great commoner.
Clashes between rival welcoming
committees. composed respectively of
the New York plan and scope" organ
ization and the Nebraska "home folks"
each of which was determined to take
possession of the returning leader,
Ncle happily dNeILcu ny lHc dCitpn VI
Mr.. Bryan himself when the Princess
Irene reached quarantine. Instead of
choosing between the yacht of his
friend, Mr., GOltra of st. Louis, with
the local committee on board, and the
government ting bearing the people of
his own State, Mr.. Bryan elected to
spend the night on land.
The scene down the bay as the Prin-
zess Irene came to anchor in quaran-
tine established precedent as cele-
bration of the home coming of a plain
American citizen The news that the
steamer bearing Mr.. Bryan had been
sighted off Fire Island just before
noon. and that she would be at anchor
for the formal medical inspection by
3 o'clock. was the signal for wild
rush of specially chartered boats and
pleasure craft down the harbor The
lowering skies and frequent rain
squalls served to keep many away. but
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
@ IlA[21EI1{gRS
o@1E2 -SeG2G~

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
S4.00 to $685. hogs, prime heavy, $500
70 $3.50 sheep, fair to choice, $500
$3.50; wheat, No. =, 67c to roc; corn.
No. 9, Ale to 4Sc; oats, standard, 2Sc to
30c; rye No. =, 55c to 57c; hay. timo-
Thy, $1,000 to $3.50 prairie, $500 to
1890; butter, choice creamery, lSc to
23c; eggs, fresh, i6c to 21c potatoes,
SOC to 57c.
Indianapolis-C Cattle, shipping, $500
% $6.25; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
S640; sheep common TO prime, $3.50 to
$3.50: wheat, No. ., 69c to tic; corn,
No. white, Sic to 52c; oats, No.
white, 30c to &c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $6.45 sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. ., zoe to re corn,
No. ., Acc to 47c; oats, No. ,, 20c to
Gle; rye, No. 2, 63c to 64c.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to 1928;
hogs. $500 to $3.50 sheep $500 to
s4.T5; wheat, No. 3 roc to 72c; corn.
No. . mixed. 49c to soc; oats, No. >
mixed, SOC to Gle; rye, No. 2, 59c TO
61c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
300 to $3.50: sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat. No. 2. re to 74c corn, No. 3
yellow. SIC to 53c; oats, No. 8 white
Bic TO 32c; rye, No. 2, SIC to 59c.
Milwaukee Wheat. No. . northern
73c to TIC; corn, No. 3, 4Sc to soc
oats. standard, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 1,
57c TO 59c; barley, standard 53c TO 54c;
nOrk. mess, $16.9J.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping stssrs
800 to 1928; hogs, fair to choice $4.0C
10 S6.7j; sheep, common to good mixed
400 to $3.50; lambs fair to choice.
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to So 10:
hogs. $500 to $6.75: sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. red, 76c TO 77c
corn. No. 2. j6c to SIC; oats. natural
white. 36c TO Bic; butter, creamery, 1Sc
to DC: eggs, western, lie to 2fc.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, Tic &c
zoe; corn. No. mixed, 52c to SAC
oats, No. mixed, Bic to 33c; rye. No.
.. SIC to SIC; clover seed prime. $7.15.
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Notes of Current Events.

San Francisco will build a temporary
city hall, two stories high and costing
$4,000.
Private Harold Bing of Minnesota.
member Of Troop II, Fifteenth United
States cavalry, was struck by a passenger
train and probably fatally injured at
Rutherford, Pa.
Vice Chancellor Pitney appointed j X.
Iouckel and Robert 4. MessIer receivers
Of the Reeves Engine Company Of Tren.
ton. y. ]. The liabilities are S3l1.oOc
and the assets $25S,000.
Ouartermaster Sergeant Dodds OF Com
pany F. Twenty infantry. located
at San Francisco. committed suicide By
drowning.
Angeles has secured a concession from tho
Mexican government for the construction
Of a railroad 800 miles long in Sonora
Jim Jackson, Philip House and joe
Murray, negrses, have been arrested IN
Tulsa. J. T.. for the murder Of Ilarry
Priester, 3 years old. in West Tulsa n
month ago. The crime was most brutal.
Prfester's body being horribly mutilsted
and thrown into car Of wheat for con
cealnent
Annie Dressback. aged 10, shot Newt
Mulliken at Onadarko, Okla, by accident
aIly discharging a revolver and then. be-
lieying she had killed him, shot herself.
At Kansas City and Independence, No,
400 linemen and construction men Of me
Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company
went on strike for increased wages. At
sedalia forty men went out.
Prof. Howard a. Kelly Of Johns Hop
kins university, Baltimore, has written
book entitled walter Reed and Yellow
Fever and its sale is expected TO in
crease the Walter Reed memorial fund
from $1,000 to $4,000. Major Reed
sacrificed his life in valued inyestiga-
ton of the fever plague.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11

those who were not deferred by the
adverse weather conditions gave an
enthusiastic spirit to the reception.
The "home folks" were the most en-
thusiastc of all. On two big tugboats
which journeyed down the bay side by
side they went to welcome their dis
tinguished neighbor.
There was a broad smile on Mr..
Bryan's face as he spied the foremost
of the Nebraska tugs, and broader
one when he saw his old friend, Mayor
Jim" Dahlman Of Omaha, standing on
the "niggerhead" of the tug, rope in
hand, ready to hurl it about the head
of Mr. Bryan if he refused to come
peacefully aboard the craft.
Mayor Dahlman, who was for years
sheriff in Dawes County, Nebraska,
when sheriffs wore two revolvers and
carried cutlass and a billy" but
who had himself elected mayor of
Omaha on an "open town" platform,
headed the delegation, but with him
were many prominent men in Nebraska
business and professional circles and
others known throughout the State for
their oratory and political records.
On spying Mayor Dahlman Mr..
Bryan laughed heartily, shook his head
at the coil of rope which the cowboy
mayor held in his hand, and said: II
guess you're going to get me, jim"
You're right we are, Will We've
come a long way and we won't leave
without you"
you won't have to-" replied Mr.
Bryan.
With tumultuous cheers the Ne
braskans pulled UP alongside the after
gangway of the big steamer and called
their greetings to Mr.. Bryan, who
stood on the deck just above them and
smiled and waved his hat Big boxes
of flowers were tossed on board for
Mrs Bryan. Then the Nebraska State
flag was flung to the breeze and the
cheering was renewed
Usually Indifferent 10 all situations,
Mr.. Bryan displayed much emotion
when the two tugs, bearing friends
and nelghDorS VINO had travelled more
than 1900 miles TO greet him. ranged
alongside the Princess Irene, with flags
flying. whistles footing and crowds
singing old-home melodies, and he spent
half hour among them, shaking hands
and asking in an earnest manner about
their wives and children. about "the
folks across the street. and the po-
litical situations in the various sections
of the state. Mr.. Bryan talked to his
friends freely about his trip, which, he
said, had been one continuous round of
enjoyment and instruction Songs
were sung and the cheering was
taken up, time and again. while Mr..
Bryan was going through the neces-
sary formalities Of the customs inspec-
ton laws.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
PERIL IN ALASKAN RAIL WAR.
Contractor Plants Dynamite Mines
Route to Block Rivals.

Contractor Plants Dynamite Mines
on Route to Block Rivals.
Bloodshed is expected to result from the
railroad construction war now in pro-
gress along the route from southeastern
Alaska into the Copper river valley and
the Tanana district. Recent arrivals
from Valdez and Katalla confirmed the
reports that Contractor Michael j. Heney,
who is building the White Pass Railroad
from Orca, on Comptroller Bay, down the
east bank of the Copper river and thence
to the Yukon, has mined the east bank
of the stream with dynamite and any at
tempt on the part of his rivals to seize
this stretch of land will result in whole
sale tragedy. Heney, who is backed by
the Close Brothers of London, has ar
,rayed against him the Copper River and
Northwestern Company, headed by John
Rosene and REINFORCED by Chicago CAPT
tai, and the Valdez and Yukon railroad,
of which Col. w. A. Swinitz is the mas
ter mind, having German moneyed men
behind him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
ARMY CHANGES COMING.
President Roosevelt VIII Take Up
Promotions of Officers.

IFOmOtIOnS OF OmcerS.
As soon as the naval maneuvers are
over at Oyster Bay it is expected that
President Roosevelt will take up the mat
ter of filling important vacancies that are
to occur in the army. Lieut.. Gen. Corbin
will retire Sept. 16, and it is known that
be is to be succeeded by Major Gen. Mac
Arthur, now commanding the Pacific d.
vision. The vacancy in the list of major
generals will be filled by the promotion of
Brig. Gen. jesse NJ. Lee. There has been
warm contest over the succession TO the
brigadier generals vacancy. Capt. John
j. Pershing, military attache at the en-
bassy in Japan, is among those mentioned
in this connection. Paymaster General
Dodge will retire Sept. IL. Col. Towar,
who is senior colonel of the pay corps,
will waive his rights in favor OF Col.
Sniffin for the paymaster generalship II
assured that it will not prejudice his
chances when Col. Sniffin reaches the re-
firing stage. Col Sniffin was private sec
rotary n President Grant, who appointed
him major in the pay corps. Other Off
GERS have friends who have urged their
selection
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-11
Philippine Plot Is Halted.

A conspiracy has been suppressed IA
the province of Ilices, Norte, on the ISL
and of Luzon. BY the prompt action of
Gov. Florey in arresting $50 Filipinos
said to be implicated documents were
captured which show that the Burdo
brothers were the principal conspirators
and Matched the plot while serving a SEN
tence in Jail, where they secured the sym
patty and support of fellow prisoners and
commenced a revolutionary Organizat:;-s;.