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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
MAeNATE KILLED IN WRECK.
Samuel Spencer, Head of Souther7
Railway, Dead in Virginia Crash.

Samuel Spencer, Head of Southern
Railway, Dead i'm Virginia Crash.
Samuel Spencer, President of the
ESouthern Railroad Company, was killed
and his body cremated in his private
car in wreck on his own road ten
miles south of Lynchburg, Va. With
President Spencer were killed six other
persons, three of them men of social
and financial prominence, his guests on
hunting trip.
Death came to Mr.. Spencer and his
guests as they slept in his private ear.
Oh all those ii the car only Il. A. Mer
rill, President Spencer's private secre-
tary, and one porter survived. Eleven
persons were injured in the wreck.
Among the dead were: Charles ID.
Fisher. Baltimore, Nd, member of the
grain exporting firm of Gill & Fisher :;
a guest of President Spencer; Francis
L. Redwood, Baltimore Md, member of
the brokerage firm of Lownes & Red
wood, guest of President Spencer;
Gen. Philip Schuyler, New York, di-
rector of the Southern railway and
trustee of New York Life Insurance
Company, a guest of President Spen-
GER; Samuel Spencer. New York, Presi-
dent of the Southern Railway Com
pany.
The wreck is unique in the history of
American railroading. being the first
in which the president of railroad
met his death on his own road. The
prominence of the three guests of Mr..
Spencer who died with him, and the
circumstances under which they We're
killed makes it the most costly and
tragic of all recent railroad accidents.
Gen. Philip Schuyler was one of New
York's best known private citizens.
Both Mr. Fisher and Mr.. Redwood Oc-
cupied equally high positions in the
roll of Baltimore citizenship.
All four men were close friends. They
were ON their way to Mr.. Spencer's
shooting lodge, Friendship, just over
the North Carolina line Thither each
year Mr.. Spencer, whose life was
wrapped up in the development and
progress of the South, took party of
congenial friends for Thanksgiving
turkey hunt.
The tragedy was the outcome of
rear end collision between train No.
SO, the Jacksonville express, and No.
81, the Washington and Southwestern
vestibule limited, both southbound. The
former train had stopped at the top
of heavy grade to repair a slight
breakdown and the other train dashed
into it before fiagman could get back
to give the warning signal.
The heavy engine of the train plowed
into Mr.. Spencer's car, which immedi-
ately caught fire. The wreckage was
piled around the engine and every por-
ton of the woodwork on the engine
was burned and the engine torn and
twisted into useless mass of debris.
President Spencer and his entire par
tv. as far as is known, were sleeping
when the collision occurred, and the
probabilities are that all of them ex-
cepting Dispatcher Davis were killed
instantly. 1t is certain that life was
extinct before the flames touched them.
President Spencer's body was burned
almost beyond recognition, as was that
of Mr.. Fisher. President Spencer's car
was attached to the rear of the Jack
sonville train, which was standing still
when struck.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
CUBAN coNGREssMEN OUT.
Election VIII BE Held to Replace
Those Chosen In 1905.

Election VIII BE Held to Replace
Those Chosen In 1905.
by a decree to be issued soon under
specific authority of the President of the
United States the seats of all members
of the second series of the Cuban Con-
gress elected IN 1905 viii be declared
vacant. This was the announcement
made by Gov. Magoon in Havana to
twenty-five Senators and members of the
House of Representatives whom he had
invited to attend a conference in the pal
ace. Gov. Magoon communicated to the
members the final determination of Pres.
ident Roosevelt that the seats of Ell Sen
ators and Representatives electe' in 1908
shall be considered vacant from Oct. II,
1906, the vacancies thereby created being
filled by an election under the provisional
government in accordance with the proc
lamation of Secretary Taft Sept. %.
After the conference former Minister of
the Treasury Fonts Sterling, Senator
Dolz and other moderates expressed strong
dissatisfaction with the terms of the de-
cree, which they declared was unfair,
but they said they recognized the futility
of any protest
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Shnrf Nrma Nntea.

A fast train on the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie IA ,lroad was wrecked by colliding
with a wagon loaded with logs near
Edenbury. Ohio. Fireman z. j. Kearns
was kilkd.
Fire which originated in the Packham
cottage at Cape May Point, n. j., de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property. The
bames spread quickly from the Packham
cottage TO the Cape house and thence to
a number of cottages and thence to the
public school building, which, however,
was only slightly damaged.
The Rev Henry NJ. Warner, at services
held in the Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York, appealed to would-be suicides to
consult him while thinking Of taking
their lives.
Army officers who have investigated
restitution among the Copper river In
dams in Alaska are Of the opinion that
government assistance win injure rather
than benefit the Indians.
Lewis Emery, Jr., recent candidate for
Governor in Pennsylvania on the fusion
ticket and who WIS sued by State Sen
ator McNichol for charging him with
bribery, retracted his statement and the
suit was withdrawn.
In compiling a roster Of the Confed-
crate army the War Department up to
date has used 3.360.441 index cards. In
complete records make the work difficult.
AT Kittrells, johnson county, Ca,
Kerschef Tarbutton, the largest planter
in the county, was probably fatally
wounded By a man named Tyre, a promi-
neut lumberman. Tyre was killed By
Tarbuttou.
At Stone Branch, ". Va. G. W.
Wright and Andrew ChiIders. nine
bosses. attacked John Kelley, another
boss. with clubs. beating him into insen-
sibnity. Kelley died thirty minutes later.
Wright and Chslders secured mules and
escaped, but we're later captured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
D.mn winds Aid CONSUMPTION

In the current number of the British
Medical Journal. Drs. Gordon and Har-
per present statistics of consumption in
North Devonshire for forty-four years.
From these it appears that the important
consideration in the relative distribution
of the disease is the presence or absence
of strong, persistent, rain-laden winds.
The deaths from phthisis in the, districts
where the damp winds blew most fire.
ouently were 999 per 1000, as against
/ 20 elsewhere.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Per cent,

Corn bushels 2ss osSoOo 2 1929 Ses54o 1 sn or g.
bushels 7s9ss3OOO 6s29794s9
Barley DD bushels i9aSssoOo 1s665ioso Incre 81
S se W UhsatS buh. 19essooo 15sSos5 pecrea 81
Total six leading 4672547ooO 45sS9ll2 $50 Increase 81
Sugar louisiana
Sugar porto Rco) 100000 4712oOoo 197
Sugar Sugar ' bees (6n P1apos sta increase
pounds 100000 e616oooo
Sugar 10000 2ssoooo ,s SO
Crnberies barrels Increase
Cotton bales - 125oG0oo 113459Ss Increase 1o2
pounds 6
IRON 0 ore shipments pas aiej tons sooSco 100000 Increase S.
Pig production 25000000 230O0000 Increase Sc
cca anthracite shipments (en - -
months) 456SC414 5OJ935O4 Decrease 81
50 cities ven uO s4ooes4sss saso51ele2 Increase So
795346 $11567S 231 Increase 1872
Railway earnings $126297075 1875
Exports of merchandise (en 800 -oo.-, -.
Imports o merchandise (en
foreign trade iio monhs S65516 s66i79i
Business failures, number (en 80
Business failures liabilities oen
Money in circulation Nov - 8s27S6 $2e8l8l57S
Money in circulation $336S $3169 Increase 62
Explanatory barley
the
combined record yield of
sized apple
and next record cotton the features indicated The yield
of tobacco WILL however be light Larger yields of most crops indicate
the than
industry that nearly all lines of ndeavOr show larger
show of &c last
Building
Anthracite coal shipments however conspc
uousex a d.
all values as indicated by Bradstrees approximate index number is per
and SO cent above the low water mark
July 1885,
Foreign domestic reached
pdented
and in total foreign trade 1o5 ahead of
cearngs show nearly similar
1873 cent respectively Business failures 6S
in circulation the largest recorded
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
NERVE SAVES LIVES OF MANY.
Switchman Turns Runaway Engine,
Avoiding Train, but -Four Die.

Avoiding Train, but Four Die.
A runaway engine in the Canadian
Northern yards in Winnipeg, Man., kill
ed four persons, seriously injured three
others and but for a rare exhibition of
presence of mind would have caused the
death of many passengers on Great
Northern train which was standing at the
station ready to start for St. Paul. A
switchman saw the wild locomotive dash
ing toward the filed cars at a speed of
forty miles an hour He quickly turned
a switch, saving the passenger train, but
sending the engine crashing into sheds
containing a dead" train, where dozen
or more men were working. William
Neil and three unidentified foreigners
were killed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
TRAIN ROBBERS LOOT $4,000

Big Amount Said to Have Been OBJ
tanned by Bandits in Texas.
1t is learned that the train robbers
who probably fatally wounded the ex-
press messenger on a Cotton Belt train
near Eylan Siding, Texas, secured $110,-
600 from the messengers safe. The Pa
cific Express officials refuse any infor-
nation, claiming it is impossible at pres
ent to state the amount taken. A glance
at the messengers book, however, would
tcll the amount stated above. About
$4,000, it is learned, was from the local
treasury department of the Cotton Belt
IA Tyler, and consigned to General Treas
urer S. G.. Johnson at st. Louis.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11

Bishop Walker of the Protestant Epis-
copal diocese OF western New York has
formally deposed the Rev. AlgernOn S.
Crapsey. rector of st. Andrews Church,
Rochester, n. Y, from the ministry of
the Episcopal Church. The ceremony
took place in st. Johns Episcopal
Church, and was witnessed by Rev.
Cameron ]. Davis, Rev. G. w. S. Ayres
and the Rev. Thomas b. Berry, as wit
neSseS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Thieves secure 10000.

Officers have been unable to obtain
a trace of the robbers who raided the ex-
press car on a Cotton Belt train near
Redwater, Texas, the other night and
who threw the messenger, w. A. Girls
settle, out of the car door. They secured
more than $4,000 from the safe. Girls
settles skull is fractured and no hope for
his recovery is entertained.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
HAD 800, 900; FEARED POVERTY.
why Ex-JudGe Webber of Minnesota
Took His Life by Hanging.

why Ex-Judge Weber of Minnesota
Took His Life by Hanging.
Ex-Judge Il. +. Webber, twenty-four
years on the bench of that district, com
mitted suicide yesterday by hanging in
New Ulm, MINI. Fear of the poor
house, although his wealth was estimated
at 100000, drove the jurist to take his
life. Large medical bills for the treat
ment of his wife, who has been para
lytic for years. led the former judge TO
believe that his accumulations of years
of arduous work on the bench and at the
bar would be dissipated shortly. Mr..
Weber was to have been the guest of
honor at a banquet rendered him by the
Brown County Bar Association, in honor
of his long service on the woolsack, from
which he resigned only a few weeks ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Otto Young Is Dead.

Otto Young, one of Chicago's greatest
merchants, died at his Lake Geneva home
after an illness thai kept him confined
TO his bed for six weeks Several hours
before his death he realized that the end
was near and called the members of his
family to his bedside, one at a time, to
bid them good-by. He left an estate
variously estimated at from $12,OO0,OO0
to S2O.OOO.O00.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
MORE pEsERTIoNs FROM ARMY.
over Seven of Each 100 Quit With
ont Asking for the Privilege.

Over Seven of Each 100 Quit WITH
out Asking for the Privilege.
Desertion is on the increase in the
United States army. The annual report
of the military secretary shows in the
year ended June 80 there were 6,20S de-
sertions, or IA for every 100 soldiers
i'll the army. In 1905 the rate of deser-
ton was only 81. From 1898 to 1904
the average of desertion was only 40 per
cent. The rate of desertion in 1906 was
highest in the field artillery, % per cent.
The cavalry was next, with rs per cent.
White soldiers showed desertion average
of 81 per cent, while the negro soldiers
showed an average of only % per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
WILL SELL 500, 900 ACRES.
oklahoma Indian Lands TO Be DIS
posed OF to Highest Bidder.

posed OF to Highest Bidder.
In Lawton, Okla, the government
land Office has begun receiving bids for
100000 acres OF land in the Kiowa, Co
manche and Apache Indian reservations
in Oklahoma, carrying out an act of
Congress opening the land to settlement
The land is spoken of as the big pas
ture." Most of it is good for farming
purposes. Under the law no bids of
less than So an acre will be considered
and each bidder may put in as many pro-
rosals as he desires. The maximum
amount of land to be sold to any one bid
der, however, will be limited to a single
quarter section. 1t is believed that there
will be 10000 bidders.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
D.vtop BuiIdinr Falls.

The three-story building facing Market
street, within a dozen feet of the City
Hall, collapsed in Dayton, Ohio, and FIVE
men, one of vnom was crushed to death,
were caught in the debris. The upper
floors were used by Sam Wagner for res
taurant purposes and the lower floors
were undergoing changes, when the sup
nGrtS gave WaY.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Prison Term for Mining Fraud.

Charles Whitney Norton pleaded guilty
in Toledo to the charge of using the
United States mails to promote a scheme
10 defraud and was sentenced to the
Ohio penitentiary for eighteen months
and to pay a fine of 500. Norton had
operated in various parts of the country,
his speciality being mining stocks, and
was known under the name of Wells.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11

Vincent Spinner and wife and two chill
dren of Eastern Wells county, n D., lost
their way while driving home from a
neighbours and Mr.. Spinner and one child
were frozen to death. Mrs. Spinner is
in a precarious condition as a result of
exposure to the cold. The family were
cut twenty-four hours before they were
found by neighbors.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Three Companfes Indicted.

The Union Pacific railroad, Union Pa
cifc Coal Company. Oregon Short Line
and officials of the latter two companies
are accused of fraud and subornation of
perjury in connection with alleged land
thefts in indictments voted by the federal
grand jury in Salt Lake City.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Rules Against "prug Trust,

In Indianapolis Federal Judge A. b.
Anderson overruled all the demurrers in
the suit against the National Association
of Retail Druggists and others under the
antitrust law. and the defendants were
ordered to answer on the first Monday
in February.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
.ssaiIing women,s Finery.

Taking bis cue from Cleveland MOI
fett's campaign against wOmen's dnery.
Felix Heinenlann, q Berlin publisher, has
proposed an international crusade. By lit
erature. through the organization OF a
learne. The league would circulate
pamphlets. containing photographs OF
women in various countries wearing
priceless gowns, and articles. telling Of
their careers and habits. MoHett's sag-
sestion IS TO impose n tax on lnery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Coal Famine Is Dire.

The Mayor cf Cimarron, Kan. and res
idents of North Yakima. Wash. made
desperate by the Goa, Tamine. have con-
fscated COIL from trains. The interstate
commerce conmiss On has decided to
hasten its inquiry into the car shortage,
which is held responsible. and viii begin
with an investigation in the Northwest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Grave Threats for Hartman.

Brooke Mackall, 60 years old, a we'll
Known retired real estate man, was ar
rested at his home in Washington because
OF threats he is alleged to have made
against President E. II. Hartman and
ether officials cf the Union Pacific He
was examined by police surgeons, adjudg-
ed insane and committed to the govern
ment asylum.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
GIRL SWALLOWS POISON.
Shamed by Charge of Unfairness In
School Examinations.

Shamed by an accusation that she had
cheated in her school examinations,
Hazel Scott, 13 years of age, attempted
suicide in Minneapolis by taking strych-
nine. Physicians worked over the child
all day, but fear they cannot save her
life. The child is the daughter of j. b.
Scott. She was sent home from the
Robinsdale public school. When she left
school she told girl friend of her inten-
ton to kill herself rather than face her
parents. Going to a drug store, she pur-
chased five grains of strychnine. Arriv-
ing home, the girl hurried to her room.
Swallowing the poison, she lay down on
the bed to die. There her parents later
found her writing in agony, but con-
scionS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Candle Starts Fatal Blast.

A spark from a candle carried by a
laborer dropped into a can of giant pow
Ger and caused an explosion among a
gang of work men in the Pennsylvania rail
road tunnel under the East River, New
York Three men were killed outright
and a fourth is dying. OF twelve others
less seriously hurt two required hospital
fl eatment
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11

A car on the Dayton and Nenia line.
filed with suburbanites and people from
Nenia. was struck by a Cleveland. Gin
cinnati. Chicago and ST. Louis freight
engine which was backing out of the
Union station in Dayton. Ohio. about
midnight and eighteen passengers were
badly injured. None Of them will die.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
G.Soline Fumes KIN i'm Apto

Gustav Loeding. aged Is years, a pro-
moter of amusement enterprises. was
found dead in his automobile in a garage
ia the northern section OF Philadelphia
He had been asphyxiated by gasoline
fumes while leaning over the tank of the
machine making repairs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11

Frederick Soddy. one of the principal
English authorities on the subject of
radium. has made the important admis-
sion that radium may be considered, at
least for the present, as a compound, but
not as a chemical compound. Heretofore
it has been regarded as a chemical ele-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11

President Roosevelt, determined to re-
move what he regards as a faint upon
his administration. demands that the
S14S,0O0 contributed by the Big Three
life insurance companies in the 1904 cam
paign be repaid His request has been
refused by Chairman Cortelyou and
Treasurer Bliss of the Republican ma
tional committee.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
RobS Rich Diamond Impor+er

Detectives from police headquarters
are seeking for the thief who entered the
home of Lippman Tannebaum, wealthy
diamond importer in New York. several
days ago and stole jewelry worth Sl0,-
600. Gems and other valuables worth
$4,000 in the same room with the stolen
jewels were overlooked by the robber
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
cn1nreh Cnnchmnn Cremnteh.

Edward Mccoy. a negro coachman.
was cremate3 in a fire which destroyed
the stable of Charles Bruekman at Ava
lon. a suburb Of Pittsburg. Two driving
horses and a number of traps. valued at
$4,000. were burned. The cause of the
fire is not known.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Shnw's Annual Report.

Secretary Shaw, in urging currency re-
form in his annual report. favorS giving
the head of the treasury a Sl0o,O0000O
fund to be deposited or withdrawn as
needed. and power to contract national
bank circulation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Victory for Government.

The Marcus DAILY estate has offered to
settle the famous suit of the government
foI Illegal devastation of forests in Mon
tana by paying $150000. The victory of
the government opens the way for OBJ
tanning recompenSe for vast frauds per-
petrated in the West.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Annther In.ult d. uniform

Because. he says. he was refuSed the
privilege Of skating on the floor os the
Second Regiment Armory skating rink
n. Philadelphia K. &. Neese, raaster-at-
arms ON board the cruiser St Louis. has
complained to President Roosevelt. Neese
saws he was admitted 70 the building. but
was not allowed 70 skate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11

There, for the BEN
eft of the Chicago
Union hospital, the
statesman and lee
turer from South
Carolina delved into
the heart of the
race question. In
dramatic answers
to in terru p t
ing questions he
predicted war be-
tween the black and
white races within
ten years. Two dis
turbers, one a col
ored man and the
other a Russian
sympathizer, were
arrested and taken
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
pn.senger Trntn Mrcckea.

North-bound passenger train No. u
on the Rock Island was wrecked near
WaukomiS, eight miles south of Enid.
Okla. and ten passengers were injured.
several Of them seriously. but none fatal
Is. Spreading rails caused The accident.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Cnpturc safe ran of Gems.

IL has developed that the fashionable
boarding house OF Mrs. Frank Emmett.
.s7s2 St Charles avenue. New Orleans,
was entered by burglars snd a small iron
safe containing diamonds and Jewels
wcrth from $1,000 60 $4,000 carried of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
RUBBER COMPANIES COMBINE.
New Canadian Consolidated Concern
Has Capital of $5,OOO,OOO.

The Canadian Consolidated Rubber
Company is the result of the merger of
the Canadian Rubber Company, the Gran
by Rubber Company and the Maple Leaf
Rubber Company of Port Dalhousie, Ont.
The capital of the new company is So
100000. with S2.60O,000 6 per cent forty
year bonds. S. II. G. Miner is president,
G. n. Stephens vice president, and d.
Lorne McGibbon second vice president
and managing director.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Family nas pi,orce Mania.

Georse Tinm Of Omaha. who vas al
vorced in Nav. has married his brothers
wife. who MAS digorcea il june. Georges
sister was married the same day This
makes fve marriages aud tive divorces in
the T.m;s family in 1--WE years
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
BROTHERS HEIR TO $4,000, 900.
Fortune Made in Australian Gold
Mines Left to Americans.

Thomas Mccarthy, a clerk in a New
castle, Pa, hotel, and ais brother, Mi
chael Mccarthy of Wampum, suburb,
have received word that an uncle, limo
thy Mccarthy, has died in Australia,
leaving them the sole heirs to fortune of
$3,000,000. The brothers said their I'M
Gle went to Australia twenty years ago
and had made his fortune in gold mines.
They are making preparations to go to
Australia and claim the money.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Drawn in sight Of Hom.

Six Indians of the Cape Creeker re-
serve were drowned in McGegor har-
Dor. Ontario. almost within sight of their
homes. They were returning from the
lumber works near Sydney Bay when
their boa, was capSized by Il sQuall.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Tobacco Factories Rurnea.

A mob of 500 masked men seized the
police station, telephone office and water
works at Princeton, KY. and then burned
two large toba cco factories. Gov. Beck
ham may order out the militia to protect
other factories