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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
All over the State.

Joseph Wanek of Lone Rock shot him
self and is now in a critical condition.
Jealousy is given as the cause.
Secretary of State Houser appealed to
the State railway rate commission to re-
duce the rates ON live stock to conform
with those in Illinois.
4 Northwestern freight train was
wrecked at McNaughton. A woodsman,
Aisle Bonneville, aged 50, was killed, and
traffic was delayed for several hours.
The body of Police Sergeant William
Bennink, who disappeared several months
ago while on a vacation, was found in
the river near the Sheboygan life saving
station. The body is supposed to have
been brought to the surface by a steamer.
The old Nolan homestead in Manito-
voc has been sold to raise money for the
liquidation of its owners debts. The
property brought $1,000 w c. Schroeder
being the purchaser. Mortgages for ST.
500 and 81 600 were released on the prop
erty.
The coming season will be a busy one
for bayfield,. The K. ID. Pike Lumber
Company viii start their mill on April
26. cutting for the Wachsmuth Lumber
Company, with whom the Pike Company
has a contract to cut 25,000.O00 feet this
season. The mill will run day and night,
employing about 200 men.
Tie contract for heating the Webster
Manual Training school and the Omro
high school was let to the f. w. Duker-
Schein Company of Oshkosh and the
plumbing to f. Patterson of Appleton.
After being out less than an hour
iury in Ashland returned a verdict in
Circuit Court finding Cassie Brooks gull
ty of the attempted murder of his wife
Mrs. Brooks testified that it was an acct
dent.
Walter A. Driver has been appointed
superintendent of the Racine Water
Works Company TO succeed II. H. Laing.
who died ait Milwaukee. Mr.. Driver has
been head bookkeeper Of the company for
number Of wears.
Commentators worked in Racine and
passed counterfeit SO bin on Chris
Nicholson and tried three other places.
Much counterfeit coin IS in circulation.
Harvey S. Fem. a woodsman, missing
since Jan. 3. 1906, was found near Mel
den. The body was badly decomposed.
but was identified by a brother, Karl
Fem.
Vera Nolan, daughter of t. s. Nolan,
oae of the best known lawyers in south
ern Wisconsin, probably viii lose both
ewes as the result of an explosion of
chemicals in the GAINESVILLE high school
laboratory. Her instructor. John Arbuth-
not, was injured. but not so seriously
The girl is ii years old.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
EARTHQUAKE OPENS VOLCANO.
Mount CapuIin in New Mexico be-
comes Active After Two shocks.

Mount CapuIin in New Mexico Re-
comes Active After Two Shocks.
Two distinct earthquake shocks were
felt at Folsom, n NJ, about o'clock
Friday morning. The shocks cracked the
side of Mount Capulin, a supposed ex-
tinct volcano, which is now emitting
smoke and heat from crevasses in its
side. People are fleeing in every direc-
ton. The smoke was first discovered
shortly after s o'clock, when the earth be-
gan to tremble, and then, with dull
rumble, shook the entire place. Pictures
were knocked from the walls and window
glass was shattered. So far as learned,
no one was injured. After the shock the
smoke began to pour from the volcanoes
summit and slopes. In some places the
crevasses are five feet wide. The heat is
so intense that snow, which had covered
the mountain to a depth of nearly five
feet, is almost entirely melted. Mount
Capulin is 10000 feet high and was ac-
tive half a century ago, when it destroyed
two towns and caused heavy loss of life.
The volcano is surrounded by numerous
prosperous towns, of which Folsom, with
population of $780, is the largest.
Among "thers are Troyburg, population
200; Emery Gap, 15G: Kiowa, 250 Apis,
100; Des Moines, 1885, Emerys, 100.
They are all mining camps, and machin-
cry and other equipment to the value of
millions are in danger, besides the resi-
dences and business houses.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
National Capital Notes.

The latest official cable report received
by the American National Red Cross from
Japan states that the number of people
who have to depend upon outside help is
over 100000.
The total immigration to the United
States from all countries during the
month of March, 1906, according to a
statement issued by the immigration bu-
reau, was 132,345 or an increas Sc of 20
per cent over March. 1904. The number
arriving in March, 1905, is given as 126,-
$50.
DIR. Scale Harris, professor Of medicDs
in the University Of Alabama, at Mo-
bile, talked with the President about the
ravages of consumption among the ne
groes of the South. He expressed the fear
that the negro race was likely to become
extinct in this country through the raw
ages Of the disease.
Commissioner General Sargent Of the
immigration service was heard by the
House committee on foreign affairs rela-
tive to proposed amendments to the Chi
nese exclusion act. lie urged better su-
perYision and greater care in the issuance
Of certificates To the privileged class He
also favored re-registration Of all China
men in this country.
Senators Dillingham; and Long as
subcommittee Of the committee on the
District of Columbia heard prominent
citizens in favor Of the application Of the
Washington Auditorium Co. for char
ter. The company purposes to use the
ircn work of the government building. at
the worlds fair at ST. Louis, and CON
struct an immense amphitheater in which
to hold inaugural ceremonies and similar
great gatherings of a national character.
President Roosevelt has decided to ap-
point Charles B. Aycock. former Gov
erncr Of North Carolina, and Van Leer
Polk Of Tennessee. Members of the desega-
ton from the pan-smerican conference
which is to meet IN July al Rio Janeiro.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
INNOCENT MEN FREED.
Alleged Train Robbers Released
After Serving Seven Years.

Alleged Train Robbers Released
After Serving seven Years.
The Minnesota pardon board has an
nounced the pardons of Line Thayer,
Charles f. Hoffman, Homer S. Minot and
James c. Hall, the four men who have
served seven years of twenty-year sem
tence for train robbery. The pardon was
given after evidence had been presented
to the board that the men are innocent of
the crime of which they were convicted.
Great Northern officials took the matter
up personally and secured the evidence
necessary to release the men. The gang
was convicted of having held up Great
Northern coast train at Carlyle, six miles
from Fergus Falls Nov. 10, 1898. Early
Oh the morning following the robbery they
were arrested in hotel at Moorhead-
They proved a good alibi, but the outfit
OF burglars tools which they had tended
TO convict them in the eyes of the jury.
Thayer was convicted on the first trial
and sentenced Dec. 3, 1898, TO twenty
years in the penitentiary. The other three
men were convicted on the second trial
and sentenced May 20, 1899, their terms
being made nineteen years and six months
each. The cases were appealed TO the
Supreme Court, which refused TO grant a
new trial. The matter was taken up
some time ago and evidence was obtained
showing that the real robbers were three
men who were afterward arrested at St.
joseph, Mo-, for holding up man on
the street. Enough evidence was found
to show that these men had confessed the
crime and that the Line Thayer quartet
was innocent. The men who committed
the train robbery will not be prosecuted
by the Great Northern. One of them is
in prison for another offense and the 9th
ers have served time for robbery since
the holdup. The train robbers got moth
ing from the express car at the time of
the holdup and their only booty was $50,
which they tnnk from the engineer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
CHICAGO.

1
Oll6duU. tions are mainly favorable
and have impaired further
strength in Industrial and mercantile
operations. More demand appeared Tor
heavy materials. and the consumption
of necessaries again is of exceptionally
high volume, the latter being especially
beneficial 10 Seasonable retail dealings.
While visiting buyers are smaller in
number, wholesale trade maintains
steady aggregate, and general merehan-
disc is forwarded in considerable quan-
titles, orders from the interior absc,G-
ing much clothing millinery. footwear,
food products and hardware Country
advices show a good start in the buying
of spring needs, but greater demand is
looked for when the rush of farm work
ceases.
Reports as to growing crops convey
much encouragement The Illinois con-
dition and acreage show Improvement
over same time last year, and prepare
tons portend recc .d-breaking corn
crop Mercantile collections have not
been affected by the SAN Francisco ca
lamity thus far, defaults are lower in
number and amount. aud the money
market is easier in tone
Furnace and steel mill production has
attained proportions rejecting de
mand exceeding all former experiences
and with this there is renewed heavy
buying of ore pig iron and structural
steel. prices being made somewhat firm
err. No diminution is seen in the active
demand for lumber ana building mate
rails, for both local and outside require
| ments. notwithstanding the high cost
of construction, evidence of confidence
in the business outlook is furnished by
the record of permits for mercantile
structures, these for the last nineteen
days being nearly double the value of
those for same period last year.
Raw material markets are conspicu-
ously strong, with hides costing more
and suitable factory woods scarce. Tan
ming progresses as speedily as the sup
| ply of skins permits, but the sustained
orders for leather indicate that the shoe
| and betting shops are increasing out
| puts. Metal consumers have much work
! for the future. orders being more plen-
| tifulin heavy hardware, plumbing, ma
| chinery and electric lines.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
| New York.

Devastation on the Pa
NPW IUlk lcIfic coast and widened
breach between anthracite
coal miners and operators were adverse
trade factors of grave local significance.
but tie nation as a whole is responsive
to the favorable influence of good
weather for spring business. agricul-
tons. A special canvass of the winter
wheat situation shows little injury and
large acreage, and structural work is
not checked by the higiI prices of build
ing material. Manufacturing plants are
fully occupied, except some dependent
upon hard coal. and the chief complaint
in most industries pertains TO the sup
ply of labor Immigration beyond all
precedent should relieve this difficulty,
if it can be properly distributed.
Railway earnings thus far available
for April exceed last years by "A Tpy
cent, while foreign commerce at this
port for the last week shows gains of
S1,963,5S1 in exports and $S66,155 in
imports, as compared with the figures
of 1905.
Better reports are received from lead
ing departments of the iron and steel
industry than at any previous time this
year.
Further advances in prices of hides
are noted, owing to a fair inquiry and
limited available supplies of desirable
hides Foreign dry hides are firm. but
without quotable alteration. Leather is
strong.
Failures this week numbered 100 in
the United States, against 200 last
year, and 1S in Canada, compared with
81 year ago-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
All Endowment Income Tainted.

n. o. Nelson, the wealthy st. Louis
manufactures, who has Instituted profit
sharing with employees and customers,
writing of Business Pure and Tainted"
in the Independent. says that our judg-
ment is blurred by the various current ex-
posures of rascality which purport to be
exceptional, and that we overlook the
patent fact that all endowment income
is drawn from the slavish labor of I'M
derpMd men and women, who are taxed
without their consent, or from the mo-
nopoly of land or franchises" Thos f.
Ryan, in a brief comment on Nelson's
article, frankly sidesteps the whole ques-
ton of social reform by saying that the
subject of eliminating competitive effort
70 acquire money is too large for him ;
nevertheless, even Mr.. Ryan thinks it
right that competition between men
should be brought between constantly
narrower and narrower rules of justice. -
He thinks this is the direction in which
humanity is tending.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
TEE IAs2ES[2[5TS
.s.sst:Sasslli j sgs4. XIX S&A- an.
I'D. @EA2CS


Chicago-Cattle, common 10 prime,
$500 to $6.15; hogs, prime heavy, 500
to S662 sheep, fair to choice. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, SSc to SIC; corn,
No. 2, 47c to 4Sc: oats. Standard, 30c TO
32c; rye. No. ,. &c to &c hay, timo-
thy, $3.50 to $500, prairie, $500 to
S1100; butter, choice creamery. lSc TO
zoe; eggs, fresh, 13c to 1Sc; potatoes,
soc to 62c.
Detroit-CattIe, S400 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep. $3.50 to $500;
wheat. No. 2, Soc to Sic; corn. No. 3
yellow, SOC to 52c; oats. No. 3 white,
34c to 36c; rye, No. ., 64c to Coo.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. northern,
7Sc to sic; corn, No. 3. Acc to 4Sc;
oats, standard, Gle to 33c; rye, No. 1,
63c to 6jc: barley, standard, SAC TO J6c;
pork, mess, $1,000.
Toledo-Wheat. No. 2 mixed, S3c to
S5c; corn, No. mixed. 44c TO 46c;
oats. No. . mixed, Bic TO 33e; rye, No.
2. CSC to Gle; clover seed, prime. 500.
Bufalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 70 $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, 800
TO $3.50: sheep common TO good mixed,
S4OD TO 3D.OO ldihDS, ldii ~ cHOltt1
$500 to S7.20.
New York-Cattle. $500 to S5.75;
hogs. $500 to $3.50; sheep. $500 to
$500: wheat, No. red, SSc to soc;
corn, No. 2. 52c % J4c; oats, natural
white, sc to Csc butter. creamery, zoe
to 21c; eggs, western, 1Jc to 19c.
dianapoIis-Cattle, shipping $500
to 1918; hogs, choice heavy. $500 to
$3.50: sheep. common to prime. $3.50 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, SSc to DOC; corn,
No. 2 white. 49c to soc; oats, No.
white, 33c 10 34c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $50 TO 5000;
hogs. 800 to $3.50; sheep, 800 TO
$3.50: wheat, No. 2, SIC to Soc; corn,
No. 2, 4Sc to soc; oats. No. ., 30c to.
&c: rye, Nc. .. 63c to &c.
Cincinneti-C Cattle, 800 TO S5.35;
hogs, S4m to $685.; sheep. $500 10
$3.50: wheat. No. ?, SOC TO 90c; corn,
No. mixed, J0c to 51c oats. No. 2
mixed, 34c TO 35c; rye, No. 2, sc 10
Csc
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Ohio soIons win Keep Or.

Notwithstanding the court decision
against the validity of the State Senate
investigation of Cincinnati pubic offices
the Drake committee has resumed its ses-
sion in Cincinnati. In the meantime the
attorneys for the committee win carry the
adverse decision of the common pleas
court to the State Supreme Court.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
WISCONSIN GRAIN LAW INVALID.
Inspection Act Held Violation of In
terstate Commerce Provision.


Judge Sanborn of the United States
District Court in Madison handed down
an opinion holding that the Wisconsin
grain inspection law is unconstitutional
because it is in contravention of the fed
eral constitutional provision relating to
the regulation of interstate commerce.
The Superior grain and warehouse COM
mission created by the law is enjoined
from interfering in any way with the in
spection, storage or transportation OF
grain in or throughout this State. The
law was passed two years ago for the pur-
pose of compelling the railroads and ele-
vators operating in Superior to have their
grain inspected and graded in that city
instead of in Duluth. 1t IS expected the
case will be carried to the federal Court
of Appeals
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
SOUTH WANTS IMMIGRANTS.
Efforts to BE Made to Divert the In
flow from New York 10 Galveston.


flow from New York 10 Galveston.
Commissioner General Sargent of the
Bureau of immigration viii go to Gal
weston. Texas, within the next few weeks
to endeavor 10 facilitate the landing of
immigrants at that Southern port. 4
permanent inspection Office will be es-
tablished and every effort put forth to
divert from New York to Galveston the
heavy tide of immigration now reaching
the metropolis. The people of the South
are clamoring for immigrants and bust
ness organizations are petitioning the bu.
reau to aid in securing them.
Galveston is held 10 be the natural
port for sll the Southern, Central and
Western States. This section is thu
most sparsely settled of any in the coun
try, and is agriculrurally and induStrially
undeveloped Commissioner Sargent
states that he believes the immixssmt
would be surrounded with more favor
able circumstances when landed in Gal
weston than in New York. In New York
no matter where he is from, he will finG
some little section of the great city
where his people congregate and his owl
city and homesick, he win naturally e
among his own people and stay there. HI
will continue to speak his own Language
and remain foreigner.
Were this same foreigner placed in tn,
broad and productive areas of the Soutl
and West he would be thrown out among
an almost purely American population
would find plenty of wholesome labor il
the open, an opportunity to make a home
for himself, and the positive necessity o.
learning the English language. He would
be forced to abandon old ties and would
Immediately be absorbed into the citizen
ship of the land of his adoption.
1t is held that the southern country
would Re greatly benefited because of tht
fact that trade follows immigration, ant
the needs of the people coming from
abroad would be supplied at the port
through which thev came
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Wisconsin
State News
PIONEER A SUICIDE.
William Becker, Formerly Leading
Tanner. Ends Life i'm Mobile.

William Becker, one of the pioneer
tanners of Milwaukee, standing high so-
cialiy and financially, committed suicide
at the home of his nephew in Mobile,
Ala. Mr.. Becker had not been in good
health and six weeks ago, with his wife,
he started for the South in the hope that
the trip would have a beneficial effect.
He formerly was one of the owners of the
Becker tannery, which was absorbed by
the combine in 1899. Since that time he
was not actively engaged in business until
the formation of the Milwaukee Rubber
Works Company at Cudahy. of which he
was chosen president. Mr.. Becker was
CT years old. He came to Milwaukee
when only II years of age. but afterward
went to. Dub que. Returning to Milwau-
kee, he engaged in tanning, in which he
was joined by his brother. Gerhard Beck
err. They were successful from the first.
The deceased had no children.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
81. Louis Ere PANIC Fatal.

In fight to escape from burning res
taurant in st. Louis Erin Thomas IS
years old, was killed and Mack Demum-
brin. William Durby, Al Jones and David
Preston. all colored, were seriously burn
ed The fire was caused by an explosion
Of gasoline. The fremen rescued the i'm
prisoned inmates by cutting hole through
the hack wall
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

decided to hold an exposition in connec-
ton with the annual State fair, to con-
. tinue for one month. An appropriation
of 100000 will be sought from the Leg
islature, and citizens Of st. Paul and
Minneapolis will be asked to contribute
$4,000 to carry out the plans.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
FIND MYSTERY IN RUINS.

Algoma WOrLmen Discover SkeIe-
fon-May Be Discharged Prisoner.
While clearing away debris of the old
John Richmond barn in Algoma, burned
April ), workmen came upon the skeleton
of a man. With the remains were found
a silver dollar partly melted, a pair of
spectacles and other articles. There is
no clue to the identity of the victim. 1t
is supposed to have been a young man
who had just been discharged from the
reformatory at Green Bay.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

Twenty-six letters of the alphabet and
nine numerals neatly engraved on an or
binary pinhead. This apparently impos-
sible feat of infnitesimal etching has been
accomplished by Eugene Wrenger of St.
Louis, an expert steel and copper plate
enEraVer
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Death In Mine Explosion.

Seven men were injured, two fatally,
by an explosion of powder in the Hazel
coal mine of the Pittsburg Buffalo Com
pany in Cannonsburg, Pa. On their trip
into the mine one of the men carried a
quantity of blasting powder wrapped in
a paper. The fame of his lamp came in
contact with the powder and an explo-
sion resulted. The injured were all for
eigners.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Bayaeld Mans Disappe,rance

Robert Forsyth is reported missing at
Ashland. He left Bayfield, for BUSH
ness trip. lie left his saloon in charge
of his assistant. Sheriff Conlor Of
Washburn has now taken possession of
the place. Mrs. Forsyth declares she
knows no reason for his disappearance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

The plant Of the Hilty Lumber Com
pany and the establishment of Robert
Rom & Co.. plumbers supplies, were
burned in Milwaukee, the loss being $751;
600. The FIRE started in the shed of the
Hnty company through friction from a
band saw and spread rapidly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
WANTS p FROM U. $.

Manitowoc Files $4,000 Claim for
Protecting Lake shore.
A claim for $4,000 will h. filed by the
city of Manitowoc with the War Depart
ment, asking reimbursement in the con-
struction of pier and piling along the
north lake shore to protect lake front
property, which washed away sixteen feet
year. The claim is based on the eonten-
ton that the COVE ment breakwater is
responsible. In event that the claim is
allowed, private interests which have
been put to large expense to protect the
property, will also file claims
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Fire KiIIs 100 Horses.

Fire swept through the large barn of
the Warman- Black Chamberlain Company
at the Union stock yards in indianapolis,
destroying the structure and burning TO
death about seventy-fye horses. Other
horses were killed in the wild runaway
that followed the fire, making q total loss
Of more than 100 horses.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Troons Attacl, FtI,nino.

Captain William NJ. Morrow, Twenty
first infantry. attacked Tiducduc's band
in the mountain fastness ON the island of
Samar, z. l., killing eight men. Three
of the United States soldiers we're wound
ed. The engagement was at close quar-
tiers and the fighting was hand to hand.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
LAWYER Paints After PIE,

As the climax to a sensational plea OF
four hours in the Ben Dickerson murder
trial in Coshocton, Ohio, Attorney Thos.
Roche tainted away in court room and
had to be carried from the room and
placed under physicians care.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Must Testify in Trust Case.

In Lima, Ohio, the Circuit Court or
dered all witnesses subpenaed in the
bridge trust prosecutions in the various
counties of the State TO appear in court
and give their testimony. Some of them
have been trying to get out of it, The
order is based on a law just passed by
the General Assembly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
KILLS WOMAN AND SELF.
Man Kills Sister-in-Law and Then
Blows His Head OFF.

George Smith, farmer, who lives at
Williamsport, Ohio, on returning to his
home found his wife and his brother
Harry dead in bedroom of his house.
Their heads had been partially blown off
by shots from double-barreled shotguns,
and two of those weapons lay on the floor
near the bodies. The brains of the vic
Tins and portions of the flesh were scat
tered about the room. The nature of the
wounds and the direction of the shots in
dicated that Harry had first shot the
woman and then taken his own life. There
were no witnesses to the tragedy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Marinette a convention city.

The seventh annual convention of the
Wisconsin, State Letter Carriers Asso-
citation will be held in Marinette on June
13. The coming of this convention means
that four State conventions will be held
in Marinette that week, the Grand Army,
Women's Relief Corps, the Sons of Vet
Grams and the letter carriers.