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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
1 Activity in the leading
Industries indicate a sus-
Jtained high yolume or
CHICAGO.


-----------J tanned high volume OF
production and distribution and DanK
exchanges again show larger. New de-
mands for finished products add to the
pressure upon facilities, but prompt ue-
liveries cannot be negotiated from lack
of adequate transportation. Price
changes command more attention in a
higher general average, the develop
ments having steadied hides, firmed up
leather, lumber and wool. and turned
dearer for iron and steel, owing to
greater cost of ore for next season.
Vatues of foodstuffs in the pr ~ry
markets have also been affec t
these are mainly slightly low d
harmonic more closely with the apun-
dant supplies. Retail dealings reflect
seasonable expansion, and, although
the jobbing branches show more quiet,
recorders frequently appear in dry
goods and footwear for Western points
Interior advices denote sales of mer.
chandise thus far equal to expectations
and demand for heavyweight apparel
improving with colder weather. Mer-
camille collections throughout most of
the tributary region are prompt, and
it is encouraging that defaults make q
small total and include none with
heavy liabilities. The conditions pred
icate consumption exceeding all former
proportions and the outlook for bust
ness of increasing aggregate during the
rest of this year is decidedly promis-
ing.
Manufacturing steadily gathers
strength for future operations. Not
withstanding the advancing cost of ma
terials and labor little hesitancy is OBJ
served in entering upon heavy under
lakings. This is emphasized in the
number of new enterprises initiated
and additions to existing plants to re
ieve the present pressure Iron and
steel producers find the efforts to ac
cumulate surplus stocks beyond them.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered 10, against % last week
and 81 a year ago.--Dun's Review of
Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
ENTERS HIGH SCHOOL AT EIGHT.
Boston Boy Prodigy Is Linguist and
Fine Mathematician.

A little lad, puny and stoop-shouldered
and wearing double-lens glasses, aston
ished the pupils of the Brookline high
school near Boston the other day when
he entered the institution and coolly took
a seat in the freshman class. The boys
about him tower above him in height and
otherwise physically are Brobdignagians
as compared with the new pupil. But,
Intellectually, the newcomer is the giant
of the assemblage, as a statement of his
varied accomplishments will show. He
speaks four languages fuently. He is an
expert in mathematics and algebra and
his knowledge of physics is almost equal
to that of a college professor. And the
wonder of it all is that he is but years
of age. The new student and scholastic
prodigy is William James Sidis, son of
DR.. Boris Sidis, German physician.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
DEALS IN FUTURES UPHELD.
Decision in CIeaGe Case by Fedora
Court Mt ST. Paul.

Decision in CIeage Case by Federal
Court at st. Paul.
The United States Circuit Court of APP
peals at st. Paul upheld the validity of
contracts for the purchase and sale of
grain for future delivery. as practiced by
the Chicago Board of Trade and the Mer-
chants Exchange of st. Louis.
The case is that of Thomas A. Cleage.
Jr., appellee, against w. H. Laidley and
others. Cleage dealt in about 14,O00,00
bushels of grain, and less than 2 per cent
of it was delivered. The brokers to whom
he became indebted filed creditors petit
ton in bankruptcy, which was assailed on
the ground that the creditors claims were
grounded upon wager agreements and
therefore were void.
The court holds that the evidence did
not disclose a purpose to settle the con-
tracts by the payment of the difference
between the contract prices and the mar
ket prices at the time of delivery, and
did not make the transactions wagers and
void
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
| New York.

NPW IUlk. Isulting from the election
ma rked advances in
wages of railway employees; the great
ly improved collections; large filling in
orders, indicating heavy consumption
good business on spring account; con
tinued scarcity of labor, and record
breaking outputs of iron and steel, are
pre-eminent features of the week.
Weather conditions, except in por-
tons of the Northwest, have been quite
favorable; retail trade has been active,
business from jobbers has been larger
than ordinary, and wholesalers report
heavy orders booked for spring deliv-
cry. AS for long time past, however,
complaints of slow deliveries on orders
are almost universal, cotton, dry goods,
lumber, coal and iron and steel dealers
all complaining. Car congestion ex-
plains some of this and, with present
prices of grain, accounts for slow
movement from the farms, but scarcity
of labor is reported largely responsible
for the backward deliveries of dry
goods.-Bradstreet's Commercial Re
port.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
MEETS THE REPORTERS.
Mrs. Eddy Gives a Formal, Prear
ranged Interview.


ranged Interview.
A formal, prearranged interview was
given to eleven reporters from Boston
and New York by Mary Baker G. EDDY,
the venerable founder and leader of the
Christian Science church at Pleasant
View, her Concord IN. H.) home, for the
purpose of disproving recent statements
to the effect that she was totally incapaci-
tated by age or disease, or both. The
statement had been made that Miss Pa
melia Leonard, Brooklyn healer, had
been impersonating the Christian Sci
encc leader on her drives. Several ques-
tons had been agreed upon to be put to
Mrs. Eddy, but the reports conflicted as
to her hearing when these questions had
been put to her by the appointed spokes-
woman. TO the first question, Are you
in perfect health?" Mrs. Eddy replied
with a bow, Indeed | am" speaking
in a deep, level tone of voice, but with
slight culver. To the next question.
Have you any other physician than
God?" she replied: mo physician but
God. His everlasting arms are about
me; that is enough" AS she said this
she turned toward the door, in front of
which her carriage was waitiEss. In re-
ply to the question, ''Do you drive daily?"
she said simply, Yes" The fourth ques
ton, Have you management of your own
affairs" was unanswered. She walked
along the width of the piazza, but her
hands shook as with a slight palsy when
she was helped into the carriage. Ed
ward NJ. Pierson, secretary of state of
New Hampshire, was present with the
reporters to positively identify Mrs.
Eddy, whom he had known for many
years. He issued statement that it
was Mrs. Eddy, and that she appeared
to keep her faculties. An official of the
household said that the gates Of Pleasant
View henceforth would be closed to the
world forever. All agreed the aged wom-
an showed her SO years in marked de-
gree, and that she was extremely weak.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20

The Real Estate Trust Company of
Philadelphia, which was wrecked last
August through misuse of funds by it's
president, Frank X. Nipple, who after
ward committed suicide. was opened
Thursday with George H. Earl, Jr., at
its head, he having served as receiver. In
stead of an expected run, the books on
the first days showed a large balance of
deposits. The reopening was made pos
sible by the depositors agreeing to let
tyyo-thirds of their 100000 remain as
preferred stock, and by the directors
making good S2.5OO.OOO
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
GENERAL SKATER DEAD.
Soldier of Spanish War Fame Dies
nf pnonnAnsa

SOAoACE VI cPahASAA " al aAnC LACE
of Pneumonia.
Gen. William r. Shafter, retired,
who had been i'll for more than a
week with pneumonia, died Monday
afternoon at the ranch of his son-in-
law, Capt. W. H. McKittrick, twenty
miles from Bakersfield, CAL At his
bedside when the end came were Cap
tain and Mrs. McKittrick, Miss Carrie
Redmond, Mrs. COPYRIGHT and Capt.
James W. Shafter.
William Rufus Shafter was born at
Galesburg, Mich, on Oct. 16, 1885. His
father was a farmer. Shafter taught
school three years before the outbreak
of the Civil War. Then he entered the
Seventh Michigan Volunteers as first
lieutenant He was consecutiyely ma
jor of the Nineteenth Michigan Infan-
try, lieutenant colonel of the Seven
teenth United States negro regiment
and brevet brigadier general He en-
tered the regular army as lieutenant
colonel in January, 1866. In March,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20

1867, he received congressional medal
of honor for bravery at the battle of
Fair Oaks. He was assigned to the
Twenty-fourth Infantry as its colonel
in 1869.
He became brigadier general in 1897
and was assigned to command the De-
partment of California. When war
with Spain came Gen. Shafter was
made major general of volunteers and
sent to Cuba to command the American
forces. He was retired June so, 1901.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Mayor johnson in Contempt.

The Cleveland Electric Railway Com
pany has petitioned the Supreme Court
at Washington to restrain Mayor John
SON and other Cleveland officials from
interfering with the operation of one of
its lines pending the decision of the Su-
preme Court of an appeal now before it.
johnson had eontended that the com
pany's franchise on certain streets expir-
ed in 1905, while the company held that
they ran until 1914. Subsequently it
was that the Mayor had ordered the po-
lice to prevent the compsly running cars
m, fbpSa streets
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
BANK is ROBBED IN DAYLIGHT.
Bold Thief Takes 81, 900 from Mid
land National I'm Newton, Kan.

Bold Thief Takes 1000 from Mid
land National I'm Newton, Kan.
The Midland National Bank in New
ton, Kan, was robbed of $1,000 in
most sensational manner. The rObber en-
Tered the bank, handed a note to the
assistant cashier, II. E. Sudoman, inform
ing the latter that he proposed to rob the
bank and warning him to make no out
cry. Leveling a pistol at Sudoman, the
robber then compelled him and the book
keeper, C. G.. Plumb. with two custom
ers, one a woman, to go into the bank
vault. which he locked. He then rushed
TO the money drawer, seized a package of
currency and pistol in hand, dashed out
of the rear of the bank through several
offices and past several men into the alley,
where he was soon lost TO view. The
people in the vault were released before
they had suffered severely.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
PUT UNDER CIVIL SERVICE.

Roosevelt Issues Order Affecting All
Collectors of Internal Revenue.
President Roosevelt has made an order
again classifying deputy collectors of in
ternal revenue under the regulations of
the civil service commission. There are
about LOO in the service of the govern
ment. They were classified by President
Cleveland, but were taken out by Presi-
dent Mckinley in 1899. The action of
President Roosevelt brings all employees
of the internal revenue service under civil
service, and practically classifes all en-
ployes of the Treasury Department.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
FIVE BANDITS ROB TRAIN.
Armed Men Take Money from Pas
sengers on Wabash Train.


Five masked bandits boarded the Wa
bash express train near Peru, Ind, and
escaped after robbing many passengers.
The highwaymen signaled the train to
stop with lantern covered with red
rag. When the train was stopped the
bandits forced the engineer to cut the
locomotive away from the train. They
then boarded a coach filled with immi-
grants and after robbing most of them
tried to enter one of the other cars. Shots
were heard and the bandits, fearing an
attack, left the car hastily. Hurrying to
a crossing, where they had tied their
horses, the bandits mounted and rode
away in different directions. The amount
secured by the robbers is not known.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Must Pay San Francisco Loss.

The decision of the Superior Court of
San Francisco as to the payment of fire
losses on account of the great earthquake
is against contestant, the Trans Atlantic
Insurance Company, which had no earth
quake clause. The judge held that even
if the earthquake caused the fire the COM
pany would be liable, but that there was
no evidence to prove that the earthquake
did cause the fire. The case will be car
RED to q higher court.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Hankon Honored I'm britain

King Edward of England invested King
Haakon of Norway with the Order of the
Garter. at a special chapter held in the
throne room of Windsor Castle. The in
vestiture was attended with great pomp
and ceremony. There mas not been an
investiture like this one since 1855, when
Queen Victoria conferred the honor upon
Napoleon III. and Victor Emmanuel,
then King of Sardinia.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Three Thousand Mile No-stop Run.

The two-cylinder Maxwell automobile
owned by f. III. Tyler. completed 5000
mile nonstop run at New York. the feat
being certified by an official of the Amer
lean Automobile Association racing board.
The car travelled this distance since the
preceding Wednesday. or a weeks run.
The average speed was 1923 miles an
hour and the cost slightly under $50.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20

Company and the j. Scott Inglis Carpet
and Furniture Company, and the build
ing of the j. D. Williams Brothers Com
pany, dealers in confectionery, toys and
house furnishings causing loss of about
$45O,000. The Cornell Building, an eight
story Office structure adjoining, was dam
aged S500O0
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
ASKS FOR A LONG JAIL TERM.
Son of Chicago Millionaire Says He
Has Mania to Steal.


Has Mania to Steal.
Edward j. Brown, bright-faced young
man of 81 years and the son of a Chi
cago millionaire, is in Jail in Oakland,
Cal. Under a mysterious influence which
he declares changes him into a criminal
of the most dangerous type, he has APP
pealed to the police for the longest SEN
tence possible. Il am a thief, said
Brown in the Oakland Jail, because |
cannot help it. 1t is more necessary for
me to steal than it is for duck to swim.
l have been haunted day ard night by
the awful power that has had hold of me
since my earliest infancy" Brown was
arrested for robbing several Offices in the
McDOnough block. He was released on
probation. An hour later he entered the
parish house of the Church of the I'M
lnaculate Conception and was caught in
the act of robbery by Father Sosnon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
MOTHER AND CHILDREN DIE.
Home of Farmer at Batavia Station,
Mich. DESTROYED by Fire.

Mich, Destroyed by Fire.
Mrs. Charles MOwry, aged 81 years,
and her three children, Homer aged 6
years Louise, aged 3 years, and baby
of 6 months, were burned to death in
their home on farm at Batavia Station,
Mich, on the Lake Shore Railroad.
Charles Mowry, the husband and father.
rose early and built two fires in the
house. He then went to the barn to do
chores and while there discovered that
his home was afire. lie rushed back, but
the flames had made such Roadway that
he could not enter the house and his calls
through the windows to his family
brought no response. 1t is thought that
the mother and three children were suf-
located to death while asleep.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20

Robert L. Slack of Portsmouth, Ohio
and Jackson Sutterfeld, farmer living
near there, while crossing the Norfolk and
Western Railroad track with a wagon,
were struck and instantly killed by a
passenger train at Youngs Station. Slack
son jumped in time to save his life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Scale. Rock 2O.aOO Feet Hish.

DIR. Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn, ex-
plorer and mountain climber, is in Seat
tie on his way home. having made a sue
cessful ascent of Mount Mckinley in
Alaska. The chief results of the expedi-
ton are the verifcation of the height
of Mount Mckinley as given by the gov
eminent, 10000 feet. and the opening of
a hitherto unknown section Of 5000 miles
known as the Yentna district.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20

One Italian laborer was instantly kill
I'd. one is missing and thought TO have
been blown to pieces. while seventeen were
injured. two fatally. by the explosion of
tcn sticks of dynamite in Pittsburg. The
men were working on sewer and during
the dinner hour one of them placed the
dynamite near the fire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Seattle Flood Bound.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in
damage has been done, at least three lives
are known to have been lost and the city
OF Seattle Wash, has been cut off from
communication with the outside world as
the result of heavy floods throughout the
Puget Sound country.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
bandits wreck Bank BuiIdInr.

Three robbers in Walker, Mo-. escaped
with the contents of the safe of the Bank
of Walker. The amount secured is not
known. The safe and front portion of
the bank building were wrecked by the
explosion of heavy charge of dyna-
mite.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Consolidation I'm Terra Corr,

Consolidation of the fifty-ive terra Gotta
companies in the United States has been
effected, to go in force Dec. l, according
TO reports in New York
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
decision La Against Ronf.

The Countess de Castelane, formerly
Miss Anna Gould, has been granted
divorce and custody of her children, who,
however, will not be allowed to be taken
from France without the consent of
Count Boni de Castellane their father.
Count Boni was not allowed a cent
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
NEW CORN CROP MARK.
Last Years Record-Breaking Yield
Is Passed.

Last years record-breaking corn crop
is shown by the November report to have
been distanced by 173,000,O00 bushels.
The hay crop is shown to be 100000
tons short of last years and 100000
tons short of the average of the preceding
ten years. The oats crop was previously
shown to be 90.OO0,000 bushels short of
that of 1905. 1t will thus be seen that
the gain in the corn crop has little
more than overbalanced the shortage both
in hay and oats, these making good all
shortages in feed crops.
The following table shows the corn
crops of the last six years and the proper
ton of each carried over from each of
the five years preceding 1906:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Nj. ,tizner,s Niece EIone.

Miss Carrie Riley of Bala, Pa, niece
of Mrs. Wilson Miner, the widow of
Charles T. Yerkes, eloped to Wilmington
and married Philip ]. Fitzpatrick, a
young New York business man, with
whom she had been acquainted about
three months.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Robbers Murder Woman.

Mrs. Mary Green. who was beaten BIZ
Burglars in her home on East 101st street.
New York, June "A, died the other day
from her injuries. Mrs. Green was found
by her son. bound hand and foot with a
gag in her mouth and unconscious. The
house had been ranSacked.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
SNUFF Warehouses Blown u,.

The warehouses of the American Snuff
Company at Eddyville. Princeton and
Fredonia. Ky, were wrecked with dyna-
mite the other night Bloodhounds have
followed the trail of the wreckers for ten
miles from Fredonia into Caldwell
County,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
.sweet Home" Is Doomed.

The little matched cottage at East
Hampton. L. l.. in which John Howard
Payne. author of Home. Sweet Home +"
lived in his early years. and which, When
he was a wanderer on the face of the
globe. inspired his immortal ballad, is TO
Se DESTROYED.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Indicted by Grand Jurx

The federal grand jury at Minneapolis
astounded railroad ana grain men by re-
turning Unexpectedly eleven indictments
against the st. Paul, Wisconsin Central,
Omaha, and Minneapolis and st. Louis
roads. officials of the roads, and grain
companies. Fines may amount to mill
ions of dollars.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Child Labor Reform Union.

The national child labor committee. Of
which President Roosevelt is an honorary
member, announces a union of forces
with the Anti-Child Slavery League, an
organization founded for the express pur-
pose of supplementing existing reform
work with the widespread publicity abb
solutely essential to every successful re-
form movement
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Furnished Defective Tubes,

A Pittsburg grand jury indicted three
employees of the United States Steel Cor
poration for furnishing defective boiler
tubes for warships. The unsound equip
ment is said TO be on nine of the finest
vessels of the navy, including the battle
ship Louisiana, which bore the President
to Panama.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
widow n, Raxo,n,,on p,..

Mrs. Esther Sumner Damon. said to be
the last surviving widow of a soldier of
the revolutionary war, died at her home
in Plymouth Union. VT. at the age of SO
years. She was married in 1885 when
she was 81 years old to Noah Damon,
who was then 40 years of age.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Assassination Attempt. FAN.

A bomb was thrown at General Rem
nenkampf. governor of Siberian PROV
ince, but he escaped unhurt. An attempt
10 slay the Moscow project of police
failed, and the intended victim killed his
resultant
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Two Charged with Murder

Frank Ellsworth and Joe Burk were
arrested in Wichita, Kan, charged with
the murder of a young man named Dock
ray, near Amarillo. Texas, four months
ago. He was last seen alive in their com.
pany, it is alleged. and 500 he was
known to have had was missing when his
body was found.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
SIX Die I'm Hast.

Six men were killed and FIVE seriously
injured when boiler in the power house
of the Lake Shore railroad in Collinwood.
a suburb of Cleveland blew up. The
men were working close 10 the boiler
building the foundation for dynamo
when the explosion occurred.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Cirrx Beauty Costs Her Job.

Because his wife was jealous of the
beauty of the bookkeeper employed in the
Office of the County Surveyor in st. Paul,
John Irvine. who recently was elected to
that Office, was compelled to swear that
he would discharge her as soon as elected.
lie has now done so.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
War Scare Is Farce.

The Ute Indian war scare" is a
farce. 500 soldiers guarding l25 peaceful
red men who don't want TO fight. and the
affair may be ruse on the part OF poll
ticians TO prevent the government from
abandoning fort.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
f.hnrch I. to Rnise s1. OoO. onn.

The board Of church extension of the
Methodist Episcopal church. which con-
vened in Syracuse. n. Y, the other day,
decided to raise S1,000,000 next year. OF
this amount $4,000 will be used for
home missions work. and $250.000 for
church extension.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Death strikes at Revival.

d. o. Smart, wealthy pioneer resi-.
dent of Kansas City, died suddenly while
participating in a revival service at the
independence Avenue Christian church
Mr. Smart dropped dead after rising to
request that the words of certain hymn
be read as PRAYER.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20
Hinge Wafer sx.tem Under Wa

The first step to begin the actual con-
struction of New York City's proposed
new Sl61, 100000 water system was taken
the other day, when bids were asked for
the building of the first section of the
huge aQueduct. ten miles in length.