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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
Labor Men to Enter Politics.

At 4 meeting of the executive council
of the American Federation of Labor. at
Washington, action was taken toward the
more active participation of union LABOR
bodies in national politics. This will be
along the line of questioning candidates
for public offices upon questions affecting
the interests of labor and the people gen
orally. Resolutions were adopted reaf-
firming the principle of organization Of
working people, irrespective of creed.
color, sex, nationality or politics; the in
dependent use of the ballot by trad
unionists, united regardless Of party for
the purpose of electilg men to make new
laws and administer them and efforts
toward removing all forms of political
and party servitude, TO the end that the
working people may act as unit at the
polls at every election"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
Flying MACHINE .snt FIies

The aeroplane constructed by a Dayton,
Ohio, firm has recently made the phe-
nomenal fight Of twenty-four miles in
thiIty-eight minutes carrying weight of
925 pounds. A representative Of the
French government, which already has
given $4,000 for European rights to this
machine, says that during this trial flight
Gle twenty-nine times, and that when
finally it stopped it was because the sup
ply of gasoline which ran the motor had
been exhausted. He says that the Wright
brothers have at last the secret for which
the world has been working for centuries.
1t is believed to be the first real flying
machine ever built. 1t has two superim-
posed surfaces, and rudders fore and aft,
bur the details are still secret.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
State News in Brief.

Ed. Lawrence, a resident of South
Madison committed suicide by shooting.
III health is attributed as the cause He
was mentally unbalanced.
Evan o. Jones. deputy collector Of in
ternal revenue, died in Racine of cancer
of the throat. He was born in Wales
in 1887, coming to Racine in 1855.
Fire destroyed the two-story frame
building in Muscoda owned by the Gund
Brewing Company of La Crosse, and fam
Gus as a Grant county landmark The
loss is $1,000. The building was used
as hotel and saloon.
Manitowoc will join the Lake Shore
Baseball League. Indications are that
the league will consist of eight teams.
Manitowoc, Port Washington, Kenosha,
Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Two Rivers,
Kaukauna and Blatz, Milwaukee.
Mayor Hawkins of New Richmond has
ordered his police department to enforce
an order forbidding profanity within the
limits of the city.
Henry 4. Lewis. aged 40. held in the
county Jail in Madison on the charge Of
assault against Marshal Munson of Deer
field, committed suicide by hanging him
self with a cord ripped from his blanket.
State Commissioner of banking NJ. G..
Bergh has given a clean bill of health
to the North Freedom bank, closed a
few weeks ago on account of the impair
ment of the capital stock. The bank is
authorized to resume.
Martin Paulson. a well-known La
Crosse young man, was held up By three
men and relieved Of $40.
Pedagogy to agriculture is the jump
Prof. II. A. Simonds, superintendent of
the Oshkosh schools, will take at the end
of the school year. Mr.. Simonds will go
to Washington to engage in farming
Mr.. and Mrs. James Winter. pioneer
settlers of Janesyille celebrated their
ninetieth birthdays Mr.. and Mrs Win
ter were born in England and came to
this country in 1853. settling in Rock
county, near Evansville. they celebrated
their fifty-third wedding anniversary
April 4 with a large family reunion. Both
are hale and hearty.
The 6-year-eld daughter Of w. T. Ben
nett. two miles south Of DodgeYille, was
fatally burned while watching a bonfire.
Inmates Of the Sheboygan city aims
house have protested to the board Of
Aldermen against being served with cleo
margarine. They d,,Iand pure butter
from the poor farm creamery.
500 line freight No. %. east-bound, was
derailed ten miles west Of Rhinelander
Fourteen cars were ditched by the turning
Of a rail- The main track was blocked 50
that the limited trains east and west were
obliged 10 90 over the Milwaukee road
tracks from Heaford Junction by way
of Arbor Vitae and Woodruff on ths
Northwestern. No fatalities are reported
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
COST OF LIVING SCARS.
Government Bulletin Shows Neces-
stiles Are High in Price.


stiles Are High in Price.
How the cost of living in the United
States is mounting rapidly is shown in a
bulletin issued by the bureau of labor.
entitled Course of Wholesale Prices for
1890 to 1907
The value of the statistics is that they
have been carefully collected on the same
plan that has been pursued for the last
fourteen years, and the deductions are
drawn in the same scientific way that had
made those statistics extremely valuable.
The report says that wholesale prices,
considering all commodities, reached a
higher point in 1905 than at any other
time during the sixteen years covered by
the investigation.
The average of all commodities for the
year 1905 was 15.9 per cent above the av-
erage for the ten-year period, 1890 to
1899, 29.2 per cent above the low price
in 1897 and 90 per cent above the aver
age for 1904.
The 1905 average, compared with the
year of lowest average prices during the
sixteen years from 1890 to 1905 in each of
the general groups of commodities, shows
farm products 5S.G per cent higher than
in 1896; food etc, 29.7 per cent higher
than in 1896; clothing, 22.9 per cent
higher than in 1897; fuel and lighting,
39.4 per cent higher than in 1894; metals
ana implements, Ais per cent higher than
in 1898; lumber and building materials,
MA per cent higher than in 1897; drugs
and chemicals, 24.1 per cent higher than
in 1895; house furnishing goods, 21.5 per
cent higher than in 1897, and the articles
included in the miscellaneous group, 23.4
per cent higher than in 1896.
Prices REACHED the highest point in De-
cember, 1908, when they were 1919 per
cent above the average for the ten-year
period, 1890 to 1899, and 1877 per cent
above the low prices in 1897. Prices in
December, 1905, were sc per cent above
the prices in December, 1904
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
INDUSTRY GROWS IN WEST.
Census Bureau says Oklahoma Has
Made Great strides.


\ report prepared by the census 'bu-
reau for the use of tile congressional
committee on manufacturers discloses
that in the percentage of increase in in
dustries ami value of products manufae-
tured five of the far Western States lead
the list. In Oklahoma in the last five
years capital invested in manufacturing
increased 351 per cent and the value of
the production 200 per cent. the number
of establishments 10T per cent and the
number of employees LAT per cent Indian
Territory ranks on par with Oklahoma.
with an Increase of 200 per cent in the
value of manufactured materials, 215
per cent Increase in capital invested and
an increase of 100 per cent in the num-
Der of establishments Nevada, Idaho
and Utah ranked next
There was decrease in number of
manufacturing establishments despite an
increase in output and capital invested
in a majority of the States. due, it is
stated, to the consolidation of small enter
priSes. The increase of production and
capital invested in all the States runs
from 20 to POO percent in the five years.
In Delaware alone there Is slight de-
crease Of production. but an increase in
capital invested.
The foreign commerce of the United
States during the first seven months of
the fiscal year amounted TO S1752. 421, z
$50, according to bulletin issued by the
Department of Commerce and Labor
This shows a considerable increase in
both imports and exports, over the cor
responding months year ago.
In the seven months ending with Jan
uary imports have increased ST0O0O,OO0
and exports have increased $155,000.000
Imports during the seven months ended
with January, 1906, were 5000, 764. 566
and exports We're $1.036.6J6, 764. The
increase in importatiOns occurs chiefly in
manufacturers materials and finished
manufactures while the increase in ex-
portations occurs chiefly in agricultural
products and manufactures. The bule-
tin says there is a marked increase in
the expectation of breadstuffs and provis-
ions, the value of breadstuffs exported in
January and December each amounting
to over S26,000,000. For the seven
months ended with January provisions,
including meat and dairy products. show
ed total expectation of S134, 100000,
against $10S,000,0O0 for the same period
last wear
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
Useless to Denounce Corporations

Useless TO DenOunce Corporations.
Don't waste your time denouncing
corporations A corporation can only
act through its president and board of
directors To attack a corporation is
but waste of breath, but the officials
and directors are the ones that are
subject to the penalties of the law and
to the great moral force of public opin-
ion. The Coal Trust is soulleSs, but
the directors of the railroads and coal
companies who are Illegally combined
to plumber the public and prey on the
miners, can be reached by the law and
eventually will be. Although trust
magnates' skins are thick, yet they are
amenable to public contempt, which is
a wonderfully sharp weapon.
President Roosevelt speaks of good
and bad trusts" but the trusts and
corporations are only what their man
ayers make them and the honest or
dishonest directors, or managers
should be praised or blamed
How powerful public opinion is on
sinned is shown by the self-banishment
of Rockefeller to avoid appearing as a
witness and the fitting of the insur-
ance grafters. The corporation can
not be punished. If you fine It. the
money comes out of the pockets of the
shareholders, so that matchmaking
corporations is so much vanity That
Is where the efforts of President Roose-
vet against the trusts have failed of
accomplishment. The administration
has utterly failed in all its antitrust
contests, Every trust, combine or cor
poration is still a monopoly, as far as
1t can be, and continues to plumber the
people as much as the business saga
city of the managers considers deSir-
able. VIII the voters, who are the vic
tins of trust and corporation rapacity,
endorse the feeble efforts of the admin
istration at trust-busting? A true re-
former, with all the great power of the
government at his command. should
have been able to put the bodies OF
some trust magnates ar hazard in the
courts But not a trust magnate has
been convicted.
Public opinion with its moral '1rce
alone has done more to curb the trust
magnates and If the contempt of the
people is centered on the persons and
not on the impersonal corporation, II
will have still greater effect Under
meath all this. however, is the cause
that has fostered the trusts, and that
can only be removed by The adoption of
the good old Democratic doctrine Of
Equal rights to all and special privl-
leges to none
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
TWENTY Huar IN MINE RIOT.
State ConstaIsi-ry Fires Into q
Crowd at Mount Car eel, Pa.

State ConsfaIsi-ry Fires Into
Crowd at Mount Car aeI, Pa.
The first serious collision in the an
thracite coal regions since mining was
suspended occurred OF Mount Carmel, Pa.
between a mob OF idle mine workers and
a platoon of the new State constabulary
force and resulted in the injuring of prob
ably twenty men, three of whom will ike
ly die. The disturbance was caused by
an attack on a detail of the State police
by several hundred foreigners, who be-
came incensed at the presence of the con-
stables. They threw stones at the police
men and otherwise endangered their lives
to such an extent that they were forced
to fire on the crowd which had swelled
into thousands. The affair is the result
of an attack upon non-r lion men made at
various times last week.
Chicago and the great lakes comprise
the only region in the United States TO
which May day this year brought strikes
and new labor disputes of consequence.
Orders which went into effect at midnight
on April 80 caused a strike of 1900 yes
sci mates, and instantaneously brought
lake navigation to a practical standstill.
The longshoremen also quit work at va
rious ports on the lakes. Twenty thou
sand have been employed along the lakes.
The strikes which the influence of the
day brought to Chicago itself are of two
related sorts. There is a strike of iron
molders already declared and strike of
structural iron workers imminent. This
last difficulty, unless speedily settled. is
likely to put a check on the tremendous
building operations in the city.
More people are affected by the strikes
now on in the United States and in pros
pect than since 1894. The strike of $780,
600 miners has thrown 100000 other
workmen out of employment. The strike
of lake employees both vessel and on
shore, will affect 10000 directly At
least 10000 more will be made idle. While
these two great industries are near paraly-
sis, the strikes throughout the United
States in other occupations are at min
imum.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
our Mountains Not So High

According to the latest edition of Gan
nett's Dictionary of Attitudes in the
United States" many previous estimates
of mountain heights are altered Care
full surveys indicate that these estimates
have been exaggerated Mount Whitney
has been reduced from 14,S9S feet to a.
502 feet. and Mount Williamson, in Cal
ifornia, is credited with only 1880 feet.
Mount Rainier has been cut down 1913
feet to the height of 1868 feet This
gives its rival, Mount Shasta. the adyan-
-teee. with 143S0 feet 10 lis credit.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
COLL Is FOUND GUILTY.
BigeIOw's Assistant in Looting Bank
Is Convicted in Milwaukee,

Henry c. Coll, former assistant cash
Ter of the First National Bank in Mil
waukee, indicted on the charge OF assist
ing Frank G. Bigelow in footing the bank,
was found guilty by the jury on nineteen
counts. Coll can be sentenced to from
one to ten years on each count. which
makes a possible sentence of from nine
teen to 100 years. 1t is believed, how
ever, that he will be given sentence
similar to Bigelow'S, who was sent to
Leayenworth for ten years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08

1014-Battle of Clontarf. Ireland
1349-0rder of the Garter Instituted BY
Edward III.
1900 Brazil discovered by Pedro Alva-
req Cabral.
1509-Accession of King Henry VIII. of
England.
1884 Eliza Barton, Maid of Kent" ex-
ecuted.
1545-The mines of Potosi opened.
15T9-Hammond burned for heresy at
Norwich. England.
l626-San Salvador, Brazil surrendered
by the Dutch TO the Portuguese.
1645-Cromwell defeated the Kings
forces at Isiip Bridge.
i657-Admiral Blake destroyed Spanish
fleet of sixteen vessels.
1704-Boston News Letter, first Ameri-
can newspaper, issued
1755-Quito, South America, destroyed
by an earthquake
1TT0-Marriagc of Louis WI. and Marie
Antoinette. Many killed in crowd
to witness the procession.
1TZ5-Gen. Putnam joined patriot band
at Concord, Mass.
1902 French declared war against
Francis l. of Hungary and Bohemia.
1795-Warren Hastings trial ended in
acquittal.
1SO6-Great Britain declared war
against Russia.
lS09-Order of Teutonic Knights aboI-
ished by Napoleon.
1S14-British army destroyed public
buildings in Washington, d. c,
1S21-Three bishops and eight priests
put to death in Constantinople.
1S27-George Canning became premier to
George ".
1S33-Foundation laid for first Episco-
pal chul Oh in France.
1s36-Battle of San Jacinto. Texas.
1S3s-Meteoric shower at Knoxville.
Tenn.
1S46-Arista assumed command of
forces at Matamoras, Texas.
1S55-Riots in Chicago over license ques-
ton. >. Suspension bridge at st. An
thongs Falls. Mimi, partially de-
stroyed by gale.
1S6O-Democratic national convention
met at Charleston, S. G.
1S61-Gosport (ya.) navy yard de-
stroyed by Federals. .Confederates
took command of Fort Smith, Ark.
1S62-Capture of New Orleans by Far
ragut. Mint established at Denver,
Colo.
bxy frt
Adams cavalry.
1S73-Trial of the Tichborne claimant
for perjury began in London.
1S77-Russia declared war against Tur-
key.
1SSO-Gladstone appointed Chancellor of
Exchequer of Great Britain.
1882 WeIand canal opened for naviga-
ton.
1884 Steamer Bear sailed for the re-
lief of the Greedy expedition.
1SS5-Mysterious explosion in Admiralty
Office in London. Five hundred
natives persisted in eruption Of vol
cano, Smeru Java.
1SS6-Revolt in penitentiary of st. Vim
cent de Paul, Quebec.
1SS7-Suicide of Lieut. John Danen-
hover, Arctic explorer
1S93-Liberty Bell left Philadelphia for
Chicago Worlds Fair. . Home rule
bill passed House of Commons, 347
to 304. Business section Of Ward
ne~, Idaho, burned.
1S94-Betrothal announced of Grand
Duke Nicholas, Czarowitz of Russia,
to Princess Alix of Hesse
1S95-Paul Schultz, embezzlng land
agent of n. p. Il. r., committed sui
eide.
1S9S-President Mckinley called for
$4,000 volunteers. Beginning of
Spanish-American war.
1900-Attempt to blow up gates of Wei
land canal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
Big Gymnasium for Milton.

President Daland Of Milton college has
announced that if the students will raise
81, 900, friends of the college will give
$4,000 toward a $4,000 gymnasium. This
with the new science hall to be completed
this summer will greatly increase the ia
cilities of the college.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
Laughs-and Dies of ApopIexy.

While in a fit of laughter over a joke
and with his wife and several children
gathered about him John Jagodzinski of
Milwaukee was suddenly attacked with
apoplexy and died instantly. His family
thought he was unable to restrain him
self when he lay writing on the floor and
paid little attention to it until they final
~ realized the terrible truth.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08

Secretary Of State Olin Of Massachu-
setts has suspended the license of the
Metropolitan Coal Company Of Boston on
the charge Of making extortionate prices
because Of the expected strike in the coal
mining industry. This action was taken
10 enable the Supreme Court TO pass upon
the question as to what constitutes an ex-
tortionate price.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
Aged Nurse Remembered,

Alfred Rice, an attendant at the Pen
noye- Sanitarium in Kenosha, in restor-
ing health to a wealthy resident of RAJ
cine, reaped a reward when Mr.. Rice
was informed that by the will of Mrs
Ellen Brown, widow of his former pa
tient, he had been given life interest in
$4,000. Rice is 70 years old.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
arENoMoNIE FIRE BIG.
Loss by Early Morning Blaze II
FfftS Thousand

Fifty Thousand.
A $4,000 fire wiped out five business
houses in Menomonie early the other
morning destroying the Sipples depart
ment store, Meters saloon, the Palace
bakery, Hanschell's repair shop and Som
merheld's saloon. The blaze is thought
to have started from an explosion in the
rear of the Sipples store at ? o'clock in
the morning. 1t was a wooden structure
and before the fire department arrived the
building was mass of flames. Nothing
was saved. Other business blocks in the
vicinity of the fire were badly scorched
and with wind the entire business sec
ton of The city would have been destroy
ed. The families of Paul Sommerfeld
and Max Lachner. living over Sommer-
fields saloon, barely escaped with their
lives. Mrs. Sommerfeld, nearly suffo-
Gated by smoke, was rescued from the
building by the iremen with ladder at
one of the front windows. The loss is
about half covered by insurance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
Herman ProehI Kills self.

Herman Proehl. wealthy resident of
Racine, president of the Mechanics
Building Association, committed suicide
by sending bullet into his brain. De-
spondency because of the i'll health of
himself and wife is believed to have been
the canse
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
London,s Tube Opened.

The most important link in the solution
Of London's traffic problem, namely, the
Baker street Waterloo line, extending five
and quarter miles north and south. and
connecting with all the older subways,
has been thrown open to the public dur
ing the past week. This was one of the
railroads financed by the late Charles T.
Yerkes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
Mystery al Sbeu Lake.

The fourth fire in four days partly de-
stroyed the Mathews residence in Shell
Lake. 1t IS thought that incendiaries arr
ST work there. One day the big thinner
mann hay shed burned with a loss Of
$1,000. his residence burned day later
and on a subsequent afternoon two fires
occurred. Each tine a heavy gale has
endangered the tow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
NNono0oooNn

The Democratic Club of New York, in
aiming to reOrganize itself as the ma
tional Democratic Club, has decided to
support Bryan.
The Indiana Republican State platform
indorses the administration of Gov. Han
ly, favors a 2-cent railroad fare law and
State control of Insurance companies.
The Republican congressional committee
composed of member or Senator from
each State, chosen at the recent caucus of
Senate and House Republicans, has elect
ed Representative James S. Sherman of
New York to be chairman. the place held
by Babcock of Wisconsin for the past
eleven years. 1t is expected that the
chairman will open headquarters at New
York. Tawney of Minnesota was chosen
vice chairman, Loudenslager of New Jer-
sey, secretary, and Mckinley of Illinois,
treasurer.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor issued from the
Washington headquarters a circular letter
defining the political policy of the fedora
ton. All members are urged to vote in a
body regardless of party that we may
elect men from our own ranks to make
new idMS anu administer tutn. anu "
secure an impartial judiciary He wants
them to stand by their friends and to de-
liver a 'stinging rebuke to men or parties
who are either Indifferent. negligent or
hostile At the same time the Central
Labor Union at Washington proposed the
formation of labor legislative commit
tee composed of representatives from each
of the so central labor unions in the
country. 1t will have the duty of looking
after labor legislation in Congress.
In his latest open letter, addressed to
Senator Lodge. Frederick Upham Adams
takes the ground THAI the judiciary of the
country has usurped the powers belonging
to Congress and the President under the
constitution. Consequently he character
ICES the country as a judiciary" He
asks the Senator if he knows of any SUI
preme Court or federal judge who was
not formerly a corporation lawyer Mr.
Adams takes the ground that the consti-
tuition gives to no court the right to pass
on the validity of law passed by Con-
gress and signed by the President of the
United States.
United States Senator Berry of Arkan-
sas has decided to ask an investigation
Of the vote by which Gov. JEFF Davis was
nominated to the Senate. on the ground
that many of the Davis ballots were
fraudulent
The Vice President and Senator Platt
are said to have been the only persons
present in the Senate the other day when
Chaplain Hale. in the opening prayer,
quoted the admonition II say unto you
here. love your enemies"
Rhnelander Waldo. the young society
man of New York who occupies the post
Of deputy police commissioner is disap-
pointing his enemies by showing capac-
iry for hard work in his new position.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
TOWN is NEARLY BURNED.

Park Falls Citizens Save Village
When Fire Apparatus Fails.
Only the heroic work of Park Falls
citizens saved the village from total de-
struction at midnight. The store of L.
Heintz caught fire, but the engine failed
to work, and bucket brigades kept the
loss down to $4,000. The Heintz store,
residence and the home of Charles Ha-
beck were destroyed.