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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
News of Minor Note.

Andrew Carnegie has donated 81, 1856
for a library building for Cedarville (O)
college.
The Order of Railway Photographers APP
piled for an injunction at Louisville, KY,
TO restrain the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company from discharging en-
ployes who join the order
The interior of the new Central Pres
byterian church in Hamilton, Ont, was
completely destroyed by fire. Loss $780,
900.
The American Bond Reserve Company
was placed in TIE hands Of a receiver in
the United States Circuit Court at st.
Paul.
The new naval wireless station at
Point Iona, Cal, has been opened and
station will soon be established at Cape
Flattery.
The Swedish Evangelical Covenant adj
iourned in Minneapolis without having
settled the question of whether il will
publish paper.
Premier Cantacuzene. acting foreign
minister of Hungary, and the American
minister, J. w. Riddle. have signed
treaty protecting patents in the two coun-
tries.
Circuit Attorney Sager of st. Louis
dismissed the charge of bribery against
IT. f. Albright, former member of the
s.. Louis house Of delegates, after hA had
been acquitted on charge Of perjury.
The tobacco warehouse of William II.
Huntting and several small buildings Ct
East Hartford. Conn, were burned, en-
failing a loss of 100000. Emmanuel
Hoffman g. Sons Of New York owned
1900 bales Of the tobacco that was de-
stroyed.
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They are shoveling snow in Alaska.
Some of the Thaws are warm members.
Weather forecast: Cooler in November.
The President is COINS to dig out for
the canal.
Mrs Longworth is still dragging Mick"
around Europe.
BY all means a lock canal But time
or combination?
Oyster Bay has entered upon its cam
era fiend solstice.
Russia has troubles enough for herself
and all the rest of us.
Trains that try to break records wind
up with breaking necks.
1t is always the fellow who don't know
how who tries to sail the boat.
The Russian Douma is so deep in
thought it can't see over its whiskers.
Car Nicholas hasn't much of head,
but he doesn't want to lose what little
he has.
The White family are now going to
show that he was not as black as he was
painted.
The Zionites are urging Restorer Dowie
TO restore that 100000 he got out of
their bank.
Uncle Sans gunners are the record
shots of the woodland this is not mere
shooting off.
In Russia massacre-manage is called
a ''pogromstchiek." 1t certainly sounds
about correct.
Pretty soon they will have to appoint
commission to find something that hasn't
been investigated.
Anyway. the Panama canal has pro
crossed to the point where bonds can be
foated through it,
Boston and Washington have joined the
procession of cities providing cold jail
storage for the iceman.
TIE Sunday boating parties are once
more filling the obituary columns of the
Monday morning papers.
OF course, you wouldn't like TO be the
iceman if you had to go to Jail, Ike some
of the icemen in Ohio.
Wisconsin climbs on the Bryan band
wagon and Pennsylvania helps along the
horses by a yell or two.
On the day when the automobile doesn't
kill few somebody keeps up the average
By turning the boat over.
You needn't pay a trust. Judge Ryan
OF s. Louis decides. That ought to give
the trusts rush Of credit business,
The trouble with the Cars gifts of
freedom to his people is the long hunk of
wire cable with which they are I'D.
In the wave of reform has any law
been adopted TO prohibit the Insurance
companies from the free coinage of blot
tiers and calendars:
The Pennsylvania railroad clerk who
saved $4,000 while working on salary
of s126 month was certainly econom-
ical
The Pennsylvania experts must CON
slider as amateurs the Baltimore and Ohio
officials who paid real money for coal
stock.
Congress little reckoned what circus
il would stir up when it attempted to put
the jamestown exposition in the sideshow
class.
When they build that national high
way from the Atlantic to the Pacific. hit
ting the pike viii be matter of much
convenience
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
FALLS IN A DUEL.
Frances Under Secretary of State
Wounded by Deputy.

"OuHutu ny DcpNtS'
Frances Under Secretary of State Sar-
raut fell dangerously wounded, with blood
gushing from a deep sword thrust, in one
of the most sensational duels in the his
tory of that country of duels. Nj. Pug
liesi-Conti, a republican member of the
Chamber of Deputies, was Sarraut's OPP
ponent. The cause of the encounter came
earlier in the day when NJ. Pugliesi-C Cont,
assailing the government officials as
'sooundrels" for their action in the Drey-
fus case, was set upon by Sarraut and
pummeled to the floor of the legislative
hall. The session of the deputies broke
up in pandemonium. Members met in the
center of the House, fighting like demons
and raining blows to right and TO left
with apparent indiscrimination. Men
distinguished in French craftsmanship
fought like crowd of school boys. Pug
liesi-Conti and Sarraut withdrew from
the tumult and quickly dispatched seconds
to arrange a duel of honor. The scene
when the men faced each other was one
which will long be remembered. 1t was
a veritable combat between the govern
ment and the opposition. The prelimina-
ries arranged, the antagonists sprang to-
gether savagely. The spectators were
hushed TO silence, scarcely breathing as
the muscular little under secretary par
ried and thrust and thrust again, seeming
ly having a slight advantage over his
heavier opponent. But the duel was
quickly over, for suddenly M. Sarraut
left an opening and Pugliesi-Conti's blade
sprang in, infiicting a dangerous wound.
Sarraut dropped his sword and fell back
into the arms Of his seconds. 1t was re-
ported that his chance of recovery was
good
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, priiae heavy, $500
to $685.: sheep, fair to choice, $500 to
5000: wheat No. 2, 79c to soc; corn,
No. .. sic to 52c; oats, standard, SIC to
3Sc; rye, No. ?, Gle TO SIC; hay, tlmo-
thy. $3.50 to $1450 prairie, 5000 TO
$500; butter, choice creamery, 16c TO
Zoe; eggs, fresh, lac to 1Sc potatoes,
new, roc to 1Sc.
Indianapolis-C Cattle, shipping, $500
to 1915; hogs, choice heavy $500 to
$500 sheep, common TO prime, $50 to
$50: wheat, No. 2, 74c to roc; corn,
No. 2 white, Sic to 53c; oats, No. 2
white, 3Sc to 39c.
St. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 5000;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
5000; wheat, No. 2. 74c to Toe; corn,
No. 2. Sic TO 53c: oats. No. ?, 36c to
SIC: rye, No. 2, Sc to 64e.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 1928;
hogs, $500 to $685.; sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No 2, Toe TO re; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 54c to Doc: oats, No. 2
mixed, SOC to 40c; rye, No. 2, 63c to
G4c
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to 500; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No 2, 7Sc TO roc; corn, No.
yellow, 54c to 56c; oats, No. white,
40c to 41c; rye, No. 2, 65c to 66c.
Mlwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
Sic to S3e; corn, No. 3, Sic to 52c;
oats, standard, BIC to 3Sc rye, No. /,
&c to 63c; barley, standard, 53e to 54c;
pork mess, $3.50.
Fuffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $500; hogs, fair to choice. $500
to 1925; sheep, common to good mixed,
800 to 1913; lambs, fair TO choice,
$500 to $3.50
New York-Cattle, 800 TO 5000;
hogs, $500 TO 1925 sheep $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, sc to SIC;
corn, No 2, 5Sc 10 Soc; oats, natural
white, Acc to 44c; butter, creamery, tic
to Ole; eggs, western, lac to lie.
Toledo-wheat, No. mixed, 76c TO
7sc; corn, No. 2 mixed, 52c 10 54c;
oats, No. mixed, SOC TO 4lc; rye, No.
2, 59c to 60c; clover seed, prime, $3.50.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
COTTON TREE IS THE LATEST.
New Rival to American Product is
Found I'm India.

A tree which produces cotton reported
to be superior to American cotton has
been discovered in India. The cotton
gathered from the trees is claimed to be
better both in classification and staple,
and surprise is expressed by ]. K. Spence,
who for twenty years was a member of
the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Association
and who discovered the tree, that the
value of its product has not attracted the
attention of anyone in the cotton trade.
He has submitted samples to experts who
have graded it as fine and superfine, with
a staple from one and a quarter TO one
and a half inches in length. The tree is
indigenous to the Bombay and Madras
presidencies, India. Mr.. Spence reports
that he has under cultivation plantation
of over 100000 trees from four to five
and half feet in height which are full OF
buds and bolls, bearing cotton daily after
being planted only six months. The quail
ity and quantity of the crop, he says,
increase as the trees grow. He claims
the trees after the third year yield five
to ten pounds of clean cotton per tree
annually during a known life of twenty
years and over.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24

1t is to be observed, however, that
though the absolute number of immigrants
is greater for the last period than for
either of the otlle RS it is a contribution to
much larger resident population The
census of 1850 gave a Population of 3D.
191, $40, that of 1880 gave 50,155,7S3, and
that of 1900 gave 76,303,3S7. Hence the
fresh foreign element introduced in the
early sos was greater in proportion to
the population than the larger immigra-
ton of later years. 1t was so great that
we have the Know Nothing parry as one
of the political phenomena of the times.
The increase of numbers in recent years
is hardly so remarkable, therefore, as the
change in the character of the immigra-
ton. Until the present current began the
big immigration had been German, Brit
ish and Irish, and the Scandinavians as
a whole made relatively large showing.
In 1905 the immigration from Austria
Hungary was 275693; Italy, 221, 4E9;
Russia, 1S4,S97; United Kingdom, 49,
147; Denmark, Norway and Sweden, co.
645; German Empire, 1854.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
SEVEN CHILDREN DROWNED.
Six Perish While Trying to Rescue
Companion in River

Companion in River.
| Seven little girls are dead in one
| household at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Four
of them are sisters, the other Nthree
cousins. All were drowned within a
few minutes in the same fatal swim
ming hole in Cedar River.
The youngest is years old, the old
est only 16. Herosm of an unusual
character was the cause of the sweep
ing tragedy, for one by one the girls
rushed into the water to save the baby,
who slipped off the bank while the
others were playing near by. OF a
party of eight children who went out
to wade and frolic in the sand only
one survives.
The dead are: Lucille Sweeting, aged
z; Hazel Sweeting, aged IA; Gladys
Sweeting, aged 10; Josie Sweeting,
aged -; Ruth Coyle, aged IL; Cora
Coyle, aged 9; Clara Usher, aged 16.
Carrying baskets of luncheon, the
seven children, with Ruth Klersey max
ips an eighth in the party, went out
| for a picnic. The spot chosen was a
grove by the Cedar River.
When the picnic was almost over
Mrs. Coyle began to worry about her
baby, who was i'll at home. She left
the children and hurried away, telling
| them to follow her as soon as the
luncheon dishes had been packed away
In the baskets Little Lucille then ran
| into the water. watch me-" she cried,
and ran out on a sand-bar until she
reached its narrowest end, with water
eight feet in depth on both sides of
her. Then the sand crumbled beneath
her feet. and in another moment she
was struggling in the water.
The other girls stood aghast for a
few seconds, and Luclle's curls sank
| out of sight. Then her eldest sister,
Hazel, sprang out on the bar, leaning
over to sclutch her as she arose. The
treacherous sand betrayed her also !;
with a sharp scream she disappeared
Ten-year-old Gladys next, then Josie,
aged -, each bravely trying to rescue
her sisters, splashed into the still pool.
Lucille did not come to the surface,
but the older girls came up to stretch
out their hands toward the bar and
cried to their friends. Ruth and Cora
Coyle ran out together, trying to grasp
a hand, a dress or the floating curls.
| Cora lost her footing, like the others,
and Ruth was dragged off while at
tempting to pull one of the SweetinS
sisters to safety. Clara Usher was left
alone on the bank, but only for a mo-
ment. Then she joined the other vic
tins OF the river while doing her best
TO save one life at least from the dead
| ly waters.
A few minutes later Ruth Klersey
rushed up to the Sweeting house, weep
| ing and screaming that the children
were drowning. Mrs. Coyle, dropping
her sick baby upon the lawn, ran mad
ly to the pool, to find its surface mark
ed with bubbles and sun bonnets. Crop
Ing in the water with her arms as she
laid PROSTATE on the bar she caught
held of two pinafores and dragged their
wearers out, but they were dead.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
euATEMALANs ARE DEFEATED.
Lose 1000 in Killed, Wounded and
Prisoners to SaIvadoreans.

Prisoners to SaIvadOreans.
The Salvadorean army fought the
Guatemalan forces at Platanar Saturday
night and obtained victory over them,
the Guatemalans suffering a loss of
1000 men in killed. wounded and pris-
oners. The Guatemalan army, which
invaded by way of Santa Fe, was re-
pulsed by the Honduran army. Hon
duras is making common cause with
Salvador. Guatemala with strong
army has invaded Honduras and Sal
yador and battles have been fought in
both countries. Guatemalan troops are
advancing in Honduras.
Dispatches to the State Department
at Washington announce that the two
bclligerent Countries will avail them
selves of the tender of the good offices
of the United States looking to their
having in view an adjustment of their
differences, the cessation of hostilities
and the bringing about of peace 1t is
stated that while both Guatemala and
Salvador have accepted in principle the
proposition for a peace conference the
question OF arbitration would be a SUBJ
ject of future consideration. A fort
night ago there was a disposition on
the part of the belligerents to arbitrate.
The question then was whether Guate-
mala had injured Salvador by harbor-
ing insurgents on her territory or
whether Salvador by doing the same
thing had injured Guatemala. But the
recent battle, with the death of Gen.
eral Regalado, the former President of
Salvador and the leader of the Saliva
dorean troops, changed the situation.
Il is pointed out that as no territorial
or boundary question is in dispute the
matter Of indemnity for invasion of ter
r:tory would be main question by the
peace conference.
The cause of war is Guatemala's
charge that Salvador harbored on its
side of the boundary revolutionists who
planned to overthrow President Ca
brera. Salvador retorted with similar
charges against Guatemala.
President Roosevelt sought the CO.
operation of President Diaz because of
that rulers strong influence with Sal
yador. Guatemala suspects Mexico Of
unfriendly designs toward her and
points to certain bands of revolution
airy exiles who have gone across the
Mexican border. President Roosevelt's
representations, it is said, won the ac-
quiescence Of President Cabrera.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24

SbShEIAh1 hOol. ii z PRODUCER,
ard two weeks later to be buttoned to
the chin in a sealskin, to round the
Horn and travel up the coast of Chill
in borrowed warship, is in part the
task which Elihu Root, Secretary of
State Of the United States, has set for
himself. It's only a portion of his
task, for he will visit and be entertain
ed in the capitals of each of the coun-
tries visited. He has had a forward
part in the third International confer
ence of American States held in Rio
Janeiro.
Much has been made of the luxury
and grandeur in which Mr.. Root is
travelling. He has pretty nice quarters
and plenty of help" around to meet
his needs-that can not be denied He
is aboard a boat as big as an ocean
liner and has quarters especially fitted
up for him, his Wife and his son and
his daughter. Each has one to three
cabins, each has a private bath and
each has the service of as many of the
crew of 400 men as they need. Then
they have the range of the ship which
is brand new, recently built for the
navy of the United States and as fast
as any cruiser in the lot of crack ships
which Uncle Sam owns.
But even with these advantages Mr..
Roots task is not easy. To him has
been intrusted the work of bringing
Gbout better understanding among
the countries of the new hemisphere.
1t is task that has been essayed by
great men of the past and without the
fruitful results hoped and prayed for.
No less man than James G. Blaine
gave the best years and best thought
of his life to the problem and died with
it unsolved.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
CROPS BEAT ALL RECORDS.
Experts Estimate 100000 Bushels
More than Last Year.

According to the estimates of the De-
partment of Agriculture this will be the
most prosperous year to the farmer in
American history. All the indications
now point to the harvesting this year by
the American farmer of the greatest grain
crop ever produced in a single country.
This presages unprecedented prosperity
in the farming communities. 1t is not
always the case that with good crops
immense prices are promised, but on ac-
count of the failure or partial failure of
the grain crops in other countries the
prospect is bright that this year the
American farmer will be in position to
sell at notably good rates. just year
ago the estimates issued by the depart
ment indicated grain yield of 4,2S3,6 73,-
600 bushels. This year the estimates in
dictate grain yield of 1921, 444 900 bush
els, an increase over last year of approx
imately 100000 bushels.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
Express Compnnies Divide ID

In response to pressure, the stockhold-
ers of the United States Express Com
pany, of which Senator Plat of New
York is president, assurances have been
given by the management that dividends
would be doubled at the next period. Since
1901 4 per cent has been paid Wells,
Fargo & Co., according to similar pres
sure, has announced an increase OF 2 per
cent in its dividend rate and semi-an-
nual payment of > per cent July 10. The
indictments still insist that the company
is earning more than 80 per cent, and
has surplus of S20,000,0OO.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
FRISCO FIELD FOR WORKERS.
City Needs Artisans and IabOrers
in All Trades.

San Francisco is arising from its ashes
with a rapidity that surprises all and
building is progressing on all sides, ac-
cording to a dispatch. The labor situa-
ton is exciting much interest and inquiry
and the California promotion committee,
after careful investigation and confer
ences with employers and employees, has
ascertained that in all trades except the
building trades the demand is fully sup
piled with the one exception of ordinary
laborers, several thousand of whom are
in immediate demand for railway con-
struction and debris removal
In the building trades conditions are
entirely different. Mechanics are needed
in all departments of the building indus
try, principally plumbers, electrical work
ers, gas and electric fixture hansGrs, brick
layers, cement workers, bridge and struc-
tural iron workers, architectural iron
workers, plasterers, fathers, carpenters,
sheet metal workers and elevator construc-
tors.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
POSTAL RECEIPTS GAIN.
Aggregate Increased, but Washing
toms shows Retrogression,

Notwithstanding Congress was in ses-
sion during the entire month of June THO
year and was not in session at all last
June, the monthly statement of postal
receipts shows a falling off for the CAPT.
tai city of about 213 per cent, the receipts
for the month in 1906 being $S4, 553 as
compared with $S6,64S in 1905. There
was decrease of over 81 per cent in San
Francisco, which was due to the fire ard
earthquake, the receipts for June, 1906,
being $100,S2S as compared with $147,-
800 for June last year. The statement
covers the 1--WE largest cities in the United
States and shows a total collection for
June of S6,421 1913, net gain of So per
cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
Alfred Belt Dead.

Alfred Belt. the well-known South At
rican hnancier, who was rated as the
richest man in London, is dead. Mr.. Reit
controlled the output of diamonds and
gold in South Africa. and was at one
time alleged TO be forming gold trust. -
in which the names of prominent Ameri-
can financiers were mentioned
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
Birds that Eat Bou WeeyiI.

bulletin edited by the Agricultural
Department gives the result of an inves-
tigation of the relation of birds to the
cotton wer' il, begun by the biological sur
vey in 1904. 1t is found that twenty
eight species of birds feed upon the insect
enemy of cotton, including such we'll
known birds as the quail, nighthawk,
phpbe and meadow lark. While fewer
weevils arc destroyed in winter than in
summer, owing to the fact that the weevils
are more protected by the enfolding plant,
a greater number of species feed upon
them in winter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
HITS MAIL ORDER CITIZENS.
Governor Folk FavOrs PatronixinE
the Home Merchant.
NATIONAL LEAGUE

the Home Merchant.
In addressing the retail merchants of
Missouri at their convention at Jefferson
City, Gov. Joseph w. Folk spoke against
the mail-order business, and favored adj
vertising in the town papers. He said in
part: I'VE are proud of our splendid
cities, and we wish them to increase in
wealth and population. We also wish
our country towns TO grow. We wish the
city merchants to build up, but we also
desire the country merchants TO prosper.
! do not believe in the mail-Order citizen,
If a place is good enough for a man to
live in and to make his money in, il is
good enough for him to spend his money.
No merchant can succeed without adver-
Using in one way or another. patronize
your town papers, build them up. and
they will build the town up, and build
you up increased trade and greater oppor-
!unities."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
CONTRACTS FOR BATTLE SHIPS.

Cramps and New York Company Are
to Build New Vessels.
Secretary Bonaparte has awarded con-
tracts for the two 16,000ton battleships,
South Carolina and Michigan, one to the
Cramps of Philadelphia and the other TO
the New York Shipbuilding Company of
Camden, n. ]. The Cramps bid was 49,
$4,000, and that of the New York Ship
building Company $3,5S5.000. The See
rotary of the Navy was obliged to dis
tribute the contracts in this way because
Congress had provided that not more than
one ship should be built by any one con-
Germ.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
FREED IN FEUD TRIAL.
Judge Hargis and Sheriff Callahan
Found Not Guilty in Kentucky.

AT Beattyville, KY, the jury in the
Hargis-C Callahan trial returned a verdict
of not guilty. The men were charged
with the murder of j. Il. Marcum. The
verdict is the elimination of a fight to
convict James Hargis and Ed Callahan,
as chief conspirators, in the killing Of
James B. Marcum. Marcum was en-
gagged three years ago as an attorney
against Hargis and Callahan, respectively
county judge and sheriff, to GUST them
from their offices on an allegation of cor
rupt election. Much bitterness was
aroused. In May, 1903, Marcum was
shot down from behind in the Jackson
court house. Curt Jett and Tom White
were convicted and given life terms for
the murder. 1t was charged that they
were the tools of Callahan, Hargis and
others.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
A Cnre fnr Lenro.r

A dispatch from Constantirople that
Deyke Pasha, director Of the Culbene
hospital, has discovered a new method
for the prevention and cure of leprosy.
Not only will it render people immune to
the disease. but he believes that it will
make possible the eradication Of the dis
ease in all places, where it is prevalent.