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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
snarl,- from, the Wires.

A severe earthquake in the HarpOot
district in eastern Turkey was reported
in a cabegram received by the ,Ameri-
can Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions in Boston. Many are said to
have been made homeless and destitute
and relief is asked
Manning c. Palmer was convicted of
misappropriating the funds of the failed
American Exchange National Bank of
Syracuse, \. Y, and sentenced to FIVE
years in prison.
The Importers National Association
closed its offices in New York after an
existence of two wears. The organiza-
ton was formed to protect the trade
from unjust customs exactions.
Martin Green of Worcester. Mass.
who had charge Of the Chicago River
tunnel plans. has announced his engage
ment to Mrs. Joseph Sampson, formerly
of Chicago and now of Wareham, Mass.
The Foreign Missionary Society Of the
Christian Church received two Christmas
gifts amounting to $4,000 for missions
The names of the men, who gave $10,-
600 and $4,000 are withheld.
Gibson Packer. a former attorney for
the Carnegie Steel Company, who was
sued by Mrs. Mary L. Vetter. Pittsburg
widow. for 100000 for breach of prom
Use, filed a plea of no Indebtedness.
The new school law forbidding the EN-
ployment of children under IA in mills.
factories and stores. which went into
effect in Massachusetts Jan. ], bars from
employment between 1000 and 5000
children.
Count Won Moltke, nephew Of the
great commander of that name, VIII soon
become field marshal of the German
army.
The officers of the Retail Coal Deal
ers' Association of Cleveland, indicted on
the charge Of violating the antitrust
law by conspiring to raise the price Of
coal. pleaded guilty and were fined $500
each.
The fifth trial of the suit of Receiver
Stevenson of the Indiana Banking Com
pany against John G. New and John G..
Wright to annul the sale to the latter
company Of stock of the First National
Bank of indianapolis. has resulted in a
verdict for the defendants.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
National Capital Notes.

The President has nominated A. o.
Marsh as pension agent at Indianapolis.
Representative Fowler (New Jersey,
chairman of the House committee on
banking and currency, has introduced a
bill providing for the current deposit
of public moneys with national banking
associations at 2 per cent a year in
amounts not exceeding 80 per cent of the
paid up and unimpaired capital of the
banks. The bill also provides that any
national bank may issue an amount of
national bank notes not exceeding 80 per
cent of its unimpaired capital without de-
posting United States bonds.
Secretary Wilson of the Department
of Agriculture has asked Congress for
an appropriation of S135,000 for addi-
tionaI inspectors and microscopes to ia
cilitate increased exports of pork to meet
the growing demand abroad.
The State Department has received
news from San Domingo that ex-Presi-
dent Morales has offered to resign if he
will be allowed to leave the country in
safety. This proposition. it is under
stood, will be accepted. The Dominican
constitutional guarantees throughout the
republic.
The State Department has received
cablegram from Nicaragua announcing
that the Albers brothers, who have been
in prison there, have been pardoned by
the Nicaraguan government.
Representative John Sharp Williams,
minority leader of the House, has re-
turned to Washington from his home in
Mississippi, where he was called by the
serious illness of his daughter.
President Roosevelt, in letter to Con-
gress transmitting the annual reports OF
the isthmian canal commission and the
Panama Railroad Company, praised the
work being done on the big ditch and
replied in a vigorous manner to hostile
critics.
Among the nominations sent to the
Senate the other day was that of Logan
Tucker of Illinois, to be lieutenant in
the marine corps. He is a son Of Lieut..
Col W. f. Tucker of the pay corps,
u. S. A., and grandson of Gen. John
A. Logan.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
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Chicag O-Cattle, common to prime
$500 to $6.25; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to 1851; sheep, fair to choice, $500 to
$6.15; wheat, No. 2, SSc to 90c; corn,
No. ,, Ale to 42c; oats, standard, 30c to
Gle; rye. No. ., &c to CSC; hay, timo-
thy, $3.50 to $1,000; prairie, $500 to
$11.5O; butter. choice creamery, PIC to
26c; eggs, fresh, pc to 26c; potatoes,
soc to 65c.
anapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
TO $5.75; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$3.50; sheep, common to prime. $3.50 to
$500; wheat, No. 2. soc to soc; corn,
No. 2 white, 42c to 43c; oats, No. e
white, Bic TO 33c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 5000;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No 2, SOC to 92c; corn,
No. 2, doc to 42c; oats. No. 2, zoe to
32c; rye, No. 2, &c to Csc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to S4.S5;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$5.25; wheat, No. 2, Ole to 92c; corn.
No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 69c to
70c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $4.75; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to 1928;
wheat, No. 2, SIC to SIC; corn, No.
yellow, 44c to 45c; oats, No. white,
32c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 66c to CSC.
MiIwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
soc to SEE; corn. No. 3, doc to 41c;
oats, standard 30c to 32c; rye, No. /,
66c to Gle; barley, No. 2, 53c to 54c;
pork, mess, $13.67.
Toledo-Wheat. No. . mixed, SIC to
SSc; corn, No. mixed, 45c to Acc;
oats. No. mixed, zoe to 32e: rye. No.
2, &c to 69c; clover seed, prime, SSH.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 500; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to S5.75:
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep. $500 to
1913; wheat, No. 2 red, SOC to 90c;
corn, No. =, 49c to soc; oats, natural,
white, BIC to Csc; butter, creamery, dc
to 27c; eggs, western, 24c to pc.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
LETT DEAD ON TRACK.
villain Moran Confesses killing
Robert Collier After Quarrel.


A few hours after 17-ycar-old Robert
Collier had been murdered and his body
thrown on the railway tracks in Chi
cago, another youth, William j. Moran,
~ years old, was arrested and confessed
the crime. Golfers body was found on
the Nickel Plate tracks within 200 feet
OF his home. An examination OF the
body convinced the police that they were
not dealing with railway accident
They believed Collier had been struck
on the head and stabbed. The skull was
fractured, and there were evidences OF
a struggle in the rear of a barn owned
by Policeman John Swiggert. The body
apparently had been dragged to the
tracks. Shortly after the finding OF the
body the police began arresting friends
and acquaintance of Collier. Among
fifteen taken to the station were William
and Edward Moran, the latter Is years
old. William Moran made this state
ment: Il met Collier about $50 o'clock
iii the evening. We went to my house.
where we had supper, and about Z
O'Clock we went to the barn back OF his
mouse. We climbed to the hayloft by
ladder, and, seating ourselves, began
talking about the construction of locomo-
ives. short time ago Collier got work
at the Pullman car shops, and, as l am
working on the Illinois Central, we both
knew something about them. We dis
agreed and in the fight that followed
shot Collier after he struck me. Then
put the body ON the tracks"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
DR.. HARPER is DEAD.
OF University of Chicago
Succumbs to Long Illness.

President OF University of Chicago
Succumbs TO Long Illness.
William Rainey Harper, president
of the University of Chicago, is dead.
His long struggle against tie ravages
of an intestinal cancer-a terrible. ira
gle, losing fight of nearly twelve
months duration-ended Wednesday
afternoon, when, exhausted by suffer
ing and wasted from lack of nourish-
ment, his life slowly flickered out. His
last words, before he passed into the
final coma from which he never awoke,
were murmured half-incoherent mes
sages of farewell to the members of
his family, all of whom were at the
bedside. The sentence, God always
helps" was repeated often by the dy-
ing man.
Six weeks ago it became apparent
to DR.. Harpers physicians that the
sands of his life We're almost run. His
friends. his wife and children, and
even the patient himself, recognized
that the end was at hand.
His strength failed rapidly, and the
pain that tortured him became so ex-
trerae that opiates were administered
constantly by hypodermic injection.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
AT MILES OF BUILDINGS.
SaIue of Chicago Structures Erected
in 1905 Is $62,OOO,OOO.


The equivalent of over forty-seven
miles of buildings, single frontage. cost
ing approximately So, 100000 record
exceeding only by the phenomenal activ-
ity of 1892, the year preceding the
worlds fair-represents the colossal
building operations in Chicago during
the past year. The real estate transac-
tiens of the year, with a total of an
proximately $140,O00,000. also exceeded
those OF any year since 1892. Consider
ing all the circumstances, this record is
probably the most remarkable in the
history of the city and testifes to its
phenomenal growth and prosperity.
While Astounding in interesting details,
there is probably no other feature of
the years building operations of so strik-
ing and suggestive character as that
covering apartment house or fiat con-
struction. This has been on an unpre-
cedentedly large scale For 1904 the
total reached $14, 1888. 600. as compared
with $7,039,300 for 1903. breaking all
previous records. The figures for this
year, estimating the last half of Deem
Der, show the enormous total of SOL
SO9,900, counting only permits of $1,000
and upward. 1t should be said that in
cluded in this are buildings containing
both flats and stores, but these cut a
comparatively small figure in the total.
These figures are fairly staggering in
their magnitude. But when it is said
that the total residence construction,
counting only permits above $1,000,
amounts to $2,S49,600, some idea may
be had of the rapidity with which Chi
cago is becoming great city of flats.
1t also serves to suggest the rapidity
with which the city is growing. For
despite all these new buildings. builders
and agents having them in charge report
that they are being filled as soon as com
pleted. The fact that rents generally are
being well maintained would seem to
confirm this.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
FIND PRESIDENTS ANNoYER.
Writing of Insulting Letters TO
Roosevelt Slammed Nv ORcers

writing of Insulting Letters to
Roosevelt Stopped by Officers.
John Peabody, who lives just over the
Orange mountains near Montclair, n. j.,
was arrested by secret service officers
from Washington, on a charge of annoy
ing President Roosevelt. For months the
President, it is alleged, has been receiv
ing letters attacking him for his position
on the Panama canal question, on rail
road rebates and in fact on every promi-
nent public matter that has come up for
discussion. These letters are said to
have been offensive and were mailed at
different points, some at Bloomfield, some
at Montclair, and others at Verona, n. j.
The writer rave his name, but not his
address, ana there was much difficulty in
finding him. The detectives say he was
finally found in a public library in Mont
clair, where he was preparing another
letter when he was arrested. Peabody
was taken before tie authorities and at
ter severe lecture and upon promising
to cease annoying the President with his
letters, he was allowed to go.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
: w lille unreasonable
lOlK. weather adversely affects
New York.

| New YORK. weather adversely affects
retail trade and recorders
from wholesalers it at the same time
highly fayors the leading industries
and outdoor activities and facilitates
railway transport. Spring trade real
ly shows rather more than usual life,
requests for prompt shipments being
in evidence earlier than usual. Clear
ance sales are a feature of retail lines
and the season as a whole in heavy
wearing apparel has been so far dis
appointing. Collections North and
West feel this influence likewise. Bank
clearings break all records for a holt
day period, rejecting heavy end of the
year disbursements and stock specula-
ton. December was perhaps the best
month of 1905 for the railways, with
an indicated gain of II per cent over
December, 1904.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending Jan. 4,
1906, number 900, against 212 last
week, 27S in the like week Of 1905. 262
in 1904. 1856 in 1903 and 346 in 1902.
In Canada failures for the week num-
Der %, as against Is last week and 40
in this week year ago.-Bradstreet
Commercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
CHICAGO.

GllcdQO. that the turn into the
-I new year was made With
little interference TO production. An
nual balances and repairs have been
well advanced with bries loss of time,
ana the activities generally progress
under the encouraging influence of
promising outlook. Prices of all raw
material sustain the high level recent
~ attained, and bid fair to maintain
continued firmness. Important COM
mitments already have been closed in
manufacturing branches and new bust
ness structures, while inquiries show
that heavy orders impend in iron and
steel departments, rolling stock and
railroad construction.
Wholesale lines have accumulated
bookings of spring staples, which COM
pare favor6bly with the aggregate a
year ago, especially in best grades of
dry goods, clothing, footwear and
household needs. Interior advices re-
fleet enlarged sales last year, and sat
isfactory reduction of stocks, suggest
ing that replenishment will be upon a
liberal scale.
Retail dealings now are mainly con-
fined to clearances, the more winter
like weather inducing a fuller diSpo-
sition of warm apparel Mercantile
collections continue to show up well.
heavy defaults being unusually small
in number.
January interest disbursements
reached the largest total hitherto
known, and this created much activity
in banking circles. The payments re-
leased considerable volume of funds.
With this also appears increasing re-
turns from the agricultural sections.
These features favor increasing depos-
its here, but the demand for money
has not subsidized, and the discount rate
for all desirable loans is unchanged at
6 per cent, long datings being prefer
red
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number twenty-five, against nine
teen last week and twenty seven a
year ago.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
LOSSES of Dead Broker Large.

l.. w. Prior, the broker who killed
himself at the Hollenden hotel in Cleve-
land set Cleveland's spectators and
many of their financial leaders before
taking his life. The brokers' system
of doing business resulted in losses run
ming mp into TIE hundreds of thousands.
He could not face the men to whom he
had brought disaster, and chose death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
SEES GREAT FUTURE FOR CUBA.
President Palma Says Republic Car
BecOme a Paradise for Millfona.

President Palma Says Republic Can
Become Paradise for Millions.
Bright hopes for the future of Cuba
are held out by Gen. Estrada Palma,
president of the republic. Speaking to
newspaper man in the palace in Ha-
vana, he said: Cuba is capable of sus-
tanning a population of at least 10000
900. She now has 100000 and only
about a quarter of her productive soil is
under cultivation. You can see ct
glance what prospects there are in the
successful development of such resources.
We expect so to conduct the affairs of
Cuba that great deal of this develop
ment will come from American capital
and large portion of our population
will come from the United States. We
look to your country above all others to
help us in making Cuba what she is ca
pable of becoming, a paradise for mill
ions of people. Before We could hope
to be even on the threshold of such a
tremendous undertaking it was necessary
Tor US to demonstrate our ability to gov
ern ourselves. l think l may say with
out egotism that we have already made
that demonstration"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
SAYS EDWARDS TOOK OWN LIFE.
New Haven Coroner Believes Suicide
Theory Solution of Mystery.

New Haven Coroner Believes Suicide
Theory solution of Mystery.
Coorner Eli Mix has announced that
the result of his investigation of the
death of Charles A. Edwards in New
Haven, Conn.,, indicated that Edwards
committed suicide. The coroner said that
the investigation had not been concluded,
but that all surveillance over Allan
MaXcy Hitler had bean withdrawn. Here
are the main facts which the coroner
sets forth as leading to the belief that
Edwards killed himself: The finding of
morphine in the body; the finding of
bottle Of laudanum in the back yard,
together with a revolver. of which two
chambers were empty; the finding of
blood stains outside the rear dining room
docs and leading up the back stairway
to the landing in the front hall. The de-
duction is made that the coroner has con-
WINGED himself that Edwards went into
the back yard, drank poison, shot himself
and then went up to his room, where he
died
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
Negro school Law Is valid.

The Kansas Supreme Court has de-
cided that the law passed by the last
Legislature providing for separate high
schools for the whites and negroes at
Kansas City. Kan, is valid. The de-
cision paves the way for the Legislature
TO pass an act separating the whites
from the negroes in all the schools of the
State.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16

ducing bills at the
present session of
Congress. In thir-
teen days he intro
duced 34l bills. The
total number of
bills introduced in
the House in the
thirteen days was
10,061, as against a
total of 1920 for
all sessions of the
last Congress.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
,Iortgage to secure Bond issue

A mortgage from the Louisville and
Northern Railway and Lighting Com
pany to secure a S2,500,000 bond issue,
issued to the American Trust and Saw
ings Bank of Chicago and Frank H.
Jones. trustees, was recorded at Jeffer-
sonville, Ind. For the construction of troll
ley lines in Indiana 100000 of the
money raised on the mortgage win be
utilized.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
senate to Hedge in Roosevelt.

Members of the Senate plan to curb
the President, who, they declare, has
invaded the prerogatives of the upper
house. An investigation into Panama
affairs, especially with regard to the
monetary agreement made by Secretary
Taft, will be the first step.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
DIE IN NEW MEXICO STORM.
Sheep Owners Suffer Heavy Losses
from Deep Snow and Cold.

oheep owners Suher Heavy Losses
from Deep Snow and Cold.
James Yates, living near White Oaks,
N. NJ, half-blind ranchman, persisted
in e snowstorm. His body was discov-
cred in snowdrift two miles from his
cabin. As pillow he had used his hat
and scarf and his hands were folded on
his breast in an attitude of prayer.
Charles Newton, 13-year-old goat herd
er, also died in the snowstorm in the
Sacramento mountains. Heavy losses are
@eing sustained by sheep owners, as they
had made no preparations to feed the
sheep during the present severe spell of
cold and deep snow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
BoodIer Deserted by Wife.

Edmund Bersch, formerly a member
of the st. Louis house of delegates and
the first man to be convicted of boodling,
was released from prison at Jefferson
City the other day after serving his SEN
tence. and returned home. None of his
relatives was present to meet him at the
station, and he learned that he had been
deserted by his wife, who has procured
q divorce.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
said by ohio's New Governor.

John II. Pattison of Cincinnati, who
was inaugurated Governor of Ohio Mon
day, in his inaugural address commended
President Roosevelt's efforts for national
supervision of insurance companies. He
also urged the Legislature to pass no
partisan laws, said the Sunday closing
law should be enforced throughout the
State, and declared in favor of local op-
lion
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
Assaults Head of soldiers, Home

james Long, an inmate of the State
soldiers home in Hot Springs. S. D., was
arrested and placed under $500 bonds by
Judge Apologize on charge of assault
ing Col. Goddard, commandment of the
home. with 2 piece of lead pipe. Inter-
ference by another inmate of the home
saved the commentaries life
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
~~~~~~~~

DR.. n. W. Wiley of the Bureau of
Chemistry of the Department of Agri-
culture is making inquiry into the san
stands to reason, he says, that there
must be a lin to the period during
which meat snd poultry will keep in
storage in a stale fit to eat. The cold
storage companies are on the side OF
the investigators, for obviously it is
to their interest to know under what
conditions food spoils, and to be sure
of the state of perishable goods which
they are sending out to their custom
ers. The department has the use of
cold-storage plant in Washington for
purposes of experiment, and will ulti-
mately publish its conclusions in
pure food bulletin. 1t is interesting to
learn that although at present the
standards OF this department have no
legal force, yet by the natural author
ity which popular sentiment accords
the work of the bureaus, they have
gained something of the effect which
adequate legislation would give them.
-
There have been seven marriages
performed at the White House, where
it is, of course, inferred that the Long
worth Roosevelt nuptials are to be cele-
brated. The first was that of Miss
Maria Monroe, the youngest daughter
of President Monroe, who was married
in March, 1920, to Samuel L. Gouver-
neur, of New York The ceremony
was held in the famous east room. The
most brilliant wedding ceremonies in
this room were those of Miss Eliza"
beth Tyler and William Waller, of Vir-
ginia, and Miss Nellie Grant and Al
gernon Sartoris. The last wedding to
be held in the east room was that of
a niece of President Hayes. President
Cleveland and Miss Frances Folsom
were united in the blue room. The
only other President married during
his term of office was President Tyler,
whose second wife was Miss Julia
Gardner. The ceremony was perform
ed at her home in New York.
Congressman Frederick Lands, who
in his maiden speech in the House,
f1ayed insurance grafters and high
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
Let Poor sleep In Parks.

Tents to shelter 10000 poor people
will be placed in the various city parks
of Cleveland during the coming summer
if plans made by the municipal govern
ment work out. The benehciaries of the
scheme viii include both the homeless
and those living in the tenement dis
tricts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
Fourteen Years for killing Husband

Fourteen years in the penitentiary
was the sentence imposed on Mrs. Vir.
ginia B. Troupe by a jury in Judge
Smiths court in Chicago for the murder
of her husband Aug. 9 last Audible
signs Of surprise were heard in the court
room when the foreman of the jury
read the findings.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16
Train Goes Through Bridge

At Jackson, Ky. the Kentucky river
bridge on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad collapsed as west-bound
freight train was passing over it. The
engine was in the middle of the bridge
when the structure fell. precipitating
three freight cars and four passengers
into the river. The passengers were res
cued
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-16

Emerson Hall, the new home of the
philosophical department of Harvard
University, was dedicated the other day.
1t was named in honor of Ralph Waldo
Emerson. The ceremonies were attended
by members of the American Philosoph-
ical Association and the American Psy-
Geological Association, which began their
annual conventions at Cambridge.