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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
National Capital Notes.

President Roosevelt plans to go tiger
hunting in Africa when he retires from
the presidency in 1909
Alexander Goehr and Harry J. Col
Inns. at one time officers in the United
States army, were arrested at San
Francisco on the arrival of the trans
port Sherman from Manila. They will
be held pending investigation.
The Secretary of the Interior has
withdrawn from all forms of disposals
except under the mineral laws, 100000
acres of public lands lying in Missoula
and Flat Head counties, Montana and
Kootenai county, Idaho, for the proposed
cabinet forests reserve.
William l. Buchanan has been select
ed by the President as one of the dele
gates to the pan-American congress in
Rio de Janeiro next July. Mr. Buchan-
an was a delegate to the second con-
gress, which met in Mexico five years
ago.
Charges against James w. Reynolds,
renominated by the President as secre-
tary for New Mexico. are being consid-
cred by the Senate committee on terri
tories, and the confirmation will be held
up until they can be investigated. He
is charged with being an offensive par
tisan.
joint resolution pending in Congress
asks the international waterway commits
sion for an early report ON the use Of
the water flowing over Niagara Falls.
Republican House leaders have agreed
to rush through the three important
measures recommended in the Presi-
dents message-the Philippine tariff
bill, the statehood bill and the railway
rate bill.
Prominent European statesmen, edu-
Gators and publicists have joined in a
petition to President Roosevelt asking
him to attempt to bring to an end the
outrages in Turkey. The petition was
presented by James B. Reynolds of New
York.
President Roosevelt has issued orders
to the various departments of the gov
eminent TO curtail the amount of public
printing so as to make a big reduction
in the expense of that department.
Secretary Taft sent a communication
to the House committee on interstate
and foreign commerce recommending
that a military cable line be constructed
to connect the mainland of the United
States with the Panama canal zone.
Steps to save the old frigate Consti-
tuition were taken in the House of Rep
resentatives when a resolution was
adopted directing the committee on
naval affairs to ascertain the annual
cost of proper care for the old warship.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Told in a Few Lines.

President Roosevelt was elected an
honorary member of the New York Ath-
| letic Club.
Engineers and fremen on the Penn
| sylvania and Baltimore and Ohio rail-
roads are agitating for increased pay.
Hugh S. Tuohy, the oldest clerk in
the Treasury Department, died in Wash
ington He served in the department
forty-four years.
The National Board of Trade. in SEES
sion in Washington, admitted to mem
bership a society of Bridgeport, Conn.,,
| organized to re list the tide of socialism
declared to be sweeping over this coun-
| try.
Senator Warner of Missouri charac-
terized as ''supremely ridiculous" his
boom for the Republican nomination for
President launched by Representative
Bartholdt. He says he does not take it
| seriously himself, nor did he believe
anyone else does.
The price of glass will be advanced ID
per cent as the result of the formation
| in Pittsburg Of an association of indie
| pendent manufacturers, to be known as
the National Window Glass Company.
.members of which announced that the
increase in price mld been decided upon.
Evidence of the existence at the Kan
sas City stock yards of an organization
Of men to Gefraud shippers by a system
of overweights and underweights was
disclosed in that city in the trial of jay
j. Miller, a trader, charged with per
jury. 4. ]. Judy, chairman of the
finance committee of the Traders Elk
change, admitted on the stand that ne
knew about the thefts, that he profited
thereby and was a party to them. He
named nine others in the combine.
Three Japanese counterfeiters have
been arrested at Seattle by a secret SER
vice officer and hundreds of dollars
worth of spurious So and $40 gold pieces
captured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
GREAT SHIP ON ROCKS
STEAMER VALENCIA AT MERCY
OF PACIFIC STORM.
Reef on Vancouver Island, Long
Dreaded by Mariners, Is Obstruc-
tfon Upon Which Vessel Is Dash
ed-Many Reported Lost.

The steamer Valencia of the Pacific
the San Francisco-Puget Sound route,
with ninety-nine passengers and a
crew of fifty on board, went ashore on
the rocks at the base of precipitous
cliff on the most inaccessible section of
the Vancouver Island coast The Va
lencia drove on to the rocks during a
dense fog while trying TO make the
entrance of Juan de Fuca strait early
Tuesday.
Although only the most meager in
formation of the wreck was obtain
able up to a late hour, it is known
that several lives We're lost IN attempts
to reach the shore. Exactly how many
persisted in this way and in the first
confusion attending the wreck is not
definitely known.
The Valencia sailed from San Fran
cisco Saturday evening and carried up
ward of 100 passengers and sailors
AT noon Tuesday she was to have tied
to her pier in Seattle harbor. Instead,
bits of her wreckage were being dash
ed wildly against the cliffs and the
sands of the beach of Vancouver Isl
and.
OF those on board when the vessel
went down, only nine are known to
have got to land and safety. These
were picked up by Indians on the
west coast of Vancouver, near fish
ing village known as Carmanah. 1t is
learned from these that the Valencia
struck the rocks near Beale Point. In
an instant she was sinking. Out of
the blackness of the waters arose a
false light which beckoned her to
death. She dashed upon the reef with
out warning. And like a shell, she
was ground into fragments. Those
who escaped did so clinging to parti-
cles of the wreckage.
The accident happened when half
the passengers were in their state
rooms. Some were undressed. None
was prepared to take to the below
ing waves. In the west the clouds
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
WAR VESSEL SINKS.
BRAZILIAN TuRRET SHIP DE,
STROYED BY EXPLOSION.
Battle Craft Aquidaban Blows Up
on Rio JaneirO and 2I2 Seamen
Borne Down I'm the Wrecked Hull
Powder Magazine Explodes.

The Brazilian turret ship Auuida-
ban was sunk at Port Jacarepagua of
Rio Janeiro, as the result of an ex-
plosion. 1t is reported that over two
hundred of the crew persisted and that
Only one officer was saved. 1t is an
nounced that the magazine of the YES
sci exploded without any signs to warn
the crew, but in view of recent mutt
MES in the Brazilian navy it is feared
that the explosion may have been the
result of design rather than accident
The information in hand shows that
few of the sailors or officers had
chance for life. The center of the big
engine of war was hurled outward and
upward. Men were thrown high Into
the air, to fall stunned or mangled into
the sea. Spars fell among the men,
but most of the latter were unable to
grasp at anything in an effort to keep
afloat till assistance might arrive.
Others of the sailors who occupied Dor.
tons of the vessel not rent asunder by
the explosion jumped into the ocean
and sought to swim from the shattered
hull far enough not to be drawn down
in the vortex produced by its sinking.
So rapidly did the vessel sink, however,
that few were able to make more than
q few strokes
Fire burst from the center Of the
ship simultaneously with the explosion,
and while the vessel settled the flames
arose in the splintered decks. One or
two small boats were launched by the
coolest heads, hut these were of little
avail in saving life. One of them was
swamped by the crowd that jumped
into it in the panic on board. Another
put off with one officer and several
sailors inside and managed to make
land.
Smaller warships and merchant
craft near the scene or the disaster
steamed out as swiftly as possible to
pick up possible survivors. They found
few, so sudden and complete was the
wreck of the Aquidaban.
The armored cruiser Aquidaban was
the flagship of Admiral Mello's fleet
during his sensational rebellion against
Brazil in 1893 and 1894. 1t was the
Aquidaban which, during that REBEL
ion, nearly brought on naval engage
ment with the famous American
white squadron" under Rear Admiral
Benham, in the harbor of Rio Janeiro.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
BEAT ALL RECORDS.
Greatest Building Year in Ameri
cR,S History.

Greatest Building Year in Ameri-
cas- History.
During 1905 permits were taken out
in % of the principal cities of the coun-
try for the construction of buildings ag-
gregating in cost $52S, 186,412, against
1915, 100 for 1904, a gain of 1852
615,2S2, or 40 per cent, says the Con
struction News.
This is a remarkable showing. Never
before in the history of this country has
anything like it ever been seen, yet, on
the other hand, there is, in so far as one
can discern, no reason why building in
1906 should not exceed the magnificent
totals of 1905. All but four of these
cities show substantial increases, not a
small gain, but a good healthy advance
in material development over 1904.
For example, Chicago had a gain of
80 per cent; New York, 60; Philadelphia,
81; and st. Louisiana this the year
after the worlds fair-a gain of 90 per
cent. An interesting part of the record
is the growth and development of the
smaller cities, such as Indianapolis, rs
per cent; Columbus, Ohio, 90; Louisville,
90; Denver, So; Detroit, 81; Kansas
City, 81; Washington, 81; New Orleans,
SO; Cincinnati, 81; st. Paul, 80; Cleve-
land. 48; Brooklyn, "A; Minneapolis, 81,
and San Francisco, 81.
Decreases, quite fortunately, number
only four-Atlanta, II; Seattle, 80,
Pittsburg, 6, and Memphis, per cent
1t is pretty hard to account for this fall
ing off, other than that Pittsburg has
shown unusual activity in former years
Memphis was affected by the yellow
fever scare, while there seems no reason
why Atlanta and Seattle should have
fallen so far behind.
Great as the figures are, they tell but
part of the story. They only embrace 26
of the principal cities. What about the
thousand and one cities. towns and vii
lagos scattered all over the country in
which the era of prosperity has been
equally responsive? Were it possible to
obtain the figures, they would be much
greater by many times over than those
contained in the foregoing. On the
whole, the year was eminently satisfac-
tory, and builders and material dealers
look back upon it with the deepest graft
tude and with feeling of assurance that
the season upon which we are now en-
tering will be equally prosperous
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
News of Minor Note.

Rawson +. Watkins has been appoint
ed assistant treasurer of the Denver
and Rio Grande Road at Denver.
Day Compton of Sidney, Ohio, was
probably fatally injured by the acct
dental discharge of his revolver at Los
Angeles, Cal.
The mildest season Chicago has ex-
perienced in ten years has produced the
heaviest winter tourist travel in the his
tory of transportation lines.
John H. Converse of Philadelphia has
endowed a chair of homiletics and pas
toral theology in the Omaha Theological
seminary, a Presbyterian school, with
$4,000.
Augustus Saint Gaudens, the Ameri-
can sculptor, and Josef Israels, the
Dutch painter, were elected honorary
foreign members by the Royal Academy
in London.
Judge L. II. Paynter was elected Unit
ed States Senator from Kentucky to
succeed J. G. S. Blackburn by both
houses of the State Legislature at
Frankfort.
J. A. Calbick of Chicago was elected
president of the Lumber Carriers Asso-
citation at a meeting held in Detroit.
Ambrose France, a Burlington conduc-
tor, was killed at Armour Junction, Mo-,
by falling off the pilot of an engine.
The British admiralty has rescinded
its decision to change the naval uni
forms. The jack tars will continue to
wear the historic jumper and baggy
trousers.
James Hazen Hyde was dropped as
vice president of the Equitable Trust
Company at the annual election. His
place was not filed Mr.. Hyde received
$4,000 a year salary.
Gradually the gasoline motor is dis
placing the hand car on the railroads of
America. The vision of a road master
ensconced on a clumsy hand car with
four stalwart section hands pumping at
the handle bars of the slowly working
machine has been familiar sight to
railroads for many years. But now. In
place of the old grind of the sprocket
chain is heard the pdff of the little mo-
tor which is readily handle5 by one man.
There is nothing strange In the discov-
cry by the admiral who took fishing
smacks on the Dogger Bank for Jap
anese torpedo boats that the British had
planned to destroy his feet in case Togo
failed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
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Chicag0-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to S6.25; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, sec to SIC; corn,
No =, Ale to 42c; oats, standard, 29c to
Bic; rye No. 2, &c to CSC; hay, timo-
thy, $3.50 to $780, prairie, 5000 to
$11.5O; butter, choice creamery, 24c to
pc; eggs, fresh, 1Sc to PIC; potatoes,
53c to Gle.
Indianapolis-Ca shipping, $500
to So 20; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$50; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$500; wheat, No. ., SOC to 90c; corn,
No. white, 43c to 44c; oats, No.
white, Bic to &c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 5000;
hogs, $500 to $5.45; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, Ole to 94c; corn,
No. 2, doc to 42c; oats, No. 2, zoe to
Gle; rye, No. 2, &c to CSC.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to s4s5;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$50; wheat, No. 2, 92c to ODE; corn.
No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; oats, No. .
mixed, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 2, Csc to
zoe.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $475; hogs.
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to 1928;
wheat, No. 2, Soc to SIC; corn. No. 3
yellow, 44c TO 46c; oats, No. 3 white.
32c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 66c to Csc.
Milwau- ee-Wheat, No. northern.
S3c to SAC; corn, No. 3, Ale to 42c:
oats, standard, 30c to &c; rye, No /.
CSC to G9c; barley, No. 2, 53c to 54c,
pork, mess, S13.60
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SEC to
SIC; corn, No. mixed, 44c to 45c;
oats, No 2 mixed, Bic to 33c; rye. No.
2, 66c to SIC; clover seed, prime, $500.
Buffalo-CattIe, choice shipping steers.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice. $500
to 1913; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1913; lambs, fair to choice.
$500 to S7.75.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500:
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat. No red, SOC to soc:
corn, No. 2, 52c to 54c; oats, natural
white, SIC to Csc; butter, creamery dc
to &c; eggs, western, 1Sc to zoe
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
RUNAWAY HUSBANDS.
New York Authorities Are Trying
to Find 10000 of Them.


According to the testimony of those
who know. the New York authorities at
present are irving to trace the where
abouts of uuw ards of 10000 runaway
husbands Chicago has $4,000. What a
vast burden is thus thrust ON the com
munity at large by individual Sinking
of the responsibilities of the married
state can we'll be imagined; and the
evil is growing at such 4 rapid rate that
the powers that be have become alarm
ed.
One Of New York's besr known mag
istrates has declared that the matter is
the grayest problem that the city has
TO deal with; and ministers of all de-
nominations have borne testimony to the
caIlous indifference shown by husbands
towards their marriage VOWS. In some
cases if is the wife who deserts the hus-
band. out that is the exception, in nine
ty-nine cases out of hundred the re-
verse being the fact. The most signifi-
cant feature of these wholesale deser-
tions is that in nearly every instance the
runaway husband leaves two or three
children. as well as wife, as a tax on
the community.
There are exceedingly few assertions
of childless wives. which clearly shows
that the object of the desertion IS to
evade the responsibility of providing for
a family.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
FRANCE AND VENEZUELA.
Cause of the Present Rupture Be-
tween the Two Governments.

tween the Two Governments.
The rupture between France and
Venezuela has resulted Immediately
from the latter's refusal to recognize
the French diplomatic representative.
France persuaded President Castro to
withdraw his offensive note, but could
not induce him to deal with NJ. Taigny,
the French charge daffaires, although
declaring that the official act which
made him obnoxious, was exactly in
accordance with directions from the
French foreign Office. France assumed
all responsibility in the matter, but
this was not sufficient to satisfy Pres
ident Castro, who appears 10 have
taken a personal dislike TO NJ. Taigny.
OF course, the original cause of the
strained relations between France and
Venezuela was the alleged failure of
the French Cable Company to live up
to its franchise obligations, and this
alleged failure appears to have appeal
ed all the more urgently TO President
Castro, because of the Cable Com
pany's assistance to revolutionists
whom President Castro at the time
was engaged in suppressing. Indeed,
the Cable Company was charged by
President Castro with supplying the
revolutionists both information ana
money, and whether this is true or not,
it served as an excellent pretext for
giving the Cable Company's failures
in other directions immediate atten-
ton. The French government entered
protest, President castro answered
smartly and it was in the ensuing con-
troversy that NJ. Taigny incurred
President Castro's disfavOr.
France has large fleet in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Venezuela, and
will probably use it, if it shall fail to
adjust matters through the agency of
the American minister who now repre-
sents the French foreign office. But
whether OF not France employs force
in compelling Castro to behave de-
Gently, it is a foregone conclusion that
Venezuela will receive little, if any,
encourage cement from this country. 1t
is not impossible that France may be
even Joined by the United States in her
efforts to compel respect for foreign
interests.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
LOSE LIVES IN sNowsLIDE.
Five Miners Are Killed and Rail-
roads in Colorado Blocked.

Five Miners Are Killed and Rail-
roads in Colorado Blocked.
Five Italian miners employed at the
Sunnyside mine lost their lives IN an
immense snowside at Silverton, Colo.
The mine blacksmith shop and several
tram cars were swept away. No trains
from Durango and Denver had arrived
there for five days, slides and immense
drifts of snow having blocked the tracks.
There are eleven slides between Silver
ton and Elk Park. An immense one
went into the Animas river, forming a
dam of snow and ice which caused the
stream to back up and overflow the Rio
Grande tracks to a depth of four feet.
1t will be several days before traffic can
be resumed between Silverton and Du-
range. The Iowa mill in Arastra Gulch
has been crushed by snowslides which
came down Little Giant mountain. The
storm has been one of the worst ever
known in that section.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Brief News Items,

The second national conference for
the reform Of primary and election laws
will be held in New York March to Z.
Many civic bodies and public officials
viii be represented.
4 reward Of $1,000 is offered for the
arrest Of Jacob II. Weaver. He is ac-
cused of securing $500 loan from
DR.. George E. Washer of Laporte, Ind,
by a forged deed TO farm.
Tie ID. ]. Hennessy Mercantile Com
pany of Butte. Mont, whose store was
robbed of $1,000 by two robbers, has
authorized an offer of a reward of So
600 for the capture Of the bandits.
Financial embarrassment, said to have
resulted from the failure OF the John r.
Walsh banks of Chicago, caused g. Cen
edella, a contractor of Milford, Mass,
TO make an assignment. Cenedella had
large contracts in connection with the
construction of Indiana railroads.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
TRADING STAMPS IN CHURCH.
Pupils Lured to sunday school by
Modern Mercantile Plan.

Trading stamps have invaded the
churches, and the st. Louis pastor who
has introduced them thinks their value
will soon be noted by other ministers.
Rev. Luther f. Todd of the First NJ. r.
church is the originator of the idea, and
his first experience has been so successful
that the plan will be extended to the en-
tire congregation. a regular book has
been issued to each child attending Sun
day school. A 2-cent stamp is given for
attendance. one blue J-cent stamp is the
reward for each new scholar brought to
the school, and in addition to these a
1-cent stamp is given for every penny
given as an offering on Sunday. When
the stamps in the book amount to 81 or
more they are turned in to the premium
committee, and the scholar is permitted
TO select from a long list of prizes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

Lille Wenzel. 20 years old, was shot
and fatally wounded as she was leaving
a dance hall on Fifty-ffth street, Cleve-
laHd, in company with a young man
named Edel. The police are looking for
Homer Wieland in connection with the
shooting
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
FIND POISON IN STOMACH.
Light Shed Death of Eccentric
Who Married Young Woman.


Who Married Young Woman.
Arsenic has been discovered in the
stomach of Frederick Mueller, the eccen-
trio German farmer of ST. Louis county,
Mo-, who married a woman twenty-five
years his junior Dec IA while standing
in the right of way of the Frisco rail-
way. Sixteen days later he was dead.
The coroner had the body exhumed
against the protests of the young wife,
who by his death became possessed of
one-half the farmers estate by the terms
of an ante-nuptial contract. The stom-
ach was sent to st. Louis chemists with
the result that unmistakable evidence of
arsenic poisoning was discovered. Mrs.
Mueller declared when the body was ex-
humed that if any sign of poison was
found it would mean he had taken it vol
unfairly. She Indignantly denied stories
of mysteries being connected with the
deaths of her first husband and her 16-
year-olt SON
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Estate to Two Sons.

The will of the late Sir Henry Irving
was probated in London. His estate is
valued at $73,165. The will provides
for the payment of an annuity to his
valet, COLLISION. The bulk of the residue
goes in equal parts to the two sons of
the testator.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

Shouts Fire When Refused Admit
tance-SeveraI Persons Hurt.

A boys wanton cry of fire in the
Cleveland Theater, Cleveland, Ohio,
caused the stampede of a good share of
the audience and the injury of several
persons. The boy attempted to gain adj
mittance to the gallery without ticket,
and upon being refused, shouted Fire"
at the top of his voice. The large au-
dience was in an uproar Immediately
and several hundred persons rushed for
the exits. Before the panic became
general, however, theater attaches and
policemen had assured the audience that
there was no fire and those who had
fled We're quickly induced to return to
their seats. An alarm of fire was turn
ed in during the excitement The boy
who caused the trouble escaped. Only
one woman was badly hurt, the injury
to the others being slight.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

LansfOrd, n D., was almost wiped
out by fire. The estimated loss is SOL
900. The entire business district is in
ashes and only heroic efforts on the part
of the volunteer fire department saved
the residence district from destruction.
The fire started in the office of the
Lansford Times and spread rapidly. In
all ten buildings were burned.