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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
SOME STRIKE STATISTICS.

Statisticians on both sides have made
some estimates of the effect of general
suspension of coal mining. They figure
that there now are about 10000 union
miners and mine laborers. and 10000
of them are estimated to be in the hard
coal field. This altogether would mean
strike conditions to about 100000 per-
sons.
Estimating the average miners wages
at $425 year, the miners loss in wages
would be S2,500.000 week. 1t has been
estimated that the reduction of $50 per
cent in wages accepted by the miners two
years ago reduced their aggregate annual
wages $1S.000,00O or $20,000,000 a year.
The great 1902 anthracite strike was
declared May - and it ended Oct. D.
The estimated loss of receipts by the
operators was $40 100000, the loss in
wages to mine employees was S25,000.000.
There was a decrease in freight receipts
of transportation companies amounting
to $2S,000.000 and incidental losses added
many millions more. bringing the aggre-
gate loss far above $100,000,000.
The miners at this time have approx
mately 100000 in their national treasury
and have 100000 in district, sub-dis-
trict and local treasures. There is lit
tie more than 100000 in hard cash
available for a suspension. The fully
paid-up membership is $4,000 men. The
per capita defense fund in all these treas
uries is little less than so to the man.
However, these funds are not evenly
distributed. More than 100000 of the
money is in the Illinois district treasury,
and it belongs to the Illinois miners alb
solutely. Ohio has approximately $780,
600 in its district treasury, the two In
diana districts an aggregate of $125,000,
but many of the improvident districts
have practically no district funds on hand
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
1,ooo,ooo JAPs STARVING.
Famine i'm Island Empire Reported
Growing Daily.

OFONiHS DallNs
The New York State branch of the
American National Red Cross has issued
statement as to famine conditions in
Japan.
THE famine in Japan" the statement
says, (which has been considered for some
time moderately serious, is now known,
as the result of reliable private advices
received by the New York State Red
Cross, to be one of the most terrible star
walton emergencies of modern times.
"The failure of rice crops, which at one
time was believed to be limited to certain
classes only, in the northern provinces,
has been found to be general in those parts
of Japan, and conservative estimates place
the number of starving Japanese at from
100000 to 100000 persons. For those,
owing to extended rains last summer
which have ruined the rice and other food
crops, there is absolutely no relief in sight
until next October, when a new harvest
viii be available.
''As if this were not bad enough, the
present winter has been one of the most
severe in Japan in many years. The sum
of $16,000,000 will be required to save the
japanese country people. This is esti-
mated by allowing for a cost of ten cents
per person per day."
special meeting of the japanese fam
inc committee has been called for Mon
day. The committee is now considering
whether it is wise to undertake the collec-
tiOn and transportation of food as well as
money. Already two food experts from
Japan have been asked to prepare a food
list showing what American staples can
be used
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
>QNl9 &MlS
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SP@RT

Cleveland has been q fayorite with
many for years, but faith in that team
has been shaken considerably by its fail
ure to land the American League pennant
year after year.
University of Michigan students are
mourning the loss of Boss Weeks, cap
tain of the football team of 1902 Weeks
died only a short time ago of typhoid
fever. He was considered the greatesI
field general that Michigan ever had, and
he was immensely popular with the stu
dents at the institution.
The great success of the American
League in baseball has been due largely
to the uncertainty that has attended the
championship struggle ever since its cir.
cult included eastern clubs. In five
campaigns. three clubs have won pen.
nants, the Chicago White Sox once. the
Bostons twice and the Athletics of Phila.
delphia twice. In the National League.
in this period, the result has been fairly
discounted each year. The New Yorks
and Pittsburgs are so strong that they
have had monopoly Of the honors
Athletic affairs at the University 0.
Wisconsin are in a state of complete
chaos and the condition is held TO be
direct result of hasty action against foot
ball. Wisconsin in the West, like Column
bia in the East, was the first college to
take the plunge and abolish football Ac
ton along this line was taken before il
was known at all what the other colleges
would do. Then Wisconsin was forced
to wait for the others and in the mean.
time so great was the uncertainty as to
the future Of sport at Wisconsin that
state amounting to panic was engendered
As a result, athletes are deserving in
numbers and all team trainers have pIac.
ed their designations in the hands of the
authorities.
The value of eggs in athletic training
has aroused a warm discussion in Eng.
lands rowing circles. Oxford oarsmen
have been inclined to taboo the egg as an
article of diet, but the Cambridge uni.
versity crew recently made a record
time row in a practice trial The crea
which was supposed 10 be an inferior one
had been largely d;eted on eggs. IT 4
safe to say that the Cambridge men will
now stick to the product of the hen. no
matter what their Oxford brethren may
say to the contrary
The ST. Louis Americans have passed
Up brown as color and are seeking a
substitute for the hoodoo name of
Browns.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
OHIO LEGISLATURE ADJoURNs.
Many Important Reform Measures
Passed During the Session.

Many Important Reform Measures
Passed During the Session.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned Mon
day afternoon, TO meet again next Jan
nary. Among the important bills passed
are the following Two-cent railway fare !;
increase of liquor tax to $1,000 inherit
ance tax law repealed; Cincinnati and
Hamilton county Lexow investigation in
augurated; enactment of Dever law,
which makes possible successful prosecu-
tons for violations of Valentine antitrust
law; State regulation and supervision of
railroad freight and passenger rates pro-
vide.i for; search and seizure law to pre-
vent the illegal sale of liquor enacted. The
Pollock bill to give interurban railways
right of way into and out of city, for
terminal purposes only was passed by the
House Monday. The bill gives the com
panleS the power, with consent of the city
councils, to condemn a right of way over
existing tracks of other companies. An
amendment TO the effect that the law
should not be construed as giving an inter-
urban road the right to operate as a city
line was carried. The Senate had re-
ferred the bill to joint committee, which
restored the registration feature. 1t was
compromise between the Huffman and
Bsonson ideas, slightly in favor of the
Bronson bill. When the report of the
conference was made Senator Hugman OPP
p' Sed it because it compelled voters to
Indicate their politics at registration. Sen
afor Howe said this was necessary to pre-
vent members of one party plugging" in
on another party's nomination. The re-
port was not agreed to, this disposing Of
the measure
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10

Some interesting figures have recently
been published in Bradstreet's showing
the number of business failures last year
in the United States and the causes to
which they are attributable. 1t is stated
that there were 1901 .S62 concerns en-
gagged in business in 1901, and that OF
these 10,64S failed, or considerably less
than l per cent of the whole, lower per.
centage than has occurred in any yeal
since 1882, save in the year 1900.
Bradstreet's Classics the causes of fail.
ures under eleven heads, and gives also
the number which it regards as attributa-
bic to each cause. OF the eleven lack
of capital takes the lead as most pro
life in inducing failures, those ascribed
to it numbering 1923 incompetence
comes next on the list, and is made &C.
countable for 2,023, and then Specific
conditions" by which is meant such things
as strikes, the corn crop failure, the as
sassination of President Mckinley, the
lowered price of cotton at the South and
similar events of a disastrous tendency.
To these 1,755 business failures are trac-
ed. Next in number were failures arts
ing from fraudulent disposition of prop
erty" and amounting to 1,154.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
BURIED TWENTY DAa.s.
Fourteen Mon Out of 1900 Survive
French Mine Disaster.

A&aNh 1frAstCEs
Fourteen of the loo miners who were
entombed in the coal mines at Ceurrieres,
France, twenty days ago by an explosion
were taken from the mine alive and we'll.
They had lived on hay found in one of
the underground stables and the morsels
OF food which they took into the mife with
them. All attempts TO rescue the entomb-
ed men had been abandoned more than
two weeks ago. All France was appall-
ed by the ismensity of the mine disaster
in the Courrieres district of the Pas-de-
Calais. Political crises, domestic and for
eign, which were confronting the country,
were forgotten. The population of the
mining district became so hysterical that
fears of grave disorder were entertained,
as the afflicted people, including even the
women, took TO drink in order to drown
their grief. One of the most horrible
sights witnessed near the Inflated mine
is said TO have been that of wives and
mothers, each of whom had lost her hus-
band and three or four children, besieg
ing the authorities in state of complete
ntoxication, demanding the rescue of
their dear ones. The locality was placed
under the most rigid military control at
once and all bars and cafes were closed
until after the burial of the victims. The
miners at Courrieres were considered the
surest and most skillful in France. They
had made no complaint and made their
daily descent into the mine with the great
est confidence, and the explosion came as
great shock to the country. Serious
disorders were narrowly averted after
the disaster, owing to the persistence of
persons who wanted to see the bodies of
the dead as they were taken from the
mine in hope Of identifying them. Ger
many aided in the work of rescue, fifteen
men of the Westphalian rescue corps go
ing to the scene and remaining several
DAYS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
FLOODS DEMoLIsH BIG DAM.
Irrigation Enterprise in Wyoming
Nearly Ruined.

The great diversion dam at Alcova.
Wyo., erected by the reclamation service
as a temporary structure to divert the
waters of the rivers while the Pathfinder
dam is being built, has been washed away.
When the waters swept through the i'm
mense masonry many workmen barely es-
capped with their lives. The dam had been
built at a cost of nearly 100000. Small
cabins and barns 1oated down on the
swollen stream, which, spreading over the
iowlands, caused great loss to stockmen
and ranchmen. Miles of the lowlands are
flooded.
The flood is the worst in recent wears
The Platte river from the Colorado line
to Nebraska, distance of 500 miles. is
running over its banks and flooding tbe
adjacent country. Nearly all of the
streams in the State are in food Reports
of missing ranchmen, damage to ranch
and other property and drowning of live
stock are being received. The railroads
are having difficulty in traversing the
flooded territory. The foods are due to
melting snow.
A report from Lander saws that 1000
sheep belonging to Charles Souther. which
were housed in a large shed. were
drowned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
DowIE is DEPosEp.
Whole Church i'm Outbreak of Rage
Turns ON Aged Chief.

Whole Church in Outbreak of Rage
Turns ON Aged Chief.
John Alexander Dowie and Zion
came TO Il partine of the ways Sunday.
Dowie was repudiated, exposed as a
squanderer of lions money, rebened
against by his people. and criticised by
his wife. His lutocratic domination Of
Zion was ended By decision of the
Zion council Of overSeers and ac-
guessed in by popular approval of the
people.
In the dramatic climax of the revo-
lutionary policy that has been growing
at Zion since the arrival OF Deputy
General 0yerseer Voliva, Shiloh Taber-
nacle, in Zion city. near Chicago, rang
with cheers of delight for the new
leader Voliva, who was elevated to the
succession In leadership and hailed as
the Moses come to lead the people out
of a wilderness of business abuse and
Misrepresentation.
Dowie, in an S00-word telegram, cost
ing S96, rebuked Voliva and gave a
score Of commands, the execution of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
WATCH WOMAN BURN.
tluSeANp AND sen WITNESS
HER iNelNERATloN.
Mma u insaae aud Prevents Ind Co
lng 10 Rescue or hts Mother
Three New Work Mall Carrior.

Mrs. Martin Nauthof was burned TO
death in Grand Rapids, Mich. Her hus'
ban6 is held az the county Jail pending
The order OF Coroner Leroy. The l.
year-old son Of the couple was aroused by
his mothers cry ana rushed downstairs
10 find her body ON the floor surrounded
by flames and his father running around
the room apparently demented. He says
tina. his father held him and would not
let him go to his mothers assistance.
Vanthof has spent some time in an insane
asylum and is said TO have shown signs
of mental trouble recently. When the
neighborS reached the house, attracted by
the boys screams and the FIRE, Nanthof
was running up and down in front of the
house half clad. shouting. Il told you I'd
burn her up! Hurrah for the Stars ami
Stripes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
Zion Flock in Revolt.

John Alexander Dowie, self-styled d.
vine apostle, was deposed as leader of
Zion at a dramatic meeting. He was
branded as fraud by the chiefs of his
church, and the insurgents were joined by
his wife and son. Deputy Overseer Voliva,
recently placed in charge of the commu-
nifty at Zion City, ILL.,, was elevated TO
the leadership by the disaffected people,
whose discomfort has been smoldering for
some time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
PASTOR SELLS SON FOR $40.
Wife in Suit Against Minister
Charges Child Barfer

Charging that her husband, Rev. Peter
Rhynard, Baptist minister, who former
ly resided in Covington, KY, sold his son
to man at Ashley, Mich, for $40, Mrs.
khynard has begun suit in the Circuit
Court in Grand Rapids, Mich, for the re-
covery of the child. She names her hus-
band as defendant, claiming that he stole
the boy from her a few days before he
sold him. The man who bought the boy
died and Rev. Mr.. Rhylard again secured
possession of his son, taking him to Hi
nois. Since leaving Kentucky Rev. Mr..
Rhynard has toured Michigan, preaching
from pulpits in various parts of the State
and establishing for himself a reputation
as one Of the best preachers in the State.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
New Postmaster at CAPITAL.

President Roosevelt caused surprise
when he appointed Benjamin f. Barnes
to be postmaster of Washington to sue
coed Gen. John \. Merritt of Niagara
county, New York, whom he had earlier
in the day named as collector of the port
At Niagara Falls. Mr.. Barnes has been
assistant secretary to the President since
the death of Major Pruden.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
WOMAN DUPEs WIFE HUNTERS.
BIeeds Men for Money Through Love
Letters.

At Lewiston, Pa, Mrs L. Patterson"
as she was known, was held under heavy
bail by Justice Zerbe for her appearance
in the United States Court in Harris
burg in May to answer charge of using
the mails for fraudulent purposes. The
woman is said to have oorresponded with
men in various parts of the country, with
the object of matrimony, and under
cover of this to have bled her dupes for
money suppose to be devoted to car fare
and clothing. Their letters and complaints
formed the basis of the suit. The woman
is said to have passed herself off as the
niece of minister, Joseph Shirk, and the
dupes were led to believe that they were
about to be yoked up to the very persona
ication of the Christian virtues.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
Boy Hero Prevents Accident.

A heavy property loss and probable loss
of life was averted by the timely action
of Clyde Kirk, II years old, near Hadley,
Pa. High water washed away 100 feet
of the Lake Shore roadbed near the boys
home. The boy discovered the danger,
and, hearing a train approaching, tore off
his coat and tagged the engines.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10

Gov. Higgins Of New York granted the
requisition of the Governor of West vir-
ginia for the extradition Of c. A. Hen
derson of New York City to answer the
charge of selling stock under false pre-
lenses. 1t is alleged that he was instru-
mental in the sale Of stock to the value
of 100000 of the international Mercan-
tile Company, which subsequently became
insolyent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
President Decides Not to Act.

President Roosevelt has decided not to
grant the request of bituminous coal op-
orators for the appointment of commits
sion to inquire into conditions in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, and will take no
action until either the prosperity of the
country is at stake or until the miners
and operators are willing to submit their
differences to arbitration.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
GAHAXM ERCIA
3.@ 80 AND & ~
Hs ~ Tsl
1ENANCIA~
Chicago. nerent 81 strength Of trade it

is remarkable that In
both new demands and distribution
there is no evidence of diminution, not
withstanding the expected shutdown of
coal mines. Available supplies here
nave been augmented and. the heavy
consumers of fuel being provided for,
the operation of plants will suffer no
immediate hindrance. 49,
Weather conditions do not impede
construction, but lack the seas1oable
quality necessary to advance activity
In the leading retail lines. Wholesale
dealings, however, remain of large ag-
gregate and heavy shipments continue
to the interior of the principal staples.
while there is good demand for farm
implements, vehicles hardware and
sporting goods. Reports show a re-
sumption of spring work on the farms.
growing grains well protected by late
snowfall and the outlook encouraging
in the dispersion of country store mer-
chandise.
Visiting buyers here are placing lib.
eral orders. prompt Shipment being re-
quired. and some rearders have appear
ed in dry goods. Mercantile collections
throughout the tributary regions make
a good showing and the commercial
mortality is at the lowest point of any
week this year.
Production of the principal industries
is sustained at the greatest aggregate
known and the work ahead in some de-
partments runs into next year. The
raw material markets Indicate no de-
cline in the absorption, prices being I'M
usually strong in the metals, lumber
and leather. Pig iron is seen to be i'm
steady request and additional inquiries
suggest an extending need for rails,
cars and motive power.
Failures reported in Chicago district
number 90 against 80 last week. and %
a year ago-Dun's Review of Trale.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
National Capital Notes


President Roosevelt has removed Hor-
ace Speed, district attorney of Oklahoma
on charges of misconduct in Office.
Provision for court rate review is de-
Tended in Senate debate on Hepburn bill
by Senators McCreary, Bailey and Hey-
burn.
Representative Hearst of New York
has introduced a bill prohibiting secret
rebates, determinations and concessions,
and providing Imprisonment of one to ten
years for giving or receiving such re-
bates.
The early retirement of Theodore p
Shonts as chairman of the isthmian canal
commission and his return to railroad
work is rumored.
In discussing the appointment of
postmaster for Pacific Grove, Cal, Presi-
dent Roosevelt informed Representative
Needham that, all other things being
equal, he preferred 70 have such places
filed by veterans of the Civil War
Democratic members of the House com
mittee on election of the President have
succeeded in putting the Republicans on
the committee fatty on record as favor
contributions made to the natjonpl com
mittees in the last presidential campaign.
Geo. E. Green, former New York state
senator, has been acquitted by Wash
in ton jury of completely in postofice
frauds.
Administration forces in the house
express confidence in their ability to de-
feat the statehood bill as amended by the
senate.
Alfred Noble, the New York engineer,
testified before the Senate committee on
inter-oceanic canals in support Of the mi
nority report of the board of consulting
engineers, declaring in favor of a loek
type of canal for the isthmus of Pan
anna. He was a member of the board
and signed the report advocating the lock
project.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
Execnte rwe1ne Nntn1 Nntira.

At Pietermaritzburg, Natal, the twelve
natives condemned to death for the muir
der of policemen during the uprising
against the collection of the poll tax in
February, the postponement of whose ex-
ecution led to a dispute between the i'm
perial and colonial governments, were
shot Monday.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
RnrrIar Keeps Dinry.

George Douglass, a rich miner, was
probably fatally wounded in San Jose,
Cal, in a revolver fight with burglar.
The burglar was twice wounded, and later
was arrested in Santa Clara. In his
pocket was diary giving details of sew
eral burglaries, to which the man has
confessed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
Ohio Inheritance Tax killed.

The Ohio inheritance tax law has been
repealed. Representative Eagleson moved
that the Beatty repeal bill from the SEN
ate he taken up out of its regular order
This was done and the law was repealed
by a vote of so to 20. The income from
the TAX was $375,00C a year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
Ide Ushered Into omce.

The inaugural ceremonies in connection
with the induction of Henry c. Ide into
the office OF Governor General of the Phil
ippineS took place in Manila with civic
and military display. Three thousand
troops attended and the marble hall of the
Aymtamiento was thronged with thou
sands OF citizens of all classes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10

St. Paul celebrated its fiftieth anniver-
sary IS a municipality the other day with
paradeS of bands, military and civic or
CARNATIONS. The main feature of the
celebration was the laying of the corner
stone Of the St. Paul municipal audito-
rum and theater, which is being butt at
a cost of S350,000, the money having been
raised hY popular substitution.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
ExpeI Governor's Chi1dren.

Because Gov. ]. II. Mickey refuses 20
pay tuition his four children have been
excluded from the Lincoln, Neb public
schools. He has filed a mandamus suit
against the Lincoln school board to secure
reinstatement of the children. All State
officers likewise have refused to pay tut
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
Another Cashier Gone wronp

The discovery was made at Pittsburg
that Santa Fe railroad bonds worth 81
100000, supposed to be in the Enterprise
bank as collateral security, are missing.
and hat for ten years I. Lee Clark. the
cashier who committed suicide, had been
"doctoring' the books.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10

Co7losk. a striking miner. in a quarrel
with a guard who was patroling the
srookaae which surrounds the Consolidat
ed nine. discharged his revolver. The bull
let went wild and struck John Shepard,
civil engineer employed in the mine, in
the lnp. The wound is not serious. Cop
losk escaped
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-10
No More Crop Failures.

Crop failures are things of the past in
the United States, according to Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson, who declares that
science has triumphed over nature to sucn
an extent that all variations of weather
such as usually are experienced can be set
at naught.