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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
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President Samuel GomperS of the
American Federation of Labor has begun
his stamping tour in Maine against the
reelection of Littlefeld. Mr.. Gompers
charges Littlefeld with being an enemy
of organized labor.
The resolution indorsing w. r. Hearst
was rejected by the convention of union
printers at Colorado Springs. but in it's
place a resolution was adopted commend
ing all legislators and editors who have
exerted themselves in behalf of union la
b0f
The attitude of President Roosevelt to-
ward State factional fights in the Repub-
lean party was made plain again during
the week by his approval of the course of
federal officers at New York in not taking
sides in the contest for the chairmanship
Ct the New York Republican committee
Justice Brewer of the United States
Supreme Court, in St Louis interview
said that the next presidential election
would be fought with Taft representing
the Republicans and Bryan the Demo
Gratis. He paid high compliments to the
virtues of both men. He thought that
Bryan and Roosevelt had many qualities
in common. both being earnest and fear
less. and having the interests of the coun-
try at heart. Taft. he said. was not so
impulsive or decisive as the President
and would have less friction.
President Dettrey of District =. United
Mine Workers. was nominated by the So
cialist party of Luzerne County. Pa. after
which he declined a nomination for the
L. u. f.lo
rounced that the salvation of the wage
earners was to be found in the Socialist
party.
The unusual spectacle of a Democratic
convention frankly indorsing both Roose-
welt and Bryan. the former for his fights
on trusts and the latter as the next pres
idential candidate. was presented by the
convention Of the Twelfth Ohio Congress
s,onal District.
The Nebraska Republican convention at
Lincoln named Morris Brown. the States
Attorney General. for United States SEN
ator, and State Senator George l.. Shell
don for Governor. These men stand for
limitation OF corporate powers. The plat
form demands direct primaries and tariff
reform by Republicans only.
Chairman Griggs of the congressional
committee is following the lead of the
Republicans by beginning dollar sub
seriptioI. plan for the raising of cam
paign feud Il is 10 be advertised through
the country Democratic press. and each
paper will be asked to raise $50. The
Republicans have added the endless chain
feature TO their plan.
BY az on ,rwhelming majority the Dem
ocrats of Georgia have nominated Hoke
Smith. who was Secretary of the Interior
under Cleveland, for Governor. II an
pearer certain that he would carry over
100 of the 145 counties. His princinal
opponent was Clark Howell, editor Of the
Atlanta Constitution. who one year ago
challenged him to the contest. During rho
campaign both candidates INDUCED in biz
ter personalities Smith charged Howell
with representing the railroad ring. and
Howell accused Smith OF shady dealings
including the acceptances of favors from
J. r. Morgan. Smith had never before
been a candidats for See.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
TWO BOLTS KILL MAN.
LiGHTNInG'S FATAL PRANK IN
OHIO HOME.
Husband Dies I'm Wife's Arms ana
Woman and Babe Are Badly
Enthusiastically Watches Friends
DraN. In River.

While lacking down a carpet and talk
ing of a happy future with his wife and
baby in their new home, near Larue, ONO,
Houswer Denman, aged %, was para
lyzed by a thunderbolt which descended
the chimney. Mrs. Denman and her =
year-old girl were also knocked down., but
not badly hart For Gods sake, save me
if you can gasped Denman to his WIFE,
She struggled to her feet and crossed the
room with the child toddling behind her.
With supreme effort the brave woman
raised her stricken husband to his feet
and half dragged and half carried him to
the doorway, where she thought the fresh
air night revive him. Il feel better
now" Denman muttered, when second
bolt crashed through the roof of the little
home. striking him dead in his wife's
arms. Mrs. Denhan was rendered I'M
conscious by the shock and the baby girl.
who had followed the staggering parents
across the room crying piteously for
IMAM ma was hurled twenty feet in a
corner behind the stove. When Mrs Den
man came to she found her husband dead
in her arms. The mother and child will
recover
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
scHAFER MYSTERY SOLVED.
Letter Leads to Arrest of Former
Redford Ind Man.

The arrest of Ernest Tanksley at Ev-
ansville, Ind, charged with the alleged
kidnapping of Nellie Rainey. a young
woman of Hotonville, is creating con-
siderable interest from the fact that 1t is
rumored the State will try to connect him
with the Schafer murder. Prosecutor
Fletcher neither will affirm nor deny the
rumor. The theory on which the State
will endeavor to make case against
Tanksley is as follows: /. The accused
lived on the same street and within few
blocks of the scene of the murder at the
time it occurred 2. He had a wife and
children. but had been keeping company
with another woman, with whom he had
an appointment in front of the Cook resi-
dence the night of the crime 3. The
accused borrowed a long gray coat, such
as is said TO have been worn by tall
man seen in the vicinity on the fatal
night, from another man the day before
the murder 4. Miss Schafer was mis-
taken by the murderer for the woman
with whom he had an appointment in
front of Cooks, and with whom he was
in trouble. Marshal Myers said there is
every reason to believe Tanksley murder
ed Sarah Schafer Adds that Tanksley's
intention was to kill Nellie Rainey, the
young woman arrested with him, but that
he made a mistake. Letters written by
him to Miss Rainey were found recently
by the father of the girl and in one of
them Tanksley asked her to meet him on
the night Miss Schafer was murdered and
at the point where the crime was COM
mitted. She did not go. but Miss Schafer
did pass there that evening and was killed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
FIRE AMONG PICKLES.
HEINZ PLANT IN ST PAUL is
DESTROYED.
Factory of American Can Company,
Adjoining, is Also Food for
FIames-Crew Saved from Burn
ing Boat on Lake Huron.

Fire which started in the warehouse Of
the Heinz Pickle Company ON the west
side of st. Paul, Mimi, shortly after mid
night and burned fiercely for three hours,
destroyed the big plant of the Heinz COM
pany, the large factory of the American
Can Company and a three-story frame
tenement building on the opposite side of
the street. The total loss is estimated at
$3.50 200. of which 100000 is on the can
company. When it was found that the
fire had got beyond the control of the fire.
men the tenants in the frame building.
about thirty in number, many of whom
were employed in the factories, were or
dered out of the building. The tenement
soon caught fire and when the walls of the
can factory fell they crushed the frame
building to the ground. The tenants lost
about all their personal effects.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
short News Notes.

Edenwold, the stock farm near Nash
vile. Tenn. owned by W. o. Farmer,
has been sold for $4,000 and will be cut
up into town lots.
An elevator in which nine miners were
going down a mine in Belgium dropped
900 yards, smashing the car to atoms and
instantly killing all its occupants.
Notwithstanding reports to the con-
trary, it is asserted that the death of the
Sultan of Turkey is not far off and that
he is concerning himself about a sue
cessor.
Six young women acted as pallbearers
at the funeral of Michael Wyler. Hart
ford. Conn His will provided for their
attendance.
The National Association Of Cotton
Manufacturers will hold its eighty first
annual meeting at Hotel Cham2lain Oh
Lake Champlain, Sept Il and 10.
A motion for trial in the Edward
Dean murder case in Springfield. Ohio,
has been oyerruled Dean shot and killed
Mark NJ. Davis of Columbus on Feb 20.
The St. Louis police report shows a
decrease of 4 $50 arrests for crime during
the last year. due. it is alleged. largely
10 Gov. Folks enforcement of the lid law.
The attorney for an eastern publishing
house announced at Cincinnati that he
would fight the claim of Alathea Foley.
coIored. that she is the widow OF Lafcadio
Hearn. under the Ohio statute forbidding
the marriage of white and black persons,
which was not repealed until after the al
legged marriage was performed.
William johnson, balloonist, had a
thrilling escape from instant death al
Little Falls. y. Y. In making a double
parachute descent from height of 300
feet his second parachute failed TO worl
after he let go the first. He shot TO eartl
and struck the edge Of cliff. going ovel
100 feet farther to the bottom. His spin,
Is fractured and ne will die.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
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.4'G9lElE1IISEI>lIT7I&

The Crops of 1906.

In the aggregate cereal yield 1906 will
break all records This is indicated by
figures of condition and acreage just made
public by the Department of Agriculture.
The corn crop will amount TO 2,693,0OO,-
coo bushels. if present prospects hold out
& few weeks longer. This will lack only
100000 bushels of reaching the biggest
figures of the past, the yield for l90a.
But there is hope that even the 100
crop will be left behind. In no year ex-
cept 1905 were the corn prospects so
bright as they are at this moment
The wheat crop has passed all former
records. Ii amounts to TJ9,000,00O bush
els. The winter wheat crop is 492,OO0,-
600 bushels and the spring variety is
267 100000. The largest previous aggre-
gate wheat yield was in 1901, when it
was 14S000.000 bushels, or 100000
below the 1906 total. AS the preliminary
figures of the Department of Agriculture,
like those just given out, are usually be-
low the aggregate which is found in the
final roundup. there is an excellent
chance that the indicated T59,000000
bushels for 1906 will turn out to be
greater than this when the returns are
all in.
Oats. rye, barley, buckwheat and pota-
toes arc also up 10 high figures in the es-
innate made by the Department of Agri-
culture. Hay shows a slight falling off
in acreage, and probably in yield. But
the grand aggregate of the country's great
crops will be larger than in any former
year. This will be needed because the
country is growing with great rapidity.
Not far from 100000 are being added
to our population each year nowadays,
with the immigration considerably above
the 100000 mark. Prices remain high,
which means that the producers will get
big returns for their crops. The farmer
is the favored man these days. The coun-
try is accommodating wealth at rate be-
yond anything ever seen in the past
ST. Louis Globe Democrat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
Brief News Items.

$. +. McClintock, connected with the
Standard Oil Company in Oakland, CAL,
died of heart disease in a New York
hotel.
In the six months of this year ended
June so the three naval training stations
of the navy received 1887 apprentice sea-
men.
4 statement of growth Published by the
University Of Virginia shows that the
teaching force has been more than dOu-
bled during the past two years in the
departments of medicine and engineering.
The gunboat Nashville has been put out
of commission at the Charlestown navy
ward and placed in reserve under the new
" adopted plans of the Navy Department.
Archie Roosevelt. son of the President,
has had his first experience in seafaring
and likes it very much. With Captain
Joshua Sloeum he sailed in the sloop
Spray from Oyster Bay to Newport,
meeting some bad weather.
Caught by belt which he was trying
to place on a pulley. Mathew Mack was
seriously injured in ST. Louis manufac-
turing plant. being whirled around twice.
His body struck an automatic sprinkler,
I
putting il in action and calling out the
fire department.
Charles Nickel. newspaper publisher
and former United States commissioner
AZ MedfOrd. Ore, was sentenced 10 thir-
teen months Imprisonment for public
land frauds.
Acting under an agreement reached be-
tween Superintendent Wheeler Of the
Poston and Montana smelter at Great
Falls. Mont, and the Mill and Smelter
Mems Union work has been resumed at
the conlpany's big reduction plant.
David Hoover. deputy collector Of GUS
toms at Helena. Ment.. who was arrested
on the charge of being engaged in a con-
spiracy to bring Chinese into the country,
has been held by United States Commits
sioner Thompson for the grand jury.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
TeIeRra phic BrevitIes.

Plans are being drawn by the govern
ment architect for the improvement OF The
Ellis Island immigrant station in New
York bay.
John NJ. Speyer, convicted in Kansas
City of killing his son, has been denied
new trial and sentenced TO be hanged
Sept. 81.
The Hamburg American line denies the
report current in Belfast. Ireland that it
had ordered a steamer of Harland & Wolff
exceeding in size the Lusitania Of the Gu
nard line.
Carmelo Grillo, Who was arrested. in
Messina, Sicily. in 1905, charged with a
murder committed near Johnstown, Pa.
was discharged from custody, having es-
tablished an alibi.
4 man supposed to be J. II. Oehrle of
Monongahela. Pa. who went to Denver
with the Elks, was found demented two
miles east of that city and died shortly
after, supposedly from exhaustion.
W. a. Miller. assistant foreman Of
bindery IN the government printing office.
who was suspended by the public printer
on July II for characterization and fnso-
fence. has been dismissed from the gov
erHment service.
About 10000 members of the knights
Of Columbus. representing many States
Of the Union. attended the eighth annual
ernbarkation day reunion at Atlantic City,
New Jersey.
Asberry Spieer, witness against ex-
Judge Hargis in recent murder trial
r. Il. IL P
in Kentucky. was shot in the back by
a man in ambush. lie will recover.
NJ. Schneider, an electrician Of the
third class attached to the converted
Yacht Wasp. has equipped that ship With
a wireless telegraph outfit at his own ex-
pense, which sends messages thirty-ive
miles and has received messages over q
distance of thirty miles
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
WORK OF THE TERRoRISTS.
Riot and Assassination Continue
In Unhappy Russia.


General Vouliarski. acting military
governor general of Warsaw, was shot
and killed at o'clock Monday after
noon while driving in a cab. The assas-
sin escaped. General Vonliarski was
the commander Of the Fifth army
Corps stationed at Warsaw.
General Min, commander CT the Sem
inovsky Guard Regiment and per-
sonal adjutant in the suite Of the Car,
was assassinated Sunday night at Pc
terhof by young woman, who fired
five shots into his body and then sub
mitted to arrest The capture Of the
girl was effected by General Minis
wife, who held her until the arrival of
an officer. Any of the five wounds in
flicted by the girls bullets would have
resulted fatally.
This act of terrorism, following
closely Saturdays unsuccessful attempt
on the life of Premier Stolypin. with
its sickening slaughter of thirty-two
persons, together with other develop
ments of the day in the reign of VIC
lence, has caused the utmost alarm in
official circles.
One of these developments was an at
tempt on the life of General Kaulbars
governor of Odessa. A girl dropped a
bomb in the Nicholas boulevard fifty
PAGES from the palace of the governor.
There was a deafening defamation and
wild stampede of the promenaders.
No one was injured except the girl,
whose hand was shattered. 1t is sup
posed that the bomb accidentally fell
from her hand as she was making her
way to the door of the palace. She and
another girl and a university student
who was accompanying them were ar
rested.
The increased activity of the reds
has caused renewed talk of military
dictatorship. According to a report cur
rent meeting of the camarila dis
cussed the question at Peterhof and a
majority was in favor of such step.
Two other attempts had been made
recently on the life of General Min,
who was condemned TO death by the
terrorists Immediately after the Mos
COW revolt last December on account
of the stern repression practiced by a
battalion under his command and espe-
cially for the wholesale execution of
persons condemned by drumhead court
martial for being caught with arms in
their hands.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
SAVED FROM BURNING BOAT.
Steamer Charles 4. Eddy Destroyed
i'm Lake Huron.
NATIONAL LEAGUE

The steamer Charles y. Eddy of Cleve-
land. bound down from Ashland, Wis, TO
Cleveland. caught fire about a. m. off
Port Sanlac, Lake Huron. She blew sig
mails of distress and three steamers went
to her rescue, one of which was the City
OF Mackinac The Eddy was making for
Port Sanilac. Mich, and the Mackinac
took off her passengers and crew and pro-
ceeded on to Detroit. No lives were lost.
The flames mounted to a great height and
made a spectacle that was seen for miles
out on the lake and up and down the
shore. The Eddy is an ore carrier and is
PSI feet long and forty feet beam. She
i 2.015 Tonnage. and was builr in 1850.
The Eddy was owned by the Gilchrist
Transportation Company of Cleveland.
Twenty-One persons, including the cap
tain's wife and two little children, were
rescued from the burning steamer. The
Eddy was destroyed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
UE4s GkA[3S2IERS
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $685. hogs, prime heavy, 800
TO $3.50; sheep, fair 20 choice, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. ., ZOE to 71c corn,
No ., 4Sc to soc; oats. standard, 2Sc to
29c; rye, No. >, soc to 57c hay, timo-
Sly, $1,000 to $1,000; prairie, $500 to-
| $3.50; butter, choice creamery, 1Sc to
23c; eggs, fresh, 16c to zoe; potatoes,
DOC 10 60c.
Indianapolis--C shipping. $500
to 1923: hogs, choice heavy, $500 TO
SG.40; sheep. common to prime, $3.50 to
$3.50 wheat, No. =, 69c to lie; corn,
No. . white, 31c to 52c; oats, No ,
white. SOC to Bic.
ST. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50;
hogs, 800 to $6.45; sheep, 800 TO
$3.50; wheat, No. >, zoe to re; corn,
No. ,, 47c to 4Sc; oats, No. >, 29c to-
SOC rye, No. >. 63c to 64c.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to 1925 :.
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 tn
$4.75: wheat No. >, zoe to re; corn.
No. . mixed. SOC to ole; oats, No.
mixed, Bic to 32c; rye, No. ., J9c TO
Gle.
Detroit-Cattle, $4O0 to $500; hogs.
S5.UO 10 AO.'pD. sheep, H-.IU 10 Ht.oo,
wheat. No. .. re to 74c; corn, No. 3
yellow. 52c to BE; oats, No. white,
Gle to 32c: rye. No. ,, SIC to 5Sc
Wheat. No. 2 northern.
Toe to nc; corn, No. 3, 4Sc to 49c;
oats. standard. 30c to Bic; rye, No. J..
sc TO J9c; barley. standard 53c to 54c:
pork. mess. S11O0.
Bufalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
800 to SG.25; hogs, fair to choice. 800
to 500; sheep. common to good mixed.
$500 TO $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 ro SS.75.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $685.:
hogs. $4.00 to $G.75; sheep, $500 TO
500; wheat, No. red. 76c to re:
corn, No. ?, 55c to SIC; oats. natural
white, 3Gc to BE; butter. creamery, 1Sc
to 24c; eggs, western, lie to dc.
Toledo--Wheat. No. mixed, Tic to
Toe; corn. No. mixed, SIC TO dc:
oats, No. mixed, Bic to 33c: rye. No.
2. 53c to SIC; clover seed. prime, S7.l5.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
Armstrong Attack. Radium Fad.

Prof. Henry e. Armstrong, the distin.
guished London scientist, has joined Lord
Kelvin in n protest against the PROPOSE
ton submitted TO the British association
that the production of helium from IA.
dunn has established the fact Of the evo-
luton of one element into others. Prof
Armstrong says that no one has yet han
died radum in sufficient quantities to be
able to say precisely what it is. He adj
mits that helium can be obtained from
radium, but points out that this is no
proof that the former is not merely CON
tanned in the latter. He remarks thet
scientists in the radium school appear to
have cast caution to the winds and to
have substituted pure Imagination for H."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
A Water kite for Sounding

4 Berlin scientific paper tells of a new
device arranged by a Swedish scientist
to reduce the danger of shallow water in
navigation. 1t consists of a simple water
kite which is fastened to a wire cable
and cast over the side of the ship. By
reason of the oblique pressure, the kite
sinks rapidly as far as its cable permits.
On the side of the winch scale and reg
lister tells the depths to which the kite
has descended. As soon as the kite comes
in contact with any solid obstruction or
shallow bottom, a coupling is released,
which instantly slackens the tension of
the cable by changing the position of the
kite this sets in motion an alarm bell on
deck. which attracts the attention of the
watch
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
GROUND PHONE LINE A FACT.
ChtcaEO-MiIwaukee Wires Being
Laid I'm Special Conduit.

An underground telephone line from
Chicago to Milwaukee is said II be an
established fact and work has already be-
gun on the Chicago end of the line. This
promises to be the longest underground
telephone line in the world, unless sim
liar one being built between New York
and Philadelphia is finished first. The
line will be carefully laid in cement con-
Quits, which will be buried in trenches to
be dug in as nearly direct course be-
tween the two cities as possible. The
line is the result of recent discoveries in
telephone work by Prof. Pupin of Column
bia university. Construction work is now
well under way as far as Evanston and
is being made toward Zion City, along the
lake short. Manholes will be established
every 600 feet on the line, so that repairs
may easily and quickly be made. The
Pupin coils will be located at distances
of two miles. so that there will be about
forty of these coil stations on the line
between the two cities. The work is be-
ing done by the Chicago Telephone Com
pany.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
LETS TWO FRIENDS DROWN.
Boy Stands silent Bank of Mis-
sfssippf az Comrades Sink.

Dewey Stanford. of st. Louis, Z years
cid. stood and watched his two compan-
ions, George and Ralph Gross, drown,
without calling for help. fearing that if it
became known that he had been in the
river he would receive whipping.
George Gross was Il years old and his
brother 8. They went in swimming at
the foot of Angelica street. Ralph dived
into the deep water and came up strug-
CLING. George went out to his assistance,
but was unable TO bring him in, and the
two. after a brief struggle. went down.
Dewey watched their struggles and then
ran home. Two laborers, both good
swimmers. were at work 100 feet above
the spot where the boys were in swim
ming and could easily have saved them.
Dewey ran home and said nothing of the
drowning. When darkness came and he
was asked by Mrs. Gross where her two
boys were he said they mad gone to the
river. 1t was only after much question
ing that he told of the drowning.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-04
GREAT STORM IN KANSAS CITY.

People Rescued from Flooded Dis
tricts-Hundreds of Birds Killed.
A terrific rainstorm prevailed in Kansas
City and vicinity the other day, causing
serious damage. In Kansas City 5.93
inches of water fell, record for the time,
three hours and a half. Low lying lands
were flooded and the police and fire de-
partments were called upon to rescue per-
sons from Easements in Little Italy, in
the north end of town, and in the east
and west bottoms, where the water en-
tered many small houses. Several down
town Easements were flooded and goods
damaged Trees were stripped of their
foliage and hundreds of sparrows were
killed.