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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20
FAST MAIL WRECKED.
FIVE PERSONS HURT AND TWO
MAIL CARS BURNED
Bad Accident on Missouri Pacific at
GascOnade Bridge, Scene of Great
Catastrophe Fifty Years Ago
Attempt to Blow I'd Transport.

Missouri Pacific fast mail train No {
jumped the track while crossing the Gas
connde bridge, lightweight miles west of
st. Loui<, the scene of the "Gasconade
horror of fifty years ago. Five men of
The crew We're hurt, two dangerously, two
mail cars were burned and two were part
ly demolished in running off the approach
of the bridge. The mail train is not
scheduled to stop at Gasconade and was
running forty miles an hour when the &C
cident occurred. A spreading rail caused
it to leave the track 800 feet east of the
bridge. The engine ran on the bridge and
passed the first two spans, crushing the
cross ties and tearing down a portion of
the approach. The bridge is of steel. The
first two mail cars were smashed and took
fire. Men from Gasconade, Herman and
Morrison, adjoining towns, were soon on
the scene and formed bucket brigade.
but despite their efforts the two cars of
mail were destroyed. A relief train ar
rived from Jefferson City and took the in
cured 20 Sedalia. Fifty years ago. when
the road that is now the Missouri Pacific
was opened as the Pacific railroad, a spe-
cial train consisting of an engine and
eleven cars carrying officials. leading Citi-
Zens and military to Jefferson City to
participate in a celebration of the com
pletion of the road, went through the
bridge into the Gasconade river, where
the accident Of to-day occurred. The
disaster occurred Thursday, Nov. I, 1853,
and thirty persons were killed and almost
every other person in the train was in
jured. The temporary bridge sunk under
the heavy train.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20
BEAVERS PLEADS GUILTY.
Given Two Years i'm Prison for Con
nDiraey ia DefraUd,

Given Two Years i'm Prison for Con-
spiracy to Defraud.
George W. Beavers, former chief of
the salaries and allowances division of the
Postofhce Department in Washington,
pleaded guilty to an Indictment charging
him with conspiracy to defraud the gov
eminent in connection with the sale of
time-recording clocks to the department.
He was Immediately sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary at Moundsyille,
w. Va, where August w. Machen, DIR.
George E. Lorenz and the Croft brothers
already are confined. The indictment to
which Beavers pleaded guilty was the
one charging conspiracy with former
State Senator George K. Green of Bing-
hamton, n. Y. The six remaining indict-
ments, four alleging conspiracy and two
bribery, will be dropped. Under the
agreement whereby Beavers pleaded gull
ty he is not to appear as witness IN
any postoffice cases unless called by the
defense. When he appeared in court
Beavers carried in his had suit case
containing such belongings IS he wished
to take to Moundsville with him. Before
sentence was pronounced he was asked if
he had anything to say, to which he re-
piled: Nothing whatever" He was then
led from the room by bailif and placed
in a cell underneath the court room,
whence he was taken later in the day to
the district Jail. He will go to Mounds
vile with the first batch of prisoners
leaving for that place.
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1t is now possible to travel completely
around the world upon the Canadian Pa
ciic Railway and its allied steamship
lines.
The Transcontinental Passenger Asso-
citation is considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
cutting off many of the places to which
summer tourist rates have hitherto been
sold.
The Norfolk and Western has closed
a contract for seventy-fve locomotives TO
be built by the American Locomotive
Works. They are both for passenger and
freight use.
As soon as it became known on the
stock exchange Monday that the Giles
pie resolution calling for an investiga-
ton of the Pennsylvania railroad had
passed the House, the prices of railroad
and industrial stocks and securities
began to fall rapidly Pennsylvania stock
fell off 2H points and all the others on
the list were affected.
With due respect to other good roads
east of Chicago the New York Central
lines were unconsciously laid out by Com
modore Vanderbilt so that as a finished
product they represent a water course
rather than a railway system. They
were built on lines of least resistance
and flow from the Mississippi to the At
lantic like a number of streams tributary
to one big one. The peculiar fea t.ra of
the New York Central system is that the
different lines feed naturally on a water
level grade from the middle West to the
Atlantic ocean, while not another road
escapes the high grades and mountains
To the United States Steel Corpora
ton has been awarded a contract for 90
600 tons of girder rails to be used in
constructing a traction system in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, where a company has
acquired 225 miles of mule track. Water
power will be employed for the genera
tors.
The Iron Mountain and the Frisco
systems are engaged in speed war as
the result of a contest for the south
western mails out of st. Louis. The
Iron Mountain has the contract now, and
the Frisco, in connection with the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas is trying to
capture the mails for Fort Worth, Dali
las and other Texas points.
Application has been made in Virginia
for permission to merge the Virginia and
Carolina Coast Railroad Company, the
Suffolk and Carolina and the Carolina
Coast railroad under the head Of the Car
DINA Coast Railroad Company, with a
capital of S7.5O0,OOO, of which J. T. Odell
of New York, a steel trust man, is to be
president.
According to statistics made public by
the Department of Commerce and Labor
at Washington, the United States leads
the world in mileage and the recent
growth of its railroads. In 1904 there
were $4,000 miles in the entire world,
the report says, of which 211, 074 miles
azs in the United States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20
GRAIN TRUST SLAIN.
Supreme Tribunal of Nebraska Up
holds Anti-MonopoIy Law.

supreme Tribunal or Nebraska ID
holds Anti-MonopoIy Law.
Nebraska's so-called grain trust was
dealt knockout blow and the farmers of
the State were saved more than $1,000
600 year, according to a conservative
estimate, by a decision of the Nebraska
Supreme Court upholding the constitu-
tionality of the antitrust laws embraced
in what is known as the Junkin act, pass
ed by the last Legislature. The case be-
fore the court was that against the Ne
bras.a Grain Dealers Association, COM
prising all the larger elevator lines and
grain companies in the State. The court
declares the association to be an illegal
combination in restrain of trade, and or
ders that it be dissolved. Attorney Cen
feral Norris Brown brought suit for
restraining order to prevent certain grain
dealers from combining to control the
price of grain in Nebraska. The case
was put before the court in such man
ner that the opinion would decide the
constitutionality of several anti-combina-
ton or antitrust laws now on the stat
utes. Statistics of the State for a pc
Rod of several years prove that practically
~ per cent of the total grain production
OF the State IS sold or shipped to the
grain markets each year." it was said at
the Attorney Genera s Office. while the
grain combination was in control practi-
cally none or this vast shipment was free
from Its influence, and the lower prices as
result averaged cents per bushel.
Iaklng the crop of 1905 as a basis, the
gam to the farmers as a result of the
disruption of the trust amounts to ST.
3S0,S6S
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20
~~~~~~~~~~

The receipt of "black hand'' letters
by members of the House has almost
caused nervous prostration among
some of them. The 'black hand
warnings began to come a few days
ago, when several members received
postal cards on which there was a
drawing of black hand Beneath
the hand was the warning: Only
four days more" Members began TO
ransaek their brains in an effort to
think of what act they had committed
to gain the enmity of the "black
hand Two days after the receipt of
the first warning a second came with
the same black hands and the ominoUs
words, you have only two days
more" This was followed the next
day with a postal with the inscrip-
ton you have one day more" These
repeated warnings caused consider
able alarm until to-day when postal
cards were received inscribed in red
ink: mo more black hands; use
Blank soap" Members of Congress
believe this particular method Of adj
vertisipg should be abolished by law.
Theodore p. Shonts, chairman of the
Isthmian Canal Commission, told the
Senate Committee on Interoceanic Ca
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20


to amend the measure. But after an
exciting session it was left intact, de-
spite food of amendments launched
against it.
For three hours amendment after
amendment was offered, but all went
down i'll defeat These contained all
manner of propositions, such as regu-
lating preferentials, the long and short
haul passes, court procedure, whole
rate bills and parts of bills
The minority leader, Mr.. Williams,
summarized the bill and all that had
been done by Congress, and went over
the ground that had been debated at
length during the last ten days. He
concluded with an expression of the
hope that the House would stay in ses-
sion until the beginning of the next
session before it would yield to an
amendment which might be put on in
the Senate the effect of which might
be to weaken the bill.
Mr.. Hepburn, in his concluding
speech, took up in turn the points
made in opposition to the bill. First
he deprecated the effort to claim po-
litical credit He reviewed the prog
ress and development of railroads dur
ing the last twenty years to show that
the interstate commerce act of that
time had not impeded railroad prog
ress. Touching the construction Of
words which had been made a point
of opposition, Mr.. Hepburn showed the
utter futility of getting unanimity on
that point. He asserted not a member
of the House could write a twenty
word sentence that would not be capa-
BILE of two constructions.
Provisions of the Bill.
Congressman Hepburn explained that
his bill was intended and did so far as
it could be made to- comply specifically
with the recommendations of President
Roosevelt on the rate question. 1t gives
the Interstate Commerce Commission au-
thority, when a rate has been complained
of as unreasonable" by a shipper, to in
vestigate that rate, state whether or not
il is unreasonable, and if found to be I'M
reasonable, to name a rate which is to be
just and reasonable mad fairly remunera-
tive, which is to be the maximum rate to
be charged.
This rate so fixed is to go into effect
thirty days after it is announced by the
commission, subject during that time to
be set aside or suspended by the COM
mission or by the courts. After it has
gone into effect it is to remain the rate
Tor three years. During this time the
opinion has been expressed by those who
have participated in the debate that the
rate may also be reviewed by the courts
and if found to be in conflict with the
terms of the act or with the Constitution,
by being coniscatory, can be set aside
by the courts.
Another important feature is the defni-
ton of the words railroad" and trans
portation" in a manner to exclude all
auxiliary instrumentalities of the common
carrier and to bring them within the con-
troll of the commission. This power to
name a reasonable rate and the inclusion
of the auxiliaries within the jurisdiction
of the commission are said to be the new
features. All other provisions are mod-
fications of existing law. They include
publicity of railroad methods, which is to
be aided by prescribing a system of book
keeping and charging the commission to
seven members and increasing their sal
aries to $4,000 a year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20

The Algeciras conference on Moroc-
can affairs has now been freed of most
of the minor questions before it, and
finds itself fast approaching the graver
situation which heretofore caused the
serious strain in the relations be-
tween France and Germany. This is
sue, a press dispatch says, hinges on
who shall control the affairs of Moroc-
co, as it appears to be recognized that
whoever controls this semi-military or
The delegates to the conference have
shown increasing anxiety at the APP
proach of this issue, knowing the IN
tense feeling it has aroused between
France and Germany, and according
ly the Representatives of the disinter-
ested powers are redoubling their eff
forts to secure an accord before the
question reaches the open conference
and thereby avert a deadlock Nari-
Gus plans are being discussed. The
ambassadors say they are hopeful that
middle ground will be found that
will be acceptable to both countries;
but they admit the extreme difficulty
of finding such ground owing to the
firmness both France and Germany
thus far have made against making
concessions which each country feels
will involve the fate of Morocco. On
the one hand France wants control of
the semi-military force, and on the
other hand Germany objects to such
control on the ground that it would
make France the virtual master of
Morocco's political future These posi-
tons are so radically opposed as to APP
pear almost irreconciiable. vet the neu-
trail delegates are continuing their pa
cifc offices toward finding Il common
ground acceptable to both countries.
Some Compromise Plans.
The ambassadors strongly oppose
the disclosure of the various tentative
plans for a compromise, saying that
publicity tends to excite the opposition
of one side or the other and wreck the
best efforts of diplomacy. However.
on the following general lines:
The first is to leave the police to the
Sultan of Morocco, thus avoiding Ger
manys objection to French control
and that of France to international
control.
This compromise is distasteful to
France, but the neutral delegates are
seeking to reconcile French opposition
to it, by pointing out that the Sultan
would have to rely upon France to
officer, instruct, and discipline the pO-
lice.
Another compromise vaguely put
forward is to give Spain or some other
of the powers a share with France in
the organization of the police. This
again meets with the opposition to
having France participate in any con-
troll of the police.
Still another compromise, apparent
ly having the approval of Germany, is
to institute an international police for
limited and experimental period,
and if the experiment fails, France
will then be in a position to assume
the organization of the police. France,
however shows no disposition to ac-
cept the plan for an international po-
lice system, even for an experimental
period.
These and other plans will have to
undergo constant revision owing to the
opposition of the various elements.
Nothing as yet has been reduced to
writing, as neither Germany nor
France is prepared to definitely dis
close just how far they are willing to
go in the way of concessions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20
Note. of the National ,npita1.


Major John c. Bates succeeds Chaffce
as lieutenant general of the army.
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin has
INTRODUCES a bill prohibiting railroad
passes.
NJ. Taigny, the French charge d'affaires
expelled from Venezuela, says President
Castro's chief object is to get money, no
matter by what means.
President Roosevelt, in approving YER
dict in Taylor court martial, paid re-
spects to army snob.
Mark Twain and Speaker Cannon
snapped jokes in the House of Repre-
sentatives the other afternoon.
The treasury deficit has been reduced
to less than S3,400,000 and will be
entirely wiped out within thirty days,
says a government financial statement
In order to avoid too great publicity
President and Mrs. Roosevelt did not pub
lish list of guests or wedding gifts at
the marriage of Miss Alice Roosevelt and
Representative Nicholas Longworth.
Sugar and tobacco trust Hobbies admit
ted defeat in philippine tariff bill; Sen
ate committee will report favorably ON
measure.
Representative Mccall of Massachus-
etts declared in a speech against the
pending rate legislation that it menaces
the country's liberty.
The House has the interstate commerce
commissions report on alleged trust be-
tween Pennsylvania Railroad Company
and several other lines
The Panama canal commission com
pleted its report to Secretary Taft re-
garding the type of the canal. deciding,
it is reported, in favor of the lock canal.
Letters of high praise for Corporal
Tanner from President Roosevelt and
Vice President Fairbanks were read at a
banquet in his homer given by the Wash
ington Post. g. A. r.
Secretary Root has made public the
correspondence between the Venezuelan
minister of foreign affairs and the doyen
of the diplomatic corps at Caracas con-
corning the treatment of French charge
d'affaires.
Senator Patterson of Colorado created
a tremendous sensation by Offering reso-
luton in the Senate denounc-ig Demo-
cratic caucus attempt TO make party ques-
ton of Dominican treaty as violation of
the constitution.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20

I'M 1lI5'.IgHELL


Mrs Frank w. Shattuck wife of the
pastor of the Advent Christian church of
Whitman, Mass, was burned to death in
the parsonage by the oyerturning of a
lamp.
A consignment of American school
readers printed in japanese, believed to
be a violation OF the copyright laws, are
held by the customs collector in San
Francisco, Cal.
The House committee on public lands
has decided to make a favorable report
on the Burnett bill setting aside 10000
acres of mineral land in Alabama for
school purposes.
The trustees of the Carnegie school of
technology in Pittsburg, Pa, have receiy-
ed a letter from Andrew Carnegie thank
ing them for naming the woman's depart
ment after his mother.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt was given a
geld medal by the Circle Francois of
Harvard university in recognition Of her
services to French drama She is the
first woman to be so honored.
The Rev. DR. William Rainsford, rec
tor of St. Georges Protestant Episcopal
church in New York for twenty-five
years, has resigned his rectorship on ac-
count Of III health. The Rev. Hugh
Birckhead succeeds him.
George Edwards Of London has COM
pleted arrangements to take the entire
Gaiety company TO America, opening in
New York Sept. 1.
Elmer Clerk. father of seven children,
committed suicide with carbolic acid at
Hamilton. Ohio, because he was unequal
to supporting a large family.
DR.. Simeon S. French of Battle Greek.
Mich, claims to be the eldest Odd Eel
low in the State. He was one of the
founders of the Republican party.
In the case of Mayor Mccarthy of
Richmond, Va, FOR calling News-Leader
reporter liar in the police court and
placing himself in contempt he was fined
$40 by the justice. He took an appeal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20
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Chicago-Cattla, common to prime,
$500 to $500; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to 5000 sheep, fair to choice, $500 to-
5000; wheat, Nc. 2, Soc to SIC; corn
No. ., 40c to Ale; oats, standard, 2Sc to
30c; rye, No. 2, G6c to Csc; hay, timo-
thy, $3.50 to $1,000; prairie, $500 to-
$1,000; butter, choice creamery, 23c to
pc; eggs fresh, 15c to 1Sc; potatoes
45c to 5Sc.
Detroit-Cattle $500 to S4.75; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to 1925;
wheat, No. 2, Sc to SEC; corn, No. 3
yellow, 43c to 44c; oats, No. white,
32c to 33c; rye No. 2 &c to &c.
Miwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
see to SIC; corn, No. 3, 40c to Ale.
oats, standard, SOC to 32c; rye, No. J..
&c to 6Sc barley, No. ., 53c to soc
pork, mess, S13.75.
Toedo-Wheat, No. mixed, SEC to
SIC; corn, No. mixed, 44c to 45c;
oats, No. mixed, Bic to 33c; rye, No.
=, &c to &c; clover seed, prime, $S.25.
Bufalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to S5.75; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $685.; sheep, common to good mixed.
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to 1856
hogs. $500 to 1928; sheep, $500 TO
5000; wheat, No. 2 red, S8c to soc.
corn, No. ., 49c to SOC; oats, natural.
white, soc to 36c; butter, creamery, pc
to 26c; eggs, western, 1Sc to zoe
apolis-Cattle, shipping $500
to 5000; hogs, choice heavy. $500 to,
$500; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to.
$500; wheat, No. 2, SIC TO SSc; corn.
No. white, 42c t. Abe; oats, No. 2
white, zoe to Gle.
St Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to S6.05
hogs, 800 to $685.; sheep, S4.OO to.
$6.25; wheat, No. 2, SSc to 92c; corn,
No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2, 3Oc to,
gle; rye, No. 2, &c to Csc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 1925;
hogs, $500 to $6.20: sheep, $500 to,
$500; wheat, No. 2 90c to Ole; corn,
No. mixed, 42c to 44c oats, No. 2
mixed, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 2, Csc to
Zoe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20
SMALLPOX ON WHALING SHIP.
Woman and Children Prisoners with
Crew During Dread Endemic.

One month on the Atlantic ocean with
the entire ship converted into a smallpox
hospital and quarter of the crew i'll
with the disease, was the experience of a
whaling brig Sullivan of New London,
Conn. The story of the smallpox out
break on the whaler was told by Mrs. NJ.
j. Haggerty, wife of the captain of the
Sullivan, who arrived in New York from
Rio de Janeiro on the steamer Italian
Prince. The whaling vessel put into Rio
de Janeiro after two of its crew had died
of smallpox and with seven others i'll
with the disease and the twentv-seven re-
naming members Of the crew frantic to
get ashore. With Mrs. Haggerty on
board the vessel were her two children.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20
New Foothan Rules.

The intercollegiate football rules COM
mittee has announced its revision Of the
rules of the game, designed to prevent
brutality Striking and kicking will be
punished by disqualification of the Of
fender and the opposing team, who lose
half the distance to its own goal. For
various other kinds of unnecessary rough
ness, the penalty is to be loss of 10 yards.
Abusive language viii cause suspension
for the day. As to a more open game, it
was decided that any one back Of the
snapper back may make forward pass,
but not beyond the scrimmsge line, on
which six men must always remain.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20
Use 100 Tons of ouinine Yearly.

More than 100 tons of quinine are used
in the United States every year. The
wholesale value of this is about $1,000
600. Quinine is obtained from the bark
of several species of the cinchOna tree,
whose native home is in South America.
Attempts have been made in the past and
are being revived to grow the tree in our
sub-tropical States; but the present sup
ply is imported mainly from India, Cey-
lon and Java.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20
RUSSIA WON'T CASH ORDERS.
Money Sent from America to Jews
Returned to Donors.

Returned to Donors.
According to the statements of DR.. n.
Mossesohn, a prominent Jew of Port
land, Ore, whose assertions are corrob-
GRATED in a measure by the local post
office officials, a large amount of money
sent from the United States to aid jew
ish sufferers in Russia has never been
received by those for whom it was intend
ed. 1t is said that there has been a gen.
eral failure of the postoffices throughout
Russia to cash postal money orders which
have been sent to Jews in that country
and many of these money orders have
been returned to the senders with a state
ment that they could not be cashed. The
letters accompanying the returned orders
cite various reasons for their being dis
honored, one of which is that the orders
have been issued from St. Petersburg to
refuse payment of them, because the
money is for the purpose of aiding the
revolutionist cause.