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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
AMERICAN OFFICIAL SLAIN.
Vice Consul at BatOum Is Victim of
Russ Assassin.

Vice Consul at BatOum Is Victim of
Russ Assassin.
w. II. Stuart, the American vice con-
sui at Batoum, Russia, was shot and
killed at his country place. The assassin
escaped. Mr.. Stuart was a British sub
ject and one of the largest ship brokers
and exporters of Batoum. During the
revolutionary troubles of last fall his life
was many times threatened by longshore-
men. At Christmas a deputation visited
Mr.. 'Stuart's Office and practically COM
PEELED him to give up $500 under the
guise of holiday gratuity for dock la
borers. Information is that Mr.. Stuart
was killed as a result of revolutionary
movements in that far-off portion of the
Russian empire.
Batoum is situated on the east shore
of the Black sea and contains in the
neighborhood of 10000 population. The
city has long been known as a hotbed
of opposition to the government of the
Gar. 1t was to that port that the bat
tleship Kniaz Poemkin started to find a
haven after its crew had mutinied and
slain its officers at Odessa.
SO far as known in the capital Mr..
EoJudTt ldu uOl Dtcu lHNOlNeu III any ITOu-
BILE at Batoum. While anarchists and
revolutionaries secretly and openly prop
agated their ideas in the city, however, he
maintained friendly relations with the
Russian government officials. This may
have angered the enemies of the govern
ment and brought about the assassina-
ton.
A serious aspect has arisen over the
affair. Russia is not most friendly TO-
ward the United States, and, it is de-
clared, does not stand ready to make rep
aration in the event it is found the gov
eminent officials at Batoum failed to give
Mr.. Stuart proper protection or in any
way connived at his death. 1t is pointed
out that Batoum has been in a state of
great unrest ever since the revolutionaries
began to spread their propaganda through
out southern Russia. The officials are
confident that this movement is response
BILE for the murder.
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FAIR

L. F. Petrie of GAINESVILLE, Ark, just
81 years old, has been elected Mayor
after one days campaign.
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley expects
shortly to settle in Baltimore, and will
make that city his permanent home.
NJ. Jusserand, the French ambassador,
since his residence in Washington, has
largely added to his reputation as an ora
tor.
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston intends to
establish a bureau of publicity to make
the attractiveness of his city better
known.
Although Vice President Fairbanks is
the tallest man in the Senate, his third
son, Frederick, who is his private secre-
tary, now overtops him by half an inch.
Secretary Root announces that in max
ing his trip to South America he will go
clear around that continent, coming up
the west coast and crossing the isthmus
Senator Germans seat in the United
States Senate formerly was occupied by
Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, Eincoln's
great and unsuccessful rival and the early
political preceptor and mentor of Cor
man. Douglas made German a Senate
page when he was Is.
Viscount de Alte, the Portuguese envoy
at Washington, leads the life of recluse
and, although credited T. this country
four years, he is known by but few resi-
dents of the capital. He rarely invites
his colleagues in tie corps to his home.
and still more rarely accepts their invi-
tations.
DIR. Andrew S. Draper, the State com
missioner of education of New York. will
conduct the usual three institutes at
Chautauqua, thousand Islands, and Cliff
Haven from July 8 to Aug. 3.
George r. Patterson, the PennsyIva-
rfan. who died recently, was the only
travelling man" in Congress. Mr.. Pat
terso,l was proud of the fact that he was
a -four salesman, and had put it in his
Official biography.
Congressman p. p. Campbell of Kansas
is regarded as one of the best dressed
men in Washington. One of his friends
once described him as the only member
OF the Kansas delegation who does not
look Ike Kansan."
Secretary Taft, who recently has been
visiting New Haven, recovered the hinge
cane that he carried there while attend
ing Yale college. 1t was "a the posses
sion of Mrs. George III. Hotchkiss.
Mayor Clute of Schenectady. y. Y.
thinks it foolish to spend money for the
musical education of children and tben
permit the dispensers Of street melody TO
lower the standard of public taste nv
grinding out rag time airs.
When Gen. c. H. Grosvenor of Ohio
ends his term in Congress a large number
of heads viii fall in Washington. ]. G.
McElroy, the postmaster of the House Of
Representatives for ten years, is one Of
the men who viii have to go.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
HURT IN CAR WRECK.
THIRTY VETERANS INJURED
NEAR LAFAYETTE, IND.
Swift-Running Cars on Inierurban
Road Collide Before MOtOrman
Can Stop Them-Big Fire Almost
Destroys Fairbanks, Alaska.

Thirty persons were injured in a head
on collision of trains on the interurban
read between Lafayette, Ind, and the
soldiers home. Those hurt were chiefly
veterans, and owing to their advanced
years it is feared the shock will prove
fatal to many. The soldiers had been Wis
iting the old battle-ground near there and
recalling old memories. The car had
started on its return to the home and he
motorman thought the track was clear for
last run. The car was going at a rapid
rate, when another car was seen coming
from the opposite direction. The motor
men Of both cars realized the danger and
reversed the levers. The speed however,
was too great and the cars crashed into
each other, burying the victims beneath
pile of wreckage. Those who escaped
harm at once went to the rescue of the
victims, and they were soon removed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
short News Notes.

Officers Of the British cruisers Cam
brian and Flora inspected the Panama
canal.
r. ]. Mckinney Of Marlin, Texas, was
found dead in a room in the Albany hotel,
Denver, Colo.
Viscount Hayashi, formerly japanese
ambassador 10 Great Britain, has accept
ed the Office of foreign minister.
The Criminal Appeals Court of Texas
has decided decided that a court can 20
behind an executive warrant issued by the
Governor. Mrs. Cheatham, arrested on
a charge Of embezzlement in Colorado,
was released.
Gov. Sir William MacGregor, now on
trip from Newfoundland through Canada,
viii discuss the American fisheries ques-
ton with Earl Grey.
Martin Maloney, Philadelphia million.
aire, mas bought control Of the company
which publishes Men and Women, Ro
man Catholic periodical, and willattempt
10 make the publication the national home
paper Of the church.
The Lightweight county auditors OF
Ohio were deprived Of 100000 in fees
which they claimed By the decision Of the
State Supreme Court that they could not
collect fees on tie school tax after they
had made a settlement with the Auditor
Of State.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
BILL scAREs STEEL COMPANY.
Eight-Hour Law Would Rob 1t of
Government Work.


A. c. Hayden, representing the Car
negie Steel Company, opposed the eight
hour bill before the House committee on
labor. He said the enactment of the
measure would drive from the field every
large institution taking government con-
tracts. He said also that it would turn
over the manufacture of the supplies of
the government to the small contractor
and would increase the cost of the same
to the government from 1912 to % per
cent. The Carnegie company, he said,
once made the experiment of changing it's
factory method from two shifts of men
working twelve hours each to three shifts
working eight hours. The result was that
the product of that factory decreased 20
per cent. Another objection to the bill
was that if a laborer should work one or
two minutes overtime and the government
inspector should see him and report the
case, the employer would be subject to
the penalty provided for violating the law,
although he might be innocent of any de-
sign to do so. More than this, he said,
the bill was so drawn that it made the
inspector the final arbiter; the courts
could not go back of the report of the in
spector.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29

Cruisers and Marines to Hover Near
Republic During Elections.

Although an official statement cannot
be had, it is known that marines shipped
on the cruiser Columbia at League Island,
Pa, are bound primarily for Guantanamo,
Cuba, there to be kept in readiness for
any emergency that may arise on the 18TH
mus of Panama. The elections that will
take place there next month may be ac-
companied by revolutionary disorders; in
fact, certain inquiries that have been d.
rected to Gov. Magoon by disconnected
party leaders have been followed by
threats of an uprising against the Anne
dor administration. These have led Sec
retaries Root and Taft to serve notice
upon the malcontents that no such mani
festation will be permitted anywhere near
the canal zone or at any place where the
peace of the zone may be threatened.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
Torrey Adopts Philadelphia.

During the farewell service conducted
by Messrs. TorEey and Alexander, mark
ing the end of their three months re-
vival in the city of Philadelphia, DIR.
Torrey announced that Philadelphia was
hereafter to be his home. This was greet
ed by tremendous cheer from the great
audience that filed the Second regiment
armory. In summing up the result of the
mission, Secretary Cass said that the
number of converts was near 1000, al
though the number who had already ask
ed TO be united to some church was alittle
under 1900. DR.. Torrey expressed him
self as pleased. He felt that he had
quickened the religious pulse Of the city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
SWEPT BY FOREST FIRES.
Flames Rage Over Large Territory
in Michigan and Wisconsin,

Half score of towns and villages have
been wiped out by forest fires, which are
raging in the upper peninsula of Michi-
gan and contiguous portions of Wiscon-
sin. Driven by a gale the flames already
have burned over 200 square miles of
territory.
Towns in Michigan and Wisconsin
known to have been destroyed, with their
populations, are as follows: Quinnisec,
1000; Ralphs, 400 Cornell, 500 Talbot,
400; Auburndale, 500; Schafer, 600; Sal
vote, 200; Woodlawn, 200; Saunders,
Wis, 400.
In addition to the villages burned a
number of lumber camps have been de-
stroyed and the men from several of
them have not been heard from. From
one of the camps of the l. Stephenson
Company the men, mounted on fifty draft
horses, raced ahead of the fire for twelve
miles, finally reaching Cornell, barely
ahead of the line of flames They leaped
aboard relief train, on which the last
of the citizens of the place had taken
refuge, and as the train drew out they
could see the wall of fire sweeping over
the houses, while the horses which had
brought them to safety fed wildly through
the forest ahead of the blaze.
The amount of damage done by the fire
is incalculable. Millions of feet of cut
timber have been burned, sawmills swept
away and hundreds of square miles of
trees either consumed or ruined. In the
towns alone the damage will not be less
than $1,O00,000, and in the surrounding
territory it must total several times that
amount.
The fire extends from twenty miles
above Menominee, almost to Escanaba and
Marquette, covering the greater portion
Of four counties. In addition smaller
fires are raging in other sections which
threaten to become as destructive as the
great one. Reports from Ontario show
that forest fires also are raging there.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
In the National Capital.

Senator Beveridge of Indiana will in
troduce a bill for stringent federal regula-
ton of meat business.
House Democrats, led by Williams Of
Mississippi, made a pretty but unsuccess-
full flibuster fight on negro bill.
Pennsylvania railroads paid rebates TO
coal shippers, was testimony given be-
fore interstate commerce commission.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of Bernard S. Rodey of
New Mexico as United States district
judge.
The construction of lock level type of
canal at Panama is to go on Congress is
not expected to decide at this session.
Eki HiokO, in charge of japanese af-
fairs in Washington until the arrival
of Viscount Aoki, the new ambassador.
has started for Japan.
Speaker Cannon is to be nominated on
the floor Of the House of Representatives
for President of the United States. The
nominating speech probably will be made
by Representative Boutell of Chicago and
will contest the statement frequently re-
peated that Uncle joe is too old to be
President.
Commissioner Garfield offered proof
that railroads granted oil trust secret
rates, and the railway deniel is refu ssd
The legislative, executive and Judicial
appropriation bill has been reported 20 the
Senate. 1t carries 500, 1894, an in
crease of $445,721 over the amount voted
in the House. The largest item Of in
crease is 100000 for collecting the in
ternal revenue
Practical agreement has been reached
by the conference committee on the state
hood bill. The report. it is said, will pro-
vide that referendum vote be taken separ-
ately in Arizona and New Mexico to allow
the people to decide whether or not they
wish to come into the Union as one State.
Count La Mira, Mexican minister to
China, formerly military attache Of the
Mexican legation at Washington, who was
injured during a recent typhoon, is in
critical condition at Pekin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
ADVISES A BIG ARMY.
shut Out Foreign influence, Kaiser
Tells Chinese ENJOYS.

The commission of Chinese officials
touring Europe for political study was
received Friday by the Kaiser, who made
speech. The Kaiser advised China to
create a powerful army as rapidly as pos
sible. The organization of a large and
powerful army, he asserted, is China's
sole means of protecting her national as
pirations and checking the blows of for
eign powers. In establishing this army
the emperor advised the Chinese to avoid
initiating other countries or taking other
armies as models, but to create their own
army according to their own methods,
without being swayed by foreign infu-
ences. The speech is regarded as direct
advice to China not to allow japanese
domination in the country. 1t aroused
a strong impression in diplomatic circles
that Germany intends to play the same
part in China that she has played in
Turkey and Morocco. By covertly sup
porting Turkey and Morocco against Eu-
rope, Germany succeeded in obtaining the
largest share in the commercial exploita-
ton CT those countries.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
Planning Religious Instruction

The movement for so arranging the pub
lie school program as to leave a part of
Wednesday afternoons free for religious
instruction, which was started by the in
terchurch conference, is being pushed by
group of Catholics, Jews and Protest
ants at New York, who held a meeting
Monday night. 1t is proposed that the
children be allowed to leave school at that
time and go to their respective churches
for systematic study. This appears to
be a platform on which members of all
churches can stand.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
~ The conditions general
Chicago ly have been favorable 70

| ~, Ile cOHulllOuS SeucIai-
0lll6duU. lIy have been favorable 10
- seasonable progress y. the
leading lines of activity, new commit
ments being exceptionally large in fin-
ished steel for next years delivery,
while consumption of necessaries re-
mains unprecedented and money WORKS
easies. Labor difficulties have disap-
peared, except as to foundry work.
which is delayed owing to the mold
ers' strike. Movements of commodi-
ties again are increasing, heavier mar
keting of crops and lake carrying con-
tributing to the current gain in tor
mage.
Factory work is strengthened in the
effort to obtain more output, particular
" of farm implements, heavy hardware,
furniture and power machinery. New
building operations never before were
of such magnitude, and the fine wealth
err permits rapid advance in other out
side construction work. Real estate
dealings have expanded, a feature be
ing much investment for mercantile
purposes. Building materials are in
urgent request and some trouble is ex-
perienced in getting prompt deliveries
Distributive trade was considerably
stimulated by the warm weather. The
demand for lightweight clothing has
made a substantial increase. and this
led to the hurried placing of various re-
orders for both ely and country ac-
count Wholesale transactions are of
steady aggregate and frequent ship
ments to Western points We're made of
dry goods, footwear, furniture, clothing
and hardware. The absorption of sport
ing goods and automobiles shows bet
ter than Il year ago, while the current
sales of food products are remarkably
active. Agricultural reports reflect
most encouraging conditions. Corn
planting throughout Illinois covers an
extended acreage and is almost com.
pleted. These favorable factors impart
further confidence in commercial cir
cleS, and it is noted that mercantile col.
leetions have improved.
Western railroad traffic returns ex-
hibit further increase and the indica-
tons suggest continued profitable earn
ings.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 23, against 43 last week
and 80 a year ago.--Dun's Review of
Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29

from st. Petersburg that General Stoes-
sci has been condemned to die for sur.
rendering Port Arthur:
"Stoessel will probably be sent to
some obscure station in Russia, and
after he has dropped from public no.
tice the announcement will come that
he has been found dead. He is a doom
ed man and will be killed in some way
by the Russian government"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29

w. A. Thompson and Isadore Rouchard
while in a canoe on Helen lake, near Fort
William, Ont, half a mile from shore, en-
gagged in a combat. capsizing the craft.
They then climbed to the top of the up
turned canoe and engaged in a hand-to-
hand struggle lasting nearly thirty min
utes, when, their strength spent, they
slipped into he water and sank.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
NIAGARA FALLS BILL VETOED.
Governor Higgins Sees Danger in
the Wording of the Measure.

Gov. Higgins of New York vetoed the
bill passed by the Legislature to regulate
the amount of water which may be taken
from the Niagara river for power pur-
poses. In his veto memorandum the Gov
ernor points out that the bill provides
that the rights of existing corporations
shall be limited and restricted to take
from the river quantity of water equal
to the quantity which said corporations
can by virtue of their present rights draw
under their present charters" This pro-
VISION" says the Governor, either is
meaningless as being only declaratory OF
the present law or else it doubles the
quantity of water which such corporations
may lawfully use.'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
puggy Company Quits Busines,

The Highland Buggy Company, the
successor of Anderson < Harris, made an
assignment in Cincinnati for the purpose
of liquidation. The assets are placed at
$4,000 and the liabilities at 10000
Lack of working capital is given as the
reason for wanting TO go out of business
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
hummer Tracts Fire svent

Word has reached Brainerd. Mimi, of
one of the most disastrous forest fires of
its class ever recorded in northern Min
nesota. At Cross Lake between 100000
and 100000 feet of logs. nearly all
white pine of high grade, have been de
stroyed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
Wnnts TaIer Army nmccrs.

4 general order by Gen, Bell. chief of
staff of the army, fixes 1--WE feet FIVE inches
as the minimum height for commissioned
officers entering the army from civil life.
The provision applies to candidates for
anpointment as commissioned officers.
o;,ber in rhe line or the staff.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
| New York.

| nQH VI II. td Will NdllHtI htdlItI
and the settlement OF la
Dor troubles; jobbing recorder business
is in full seasonable volume. San
Francisco demand being a feature; fall
orders are equal to and in many lines
in excess of last year at this period;
industry except in some sections of the
soft coal field is as active as ever be-
fore, and the return tide of currency
from the country is evidenced By in
creasing Western bank deposits and
perceptibly easier money. Railway
earnings show good gains. Building
activity makes for large sale of lum-
Der, hardware, paints, glass and other
material. Collections tend to improve
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending May IL number
161, against 162 last week, 191 in the
like week of 1905, 215 in 1904, 159 in
1908 and 152 in 1902. In Canada fail
ures for the week number 10 as against
% last week and II in this week year
ago.-Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
No ReceIxcr for Zion.

The frsi decisive legal victory in the
fight between the warning factions of
Zion went to the adherents of John Alex
ander Dowie Tuesday in the District
Court. Judge Lands declared his inves-
tigators found no evidence of misappropri-
alton of funds, that the assets exceed all
liabilities, and that no receiver will be
annointed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
Rad Eggs for Minister.

Following a shower of spoiled eggs,
which drove him from the pulpit at Lucas
Ridge, Tenn, the Rev. George Porter was
pursued for more than a mile by mem
bers of the congregation and literally
covered with broken eggs because he de-
elsred the Bible a dead letter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
stand Crashes to Ground.

Lives Of hundreds of Presbyterian com
missioners were menaced in Des Moines
when Il temporary platform collapsed and
crashed TO the ground, carrying with it
500 screaming churchmen. Scores of per-
sons were injured, FIVE seriously, but as
by a miracle no lives were lost.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
Poisoned by Bugs in Berries.

Raymond and James, young children of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney IOnts of Central
City, KY, while eating strawberries swal-
lowed poisonous bugs, which We're con-
cealed in the fruit, and were made very
ill., Their condition is said by physicians
TO be critical.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
New Trial for Powers.

Caleb Powers, now in the Newport,
Ky, Jail, has been ordered back into the
custody of the Kentucky State courts fol-
lowing the mandate of the United States
Supreme Court. Powers will be arraign-
ed for fourth trial for completely in the
murder of William GOebel.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
Loses Life Retrieving BIRD

Ernest Shaw was drowned in the Deer
field river near Shelburne FAILS, Mass.
He had shot hawk. the bird falling into
the water, and in wading out to secure
it the young man got beyond his depth
and was swept down the stream and
drowned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
Oil Reports to Come.

Commissioner of Corporations James
r. Garfield will submit to the President
further information on the result of his
investigation of the oil industry. 1t has
not been determined, however, whether
this will be in one report or several sep
aratp rpDOrtS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
Burton Must Go TO Jail.

United States Senator Joseph r. Bur
ton of Kansas must serve six months in
Jail, pay fine of $500 and be forever
debarred from holding public office, ac-
cording to decision of the federal Su-
preme Court, and his colleagues are pre-
pairing to strip the convicted man of his
tOoa