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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
RAIL TIEUP GROWS ACUTE.
American settlers in Western Cana.
da Suffer Severely ms Result.

American settlers in Western Cana
da suffer Severely ms Result.
The folly Of American settlers going
into western Canada so early has result
ed in terrible loss and suffering. So seri-
Gus has the situation become throughout
the section west of the great lakes that
the following telegram has been sent to
western representatives in parliament by
the Winnipeg board of trade, together
with kilograms to the railway commission
demanding an immediate investigation:
The Transportation situation on the Ca
madam Northern railroad system is very
acute and becoming more aggravated
daily. Hundreds of cars of settlers eff
fects, live stock and general merchandise
are tied up in Winnipeg, Regina, loau-
phin and over the whole system. lmper-
alive that western members represent the
situation to the railway commissioners
and the government Immediately and urge
prompt action, as much Inconvenience
and loss has been caused to settlers and
merchants which will undoubtedly ad-
verseIy affect immigration if not prompt
ly relieved. Andrew Strang, President"
The same story comes from all parts OF
the West. AT Moose Jaw, in Saskatch-
evan, there are hundreds of settlers from
Illinois and Iowa badly blocked. Their
families accompany them. Before the
civic committee Investigating the congest-
ed freight conditions of western Canada
President Mann of Canadian Northern
said his company had placed orders for
$4,000 cars, 500 passenger coaches and
100 locomotives several months ago, but
was unable to secure them at present.
Construction work in western Canada
will necessarily be reduced this year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
UNCLE SAM is FIRST.
DUTY TO COUNTRY AHEAD OF
MILITIA OBLIGATION.
Postal Employees mt Lorain, Ohio,
Must Quit Strike Duty or Resign
Northumberland I'm Number of
Immigrants Noted.

That the duty to the government of
postoffice clerks and carriers who are
members of militia companies is para
mount to that of their military service,
except at critical times is the decision of
First Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock regarding the employees of the
postofice at Lorain, Ohio, on strike duty
with Company 3 of the Ohio National
Guard. The postmaster accordingly has
been notified to have Capt. A. L. Cove
and Sergt. Phinney either return to work
Immediately or resign their positions. An
investigation into affairs at Lorain led
the department to the conclusion that no
such crisis there exists as to warrant the
granting of leave Of absence to those men
of the postoffice doing militia duty. Two
of the four postal employees at Lorain
who went out on strike duty returned to
work in response to the demand of the
postmaster, but Capt. Cove and Sergt.
Phinney have declined to do so.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23

Career of Evelyn Nesbft Thaw.
Byron's expression, ''J'he fatal gift of
beauty" is strangely exemplifed in the
life story of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Eve
Ign Nesbit's early home, like Thaw's,
was in Pittsburg. She is the daughter
of Winfield Scott Nesbit, a lawyer who
had a small practice and died leaving the
widow with only a pittance. At the age
of IA Evelyn began to work for her liv-
ing in a Photographic studio in Philadel-
phia. Her employer took a picture of
her to hang in an exhibition, and Evelyn
woke up the next morning to find herself
a famous beauty. Artists began to beg
her to pose for them, and within a few
months she was earning a good income
in New York as a model.
In these model days she met White
who induced her to go upon the stage
and persuaded a theatrical manager to
give her a trial. Later White sent Miss
Nesbit to a fashionable eastern school
and after that she returned to the stage.
Among the host of men who were
smitten by her charms was Harry Thaw
His attentions were at first received
with disfavor, although he had a habit
of sending to her home grand pianos
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23

Mr.. Delmas, if needed by the jury,
blance of western mining camp, and
ridiculed the "dementia Americana" on
which the final plea for acquittal had
been made.
Tie district attorney declared that
romance and sentiment did not enter
into the issue; it was not question
of Stanford Whites character or Eve
Ign Thaw's sufferings: it was plain,
matter-of-fact homicide. "A common,
cowardly tenderloin murder is the
way he termed it.
1t was Jerome's summing-up speech
the last word in the famous trial be-
fore the judge intrusted the prisoners
fate to the jury. Jerome dashed Thaw
as with a knout of a thousand fails.
1t was the most savage attack of the
whole trial. There was not dark
page in Thaw's life that was not turn
ed to the light of criticism and blame.
So fierce so vindictive was Jerome that
there were many who believed he was
purposely seeking to goad Thaw into
some outburst. "He is guilty and
should be punished" was the burden
of his speech.
And following this terrific arraign-
ment which had turned the hopes of
Thaw and his relatives into forebod-
ings, came the judges charge to the
jury. AS the jurist. avoiding all eff
forts at oratorical effect went over the
facts and admonished the men who are
to decide on Thaw's fate to put aside
passion and prejudice and render a
verdict strictly ON the legal points at
issue, an expression of abject terror
overspread the prisoners face. The
judges definition of insanity sufficient
to cause an acquittal dampened the
hopes even of the prisoners lawyers.
After having been out thirty-one
hours and still unable to agree upon a
verdict, the jury which had Harry
Thaw's fate in its hands was locked
up for the second night, Thursday,
shortly before midnight.
Length of trial-Sixty-five court days,
extending, with postponements, from Jan.
% to April u.
Cost to State-$TS,6S6.
Cost to defense $685.. 900.
Length of jury's deliberations Forty
seven hours and eight minutes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
CLOSE OF THAW CASE.
JURY FAILS TO AGREE IN GREAT
MURDER TRIAL.
Famous Legal Battle Lasts for Three
Months-Proceeding Have Been
Eagerly Followed by Reading
Public In Two Continents.

The Thaw jury disagreed and the
long trial of the murderer of Stanford
White ended without result. Thaw was
remanded to the Tombs without bail to
await a new trial. His second trial,
however, cannot take place for some
time-a year, perhaps. Thus closed
the most remarkable trial in New
Yorks criminal annals.
The trial cost the State, it is said,
not less than $4,000 How many times
that sum it cost the defense may never
be known, Though conservative esti-
mates place it at S235,000. And at its
close matters stand just where they did
before. The jury was out over forty
seven hours, and on the eighth and
last ballot stood seven for murder in
the first degree, which would carry
with it the death penalty, and five for
acquittal on the ground of insanity.
Events moved swiftly and thrilling
~ in the last day OF the great Thaw
trial in New York. For Thaw and for
those who were hoping for bis acquit-
tai it was the most soul trying ordeal
of the twelve weeks which the trial
had lasted Upon the heels of District
Attorney Jerome's closing address,
nearly every word of which was like
the blow of a lash on Thaw and his
girl wife, Justice Fitzgerald charged
the jury in a manner that seemed to
dry up every vestige of hope for STAN
ford Whites slayer And then the
case was given to the jury.
The closing day of the trial proceed
ings was the most dramatic since the
prisoners wife recited her pitiful story
on the witness stand. District Attor
ney Jerome dissected the argument of
Mr.. Delmas for the defense and tore it
TO shreds. Selling upon incidents in
Thaw's life, he pictured the prisoner as
q man whose character was as black as
that of Stanford White, and Evelyn
Nesbit he portrayed as girl anything
but the innocent child Mr.. Delmas had
shown her.
Harry K Thaw sat with clenched
fists and blanched face while District
Attorney Jerome tore his life to shreds,
and demanded that the jury assess
against him the death penalty. Sar-
casm tipped every word which the dis
trict attorney spoke. He declared the
pathetic "unwritten law arguments OF
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23

The Mcdonald engineering building at
McGill university at Montreal, was de-
stroyed by fire The loss is estimated at
between 100000 and $4,000, insurance
$4,000.
The negro longshoremen of the Mer.
chants and Miners Transportation Com
pany and the Old Dominion Steamship
Company, who have been on a strike for
an increase of cents an hour in wages.
have been notified by the companies that
they need not return 10 work.
All men have been withdrawn from the
underground workings in the Homestake
mine at Lead s. d., in consequence of
the presence OF carbon dioxide gas caus-
ed by the fire that has been burning in
the mine There has been no loss Of
life, but many men have been overcome
by the gas.
The oyster settlement at Maurice river.
near Melville, n. j.. was burned ont.
Loss $4,000, on which there was no in.
surance.
Stephen Shellgo Of Cleveland commit.
ted suicide on a railroad train near Wash
ington. D. c.. by shooting himself through
the right temple.
The artillery district of San Diego.
which was discontinued in May. 1901 has
been re-established and will now COM
prise Fort Rosecrans, Cal.
The commission appointed by Secretary
Taft to consider the improvement of, the
landscape Of Niagara gorge continued its
investigation Of the American bank.
A. =. Nichols, % years old, son of
Jacob Nichols, a prosperous farmer,
wanted for two months for forgery, was
arrested on his return to Lebanon. Ind.
MARQUIS Bindo Peruzzi de Medici COM
mitted suicide with a revolver In his
apartments at Florence, Italy. He was
% wears of age and a .eil-known sports
man. His mother, who is widow, was
Formerly Miss Edith Storey of Boston.
According to report issued by the
bureau of statistics of the Department of
Commerce. cocoa importations into the
limited States are now averaging more
than a million dollars month, against an
average Of quarter of million dollars
Q month decade ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
Notes Of current Events,


Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez candidate
for the presidency of Cuba, is i'll with
consumption.
The trials of Judge Hargis and others,
charged with the assassination Of James
Cockrill, were assigned at Lexington,
KY, to begin May Z.
John D. Rockefeller opened the picnic
season the other day at Lakewood y. J.
He took the choir Of the Baptist church
over to the seashore in the afternoon and
then entertained the party at supper in
the evening.
Three hundred japanese viii leave
Honolulu on the steamship Korea for
San Francisco, whittier they will be
SHIPPED to Vancouver, B. G.
6she report Of the official naval tribunal
of France of its inquiry into the battle
ship Jena disaster, rejects the possibility
of malice as an explanation Of the ex-
plosion and attributes it solely to pow
der b"
William West, an engineer on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, shot
and killed Engineer Fraser at Montgom-
cry. Ala, and finding escape impossible
turned his pistol on himself. dying a few
moments later. West was accused o:
stealing . ring.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23

CHICAGO.


Aside from the temporary effect of un-
sessonable weather the prevailing condi-
tlons impart sustained strength to bust
ness. No interruption appears in pro
uuction OF the leading industries. new
demands come Toward steadily and, with
the resumption of navigation to lower
lake ports. transportation OF freight is
more extended. Commercial loans exhibit
the greatest aggregate yet attained here.
but while the tone is easier, the discount
rate may not decline appreeiahly until
there is a further gain in deposits
Advices testify 10 spring merchandising
equaling expectations at most interior
centers. farm work we'll forward and at
tention turning to extensive improve
ments. Distribuiive trade generally is
upon an encouraging basis here and in
the West and there is yet much activity
in The iobbing branches upon demands for
textiles footwear clothing. furniture and
hardware. Some delays occur in forward
ing general merchandise. due TO scarcity
in first hands. and road statesmen obtain
good orders for summer staples, indicat-
ing that buyers have no loss of conf
dencc in the future
Manufacturing progress is unabated.
The capacity of most plants is exerted to.
the limit, and the machinery and labor
employed exceeds all previous experience
in iron and steel, power, ear and forge
work.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number II. against Is last week
and 70 year ago.-Dun's Review of
Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
1EAs lxlLlssgE;2Isz[57S
.s,s ss.;;s1s}SIlFSS HS&l%- o.
o,. $1,000
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Chcago-Cattle, common to prime,
$4.00 to 500; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to 500; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $625; wheat, No. >, nc to 7Sc corn,
No. 2, Acc to 46c; oats, standard, Ale to
43c; rye, No. 2, Csc TO lie; hay, timo-
thy, $500 to $1,000; prairie, 5000 TO
$780, butter, choice creamery, 2Ie to
30c; eggs, fresh 14c to lie; potatoes,
SOC to 45c.
Indianapolis Cattle shipping. $500
to 5000; hogs, choice heavy, $500 TO
$3.50; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$5.75; wheat, No. 2, 74c to zoe; corn.
No. 2 white, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2
white, 42c to 44c.
st. Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 to $675; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, &c to 7Sc; corn.
No. ?, 45c to 47c oats, No. 2, Ale to
42c; rye, No. ,, &c to CSC.
Cincinnati-C $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $500 sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, re to 79c; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; oats, No 2
mixed, 42c to 43c rye, No. 2, 73c to FAC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to 5000;
wheat, No. 2, roc to soc; corn, No. 3
yellow, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 3 white,
45c to 47c; rye, No. ., Tic to 73c.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
79c to S3c; corn, No. 3, 42c to 44c;
OATS standard, 42c to 44c; rye, No. 1,
69c to Tie; barley, standard, roc to re;
pork, mess, $16.05.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$40 to 5000; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $7.15; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $500.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $G.45;
hogs, 500 to $7.20; sheep, $500 to
600; wheat No. 2 red, SIC to S3c
corn, No. 9, 52c TO 54c; oats, natural
white, 4Sc 70 soc butter, creamery, 29c
to Bic; eggs, western, 15c to 1Sc
Toledo-W No. mixed, nc to
79c; corn, No mixed, 44c to 46c
oats, No. mixed, 43c to 4Jc; rye, No.
2, Csc to 69c; clover seed, prime, 1925.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
wREoKERs DITCH TRAIN.
DeraiI Great Northern Oriental Linn
tied In North Dakota.

Five persons were killed and more
than a score were injured when the
Great Northern's west-bound Oriental
Limited was derailed by wreckers near
Bartlett, n. ID. A gas tank exploded
Immediately after the train left the rails
and seven coaches were burned. only one
sleeper and an observation car being
saved. The train was running at a rate
of forty miles an hour on a straight track
when the accident occurred. The track
had been inspected only a short time be-
fore and found to be in perfect condition.
Great Northern officials declare that a
deliberate act of wreckers, probably bent
on robbery alone could have caused the
disaster. The wreck occurred immediate
ly on the line dividing Nelson and Ram
sey counties. The mail car wac hurled
over the engine, which lay across the
line, and burned in Ramsey County. 1t
was in this car that w B. Jones, mail
clerk, met his death. In the smoker,
which burned in Nelson County four
foreigners, supposed to be Greeks, were
killed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23

According to Henry Floy. an engineer
who has been studying the subject for
the city of East Orange, y. j., the scheme
advocated by many enthusiastic persons
of producing electric light and power, or,
perhaps, steam, for heating purposes by
burning the refuse of cities. is not a
practicable one. Mr.. Floy's report in
dicates that the light and heat which
would be produced by the burning of the
garbage could be obtained more cheaply
by burning coal, and that so Tar as the
relative economy of the two methods is
concerned it would be more advantageous
to dispose Of the refuse By hauling il
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
shooting all White.

Stanford White was shot dead by
Harry X Thaw on the Madison Square
roof garden on the night of Monday.
June %. 1906, during a performance of
"Mamzelle Champagne" in full view of
tie gay throng seated at the tables watch
ing the premiere of the musical comedy.
Three shots were fired by Thaw, each tax
ing effect in the head of the architect,
who dropped to the floor lifeless form.
White had no opportunity to defend
himself. He had been sitting at one of
the tables deeply engrossed in the light
opera which was being enacted, when he
was suddenly confronted by the Pitts
burger Without a word of warning the
latter leaned over the table, held the re-
volver v thin foot of the architects
head and hred. As White fell backward
dead Thaw turned on his heel and calmly
surveyed the excited crowd. He had al
most reached the side of his wife when
fireman, stationed on the roof garden,
made him a prisoner.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23

possibilities of new suggestion, great
or small, the amount of work of which
he was capable was the despair of every
man with whom he came into business
relations. He could accomplish his
greatest duties on apparently three or
four hours sleep, and in addition to all
of his vast enterprises, White was known
over Europe and America as one of the
most companionable and lovable men of
his time.
Cultivated, gifted in practically all the
arts, he took with him wherever he went
that extraordinary love of fun and bois-
ferrous jollity that distinguished him to
the end and that made his presence
sought and priced in every branch of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23

Company has been working on a system of
gas machinery for propelling ships. They
have perfected a design for a vessel using
an explosive engine, which will have no
tunnels. and her speed will be higher than
that of any existing battleship. While
her dimensions are moderate. her batteries
viii be even more powerful than those of
the Dreadnought, since all her ten guns
can fire on either beam, and six ahead or
stern. The advantages of such change
were generally conceded to be great, and
some believed that such a transformation
of warships was matter of the near fu-
ture.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
Inmher Production BuIle,tn

The national forestry service has made
public its estimate Of the annual produc-
ton of lumber in this country at 100000
600 cords. valued at $l,020.o00.000. The
State of Washington ranks first with an
output of 4000.O0o000 feet. and next in
order come Wisconsin, Louisiana. Mime
sofa. Michigan. Arkansas, Pennsylvania,
Mississippi. Oregon. North Carolina. Cal
ifornia. Texas, Alabama, Maine. Virginia.
Georzia. West Virginia. Florida, New
York. Tennessee. South Carolina. Ken
lucky. Missouri Indiana. New Hamp-
shire. Ohio. Vermont. Massachusetts.
Idaho. Mo4tana. Maryland. Iowa. Illinois.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
TOWN WRECKED BY DYNAMITE.
Front of Drug store Blown Across
Street Into Tree Top.

Dave Benner's drug store at Sandborn,
Ind, was demolished by dynamite. The
fronC of the building was blown across
the street and part of it hung on a tree
top. The Commercial hotel Vandalia
railroad station, Sandborn Bank building,
K. of p. hall, II. L. Renner's residence
and Pohmeier's restaurant were badly
damaged. The estimated damage is ST.
600. Benner has been conducting an al
legged blind pig for several years and has
been in court many times. Benner is de-
faint and says he will rebuild. He has
already ordered several hundred pounds
of glass from Vincennes glass factory.
citizens committee offered $40 reward
for the apprehension of the dynamiter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
war.hip. to BE Funne1Ie.s.

One of the most interesting papers read
before the recent conference of the insti-
tuition Of naval architects in London was
that which dealt with ''The Influence Of
Machinery on the Gun Power Of the
Modern Tarship." The author claimed
that IL large number of guns are to be
effectively mounted they must be so placed
as to fire on either broadside. To this end
all deck structures, including tunnels,
must be abolished. but if tunnels are TO
be eliminated steam can no longer be
used. With this m mind, the Vickers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
n. & o. Accident in Ohio,

Speeding at the rate of seventy miles
an hour around a curve near Sullivan,
Ohio. westbound passenger train on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
wrecked. Engineer ii. NJ. Dempsen was
instantly killed underneath his engine,
which turned over on its side Fireman
r. f. Grail of Chicago Junction was in
jured severely. Three coaches left the
track, but none of the passengers was
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
BASE BALL STANDINGS.
Games Won and Lost by Clubs i'm
Principal Leagues.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
IMMIGRATION INCREASE NOTED.
Over Half "A Million Foreigners Land
Within Six Months

According TO a statement issued by the
bureau of immigration of the Department
of Commerce and Labor the total immi-
grafton to the United States from all
countries for che six months ending with
March last aggregated 539.137 persons,
which is an increase of 1881 over a like
period IL 1906. The number of immi-
grants from Russia was 103,364, being
an increase of p. 631 over the correspond
ing period in 1906.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
SILK Mil Merger Announced.

silk-mill merger with a capital of
so, 100000 has been announced in York,
Pa. The merger thus far includes the
York and Monarch mills. in that city,
and mills at Carlisle. Fleetwood, Kutz-
town and Reynoldsville, Pa. The pur-
chaser is the American Silk Manufac-
turing Company of New York. Plans
under way for the merging of a total of
thirty mills, principally in Pennsylvania.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23

Three men were killed and ono proba-
bly, fatally injured at Cheneyville, La, on
west-bound passenger train plunged into
a switch thought to have been left open
by train wreckers, The wreckage caught
fire, and the mail car, baggage and ex-
press car and two passenger coaches were
hurrad
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23

Miss Gertrude Schwab. sister of
Charles NJ. Schwab, was married in ST.
aichsel's Roman Catholic Church at
Loretto. Pa. TO David Barry. cashier Of
the First National Bank of Johnstown.
Among the guests was the distinguished
brother Of the bride, whose wedding pres
sni was 100000 in stocks and bonds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
Has worst snow of Year.

Northern Michigan the other day ex-
perienced its worst snow storm this year.
More than three feet of snow fell Tele-
phone, telegraph and street car service
was handicapped. All mails we're far
behind and rhe railways found it difficult
to keep their tracks open. A strong wind
and low temperature added to the diff
culties.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
Sensational Pittsburr su,c,d.

Standing in box at the Grand Opera
House in Pittsburg in view of those in
the theater. Robert NJ. Grow, 30 years
old. fired bullet into his body with sui
cidal intent. The deed caused a panic
in the theater. Crow has little chance of
recovery. He has been laboring under
mental decisions for some time.