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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
TOWNS WIPED OUT BY TORNADO
Big Texas Windstorm Carries Death
and Destruction.

Scores of lives We're lost, crops were
devastated. and at least two towns
We're wiped out by a .terrific tornado
that swept over the country west of
Mount Pleasant, Texas, Monday after
noon. Details were difficult to obtain
on account of the prostration of tele-
graph and telephone wires, but suffi-
cient information was obtained to make
it certain that the disaster is one of
the most deadly that ever has visited
the State.
The towns of Birthright and Ridge
way, forty miles west, ssre practically
annihilated. At Deport the Baptist
parsonage and half dozen homes were
destroyed. Several buildings torn to
srlinters and two deaths ire reported
from Halesboro, and grea. loss of life
is believed to have occurred at Caney,
a negro settlement.
Birthright, town OF 800 people, is
literally wiped out. Ridgeway suffered
almost as severely, scarcely a stick of
timber being left standing. 1t is known
that many We're injured in Ridgeway
but it is thought there were fewer IA
talities than at other points.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
TRAIN RosBENs ARE Fooled.
Police and Masked Bandits in Hand
to Hand Fight

Following a furious revolver duel be-
tween Streator, ILL.,. police and party
OF five masked train robbers, one OF the
bandits was taken to hospital with
bullet through his spine and the four
others are in cells at the police station.
The battle took place in sight of scores
Of passengers and citizens. who fastened
TO cover when the fusilade of bullets be-
gan During the night Assistant Chief
of Police Fair received a telephone mes
sage stating that the robbers were on the
Santa Fe fast train west bound, and ask
ing him to meet the train with posse
detail of police surrounded the train
and ordered the men to throw up their
hands and surrender. There was no APP
parent disposition to comply with the
command, three of the men making an ef-
fort to get away. Officers opened IRE,
Charles Lephard of Cincinnati being the
only one hit by a bullet. The police
closed in on the bunch and all were taken.
The four prisoners gave their names as
William Horner and John Harrison, both
of Chicago: Frank Anderson of Kansas
City and Tony Trenhausen of Cincinnati.
Whether the men really intended hold
their way west is not known. All were
masked when taken, but they claim the
handkerchiefs were over their eyes merely
to protect them against dust and cinders.
The presence of the supposed robbers was
discovered by brakeman, who saw them
crouching on the blind baggage next
to the mail car. He notified the conduc-
tor, who sent the message to the police,
at the same time stationing guard to
give the alarm if any attempt was made
to break into the mail car. If robbery
was intended the opportunity apparently
had not arrived, for the door of the mail
car was intact when the police closed in
on the intruders The desperate resist
ance of the men is taken as evidence that
robbery of the mail and express cars was
their object
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
MOB ATTACKS MISSIONS.
Fury of Hindu Outbreak vented on
Christians.


The Hindu outbreak at Rawalpindi,
British India, seems to have been anti
Christian as well as anti-European. The
mission buildings were the special objects
of the fury of the rioters. An attack
was made on the American church, and
the mob burned the Young Mems Chris
tan Association hall. looted the houses of
the missionaries and assaulted native
Christians in the street. A riotous out
break under the leadership of Hindu stu
dents has occurred al Amritsar, about
thirty miles from Lahore. Rawalpindi
is a station of the United Presbyterian
church and was established in 1896.
Three missionaries and their wives, TWEEN
ty out-stations, a Sunday school, col
lege. an orphanage and a hospital con-
stitute the establishment there. The
place is also a station of the Women's
Missionary Society, having one mission
airy, two native workers, six out-stations,
six places of worship and one Sunday
school.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
BIG DAM BURIEs FORTY MEN.
Falling Masonry and Water Kill
Twenty and Injure Scores.

Falling Masonry and Water Kill
Twenty and Injure Scores.
One of the great walls of the Chu-
viscar dam, near Chihuahua, Mexico, sud
denly gave way, engulhng nearly forty
men under the enormous weight of ma
sonry and water. Between fifteen and
twenty of the workmen are dead. thirteen
injured and several others unaccounted
for. Some of the injured will die. The
disaster is the last of a large number
which have recently claimed nearly 200
victims, mostly in the neighborhood of
Chihuahua. The authorities are making
a thorough investigation into the present
catastrophe and will severely punish
those upon whom they place the blame.
The dam was being put in for irrigation
and stock watering purposes and was
large enterprise. The loss will be heavy.
All the victims are Mexicans.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
LIVING COST is HIGHER.
Government Report Says Wholesale
Prices Are Advancing

The bureau of labor has taken an
other look into the cost of living and
it finds it is still Increasing. Its latest
examination had 70 do with wholesale
prices only. 1t is now making a study
of retail prices The bulletin just is
sued shows that wholesale prices, con
sidering 25S commodities as a whole,
reached a higher level in 1906 than Mt
any other time during the seventeen
year period covered. The average for
the year 1906 was sc per cent higher
than for 1905, 800 per cent higher
than for 1897, the year Of lowest prices
during the seventeen-year period, and
22.4 per cent higher than the average
for the ten years from 1890 to 1890
Prices reached their highest point
during the seventeen-year period in
December, 1906, the average for that
month being A. per cent higher than
the average for the year 1906, and 6.3
per cent higher than the average for
December, 1905.
The average price for 1906 of farm
products, taken as a whole, differs but
little from that of 1905, a decrease of
only one-half Of per cent being shown.
Food as n whole increased SO per cent
in average price for 1906, as compared
with 1905. The principal articles show
ing an increase were cheese, fish, fruit,
hog products, milk, rice and vegetables.
No change took place in the price of
bread. A slight decrease in the whole
sale cost of coffee, eggs, wheat, flour,
corn meal, beef, sugar and tea is
shown.
OF the seventy-five articles included
under clothes and clothing, sixty-six
showed an increase in price, five show
ed no change, and only four showed a
decrease. In the group, as a whole,
there was an average increase of rs
per cent in price. In fuel and lighting.
as a group, there was an Increase in
price of 3 per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Nav Uniform Not Immune.

Judge Sweetland, in the Superior Court
at Providence. K. l., has decided that
Chief Yeoman Ruenzle, who was barred
from a Newport amusement hall because
he wore the uniform of the United States
navy. can recover at law only the price
of his admission. The judge holds that
proprietors of such places may admit or
exclude whom they choose, and that the
man in naval uniform has no special
rights. This is the case in which Presi-
dent Roosevelt and naval officers took a
great interest. subscribing to the legal
expenses of the prosecution.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
supreme Court Decisions.

BY an evenly divided bench, the United
States Supreme Court affirmed the Cir
cult Court decision that the repeal of
the war tax on inheritances took effect
July /, 1901, and that all collections
Hereunder for the following year must
be refunded, amounting to over $1,000
600. The court held valid the Missouri
law permitting the recovery of full
amount of insurance policy in case of sui
eide, despite any provision in the policy
to the contrary
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14

Harry Daponte, a well-known New Or
leans real estate man, who was indicted
about year ago for violation of the anti
lottery laws. pleaded guilty when arraign-
ed in the United States Circuit Court.
Sentence was deferred Daponte was
charged with aiding in circulating tickets
of the Bluc.ields Lottery Company. which
has since gone out of existence.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
strike of ships 0mcers.

The American Association of Masters,
Mates and Pilots has declared a general
strike of the first, second and third Off
GERS on all coastwise vessels sailing from
New York, to 90 into effect May 1, to
enforce their demands for an advance in
wages to 500, $50 and $50, respectively.
This strike took the form of individual
designations. as the law requires them to
give notice of intention to quit work
Later the strike was called off in the case
of the Brunswick end Bull lines, which
agreed to pay the desired wages.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14

As a result of the energetic representa-
tions of the State Department, through
Ambassador Leishman. an imperial trade
was issued in Constantinople in regard
to the American schools and other ques-
tons long pending between the United
States and Turkey, authorizing the min
listers to take action in the matter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
AMERICAN AssocIATIoy.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
JEAN vALJEAN ARISES
Clarence Abraham Declares His Case
Like That of January.

Holding that his case resembles that of
William January of Kansas City, st.
Louis friends of Clarence Abraham, alias
Bert Gleason. are circulating a petition
requesting his release from the peniten-
tiary at Lansing, Kan. On May 20, 1890,
Abraham was convicted of burglary and
sentenced TO serve seven years in the
Lansing (Kan.) penitentiary. On March
A, 1901, he escaped He went to St.
Louis. married and led the life of a good
citizen under the assumed name of Bert
Gleason. Last December he was recog
nized aud sent back to prison. His wife
has been working in a restaurant to sup
port herself and her child.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Toledo Rnsines. Men Indicted

On the charge of conspiring to restrain
trade. ninety-one business men of Toledo
we're indicted, they being among the best
known in the city, The indictments grow
out of an investigation of the brick, lum-
Der and plumbers combine. No arrests
were made at once, as it was desired to
allow the men time to get attorneys and
arrange for bail. An indictment was also
returned against the National Supply
Company, the name Of the alleged com
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14

Notices have been posted in all of the
Twin City Rapid Transit stations in St.
Paul notifying the trainmen in the SER
vice that on June 1 their wages would
be advanced. The men, after the first
six months of service, now get a fiat rate
of % cents an hour. After June l the
first year men will get 81 cents an hour ;
second year % cents, third year % cents,
fourth year "A cents and after FIVE years
o.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Note Washed Tn by wave.

Captain ]. G. Kiah Of the life-saving
station at Harbor Beach. Mich, has re-
ceived note found inclossd in bottle
on the beach near Lexington which ex-
plains the fate Of the lost fishing tug
Searchlisht The note reads as follows |:
..Searchlight turned turtle of Harbor
Beach all gone down except Jack in
cork Jacket. NJ Perkins" The note is
REGARDED as genuine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14

side of this famous case. Mrs. Pat
rick declares that court, jury and prose
cutor were prejudiced against her hus-
band and that 100000 of the Rice es-
tate money was spent to railroad the de-
PENDANT to the electric chair. She charges
that two of the jurors offered to vote
for acquittal in return for money con-
sideration.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Navy steps in at Nicaragua.

General Davis. coiored. was brutality as
saulted at Puerto Cortez April 81 by
Nicaraguan soldiers and may die. Com
mander Fullam of the United States gun
boat Marietta has ordered the arrest of
Nicaraguan officers and soldiers, and if
the man dies they will be tried for muir
der. Fullam has assumed charge. Davis
is not an officer. His name is General
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14

Victor Roland O'Shea, tried three
times and once convicted on a charge of
killing his wife, Amy Hogenson O'Shea,
is little nearer settlement of his case
than he was when the crime was COM
mitted, five years ago. The third jury
which has heard the issues disagreed in
Chicago and was discharged by Judge
Pinckney.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14

liam Marsh Rice,
will ask for a writ
of habeas corpus on
the ground that he
was tricked into
withdra wing his APP
plication for an APP
peal to the United
States Supre m e
Court while he was
under death sentence
and accepting com
mutation to life inn
prisonment from the
late Gov. Higgins.
Mrs. Patrick has
written a statement
- III j. -
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Pray for Cures MT Ohio Shrine

Hundreds of afflicted persons, many of
them crippled, scores of them blind and
others almost helpless from paralysis and
other diseases prayed for curing before
the holy relic in the Church of Our Lady
of the Consolation in Carey, Ohio. This
is the annual pilgrimage of the afflicted
from all over the country
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Chtldreu See Father sIa,n

Philip Sullivan. aged A, manager of
the Liberty aouse bowling alleys in Lib
cry, \. y. was shot and killed by Mi
chael Noeth. While romping with his
children on the lawn at =. home, Noeth.
who is a neighbor, shot him without
warning. No cause for the tragedy is
known.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14

At the end of an address by William
T. Stead in the Yale auditorium at New
Haven. Dean Rogers declared the session
adjourned, although it was Mr.. Stead's
desire to ask the assemblage to express
itself on his proposed peace pilgrimage &c.
The dean explained thar it was aruIe at
Yale never to indorse any speaker or his
ideas. when presented on the free plat
form. even though they were admittedly
correct. Already Mr.. Stead has received
the approval Of audiences at Harvard.
Allegheny, Tuskegee and other colleges.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
swettenham out as Governor.

Sir Alexander Swettenham retired
from the post of governor of Jamaica
Friday, He Aas gone to his residence in
the hills. where he will stay until he
leaves the island. Colonial Secretary
Bourne has been installed as acting gov
ernor pending the arrival of Sydney Oil
vier, the new governor
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Kan.a. wheat 81 Per Cent.

The condition Of the Kansas wheat
crop. according to a report issued by
Secretary Coburn. is 81 per cent on an
acre of $685. 900 acres remaining after
about 100000 acres have been bandoned
for various reasons. The report is the
result Of painstaking analysis of state
nents made by 1000 observers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
BOY SEALED IN L1ooRIcE SHELL.
Aztec Falling i'm Vat of Fluid He Is
Relieved Mt Hospital.

While at work over a tub of boiling
licorice in Newark, n. j., John Enjeck,
aged IS years, tainted and fell partly
into the huge caldron. He was lifted
out terribly burned and unconscious. His
fellow workmen held Enjeck under a
stream of cold water. thinking they could
wash off the sticky, scalding fluid. But
the water only served to harden the leo
rice, so that it literally incased the suf-
fering maa in a shell. At the hospital
a chemical solution was used to dissolve
the licorice. 1t was said the young man
| might recover.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
p..tor Flee. with His Ward.

Rev. Jared Knode Cook, rector of the
historic and aristocratic St. Georges
Episcopal church of Hampstead. L. l..
has deserted his wife and eloped with
Miss Floretta Whaley. Ii years old. a
member of the graduating class of the
Hampstead high school.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Murder Charge for Lynching.

Six men, alleged to be the leaders of
the mob that lynched a negro at Sterrett
on March 81, were arrested at Durant,
and Sterrett, Ind. t. and are held for
the grand jury without bail on the
charge of murder.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
LOADED shin aurned 10 water

Loaded with lumber the full-rigged
schooner Arthur Fitger. lying outside
Salmon bay. Washington. near the West
Point lighthouse. was burned. The cargo.
worth $4,000. was completely destroyed.
Both cargo and vessel were insured. The
crew Of twelve suen escaped to the shore.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
ohio Whent Crop Is Ininred,

As result of the late freezing weather
the wheat crop of Ohio has been eonsid-
erably damaged. according TO the monthly
bulletin of the State board of agriculture.
The condition of wheat on May as CON-
pared with an average is "A ger cent. or
thirteen points below the condition re-
r,nrfed on April l.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
SCHOOL GARDENS A SUCCESS.
Philadelphia Has $500 Little
Farmers at Work i'm Them.

Philadelphia Has $500 Little
Farmers" at Work in Them.
The coming of pleasant weather has
put 1,S00 Philadelphia child~n into the
school gardens working with rake and
hoe to help nature do her part in the
production of crops. Among Philadel-
phia's educational activities its municipal
school gardens are unique. No other city
has worked out the problem of supple
menting school room work with nature
study so successfully or to such an extent
The ten gardens conducted in different
parts of the city by the Board of Edu-
cation for public school children are CON
sidered of such economic and civic inn
portance that the board this year closed
its summer schools in order to devote
more time and money to maintenance of
the gardens, and the encouragement of
outdoor exercise in the Fairgrounds CON
nected with them.
Scientific gardening is taught in these
outdoor schools. Punctuality is insisted
on. The garden of the sluggard is taken
away and put in charge of an embryo
farmer who keeps down the weeds and
pays the price of eternal vigilance for
his crops.
Each child who gets ''plot" must
register. He or she is required to keep
a record card noting the day of planting
and the results, so that at the end of the
season the principals can ascertain how
productive the garden has been. Each
one knows how many cabbage. bundles of
beets, heads of lettuce, spinach, tomatoes
and turnips have been grown in each
truck patch.
The garden teachers position is no
sinecure. She has to be an expert farm
er as well as good disciplinarian. She
has to combine work and play methods
and must be able to manage hand pillow
as we'll as an obstreperous child. She
must handle her rake and hoe with equal
dexterity, be able to lay off and dig
paths, discern plant diseases, know how
TO exterminate pests and be an all-around
handy man. as well as a good teacher.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14

Albert koenig. lineman. climbed q
two-story porch and secured entrance into
the room Of Nettie Woods on Walnut
street, ST. Louis. and shot her. He then
shot himself twice. Both will die. The
two had auarreled recently.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14

The General Assembly of Rhode Island
adjourned, after a final fruitess effort TO
elect United States Senator TO succeed
Wetmore.
President Murray of the Oklahoma
constitutional convention signed the new
fundamental law at Guthrie, April 10,
thus closing the work of the convention.
Most of the Republicans refused to sign
the document, and voted against it on the
final ballot.
William T. Tyndall. who represented
the Fourteenth Missouri District in the
last Congress, is said to have saved near
ly $4,000 during his term. thereby es-
tablishing a record far ahead of anything
previously known. He saw no sense in
spending money foolishly while in Wash
ington.
Speaker Cannon, on returning to New
York from Panama. was asked to make
the usual customs declaration. He said !:
Eyes, | have a few articles to declare.
Here is a necklace, rare, very rare. It's
for my granddaughter, and it cost %
cents. Here is collection Of beads, also
rare; cost 30 cents. | guess that let's me
out"
James C. Dahlman, Democratic nation
al committeeman from Nebraska made it
known at Omaha that the next platform
of his party would not have a govern
ment railroad ownership plank, if the
convention were controlled by his intimate
friend and adviser. w. J. Bryan. That
is, none would be inserted favoring abso-
lutte ownership. Dahlman thought that
the tariff would be again the dominant
issue.
Mr. Spooner recently remarked to an
other Senator that during his sixteen
years Of service in the Senate he had
made only about s., 700 from his law proc
tice Il have been retained in cases"
he said but / could not cope with the
delay of the courts. A case would be set
during vacation. but invariably a lawyer
on the other side would manage TO have
it continued to December or Whereabouts.
BY that time would be busy in the SEN
ate, and would be unable to appear in
court. This process has been worked so
that | was forced practically to give up
A. e 80 sion
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Three Perish In Flames.

A mother and her two children werN
burned to death in a fire which destroyed
n block occupied by three families at
Beaver Brook, 4 mining village near
Hazelton, Pa. The dead woman was
Mrs. Joseph Ditcavey, wife of miner.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
NIete swift Justice 10 Negro.

Swift justice was meted ont to Edward
Gibson. a negro, who attacked Miss Doro-
thy Paris. 10 years old. of Wenonah.
n. ]. He was sentenced to twelve years
imprisonment and TO pay fine of 5000,
the extreme penalty for the offense.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
No, Kidnaped. I'm, Dead.

The body Of Horace Marvin, Jr., who
disappeared from his home near Dover,
in a marsh, the indications being that
the boy died of starvation and exposure.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
GIRL OF II SHOOTS HERSELF.
Commits Deed During Misunder-
standing with Her Lover.

Seated on a co2ch beside her lover,
Harry Murphy of Lima, Ohio, Miss Hat
tie Garree of Columbus, Ohio, shot her
self fatally. Peculiar circumstances sur
round the shooting, which caused the POI
lice to arrest Murphy, who admitted that
it was with his revolver the girl commit
ted the rash act during misunderstand-
ing between them. 1t developed later,
however, that third person, girl friend
of Murphy's, was also in the room, but
she has not been apprehended. Miss
Garree is IL years old and has been in
Lima a short time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Fire destroys Great Min

A Port Blakely, Wash, saw mill. which
carried over 100000 of insurance, was
completely destroyed by FIRE, despite the
fact that the entire plant was equipped
with sprinkler system.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Nine Strikers Wounded.

Armed guards on street cars of the
United Railroads in San Francisco fired
into a mob of strikers wounding nine
men. several of them fatally.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Terry Nrnrries an American.

The marriage of Ellen Terry, the En-
gliSh actress, to James Carew, an Ameri-
can actor and leading man in the COM
pany with which she toured the country,
is announced in New York.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14

The British governments bill creating
an Irish council was presented TO the
House of Commons, passed its first read
ing. and seems likely TO be accepted by
the Nationalist as a step toward home
rule.