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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
SOLDIERS ARE ACQUITTED.
Shooting of Fleeing Thief Upheld
in Pennsylvania.


I'm Pennsylvania.
Lieut., Ralph W. Drury and Private
John Dowd of the Ninth United States
infantry, who have been on trial in the
criminal court in Pittsburg, charged with
killing William III. Crowley, citizen
of Lawrencevilie, Sept. 10, 1908, were
acquitted, the jury bringing in verdict
of not guilty after having been out all
night. Crowley was shot in fleeing from
the arsenal grounds, where it was alleged
was stealing copper from the roofs OF
government buildings. The verdict cites
the extent to which citizen Of Pennsyl-
vania may go in his efforts to prevent the
escape of felon whom he has caught in
the act of committing a felony, but does
not decide what is the duty of soldier
of the United States in similar circum-
stances. This is the question the govern
ment wished to have decided but Judge
O'Connor, in his charge, made it plain
that the order a soldier had received or
the regulations of the United States army
had nothing to do with the case. He said
that it was the duty of citizen of Penn
sylvania to stop and arrest a man caught
committing a felony, even If he had to
break doors or infiict an injury on the
felon to accomplish this arrest The case
aroused interest in civil srd military cir
cles throughout the count because of
the questions involved. Lieut.. Erury and
Private Dowd were released
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
LEADING FACTS ABOUT
THE FAMINE IN CHINA
Population affected. 100000.

reputation aIfecIed. I0.UUU.OUU.
Stories ahoat of actual cannibalism.
Flood area. about 10000 square miles.
People eating roots, leaves, bark of
trees.
Seven million already helpless from
famine.
Fully 100000 refugees at Using Khan
geu alone
Mission orphanages full to overlooking
with famine waits.
Houses gone. Were built of mud, and
melted in the food
No work to do; business stagnated no
real relief in sight for months.
Famishing parents throw their children
into the food, and then commit suicide.
Fuel scarce, millet and sorghum stalks
being covered by mud. Coal mines food
ed
Children abandoned, tied so that they
could not follow their desperate parents
home.
Hordes breaking through the military
Gordon to get into the eastern cities to
beg for food.
Household goods. farm implements, cat
tie all sold. Children being sold for 50
VI 20 dpieCe
Refugees fill boats so thickly that all
must stand during yoyage-no room to
eat or lie down.
All the dogs and sheep eaten; the
chickens, too valuable to be eaten, sent
to Shanghai markets.
Country districts in rebellion, the des-
perate people preferring to die by the
sword rather than by starvation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
WORSE THAN WAR.
Appalling Fatalities Among Mem
beers of Americans Industrial Army.

Appalling Fatalities Among Mem
beers of Americas Industrial Army.
Important steps are soon to be taken
in New York City and elsewhere to es-
tablish a system of compulsory and accu-
rate records of the enormous number of
persons who are annually killed and in
jured in Americas vast army of indus
trial workers In New York City alone
the meager records obta;nable are start
ling. In 1904 there were 4,162 persons
killed in New York City through acct
dent and negligence as shown by the re-
ports of the department of health, and
these reports are said to be incomplete.
DR.. Josiah Strong president of the In
stitute of Social Service, in speaking of
the number OF persons killed each year
in our industrial occupations, made some
astonishing comparisons. He said
1--WE in the United States kill in four
years some $4,000 persons-fn0re than
fell in battle and died of wounds during
the four years of the Civil War; We are
killing more than twice as many every
year as persisted by violence in both the
French and English armies during the
bnlCC JNQlS VI TIC SliLltiu Wal.
There are more killed and wounded
on our railroads every year than the en-
tire losses of the Boer war on both sides
in three years. We have industrial cas-
ualties enough every year to keep one
conflict like our war with Spain going
for 1920 years or twelve such wars go
ing for 100 years. Our peaceful voca-
lions cost more lives every two days than
were lost in battle during the entire
Spanish war;
From the best statistics obtainable
may say there are to-day $4,000 persons
in the United States under sentence of
death to be executed at an unknown mo-
ment during the next ten years., 100
next week and the same number every
week until the CHASTITY work is complete.
An intelligent and earnest effort would
procure the reprieve of a multitude of
these innocent Victims"
An exposition will be held in the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History, in New
York City under the auspices of the
American Institute of Social Service for
the purpose of studying and exhibiting
safety devices for dangerous machinery,
neIHOdS Oh 1nduSIrldl hygiene anu 10 set
in motion the movement to establish a
more accurate record of industrial fatali-
ties and accidents in all parts of the
country. At present Wisconsin is said
to be the only State in the Union where
any effort is made of official compilation
of these statistics.
In Europe there are several permanent
museums of this character where experts
are constantly studying how to safeguard
industrial employees and as a result the
percentage of death and injury from acct
dents has been greatly reduced. Elk.
President Cleveland and many other
prominent and influential citizens are in
terested in this new movement.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
PROGRESS OF THAw TRIAL.
Taking of Evidence Begun In
Famous Murder Trial.

Taking of Evidence Begun IN
Famous Murder Trial.
yhe trial in New York of Harry X.
Thaw for the murder of Stanford White
at the Madison Square roof garden June
25, 1906, was opened Monday morning
by the State without asking for the dis
missal of any more jurors and the evil
dence was begun. Assistant District At
torney Caravan opened with an address to
the jury for the prosecution. Mr.. Gar
van congratulated the jurors on their body
having been completed and then outlined
the purpose of the law, which was not
seeking for vengeance, but to uphold the
security of the State. He urged the i'm
portance of the case and strict observ-
ance of the law in order that a verdict,
fair to all, might be reached.
1t was the claim of the people, he said,
defendant ''shot and killed, with premed-
itation and intent to KILL" one Stanford
White He then briefly outlined the move
ments of Mr.. White, beginning with the
Saturday preceding the tragedy and end
ing with the actual scene CT the shooting
at the Madison Square roof garden.
Mr.. Garvan told how Stanford White
had on June % last taken his son Law
renee and a schoolmate of the latter to
dinner at the Cafe Martin. The boys
had bought tickets to the New York The
alter roof garden and declined an invita-
ton of Stanford White to accompany him
to the Madison Square roof garden.
stamford White" said Mr.. Garvan,
went to the Madison Square roof garden
and sat alone at one of the small tables
there, watching the production of play
The defendant was there with his wife
and two friends. The defendant walked
die of the second act the defendants par
ty started to leave the roof. The defend
ant let his party go ahead and he Jagged
behind Passing the table where Stan
ford White was sitting, this defendant
wheeled suddenly, faced Mr. White and
deliberately shot him through the BRAIN
the bullet entering the eye. Mr.. White
was dead, The defendant did not know
this. He feared he had not completed
his work, and he fired again, the bullet
penetrating Whites cheek Still, to make
sure, he fired a third time"
1.-THE defendant turned and, facing the
audience, held his revolver aloft with the
barrel upside down, to indicate that he
had completed what he intended to do.
The big audience understood. There was
no panic"
Mr. Garvan concluded by giving the
details of Thaw's arrest and indictment
by the prosecution. Mr.. Garvan spoke
less than ten minutes, always in a con-
versational tone Thaw sat with head
downcast and face flushed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12

In view of the failure of all efforts to
control the diversion of the Colorado riv-
er to form what is known as the Sdlton
sea in southern California, Charles A.
Byers of Los Angeles writes III the Jan
uary Popular Science Monthly that even
tually this artificial inland lake would
extend from Volcano lake in Mexico to
Indio, CAL, spreading over an area of
1900 square miles, and have maxi
mum depth Of $50 feet. 1t would be fed
by irrigation canal intersecting the Colo
RADIO river near Yuma, Ariz., and its over
flow would be carried into the gulf of
California by the lower part of the same
river 1t would submerge thousands Of
acres of tillable land, dozen fair-sized
towns, several miles of the Southern Pa.
cific railroad and number of rich depos-
its of valuable minerals. He figures that
the feed canals could be so dredged as to
permit the entry of ships from the gulf
and making it possible for coast steamers
to ply between Pacific coast ports and the
present inland town of Indio, which is
on the eastern slope ofIhe Sierra Madre
mountains. Nevertheless it would take
many years for the Colorado river to fill
this vast below-sea area, but it would be
possible for engineers to SO change the
lower section of the river bed that it
would let in water from the gulf to assist
in the lakes completion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
National Canifnl Notes.

Two appropriations of $4,000 each are
asked by the Postmaster General for tenn
porary quarters for the postoffice at Pc
oria. H.. and South Bend Ind, during
the construction of new public buildings
there.
The Senate passed a joint resolution
granting an extension of time until May
Is to certain homestead entryments in
the Northwestern States in which to es-
tablish their legal residence. Action was
taken because of shortage of fuel in the
section affected
The War Department has authorized
the prosecution Of the owners of a skating
rink at Plattsburg, \. u, who refused
TO admit soldiers, declaring that the uni
form was barred"
The House committee on postofhces has
decided to include in the postofice appro-
nriation bill a provision for increasing
the salaries Of rural free delivery carriers
to $50. They now receive SI20.
Another attempt to report the Hep
.bnrn-DoIliver bill, making liquors in in
terstate commerce subject to the laws of
states in which they are shipped, was de-
feated in the House committee on judi
ciary.
Ia,e full Senate committee on Indian
affairs rejected the recommendation of
subcommittee that the appropriation to
the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa, be dis
continued aud the school be abolished.
Independent powder manufacturers
were given a hearing by the President to
nresent their charges that the DUPONT
Smokeless Powder Company is a trust
and is using the profits from government
contracts to sustain a monopoly.
The Senate committee on interocean.c
canals authorized favorable report on
Senator Morgan's bill abolishing the or
sanization OF the Panama railroad and
placing the railroad under the absolute
ccntres of the isthmian canal commission.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
MeERCLAL-.
III AND aE 19
ASz -ttssS 5SSs1
aENKNCA
CHICAGO.


Inability of the railroads promptly to
handle all the business offered them is
the only drawback to trade in the Chi
cago district, according to he weekly
review issued by r. G. Dun & Co..
which says:
MIN ana factory production is not di-
mlnished, and contracts for future execu-
ton make satisfactory aggregate in iron
and steel, cars and motive power. wood
working and brass Costs of the raw
materials hold firmly to their high aver
age, but there is sustained rapid absorb
ton of available supplies of hides. leather
and lumber, and building stuff for early
use is in much request.
January permits for new buildings have
an aggregate value of % per cent in ex-
cess of those for same month last year.
Business structures included in the fore
going amount to $1.192,500, an increase
of 220.7 per cent, and indicate an unusual
addition to capacity in various CONNER
cial lines
Mercantile collections maintain SAT-
isfactory showing, and distributive trade
in staple goods is upon an upward trend.
y
wholesale district, there being larger
numbers of country merchants present.
and their steady purchases of spring lines
compare favorably in extent with those
at this time in 1906. Bookings have gain
ed in dry goods. cloaks and suits, mems;
furnishings. clothing, boots and shoes and
notions.
Travelling statesmen forward good orders
from the interior, and results thus far in
Ject more confidence in the outlook for am
unprecedented movement OF wares TO the
West and Southwest. Local retail trade.
has made effective January clearance
sales and winter stocks now are reduced
to comfortable point
Earnings of the Chicago railroads ex-
hibit liberal gains, but drawbacks TO
freight transportation have again become
acute, although there is more rolling
stock in action and better directed efforts
to facilitate traffic. The total movement
of grain at this port. 7.194,115 bushels.
compares with 7,775.SG4 bushels last week
and 7,491, 7o3 bushels year ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
HARRISBURG HAS B1G BLAZE.
Buildings in Business Center, In
cIudfnnr 0nera House. Hurued.

Buildings in Business Center, In
Guiding Opera House, Burned.
Eight buildings in the center of the
business district of Harrisburg, Pa, were
either destroyed or badly damaged By
fire early Friday morning, involving
loss estimated at 81 100000. The Grand
Opera House block at Third and Walnut
streets, in which there were FIVE stores,
was destroyed and nothing is standing
but the walls. The Duncan building, on
the opposite side of Third street, occu-
pied by three stores and q poolroom, was
also destroyed. The Park hotel and the
Columbus hotel were badly damaged by
fire and water. The United Telephone
Company building, the Security Trust
building, the Bijou theater, Rcshon's pho
tographic studio, College block, the Har-
risburg Gas Company building and the
buildings occupied by the Harrisburg
Cycle and Typewriter Company, the
Philadelphia and Albany dentists and =.
G. Hoover, jeweler, were also damaged.
The fire started from an explosion In
Pyne's hat store in the opera house block
at o'clock, and within an hour had de-
stroyed the playhouse and stores IN the
building and had leaped across Third
street to the Columbus hotel and College
block. The opera house was owned by
Harrisburg syndicate. On the first floors
were John Pyne's hat store, Wilson
Hoffa's drug store, Miles Frey's cigar
store and pool room, the Grand Union
Tea Company and W. f. Paul's shoe
store. The opera house stood at the
southeast corner of Third and Walnut
streets, facing Capitol park and diagon-
ally across the street from the postoffice.
Across Third street, at the southwest cor
ner, was the Duncan building, which was
occupied by George NJ. Harry's cigar
store, fruit and candy store and bar
Der shop. The Columbus hotel adjoined
the Duncan building on the west and
next door is the telephone building. The
hotel was ruined by fire and water, in
volving a loss of $4,000. This building
was owned by Marcissus Russ, and the
contents and equipment by his son, Maui
rice. The damage to the telephone build
ing will not exceed $4,000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
"a z Re .,,is Side
: NGeTs9 lgA
The. News -

The assassination season in Russia has
opened with the usual rush.
The wicked flee when the Interstate
Commerce Commission pursueth.
There is always fog or something
else around handy to blame wreck on.
The elimination of the railroad pass
ought to help the boot and shoe business.
The roller skating fad has entered the
field as the deadly rival of bridge whist.
Mr.. Harriman's spell of Indigestion
may teach him not to eat railroads SO
fast.
TIE new electric road to Washington is
to .,un direct to the Treasury doors, How
nice!
the receiving depot for Standard Oil
profits.
The doctors have been having the
weather all their own way.
They need block system to keep rail-
road accidents from coming so close to-
gether.
1t seems to be inevitable in the West
that a crop longage should produce car
shortage.
Now that rebates are done for Con-
gress should set TO work to abolish rail-
road wrecks.
Like the irony of fate, the Holy Ter
ror" of Russia was himself slain by the
''Terrorists."
Commander Peary managed to get to
where he could almost see the shadow of
the North Pole.
Enough crazy things have been done
in the Thaw case to make that insanity
plea the favorite.
All the trust magnates' Nightmares
nowadays resemble the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Seven feet of snow in Russia Is enough
to show pretty conclusively what has be-
come of our winter.
The scientific theory recently advanced
that blondes will disappear in the next
600 years doesn't apply to the bleach
ines.
DIR. Osler advocates throwing all the
tobacco into the sea, but it's a pipe
dream, of course.
A trial marriage in Connecticut has
led to Jail The victim certainly ought
to find happiness there.
1t does seem out of place TO speak OF
Secretary Taft running for the nrssi-
dency How could he run?
This problem of safety on railroads
might in part be solved by providing each
passenger with a collision bulkhead.
A New York man who was denied a
kiss killed his sweetheart, shot her com
panion and man. So you see the danger
Of refusing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
Civic Federation Entertained.

The meeting of the National Civic Fed
Grafton at the home of Mrs. Potter Palmer
in Chicago gave the representatives of
labor and capital an unusual opportunity
for intimate intercourse. Many of the
humblest and poorest wage artisans thus
shared in the elaborate entertainment and
shook hands with multi-mllionaires or
gossiped with them across the table. OF
the $50 persons who accepted Mrs.
Palmer's invitation, 200 were labor union
officials and the rest were prominent
manufacturers or inanciers. The main
object of the gathering was to explain the
purpose of the National Civic Federation,
with view to establishing a branch in
Chicago. The leaders of the federation
tried to make it clear that its purpose
was not to act as an arbitration board to
settle labor disputes, but that it was de-
signed to give representative men on both
sides an opportunity to get personally &C
quainted, so that with better under
standing of each others interests, dis
putes could be settled without resorting
to either arbitration or strikes. The main
difficulty frequently is found to be that
of bringing contending persons together in
friendly conferences.
Addresses were made by former Mayor
Low of New York, August Belmont,
Grandmaster Stone of the Engineers
brotherhood, President Mahon of the
street railroad men and several others.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12

The Duke of Orleans has decided to
send the exploring vessel Belgica to the
east coast of Greenland next summer in
order to assist the expedition of Myths
Erichsen, who started out last June to
explore all the unknown places of the
eastern shore, so as to disclose the exact
shape of the island of Greenland, which
is believed TO be the largest in the world,
Erickson viii start sleighing party
about March / IN the hope OF reaching
the north pole. OF the twenty-six men
in his party all have scientific training
except the two mechanics, the stoker, the
steward, three sailors and two natives.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
fIGt5 lc|:s;'[azE7S
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $500; hogs prime heavy, $500
to $7.12; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. =, 73c to 74c; corn,
No. 2, Ale to 43c; oats, standard, 36c to
Csc; rye, No. 2. CSC to 69c; hay, timo-
thy, $500 to $3.50; prairie, 5000 to
$3.50; butter, choice creamery, pc to-
32c; eggs, fresh, 24c to Csc; potatoes,
35c to Acc.
Indianapolis--Ca shipping, $500
to $3.50; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 TO
$7.15; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
1925; wheat, No. ., 74c to 75c; corn.
No. 2 white, 43c to Acc; oats, No.
white, &c to 3Sc.
st. Louise Cattle, $3.50 to 500;
hogs, s4O0 to $500; sheep $3.50 to
1915; wheat, No. 2, nc to 7Sc; corn,
No. 2, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 36c to
&c., rye, No. 2, Gle to Coo.
Cincinnati Cattle $500 to S5.75;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to-
1925; wheat No. 2, re to 7Sc; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 43c to Acc; oats, No.
mixed, CSC to 40c; rye, No. 2, 6ec to-
zoe.
Detreft-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to 500; sheep. $3.50 TO $500
wheat, No 2, TIC 10 7Sc; corn- No. 3
yellow, 45c to 46c oats, No. 3 white
39c to Ale; rye. No. 2, CSC to 69c.
Milwaukee-Nhcn, No. 2 northern,
7Sc to Sic: corn, No. 3, 40c to 42c;
oats, standard, 36c TO 3Sc; rye, No. j,
&c to CSC; barley. standard, 56c to 5Sc5
pork, mess, $16.90
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers
S4.OO to $6.15; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $40; sheep. common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $7.S5.
New York--Cattle. 800 to $500;
hogs. $4.0O to $50; sheep. $500 to-
$3.50; wheat, No. 9 red. soc to S2c;
corn, No. 2, 54c TO Doc; oats, natural
white, 44c to 46c: butter. creamery, &c
to 33c; eggs, western, &c to Zoe.
Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, &c to
7Sc; corn. No. . mixed, 43c to 43c;
oats, No. mixed, 37c to soc; rye, No.
., CSC to zoe. clover seed. prime, sS.45.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
DOZEN UNDER BIG sNOwsLIDE.


Three Business Houses of Salfda,
Col, Buried by an Avalanche.
At least dozen lives are believed to
have been lost in a terrific snowslide that
came down Monarch Mountain about 8
O'Clock the other night. Three business
houses in Salida, Colo, were buried, with
their occupants, under fifty feet of snow
and dirt The wrecked buildings are
Steve SINNERS saloon, Fred Mason's
rooming house and Fred Sehrader's res
faurant. The occupants had no warning
in time to get out before the crash came,
Fred Schader and his family of five,
James Smith and one child of Fred Ma
soa have been rescued. The snow Is waist
deep on the level at Monarch.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
Alexien Again i'm Power.

The resignation of Russia's reform ad-
miral, Birilcff, was coincident with the
temperance of Admiral Alexief, who
was viceroy of the far east before the war
with Japan, as favorite of the Gar.
Official statistics of the political repres-
sions III Russia last year show ,252
persoHs were executed, 2,029 sent into
penal servitude in the mines, 1876 exiled
to Siberia for life, 5,945 Imprisoned, 562
newspapers suspended and 1872 editors
prosecuted.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-12
wa.h,nstorinn Held auiitiess.

A.ies only a few minutes Of delibers-
ton coroner's jury in the case Of Viii
liam G. Copley, who was held by the
Washington police in connection with the
death Of his wife and infant child, which
occurred from pistol shot wounds, rem
dered a verdict generating him from any
blame. This leaves the official version of
the affair 10 be that Mrs. Copley killed
both her child and herself.