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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17

taught the young man when he was a
youngster and who remembered the slight
blue-eyed boy who called her his second
mother"
But the convictions of these women
had no weight with the second jury which
passed upon the guilt or innocence of the
man. So on Oct. %, 1901, these twelve
men brought in a verdict of guilty, and
again was the prisoner sentenced to the
penitentiary for his natural life.
In the meantime, however, and before
Gov. Taylor left the State as a fugitive
from justice to prevent arrest and ar
raignment for completely in the same as
sassfnation, the executive granted par
don to the prisoner. The Supreme Court
of the State declared this pardon void,
holding that Taylor had ceased to be Gov
ernor at the time it was issued.
But the feeble old mother never ceased
praying for her sons freedom. Nor did
she waver in her faith as to his inno-
cence. She had impoverished herself,
having sold her little farm and moved to
the home of daughter, to aid in raising
finances for the son to continue his battle
against what seemed TO be overpowering
odds. Then came the third trial. She
was living in an humble cottage in Bar
louisville, and every evening she could
be found standing at the gate, her very
soul crying out for a verdict of limo
cent"
Finally the verdict was carried to her,
but it was as far from that expected and
hoped for as day is from night. 1t was
on the evening Of Aug. %, 1908, that
she learned that a third jury had con-
demned her boy to DEATH
Holding herself steadily erect, the aged
woman made but one comment:
MY son is innocent; my sole prayer
now is to the God of the fatherless and
the widow that he win c3en the eyes and
soften the hearts of those enemies of
Caleb who seem determined to have his
life. But both he and l will live to prove
to the world that he had no connection
with the crime"
Prior to this trial Powers had used up
about all the funds he could secure. Now
he was pretty well discouraged. Again
did a woman come to his rescue. In the
mountain school at Flemingsburg, Caleb
Powers had inspired that affection in Mrs.
Brock which was to bring forth a harvest
that made a fourth trial possible. Not
withstanding her "a years she gave up all
her time to raising a fund for Powers
defense. She resigned from the little
school and tra,e.ed the length and
breadth of the State in behalf of her for
mer pupil. She was particularly sue
cessful among the women of the State,
and it was her spirit, which she impaired
to others, that made the fourth trial a
certainty.
One of the attendants will be the pris-
oner's mother. She says she cannot bear
the suspense which was hers while await
ing the verdict in the third trial, and she
is confident that the prejudices Of foi -ner
juries will not be a part of the makeup
of the next which will try her boy. What
ever the outcome of the trial. the pris-
oner is bearing up with remarkable forth
tude.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
RoBBEns DYNAMITE BANK.
Guard told onioolSer- at Bey While

Guard Ha8d 0nIool<ers at Bey While
SafebIoyers Fire Seven Charges.
Robbers dynamited the James River
bank at Frankfort, S. D., early Friday
morning, secured $4,000 in cash, and es-
capped. Seven charges of dynamite were
used in blowing up the vault and the safe.
Persons aroused by the explosion were
prevented from interfering by guards who
were stationed in front and rear of the
bank. Frank Fitzpatrick, a hotel guest,
who sought to break through the line of
guards, was shot His wound is not dam
gerous. Many shots were fired to hold
onlookers at bay. After looting the bank
the robbers broke into section house on
the Chicago and Northwestern railway
and secured a handcar, on which they
made their escape. A posse is seeking
the robbers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
BANDITS ROB TRAIN.
OMAHA AND TEXAS EXPRESS
HELD UP.
Robbers Ride as Passengers and
Cow Train Crew with Revolver
Occupants of Coaches stripped OF
Money and Va1uabIes.


Spectacular raids of the Dalton gang
and the Jackson Hole outlaws were re
called Friday when the Omaha and
Texas express on the Rock Island Rail
road was held up by three masked men
near Murdoch, Neb., and the passen-
gers stripped of money and jewels,
while the train crew was terrorized.
The robbery was one of the boldest and
most successful in the history of the
State. The robbers went through the
chair ear. robbing every passenger
therein, securing their pocketbooks and
purses, covered the train crew with re-
volyers and escaped by leaplng from
the train.
The robbers were passengers on the
train. Shortly after leaving Murdoch
the men arose in their seats, their faces
covered with masks, and, with revol-
yers in each hand covered the passen-
gers. Then the leader ordered every
body to keep still and not resist else
they would be shot Two men went
down the aisle with hats in hand, while
the third kept the passengers covered.
All passengers were ordered to throw
their pocketbooks into the hats, and
this was done. The conductor appeared
in the car with a pistol in his hand,
but was promptly covered with four
guns and forced to drop his revolver.
After getting all the money in the car,
the robbers jumped from the train,
which was slowed down for a grade, An
attempt was made to enter the sleeper
section, but the door was locked
The Rock Island robbery is the first
notable train holdup in that section
since the series of sensational raids
along the Union Pacific several years
ago by the famous JackSon's Hole band
of robbers. For a long time every ex-
press train running between Omaha and
the West was protected by armed
guards, and big rewards offered by the
railroads for the detection of the BAN
dts spurred local sheriffs to such ac-
tivity that train robbing became a
lost art. More recently the precautions
have been abated, and the daring and
nerve of the Murdoch bandits convince
the police that some of the members of
the old Jackson's Hole band again have
taken the road.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17

Increase in the pay of the army, but
no increase in its size, is the compromise
which has been reached by the President
and the leaders in Congress.
After being imprisoned for eight hours
in the McAdoo tunnel, New York, eigh-
teen men were rescued. The rainfall had
caused an accident to the working.
Two young foreigners unable to speak
English were arrested by Syracuse, n.
Y, police on suspicion of connection with
the attempt to wreck a New York Cen
trail train at Jordan, n. Y.
The Rev. Marcus A Brownson, pastor
of the Tenth Presbyterian church, Phila-
delphia, Pa, has been asked by the trus-
tees of Hanover college, Hanover, Ind,
to assume the presidency of that institu-
ton.
Crown Prince William, while riding in
an automobile near Brunswick. Prussia,
was in collision with an empty wagon,
slightly damaging the princes car. No
body, however, was injured.
George Gould. 60 years old, who was
one of the wealthiest men of New Ro-
cheIle. y. Y, died in a hospital there Of
starvation and exposure, according to the
physicians
James Clark, who with W. p. Jackson
] CT St. Louis was arrested in Omaha on
suspicion of safe-blowins, has been iden-
tilted as Marion Hedgepath, notorious
criminal.
President Caeeres Of Santo Domingo
has issued call for an extraordinary
~
10. TO act on the proposition for a 500
100000 loan from Kuhn. Loeb & Co OF
New York.
| Half & million dollars worth Of prop
erty. including three squares of the busi-
ness and residence section OF Houston,
Texas. was destroyed by fire which start
ed in the plant Of the Standard Milling
Company.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
Interesting News Itenas.

Estimates are made that Marshall and
Henry Field will divide S1,000,0O0,00
when the estate of their grandfather is
settled at the end of a trust period Of
thirty-eight years.
While the French gunnery schoolship
Couronne was at target practice near
Ioulon on Aug. 2 terrific explosion
blew off the breech block of hundred
millimeter gun, killing three and seriously
wounding FIVE persons. The exact cause
of the explosion is a mystery, but viii
be the subject of rigid investigation.
In riot started By an attack on nom
union street railway inspector at San
Francisco, in which 1000 persons partici-
pated, several men were badly wounded,
one fatally.
DR.. II. w. Wiley of the Department of
Agriculture said in an address ia New
York thai centenarians are to be as nu-
merous as blackbirds, and that the health
Of the world is growing better.
The government of Venezuela has mott
fed Belgium that in recognition Of the
principle Of arbitration the disputed
claims of Belgian creditors, amounting to
S2,O00,O0O, would be paid as required by
The Hague Court.
The personal interchange between the
rulers of Germany and Russia on the
high sea is believed to have dealt with
the new Anglo Russian treaty, and Mich
olas is thought To have assured William
that although it gave Russia port on
the Persian gulf, this would IN no wise
interfere with the German plan for rail-
road through the Euphrates to Bagdad.
1t Is also said that the Car arranged q
loan of $50, 10000 with German bankers
conditioned on the whole sum being ex-
pended on warships to be built in Ger
many.
There were 35,918 emigrants from Ire
land to England last year, an increase
Of 4,T64 over the previous year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
DEFECTS OF PUPILS.
NATIONS SCHOOL CHILDREN Far
FROM PERFECT.
Fully One-Thfrd of Them Physically
AiIing, Says Report-Track WALL
Save Limited.

That about one-third Of all the school
children in the United States, or about
l2,oOO,0O0 boys and girls, are behind
their proper grades because Of physical
defects that could be remedied is the giss
OF report made by committee of prom
inent educators, headed by Charles G.
Birmingham, formerly of the board of ed
ucation of New York City. This COM
mittee has investigated conditions among
school children. not only in New York,
but in Boston, Chicago and other cities.
BASED on the physical defects and home
conditions of 400 school children of New
York City" says the report, sit is esti-
mated that 100000 of the children of
the United States have physical defects
more or less serious, which should receive
attention from parents and physicians.
If the percentages recorded by the board
of health in New York should be main
tanned throughout the country, and it
seems likely that they would be- as ade-
noids and impaired vision, malnutrition
and defective breathing are found in rural
as well as urban schools, there must be
1,440000 ill-nourished children. 5,615,000
with enlarged glands and 6,925,000 with
defective breathing in the United States.
In New York City the estimated figures
are Malnutrition, 5000; enlarged
glands, $4,000, and defective breathing,
230.S00-a total of 465,S00."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime
$500 to $7.20; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $6.25; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $5.65; wheat, No. 3 95c to Soc;
corn, Ne. 2, Gle to &c; oats, standard,
SIC to 53c; rye, No. 2, sec to SSc; hay,
timothy, $14.00 to $1,000; prairie, 5000
to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, PIC
to 27c; eggs, fresh, 15c to zoe; potatoes,
per bushel, SOC to 62c.
indianapolis Cattle shipping, S3.e1
to 500, hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$3.50, sheep, common to prime, So 90
to $4y5; wheat, No. 2, Soc to zoe; corn,
No. 2 white, SOC to 60c; oats, No. 2
white, 47c to 4Sc.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to S7.10;
hogs, $500 to $6.65; sheep, $500 to
1919; wheat, No 2, 93c to 94c corn,
No. ., Coo to Gle; oats, No. 2, 47c to
fSc rye, No. 2, Soc to SEC.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to 1913; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. ., 92e TO 93c; corn,
No. mixed, 63c to Coo; oats, No. 2
mixed, zoe to 51e rye, No. 2. Sac to Soc.
Detroit-Cattle, $4.oO to S6.25; hogs,
s40O to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $40;
wheat, No. 2, 95c to 97c; corn, No. 3
yellow, Csc TO soc; oats, No. 3 white
Doc to 56c; rye, No. 2, Sic to Soc.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
S1.04 to $1.07; corn, no. 3, CSC to 64c;
oats, standard, Ole to 53c; rye, No. l,
S6c to SSc; barley. standard, SIC to soc;
pork, mess, S15.45.
Buffalo Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$500 TO $685.; hogs fair to choice, $500
to 500; sheep, common to good mixed,
S4.O0 to S5.25 lambs, fair TO choice,
$500 to $50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. red, $101 to $103
corn, No. 2, 69c to roc; oats natural
white. &c to Sic; butter, creamery, 22c
to 27e; eggs, western, lie to dc.
Toledo Wheat, No. mixed, 93c to.
Doc; corn, No. 2 mixed, 6Jc to Gle;
pats, No. mixed, sic to 53c; rye, No.
2, 78c to soc clover seed, prime, 1915.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
PLAGUE IN FRISCO.
Government Is to Fight Black Death
On Pacific Coast.

Government Is to Fight Black Death
On Pacific Coast.
A section Of San Francisco is in the
grip of the bubonic plague, commonly
known as the ''black DEATH" and the
Mayor has appealed to President Roose-
welt for aid. The public health and
marine hospital service has been in
structed to take charge Of the situation
on the Pacific coast.
While calling en- the government for
assistance in stamping out and prevent
ing the further spread of the con-
tagion, the Frisco authorities promise
whatever financial assistance the city
is able to stand. 1t is urged that heroic
measures must at once be adopted to
prevent the disease getting a strong
foothold on the coast.
Acting promptly on instructions from
Oyster Bay, Surgeon General Wyman
issued the necessary orders placing the
public health and marine hospital SER
vice in charge of the situation. Gen.
Wyman also notified the Mayor of San
Francisco that the corps of service Of
ficers already on duty there would be
augmented and additional meas ures
taken to check the spread of the dis
ease.
1t is believed the appeal of the
Frisco officials shows the situation has
become extremely dangerous and will
require great care in handling. Gov
eminent health officers have been sta
toned there for some time and meas
ures were taken to prevent the spread
of the disease to other ports through
shipping, but the plague seems to have
gained a stronger foothold in the city in
spite of the efforts of the officers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
INCREASE IN LAKE SHIPMENTS.
Ore Strike Fails to Decrease Com
mereioI Noxaueuf as On whole

Ore Strike Fails to Decrease Com
merciaI Movement as a Whole.
Considerable gains in lake commerce
during July are shown by receipts Of
leading classes of merchandise at the va
rious lake ports, compared with the
earlier months of the year and CORE
spending periods of the preceding two
years. The strike in the Lake Superior
ore region did not result in a decrease of
the commercial movement as a whole.
Total receipts during July amounting to
11,O9S,313 tons, were 6 per cent in ex-
cess of those of 1906 and 10 per cent in
excess of corresponding 1905 figures. As
result of the strike, wheat rates from
Duluth to lower lake ports, which had
been about pa cents bushel, fell to 1
cent, and increased the wheat shipments
from Duluth and Superior by over 80
per cent, from 2,216,2O5 to 4,029,S 65
bushels. Receipts of ore from domestic
ports show a shrinkage of about quar-
ter of million tons, falling from $685.,
234 tons during July, 1906, to BAGS, LAT.
Lumber receipts also are smaller than a
year ago, the greatest losses being record
ed by Lake Superior ports. An interest
ing point revealed is the increase in the
average size of the vessels plying on the
great lakes, amounting to over 100 tons
for the wear
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
CUBA COSTS MILLIONS.
Expenses of Army of Pacificatiol
S2.55407O for 1907

Expenses of Army of Paci6catfon
$2,554,o7O for 1907.
1t cost the American government ST.
554,970, in addition to the regular ordi-
nary expense, to keep the American army
of Cuban pacifcation in that island dur
ing the fiscal year of 1907. This fact is
shown in the annual report of Gen. Ale
shire, quartermaster general of the army
OF the amount stated $1,015,3S3 was
spent for transportation.
Gen. Aleshire deyotes a few words to
the work of the quartermaster's depart
ment and its ramifcations over a great
portion of the world covered by the Unit
ed States and its territorial possessions,
at the same time pointing out that the
strength of the corps consisted of but
ninety-six commissioned officers and 200
post quartermaster sergeants, in addition
to seventy-six line officers who were de-
tailed in connection with the departments
work.
The general points out the urgent ne
cessity for such an increase in the num-
Der of commissioned officers as will relieve
the department from the necessity of call
ing upon line officers to perform its du-
Ties also lot an increase IN LQ6 num-
Der of post quartermaster sergeants and
the creation of a general service corps for
the work of the department.
Gen. Aleshire expresses the opinion that
the limit of cost, now $4,000 for build
ings, which can be constructed without
special authority of Congress ought to be
increased to 100000. This is especially
urgent with reference to hospitals
He says that carefully prepared stats
tics show that the prices of nearly all the
lumber used in ordinary construction have
advanced fully 100 per cent since 1904,
and the higher grades of finishing lum
Der even more than that.
Because it is economical the bulk of the
coal required for the trans-Pacific trans
port service is procured at Nagasaki,
Japan, where upon the return trip to the
United States all transports take aboard
coal to their cargo capacity. The coal
ing is done very rapidly, as much as 1908
tons having been put aboard in work
ing day of ten hours.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
TWO MOMENTS DEVOTION


Powers OF Kentucky.
While nothing definite is yet known
as to the time of Caleb Powers next
trial. recently deferred on the charge of
numbering Gov. William Goebel of Ken
lucky, the preparations are being made
and when the case Is again called his de
Tense VII be complete. Incarcerated for
seven years for a murder which changed
the political history of a State, outlawed
its Governor and wrecked many homes.
Powers, who at the age of 80 years was
Secretary of State for Kentucky, is still
fighting desperately for his life and lib
erty. Three times already Caleb Powers
has been condemned for participation in
the Goebel assassination three times he
has been graated new trials. To his moth
er and his old school teacher he is in
debted for at least two Of these.
Almost Immediately fter the murder
Powers was arrested while trying to es-
cape in disguise. On Aug. 10 following,
a jury pronounced him guilty of COM
plicity in the assassination and fixed his
punishment at life Imprisonment. He
was a man of some little means and his
political friends, partly considering his
trial as one arraigniny his party before
the world, came to his aid and a new trial
was granted.
1T was a towards shot which slew
Goebel, and Caleb is not a coward"
This is what Mrs. Rebecca Powers, the
mother of the prisoner, said at the first
trial. This is what she said after the
appeal was successful, and this is what
she made many others believe by consist
ant reiteration.
II know Caleb is not a coward, and
also know he had no connection with the
deep damnation of Goebels taking off,"
This was the downright answer to ev-
cry charge made against the prisoner re-
turned by Mrs. Lulie Clay Brock, who
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
NEW YORK

The more cheerful tone of matters
financial is reflected in the reports of ex-
panding trade at large jobbing centerS
on fall account. Conservatism in buy
ing is, however, still enforced by money
market conditions, and purchases are not
so large as they are numerous at many
markets. Relatively the best reports
came from leading northwestern and
southwestern ccnters, which apparently
find crops turning out better than earlier
anticipated. One feature deserving atten-
ton is the reported less noteworthy buy
ing of complete new stocks of goods
which is apparently a result of money
conditions. Quite a few cities report
trade as a whole ahead of the fall sea-
son of 1906, the crop outlook in those sec
tons no doubt influencing buying. Col
lections show Improvement in different To-
calities, but as a whole are still slow
Bradstreet's Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
LEFFINGwELL MAY BE LOST.



News of the probable loss OF the
schooner Duchess of Bedford, the ship
belonging to the Anglo-American arctic
expedition, which hoped to find a new
continent north Of the Mackenzie river,
was brought 10 Athabasca Landing, Can
ada, by Alfred Harrison, who has been
in the arctic circle for two years and who
came back on the steamer Midnight Sun.
Mr.. Harrison said Ernest Stefanson Of
Harvard university, after whom the ex-
petition has been called, himself brought
the news of the loss Of their boat TO
Herscheii island. He also brought the
news of the disappearance Of three mem
bers of the party and expressed the fear
that they had met death in the frozen
north. The missing men are Captain
Mikkelson, a Dane; Ernest Dekoven
Lefingwell Of Chicago, and J. NJ. Marks.
They left the ship in February with sixty
days provisions for the supposed land tc
the north, and had been gone seventy days
and no news had been received from
them. One of their teams of dogs had
returned, and it is likely the party will
never be heard from again. The schoon-
er Duchess of Bedford, Stefanson
thought, had probably sunk. The ship
had filed with water, probably from the
ice strain, but they had been able to
remove everything of value to the main
shore
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
First steel PuIIrnan.

A late number of the Railway Age de-
scribes the first Pullman sleeper to be
built entirely of metal, which has recent
ly been completed. This car has attracted
unusual attention from railroad officers,
not only on account of the novelty of its
construction, but because of its decorative
features, which are said to have all the
beauty of graceful outline and pleasing
color treatment which are characteristic
of recent Pullman cars built of wood. This
applies to the exterior as we'll as to the
interior finish. 1t was the intention of
the builders to make it freproof by the
entire exclusion of wood, and the framing
throughout is of steel, and the finish is
of STEEL aluminium or brass. All the
rivets in the side sheeting are counter
sunk and the whole surface is smoothly
finished. There is a double floor con-
struction and the insulating material in
the sides and ends consists Of two thick
nesses of asbestos board placed between
the sheeting and extending from the side
sill to the side plates. The floor of the
car is formed of monolith cement laid on
corrugated iron of keystone section. This
construction has contributed materially
to making the car ride very quietly, and
it will also overcome the objection to
steel construction in preventing any dis
comfort due to extremes of heat and cold.
The seat frames are Of pressed steel. The
plush seat curtains and the carpet are of
old rose color. The window sashes are
made Of brass. All the inside metal work
is painted pearl gray, with gold orna-
mental lines.