davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Is POLITICS 81 81 Il b
NJ THE DAY w
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

duced by the three, and possibly four,
Democratic members which the new
state Will assureSily send to Washing
ton.
In lie new House a change Of about
twenty-five votes from the Republican L,
side to the Democratic will suffice to
defeat any partisan measure which Is
obnoxious to Republican constituencies
having an aggregate population equal
to that of the single State of Illinois
The difference in the relative posi-
tons of the two parties in the old
House and the new is seen in the fact
that though forty Republicans voted
against the shipsubsidy bill in the
closing days of the recent session, the
bill. nevertheless, passed the House by
a majority of three or four votes.
In the new Senate the Democrats
lose three seats, but these will in part
be made good by two Democratic Sen
ators from Oklahoma, so that the bal
ance of power in that branch of Con-
gress will be little different from what
it was during the two years just pass
ed. And during this period Democra-
tic votes, in alliance with minority
Of Republican Senators, carried
through some of the most decisive
measures enacted by the Fifty-ninth
Congress.
In the long session of Congress pre-
ceding the Presidential election of next
year the Democrats of the two houses
will have a good deal to say in shap-
ing up the issues.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26

/ education was S3.49 per capita. Commits
sioncr Brown notes the rapid increase in
the number of students receiving second
airy instruction.
| Educational leaders will be watching
| with great interest the experiment about
to be undertaken by the Philadelphia
board of education in fitting up a public
school house as a sort of public or neigh
borhood club for the boys and girls. There
will be a reading room. play room and
place for lectures or entertainments.
while provision will be made for manual
| training, the entire expense to be borne
by the city. The building will be open
| two evenings week from Z to and the
attendance viii be voluntary.
A prize offered in New York for the
best school room game for girls has been
awarded TO Max Liebgold for a came
which he calls balloon ball. Instead of
balls. small balloons are used. the object
of opposing terms being to project them
through the air over elevated tape lines
representing goals. The lghtnesS of the
balloons makes it difficult to direct their
course. but only adds TO the interest, while
the exercise of looking upward and rails
ing the arms above the head is thought
/ TO be beneficial especially after periods
| of study. during which students are bend
ing over their books.
In letter to the Washington Play.
| grounds Association. President Roosevelt
/ commends the renewed interest in the
subject OF Fairgrounds for school chill
dren throughout the country. He says
that play is at present almost the only
method of physical development for city
children. and facilities must be provided
if the children are TO be strong and law.
abiding.
The latest educational scheme evolved
az Omaha. Ne6., is to make il unneceS-
Sary for children 10 work for the support
of their parents. the younger brothers or
sisters. by having the Juvenile court pay
to working children who are placed in
school the exact amount of their earnings
These funds are to be obtained through
regular weekly appropriations from
churches societies. clubs. etc.
/ \ number of the Hebrew students OF
Columbia university have formed society
Tor the purpose of obtaining recognition
as TO certain privileges which they say
are denied them on account of their race.
One of the charges made against the fac
ulty is thct the awarding OF scholarships
| IN the various schools does not give the
Hebrews a fair Chance. whereas they are
supposed 10 be awarded according 10
need, character and ability They also
say that in the teachers colleges the
authorities do not try TO find places for
Hebrew students as they do for others
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
ON VERGE OF A PANIC.
BIG SLUMP IN STOCKS JARS
WALL STREET.
Resulting in a $5OO,OOO,Oo Loss,
Causes CONSERVATION Among Big
For several hours wednesday Wall

For several hours Wednesday Wall
street was so close to a panic that the
thousands who thronged the brokers'
Offices, cafes and other places between
the hours of 10 and 3 expected that the
crash would come any moment and
that the wild scenes enacted in the
great panic day of May 0, 1901, would
be repeated. That there was no actual
panic was due almost wholly to the
fact that the public, which speculates
on margins, has been virtually OUT Oh
stocks for three months and the game
is almost entirely confined TO profess
SIGNALS. who are usually able to wealth
err such storms At one time, however,
there were rumors that several of the
big houses which trade on their own
account were in a critical position, but
when the settlement hour had passed it
was known they had been able to pull
through.
Wall street charges the days demon
alization to the attitude of the admin
istration toward the great railroads of
the country and some persons discerned
in it an object lesson for President
Roosevelt. A New York correspondent
says, however, that most judges of the
situation saw in a complete absence of
public buying, even at the bargain
prices which now prevail, the wide
spread disgust with the stock-jobbing
methods of those who control the great
railroads of the country, the stock-wa-
tering processes of which they have
been guilty, the general Indifference on
their part to the rights and interests of
the public and the defiance by the cor
porations of laws designed to regulate
and control them. 1t has been years
since the public has failed to respond
to the low range of prices which was
established by Wednesdays buying.
The panic was not averted by outside
buying. Whatever support there was
came from the banking interests, who
interposed their influence to prevent
complete disorder.
The crash was by far the worst since
the Northern Pacific scare. 1t was
much more radical, for instance, than
either of the two recent big market
breaks, and it was more significant be-
cause, succeeding a decline of about
5000, 100000 in market values from the
high of last year, its effect is cumu-
lative. The entire situation is engag-
ing the attention of the President and
his Cabinet, the Governors and Legis-
latures of States and money kings all
over the country.
President Roosevelt permitted it to
become officially known that he will
maintain the attitude he has assumed
regarding the railroad interests. To
use his own expression, he will "stand
pat" This applies both to antitrust
laws and the Hepburn bill
Expected action by Secretary Cortel-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
Private rlat. ON stenmsr..

The Atlantic transport line. whose
steamers ply between New York and Lon
don. announce that It's vessels will soon
be installed with complete private apart
ments. similar TO those in which thou
sands of people in all our great cities
now live. These will differ from the pre-
vailing steamer suite. in that each will
have a private hall. bedrooms. parlor,
library, bath. etc. Each fat viii be so
feet in length. aud have a width of 10
feet, aud the windows will look on deck.
The temporary tenants name viii be on
the front door and bell will announce
callers. Each apartment viii have an
electric heater. on which light meals or
the baby's milk can be prepared. after
mother has finished curling her hair.
Complete meals. however. will be served
to order in each fiat. one of the rooms
being converted into dining room.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
Notes of current Events.

The three-story wooden grain elevator
of o. b. Tilton in Nashua. n. H., was
burned. The loss is $4,000.
Italian officials have decided that the
excavations at Herculaneum will be car
ried out by the Italian government with
out foreign aid.
Prof Matteucci of the Vesuvius observ-
atory denies that he prophesied the posi-
BILE destruction of the world by a Gomez.
A dispatch from Tangier asserts thst
French syndicate has erected wireless
telegraph stations at nearly all the Mo-
roccan ports, including Tangier.
The George Washington university has
appointed an alumni committee and cit i
zens' committee TO raise 100000 TO PR
chase a new site Tor the institution.
1t has become known in Rome that
Spain is ready to indorse the Anglo
American proposition at The Hague con-
ference for the limitation OF ornaments.
A report on railroad construction in the
Philippines given out by the bureau of
insular affairs shows that 800 men are
at work on the different lines under way.
What is said to be the biggest deal in
Columbia river timber land ever made
was completed when the Clark & Wilson
Lumber Company. a Wisconsin firm, pur-
chased 10000 acres near Goble, Ore, for
$500 600
Samuel IT. Anthony. a negfo. was
hanged in Moyamensing prison for the
murder of his wife on Sept. n, 1904.
Frank Poplis. an Italian convicted of kill
ing woman. was respited by the Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania
Francis Godino. convicted of the MUIR
der of Giuseppe Triberi near Coryville,
Pa. last March because he refused de-
mands for money, was hanged at Smith
port.
An appeal to the Methodist Episcopal
church of the aited States for $4,000
for the current rear has been decided on
BIZ the merge. freedmans aid. Sunday
school and educational boards of that de-
nomination
An explorat m party headed BY DR..
Donald E Ma Dousal. director OF the
Carnegie tieser, laboratory at Tucson. re-
turned and reported that the an ca OF the
Salson sea m be estimated at 700
square miles
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
Bars EARLY Choice of senator.

Attorney General Gilbert has sent the
Legislature an official opinion. in which
he holds that the balloting for Senator
Spooner's successor cannot lawfully be-
gin the second Tuesday after the resig-
nation takes effect. If the Legislature
follows this opinion, the balloting can
not begin before May H. Nearly all of
the members of the Legislature desire to
have the Senatorship matter settled as
soon as possible, and if they can find any
way of doing it before the date fixed
by the Attorney General they doubtless
will adopt it. 1t has been suggested that
the contest might be settled by holding an
early caucus, the candidates agreeing to
abide by the result. but the members are
not ready to commit themselves ON the
suggestion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
CRIMES SHADOW LONG.

Roscoe Miller, Beaver Dam Slayer,
Barely Saved from POtter's Field.
The remains of Roscoe Miller. the sui
eide and double murderer, have been at
a Beaver Dam undertaking establish
ment, as his step-sisters forbid their be-.
ing inferred on the family lot. Mrs.
Davis, sister of Miller. provided a lot
and gave her brother burial. Millers
daughter, Mrs. Schoermacher. who was
injured during the quarrel between Miller
and his wife, has recovered. Her case
is particularly sad. She is only 10 years
of age. and in destitute condition, with
two small children-the eldest barely two
years old. She is an intelligent and re-
fined girl Her husband is serving sen
tence in the Green Bay reformatory.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
Partial Prosperity.

Let us see! The Republicans de-
clare we are more prosperous than
ever before and that the tariff is the
cause of our prosperity. The Demo
Gratis admit there is great prosperity
for the trusts and corporations and ac-
knowledge that the tariff has protect
ed them, but not the great mass of the
people-the consumers. If the consum-
ers were prosperous they would be
saving money and the deposits IN the
savings banks would be increasing, but
instead of this being the case savings
banks deposits are decreasing. Are the
tariff taxed people who pay the tariff
protected trusts such high prices obIig-
ed to draw out some Of their money
to make both ends meet. because their
incomes have not kept pace with the
increased cost OF living. which is adj
yancing at the average annual rate OF
5 per cent and over, or So per cent DUR
ing the past ten years? 1t is up to
the Republican politicians to tell us
what Is the matter with their brand
of prosperity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
Direct Vote for senate.

4 joint resolution came in to the Az
sembly from the committee on federal re-
Iations making application to Congress
to call a convention for proposing an
amendment to the constitution authoriz-
ing the popular election Of United States
Senator's. After a preamble reeiting the
failure of Congress to submit such
amendment to the States, the resolution
says Resolved. That the Legislature of
the State of Wisconsin makes application
to the Congress of the United States
under article >, under the constitution of
the United States. TO call constitutional
convention of the United States
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
Wisconsin
Legislature.
My Investigate Asylum..

Assemblyman F. j. Weber, Social Dem
ocrat, of Milwaukee. believes things are
not what they seem in some of the State
institutions, particularly the hospitals for
the insane, and has introduced a joint
resolution thatss6he committee char
liable and penal institutions make an in
veStigatiOn. relative 10 the employees al
institutions for the insane II have
son to think the investigation should be
extended as provided for in the resolu-
tion," he said. but 1 Will give my rea-
sons before the committee" Assemblyman
Douglas also wants the States finances
probed and introduced joint resolution
for the appointment of a committee TO
investigate and report upon the finances
of the State from the time of Gov. Peck's
administration to the last fiscal year. The
Assembly joint resolution for the investi-
CATION of the Wisconsin Veterans homs
at Waupaca was referred to the commit
tee on military affairs of the Senate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26

Senator Brazeau, who introduced the
bill known as 314S on behalf of the Wis
consin State Board of Medical Exam
iners says that it was not aimed at Chris.
tian Science or physical culture establish.
ments or Turkish bathrooms or anything
of that sort, but only at fake doctors
who assume the title OF NJ. d. or u. O.
or some other title which would lead the
public to believe that they are qualified
by special education to treat physical
ailments. He says that on reading over
the bill he himself has come to the con-
clusion that it is too sweeping and must
be amended so that it will not affect the
Christian Scientists and other legitimate
institutions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
BEATS MAN VINO WORRIED HIM.
Invalid Receivers and Gives His An
meyer Promised Whipping.

Herman c. Schultz. one of the most
prominent business men of Kenosha, and
John Orth. a hotelkeeper, engaged in a
fstic battle there the other night. in
which Schultz was so terribly injured
that he is confined to his home. Orth
was fined, but further action will be tax
en- against him. Ortiz was recently an in
valid, and alleged that Schultz worried
him with business while he was sick. Orth
told Schultz that he would whip him
if he ever recovered. All Orth would say
was that he kept his promise.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26

you of the Treasury Department to
stem the tide of decline gave ray
of hope to the street before the open
ing Thursday, The Secretary an
nounced that owing TO the stringency
in the money market the $30000,000
of government funds, deposited with
the banks last September. would not
be recalled at once, as had been in
tendc1
Fanicky conditions of Wednesday i',
Wall street We're repeated Thursday
lower points throughout the list were
reached, and two failures were report
ed in London.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP HOUSE.
Basket of Sulphur and Gunpowder
Placed at Head of Stairs.

Basket of Sulphur and Gunpowder
Placed at Head of Stairs.
An attempt was made on recent night
to blow up the house of William Ha-
mann in Sheboygan. with a mixture of
sulphur and gunpowder placed at the
head of an outer stairway by an unknown
person. The bomb" consisted of bas-
ket containing two bottles flied with
powder and sulphur. Tne basket was
covered with burlap and paper saturated
with kerosene The occupants of the
house were awakened by an explosion.
Rushing upstairs. Hamann found the out
er door ON fire. The explosion had brok-
en- several windows and forced the door
open. He Immediately grabbed blanket
and smothered the flames. He found the
bomb, which had not yet become ig-
nited.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
Wisconsin
State News
0~N-0-~~N-N~NN~
TO PURIFY LA CROSSE.
Ministers Begin Canvass of Town
for Money to Fight Vice.


The preliminary canvass of La Crosse.
TO secure a 100000 fund to prosecute
vice and purify the city, has been start
cd BY ministers Only three persons were
asked to purchase stock and they piedg-
canvass will be started at once and an
effort made to interview every promi-
nent man in L.. Crosse. The city is
awakening to the purpose Of the organ
ization to secure a detective. secure evil
dence and clean the city. In view of the
the approaching municipal election in
April. in which the question of an open"
OF closed town figures politicians are
alarmed. In many quarters the report
of the vice committee is feared, but the
ministers refuse to be called off
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
MoDEL FACTORY STRIKE.
Kenoshn's Famous ..Sunshine" HO-
siery Plant In Trouble.

The Chicago-kenosha hosiery works,
famous throughout the country as the
factory where the ''life of the worker is
flooded with sunshine had the first
strike in its history the other morning
when seventy men employed in the press
room of the plant in Kenosha made a de-
mand for higher wages and this being
refused, walked out The company EN-
ploys 1,400 people and the strikers de-
clare that the other employees are favor
able to them. The plant has always been
a model. The highest wages have been
paid and everything has been done TO
maze the life of the workers pleasant.
Noon lunches with parks for the use of
the employees were the feature of the
MAN
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
SEVEN YEARS IN JAIL.
Caleb Powers Perhaps Most Noted
Prisoner i'm the Country.

Prisoner i'm the Country.
1t has been seven years since the arrest
of Caleb Powers, charged with conspiracy
in the assassination of William Goebel in
Kentucky. He is probably the most re-
markable prisoner in the United States.
His long confinement in Jail and his
three convictions, his two sentences to
the penitentiary for life, his one sentence
to be hanged by the neck till dead, his
hopes of escape from the State courts
dashed by the Supreme Court of the
United States-all this he has borne with
fortitude.
Powers spirit is unbroken. The noun
taineer, from his cell in the Jail at
Georgetown, Ky, has voiced a fervent
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
New orntor snrinrs I'm.

new orator was developed in the
Assembly the other day when Mr.. Donna
ehowski, of Milwaukee, took the floor for
his bill forbidding the use of tobacco in
any form by boys under 16 and its sale
to them by anyone. The fiery Polish ma
ture was aroused, and in a voice that
made the corridors ring and provoked
round upon round Of applause he recited
the evil effects of cigarette smoking
There are 10000 boys in Wisconsin now
smoking cigarettes, he believed. He APP
pealed to the teachers and to all good
citizens and the press to help.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
roo POOR TO bury BABE.
Remarkable Case of Destitution
Found i'm ManftoyvOc.

Remarkable Case of Destitution
Found in ManitovvOc.
Secreted in a pasteboard shoe box, COW
cred by an old garment the body of an
infant was found in the home of Ullrich
Bloeckli in Manitowoc by officers who in
vestigated ON complaint of Joseph Bierley.
father of Mrs. Bloeckli. The child, say
the police, was born Jan. %. Because
the family was in poverty, it was nst
buried, Bloeckli saying that he intended
to prepare grave after the frost was
out of the ground. Five other children
of the couple, aged from to 9. We're
taken from the couple and committed to
st. Joseph Orphanage home at Green Bay
by the Probate Court
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
.BLAck HAND, IN wAuKEsHa.
Menacing Letters Received and One
Threat Apparently Carried Out.


Threat Apparently Carried Out.
There is ''black hand" mystery in
Naukesha on which nearly a score of
private detectives of Milwaukee have
been working for six weeks. There is
something more to the story than the re-
ceiying of threatening letters with an
ugly black hand for signature. One
threat was apparently carried out when
the plant of the Waukesha Stone and
Quarry Company was burned TO the
ground Sept. 2. This is the information
that has been ferreted out by a detective
agency that has been engaged on the case
for the past month The life of A E.
Hourack, the foreman of the place, has
been threatened on three different ocea
slons in letters which he has received
since Aug. 8. Dir. HOurack has charge Of
the quarry. in which number OF ltal-
ians, Poles and Germans are employed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26

Assemblyman l.. II. Palmer, the col
ored member from Milwaukee, spoke in
the Assembly OH his memorial to Congress
for ar investigation Of the Brownsville
affair II was Mr. Palmers first speech.
He said that since Congress had adjourn
ed his resolution had lost its force and
while he believed the people of Wiscon-
sin were DESTROYS of seeing justice done
he begged leave to Withdraw the resolu-
ton. rather than kill so sincere measure.
Applause followed his speech and the res
olution was then Withdrawn.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
Our Panama Hoodoo.

Congress has taken the limit of the
money to be spent for building the
Panama canal, and it is left entirely to
the supervision of the President. After
few years we will wake up to the
fact that we have an expensive expert
ment on our hands, for Secretary Taft
has told US that lit Is impossible to
estimate the cost of the canal" About
fifty million dollars have so far been
spent, Of which there is only about
three million dollars worth of actual
work on the ditch to show for it. The
hoodoo, or whatever it is, that hangs
to the undertaking still seems to affect
the engineering force, for the new chief
engineer, John +. Stevens. has resigned
and army engineers have been ordered
to Panama to take charge OF the work.
Talk of making the dirt fly" has had
little effect on the Culebra cut, which
will require years of grim, determined
work before the water to float a battle
ship will flow through 1t.
The sudden change Of plan not to
let the work by contract is another
curious incident that requires explana-
ton as much as the reason for the de-
termination Of engineers and managers
to quit the lob
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
QUARREL STOPS ELorEMENT.
Chicago Mans Romance Ends just
as Pastor Prepares for Marriage.

A lovers quarrel. which began while
they were waiting in the minister's home
in readiness for their marriage ceremony.
spoiled the romance of Mis- Eva HauSe
of Manteno. H.. and Roland Eastman of
Chicago The couple came to Marinette
and when they encountered the State law
which provides for a five days license,
they scurried about until they found a
judge who was kind enough to grant
them special dispensation. They then
went to a minister's house, and he was
about to make them man and wife when
they began to quarrel. They went back
to Chicago unmarried