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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30
aA1v FLOODS ST. JOSEPH, MO.
Home Floats on, Leaving Occupants
fn the Cellar.


fn the Cellar.
A tornado and tremendous rain did
heavy damage in St Joseph, No., and
vicinity Thursday night. Houses were
wrecked, street railway tracks torn out
and cellars flooded. The family Of Dan
lei Riordan, one mile east of the city,
had a remarkable escape from death. The
residence, two stories in height, was torn
from the foundation and demolished
Riordan, his wife and three children had
taken refuge In the basement. They were
buried under debris, but the wind lifted
the house bodily from the foundation and
none of the heavy timbers fell on them
Scores of houses were washed from their
foundations in the city by the rain,
which amounted to a cloudburst. St Jo-
seph nestles in hills and the force of the
tornado was broken Sewers could not
carry off the water and raging torrents
flowed through the outlying parts OF the
city. Adam ZihowsH attempted to wade
one of these torrents. He was swept
from his feet and carried toward the
Missouri river two blocks distant. He
caught telephone pole and chung there
twenty minutes until rescued by a party
of men with ropes. In Brookdale, low
lying suburb, a score of families were
driven from their homes by water, which
reached the windows on the first floor.
A dozen residep ces were struck by light
ming, but no fa' Titles are reported. The
home of Fred Shoemaker, where funeral
party was caught by the storm, was
struck by lightning twice and several per
sons stunned. Reports from farming sec
tons east of the city say crops were
leveled in the path of the storm and the
loss will be heavy.
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BIG BUILDING FALLS.
HEAP OF RUINS NOW OCCUPIES
SITE IN CHICAGO.
six-story Double Brick Structure
Filled with Paper stock CoIlapses
-Japs Caught Scaling and Pun
dshed by Russians.

With crash that was heard for blocks
a six-story double brick building at 100
122 Franklin street, Chicago, occupied by
the Swigart Paper Company. collapsed at
g :45 Tuesday morning, partly wrecking
another building at lis Franklin street,
occupied by Goodhart- Hartman & Co.,
liquor importers. No one was injured.
The structure was valued at between
$4,000 and $4,000. The exact cause
of the collapse is not known, but
IT is thought the main supports of
the second floor broke under the strain
of many tons of paper. The four
upper floors were stored throughout with
tons of roll and bulk paper, and this stock
was precipitated into the alley. Nothing
except the wall of the first floor Of the
building withstood the crash. The fact
that the accident occurred so early in
the morning undoubtedly averted great
loss Of life. More than thirty men and
a number of women are employed by the
Swigart Paper Company. These appeared
at the building for work three-quarters
of an hour after the collapse. None of
the employees of the Goodhart- Hartman
Company was in the building at the time
of the accident The GoOdhart Hartman
building was damaged to the extent Of
about $1,000. The loss on the stock of
liquor was about $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30
CHICAGO.

considering the hot weather which pre-
F@hed business has maintained steady
course. Commercial defaults seem TO be
yet IN excess of those at this time last
year and are due mainly to the pressure
of July settlements upon weak traders.
put the list includes none of special sig
nlncance IN the effect upon credits Money
is in wider request for mercantile pur-
poses and the banks are adequately able
to supply legitimate needs besides prepar-
ing for the approaching drain of currep-
ey to move crops, but the discount rate
may soon turn firmer
Despite the high temperature and vaca-
ton season there is very little apparent
interruption to production in the leading
industries and distribution is remarkably
extended for this period, retail lines scor-
ing gratifying reduction of stocks.
Visiting buyers attend the markets for
staple wares in rapidly increasing NUM-
berS and their selections for early deliy-
cry rise to substantial totals. Activity
expands in dry goods, boots and shoes,
clothing, furniture and food products, not
withstanding the advanced average in
price lists, as compared with a year ago.
Conditions in the manufacturing
branches lose none of their remarkable
strength Hides and leather move more
freely, hard woods are in better request
and shipments are larger of hardware,
plumbing goods, merchant iron and wag-
ons.
The total movement of grain Mt this.
port, 6,934,24S bushels, compares with
1,S1S,94T bushels last week and 6,62S, 120
bushels a year ago. Receipts are 500
per cent under those in 1906, while the
shipments gained III per cent Receipts
of live stock were 29S,329 head. against
236,99S head last week and 29T,935 head
last year.
Bank clearings, 237,746,630, exceed
those of corresponding week in 1906 by 8
per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 21, against % last week and
10 year ago.--Dun's Review of Trade.
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from the Federal prison in Fort Leav-
enworth, Kan, Friday. Anderson re-
turned to Kansas City, Mo-, where he
will engage in business. He denies a
report that he intends to operate a pool
hall. The case of January resembles
that of Victor Hugo1s hero, Jean Val-
jean.
Anderson was convicted eleven years
ago of robbing an Oklahoma postoffice
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
three years. He escaped two years
later and went to Kansas City, assumed
the name of Anderson, married and
prospered. In April this year an ex-
convict who had known January in the
penitentiary notified the warden of the
mans whereabouts and he was rear
rested and taken back to Leavenworth.
Owing to the exemplary life Anderson
had led in Kansas City, his neighbors
started a movement for his release. The
newspapers took up the case with the
result that a petition, which is said to
have contained the largest number of
signatures ever appended to an appeal
for a pardon, was forwarded to Wash
ington.
President Roosevelt reviewed the
case, and, upon recommendation Of At
torney General Bonaparte, granted a
pardon, effective at the expiration Of
three months from the time of his re-
arrest. January has proved a model
prisoner. He says he Will seek to have
his citizenship restored, and, if success
full, will then ask the courts to change
his name to Anderson for the protection
Of his wife and child.
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BILLEK is TO HANG.
CHICAGO WIZARD CONVICTED OF
KILLING MARY vRzAL.
Crime for which He VIII Pay PEN
atty with His Life Only One of
series-Quick Decision by the
Jury.

Herman Billek, self-admitted faker
and mixer of mysterious potions, was
found guilty of numbering Mary yrzal,
20 years old, by arsenical poisoning,
and his punishment fixed at death, by
a jury in Judge Barnes court in Chi
cage.
-Four other members of the Vrzal
family met death by poisoning. They
were Martin, the father, Title, IS years
old, Rosie, Il years old, and Ella, u
years old Five indictments were re-
turned against Billek, and this was
the first case TO be tried.
When the verdict was read, Billek.
who was standing against wall near
the jury box, staggered and put his
hand against pillar for support. After
the usual motion for a new trial was
entered the prisoner was led from the
court room to jail He refused to make
statement.
When the verdict was read Edna Bill
lex, 8 years old, daughter of the con-
fANtOeA AAelii. CSLNOCA oOOS tANtilluGQ-
'sThey have beaded my papa'
Mrs. Billek tainted and was escorted
from the court room by her sons, Frank
and Herman
On the other side of the court room
Mrs. Emma Vrzal Niemann, the eldest
Vrzal child. stood with Jerry and Ber-
tina Vrzal. They cried when the verdict
was read.
History of the Crimes.
Martin VrZal was a milk vender, liv-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30

Germany alone sends to London an
nually 200O0,000 feathers of birds for
millinery purposes.
President Henry Hopkins Of Williams
college is to retire and Prof. Harry A.
Garfield of Princeton. son of the late
President Garfield, has been chosen to
succeed him.
The largest pillow ever bui,t has been
successfully used on a Texas ranch. The
implement clears strip Of ground seven
feet wide.
Responsible heads Of lawless corpora
tions should be placed in prison. as the
present system Of filming the corporations
is useless and absurd, says Woodrow
Wilson. president Of Princeton university.
in speech al the jamestown exposition.
REINFORCED cement is now the favorite
material with British builders Of large
ehimneys. One already completed in
London is 80 feet high with a base 20
feet in diameter. with foundation IS
feet square.
One Of the best architects in the world
is 10 Jriole. It's graceful nest contains
foms 70 six whitish eggs, marked with
oiaeK and brown,
Major General I. Franklin Bell chief
Of staff Of the army. explained at l.caYen-
worth. Kan. ttat the something wrong
in the army" to which he recently re-
ferred. was "inadequate pay and insufi-
Gent number Of officers.
A movement is on foot among Ameri-
cans in Paris to purehass the house in
which Benjamin Franklin lived Wills
there and make il a museum. The house
bears on It's front Franklin's name. sur
mounted by a medallion portrait OF linn
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30
NEW YORK.

Weather conditions still favor season
able trade and crops, and there is no more
than ordinary quiet noted in wholesale
lines as a result of midsummer conditions
and the reign of the vacation season. Re
tail trade especially is turning out rather
better than anticipated. One favorable
development certainly calling for notice
is the continuance of good reports as to
collections. Fair activity, with firm
prices is noted in wool, Large sales are
few. Conservative buying Of shoes and
leather is noted in leading markets.
In the leading industries there are some
cross-currents. Iron and steel are quieter
as a whole, with prices tending to ease,
while copper is lower and stocks reported
accommodating. In the shoe trade business
is moderate. In the cotton goods industry
production is of record proportions, but
still insufficient to meet demand.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending July IS number 1T,
against $50 last week, 1888 in the like
week of 1906, 165 in 1908, 100 in 1904
and 1873 in 1903. Canadian failures for
the week number 26, as against % last
week and fS in this week a year ago
Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
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rNrRlaugs IN KOREAN CAPITAL.
Imperial Residence Hotbed of Dis
sension and Bickerings

sension and chickering's.
Telegrams from Seoul, Korea, state
that intrigues on an extensive scale are
now in progress 1t is declared that
the palace is hotbed Of illicit plots
and conspiracies. The placing on the
throne of the new Emperor has aggra-
waited the jealousy between his mother,
Princess Ming, and the mother of
Prince Wing, each having large follow
ing. This state of affairs is being taken
advantage of by politicians, who are
distrustful of one another. Disaffection
is spreading rapidly and riotings of the
people throughout the peninsula are ex-
pected-
The crisis provoked by the enforced
abdication of the Emperor is still full
of menace. The two government arsen-
ais are guarded by japanese soldiers,
although the number is not large. They
are under orders to explode the maya
zines if they find themselves unable to
defend them.
The Korean troops are frequently
harangued by civilian agitators whs
take up their stand at the entrances to
the barracks. The Koreans possess
10000 rounds of ammunition, Of which
General Hasegawa, wls has only 1890
japanese troops in Seoul, has been IN
able to demand the surrender.
Two disturbing factors are, first, the
enigmatical presence in Seoul of jap
anese Foreign Ministe. Rayashi, whose
mission is believed by the people to be
the abduction of the former Emperor
and his removal to Japan. Second.
domicilary contact with the new Empe-
rer and control and manipulation of the
throne by the ex-Emperor.
Japan's demands on the new Empe-
ror probably will include the revision
of the Japanese Korean treaty or new
Korean constitution. In either case the
power of the japanese resident-general
would be so extended that he can in
tervene in Korea's internal administra-
ton, including the judiciary.
The demand also will be made that
the court be distinguished from the adj
ministration, making confusion between
the two impossible.
Another plan is to give the resident
general direct control of all depart
ments and make the cabinet responsible
to him, the Emperor retaining the pow
er of formal veto. In any case the
Korean military system will be aban-
doned.
At the suggestion of Marquis Ito the
various consulates have accepted Jap
anese guards.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30
Interesting News Items.

The largest icehouse in New England,
containing 10000 tons of ice, together
with large quantity of machinery and
forty box cars, was burned at South
wick, Mass, causing loss estimated at
100000.
The Spanish chamber of deputies has
voted the electoral reform law, in which
are embodied the clauses the previous nom
acceptance of which by the government
had caused the liberal deputies at one
time to abstain from taking part in the
work of the chamber.
In Germany sound-proof building
blocks are made of a mixture of GYPSUM
with sawdust, coke, dirt or ashes. Some
chemical skill is required to make the
mixture.
OF the tuberculous patients treated in
Pennsylvania Camp Sanitaripn,"
which was established with the aid Of
the State, 70 per cent have either recov-
cred OF been greatly improved.
just 100 years ago the first evangelical
missionary went from England to China.
His name was Robert Morrison; he re-
manned 81 years. translated the Bible
into Chinese, wrote a Chinese grammar
and dictionary of 1896 pages.
Miss Anna Eckstein Of Boston pre-
scented to The Hague peace conference
a petition signed by 100000 Americans
asking for general arbitration treaty.
Two prominent Chinese from Shanghai
hsve paid visit to Manila and placed
large orders with American firms for
farm machinery to be used in Manchuria.
An early American peaeeslaEer was
Elihu Burritt, the blacksmith scholar"
of Connecticut 1t was mainly to bis
efforts that the Paris peace congress Of
1910 practically owed its existence.
Though now almost forgotten, the same
principles were discussed and the same
propositions laid down as obtained at Ths
Hague in 1899.
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DEEz lTktAlgI2s9ES5RS
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $40; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to S6.10; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $500; wheat, No. ?, soc to 90c;
corn. No. 2, Ole to SIC: oats, standard,
42c TO 43c; rye, No. 2, Soc to SIC; hay,
timothy, $14.00 to $1,000; prairie 5000
to $1,000 butter, choice creamery. 19c
to 25c; eggs, fresh, 12c to Ice; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 7Sc to S2c.
Indianapolis-Ca Cattle, shipping. $500
to $685.: hogs, choice heavy. $500 10
$685.; sheep, common to prime, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. q SEC to SIC; corn,
No. > white, SIC to 53c; oats, No. 2
white, 45c to 47c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $7.35;
hogs, $500 to $6.15; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, sac to SSc; corn,
No. 2, sic to SIC; oats, No. ., 43c to
45c; rye, No. 2, SIC to SIC.
Cattle, $500 to 5000;
hogs, 800 to $6.2O; sheep, $500 to
S475; wheat. No ,, 92c to 93c; corn,
No mixed SOC to 56c; oats, No. ?
mixed, ACC to Ale; rye. No. 2, SIC to SSc.
Detroit-Cattle, 800 to 5000; hogs.
S4.OO to SO.OO Sheep, Sou TO 3D!Ub;
wheat. No .. 90c to Ole; corn, No. 3
yellow, 55c to SIC; oats, No. white,
Acc to 47c; rye, No. 2, zoe to soc
Milwaukee-W Wheat No. 2 northern,
Csc to $1.00; corn, No. 3, 5lc to J2c;
oats, standard, 45c to 46c; rye, No. /,
Soc to S7c barley, standard, 69e TO roe;
pork. mess S16.30.
Bufalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers
$500 TO $3.50; hogs, fair to choice 800
to $625; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1928; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to S6.65
hogs. $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. red, 95c to Csc;
corn. No. 2, Soc to 60c; oats, natural
white, sic to 52c; butter, creamery, 22c
TO 25c; eggs, western. Ice to 19c.
Toledo Wheat No . mixed, 91c to
Ole; corn, No. , mixed bic 20 JJc;
oats, No. mixed, Ale to 4Jc; rye. No.
., 76c to 7sc; clover seed, prime, $3.50.
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BILLION LOST Oh CRIMINALS.
Caring for Vicious Costs More Yearly
than Nations Wealth Grows.

Caring for Vicious Costs More Yearly
than Nations Wealth Grows.
This country spends $6,000,OO0,OOO
annually on the criminal, pauper and
vicious classes, and the annual increase
of wealth is only $5,0OO,OOO,O0O. Does
not that look as If the public were bank
rupt" This statement was made in
lecture by DR.. Charles j. Bushnell, who
is conducting a model public playground
in Washington. He Is a graduate of
Heidelberg university and an authority
on civic matters. DR.. Bushnell's figures
are taken he says, from reliable sources
and represent years of careful study. He
challenges anyone to disprove their ac-
curacy. He and his wife have made a
special study of what they call the social
illness" of the United States. Continuing,
DR.. Bushnell said why, the $6,0O0,0OO,-
600 that this nation spends every year on
its criminal cases equals the amount spent
on all churches, public Libraries, the
Young Mems Christian Association, the
Salvation Army, public hospitals, asylums
for the insane and all benevolent institu-
lions. The average factory hand earns
$40 year, while it is estimated that the
average criminal costs the public at least
$1,000 year"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30

ing with his family at GIT West 10Th
street. When he met Billek in the
summer of 1904 Billek informed Vrzal
that a rival milk vender was his enemy
and offered to cast spell that would
protect Vrzal from harm. Vrzal agreed,
and potion of white fluid was brewed
on the Vrzal stove and strewn across
the gateway of the Donosky home
across the way. For this service Billek
accepted loan.
Shortly afterward Vrzal became i'll
and Billek administered medicine to
him. Vrzal suffered from symptoms re
sembling the effects of arsenic poison
ing and died in a few days.
In July, 1905, Mary Vrzal, the eldest
daughter, and for whose murder Billek
was convicted, visited Billek and todd
him she was i'll. He gave her medicine
and she died from arsenic poison. In
rapid succession the deaths of other
members of the family followed.
Charged by her neighbors with a
guilty knowledge of the manner of the
deaths, Mrs. Yrzal swallowed chloro-
form and died Dec. 5, 1906.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30
Record shipbuiIding Year.

According to government reports for
the last fiscal year, 1,463 vessels, aggre-
eating 510,S65 gross tonnage, were built
in the United States, this being a greater
number of vessels and far greater ton
mage than during any other year for half
century. The record shows a steady de-
cline in the building Of schooners and a
corresponding increase in steamers, but
there is now appearing a considerable
number of schooners equipped with aux
iliary motor power.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30
BANKERS Alter Exnres. Men,

The express companies of the United
States have been called to account before
the Commerce Commission by the Ameri-
can Bankers Association for 'unjustly
and illegally encroaching upon the legiti-
mate field of the banks" They are also
charged with using their influence as
common carriers to discriminate against
members of the Bankers Association. All
this, say the bankers, is departure from
the purposes for which the express COM
panies were chartered.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30
BRIDGE RAIL BREAKS
TWELVE MEN DROWN AT To-
RAIN, OHIO.
Twenty Are Precipftated Into River,
and Some of Them Were Rescued
Tornado Works Havoc Near
Wflliston, N. ID.

A dozen lives were lost in Lorain, Ohio.
when hand rail on a foot bridge over the
river broke, precipitating a score of men
into the water By desperate efforts of
those on shore some of the workmen were
drawn out of the river alive Two bodies
have been taken from the water. Another
is positively known to be In the river,
and several more are missing 1t is prob
able that they are also lost. The men
were employed in the ship yards. They
used foot bridge near the Nickel Plate
railroad bridge to cross the river to their
work. The pontoon of the foot bridge
had been opened to permit a vessel to
pass. The men were leaning against a
rail waiting for the bridge to be closed
when the rail broke and twenty Of them
plunged into the river.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30
Cboice Of Home Is Hu.bana,..

The wife may not choose where the
family Is co live, but must follow her
husba I'D. rrovided he treats her kindly"
the MIchigar Supreme Court said in a
decision. The court set aside a decree
of divorce recently granted by the lower
court TO Mrs. Anna Wisner, who applied
for separation because her husband went
10 Mexico.
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Confesses Coal Land Frauds.

W. w. Rape, mining man of Mil
waukee, who was arrested on a federal
grand jury indictment charging him and
five others in connection with the Federal
Coal Mining Company with alleged land
frauds in Routt county, Colo, has given
q signed statement to United States Dis
trict Attorney Cranston, in which he goes
into the details of the whole conspiracy
to defraud the government,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30
RevivaIs Attacked by Bishop.

Bishop John II. Vincent of the Meth
odist Church at the Chautauqua in Coffey-
vile, Kan, attacked the evangelistic sys-
TEN in vogue in most of the churches of
his denomination. Bishop Vincent be-
lieves revivals produce only temporary
good and that on account of the sensa-
tional methods often used the bad effects
more than offset the good.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AMERIcAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
RUSSIANS SHELL POACHERs.
Catch japanese SHINING Animals
fn AIeutian Island Rookeries.


fn AIeutian Island Rookeries.
News was brought to Victoria, B. c.,
by the steamer Empress of China of
fatal attempt by the japanese sealers to
raid Copper island, where the Russian
seal rOokeries are located beyond the end
of the Aleutian chain in the North Pa
cific. A japanese sealing schooner which
went from Toxic reached Copper island
on the night of June 81 and, dropping
anchor a short distance from the seal
rookeries, the sealing vessel left a num-
Der of boats ashore with their crews
armed with rifles. A landing was made
and while part of the sealing company
was engaged in skinning seals on the
rookery the Russian guards opened fire
ON them. The japanese, taking cover
beyond the rock of the shore, returned the
fire of the Russians, who finally drove off
the raiders, who took to their boats and
went back on board their vessel leaving
one killed and several wounded. Several
of the Russian guards were wounded.
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BELL TELEPHONE LOSES FIGHT.
Court Decides 1t Must Grant Other
Companies Use of Its LfneS.

Court Decides 1t Must Grant other
Companies Use of Its LfneS.
Judge w. II. Hunt, in the United
States Court in Helena, Mont, rendered
a decision of far-reaching Importance to
telephone users to the effect that one
company may not withhold the use of
its lines from another, even though IT
be competing The Montana and Wyom-
ing and the Mutual Telephone companies
applied to the court for an order com
polling the Rocky Mountain Bell company
to furnish connections. This was resist
ed by the Bell company on the grounds
that the lines were built for its patrons
and not those of competing companies
Judge Hunt however, found for the COM
plainants and said he would name a COM
mission to fix the division of charges
when such use is made of connecting
lines