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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
NEW YORK.

Collections, while still dragging, in con-
sonance with the tightness in money APP
pear to have improved at a number of
centers Sore orders for early spring are
being placed, but the volume of business
done as yet is rather light Many indus
trial lines are less active on new business,
and working forces in such lines as iron,
steel, car manufacturing, electrical goods,
shoe manufacturing and copper mining
are being reduced Lumber is less active
and new building is lighter, due in part
to the approach of the closed season, but
more particularly to the stringency in
money.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Oct 8 number III,
against 166 last week. 1856 in the like
week of 1906, 1S9 in 1905, 1876 in 1891
and 1917 in 1903 Canadian failures num-
Der 80, as against sc last week and -
in this week year -Bradstreet's.
Commercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
ASKS ROD FOR RICH sMUGGLERs.
Proposal to Tax Offenders Three
Times Cost of Seized Article.

Proposal to Tax Offenders Three
Times Cost of Seized Article.
The Diamond Importers Association
has been working for some time to check
smuggling, which has assumed colossal
proportions, according to a report just
made by Ludwig Nissen, the chairman of
its customs committee. Nearly all the
smuggling, according to the importers, is
being done by wealthy tourists, because
dealers regularly in the trade do not dare
to take the risks, Necklaces of pearls,
diamonds, rubies and emeralds and hand
wrought ornaments in exclusive designs
are the articles most commonly Struggled.
The value of jewelry Struggled each year
is estimated at between $2,00O,00O and
$3,000,000. The report asks that SNUG
glers detected be punished more vigorously
in the future. The specific request that
the importers now make is that the fed
eral authorities enforce a section OF the
law that requires offenders to pay the
government as penalty triple the value
of Struggled article, while the article
itself is forfeited.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
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Chicago common to prime,
$500 to S730; hogs. prime heavy, SOC
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, S1.00 TO $f.o1
corn, No 2, Gle to 63c; oats, standard,
SOC to 52c; rye, No. 2, SIC 60 SSc; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, 27c
to soc; eggs, fresh 19c to 23c; potatoes,
per bushel, 45c to 53c.
Indianapolis Cattle. shipping, $500
to $500; sheep, common to prime, $500
to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, Soc TO 9Tc; corn,
No. 2 white, &c to 64c; oars, No. 2
white, SOC to sic.
ST. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to S7.25;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 10,
1928; wheat, No. 2, S1.02 to S1.04 corn,
No. 2, Gle to 62c; oats, No. 2, 47c to
4Sc; rye, No. ?, SIC to Sc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 1886;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to S1.O2; corn,
No, 2 mixed, 64c TO 65c; OATS, No. 2
mixed, sic to 52c rye, No. 2, Csc to 90c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $40; hogs,
$500 to $645; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, CSC to $1.00; corn, No
yellow, 66c to &c; oats, No. 3 white,
SIC to 53c; rye, No. 2, soc to 90c.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
Sill to $114; corn, No g. 62c to 63e;
oats, standard, sic to 52c; rye, No. ],
SIC to soc; barley, standard, $l.O4 to
$1.06; pork, mess, $3.50
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steess,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $40; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1925; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $S.25.
New York-Cattle, $500 70 $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $7.25; sheep, $500 70
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red $1.0S 20 SiO9;
corn, No. 2, re to 73c; cats, natura.
white, SIC to 5Sc; butter, creamery, &c
to 29c; eggs, western, 18c to 23c.
Toledo-W Wheat, No. mixed, 9ee 10
97c; corn, No. mixed, 64c to &c;
oats, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye, No.
2, csc to 99c; clover seed, prime, 5000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
MAY BECOME AMBASSADOR.
Court OF st. James Said to BE I.
RooseveIt's Liking.

Court of ST. James Said to BE ia
Roosevelt's Liking.
The latest of many suggestions for
the benefit OF Theodore Roosevelt. rs
an ex-President, comes from London.
where it is said to have been discussed
in the fashionable clubs. 1t attributes
to Mr.. Roosevelt desire to round out
an extended tour of the world by
considerable residence in the British
capital as ambassador 10 the court Of
st. James.
Very likely the President he's men
toned this as something that would be
to his liking, although it is doubted in
Washington whether he has ever seri-
ously considered it. He does contem-
plate quite a trip abroad, after March
4, 1909. At times he has dwelt with nc
little anticipation upon the things be
would find pleasure in doing after Off
cial cares have been lifted from his
shoulders. He and Mrs. Roosevelt have
planned more than one trip they want
to take when he has become a private
citizen again.
Possibly foremost in these plans is
the visit to the capitals of the old
world. They were married in London.
and both have Travelled extensively in
Europe They are very DESTROYS of go.
ing again, of revisiting old scenes and
old friends and of making new friends.
They will hardly make such Il tri-
umphal tour as ex-President Grant
made, but Mr.. Roosevelt would like to
meet a few of the European rulers with
whom he has been in communication
more or less since he entered The White
House. He would enjoy that probably
quite as much as some of the big hunt.
ing trips for large game that he has in
mind
However, the President up to few
months ago was known to cherish
strong hope of an election to the United
States Senate from New York. He
likes residence in Washington a por-
ton of the year AS Senator he
would continue to have official promi-
hence, and could divide his time be-
tween Washington and New York or
any city that might interest him. He
will undoubtedly do great amount of
literary work in the few years follow
ing his retirement from the Presidency,
and Washington is a very congeniai
city for such efforts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15


May 80 1907. The Coroner's verdict
was death due 10 heart disease, SUI
perinduced by chloroform.' A num-
Der of letters were found purporting
to have been written by Mrs. Magill,
and these were so unusual that ques-
tion was raised as to their authorship.
States Attorney Miller announced his
belief that a suicide never would take
the time or the pains to write so many
letters, or to recommend to her hus-
band to marry rival, Faye Graham.
The suicide theory was accepted,
however, and the case would have
been forgotten but for the fact that
Magill and Faye Graham were mar
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
BUNGALOW FOR SONS.
Father Has Scheme 10 Tighten
Mothers Work.

Finding that the care of his house
with six sons roaming about at will is
too much for his wifes health, William
Jeffrey OF Berkeley Heights, n. j., has
decided to exile the youngsters to a bun
galow in the rear. The boys range in
age from 6 to 10 years and are all in
school. The bungalow is to be the exclu-
siye property of the boys. They will do
their own cooking, make their own beds,
have their study and play hours, and
conduct their household affairs as they
please. Their parents will not enter the
bungalow except on invitation and the
boys will not enter the house in front
unless invited to do so. Jeffrey is so
pleased with his plan as an auxiliary to
the anti-race suicide theories of the Pres
ident that he has written Roosevelt tell
ing him of his plan to raise large fam
ily at minimum expenditure of labor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
GETTING RID OF TRAMPs.
Illinois VIII Undertake a War of
Elimination

Elimination.
The tramps, like the poor, we have
always with us, but in several quarters
determined effort is going to be made
to suppress the former. Perhaps no
State in the country has suffered more
from the evils of trampdom than Illinois,
for its great city of Chicago has been the
refuge of myriads of those who particu-
larly dislike work, as it has been the
refuge of the criminal class generally.
A movement has just been instituted
to drive the tramps out of Chicago.
Previously this has been found impos-
sible. An amendment, however, to the
law, which went into effect recently,
giving police officers power to arrest eth
er on warrant or on view any person not
having visible means of support, is
thought to give promise of relief.
There can be no question that the
tramp is genuine evil. The idle man
easily becomes vicious, the idle rich man
no less than the idle poor man. Work
of some kind is necessary to give one that
healthy interest in life which will keep
him sound at the core The tramp soon
loses all interest in things which are true,
honest, pure and of good report. The
enmity which society justly feels towards
him is reciprocated, and criminal he
is almost certain to become. Whether it
is possible to cure the tramp evil by
means of acts of legislation alone is
doubtful.
There is some danger that the new
law in Illinois may be applied in such
a drastic manner as to work harm and
hardship. Not every man walking the
dusty road or beating his way in a freight
car is tramp. Many man often looks
for work, which, in our present imperfect
state of sociological development, he finds
it hard or impossible to obtain. To be
without visible means of support is a
misfortune and not a crime.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
We Use Milr.on. of cigar BOXES.

There are something like 15,0O0,O00
cigar boxes used in the United States
annually. and about ninetenths of that
number are made in New York, where
the trade rivals the clothing industry in
point of capital invested aud the number
of people employed. The material out Of
which the best boxes are made comes
principally from Cuba sld is known as
Spanish cedar. The latter wood retains
the flavor of a good cigar. owing. il is
claimed. TO the fae1 that it IS grown in
the same localities as the best Havana
tobacco
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

London caterers state that one of the
features of the season now cs< ag has
been the objection to long and elaborate
meals among the swell set This ten
dency has been particularly observable
in the most fashionable restaurants,
where it kes often taken vegetarian
form. peas and other summer vegetables
being frequently ordered as separate
dishes and consumed literally, while the
meat was sent away unto1Shed. The
hotel managers. however, say that these
fads. like others. run in cycles. and they
believe that fashionable people viii soon
tire of frugaiity and return 10 a more
substantial mode Of living.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Negro Admits Double Murder.

Layton Hines, a negro, arrested on sus-
picion of being connected with the murder
of Anna Markowitz of Covington, KY,
and Abe Cohen of indianapolis, Ind. in
Dayton. Ohio, near McCabe's park, Aug.
4 last, has made full confession, accord
ing to Sheriff Boes. He is said to have
confessed that he shot Cohen and then
strangled the girl to death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
success. Of .Big Brothers.

The amazing success of childrenAs aid
movement on novel lines is described in
the Circle Magazine. 1t is based upon
the idea that each man who volunteers in
the service win take a personal interest
in just one boy of the slurns who has
come to notice through some trouble or
petty crime and help him in a sort Of big
brother fashion, Hence the name of the
organization which is known as the big
Brothers 1t started quietly two years
ago with forty volunteers. and now 400
men are engaged in the work.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Members Boycott a Church.

Because their pastor, DR.. Sherman F.
Wood. led in the bringing of heresy
charges against another Youngstown
Methodist Episcopal pastor. DR.. c. w.
T'insley. 100 of the 800 members Of the
Epworth NJ. E. church in Youngstown.
Ohio. are on strike. They have entered
into an agreement to boycott the services
in the church and to refuse to aid in its
maintenance so long as Dr. Wood is the
M Sfnr
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Chuaren KiIIed nv dother.

Martha and Catherine, infant children
of Mrs. Catherine Thomas, an inmate of
the Cambria county almshouse at Johns
town, Pa, were found dead in their beds,
having been strangled. Finger marks
we're found on the children's threats. Mrs.
Thomas is said TO have confessed to the
deed. saying she was afraid her husband
would take them from her.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Explosion Kills Four.

Four men were killed, twenty MORALLY
injured and ten others badly injured in
in explosion caused by the upsetting of
the metal pot in the No. l cupola of the
Standard Steel Company in Butler, Pa.
The large wheel plant, 1J0x100 feet, was
demolished, causing a loss estimated at
S1D0 600
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
THREE KILLED IN WRECK.
Fire Destroys Train After Fatal

Fire Destroys Train After Fatal
Crash on Northern Pacific Line.
Two tramps were killed, Fireman Gil
bert Ernest of Tacoma is missing and
believed to be dead, and Engineer Il. n.
Myers of San Francisco and Brakeman
Thomas are at Hot Springs seriously in
jured as a result of the wreck near Yves
ton, Wash, on the main line of the North
ern Pacific The train was an extra
freight, west-bound, consisting of thirty
cars of hay, grain and live stock, a ca
boose, and an engine. The entire train
was destroyed, the wreckage catching fire
soon after the Smashup.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
burned to Death with baby.

Robert Yingiing. aged 40 years, and his
3-year-old child We're burned to death
near Parker, Pa. The house caught fire
from a gas jet. Yingling rushed into a
room where the child was sleeping and
though he managed to get outside Of the
building with the baby both were so badly
burned that they died in few hours. y
widow and seven children survive.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
FOOTBALL PUT ABOVE MILLION.
Swarthmore Not To Accept Gift
Until After s-ason, if r. All.

7 IIFIf EtIf' --stsUTHs n VT
Million or no million, Swarthmore col
legt in Swlrthmore, Pa, will have foot
bali team this year. The trustees have
adopted a plan which will permit the
team to play its schedule and yet not for
felt the bequest of coal lands supposed to
be worth about S1,000,000, left to the
college by the late Miss Anna I. Jeanes
of philadelphia on condition that the in
stitution abandon all intercollegiate
games. A committee has been appointed
to determine the value of the lands and
will not report until after the football
season is over. Then the fate of sports
at the college in future years will be set
fled
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

4 buck and wing dancing contest for
the local championship and $40 in gold
was the feature of the ball of the Fourth
Ward Club in Bayonne. y. ]. The CON
test was won by Henry Blaire, legless
painter. who carves his own legs and
wears shoes He introduced steps his
competitors never had seen.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

Samuel Langdon has been arrested in
New York on a charge made by Frederick
wis az ]. Wiss & Son. jewelers., Of New
srs \ T.. that be obtained two diamond
rings worth 81, 225 on Sept IL by making
false representations and By leaving as
security two $1,000 frst-mortgage bonds
of the New York and Pittsburg Air Line
Railroad Company
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
MANS noxcrs Arc klned.

For participation in the recent riots at
Kinchowfu. the Chinese government has
arrested and punished twenty rioters. One.
hundred Boxers have been killed by gov
ernment troops at Cananfu.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
blast in Cartridge Factory.

A terrible explosion occurred at the
Takatsuke factory, Osaka. Japan. while
a number of girls were at work sorting
shells and cartridges which had been con-
demned. Sixty-three of the girls were
killed and more than sixty were injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Chocolntc PRICE Rises.

Another article affected by rising prices
is chocolate, in which decided advances
have been made to retailers in the last few
days. The scarcity of the cocoa bean
and increased consumption of chocolate
products are given as the cause of the
increase in price by importers and manu-
faeturerS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Guilty of 81, 900. 900 Fraud.

Frank d. c. Marin, alias Judge
Franklin Stone, was found guilty in the
United States Court in Philadelphia of
conspiring to use the mails to desraud in
connection with the Storey Cotton Com
pany. which was closed several years sgo
by the postal authorities.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
piw Auto Crushes ChiIdren.

Marie Fargo. years old, was instantly
killed, and Adeline Upper. years old.
was badly injured. when they We're run
down by reoair automobile of the Edi-
son Light Company in New York.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
confe.ses He kined Fourteen Men

Confesses He Killed Fourteen Men.
ID. n. Edwards. on trial in Chatta-
nooga for the murder of Sam Brooks, a
negro. when asked under cross-examina-
ton if he had killed any one previous to
the shooting of Brooks, admitted that he
had killed fourteen men in the Kentucky
mountains and during labor strikes in
Chicago. Edwards is a Kentucky feudist
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
MEAT UP; PEOPLE TO STRIKE.
Rise i'm Prices in Augusta Starts
Plans for n Big Revolt.

Plans for Big Revolt.
A novel effect of the rise in the price
of food stuffs, particularly meat, is tax
ing place Mt Augusta, Me. Nearly 1900
people of Kennebec county are in open re
volt against the high prices demanded for
meat and have pledged themselves to alb
stain from all meat for ten days. 1t is
hoped by this method to force prices
down. The date on which the strike will
become effective has not yet been an
nouneed, but the fasting viii begin in
Augusta, Gardner, Hallowell Winthrop
and several of the smaller towns at the
same time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

The board of education of Syracuse.
Meigs county. Ohio. reported to State
school Commissioner Jones that the
teachers employed there are out on a
strike, because of a reduction in pay.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

Three prisoners escaped from the coun-
~ jail in Cincinnati. They dug their
way through an inner wall with pieces
o. iron broken from their beds. BY break
Tug through this wall they reached a
stairway leading to the roof. One was
recaptured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Contractor admits Taking Bride.

Contractor John r. Mcdonald. who
built the New York Subway. testified that
Thomas +. Ryan and his associates in
the traction companies paid him $4,000
to refrain from building rival under
ground roads.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

In Sioux Falls. S. D.. the coroner's
jury summoned TO investigate the mys-
FERROUS murder of John NJ. 0'Grady, an
aged pioneer. returned verdict holding
Mrs. 0'Grady responsible for the death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Mrestles with Rance auestion.

A movement virtually to exclude ne
groes from the Episcopal church. or to
separate them from the present organiza-
ton. has been started at the national con-
vention of the church in Richmond. Va.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

Three men were killed and two fatally
injured by the explosion of an aocumula-
tion of gas in one of the interior slopes
of mine No. Of the Tennessee Coal. Iron
and RailrOad Company, one mile from
Pratt City. Ala.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
senator Rorah Goes Free.

United States Senator Borah was ac-
Quilted at Boise, Idaho. of the charge of
conspiracy in connection with land
frauds, and the verdict was wildly cheer
ed in the court room and in the streets.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Lives six Months with Broken Meek.

William Cain, an employee az the fe-
male hospital died IA St Louis. six
months after his neck had been broken by
a shot fired by William Haymaker. a
Saie attendant. who went TO Kansas City
after being released ON bond and commit
ted suicide.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
..nryv Law No nar 10 Liquor.

BY decision of the Kentucky Court
of Appeals, shipments OF liquor from
points within prohibition territory are
held to be interstate commerce, aad the
carriers are not amenable under the legis-
Iative act of 1906. imposing a penalty
for sao shipping
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Parting Causes Tragedy.

Rather than endure separation from his
wife which might have followed his trans
fer to another post, it IS believed that
Claude H. Perry. soldier stationed at
Fort Hamilton. Brooklyn, shot and killed
his wife, Elizabeth. and then committed
xuiride
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

Lillian Russell announced the other
night that she was going 10 have an auc-
ton sale of the contents Of her home IN
New York, ascribing as reason that she
had signed for three years ana "onis
be kept on the road most Of the time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

at Decatur, H., on
the charge of muir
dering Mrs. Pet
Magill, first wife of
the accused man.
Z j G hit Y witnesses
were summoned by
the State and forty
by the defense.
Magill's frs {
wife was found
dead in hnr home
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

William Burns. negro desperate. who
shot Policeman August Burns. lnHicting a
wound from which the officer died. was
taken from jail in Cumberland, Nd, and
shot and kicked TO death
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
STRANGER ADMITS CRIME.
Negro Confcsses ~ Murder of Mrs.


Grant in Chicago.
Richard Walton, the negro murderer of
Mrs. Lillian White Grant of Chicago,
confessed to his crime at the Hyde Park
police station. He smiled broadly and
was in no way abashed by the fiendish
recital, which poured easily from his lips
With the confession of the murder came
dramatic re-enactment of the crime in
the Office of Captain McWeeney of the
Hyde Park station, in which Police In
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
clerk Exposes Plot.

Governor Buchtel of Colorado and sew
eral rich Denver men have been saved
from dynamiters by a clerk who aeci-
dentally overheard the plot.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
MAeILL TRIAL OPENED.

Clinton tIu.) Bank Official and Wife
Face Mnrder Charge.
Fred II. Magfll, a former banker Of
Clinton. Ill, and his child wife. Faye
Graham MagiIl, were placed on trial
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
MEDITERRANEAN Authoresx Dte.

Mrs. Mary ]. Holmes, well-known au-
thoress, died Sunday at her home in
Brockport, \. Y.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
BASE BALL STANDINGS.
Games Won and Lost by Clubs In
prineipal Leagues.

The baseball season is ended, and the
pennant in the National League goes to
Chicago, that in the American League to
Detroit. The final standing of the clubs
IS as follows.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

spector Nicholas Hunt impersonated the
strangled woman, while the negro knot
ted his huge black hands above the po-
lice officials throat in demonstration of
the manner in which the crime was done.