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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
spark. from the wires.

Captain Emil Francke Of the steam
ship Dakota, which was wrecked on the
Japanese coast March 3, is censured Sc
yerely in letter written him by George
Uhler, supervising inspector general Of
the steamboat inspection service.
At the session of the synod Of Ohio of
the Evangelical Lutheran churches in
Washington, d. c., the need of more
ministers was discussed, and each congre-
CATION was urged to send at least one
youHg man from its membership to the
ministry.
Consuelo, Duchess Of Marlborough, who
is separated from her husband, is expect
ed to sail from England Oct. 16 to visit
her mother, Mrs. o. II. 2. Belmont OF
New York
Henry T. Scott, builder of the Oregon,
said in a New York interview that in
future warships could not be built on The
Pacific coast owing to the high prices Of
labor and material.
George Stiff was fatally and Mrs. Her
bert Knode seriously burned in an explo-
sion of gasolins in the dry cleaning de-
nar+ment of the Eureka Laundry and
Domestic Rug Company in Coshocton,
Ohio.
Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, the German
aeronaut, made the most successful aerial
voyage ever achieved in dirigible bal
loon. passing over four hours in the air,
completely circumnayigatiEg the lake Of
Constance and passing over five different
States
Geneva newspaper states that Prof.
Jolly has completed q geological examina-
ton Of specimens Of the strata collected
from the borings for the Simplon tunnel.
He found rich traces Of radium, indicat-
ing larger deposits than any hitherto dis
covered In Europe He believes that the
presence of these deposits caused the abb
normal heat experienced in building the
tunnel.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
"Gen.v Coxey,s New Crusade.

Gen" j. S. Coxey, who some years
ago led a sensational march on Wash
ington, is now out with a new scheme,
the main feature of which is the absorp-
ton and operation by the State Of rail
roads and other utilities necessary to
the peoples welfare HIS idea is to have
these holdings taken over by the States,
payment being made by the issue of long
term bonds, these latter being deposited
with the federal government in return for
an issue of currency to the face value of
the securities less l per cent for the
expense of flotation. He thinks that this
loan could be repaid and the entire ex-
penses of the State met by the revenues
accruing from the operation of the public
utilities, thus making a direct tax levy
on private property unnecessary. He
would in a similar manner extend his
idea to counties and municipalities. He
declares the idea of controlling the big
corporations while their ownership rests
with private interests absurd, and says
that public ownership will be the yerita-
BILE salvation of the country. oCoxey is
said to have amassed considerable prop
erty since his famous march"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
:s:AiGsss:s! SIDE SIDE
The. News ~
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The voice of the coal bin is heard in
the land.
This years peach crop went before it
came.
This is a seven-billion-crop year, in
Guiding the hayseed.
There are new styles ia hats, but the
same old styles in heads.
A little tar and feathers is a goo1 cure
for marriage by affinity"
The prevailing mode of human djstinc-
ton nowadays is to have come over in the
Lusitania.
A Wisconsin woman died of overwork
at 81 These young girls always do over
tax their strength.
From the way they are followed, the
Roosevelt children must think Americans
are a nation of ''rubbernecks.'
Now that it is lawful in England fer
a man to marry his deceased wifes SIS
ter. we suppose that the old charm Of
flirting with pretty sister-in-law las
vanished.
Motoring improves the lungs, it IS said,
because motorists must yell at eac1 other
when they converse. 1t also improves the
lungs q! other people who feel called on
to yell ct them.
A MARYLAND convict says his wife has
disgraced him by clipping with another
man. Owing to the combining nature of
his occupation, it is hard for a convict 10
uphold the family honor.
A Boston minister says that there will
n. -
that silly clergymen viii also De rather
scarce.
People wh9 buy things tc eat and wear
at present Liices are beginning 10 doubt
the old adage that what goes up must
come down."
The customs inspectors are even mean
enough to suspect a New York man who
returned from Europe wearing 30 yards
of So lace.
A man out in Washington has married
so often that he cannot remember tine
names of all his wives, but they a. re-
member him.
The New York woman who left S-..36,-
600 on a railroad train must have teen
mighty deeply absorbed in ba-gaia-siay
advertisement.
The American mother deserves sympa-
thy. She worked ali summer to put up
preserves that the school children now
eat up at lunch time.
Eighty persons were killed II the Alps
during the summer. Climbing the Alps
has become almost as dangerous as cross
ing a motor speedway ON foot.
When you learn that London has 1900
policemen you wonder how all those
American tourists arrange to slip through
that town without getting arrested.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
PIRATES USE MOTOR BOAT.
Many Long Island Mansions Plum
dered by Up-to-Date Thieves.

Many Long Island Mansions Plum
dered by Up-to-Date Thieves.
Discounting the audacious performances
of Captain Kidd and other rovers of the
dead past, the performances of Long
Islands motor poat pirates have furnish
ed the State police with mysteries and
work for the past several days. Within
this time a dozen of the magnificent man
sions on Long Island sound have been
plundered of rich loot. No one has seen
the gang, but that it is probably led by
a woman has been ascertained. lmprlnts
of a woman's shoes in the sand, leading
from the beach to a residence from which
$1,000 worth of plate was stolen, gave
The first clew TO the police that woman
was one of the gang. Later il became
known that an automobile boat of great
speed had been dimly seen in the sound
,bout an hour or so before the residence
OF John Alvin Young had been rified. And
the man who saw the boat declares 1t pa
troled up and down the sound near
Young's house, while indistinctly a wom-
ans voice, apparently issuing orders,
could be heard over the water. The police
have worked like beavers, but without
result. District Attorney Soles has Of
fered a reward of 1000 for the arrest
of the woman pirate and her accom-
plices. That the burglaries continue In
the face of precautions marks the woman
leader as a person of extreme GOODNESS
and daring In conception and execu-
ton, the crimes rank among the classics
of the criminal bureau of the metropolitan
police department
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
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A MYSTERY CLEARED.
Body of Missing Brooklyn Million
aire Found i'm Montana Cave.

Body of Missing Brooklyn Million
aire Found i'm Montana Cave.
After a little more than a year the
mystery surrounding the disappearance of
Abraham Gill, a millionaire Broeklynite,
tives in New York City received dis
patch from Sandusky, Mont, that his
remains had been found in a cave near
the ranch which he had sold the day he
disappeared. The body lay in a heap of
ashes and the belief is that he was robbed
By bandits, who bound him and then toss
ed him upon pile of faggots to which
they applied the torch.
Gill, who was a young man, was a
graduate of the Polytehcnic Institute and
member of many exclusive clubs. At
ter graduation he went to Montana, where
he purchased a ranch to raise live stock.
In 1906 Gill returned to Brooklyn, and
after arranging for beginning life anew
in New York, he returned to his ranch
and sold out to one George Goblin. Be
fore doing so, however, as a United States
marshal he succeeded in breaking up the
most dangerous gang of thugs in Mon
tana This led the authorities to believe
that the gang had killed him.
The day of the sale Gill rode at night
to the home of friend, several miles
from the ranch, to have the deed legally
registered This accomplished, he and
Goblin, who is said to be a member of the
gang Gill had exterminated, started back
to the ranch with the money he had re-
ceived from Goblin. He never again was
seen alive The day after Gill disappear
ed his horse was found near the point
where his master had disappeared from
view. 1t was within 100 feet of the cave
where the charred bones of the deputy
we're found.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
MORE GIRLS ARE COMING.
MarriageabIe Young Women Desert
ing Europe by the Thousand.

MarriaSeabIe Young Women Desert
ing Europe by the Thousand.
Bellies of all nations are coming to these
shores by the shipload. Whether it is
that the matrimonial market on the other
side is overcrowded or that would-be hus-
bands don't suit, the fact is that mar
riageable young women are deserving Eu-
rope by the thousand. The steamer Baltic
alone brought in 1,004 on the last trip.
About a third of them were immigrants
of other years who had recrossed the At
lantic in the early summer TO visit the old
folks at home. The great majority were
girls who were allured b. the prosperity
of these returning maidens or ty letters
received from friends who have settled in
America. English, Irish, Scotch, Welsh
and Scandinavian girls predominated
among the newcomers on the Baltic. And
every one of them manageable. Dozens
had already been spoken for and were
coming to be married to admirers who had
gone ahead to earn money sufficient to
start them in married life. A greater
number came without prospects. Their
plan was to get work and wait for the
proper fellow to put in an appearance.
About half the arrivals on the Baltic re-
manned in New York, and the others scat
tered to all parts of the country. More
than fifty of them We're billed to Salt
Lake City. The steamers Cymric and
Cedric, leaving England soon after the
Baltic, carried each more than 600 maid
ems who come to find homes in the land
of promise
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Points Made al Cairo.

In his speech at Cairo the President
said
The policy of ''peace with insult" is
the very worst policy upon which it is
possible to embark, whether for a nation
or an individual.
| think that the excellent people who
have complained of our policy as hurt
ing business have shown much the same
spirit as the child who regards the dent
list and not the liberated tooth as the real
source of its woe.
If man is afraid to hold his own, if
he will submit tamely to wronSdoing, he
is contemplate If he is a bully, an
oppressor, man who wrongs or insults
others, he is even worse and should be
hunted out of the community.
Well, all this Is just as true of a nation
as Of an individual.
The best way to parry is 10 hit-no
fight can ever be won except bs hitting
and we can only hit by means of the navy.
The navy must be built and all
its training given in time of peace. When
once war has broken out it is too late
to do anything.
We believe in real, not a sham,
democracy. We belize in a democracy
as regards political rights, as regards ed
ucation. and, finally, as regards indus
trial conditions.
We have definitely taken our place
among the great world powers and it
would be a sign of weakness, having TAX
en- such a place, to shirk its response
bilities. Therefore, unless we are willing
to abandon this place. to abandon our in
siStence upon the Monroe doctrine. to
Give mn the Panama canal. and to be
content to acknowledge ourselves weak,
timid nation, we must steadily build up
and maintain a great fighting navy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

ried at Denver a month after the first
wife was found dead This aroused
resentment and a demand for the in
vestigation of the death of Mrs. Magill
No. 1.
The arrest of Magill and wife No. 2
occurred at San Diego Cal, while they
were on their honeymoon. The prison
ers pleaded not guilty, and scott at
the charge of murder They are con
fident of a prompt acquittal, and de-
clare that the State VIII be unable TO
introduce evidence of convincing
character. They admit that they did
wrong in arranging such a hasty mar
riage, but plead as their defense the
dying instructions of the first wife.
The wealth of the .Magill family, one
of the richest in central Illinois, is be-
hind the defense, and the counsel en-
gagged is the most prominent in De
Witt County.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
WORK AT PANAMA.
Big Ditch May BE Dug Earlier Than
the Scheduled Dnfe


Official figures from Panama show
that the work on the canal is being
pushed with considerable rapidity.
While the total amount of digging ON
the Culebra cut was $4,000 cubic
yards in 1904. $4,000 in 1905. and q
663, 600 in 1906. it was 4.9S5. 600 in 1877
for the seven months which expired
with August. Thus more work was
done in seven months of 1907 than was
done in the preceding thirty-six
months, and not far from double as
much as was done in 1906. These rec
ords win be particularly gratifying to
the country.
Some of the immense gain in the
pushing OF the canal is undoubtedly
due to the new experience which is
constantly being gained, but the great
er part of it is probably caused by the
increased efficiency of the military
regime over the civilian management.
A large part of the civilians energy
appeared to have been consumed in
talks for the press and in squabbles
between the various members of the
commission at Panama aud each other,
and between the heads OF the commits
sion and the authorities iii Washing
ton. Since the entrance Of The mill
tary men early in 1907 the procedure
has changed. The order of the day
now is work and not talk
If the work continues 10 be left in
the hands of the army the predictions
about the time of the completion of the
cording to the guess made recently by
Secretary Taft the boats will begin to
run through that short cut between the
two oceans in 1915 or hereabouts. Pos
sibly this contamination may come a
little sooner. New orleans was recens-
ly talking about getting up an exposi-
ton to commemorate the completion OF
the canal, and fixed 1913 as the date
for it. The chief reason why 1918
was selected by New Orleans was that
that would be the Tooth anniversary of
Balboa's discovery of the Panama 18TH
mus. He was the first white man
who, from any point on the American
continent, looked down on the South
Sea. For sentimental as well as for
practical reasons the world would re-
joice to see boats run through BalbOa's
Isthmus on the big anniversary. That
date is only six years away, but If the
authorities at Washington do not ham,
per the soldiers who are doing the
work, the joining of the waters of the
Atlantic and the Pacific may take place
nc carly &c that vnar
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
CHICAGO.

Ire highly SUSTAINED volume of com
merce centering here is attested by aggre-
gaze payments through the banks during
the past month and this week, which ex-
hipie Striking gains over year ago. Less
pressure Tor money and few business fail
ures make easier conditions for capital in
vestnent, and with continued pro6tahlA
returns for farm and range products the
indications appear brighter for lower
discount rate to mercantile borrowers.
Trade responds to the better effect of
favorable developments. Preparations
reflect renewed confidence among the lead
ing producers and little capacity remains
TO be booked up for this quarter. New
demands equal expectations in iron, steel
and railway equipment, and the orders
for future deliveries are satisfactory in
forge work, machinery, heavy hardware,
wire products, furniture and footwear.
Country merchants come from nearby
points in increasing numbers, and their
selections of fall and winter fares stimu-
late expanding activity in wholesale
branches. Shipping rooms work overtime
and the forwardings to the interior COM
pare favorably in quantities with this
time last year.
Mercantile collections throughout the
West occasion little trouble, and, not
withstanding tight money, the defaults
carry no special significance.
Bank clearings, S263309, 200, exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1906
by ITO per cent. Choice commercial pa
per is quoted at 6i5 per cent, and cur
rency Withdrawals to move crops make
smaller total than last year. Failures
reported in the Chicago district numbered
%, against 10 last week and % year
ago. Failures with liabilities over $5,-
600 numbered 4, against last year.
Dun's Review of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
Address at st. Louis.

Among the impressive sentences in
the Presidents st. Louis address were
the following:
The chief economic question of the day
in this country is to provide a sovereign
for the great corporations engaged in in
terstate business that is, for the r&il-
road and the interstate industrial cor
porations.
Great capitalists have shown
extreme unwsdom in their violent oppo-
sition to the assumption of complete CON
troll over the railroads by the federal gov
ernment As national CONNER
cial agents the big interstate railroads
ought to be completely subject to national
authority. Only thus eau we secure their
complete subsection to, and control by, a
single sovereign, representing the whole
people.
/ ask that the national powers already
conferred upon the national government
by the constitution shall be so used as to
bring national commerce and industry
effectively under the federal government
and thereby avert industrial chaos My
plea is not to bring about Capitalization.
1t is that the government shall recognize
a condition of Capitalization ia a field
where it already exists.
On the lower courses of the Mississippi
the nation should do its full share in the
work of levee building.
If we are able to keep up substantially
the rate of progress that now obtains we
shall finish the actual digging of the Pan
anna canal within five or six years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
All Around the Globe.

The retirement from the French army
of Major Alfred Dreyfus has been ga
zetted in the form of the nomination Of
an officer to the post last held by him,
that of commander of artillery at st.
Denis.
A project to establish large colony Of
negroes in southern California is being
promoted by an association which IS about
to seek State incorporation. Several
million dollars is said to represent the
wealth of the negroes back OF the move
ment.
Stuyvessn Mt Fish, in a reply 10 the
charges of President Harahan of the Hi
nois Central. declares the road never lost
a dollar through bis borrowings He
saws Mr.. Harahan misses the poist of
his (Fish's) charges-that II. ii. Harsi-
man controlled the road as feeder for
the Union Pacific.
The New York walters are to have
club house of their own at 143 West
Forty-fourth street. To be eligible to
membership a waiter must have had a
European season and know the art Of
serving from soup to nuts" Few OF it's
members speak less than s;< languages.
Attorney General Yong appeared in
the District Court Of Minnesota at st.
Paul and asked for a writ of Tnandamns
to compel the Northern Pacific railroad
to put into effect the commodity rate law
recently declared Illegal by Judge Loeb
rem Of the United States District Court.
This will force an early decision OF the
issue.
Two hundred machinists in the North
ern Pacific railroad shops at Livingston,
Mont, struck because non-union men we've
imported to take the places OF suislng
boilermakers.
Rev. James f. Winter ct Ithaca Was
appointed Catholic chaplain at Cornell
university, thus assuring the success or
the plan to erect Catholic hall as an
adjunct to the school.
Disguised at the way rich Pittsburg
youths squander their inheritances, the
late Paul X. Hacke. millionaire bachelor,
in his will stipulates that two sons Of q
cousin shall wed, and that their issue
shall inherit the Hacke millions, thus cut
ting Of the present generation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
AIR FLEET is NEEDED.
MAJOR HERsEY's TALK MAY
AROUSE CONGRESS.
Claims that In This Matter United
States Is Being Dfstanced by
European Nations-Father BAN
fishes Sons to Bungalow.

Major Henry B. Hersey's statement
that the government and people Of the
United States are far behind the Euro
pean countries in the matter of aerial
navigation, and that it is a necessity for
this country to begin construction of an
aerial feet, are Endorsed by practically
EVERY officer in the signal corps of the
War Department. 1t was admitted that
considerable activity has been displayed
recently; that the value of military diri-
gibles was now admitted by all authori-
ties; that the signal corps was secretly
making efforts to drill enlisted men and
excite interest in this branch of the SER
vice that the contract for one balloon
has been practically closed, and that the
next Congress will be asked to appropri-
ate considerable sum for the establish
ment of an aerial fleet for the War De-
partment Despite the fact that one Girl
gible balloon is to be contracted for by
the United States government as soon as
the necessary funds are forthcoming, it is
felt that the rapid progress in this line
shown by France, Germany and England
makes the establishment of an aerial fleet
as necessary as the keeping of navy
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
SECOND THAW TRIAL.
BOOKED TO BEGIN IN NEW YORK
DECEMBER 2.
Agreement Between Attorneys De-
cides Date for Commencing sensa-
tionaI suit-Importer~ Want Dras-
tic Penalties Imposed.

Harry K. Thaw's second trial for the
killing of Stanford White will begin Dec
:. This agreement was reached between
District Attorney Jerome, Martin w. Lit
Teton, counsel for Thaw. and Justice
Downing of the Supreme Court, in New
York. Mr.. Littleton wanted the date
fixed for Nov. /, but Mr.. Jerome opposed
this and offered the date which was Sc
lected Worn and impatient under the
stress of his. long confinement, Harry
Thaw exhibited satisfaction when told
that the beginning of his second ordeal
was less than two months away. During
the last few weeks, when his actress wife
was prevented by illness from making her
daily visits to the tombs,. Thaw has shown
perceptible signs of worry. His appetite
his grown variable and he has been impa-
tient to ascertain what his lawyers were
doing with regard to the retrial of his
case. well. I'm glad it is settled he
declared when told of the court action.
Anything is better than this uncertain
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
REV. JAMES M. KING DEAD.
Head of Methodist Episcopal Board
of Missions and Church Extension.

Rev. James NJ. King, Ill. d., executive
head of the board of home missions and
church extension of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, and known throughout the
world of Methodism, died at his home in
Philadelphia. DIR. King, who was elected
to his Office in 1889, was born at Girard,
Pa, in 1889, and was graduated from the
Wesleyan university. For six years he
was professor of natural science in the
Collegiate institute at Fort Edward, n.
Y. He Joined the Troy conference in
1868. and erected a beautiful church at
SaratoSo Springs. In 1873 he was trans
ferred to the New York conference, and
was pastor successfully of Washington
Square, st. James. Eighteenth Street,
Park Avenue, st. Johns, and Union
Methodist churches in New York. His
pastoral life was unique in that, although
coming directly under the itinerant rule of
the Methodist church. he had not been re-
moved out of New York for more than
twenty years. DR.. King was more widely
known outside of his own denomination
than probably any other preacher. He
was a first-class pulpit orator and fine
parliamentarian.