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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
TRAIN SEIZED BY TRAMPs.



The largest delegation of tramps that
ever invaded yisalia, Cal, rode in the
other day on a fat car of a Southern
Pacific train. There were sixty of them
and the train was virtually under their
control. The sheriff's Office had been no
titled and went to the relief of the tram
crew. Forty-eight were arrested and
placed in jail. The army of tramps nrst
boarded the Grain at Mendoza, about SIX
ty miles north. There were then about
100 of them, and they de6ed all efforts
of the train crew to put them OF. AT
Fresno the tramps boarded another train,
taking possession of a refrigerator car.
This train came down the east side line,
where all the towns are small. At va
rious places the crew, with the help OF
town marshals,s tried to dislodge the UNI
welcome passengers, but their superior
numbers oyercame all opposition. The
leader of the tramps was fellow with
both legs cut off about the knee, and
armed with a pick handle he started to
force way for his gang through the
phalanx of officers. Revolvers were drawn
by the officers, however, and the hoboes
surrendered. The bunch was incarcer-
ated in the county Jail, to be released
later in squads of three and four, until
but the ringleader was left. He Will be
tried for disturbance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
White Matter Determines. "Brains.

White Matter Determines "Bratns."
According to book recently issued by
DIR. Edward Anthony Spitzka, professor
of general anatomy in Jefferson Medical
College, it is the white matter connecting
the hemispheres of the cerebrum which
in great measure determines the quality
of the human intellect, and not the gray
matter, as has been heretofore supposed.
Prof. Spitzka has made a comparative
study of the brains of several men emil
nent in various walks of life and finds
that the brains Of various kinds of think
ers show specialized developments. Thus,
the brains of musicians are richly convo-
luted in the auditory association area.
Such abnormalities as left-handedness,
partial deafness and defects of vision, he
says, leave their indelible imprints upon
the brain. As to judging brains by weight,
he declares that: Men of the kind who
never remain steadily employed, and who
usually fail to even learn a trade, stand
lowest in the scale. Above them come the
mechanics and trade workers, the clerks,
the ordinary business man and common
school teachers. Highest of all we find
men of decided mental abilities, the ge-
muses. of the pencil brush and sculptor's
chsel; the mathemahcians, scholars and
ST q tnSmen
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
TELEGRAPH1c BREvIT1Es

Thomas w Lawson has been elected
president Of the Bay State Gas Company
OF Delaware.
The chief of staff Of the army has rec
commended the construction of officers
quarters at the army wal college In
Washington at an expense Of 100000.
II Is reported that Heinrich Conreid OF
the Metropolitan opera house In New
York has had trouble with the directors
of the company and will retire at the end
of the present season.
Fire in a stable in East Ninth street,
Now York City, spread to an adjoining
building. causing the death of one man
and injury to another man and a woman
who were overcome by smoke. Nine
horses In the stable are supposed to hive
been burned.
DIR. William r. Boos Of BostoG issued
A statement that be found In the body
Of William Farnsworth Baker, the Boston
young man who died under suspicious cir
cmmstances in Bagota, n. j., more than
enough arsenic to kill several strong,
healthy men. 1t was also stated that the
embalming fluid used In preparing the
body for burial contained no arsenic.
The organization of Hughes club,
with Senator Burkett as the aspirant for
the vice presidency, was begun in Lin
coin, Neb The delegation has been prac-
tically pledged to Taft, but the Hughes
and La Toilette men will make contest.
Fire completely destroyed the plant OK
the Pfau Manufacturing Company at oz'S-
53S Reading road. Cincinnati. The COM
pany manufactured plumbers supplies
The fire caused a panic in large tene-
ment building which adjoined the factory.
Policemen, headed by Night Chief Corbin,
carried several babies from the building,
passing through dense smoke In perform
ing the rescue work. The loss will be
sl5o 600. with 70 per cent insurance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

Chief Melvin of the Bureau of Animal
Industry of the Agricultural Department
says that many experiments conducted
by the bureau now demonstrate that n.y.
drophobia is real germ-generated and in
fictitious disease. This disease, he says,
can be communicated from beasts to men
as we'll as from beast to beast. There are
two types of hydrophobia, dumb and fUri-
GUS. In the earlier stages of the former
kind a dog is dangerous, but in the late
stages it is not, as il sustains paralysis
of the jaws; but dog with the furious
type of hydrophobia is very dangerous,
yelping and running about with frothing
mouth and without any sign Of jaw par
alysis. DR.. Melvin Insists that as Jet
there is no cure for rabies known to med
ical science.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
SPANS CHARTS FAULTY.
Errors Disable United States Ships
New Count of Philippines.

Errors Disable United States Ships
New Count of Philippines.
When Uncle Sam acquired the Philip
pine Islands be learned from the Spanish
charts that there were about LOO OF
them After few ships had punctured
holes in their bottoms in water which,
according to charts, was deep, the qucs-
ton of making charts was taken up by
the United States coast and geodetic SUR
vey and the result to date has been to
arouse grave distrust of the Spanish
guides to navigation. DIR. z. E. Yeagie,
who has been attached as surgeon to the
coast survey steamer Fathomer for the
last two years, arrived in San Francisco
from the Orient on the liner China. DIR.
Yeagle says that the American survey,
which will not be completed for ten years,
already shows there are $500 islands in
the archipelago. The American surveyors
found the Spanish charts full of remark
able inaccuracies The United States
steamers Fathomer, Pathfinder, Re
search, Martinique and Romolon are now
engaged in the work of charting Philip
nine waters
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
AUGUSTUS RlNeLlNG is DEAD.

Head of Big Circus Combination
Began Eife as n Poor Boy.
Augustus Ringing, head of the circus
combination which controls the shows of
Ringing Bros, BaNhum & Bailey and
Forepaugh-Sells, died in New Orleans at
a sanitarium. Death was due to COM
plication of diseases. Mr.. Ringing came
to New Orleans about two weeks ago
with the hope that the southern climate
would benefit him. Charles and Henry
Ringing, brothers of Augustus Ringing,
took the body to Baraboo, Wis, for
burial. Augustus Ringing was the oldest
of seven brothers. Born a poor boy fifty
five years ago, he educated himself and
accumulated sufficient funds with his
brothers to start in their little home town
OF Baraboo the nucleus of the great
shows he controlled at his death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
INJUNCTION ON STOVE goYcoTT.
Temporary Ruling Against Fedora
ton nj Labor I'm ST. Louis Case.

Temporary Ruling Against Fedora
ton of Labor I'm St. Louis Case.
In the case of the Buck Stove and
Range Company of ST. Louis against the
American Federation of Labor, involving
the right of labor to boycott business
houses which labor organizations regard
ed as unfair to them, Justice Gould of
the District of Columbia Equity court
granted temporary injunction asked for
By President Van Cleave of the stove
company to prohibit the federation from
continuing to boycott the company pend
ing a final settlement of the case. A
bill in equity was filed by the company
last August for a permanent injunction
restraining the federation from boycotting
the company and putting it on the "un-
fair" list in the federation's official or
gan and later supplemental bill was
filed charging that notwithstanding the
pending proceedings the federation was
still actively engaged in pressing the boy
colt
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
CHICAGO.

Ct1CAGO.
An Improving tone appears in business
circles, although actual recovery in ac-
tivity Is not looked for before return
70 normal banking conditions is effected
Seasonable weather brought a heavier
movement in the leading retail lines. and
the absorption of necessaries and Christ
mas goods advanced to gratifying propor-
''ohs, oeaiihss generally rejecting bet
ter dispos' ION among buyers.
Wholesale branches mainly enter upon
the usual quiet attending the close of the
year, but there was fair aggregate OF
demands for imm. late delivery and sat-
isiactory mail orders were received fer
spring merchandise Mercantile collec-
tions show more promptness at western
points, although extensions are not infre-
Qucntly asked, particularly where the
shortage of currency vet remains severe.
Defaults in this district again include
none of special significance. and the num-
Der this month thus far is less than a
year ago. Requests for accommodation
in January increases and current settle
mentS at the banks Involve some renew
ais, but the financial exhibit required of
borrowers discloses little disturbing week
ness among manufacturers and distrib'
uters, and this creates more confident
feeling as basis for future financing.
Money remains quoted at I per cent
minlmam on local loans required for for
warding of foodstufs, but higher rates
are made for commercial paper bought by
outside banks. Augmentation of gold re-
serves and note circulation strengthens
the situation and permits an expanding
shipment of currency to the Interior
There is no decline in outputs of rails,
wire and footwear, and there is better
inquiry for pig iron, although some con-
sumers hold for lower cost.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 23 against Is last week and
p year ago. Those with liabilities over
$1,000 number ), against last week and
3 in 19o6.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
BUYS FOREST; PAPER TO RISE.
Paper Company Closes Deal for $50
Snuar. AIiIoS of uiu, hex. Lind

Paper Company Closes Deal for $50
square Miles of Timber Land.
The International Paper Company, it
is announced, has practically closed the
purchase of $50 square miles of timber
land in New Brunswick, containing $50,
600 acres of spruce timber. A. II. Bur
bank, president of the paper company,
stated that the problem of securing spruce
wood for pulp has become a serious one
ard that as a result the price of print
paper has increased. Spruce wood, il is
said. is now quoted at $40 a cord, while
sales have been made at figures as high
as $14 cord. In some quarters it is pre-
1908 viii be at least 20 per cent above
the price that has prevailed during 1907.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
Why Criminal Class Increases.

In recent address before the members
of the Chicago Woman's Club Prof. Will
ism |. Thomas of the University of Chi
cago made the statement that the insane
and criminal classes in America are in
creasing more rapidly than the normal
population, the birth rate among the more
intelligent classes being lower than the
death rate. This, he said, meant rapid
race deterioration and made the question
of white or yellow supremacy in the near
future a grave one. He charged that
collaborating was left largely to the poor
er classes, while the women of the upper
classes are giving themselves over to per-
sonal ornamentation, struggles for social
pre- eminenee. and "the solemn sacrament
of bridge whist" He declared that there
were few American families whose dress
and mode of living did not represent
larger bank accounts than they possessed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
YAouis UGLY; MURDER IL.
Band of Indian Braves Infiict Death
by Torture.

Murder by torture of twelve miners was
the first scene of the bloody warfare open
ed by the Yaqui Indians, who are now
raging along the Mexican border. More
than 100 braves, fully armed, are in the
war party, and it is feared that several
frontier villages will be looted and many
persons killed before the Yaquis can be
subdued. The slaughter occurred forty
FIVE miles southeast of Magdalena, State
of Sonora, MEXICO. 7. ]. Mcintyre and
party of mining men of Nogalez, Ariz.,
have returned from the scene, where they
viewed the bodies of the murdered men.
Tbs Yaquis captured the party of thirteen
mon. Among the number was Jose Fer
nandez, son of President Fernandez of the
town of Cucurpe, and owner of the Mes
cal plant station, where the killing oc-
Cured. One American was among the
number. but he was rescued. The remain
king twelve were tortured, stood up against
trees, and shot through the head.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
Two kind. of TubercuIo.i..

Reports from London state that the re
suits of the careful investigations and ex-
periments Of the Royal Commission on
tuberculosis indicate that there are two
kinds OF consumption. When the bacilli
of these diseases were administered tn
animals those from one group caused rap
idly fatal general tuberculosis, while the
germs of the other group. though given
in far larger doses. had only slight local
effect. and the disease tended TO undergo
a spontaneous cure, but the investigations
have not Jet reached point where it is
practicable to determine with certainty
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
AUGUST.

standard Oil Co. fined S29,OOO,OOO
for accepting railroad rebates by Judge
X. NJ. Lands of Chicago.
S-Beginnlng of telegraphers' general
strike.
12-Death of Robert A. Pinkerton.
15-Joseph Joachim, vioIinist, dies in
Berlin.
19-Prince Wilhelm of Sweden ut
jamestown exposition.
26-Great fire in Hakodate, Japan.
27--Nelson Morris, Chicago packer,
dies
29-Great bridge over st. Lawrence
river, near Quebec, collapses, carrying "a
workmen to death.
30-Death of Richard Mansfield,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
City TO Use skyscraper.

Architects have begun work on plans
which are to be submitted in competition
for New York's proposed twenty-story
Office building to be erected on the ground
recently bought opposite the Brooklyn
bridge entrance. 1t is estimated that the
building will hold all the offices of the
city's departments, and that it will cost
approximately SS.0o0,000 Construction
will begin next year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
rrn.t Comnany Uficinls Inaietea.

]. Dalzen Brown. general manager Of
tho California Safe Deposit and Trust
Company. san Francisco, and Walker r.
Rartnett. director OF the Institution. v ere
indicted By a sand jury in San Fran
cisco fer alleged emhezrlenent Of securi-
ties Of the Ellen NJ. Cotton trust fund.
Bail in each cas- was fixed AT $4,000,
&ith $4,000 cash OF each indictment.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
CARRIES REVOLVER TO PREACH.

Pastor Draws Weapon to Chase Thief
and Church VIII Investigate.
While Rev. John Comm, pastor of the
North Congregational Church in Zanes-
vile, Ohio, was preaching Sunday he saw
q thief sneak out of the cloakroom with
an overcoat Drawing a revolver from
he pocket, the pastor jumped from his
pulpit and pursued the man. He chased
him down the street and fired at him, but
the thief escaped. One of his parishion-
ers ventured to ask the minister why he
carried a revolver. He got no answer.
Now the trustees of the church will be-
gin an investigation as to why their pas
tor goes armed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

The right of the commissioner Of In
dian affairs to contract with sectarian
schools for the education of Indians was
affirmed by the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals on a test case brought
By the Indian Rights Association to re-
strain the government from havinr the
Sioux of the Rosebud Agency Reservation
Of South Dakota educated by the Catho-
lie mission boarding school maintained On
the reservation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

After watching his parents SINCE the
down from plucked fowl, the 2-year-old
son of James Cathrea, in Owen Sound,
Ont. lit roll of paper when left alone
with his baby sister and applied it to the
child's dress. The baby was so badly
burned that it died half an hour later.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
Noted Lake captain Dies.

Captain Sidney o. Nef, one of the
best known captains on Lake Michigan,
died at his residence in Milwaukee after
months illness of typhoid pneumonia.
Captain Neff was a director in the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers bank and in
the Lumber Carriers Association, and
was Mason and Knight Templar.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
PLOT TO ROB EXPRESS FoILED.
Man Arrested for an Attempt to
Get 100000 I'm Gold Bullion.

Wan Arrested Tor an Attempt 10
Get 100000 in Gold Bullion.
A daring attempt to rob car on the
Buffalo express, containing gold bullion,
while the train was standing in the Read
ing terminal in Philadelphia the other
night was foiied and William A. Hewett,
who gives his address as 325 West Fiji
teenth street, New York. was held in So
600 bail for further hearing. The train
had been made up and was scheduled to
leave at s 40 p. M, via the Reading rail-
way and the Lehigh Valley. One of the
express cars contained 100000 in gold
bullion, which was being shipped by the
government to Buffalo. Hewett was dis
covered saving gaspipe under the ex-
press car. The police are looking for
probable accomplices.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
Noted Dre-smaLer 4. Dead.

NJ Paquin, the famous dressmaker who
since the death of Worth has fashioned
gowns for the aristocracy of Europe and
the wealth of America, died at his home
in Paris. He was known all over the
world as designer who set the fashions
for the courts of Europe and for Newport
and New York
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

Minghng with crowd of gay shoppers
on McKeon avenue, Donora, near Pitts
burg. Mary Lindsay. II years old, shot
herself. In her delirium the girl called
the name of young man friend, and it
is supposed an affair of the heart actual
ed the attempted suicide.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
Banker Freed by GOV. Hoch.

Gov Hoch of Kansas has committed to
five years the sentence of j. e. MARCEL,
the Highland, Kan, banker, in prison for
forgery under indeterminate sentence.
This includes the time served in Jail ana
time off for good behavior, making the
actual time four years and one month.
MARCEL was accused of specializing with
the banks funds. He will get his freedom
Feb %
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

After hanging mp a sign. This store
closed on account Of death in the family"
Max Bonaventa-e. a well-to-do saloon
keeper of West Mount Vernon, n. ".
committed suicide by hanging himself.
For several months Bonaventure had
been receiving threatening letters from
the Black Hand Society.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

The total loss to vessel property on the
great lakes amounted TO S74S.0o0 for the
season of 1907. according to figures COM
piled by Cleveland marine men. Thirteen
steamers and one schooner were lost
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

s2-Steamsnip Cypress wrecked on
Lake Superior and % lives lost.
l4-Town Of San Jose del Cabo, Lower
California, destroyed by cioudburst.
lo-Du Pont powder works near Fon-
eanet, Ind. explodes, killing so people.
l6-Wall streer furry causes great
slump in copper stocks.
z223-Panic in New York and the
East marked by suspension of Knicker-
booker Trust Company and of various
financial concerns, appointment of receiv-
ers for Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company, and wild scenes on
Stock Exchange.
23-Germans win balloon race from st.
Louis with France second.
27-New $20000.O00 Onion station
opened in Washington.
30-Earthouake and mountain slide de-
stroys town of Karatagh. Russian Tur-
kestan, and causes $4,000 deaths.
NOVEMBER.
Great railway strike in Great Brit
ain called
51End of telegraphers' strike. .Elec-
tons in many States.
11-Death of Dexter NJ Ferry, seeds
man, of Detroit.
15-Death of Moncure D. Conway,
American author. :. Fire destroys town
of Cleary, Alaska.
16-Oklahoma admitted to statehood.
24-Jury in Steve Adams case in Rath-
drum, Idaho, disagrees.
25-Thirteen lives lost in New York
tenement house fire.
26-Death of Gen. B. D. Pritchard of
Allegan, Mich, whose regiment captured
Jefferson Davis.
DECEMBER.
Explosion in mine at Fayette City,
Pa, kills 40 miners.
2-Sixtieth Congress opens.
liking Oscar of Sweden resigns gov.
eminent into hands of Crown Prince as
regent.
6-Explosion entombs 400 miners at
Monongah. w. Va.
S-Death of King Oscar III. of Sweden
and accession of his son as Gustaf V.
11-President Roosevelt reiterates his
declaration that he will not again be a
candidate for chief executive.
i6-Dust explosion kills IS men in
mine at Yolande, Ala. -. Great war feet
sails from Hampton Roads for Pacific.
17-Death of Lord Kelvin, English
scientist.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

The mandate of the Supreme Court OF
Texas, in accordance with its announced
decision that it has jurisdiction in the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company receiverslnp
contest. has been issued. An appeal from
the Appellate Court on the main custer
case is TO be heard. No action was taken
on the appointment Of receiver as sag-
gested by the Attorney General
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
Upton ont of Gun Chase.

Sir Thomas Upton declares that be has
no intention TO race the new Shamrock
Tor the international cup recently offered
by the Brooklyn Yacht Club Cor competi-
ton in American waters in 1903. He
says thst next season he win be fully
employed in British waters, for which the
Shamroek was specially built
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

Prof. C. Hobein. a Chicago lawyer,
committed suicide by shooting himself in
a room at the Quincy house. Boston. He
was respondent over i'll health. Hobein
was 81 years old and unmarried. He left
the Alexian Brothers hospital, Chicago,
three weeks ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

Pletro Giannone, convicted 10 New
York of an attempt of murder, gill ask
for new trial on the admission of the
principal witness, Bruno Cordea, that he
committed perjury on the promise of re-
ward. Cordea testified that Giannone Of
fered him $3.50 to kill Luigi Favetta,
with whose wife, Cordea said, Giannone
WAS in love
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
Staying WRAPPED IN MYSTERY

Man Killed with Monkey Wrench
and AssaiIapt Refuses to Talk.
Magnus Christensen of Kenosha, Wis.
was killed by Archie Wayne, is years
old. of Kansas City. at the NJ. NJ. Sher-
man ranch in Ellsworth county, near
Salina, Kan. The murder was committed
with heavy monkey wrench. There were
no eye witnesses and as Wayne refuses TO
talk. nothing is known as to what led to
the crime. Wayne is under arrest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

A negro member of a travelling minstrel
troupe, who gave his name as Homer
Rogers, was hanged by mob near
Shreveport, La. and his body riddled
with bullets. This is the third lynching
in Morehouse parish in ten days. Rogers
is said to have resented a white mans
remark that he was Yankee niger"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
Frcnch Rtrht. I'm CONGO.

France and Belgium have concluded
convention which provides for the mainte-
nance Of Frances preferential rights in
the Kongo Independent State after the
annexation of that territory to Belgium.