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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
NEW YORK.

Long awaited seasonabie weather has
further improved retail trade and crops,
slightly ENLARGED recorder business with
Jobbers and made for more confidence in
the placing of orders for future delivery
In some sections also collections have re-
sponded in a measure to more favorable
influences, but payments are still back
ward. Taking the wholesale trades gem
orally there is a rather more quiet tone
perceptihle, part of it due to the smaller
than expected recorder business and also
to the advance of the season of midsum-
mer quiet. There is a disposition this
year, more perhaps than in recent years,
to await clearer indications of the out
turn of the growing crops, and there is.
less assurance as to booking ahead in
many lines than was quoted at this time
in 1906, but the trade situation proper
PROFESSIONALLY shows a more optimistic
feeling than was possible a few weeks
ago.
Business failures for the week ending
June 20 number 1853, against 161 last
week and 173 in the like week of 1906.
Canadian failures were thirteen, against
twenty-five last week and nineteen a year
ago.
Wheat, including flour, exports from
the United States and Canada aggre-
gated 2,S50,222 bushels, against 3,376,962
last week and 1,760,609 this week last
year; for the last ffty-one weeks of the
fiscal year 167, 172,OS2 bushels, against
132, 716,964 in 1866. Corn exports
We're 9SS,S32 bushels, against 7S3,455
last week and 552, 967 year ago for the
fiscal year to date, 70,520.313 bushels
against los, $50, 293 in 1905-6-Brad-
streets Commercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
JApAN.5 poSsSESSloNJ
JAPAN COVE Ts, IN
WHAT JAPAN HAS AND WANTS.

ship on our Pacific frontier, that at
Bremeraon. The new dock at Alongapo,
p. l., which was towed from Solomon's
Island, Maryland, is still without shops
on shore sufficient for repairs and can
be used only for painting and scraping.
For some reason not easy for the
average citizen to discover there is
not an American battleship between
San Francisco and Manila. One by one
they have been withdrawn from Pacific
waters and joined to the Atlantic fleet,
where they rendezvous at Newport and
Jamestown, until there remains in the
far east and on the Pacific coast only
light armored cruisers and second and
third class ships of the cruiser type,
any and all of which would be no more
than good target practice for squad
ron of modern battleships.
1t is privately admitted, according
to a Washington correspondent, that
the Navy Department hesitates to or
der battleships TO the Pacific waters at
this time. While having every possible
right to do SO without question, it is
we'll known that such move would be
seized upon by the japanese as
an indication of hostile intent,
and It might easily be made the
sEoject of diplomatic inquiry-a thing
which would not for a moment be toll
Grated by our Secretary of State and
which might itself provoke a quarrel
The lack of proper coaling stations,
it is admitted by naval experts, would
be a serious handicap if we were
plunged into war with Japan at this
time, Even Golfers are lacking in suf-
ficient numbers to properly coal the
fleet The only coaling stations in the
Pacific are at Cavite. 10000 tons ca
pacity; Guam, $500 tons; Samoa,
5000 tons: Hawaii, 10000 tons: Mare
Island, 10000; Puget Sound, $4,000:
Sitka, Alaska, 5000 tons.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
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There seems no doubt that, with re-
spect to small grain at least, 1907 will
be recorded in the annals of the United
States as comparatively lean" year.
There are, of course, no signs Of any
thing even remotely resembling famine"
conditions. Real 'famines" do not occur
in nations which have reached the Ameri-
can level of popular intelligence. There
will be enough bread for everybody, but
it will cost a little more labor to get it,
The winter wheat crop, which is much
more important and larger than the
spring wheat yield, though attracting less
general attention because its area of pro-
ductiOn is not so compact appears to
have suffered most from an unusually cold
and backward spring and the attacks of
insect pests. The following figures, Sc
lected from the government report for
june are eloquent:
Kansas, the leading winter wheat
State, expected this year on the basis of
acreage TO increase its crop 100000
bushels over last years 100000. The
most expected from Kansas now is GA
100000 bushels. Nebraska expects a de-
cline from 100000 bushels to 34,500,-
600; Ohio, from 100000 to 29,000,
600; Indiana, from 100000 to
100000; Illinois, from 3S,500.000 to
100000; California, from 27,OO0O00
to 14,500000; Oklahoma, from 1S,500,-
600 to 100000, and Texas from IA ,000,-
000 to 100000 bushels. Pennsylvania,
Michigan and Missouri expect yields APP
proximately equal to last years, but the
whole country's winter wheat crop will
probably be only 369,0O0,000 bushels, as
compared with nearly 493,000,000 last
year.
Bad weather has delayed spring wheat
planting and slightly reduced acreage.
The most favorable estimators do not look
for a larger crop than last years, which
was 242 100000 bushels. Thus it is
practically impossible that, however good
the conditions from now on, the spring
wheat yield should make up for the def
cheney, as compared with last year, of
more than 120,000,000 bushels in the
winter wheat crops.
Other small grains show similar con-
ditions. Of barley, 16S,000,000 bushels,
or 100000 less than last year, is ex-
pected now. The oat crop, greater in
bulk than all the other small grains put
together, with 100000 acres more plant
ed, promises yield 20000,000 bushels
smaller than last years, which was 964,-
100000 bushels. 1t is just possible, how
ever, that the corn crop, the surest of
food grains and the cereal foundation on
which this republic was built, will make
up for some of these shortages Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
SLAIN IN COLLAPSE.
sEvEN LIVES LOST IN FALLING
TENEMENT.
Rickety Building IN New York Gives
Away Before Occupants Can Get
Out-Portuguese People Ready to
Overturn Kingdom.

Seven persons, six of them members of
one Italian family, the Torchinos, were
killed in the collapse of ramshackle ten
ement in the downtown Italian quarter in
New York. Three other members of the
same family, including the father and
mother, are in hospital, painfully in
jured. but will recover. Cosmo Bellucci,
a ledger, was the seventh person killed.
There were some exciting scenes immedi-
ately following the accident, one of which
was the rescue of an old man from a two
foot ledge, forty feet from the ground,
this portion of the fallen building having
adhered to the adjoining structure long
enough to permit the firemen to get to
the scene. raise a ladder and take the
man. Jacob Reigler, safely to the ground.
Then it also fell into the ruins. The
collapsed building was a four-story affair,
built over fifty years ago, and was at
Walker and Lafayette streets. 1t be-
longed to the Nose Taylor estate and for
some days has been in a dangerous con-
dition because of excavations for new
building on the adjoining premises. 1t
had been shored up, but constant shaking
by subway trains block away was too
much for it in its weakened condition,
and it fell in.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
TEXAS PUTS UP BARS.
WILL KEEP CONSERVATIVES OUT
OF STATE.
Quarantine Exercixes Public Health
officials in Washington When First
Heard of-Tornado Destroys Life
and Property in kalamazoo, Mich.

Federal ofhciGls having to do with the
regulation and control of the public
health were exercised the other day to
learn that the public health officials of
Texas will soon issue proclamation CT
permanent quarantine ags INST all persons
affected with the advanced stages of tu-
berculosis. The proclamation will place
tuberculosis in the same category with
smallpox and yellow fever, according to
report, and is being issued because of the
increased immigration of tuberculosis pa
tents to the dry climate of arid Texas.
1t was said in Washington that under
the federal statutes tuberculosis is not
quarantinable disease, either under the
maritime or interstate irarnigration laws.
but immigrants can now be kept out or
the United States when afflicted with tu-
berculosis under the new immigratios law.
The opinion was given that ii may be
difficult to sustain such a quarantine be-
fore the Supreme Court under that pro-
vision of the constitution guaranteeing
the right of every citizen of the United
States TO go from one State TO another.
In each case the State authorities will be
compelled to prove absolutely that the
person denied entrance to Texas is suf-
fering from tuberculosis in the advanced
stage and the cost of such a quarantine
will be large. On the question of public
policy involved in such quarantine no
opinion was vouchsafed by the officials for
publication, but it is known to be the
opinion of some of the individual experts
that the study of tuberculosis has pro-
crossed so far that State quarantine is
unnecessary, and that immigration OF this
kind might be treated at tuberculosis
colonies if protective steps are necessary.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
CHARITIES CONFERENCE.
Thirty-Fourth National Meet Is Held
in minneapolis.

Meet rs IhSAu
in Minneapolis.
The thirty fourth National Confer
ence of Charities and Correction ended
its week OF daily sessions at Minneap-
oils. Amos n. Butler secretary of the
Indiana State Board of Charities, pre-
sided, and 1000 delegates attended,
representing the principal cities and
towns throughout the country. The
opening address was that of Senator
Beverage on child labor, and in the
course of the week papers on almost
every topic touched by organized char
tiles was read
One of the most interesting sessions
was that devoted to the promotion OF
health in home, school and factory. In
this meeting the question of clean milk,
housekeeping, house-to-house teachers
of cooking, visiting nurses and home
life for hospital patients were dis
cussed. DR.. Knopf of New York told
of the different kinds of medical exam
ination now made in connection with
the promotion of health at school, and
suggested the possibilities of schools
cooperating with churches and other
relief societies. DR.. Owen Copp, Of
Boston, and others spoke of an inn
proved system of public care for the
insane. A long program was devoted
to the National Chlidrens Home Soci
ETY., which has branch societies in ev-
fo cd hxy1a o1t6
en- who give their time without pay
to the work of finding suitable homes
for orphans. Each State association
conducts it's work through local inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL boards.
o. f. Lewis, of New York. estimated
that more tramps are killed on Ameri-
can railroads yearly than the combined
total passengers and trainmen. He
contended that our present method of
treating Migrants are neither sufficient
ly repressive to the real vagrant nor
sufficiently helpful to the accidental
wayfarer Woodyards and lodging
houses do not diminish the national
army of tramps. lie believes that pre-
YentlYe measures must be based upon
two principles. First, that the able
bodied vagrant must work for what he
receives; and, second. that the punish
ment for intentional vagrancy must be
more severe. The prevailing policy Of
causing arrested Migrants to move on
from one town to another should be
abandoned. He advises sentencing pro-
feSsional Migrants to hard labor.
DR.. Lindsay r. Williams, of Column
bia university, speaking of the alleged
army of 100000 breakfastless school
children in New York, said that the
Committee on Physicai Welfare. after
investigating 1000 families, had found
that only one-tenth of 1 per cent of
the children of those families went
without breakfast to school.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
Record Plunge of octonus.

The performance of the submarine boat
Octopus, June 8, when it sank to the
depth of 205 feet below the level of the
ocean off Boston harbor, is unparalleled
in the naval history of the world. At
that depth the pressure of the sea was 80
pounds to every square inch of the boats
surface, but not bolt or a seam was
disturbed, nor was there a sign of leak,
and the wonderful vessel made the trip
back to Boston under hc- own power.
During this plunge it was thought unsafe
for the crew to remain in the vessel and
they remained on board the accompany
ing tender, lowering their craft to the
bottom by means of cable and derricks.
1t required fifteen minutes for the Octo-
pus to sink to the depth of 205 feet.
The boat is now ready for her acceptance
trial.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
All Around the Globe.

Charles G. Vogt, local manager for the
American Tobacco Company, committed
suicide at Louisville, Ky. III health was
the cause.
Five men were killed by an explosion
in the plant of the Sinnemahoning Pow
der Manufacturing Company at SHINE
mahoning, Pa.
Alleging misapplication of funds, for
mer State Senator L. w. Dalhnger of
Cambridge, who is receiver for ne Amer
lean Birth Insurance COMPANY, brought
equity action in The Superior Court in
Boston against the officers OF the COM
pany.
The government and the railroads are
taking steps to avert a fuel famine in the
West and Northwest next winter, by lay
ing in a large supply of coal at an early
date.
The jury in the case of the Uncle Sam
Oil Company, in which III. H. Tucker,
Jr sought to have the receiver removed,
decided against Tucker at Leavenworth,
Kan.
The State Department has decided to
find another post for John jenkins,
American consul at San Salvador. and
will send Samuel f. Atagill. present con-
sui at Tampico, Mexico, to San Salvador.
A receiver was appointed at Omaha
for the O'Donohue- Redwood Normile Dry
Goods Company. Marshall Field & Co.,
Pitkin & Brooks and Butler Brothers of
Chicago are the largest creditors.
The jewel case los by the dowager
Duchess of RoxbNrghe during a railway
journey from London to Doncaster, Eng
land, June IL, was found intact in the
car where it had been mislaid
John w. Yerkes of Danville, KY, who
recently resigned as commissioner of in
ternal revenue of the United States, seri-
ously strained the ligaments of his right
knee and sprained his right ankle at Gin
cinnati by slipping on a stairway.
Sandy Edwards, Kansas City's boss
negro gambler, died at the city hospital
there from shots received in a quarrel
with Leon Jordan, negro political boss.
Advices from gSnan say that work has
been commenced at Kobe to construct
four great wharves, each 1,200 feet long
and 800 feet wide, with a space of 40
feet between each. Nineteen large steam
ers will be able to berth at one time.
The allegation that an agreement ex-
lists bstween the railroads carrying pas
senge-s westward from New York TO ex-
ercise unjust and unreasonable discrimi-
nation in fares quoted TO immigrants viii
be investigated in New York City by the
interstate commerce commission.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
DE4E ZxIAE'g22ESERS
.s.sss;Ssslls R9&6- GN.
I'D. SA2Cs
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $500; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $602; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $5.75 wheat, No. 2, 9Oc to 92c;
corn, No. 2, sic to 53c; oats, standard,
42e to 43c; rye No. 2, SEC to SIC; hay,
timothy S14.00 TO 5000; prairie, $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, 19c
to 24c; eggs, fresh, 12c to lac; potatoes,
new, per bushel, $1.10 to $1.25.
Indianapolis-Ca shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$500; sheep, common to prime, $500 to
$4.75; wheat, No. 2, SOC to Ole; corn,
No. 2 white, SIC to 54c; oats, No. 2,
white, 45c to Acc.
St. Louis Cattle, $3.50 to $500;
hogs, $500 to S6.10; sheep, $500 to-
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, 90c to Ole; corn,
No. 2, SOC to 52c; oats. No. 2, 43c to.
45c; rye, No. 2, Sic to SIC.
Cincinnati Cattle, $500 to 5000;
hogs, $500 to $6.25; sheep, $500 to
$4.S5; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 94c; corn,
No. 9 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats No. 2
mixed, 45c to 46c; rye, No. 2, SC to SSc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat. No. 2, 92c to 94c; corn, No. 3
yellow. soc to SIC; oats, No. 3 white,
Acc to 4Sc; rye, No 2, SEC to SIC.
Milwaukee Wheat, No 2 northern,
99c to $780, corn, No. 8, 53c to 54c;
oats, standard, 45c to 47c; rye, No. L.
SEC to &c. barley standard, Toe to 76c;
pork, mess, $3.50.
BuffaIo--Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, 800
to $500; sheep, common to good mised,
$500 to $500; lambs, far 20 choice,
$500 to S7.25.
New York-Cattle, $500 to S670;
hogs. $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 97c;
corn, No. ,, Coo to 62c; oats, natural
white, sic to 52c; butter, creamery pc
to 25c eggs, western, BE to Ice.
Toledo Wheat, No 2 mixed Ole to
93c; corn, No ? mixed, 55c to SIC;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 47c; rye. No
2, 7Sc to soc; clover seed, prime, $500.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
Laws Repealed by Duma.

Three obnoxious laws were repealed by
the Russian douma, as follows: Provid-
ing for the punishment of persons ex-
pressing approval of political crimes; ex-
Guiding from military service persons ac-
cused of political crimes, or under sus-
picion, and penalizing private instruction
in Poland. The douma voted fer the
abolition of the re-establishment of field
court-martial for the punishment of civil
ians implicated in spreading revolutionary
ideas in the army.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
Brief News Itens.

Smith. Garbut & Co.'S large sawmill,
near Lyons. Ca, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
The Goethe and Schiller monument pre-
scented to the city of Cleveland by Ger
man citizens was dedicated the other day.
Fire at Willow City, n. d. destroyed
fifteen business places and practically
wiped out half the business portion Of
the town.
Mrs. j. Wilbur Chapman, wife of the
PRESBYTERIAN evangelist, was operated on
at South Bend, Ind, her right leg being
cut off at the knee. She is reported to
be doing WELL
Prescott Keys Of Concord, Mass, has
withdrawn his contest of the will of his
uncle. Henry Milliken of Boston, which
gave nearly 100000 to Harvard uni
versity. Tuskegee institute and Waltham
hospital.
The 1O-months-old son of Lawrence
March, residing near Caldwell, Idaho.
was found wandering in the sage brush,
after several hundred men had searched
for him since Saturday.
Five persons were injured and many
others ndu Il UliEdtulOts escape WDpn a
Big Four passenger train, running fifty
miles an hour, was ditched by an open
switch at Columbus, Ohio.
Rev. Dr. Columbus Goodson, at Kings
Highway Presbyterian church in st.
Louis, declared religion a failure, de-
nounced society and commercial practices
and referred 10 many of the upper strata
as "savages in silks and satins"
Fire at Wesson, Miss, destroyed rhe
gene.al store and warehouse Of Becker,
Lyell & McGrath. Loss $4,000, insur-
ance S26, 600.
The strike Of miners at Deadwood. 5.
d.. has been settled, the owners granting
the eight-hour day and the miners accept
ING q reduction Of - cents day in
wages for three months.
The committee of the Iron Trades
council of San Francisco met and ratified
the agreement entered into between the
EMPLOYERS and the Inen on May 81 last,
on n basis of which the recent strike
was declared off. An eight-hour working
day by gradual reduction viii be reached
June /, 1910.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
CHICAGO.

sustained Improvement in the premin-
ent industries impaired a more buoyant
tone TO current activity. Much of this
IS due TO the favorable weather transit
ton, which is not only proving highly
beneficial to the crops, but has also IN
Jected unprecedented strength into the
leading lines of retail trade here and
throughout the interior. Stocks of sea-
sonable goods now undergo sharp and
widespread reduction and the fear of
carrying over too largely is a diminish
ing factor. Wholesale dealings for for
ward deliveries steadily gain in dry
goods, footwear, clothing and hardware
There is also an unusually large num-
Der of visiting buyers in the markets for
general merchandise, and orders by the
road statesmen indicate that country store
keepers in the Chicago tributary region
do not curtail in their selections of fall
and winter needs.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %, against IA last week
and % year ago.-Dun's Review OF
Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
CHILD FOUND BURIED ALIVE.
Body of Girl Thought kidnapped Dug
In or. Farm.

I'D on Farm.
Fiye-year-old Mary Robbins Newlin OF
Landenberg, Pa. who it was thought had
been kidnapped, was buried alive, accord
ing % the appearance of the body, which
was dug up on the farm of her step
father. Irwin Lewis, the young step
father, is held under the finding OF the
coroner's jury He asserted his inno-
cence. From all appearances the child
was seized from behind and gagged with
a burlap bag This was then pulled over
her head and down on her neck, where 1t
was tied with a tough hempen string.
While the girls screams were stlfied she
was thrown face down into ready made
grave. As she lay on her face the grave
was filed and the earth packed down
The girl disappeared Sunday, but the
faInily said nothing till Monday. Lewis
announced, with conviction, seemingly,
that his stepdaughter had been kidnapped.
To get Lewis away from his home and
to keep all the immediate members OF
.he family away from it, neighbor ar
ranged for a general hunt through va
can't houses and along the roads for
na'er-do-wel, one "Widdowes," who had
been seen sneaking about the barns on
the Lewis place. During his absence the
body was found.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
GUILTY OF KILLING MAID.
Mrs. Kaufman, of Sioux FAN, Com
vfcted Of Sfansiaughter.

Mrs. Emma Kaufman, wife Of
prominent citizen of Sioux Falls, S. D.,
was convicted of manslaughter in the
first degree. She has been on trial
charged with causing the death, from
brutal treatment, of her maid, Miss
Agnes Polreis. The minimum term of
Imprisonment fixed by the statutes for
the crime is twenty years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary.
The conviction of Mrs. Kaufman
was a great shock to the defendant,
her husband, her son, and her counsel,
all of whom had confidently expected
acquittal. When the fatal words fell
from the lips of the foreman of the
jury, Mrs. Kaufmann's head sank upon
her hands. Throughout the proceed
ings she sat in an attitude of extreme
detection.
The Kaufmanns have resided in
Sioux Falls for about a quarter of a
century and are known to practically
every man, woman, and child in the
city. Mr.. Kaufman for years has
been prominently identified with state
politics and is generally known
throughout South Dakota and adjoin-
ing states.
Agnes Polreis, the domestic whom
Mrs Kaufman has been convicted of
killing, entered the employ of Mrs.
Kaufman on Feb. Is, and only a little
over three months before she died at a
Sioux Falls hospital from numerous
wounds, bruises, and cuts.
After her death in local hospital on
June l her remains were prepared Tor
burial and shipped to the parents OF
the girl at Parkston. Wounds upon the
head of the dead girl were discovered
by young daughter of William Noel
ler a business man of Parkston, who
was an intimate friend of Miss Pol
reis. 1t was from Miss Moeller that
the first disclosures came The body
was twice disinterred and examined for
wounds and bruises.
The evidence secured as the result Of
the second examination resulted in the
arrest of Mrs. Kaufman on the charge
of having been responsible for the
wounds, gashes, cuts, and bruises which
caused the death Of the girl.