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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-12
Notes of Current Events.

London. according 10 the census, has
Just passed the 7,000,000 mark.
The eleventh international navigation
congress is to be held at St. Petersburg
in May, 1903.
Sixty thousand union workers made a
demonstration in Budapest and demand
ed the universal ballot.
A monuaent has been erected to Anna
Holzel in the Schlossgarten, at Mann
helm. Germany. She was the wife of
carpenter. who in 1874 saved the poet
Schiller from a debtors prison.
The last friend Of Byron. the poet, has
Just died at Darlinghurst. New South
Wales. She was Mrs. Catherine Crum
MGR, the wi6cw of a Waterloo veteran,
and was 9S years Of age.
The Pilgrim Congregational church,
near London. founded in 1916, is the old
est OF the determinations n the empire,
and it was from it that the London con-
tingent OF the men of the Mayfower was
recruited.
The Swiss army viii soon include
corps of volunteer motorists. They will
have a special uniform, and viii be armed
with revolvers-
Louisville. the Kentucky center, though
not . well known as Richmond, the Viz
ginia center. is the largest tobacco mag
ket in the world.
1t is now fourteen years since an ap-
preparation Of $1,000 was made for ex-
periments with the project of rural free
delivery. As recently as ten years ago
the appropriation for this new service
amounted to only $4,000; last year It
was more than S25,OO0,O00. while this
year rural free delivery viii cost $751;
100000
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Mulai Hafd overwhelmly defeated
troops of the Sultaniof Morocco.
Arrangements were made to bring the
famous Giants Causeway of Ireland to
the United States.
The French ship, Leon MIL, went
ashore on the coast of Ireland and much
damage was done.
Growth of the anti-American feeling in
Havana was emphasized when a United
States flag was Kissed in theater.
London was stirred by an article pur-
porting to expose Irregularities in the an
cestries of British royalty and peers
Chinese who were refused landing priv
ileges at a Mexican port fought with the
crew of the vessel, but We're finally sub
dued.
The slayer of Denver girl in Hong
kong was condemned to die at the Grim
inal session of the American Oriental
Court.
The visit of the Crown Prince of Japan
TO Seoul was marked by hearty demon
strations of delight on the part of the
Koreans.
4 tunnel undermining the railroad lead
ing to the Cars palace was discovered.
and possible attempt on the Emperor's
life thereby averted
Tht steamer Empress of China sunk
alongside her docks at Vancouver. British
Columbia. and the blame was at once laid
at the door of japanese.
In Finland twenuty persons. mostly
workmen, members of a secret society.
have been arrested on suspicion of hay
ing been connected With the wreckine Of
the imperial yacht last month on the Fin
nish coast.
The Arbitration Committee of the
Peace Conference at The Hague has voted
in favor of the obligatory arbitration
project, the vote standing 81 to Q. Ger
many and Austria were the only impor-
tant governments who's delegates OPP
posed the measure.
An imperial reScript forbidding the ser
vice by any colonial authority of any le-
gal process regarding fishery rights aboard
any American vessel and Sglspending all
colonial statutes authorizing colonial Off
cials to seize American vessels for alleged
fishery offenses was proclaimed at ST
Johns. y. f.. Sept. 81 This is in view
of the early submission of the fishery
question 10 The Hague Tribunal for ar
bitration. Americans will now be able to
enter Newfoundland waters and buy her
ring from the colonists without interfer-
ence, as they did prior TO 1905.
The second stage of the parliamentary
elections in Russia indicates that the Con-
seryatives viii be strong in the third
Duma- The peasant and working classes
continue 10 show their radicalism. but
are handicapped by the new election laws.
which Se-regate them so as 10 greatly re-
duce their electoral strength.
Reports from Havana indicate that the
workmen who came to that city from
New York to b<eak the railroad strike
have not gone TO work. as Manager Orr
of the United Railways claims that all
trains are running. and X viii not be
necessary TO employ the New York men.
The service Of the Western Railway IS
said to be still seriously affected.
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ONLY TWO SURVIVE.
Terrible Disaster in Bokhara, Prov
ince of Russian Turkestan.
PEOPLE BURIED BY MOUNTAIN.
Horror Follows Recent Series of
Severe Earthquakes.

The whole Of the town of Karatagh,
In Bokhara, Russian Turkestan, has
been destroyed and the entire popula-
ton, numbering about $4,000, was bur
led by tremendous mountain slide
following the recent earthquake there
1t is declared that scarcely a score of
the people have survived, and that
their sufferings are pitiable One re-
port is to the effect that the Governor
Of Karatagh and his mother are the
only survivors.
The slide was caused by the recent
severe earthquakes in the mountains.
Karatagh is situated in narrow val
ley, with precipitous mountains tower
ing above it. Although landslides are
frequent in that region. following
earthquakes the people remained in
the town, and when the Unreasonable
weight of rock crushed down upon
them they were caught in trap.
The entire town, it is said, is buried
from view. Hundreds were entombed
in their homes. The cold is severe and
adds greatly to the suffering of the few
survivors. The mountaineers hurried
to the scene and are caring for the liv-
ing, but owing to the danger of fur
Their rock slips it is impossible to at
tempt to reach those buried in the
ruins.
Bokhara, or, as it is sometimes call
ed, Turkestan, lies high up in the
mountainous regions of Asia, with Rus
sian Turkestan to the north and At
ghanistan on the south. 1t is a dreary
expanse of arid plains, bordered and
intersected by mountains. Its popula-
tion is estimated at 100000, not in
Guiding the wandering hordes that exc
out scanty living on the plains and
in the narrow valleys. In summer the
heat is intense and the winters are
long and severe. Earthquakes are fire.
quent.
The country is famous for its horses
and the breeding of shawl goats fur
nishes means of livelihood to many
of its people. In recent years the
Transcaspian Railway has improved
the industrial condition of the country,
which for ages depended on camel car
avans to carry its produce to outside
markets and bring back the firearms,
the powder and the few other necessa-
ries of life in that wild country.
Although region of poverty now,
Bokhara was the seat of powerful
rulers in the middle ages. The people
still retain their courage, but little else
of their former greatness.
Tashkend, from which news of the
Karatagh disaster was sent, is an i'm
portant commercial town in Asiatic
Russia and the capital of Russian Tur-
kestan.
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$4,000, 900 ON LINER.
NEW YORK BANKS RECEIVE
GOLD FROM EUROPE.
People Rush to Buy Checks with
Hoarded Money and Confidence
Increases-Six Men Held for Ex-
press Robberies In New York.

With 100000 in gold coin and bull
lion being carted to New York banks and
$l0,0O0,O00 more approaching port, conf
dence in the financial situation was in
creased the other day. The SS,OO0,000
arrived on the steamship Kronprinzessin
Cecilie, and was part of the food of gold
on the way to America from Europe. The
Kronprinzessin came from Bremen. Fol
lowing almost in its wake is the Cunarder
Lusitania, from Liverpool. with $1,000
600 stored in its strong boxes for the re-
lief of money-famished New Workers.
There is practically no danger nowadays
in shipping such vast amounts of trasure
across the sea. The great vessels are the
acme of safety Their strong boxes are
equal in security to the best of safe de-
posit vaults. Currency of all denomina-
tons and in varying stages Of crispness
poured into the Offices of several broker
age houses in Wall street from all the
hooks and erannies of New York. Hear
ing that pa and 2h per cent premium
was being paid for ready money, men,
women and boys brought their savings to
the financial district and exchanged them
for certified checks with the premium in
crease. which they deposited forthwith
in their banks. In the offices of Mann,
Bill & Ware, 50 Wall street. one Of the
firms that led in the premium paying,
there was a never-ending line OF assorted
personalities They came from the east
side principally and carried their savings,
which ranged all the way from 500 to
5000. or $4,000, in pasteboard shoe
boxes, in toy banks, in old socks tied with
a bit of cord, and in one case in derby
hat. In one of the brokerage offices a
lad appeared with $780, his savings from
the sale of newspapers for three years.
This he exchanged for a certified check,
including the premium.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-12
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All over the country farmers are fin
ishing up their seasons work and taking
account of profits. Most of them are sat
isfied with the years labors, for, while
crops are not so great in volume as they
have been for the past two or three years,
prices are such that the farmers of the
United States VIII receive almost 81 Co.,
100000 more for their products than they
got last year.
What this means to the country may be
guessed when it is reflected that the farm
er is the basis of prosperity. When he is
we'll off, all men in other occupations are
comfortable. When hard times seize him,
all other lines of bus. ness are at once af-
fected He is the foundation of the ma
tional veal If the farmer has no money
to deposit in the rural banks, banks have
no money to lend manufacturers and -uer-
chants. If he has no crops, railroads can
not earn dividends. Shortage of n 'ney
at once reduces industry and lowers the
rate of wages. If it continues, thousands
of men are thrown out of employment and
misery becomes general.
On the other hand, when the farmer is
prosperous, money and credit can be OBJ
tanned for merchandising and manufac-
turing, railroads thrive, labor's reward
increases, affiuence spreaAs over the coun-
try. The earth is the mother of all
wealth. Everything man uses comes out
of it originally, and the men who devote
themselves to cultivating the soil are the
medium between earth's riches and the
rest of mankind.
Farmers should be happy as this win
ter draws in With abundant profits, in
peace and plenty, they can reflect that
their money is clean. They have not
grown rich through robbing other men.
They have created wealth. Every dollar
they possess represents so much more to
feed and clothe humanity, so much more
of comfort and happiness.
The American farmer ought to be COM
Portable in mind as well as in body. The
soil has given him a competence. He has
paid off his mortgage long ago. He has a
good home and owns his broad acres. He
has balance in the bank, and as he looks
forward he can see plenty in the future.
He is much better off than most men,
although he may not realize it.-Chicago
Journal.
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Chicago@Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to 1925; hogs, prime heavy, 500
to $6.35; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. ,, Ole to 94c;
corn. No ., 59c to 60c; oats. standard,
42c to 43c; rye. No. 2, 76c to tie; hay,
timothy, $500 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to $500 butter, choice creamery. pc
to 24c; eggs, fresh, 19c to Ole; potatoes,
per bushel, 57c to 63c.
indianapolis shipping, $500
to 500: hogs, good to choice heavy,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, common to prime,
$500 TO $40; wheat, No. >, 93c TO
95c; corn. No . white, 5Sc to 59c;
oats, No. white, He to Acc.
st. Lous-Cattle $3.50 to 500;
hogs, 800 to $61J; sheep, $500 to
$500: wheat, No. .. 9Jc to 96c; corn.
No. 2. SIC to 57c: oats. No. >, i3c TO
45c rye, No. >, Toe TO 79c.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $685.;
hogs, $500 to $640; sheep. $500 to
S5.3J wheat. No. >, Sl00 to .102; corn,
No. . mixed. Gle TO 62c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 44c to Acc; rye, No. 2, Sic TO s2c.
Detroit--Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 TO 5000: sheep, $50 to 500;
wheat. No. .. 97c 10 Csc; corn, No. 3
yellow &c TO zoe: oats, No. white,
SOC to J1c; rye No >, Zoe to soc.
Milwaukee Wheat. No. northern.
S100 to S102: corn, No. 3, j0e to Gle
oats, standard 49c to J0c; rye, No. !,
74c to 71c: barley. standard. 99c to
S1.01 pork mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Caitle. choice shipping steers,
$500 10 SG.23: hogs, fair to choice, 800
to S6.73; sheep. common TO good mixed,
500 to 1923 lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to SI.2J.
New York Cattle. 800 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 TO S6.65; sheep, $500 10
$3.50; wheat. No. red, S1.03 to $l.05:
corn, No =. &C to zoe; oats, natural
white l4c to JGc butter. creamery. 23c
to 25c: eggs. western, 20 to PC.
Toledo Wheat. No. mixed 99c TO
800: corn. No. 2 mixed. Gle to 63c;
oats. No. mixed. soc to ole; rye. No.
2, SAC to 35c; clover seed, prime, 1916.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-12
MAY RAISE NO CROP IN 1905.
Torch Ia Used to Enforce Demands
of Tobacco Men.

of Tobacco Men.
Extraordinary efforts are being made
by the associations Of tobacco growers
and by the American Society of Equity to
induce the tobacco growers of ths coun-
try 10 pool their unsold crops and not
plant another crop until the tobacco now
on hand is sold. While the associations
oppose violence, precautions have been
taken to guard tobacco warehouses
against incendiaries. The tobacco barn
of William Green, near Curdsville, n.y.,
was burned the other morning and the to-
bacco stored there was destroyed. The
warehouses of John Matthews, near
Owensboro, are under a guard of ten
armed men. 1t is reported that planter,
s. C. Tichenor of Mclean county, has
been three times visited by night riders
and notified that he must pool his tobacco
or suffer the consequences. To-day an
army of 800 men is being modified at
Livermore When the forces are organ
lied the army will call upon Massle &
Co., tobacco buyers, and demand that
they quit the field. 1t is planned that
the army will march to Calhoun and call
on John Ramsey, who has bought about
$4,000 pounds of this years crop, and
demand that he quit buying and that he
release growers from their contracts with
him. Squads of men have been sent in
various directions through the tobacco
raising country demanding that growers
hold their crops. AT Winchester the ex-
ecutive committee of the Burley Associa-
ton, which is a branch Of the National,
decided that its members will not grow
crop in 1908. The growers are being as
sured by their leaders that if there is no
crop in 1908 they will get as much for
their unsold crops of 1906 and 1907 as
they would for the three crops, should
they grow one next year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-12
MAY LOSE INSURANCE
That is PROSPECT BEFORE
HEIRS OF KANSAS MAN.
Companies Claim that l.. HI. Perkins,
Insured for 100000 Committed
Sufcide-New Jersey Town Gets
Postoffiee by Stork's Activity.

That there was enough morphine poi
son to kill a man in the stomach of L. III.
Perkins of Lawrence, Kan, who died af-
ter falling from the roof of his home,
was the statement of DIR. Walter NJ.
Crosse, city chemist of Kansas City, a
member of the expert commission APP
pointed by the federal court at Topeka to
ascertain whether Perkins had taken poi
son. Perkins life was insured for $780,
600, and some of the companies protested
the payment of their policies on the
ground that Perkins had committed sui
eide. At the hearing in the federal court
evidence was introduced to prove that
Perkins had purchased morphine the day
of his death. 1t was also shown that he
had correspondent with members OF the
faculty OF Michigan university to dis
cover the effect of certain poisons on the
human system.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-12
Told In a Few Lines.

Strict enforcement OF contract labor
law will be more serious blow TO South
than at first supposed.
Speaker Cannon. addressing the Illinois
Bankers Association al Molin., opposed
State ownership Of railroads.
An average Of 800 persons are killed
in the United states each year by light
ming. This means one ia every 10000.
Steel box cars have been built recently
which will weigh about 1000 pounds less
than wooden cars Of the same s.ze and
capacity.
Trial marriage among the Eskimos Of
Alaska is ] complete success and family
dscord * unknown. says V Stefanson-
an explorer who arrived in Washington
from the north.
On the occasion Of the Austrian Em-
perors Jubilee next year q special jubilee
coinage viii be issued. including. partim-
larly silver fve-crogu pieces and gold
hundred-crown pieces.
TwenfS billion pins and Eve billion but
tons were produced b. american factories
in 1905. The United States also prodae-
ed in that year 20O000OoG needles, near
~ 400O09o0O safety pins and z9o.Wt).-
900 hairpins.
Classics eogsdes Tor drivers Of motor
vehicles have thin steel plates IN place
Of the ugdal lenses. There Is nothing
brittle to hreak. endansering the eyes
and three inzeniously arranged Sits en-
abla the wearer to see everything in front
OF him.
A Goldhald millionaire miner has had
all the hardware used on the doors ana
windows OF bis new residence near Los
Angeles quadrupIe plated WITH gold from
his own mines. This bats Senator
Clark Of Montana, who. having made his
fortune in copper. bought bronze foun-
drv TO make the decorations with which
his New York Fifth avenue mansion is
ro22cr-Hned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-12

Navy Work Halted by Riveters' De-
mand for Increased Wages.

navy work Halted by Hiyefers' De-
mand for Increased Wages.
Repair work at the Mare Island navy
yard, San Francisco, in preparation for
the arrival of the Atlantic feet has been
efectually tied up by a strike of twenty
FIVE riveters. The strikers were at work
on the transport Sheridan at the time
they walked out As that vessel occupies
the dry dock, the yard is unable t" take
additional work at the present tme. La
Dor conditions on the Pacific coast are
such that it is said to be almost impos-
sible to fill places of the strikers. The
men were receiving 1892 a day, when
their helpers received $500 and the heat
ers $3.50 a day. The riyeters demanded
go a hundred for one-inch keel rivets
and $12 hundred for seven-eighth-inch
plate riyets. At this rate they would
make in excess of $50 day. out of which
they would have to pay their helpers
about So a day. According to advices to
the Navy Department the men presented
their demands and walked out, immedi-
ately following the receipt of news that
the President had definitely fixed the sail
ing date for the Atlantic feet. Assist
ant Secretary Newberry felt that the men
had taken unfair advantage of the depart
ment, inasmuch as they had not given the
department an opportunity to consider the
grievance. At the order of the depart
ment the strikers were summoned to the
yard for conference, and upon their fail
ure to appear record was made that they
were discharged"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-12
PEACE CONGRESS RECORD.
Net Results of the International
Conference at the Hague.


Conference at the Hague.
The net results Of the international
peace conference at The Hague, which ex-
tended from June % TO Oct. is, are, in
the opinion of Gen. Horace Porter, a
prominent member of the American dele
gaeion, far beyond expectations, instead
of being a disappointment, as has been
frequently reported in cable dispatches.
Gen. Porter said they had done the work
they were sent to do, namely: to estab-
lish the principle of the inviolability of
private property at sea as a rule of in
ternational law. He says they secured
for this the support of large majority
OF the powers represented, although they
failed to win unanimous assent. Besides
this, the conference has placed restric-
tions upon the use of floating mines; has
forbidden the bombardment of undefend
ed sea coast towns: has prohibited the
levying of contributions by threats; has
shielded the non-combatant in war time;
has strengthened the provisions for relief
of the wounded, and has taken precau-
tons against revival of privateering by
insisting that converted merchant vessels
be formally enrolled upon the naval list
and commanded by a naval officer. And,
finally, just before adjournment, the plan
of a permanent Court of Arbitration was
agreed upon, with only few OF the small
er nations dissenting, not from the prin-
ciple, but as to the method OF conducting
negotiations, holding that the judges
should be appointed upon the basis of the
equality of all nations. As to the eollec-
ton of debts by force of arms, the Porter
resolution forbidding the employment of
force until after arbitration should have
been refused, or after an award had been
set at naught, was unanimously accepted.
At the closing session, President Neli-
dof asked the conference to render hon.
age to President Roosevelt for proposing
second conference, and was authorized
to send him telegram expressing graft
tude.
The efforts to establish an international
high court of justice and obligatory arbi-
tration were unsuccessful, largely owing
to disagreement as to the method of its
creation, although the principle of obliga-
tory arbitration was formally adopted.
The right of the different rulers to sign
the various conventions or agreements
will be open until June 80, 1908.
The general expenses Of the conference
approximated S3,0o0000. nearly half of
which was spent for kilograms, and over
100000 to pay for the numerous dinners
given in honor of different delegates.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-12
Oil Trust. Spy Methods.

While hunting for some explanation of
the big loans shown on the books of the
Standard OIL Company for last year Gov
ernment's Counsel Kellogg brought to
light the trusts system of spying, known
as the Statistical department" 1t was
the purpose of this department to keep
tab on all sales by rivals through an in
tricate spy system. 1t keeps record of
every barrel. can or tank car load which
has been taken from the oil fields by
competitors. and traces this Oh to the
market. with each charge for transporta-
ton and the final selling price noted. An
other device employed by the Standard
is that of the dummy company, which
masquerades as an Independent concern
and is moved from one field to another,
its business being to cut prices under real
competitors of the Standard.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-12
Paris Aereplnne Record.

Henry Farman. Paris aeronaut. has
succeeded in navigating the air on his
aeroplane a distance of 2S5 meters, thus
breaking the record Of 220 meters. held by
Santos Dumont. His machine Travelled at
the speed of twenty-five miles an hour,
and was brought to the earth with only
slight damage. II employed a fifty horse
power motor. The start was made with
wheel resting upon the ground, but when
a speed OF twenty miles an hour was
reached BY a slight elevation Of the front
horizontal rudder the aeroplane glided
into the air to the height of twelve me-
tiers then. by adjusting the rudder, tnat
height was maintained throughout the
flight. Farman SAYS he il convinced that
he can fly mile or more without the
slightest difficulty