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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
NEW YORK

Unseasonably cold weather still ham
pers trade and crop development. Retail
business has been chiefly affected so far,
but jobbers and wholesalers report that
April trade as a whole does not equal
that of April year ago. though the vol
ume of business for the four months PEE
Rod is considerably in excess of 1906.
Collections are likewise showing some
effects of delayed trade, while improving
where weather conditions have been tenn
porarily favorable. Reports as to adj
vance orders booked for fall are quite en-
coura ging-in excess of this time year
ago. in fact-though few lines note hesi-
tation as to booking far ahead. Indus
try as whole is actively engaged; May
/ strikes, largely confined to building
trades, do not appear nearly as serious
as in previous years.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending May number 1853,
against 157 last week and 139 in the like
week of 1906. Canadian failures for the
week number %, against 28 last week
and 20 in this week a year ago.
Wheat, including flour, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending May aggregated 2,234, 156
bushels, against 2,5S0,242 last week and
2,104.74S this week last year for the
past forty-four weeks of the fiscal year,
143,S00.4S7 bushels, against 113,606. l49
in 19o5-06. Corn exports for the week
were 1,S17695 bushels, against 1,611, 04l
last week and 1,035,315 year ago; for
the fiscal year to date, 81, 427,937 bushels,
against 103,S37 ,343 in 1905-06.- Brad
streets Commercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
FOR MESS OF POTTAGE
ANOTHER EsAU DlsPosEs OF His
BIRTHRIGHT.
California Youth Accepts $4,000
for 81. 5000 which Would Come
10 Him I'm Less than Three Years
Another Anderson Case.

A stake of $4,000 played against a
fortune of nearly $1.500,000, with hui
man life as the final determining factor.
are features of an unusual transaction
entered into in Santa Monica, Cal, be-
tween Henry c. Heating on one side and
syndicate of four men on tie other.
The syndicate is composed of J. C. Steele,
former postmaster of Santa Monica !;
Benjsnin Hunter. until recently city at
torney Robert w. Miller. secretary Of
the board of education, and A. W. No
Pherson, manager of the Edison Gas and
Electric Company. Heating is one Of
the heirs to the Heating estate, worth
about 100000 His share is about
$1,J00,000. but he cannot get it until a
division of the entire estate is made pos
sible by the coming of age of the young
heir. This will be in two and o half
years. In order to convert his prospec
tive $l,J00,000 into actual cash Heating
las signed over to the syndicate all his
rights in the inheritance for $4,000, the
syndicate running the risk that he may
die. in which case all his interest in the
Heating fortune viii pass over to the
other heirs. Should he live he will come
into his part of the estate and the syn
dictate viii then be entitled to enforce it's
claims.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
CHICAGO.

Developments in commercial affairs
disclose sustained confidence in the out
look. May payments through the banks
usually are test of soundness, and il IS
notable that while much heavier this
month than heretofore, there is no special
pressure IN money and defaults remain
remarkably small. Low temperature vet
delays a seasonable activity in leading
retail lines, but less fear is felt as to the
crops. Transportation by rail- and lake
reflects an enormous tonnage movement
of freight and new demands make CON
siderable addition to the assured period
of future employment at the mills and
factories. although the upward trend of
costs and difficulty in getting necessary
supplies to some extent hinder operations.
Shippers find railway facilities steadily
improving, and, with the water ways
fully opened up, the conditions become
more favorable for increasing movements
of ore, coal and forest products. The
markets for raw materials reflect rapid
consumption. Reports from tae agricul-
tural districts show that farmers spend
literally for implements and improve
ments, and seeding makes good progress
where adverse weather has not interfered.
Bank cIoaings, $26S, 50,366, exceed
those of Zee corresponding week in 1906
by 1872 PEI cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
triet numbered l.. AGAINST 10 last week
and 80 a year ago.-Dun's Review.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
MANY KILLED At CANTON.
Great Destruction of Life and Prop
erty by ExpIoAion OF Magazine.

Great Destruction of Life and Prop
erty by Explosion OF Magazine.
Great destruction of life and property
was caused at Canton, China, by the ex-
piosion of gunpowder magazine. Twen-
ty-one bodies have been taken from the
ruins, and hundreds of persons were in
jured. Fifteen buildings were RACED and
more than hundred were seriously dam
aged. \ section 300 feet long from the
massive city wall was thrown down. The
historic nine-story pagoda escaped with
slight injuries. In the Shamen suburb,
where the foreigners live, a terrific shock
was caused by the explosion, but the asi-
dents were unframed. A conception of
the force of the explosion may be OBJ
tanned from the fact that the roofs of
houses a mile from the exploded magazine
were blown off. A number of important
Chinese and foreign mercantile establish
ments were demolished. The officer in
charge of the magazine was among those
killed, and when his body was recovered
a pipe was found clutched in his hand,
which suggests the possible cause of the
explosion. Canton is about six miles in
circumference and is Enclosed by walls
twenty feet thick and from twenty-five to
forty feet high. There are sixteen gates
into the city, besides two water gates.
The famous nine-storied pagoda, dating
from the beginning of the middle ages, is
in the western part of what is known
as the 'old city" The foreigners reside
in the Shamien suburb, founded in 1889
on an artificial island on the Honan side
of the river.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
INDUSTRIAL PEACE PREVAILS.
| May Day Found Little Unrest Among
| Workers of America.

Workers of America.
Labor conditions in Chicago and
throughout the entire country We're more
peaceful May than has been the case
in years. While May l is cerebrated in
this country only by the socialists. it has
in past years been day OF Industrial
unrest because many wage contracts ex-
pire at chat time and strikes are common
before agreements are renewed.
In Chicago. a dispatch says, there is
noc a strike of consequence In the
building industry. which gives employ
ment to $4,000, wage agreements in every
craft have been renewed. Nearly all
branches of the building trades have Sc
cured wage advances this year either I'M
der new agreements which have been
made or through the terms of existing
contracts which run for another year.
While there was a general stacking up
of work reported few weeks ago, which
made it necessary to reduce working
forces in some large plants, business is
again reported brisk and labor is almost
as well employed as it was year ago.
Reports from various cities show sim
liar conditions prevailing throughout the
country In New York labor. skilled and
unskilled, is well employed. The build
ing trades in that city are especially pros
porous, and there are only a few sporadic
strikes. In ST. Louis the situation is
better than in years. In Boston the only
serious break in the labor field is strike
of transfers, which has been in progress
For a month. In Philadelphia carpenters
and painters are after a wage increase,
but most of the employers have already
conceded the demands. The machinists
in Pittsburg are on strike for increased
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
{:sAl$sss.s% SIDE
The News "

Prosperity seems to be moulting a few
feathers.
1t will cost you 33 per cent more now
to telegraph your baby"
All the railroads are ready to adopt
the legislative block system
They are building San Francisco this
time with the graft attachments removed.
Japan has launched the biggest battle
ship in the world, but it doesn't interest
Russia.
The season of severe mortality among
Office boys grandmothers has once more
set in.
The human mind is sjlgularly addicted
to the diversion aferded the world by
baseball.
"Silent" Smith didn't have to talk. His
S5O,0O0000 of money talked enough for
any man.
The ''early settlers" are the people who
pay for their rooms in advance down at
jamestown.
They say Paris eats 10000 horses a
year. No wonder there are so many
horseless carriages there.
There hasn't been rainstorm in Cuba
for six months. No wonder Cuban pat
riotism is drying up.
In South America they have discovered
tree that gives milk. Maybe it was
just good old wooden pump.
The Tilted girl in Wyoming who hasn't
spoken to man for 81 years ought to
be encouraged to keep it up.
If the price of groceries would only 60
down like the price of stocks, the house,
holder would long for panic.
Since the free pass was amputated. the
average Legislatures have not been blind
to the faults of the railroads.
Why should Anna Gould Castellane
pay $4,000 for a divorce in Paris when
she can get one just as good in Chicago
for s2,97?
This thing of burning ashes after a
treatment with salt is likely to be taken
by most people with a grain or two of
that article.
1t cost the former Countess de Castel-
lane $4,000 to get rid of Boni, which
shows that bargains are never the cheap
est in the end
A North Carolina clergyman asserts
that ST. Patrick was Presbyterian. And
that just as the peace movement was get
ting along so well.
A negro has won the Rhodes scholar
ship from Pennsylvania, which viii add
a bit of ebony to the variegated collection
at Oxford university.
4 little discrepancy of 100000 has
been found in the accounts Of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin Better repair the
chair of mathematics.
Pennsylvania paid $1,000 for $50
bootblacking stand in the new State
House Must have been cutting up high
shines at Harrisburg.
The Philadelphia man charged with
marrying $50 women is conclusive evi-
dence that neither the fools nor the
martyrs are all dead Jet.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
News of Minor Note.

William j. Bryan. speaking before the
Cincinnati Democratic Club. said that
he expected to live through FIVE more pres
idential campaigns. II went into politics
by accident. and ! stayed in by design.
were his concluding words.
Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador
to this country. is a chancellor of the
Russian Empire, court chamberlain. and
a wearer of the orders of st. Vladimir.
St. Ann. and st. Stanislaus. In addition
to his special training and experience as
a diplomat. he is an accomplished must
clan. and speaks English. RTesian,
French, German. Italian and japanese.
Ex-Congressnan Charles A. Towne is
preparing for an extended visit to the far
East. First he win visit the Philippines
on business for a New York client, and
later viii spend some time in Toxic and
Pekin. remaining in the Orient perhaps a
year or more.
Alphonso Taft, father Of Secretary
Taft. was President Grants last Attor-
ney General in his last cabinet. Another
instance of father and son as holders Of
cabinet portfolios was j. Sterling Nor
ton. President Cleveland's Secretary Of
Agriculture. and Paul Morton. President
RooseveIr's Secretary OF the Navy, the
father being a Democrat and the SON a
Republican.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
SEVEN MINERS SAVED.
spend Nearly Five Days in Under
ground Cell.

SRcno " tAEAf rive DatS IN 9h1CN-
ground Cell.
Taken from the dark recesses of a coal
mine in which they had been imprisoned
longer than 100 hours, seven men res
e:srd rom the Berwind- White shaft No.
SO. at Foustwell. Pa. are in the Windber
hospital, exhausted and obliyious to all
around them. Immediately upon being
taken out the men wished to go to their
homes, and they were carried to the hos
pital under protest. No food was given
them at first, but a stimulant was adj
ministered to all with the exception OF
Michael Bolya. Soon after arriving at
the hospital the men were sound asleep,
and no communication was allowed with
them. They are not disturbed except at
regular intervals. when the nurses adj
minister hot broths and nourishment. I'm
mediately after these treatments they
again drop to sleep. The hospital physi-
clans say that the men will be able to
be about in few days. Foreman Bolya
said I'VE knew the men on the outside
were at work pumping out the water in
an endeaYor to release u.s. We kept a
careful watch and could note the water
going down inch by inch. We could hear
the tapping of the pipe, and knew it
meant for US to keep up our courage. We
always signaled back when we heard the
topping. All the men had full dinner
buckets when they went into the mine,
but the food soon was exhausted, and we
felt the pangs of hunger keenly. After
the third day don't believe the men
ever expected to see their families again,
but the way they kept up their spirits was
admira ble' ,,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
Forfy Injured in Fire.

Patrons and employees of the Lotus
Club restaurant. on the second floor OF
the building 257 Wabash avenue. Chicago.
hattled with each other in terrible
struggle to escape death by fire at noon
Wednesday. Forty were injured. souSe
perhaps fatally. The Story & Clark
Piano Company and the restaurant were
damaged to the extent &c $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
"lAN MAcLARENn is BEAD.
Scotch Clergy Succumbs
in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

Scotch Experimentation Succumbs
in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
DR.. John Watson clan Maclarens),
the Scotch clergyman-author who won
worldwide fame as tae writer of BE
side the Bonnie Brier Bush" died at
Mount Pleasant. Iowa, of blood poison
ing, the result of tonsilitis. He died
alone, while his wife, who had been
his constant companion in his illness,
was out of the sick chamber for fifteen
minutes. DR.. Watson was taken i'll on
April % in Ottumwa, Iowa, while on
lecture tour of the Northwest. All
his lecture engagements throughout the
United States We're cancelled. His
home was in Liverpool
Since the publication of the Bonnie
Brier Bush DIR. Watson made several
visits to this country. The one which
terminated in his death began with his
arrival on lecture tour of the coun-
try in February last. Though his heart,
always weak, troubled him greatly Of
late, he persisted in filling his engage
ments. This heart disease, complicated
with rheumatism, undoubtedly fastened
his deIaise.
-nnong the more famous of Dr. Wat
sons other works are The Days of
Aud Lang Syne," "A Doctor of the
Old SCHOOL, The Mind of the Mas
ter" 'sThe Care of Souls Doctrines
of Grace" "Life of the Master" 's-rbe
Homely Virtues inspiration of
Faith and latest from his pen. era
ham of Claverhouse" The strictly re-
ligious books were published under his
own name the novels he wrote under
the nom de plume.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
All Around the Globe.

During a quarrel in liquor store at
Youngstown. Ohio, William Price shot
and almost instantly killed Tom White
head. Price was captured.
Gov. Folk has granted a respite of
sixty days to William Spaugh, Jr.. SEN
fenced to be hanged for the murder Of
Sheriff Polk of Iron county, Mo.
Announcement was made that the gem
oral conference of American Friends will
he held in Richmond, Ind, opening on
Oct. II. Canada, Cuba and Mexico will
be represented.
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
was flied for the Cleveland. Ohio, Win
dow Glass Company in the United States
District Court. The liabilities are given
as $4,000.
The Marb!ehead life-saving crew res
cued three men adrift on a seow which
became separated from the tug Pankrantz
during a heavy storm. The men spent
wild night on Lake Erie.
Michael Mcnamara was convicted at
ST. Louis of murder in the second de-
gree. Mcnamara killed his wife while
She was with another man in a hotel
last August. He is yet to be tried for
killing the MN at the same time.
The auxiliary gasoline sioop-yacht ].
Daegit. owned by Captain James Havity
os Miami. Fla. was burned in Albemarle
sound. North Carolina, following the e.
plosion Of a gasoline tank.
Capt. y. T. Smith. the veteran treas
urer OF the Southern Pacific Railway
Company. died at his home at San Carlos.
San Mateo county, Cal. Pneumonia com
hined with paralysis. caused death.
Senator Ellis Of st. John. \. b..
spoke strongly against the increase in
postage on newspapers to the United
States. He said il was not in the in
terest of Canada. a many Canadians liv-
ing in the United States would be depriy-
ed Of home news.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
BANDITS KILL ENGINEER.
Bold Attempt to Hold Up Norther
p,csfc E>I~-a-

Bold Attempt to Hold Up Northern
Pacific Flyer.
| Masked train robbers held up the
Northern aPcific crack North Coast
limited train and shot the engineer
dead at Welch's spur, fifteen miles east
of Butte. There was a wild battle, in
which many bullets were fred into the
cars. The passengers wede panic
stricken. Repulsed by the deadly fire
from the trains guards. the robbers
fed into the wods, stopping every now
and then to fire their rifles at the train
men.
There were five men in the party of
highwaymen. They halted the flyer at
Welch's spur by means of red lantern
placed in the center of the track, an I'M
usual signal, but one so significant that
the engineer did not dare to ignore the
warning.
When the train had been stopped two
of the robbers sprang from the ditch
with rifles in hand and covered the en-
gineer and fireman, telling them resist
ance meant certain death At the same
time three other men dashed out of the
woods and sprang toward the express
car, which carried through safe con-
tanning a large amount of currency, re-
ported as much as 100000, from Seat
tie, Portland and Spokane to the East
The robbers evidently had knowledge
OF the large amount of money on the
train
Warned, however, by three previous
train robberies in this wild and DESC
late region, in one of which the bandits
secured $4,000, the railway officials
had equipped the trains crew with
magazine pistols and given orders to
shoot on sight any one who seemed a
train robber. The engineer and fireman
were therefore prepared for the attack.
As soon as they spied the robbers leap
ing toward the engine they grasped
their arms and prepared to defend
themselves in spite of the fact that the
deadly rifles of the highwaymen were
plainly visible.
The bandits order to throw up your
hands" was met by the crack of the
magazine pistol held by the intrepid
engineer. His aim, however, was I'M
certain and the shot went Wild. The
next instant there was another shot.
This time it was the rifle of one of the
bandits. The bullet tore a gaping hole
through the engine cab, barely missing
the engineer.
BY this time the fireman got his
weapon into action. For several min
utes train employees and highwaymen
exchanged shots, the railway men try
ing to keep within cover and the rob-
bers lodging around such shelter as
they could find beside the track, from
which they had been forced to retreat
by the perilous fire from the engine.
Finally, however, the bandits fire
proved effective and the engineer fell
dead in his cab.
Meantime the shooting had alarmed
the three robbers who attacked the eX-
press car. They ran toward the engine
to assist their comrades. At the same
time the shots aroused the guards in
the express car and they opened their
door and began shooting at the robber
band. This fire proved to be more than
the bandits had counted on and they
took to their heels The trainmen pur-
sued them for a short distance, but
dill not appar able to make an effective
shot
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
TEES lTIAs[s2s&}[5RS
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Chicago-Cattle, common TO prime,
$4.00 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $500
TO $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $50; wheat, No. 2, Sic to S3c: corn,
No. 2, 4Sc to zoe; oats, standard, 43c to
44c: rye, No. 2. tic to re; hay, timo-
thy. $1,000 to $1,000, prairie, $500 to
S14OO butter, choice creamery. DC to
25c; eggs, fresh, 14c to lie; potatoes,
40c to SOC.
apolis-Cattle, shipping. $500
to 5000; hogs, choice heavy, $500 TO
$500; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
S5.75 wheat, No. 2, roc to soc; corn,
No. . white, 49c to 51c; oats, No. 2
white, 43c to 44c.
ST. Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to S6.25;
hogs. S400 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, soc to SIC; corn,
No. 2, Ace to soc; oats No. 2, Ale to
43c; rye, No 2, &c to CSC.
ncinnati-Cattle. $500 to 1918;
hogs. $500 to $6.65; sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. ., S3c to SIC; corn.
No. . mixed, sic to 53c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 43c to Acc; rye, No. 2, 74e to 16c.
Detroit-Cattle, $400 to $500; hogs,
N1.NV 10 POstD HuNtP+ Wv W Pp'NV'
wheat. No. 2, Sic to S2c; corn. No. 3
yellow, 52c to 54c; oats, No. 3 white,
45c to 47c; rye. No. 3, re to Tie
Milwaukee Wheat. No. northern,
Soc to SSc; corn. No. 3, 47c to 49c;
oats. standard, 42c to He; rye, No. l,
re 10 74c; barley, standard. nc to 7Sc;
pork, mess. $15.67
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to 5000; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50 sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 5000; lambs fair to choice,
$500 to $50
New York Cattle. $500 to S6.15;
hogs. $4.O0 to $500 sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. red SOC TO Ole;
corn, No. 2, 55c to sic; oats natural
white, 4Sc to 49c: butter, creamery, 2ic
to 27c; eggs, western, 15c to 1Sc.
Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, Sic to
s3c corn. No. mixed, 49c to sic;
oats. No. ? mixed 45c TO Acc; rye. No.
2. roc to re; clover seed, prime 500.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
A Million to upIift Negroes.

Miss Anna I. Jeannes. an aged quaker
philanthropist of Philadelphia, has given
$1,000000, or one-fourth of her fortune
with few, if any, restrictions, TO Booker
T. Washington to assist in the education
of negro children in the South. The gift
was made to Mr.. Washington in person
after he had spent three days in convinc-
ing Miss Jeannes that the purpose in view
was worthy. The understanding was
that the money should be used in estab-
fishing agricultural and trade schools in
various sections in which rudimentary
and practical courses of education should
be offered Entire authority for the dis
bursement is vested in Washington and
Hollis =. Frissell, one of his colleagues
The father of Miss Jeannes was Isaac
Jeannes. who amassed a fortune in the
dry goods business.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
To Promote church Harmony.

The perpexing question of securing
harmony and cooperation between Catho-
lies and Protestants was recently dis
cussed in public address by Prof. Adolf
Harnack of Berlin. A better understand
ing. or modus vivendi. he thinks. is not
to be brought about by Catholics becom-
ing Protestants, or vice versa, a hope that
even the dreamer cannot entertain. He
would, however. attain the desired end by
l(1) having religion and the church alb
soutely divorced from politics; 90 let
the State do full justice without prefer
ence or interference with the internal
affairs of the churches; CD let all UNI
necessary controversies between the lead
ers of the different churches be avoided
and let all past sins and controversies be
buried "a let the leaders of both
churches try to understand each other
and appreciate the good things in the OPP
posing church. and to this end he would
have the theologians of each bra nch at,
tend the lectures in the church.