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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Notes of curren, Eventa.

A Hindoo prince is a candidate for the
football team at Cornell.
Hetty Green's son has become a lead
ing oil operator in Texas and proposes w
be known hereafter as +. II. Il. Green.
William J. Bryan will make speech
making tour of New York hinder the aus
pices of the Progressive Democratic
League.
The Morning Sun of Cambridge Ohio,
started last June by Senator Foraker 10
advocate his policies, has been forced 10
suspend
Fire in the Parker block in New Ha-
ven. Conn, caused loss Of 100000. The
fire was started by rats getting iDie
case Of matches.
An attack on the Roman CatboBe
church made by L. J. King, a street
preacher. in St Louis, led TO a riot in
which several persons were injured.
Rev. William Il. King, on trial before
the East Ohio Methodist Episcopal CON
ference charged with lying, defamation
of character and chewing tobacco. was
found guilty on the second count and pub
licly reprimanded by the bishop.
-Four of the fifty worklnen at the pipe
works at Washington. Pa, who are said
to have ''initiated'' Henry Perry when he
obtained pace at The works by swing
ing him over furnace. were arrested
Perry. though badly burned, may recover.
Attorney Woodward. for North Caro-
lima. made the charge in the rate hearins
in Washington that the Southern railway
paid the brother of representative So
600 a year for lobbying at Raleigh. The
court ordered that the State be given ae-
cess to the company's hooks.
Since last December there has been an
average fall of price. Of stocks equal to
over $40 a share ~ the case Of railroad
shares and of So. in the case Of industrial
snares. Aprlsy this to the entire capital
ization of stocks and bonds Of the rail-
read and industrial corporations of the
country. and the apparent depreciation
in prices amounts TO about FIVE billions Of
dollars.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

Prof. Percival Lowell of Harvard in a
communication to Nature, British sci,
entifc publication, declares that the OBJ
seryations made during the recent oppo-
sition of the planet Mars tends to estab-
lish the fact that the planet is at present
the abode of intelligent constructive life.
Speaking of the observations Of the polar
caps, which were begun three months and
a half before the opposition occurred, it
was possible to catch the south polar cap
at its maximum and the northern at its
minimum extent. Prof. Lowell is salts
fed that he was able to observe develop
ment of the canal system in the antarc-
tic and south temperate zones
He says it is a direct conclusion from
this that the planet is at present the
abode of intelligent beings. He adds that
the theory Of such life was not ON pri-
ori hypothesis on his part, but was the
result of observations now fully con-
iirmed. On the photographs taken al
ready he has counted ffty-six canals, and
it appears now certain that the position
ing of points of the Marian topography
will be realized. Three Of the photo
graphs are published in Nature and show
various canals hitherto unknown to Eu-
rcpean astronomers
A. S. Eddington, f. r. s., Of the Green
witch Observatory, commenting on Low
ellis article, says that Lowell has not
proven his case and that ne is more in
clined to accept the theory of Pickering
that these canals are the result of the
planets natural shrinkage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Former, 70 Fight Grain Trust.

Open war has broken out between the
so-called grain trust and the farmers Of
the Middle West The farmers say they
have paid S1,000,O0O year tribute to the
grain trust, and have been organizing, un-
til now cooperative elevators are in or
GRAFTON all over Iowa and are being ex-
tended into Minnesota and Nebraska.
Their organization possesses a SJ0,O0e,-
600 reserve fund, while back of the trust
sands the wealth of the Armours and
other millionaire capitalists. The co OPP
erative elevators will get all of the grain
OF their own members, but, in order to
win, must also get some II the grain
from outsiders, thus crippliEg the trust.
There are now 10 farmers cooperative
societies in Iowa alone, with total mem
bership of $4,000, operating go elevators
Also, the merchants of the Northwest
are organizing a cooperative association
to combat the mail order houses, the mer-
chants so organized agreeing to advertise
under one management, in order 20 lessen
the expense and secure an expert man
ager. This movement is of great econom-
ic importance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
CHICAGO.

While there is more conservative
tone permeating business circles. fab ae-
tlvlty IN the leading industries is more
defined and of encopcasing magnitude
production reflects no appreciable falling
on put operations would be conducted
Win greater ease Were the tension less in
money and cost of supplies.
Transportation facilities by both rail
and lake are severely tested by increased
general freight offerings ana marketing
of crops, ard with this gratifying .ondi-
ton in evidence it is not clear that com
merce is undergoing shrinkage. New de-
mands continue strong for factory mate
rails to complete contracts which run far
ahead, especially in steel, forge, car and
machinery construction.
The most active branch at present is
that of staple merchandise, the absorp-
ton of which is remarkably strong and
comparing favorably with year ago IN
textiles. footwear and food products. The
attendance of visiting buyers includes
many from distant points, and their lib
eral orders indicate sustained confidence
for satisfactory sales throughout the ag-
ricultural communities. Local retail dis
tribution is of seasonabe extent.
Mercantile collections in the West oe-
casion little complaint, and defaults eem-
pare favoraby with last year in both
Numbers and liabilities
Marketings of crops indicate that grow
ers are disposed to secure the current
high returns. The general demand for
breadstuffs is we'll sustained and the ship
mentS run heavier than year ago. Live
stock and provisions are in ample supply
and the absorption is good for beth do
nestle and foreign needs.
Bank cearngs, $243,913,697, excees
those of the corresponding week in 1905
by 1913 per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered twenty three, against
twenty-three last week and twenty-five a
year ago, those with liabilities over So
GOO being only two in number. -Dun's
Review.
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NEW YORK.

Whether attributable to the improve
ment in the general financial situation or
because of favorable weather allowing of
additional crop development there is n
perceptibly better feeling in general in
commercial lines. Retail trade has hard
ly been as brisk as desired or expected,
because the warm weather while helping
crops, has not stimulated fall buying to
any great extent. Reports as to johbing
trade so far this fall are, in the main.
favorable though the undertone of CON
servatism is still perceptible.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Sept 10 number 1T9,
against 172 last week, III in the like
week of 1906. 173 in 1905, POS in 1904
and 1S5 in 1908.
Canadian failures for the week number
forty, as against twenty-five last weef
and tweaty-six in this week year ago.
Bradstreet's Report
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GETS A LIFE TERM.
Chicago Jury Convicts Constantine
of Numbering Mrs. Gentry.

Chicago Jury C0nvicfs Constantine
of Numbering Mrs. Gentry.
Frank J. Constantine was convicted
in Chicago Saturday night of murder
ing Mrs. Arthur Gentry and his SEN
tence fixed at Imprisonment for life
After battling for two and one-half
hours over the fate of the prisoner the
jury delivered finding of guilty, and
fixed his punishment after the shortest
murder trial in the history of Cook
County.
Foreman krogness said: There was
never any doubt about Constantine's
guilt, but owing TO the circumstantial
evidence the penalty of life imprison-
ment was agreed upon by the jury
The verdict, it is reported, was a
keen disappointment to those in the
courtroom who had followed the course
of the trial. They expected a death
sentence. Constantine chewed gum and
said nothing when the verdict was read.
Constantine's story on the witness
stand was the most dramatic, the most
sensational narrative ever recited I'M
der oath in a Chicago court. He
weayed a story into a manifestly weak
defense He svore he did not kill her.
He swore that he stood by while she
cut her own throat from ear to ear.
He swore that she had confided to him
her unhappiness; that she had begged
him to take her away-to go abroad
with her; that he had refused; that
she slashed herself with a razor. He
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Cost of Living in 1906.

A summary of the report just sent to
the printer by the United States Bureau
of Labor, of which Charles Z. Neill is
the head, covering the year 1906, shows
that the prices of food were generally
higher during every month of that year
than in the corresponding month of 1905.
The price in December was S-10ths per
cent higher than the average for the year
1906, and the year as a whole showed y
higher average than any since 1890, the
period covered by the bureaus investiga-
ton. The increase. of last year applied
unequally to twenty-five Of the thirty ar
ticles showing the greatest advance were
lard, eyaporated apples, pork, bacon, ham,
fish, mutton and butter. The retail prices
of food were 29-10ths per cent higher
than in the previous year.
The report deals also with the question
of wages for manual workers, and gives
figures showing that the advance in wages
per hour over the preceding year was
greater than the advance in the retail
prices of food. That is to say, the pur-
chasing power Of an hours wages MS
measured by food was greater last year
than the year before. The increase in
this purchasing power was / 4-10ths per
cent As compared with the ten years
average from 1890 to 1899, the wages per
hour were "a 2-10ths per cent higher, and
the number of employees 42 9-10ths per
cent greater, and the average hours OF
labor week Cloths per cent lower. In
the principal manufacturing INDUSTRIES of
the country the average wages were
5-10ths per cent higher than in 1903.
The greatest increase was in the manu-
facture of cotton goods, where the wages
were IL 2-10ths per cent higher, and in
only one industry, that of paper and
wood pulp, was there decrease, namely
l 1-10th per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
TE4z lrl;A'gISsaY;s;%%[57S
,s..s, $50 [ E<sss(~,cG0-.
CO.. 80 $1,000

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $725 hogs, prime heavy, $4eo
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 5000: wheat, No. >, 95c to 96c;
corn, No. 2, Gle to 62c; oats, standard,
51c to 52c. rye, No. ,, 90c TO sic; hay,
timothy, $500 to $3.50; prairie, 5000
to $500 butter, choice creamery, 2lc
to 27c; eggs, fresh, 1Sc to Ole; potatoes,
per bushel, 52c to 60c.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to 500; hogs, choice heavy, $500 TO
$3.50; sheep, common to prime, $500
to $47J; wheat. No. >, 92c to Ode; corn,
No. ? white, Gle to G2c; oats, No. 2
white, 4Sc to Acc.
St. Louis Cattle, $3.50 to 800;
hogs $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, Csc to 99c' corn,
No. 2, 60c to Gle; oats, No. ?, 47c TO
4Sc; rye, No. ., SIC to S3c.
Cincinnati-C Cattle. S4oo TO $575;
hogs, $500 to S670 sheep, $500 10
$500: wheat. No. 2, 96c to 9Sc corn,
No . mixed, &c to 65c: oats, No. 2
mixed, SOC to 51c rye, No. . 90c to Ole.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 5000 bnss;;;;,
$500 to $500 sheep, sou 20 $f.fa
wheat, No. >, Csc to 99c; corn, No
yellow. soc to zoe; oats, No . white,
53c to 54c: rye, No. 2, SIC TO soc.
Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern,
S1.0S to S110 corn, No. 3, Gle to 62e;
oats, standard. Sic to SIC rye, Nc. /,
SOC to Ole barley. standard, Ole to 92e /;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo--Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50 hogs. fair to choice, $500
TO $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
S4O0 to 1925; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to SS.25.
New York Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, 800 to 800; sheep. $500 TO
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red. S1.O4 to $105;
corn, No. ., Tic to 75c; oats, natural
white sc to 5Sc butter, creamery, 25c
to 2Sc; eggs, western, 1Se 70 BE.
Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 97e 10
99c; corn. No. mixed, G5c 10 6Ic;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to J4S rye, No
., SIC to SSc; clover seed, prime, $l0.27.
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AT PANAMA.
Work Progressing ON the Big Dan,
and Other Main Fenfnren

Work Progressing ON the Big Dam
and Other Main Features.
The work on the locks and dams at
Panama has taken such shape that 1t
is now possible to see something of
their form. 1t is believed that the
actual masonry work can be com
menced at the Gatun locks within eight
now digging out the sites for the locks,
and construction can be begun after the
excavation for the top lock of the fight
is completed. Two steam shovels are
preparing the site for the erection Of
the spillway works of the Gatun dam.
Railroad trestles are being erected
across the line that viii mark the in
side and outside boundaries of the big
dam. and from one of these dirt trains
are now dumping dirt upon the site Of
the dam.
Preparatory to the installation Of
pipeline dredges, by which more rapid
work on the dam will be possible, the
Charges River has been diverted from
its main channel and damned. The
pipeline dredges should be installed by
January l, when the work at Gatun
will be as actively in progress as that
at Culebra. Suitable sand and rock for
the big masonry locks have been To-
Gated, and, what is equally interesting
to the engineers material for the man.
ufacture of all the necessary cement
has been located on the Istbmus. 1t is
hoped, however, that cement cab be
secured for such a price in the United
States as to make it more advisable to
procure the needed supply there in
stead of manufacturing it on the 18th
mus.
The general features, designs and de-
tails of the Gatun and other locks have
been worked out, together with the
general type and number OF lock gates
to be used. The survey of all the coun-
Try to be converted into the great Ga
tun lake has been completed and fin
ished reports show that the area will
be III square miles.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
MILLIONS ARE SAVED.
Federal Scientists Do Not Patent
Their Inventions.

Federal Scientists Do Not Patent
Their Inventions.
Secretary Wilson of the Department of
Agriculture gave out the statement re-
Gently that millions of dollars are saved
each year by scientists in the employ of
the United States government. This fact
alone, he maintains, should show the pub
lie the value of the experiments being
conducted each day. If the scientists pat
ented their inventions, they might become
wealthy, but all they get for their reward
is the passing fame attained by reporting
valuable finds.
Among the patents which have attract
ed national attention are in relation to
the labelling of fresh meats that have
passed government inspection. the use of
fieldspathic rocks as fertilizers and the
prevention of corosion of fence wire and
rusting of iron and steel generally.
Secretary Wilson estimated that the
discovery of an ink which may be used
IN stamping carcasses and which will not
stain, spread or penetrate tine meat. will
in itself save the government between
$4,000 and 500. 600 next year.
Marion Dorset. acting chief of the bio
chemic division of the department, made
the discovery, but ali he received from the
government was an advance in salary
amounting TO about $1,000 year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
WI Is TO COME BACK.
REAPPoINTED AS MINISTER TO
UNITED STATES.

aHelI-Remembered and Popular En-
voy of China VIII Return to Wash
ington-BuHaIo Woman strangIes
Her Three Children for Unknown
Reason.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
whv American Marriages Fail.

Again a woman is finding fault with
American wives and complaining of the
failure of American marriages. This time
it is Anna A. Rogers in the Atlantic
Mopthly. who says that "the excessive
education and excessive physical coddling
of young women," and their devotion to
physical culture and sports. has evolved
hybrid feminine who is a cross between
a magnilied, rather unmannerly boy and
a spoiled. exacting creature who sincerely
loves herself alone. Thus, explains this
sociologist, "a sIipshod, unehiyalrous COM
partnership" has grown up between the
sexes which after marriage is found to
be "a cause for tears or temper" One
contributory cause. she says, is the exist
ence of 1921 courts empowered to grant
divorces
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

Rey, Castle of Chapultepec. Vera Cruz,
and last the City of Mexico. The total
American loss was 3,204, equal TO one
half of the army that captured the City
of Mexico.
BY the treaty that closed the Mexican
war, a territory over 700 miles north and
south and 900 miles east and west, or
100000 square miles, were coded to the
United States. California, Nevada, Utah,
Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New
Mexico were added to our national do
main and California saved from becoming
British province, by sale for $50,000,-
COO to pay the Mexican debt
For these reasons as well as others
the $40 survivors of the Mexican war
celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the
GROWING victory of our arms directed by
our matchleSs general, Winfield Scott, I'M
der whom we fought and achieved such
glorious results
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
From Ear and Near.

A thousand dock laborers are on strike
at Galveston. Texas. Traffic on the
Southern Pacific is tied up.
Miss Helen Williams of Allegheny, Pa,
was killed and four other persons were
injured in an automobile accident in
Pittsburg.
William 4. CuIp, aged q. awaiting
trial for lie death Of bis brother. Floyd
c. Culp, last July at Turtle Creek, Pa,
committed suicide in the county jail at
Pittsburg by hanging himself using his
suspenders as a rope.
DIR. Longstaffe, who is mountaineering
in the Himalayas with two guides and a
Gmkha officer has reached the shmmlt
of TrisuI. 2S.4O6 feet. This is the record
70. the Hmalayas.
More persons crossed the Atlantic ocean
from this side during the first six months
of the present year than during any other
similar period. There wers31 900 steer
age passengers in that time.
The latest figures available, those for
June. show that the gross earnings OF
railroads operating over 5000 miles
amounted in that month to So, 05G.3J0,
the gain over June. 1906, being $1,000
423, or 1874 per cent.
Where the trouble is physical. such as
failure of an organ, Indigestion, conses-
ton or the liver and 50 on, strong, firm,
martial music will give best results, ac-
-ording to DIR. Latson. editor Of Health
Culture. For this class Of treatment the
key OF c major is particularly recon-
mended.
Ccrnany's war in southwest Africa has
cost $J0,O00.OO0 which has been spent
overcoming the resistance Of one or two
native tribes. Eighty-six commissioned
officers were killed and the non-commis-
stoned officers numbered 229; rank and
file. l.167: total, 1852 Among the colo
rial troops 1G officers and 195 men per
ished.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

between capital and labor can be adjudi-
Gated.
The Importance of establishing good
relations between capital and labor" he
says, is recognized in all civilized lands.
Economic conditions within a country
especially such as arise between indus
trial forces. have a far reaching effect and
are often the cause of embarrassing inter
national relations. More than one-half
Of the troubles in this world arise from
misunderstanding Especially is that
true when classes are concerned, such as
are brought about through labor disturb
ances growing out of disagreements be-
tween employers and wage earners. No
one has recognized the Importance of pre-
noting industrial peace, both with view
of preserving continued peace at home
and avoiding conficts abroad, better than
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
YOUNG MEN TO MAN OIL Trust.


Broughton Come to Front
Wall street generally believes that
new era in the personnel Of the Standard
Oil Company's leaders is beginning. 1t
IS thought that the younger element in
the great corporation is coming to the
front and thar the older element Is re-
hnquishing its active hold upon the affairs
Of the company and those of the vast in
terests which have been affiliated with it.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., William e.
Rockefeller, Urban III. Brougnton, SON
in-iaw of ii. Fl. Rogers, and II. FL Rog-
ers. Jr.. are among the younger men who
are looked upon by the street as now d.
recting affairs. William Rockefeller IS
regarded as likely to take a principal
part still IN the company's councils, but
most of the olher men who have been COLI
ed the makers of the Standard Oil Com
pany, including John d. Rockefeller, Sr..
John d. Archbold and ii. II. Rogers, are
expected hereafter to leave to their juniors
the task of handling the giant business
which they founded. What leads the
street to hold these views is the decision
of the directorate of the Amaigarnated
Copper Company to cut down the output
of the mines to one-half the normal. 1t
is held that this is a departure from the
policy which was pursued several years
ago when the copper market was declin-
ing, and that it signifies that the younger
element is in control. Urban III. Bronsh-
ton is deemed particularly Interesting
figure in the new order Of things. MI.
Broughton is an Englishman who came
to this country as a mining engineer. He
married the daughter of III. III. Rogers
and was placed in charge of the United
Metals Selling Company, through which
the Amalgamated and a number of other
large copper producers sell all :heir
metal. On account of increased demands
in other lines" he says, John ID. Rookie
Teller, Jr., viii give up his Bible class
in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church
nrf
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petite for candy are fundamentally the
same, the choice of one or the other in
diligence being determined by the temper
ament of the individual" In support of
this, the fact is cited that there has been
a falling off in the amount of alcohol
consumed per capita during the past few
years, and a material increase in the con-
sumption Of sugar in its various forms.
1t is further stated that chemically sugar
and alcohol are similar, and their physio-
logical action is in part, the same, and
both to some extent supply the demand
for a concentrated and quick acting fuel
for the body. Much of the prejudice
which formerly existed against the use
of candy has disappeared, and it is now
used, especially in the form of chocolates,
by exhausted business meh, and even by
soldiers on the eve of battle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
WOMAN muRbrnED IN BED.
Stranger Knots Cloth About. Neck;
Police Seeking Negro.

t-OEAce seeking Negro
\ murder, with robbery for its motive,
which promises to be battling to the po
lice, was discovered in fashionable Hyde
Park, Chicago. The body of Mrs. Lillian
White Grant, aged 40 years, was found
on her bed in the home of the Rev. Ed
ward s. Ames, pastor of the Hyde Park
Christian Church About the woman's
neck was chemise with which she was
strangled to death. Her room had been
ransacked and what money and yaluables
she is known to have had are missing.
The murder was committed some time
Wednesday night and was not discovered
until Friday morning, when two students
of the University of Chicago, who room
at the Ames home, discovered the body.
Suspicion is directed toward a negro who
had been employed a few days ago by
Mrs. Grant to assist her to pack, pre-
paratory to moving. ]. E. Simms an
expressman, and James Dunn, his helper,
are under arrest at the Hyde Park police
station. From them the police have
good description of the negro, who has
disappeared from his usual haunts.