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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
FLEEs CELL; BROTHER FILLS IT.
Pennsylvania Murderer Confesses
Old Crime Committed in Italy.

Pennsylvania Murderer Confesses
Old Crime Committed in Italy.
After admitting in Reading, Pa, the
part he took in the murder of
Trooper Timothy Kelleher mem
Der of the State constabulary. Sal
yatore Garlic confessed that seven years
ago he murdered his rival in love in ITALY,
for which his brother is now serving
twenty-one year sentence. Carrie norl-
fed firm of Italian bankers in Read
ing to draw what money he had coming
to him from the Reading Railway Com
pany and send it to his father in Italy,
as he would surely have to die. Carrie
and Stefano Lesenicchia, the slayers of
Kelleher, were brought from Allentown,
in charge of a heavily armed guard OF
State police, and lodged in separate cells
in the Berks County Jail.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
CAPTAIN sTREETER INDICTED.
Man Who Defied South Bend Officers
and HouselSeeper Accused.

Captain George Wellington Streeter
and Alma Lockwood, his housekeeper,
were indicted by the grand jury in South
Bend Ind, charged with assault and bat
terry with intent to murder. They are
charged with threatening to kill officers of
South Bend when the captain drove them
off his steamboat at the point of the re-
yolver. Streeter claimed that as long as
he was On the st. Joseph river the only
authorities who could arrest him were
federal marshals. After three weeks he
was arrested by strategy. He was re-
Gently released on bail and is in Chicago.
Streeter claims possession of property
along the Chicago north shore valued at
S25, 100000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
WAR VETERANS CELEBRATE.
Only $50 of gen. SCOTS Mexfc..a
War Snidicrs a - Sssr1 a..

Only $50 of gen. SCOTS Mexic..sa
War Soldiers Are still Alive.
There are in the entire country inst
30 veterans Of the Mexican war. AMI
these recently celebrated the sixtieth an
niversary of the fall of the City of Mex
leo in San Francisco On that occasion
the grizzled warriors recalled the TRACE
dies that gave to the United States vast
portion of her territory
Major Edwin A. Sherman of Oakland.
CAL, is the president of the veterans as
sociafion. In speaking of the Mexican
war Major Sherman said
Gen Winfield Scott, the American
commander, fought and won the battles
of Contreras. Churubusco. FL Moline de
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
philippine Assembly Ca,Ied.

The governor general at Manila has
issued formal proclamation converting
the national assembly on Oct. 16. Plans
have been made to render the inaugural
session of the assembly a brilliant func-
ton. The members of the Philippine
commission believe there is prospect of
the early passage of public utilities law
based on the recent railway rate legisa-
ton of Congress.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
rIE-uP IN HELENA IS AvERrED.
street Car Company Obeys Unions
Command Not TO Use Bell Phone.

street Car Company Obeys Unions
Command Not TO Use Bell Phone.
The general strike of labor unions at
Helena, Mont, did not materialize. The
Helena Street Car Company averted the
strike by complying with the demands Of
the State Federation of Labor and dis
continuing use of the Bell telephone,
That appeared to be the chief issue, al
though the Federation has directed its
commands to the merchants and other
business men of the city, who have been
told they must discontinue the use of the
telephone. Some of the merchants have
complied with the order and others have
not Perhaps a majority of them still
use their telephones.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
To,s,o,,. House Is Fired on.

The jubilee of Count Tolstoi's literary
activity was married by an attack on his
residence at Yasnaya Polyana, near Mos
COW, Russia, by armed peasants of the
neighborhood, according to reports receiv-
ed Several peasants, it is stated, advanc-
ed to within 100 yards of the counts
house and opened fire with flintlock guns
and pistols, but were driven off by the
gardeners
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Home Burns, Family perishes.

Early Monday morning the home of
James Dossett near Oakland City, Ind,
was burned. DosSett's months old
child persisted in the flames. Dossett and
his wife were carried from the building
badly burned and died later. The three
will be buried in one grave.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Lnke steamer Goo. Down.

Captain Randall and five sailors of the
steamer Alexander Nimick lost their lives
when their ship stranded on the south
shore of Lake Superior and went to
pieces in the heavy northwest gale. The
remaining eleven men of the crew sue
ceeded in making their way safely
through the surf to the shore.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Army CAPTAINS in Fist Fight.

Capt. James r. Lindsay and Capt.
Henry S. Wygant, both of the Thirteenth
infantry, have been arrested by Col.
Loughborough, their commanding officer,
on the charge of engaging in a fist fight
aboard the army transport Logan, lying
in quarantine at Mariveles, z. l., en-
route to San Francisco
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
chiIaren Killed hx Mother.

Martha and Catherine, infant children
of Mrs. Catherine Thomas, an inmate of
the Cambria county almshouse at Johns
town, Pa, were found dead in their BEDS
having been strangled. Finger marks
were found on the children's threats. Mrs
Thomas is said to have confessed to the
deed, saying she was afraid her husband
would take them from her.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
MEN FALL eco FEET TO DEATH.
Eleven Miners Killed and Seven
Others Injured I'm Michigan Shaft.

\ cage containing eighteen miners
plunged Geo feet down the shaft of the
Jones s. Laughlin Steel Company mine
at Negaunee, Mich Eleven of the men
in the car were killed, and the others
were injured so badly that their death is
expected. The cage was being lowered
at Z a. m. on its first trip for the day,
when the brake on the hosting drum
gave way. The safety clutches on the
cage failed to work. and the cage plunged
downward. The dead and injured men
were found huddled in a mass at the
bottom of the shaft. The officials of the
mine cannot account for the accident.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

4 young woman named Racicot was
killed and arother Young woman named
Conway seriously injured at Longueuil,
Canada, when a buggy in which they
were driving was struck by an automo-
bile driven by Councillor Lanier of
I.ongueuil
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

President Roosevelt who devoted The
worlds peace prize awarded him last year
for the promotion of industrial peace.
Secretary Straus believes the trouble
between Japan and America on the Pa
cifc to be more economic than racial. He
says that what might be called Japan
ese situation does not exist.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Job pres.men Vote to strike.

Printing pressmen have decided to
strike Oct. l unless their demands for
an eight-hour day are accepted by the job
printing houses of Chicago. 1t was said
that this step would be the beginning of
a general strike throughout the United
States and Canada.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
stand by Immunity Promise.

Judge Kenesaw NJ. Lands of Chicago
has announced to the special grand jury
assembled in his court that the promise
of immunity made by the Department of
Justice to the Chicago and Alton Rail-
road Company must be observed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

A long freight train on the Santa Fe
railway got away at Devoe station, CAL,
on the top of steep grade and crashed
into a light engine at the bottom. The
wreckage caught fire and burned fercely.
Five men are known to have been killed
and one fatally injured. There may be
other victims in the wreckage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

The 2-cent fare law, recently enacted
by the Pennsylvania Legislature, was adj
judged invalid, unconstitutional and void
in its application to the Susduehanna
River and Western Railway Company,
which connects Dunonnon and Bloomfield.
in an opinion delivered at Bloomfield by
Judge Shull of the Perry County Court.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

Nose Dossett, negro. was lynched at
Pritchard Station, Ala, for an attempted
criminal assault upon Mrs. j. Breeder, a
white woman, 90 years old. Rossett was
hanged from the same tree from which
two negroes, Jim Robinson and viii
Thompson. were lynched year ago for
assault upon small white girls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Cyclone uit. Grapa Stand.

A grand stand upon which several hun
bred persons were seated at the Schuyl-
Kill county fair at Higgins. Pa. was
blown down By a windstorm OF cyclonic
force More than fifty persons were in
jured. Eve of them probably fatally
Other buildings on the grounds we're also
blown down.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Gather mt Barrel; Elcvcn Hurt.

Eleven men We're seriously injured, two
probably fatally, by the collapse of the
third story piazza of a house on Blu
chanan street, Roxbury, Mass. The men
had assembled around a barrel of beer
when the supports of the piazza gave
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

President Lewis Glass Of the Pacific
States Telephone Company has been con-
victed Of bribing the city supervisors TO
grant his company franchises This is
the first conviction of a wealthy bride
giver in San Francisco. The trials Of
President Calhoun of the United Rail-
ways and Of other officials are to follow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

explained his fight by the fear that he
VIC never be able to prove his inno-
cene~ by the panic that seized him
when he realized how all the circum-
stances pointed against him.
The story was lucid enough, but Con
stantine made poor impression as a
witness. He contradicted himself sew
eral times as to dates, seemed greatly
i'll at ease at moments and was seldom
convincing. A bootblack, as he adj
mitted himself to be, he still protested
from the witness stand that the blood
of royalty in his veins.
And thus the curtain is drawn upon
a tragedy the like of which Chicago
has not chronicled in many year 1t
was one of such brutality as to shock
and awe society. Constantine, almost
a member of the Gentry family, who
had represented himself to be the son
of millionaire in New York when as
a matter of fact he was a profiigate
ex-bootblack. deliberately slashed to
death the woman who had befriended
him and who had housed him and lent
him money. Then he fed.
1t was long and persistent hunt FL
nally he was captured ~hen about to
sail for italy, the home of his ances-
tors, where he claims some of them
were members of the royal family He
had gone to Italy Immediately after
the commission of the crime, had been
swept by the winds of idleness and the
remorselessness of ghosts into other
lands, and finally, impelled by that in
tangible instinct that belongs to all
criminals, had to return to the country
of his crime.
Finding the police determined to
have him, that the memory of that
tragic January day had not been for
gotten, fearful lest he be apprehended
and brought back to the bar of justice.
he was about to sail away again, when
he was arrested.
Brought to trial. in an effort to gain
his liberty, he DETAINED the character
of his yictiia. a bride of six months.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

King Frederick Angus, of Saxony was
thrown from his horse in the course Of
the maneuverS near Dresden. lie sus-
tanned a number OF slight injuries. but
was able to remount and resume com
maud OF the troops.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

\ general strike Of the shoe workers
of St Louis. in sympathy with the strike
Nearly $4,000 wOrkmen are idle. AT
secret session of the Executive Board of
the union the act of the workers in Strik-
ing received official approval.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

The body of an unidentified girl about
Is years old was found in a trunk on
the beach about two miles south of
Elliot Bay, near Seattle, Wash. In the
trunk were two letters, one of which may
lead to Identification. This letter was
written on letter head of ]. b. Coving-
ton, ST. Paul. and was signed Edith"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
War Hero Kills Himself.

c. Parish Of Wabash, Ind. who was
colonel of the 103d Indiana volunteers in
the Civil War. and who was brevetted
brigadier general fUr valiant service at
the battle of Nashville committed sui
eide in Cleveland by taking morphine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

James Parsons, millionaire wool mer-
chant of Boston and leader in exclusive
3rookline, Mass. society, has married in
Denver Mrs. Augusta King. mother of
his dead wife
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Prie.t Is CptIty OF Muraer

Ludwig Stczygiel. the Roman Catholic
priest from Chicago who has been on
trial for the murder of Andrew and Ste
phen Starzynski, brothers. was convicted
of murder in the second degree in Pitts
burg. Szczygiel in his testimony admit
ted that he had been drinking heavily.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Jams seize .No Man. Land. >,

According to advices from Toxic,
Japan claims the right to occupy Pratas
island, near the Philippines, on the
ground that, as it lies between the TWEEN
tieth and twenty-frst parallels, it is no
mans land.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Collision on Mexican Central Line.

Collision on Mexican Central Line.
Thirty persons were killed and many
others were injured seriously in a col
llsion between passenger and freight
train on the Mexican Central road at
Encarnacion. near the City of Aguas
Calientes. The passenger train was an
express running between FL Paso, Texas,
and the City of Mexico.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
spectal session of Legf.lature.

Governor Fred NJ. Warner of AIichi-
gan has issued the expected cali for a
special session of the Legislature. TO be-
gin Oct. 4. for the purpose of making
appropriations for the Central Normal
College and TO consider the amendment
of the primary law
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
prov.. Daushter and Herself.

Driven insane by brooding over her i'll
health and the protracted absence of her
husband in Iowa, Mrs. Anna Baker, 81
years cid. drowned her T-year-old da1gh-
ter ard herself in Los Angeles.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Ruxs Drinks for Whole CIV

The King of Siam was host to the
whole City of Homburg, Germany, the
other day, providing free wine and beer
for all, but as his pay is S10,0OO,o0o a
year and he can increase it, the expense
does not bother him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
srea Entornbed i'm aarninE Mine.

Three men are entomhed in the Malta
mine az Sparta. Mimi. which is airs.
Fircmen fought the blaze all night. bat
made little Roadway. The TIRE was start
ed by the careless throwing OF a lighted
cigaret into tbs S&y ii the Underground
stables
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

strike. but he ex-
presses him S e If
plainly as not re-
garding compulsory
arb .tration as the
solution of difficult
ties between capital
and labor. He be-
lyieves that differ
ent cases require
different remedies.
and that there is
no hard and fast
rule by which diff
ferences that arise
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Life Sentences for Constantine.

Frank ]. Constantine. slayer of Mrs.
Arthur W. Gentry in Chicago. has es-
capped the hausnan's moose. but must so
10 prison Tor the rest st AS days. The
verdict was surprise = court. lawyers
and spectators.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
slain hy scored society.

Tony Naick was murdered by unknown
persons on the outskirts of Columbus.
Ohio. Friends of the murdered man be
lieve the crime can be traced TO a Mace
DOMAIN secret society.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Banker Dies in Auto Crash.

Fred Ware. president of Clarksdale
bank. was instantly killed in st. Cloud,
Mimi, in an auto accident The auto
mobile went into ditch and Mr.. Ware
had his neck broken.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

Great Britain is threatened with a
strike on all of its railroads because the
employees demand and the directrs of all
Of the big lpanies refuse recognition
Of trades unions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

The public service commissioners for
New York City have adopted series of
orders for Improvements in the railroad
service in the Inferborough- Metropolitan
and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit systems
which, when enforced. viii increase the
travelling facilities of all the roads in
Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Young Hunter Fatally shot.

Charles Maxam. a farmer near James
town, \. D., was fatally shot while hunt
ing. Thrse young men were driving in
hay rack over rough ground when the
gun FL and exploded.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
rive Are slain in Rare Riot.

In a race riot at a street fair in
Hartshorne. |. T., young white man
named johnson was killed instantly By
a negro and young negro from Tisho-
ningo, an innocent bystander. was killed
By a white man.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
oldes, ~ : sollier Is 1O4

'Bnr' Macabee. the oldest sailor in
the United States navy. celebrated his
one hundred and fourth birthday sun
day at the United States Naval Home in
philadelnha.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Rich Man Gets Thirty Days

George ]. Jones, a wealthy real estate
owner of New Castle, Pa, was sentenced
10 thirty days in the Allegheny County
work house He pleaded guilty to a
charge of leasing building for gambling
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Kuis Girl who Refused Him.

Because she refused to marry him
Henry Fischner. New Yora baker, kill
I'd Johanna Hoffman and men committed
suicide.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
BASE BALL STANDINGS.
Games Won and Lost by Clubs I'm
Principal Leagues.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
sTRANGLEs THREE CHILDREN.
Woman Then Hunts Up Husband
and Tells Him of Her Action.

and TELLS Him of Her Action.
Mrs. Bertha Mund. aged u years,
strangled her three children, Christopher,
aged : years; Helen, aged 2, and Freda,
aged months. to death at their home
in Clinton street, Buffalo, y. l. Immedi-
ntely after committing the deed she went
to the Pennsylvania railroad yards,
where her husband. Frederick Mund, is
employed as member of a wrecking
crew, and informed him of her action.
Mrs. Mund was placed under arrest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
LABOR TROUBLES.

What Secretary ssraas Has 10 Say
en- Important subject.
Oscar S. Straus, Secretary Of Com
merce and Labor. has nothing 10 say con-
corning the status of the telegraphers'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

Candy and Alcohol.
DIR. A. c. Abbott health commissioner
of Pennsylvania, has advanced the theory
that ''the appetite for alcohol and the APP
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-24
SHORT SESSION )
OF CITY COUNCIL WAS HELD
LAST EVENING MOT MUCH
DONE.

Owing to the failure Of Mr. Harry
F. Smith to reach town last night in
time to appear before council In the
matter Of the powder house Of the
smith.Race Grocery Company, which
has been agitating the minds Of Cher
ry avenue citizens, the question was
laid over for future consideration. Mr..
Smith missed train connection at Nor
gantown. AS the powdefho1se mat.
ter was the principal object Of the
not much else was done.
Chief Reed was given orders to buy
a new horse for the First ward fire
station, which will certainly please the
citizens Of the thither sidelof the No,
The question Of payment Of police
men's salary for Fifth ward was taken
np and on otion Of Dr. Howard 20.
Isarsh rs to BE pad cnly until
such time al olicenan Plsser d able
y resume work
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-24
SGOTTDALEAND
FAIRM0NT Will
Play 4GAMES
Battle Royal
For the Pennant

Tomorrow the champions will ar
rive from Greensburg and with them
will come scottdale, which is pushing
them hard for first place, scottdale
and the Champs will play at Traction
Park tomorrow; game called at $500
p. m. On Mondy they Will play two
games, the first one called at 200 p.
m. and the second game will start ten
minuets after completion Of the first.
Both teams. will lay oS on TuesGay
and attend Robinson's show, which is
going to use the South Side ball park
to show on that day. On Wednesday
these same two teams will meet again
for the last time this season on the
home grounds, unless scottdale beats
the Champions out for the pennant in
the last half. These four games with
scottdale will more than likely say
who will win the pennant for the last
half OF the season, for If scottdale wins
the majority of the four games begin.
ming Sunday and ending Wednesday 1t
will be in first place and may be able
to hold it from them until the sea
son closes. Scottdale has been playing
first class ball and is in the best OF
shape and barring accidents should
keep going the same pace. The Scott
dale team has always been looked upon
by the Fairmont fans as the team the
Champs had to bat out to win the
pennant and 1t now looks as if they
were right in their Judgment. The
Champs are not in the best of condi-
tlon, as Buck Jackson's arm has been
giving him trouble, although not of a
serious nature, and. as he has had a
rest Of three days he may be able to
go in at any time from now on. Con-
ners had one of his fingers split in the
ldsI bhWe dI NOME anu % ~ ~ nda AAos
fully healed over. Coke is game and
If by his playing we could win he
would play If he lost a finger by SO do,
ing. Any persons missing the comlns
series between scottdale and the
Champions will certainly miss a treat,
as they will both put up an article of
ball as good as can be seen in the
county, and two teams as evenly match
ed as they are. fighting for a pennant;
is something in base ball way that
people Of this city and surrounding
towns and country have never witness.
ed before -,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-24

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Had 3 en illed
BY Stf'aiag tilation

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d. Z. E,yerbart Babb Hurry q
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child which "a 4 tirhtiy want ia two
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