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usually the case, trecompressed" him
that is, treated him under the pres
sure of compressed air. The next
morning Billiard was unconscious. He
was sent to a hospital, and died that
evening. In his case it~was said that
he had Bright's disease which devel-
oped rapidly under air pressure.
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between 1870 and 1883 advanced to
the accompaniment of casualty and
death. John A. Roebling, the first en-
gineer in chief, lost his life as the re-
suit of his responsibilities and an in.
Jury received while at work on the
bridge. His eldest son., Col. w. A.
Roebling, succeeded him, but the
bridge was still in its early stages
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-06-28
Advanced.

"Hiram," said Mrs. Kornkob to her
husband, who was reading the Weekly
Screech, "they say that Jones man
who has taken the farm next to ours
is mighty intellectual"
Il guess he is" replied Farmer
Kornkob. HE knows four different
almanacs by heart" - Milwaukee
Sentinel.
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workmen, three belonged to the en-.
cheering staff, and II We're persons
not connected with the operations.
In the two years the subway cost IL
lives, all but one OF the victims being
workmen. Again in 1902 the list was
formidable. Twenty-one lives were
lost and 214 persons were hurt, 1919
of them being employees.
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Dancers of Compressed Air.

With all precautions it is apparent.
" impossible to prevent "the bends
claiming its Victims. Two sand
hogs died in one day last October,
for instance, because, as the doctors
believed, they had passed too quickly
from the compressed airlocks to the
surface. A conspicuous example was
the death of young Claiming Billiard
On January s, last. Billiard was a
big, husky fellow, a graduate Of Cam
bridge Latin school, and an expert
electrician. He started to learn tun-
neling, and decided to begin at the
bottom by becoming a sand hog"
He passed. the examinations and went
to work on a Monday morning as a
hydraulic filter in the Pennsylvania
tunnel under the East river. When
he came to the surface that night he
almost tainted with "the bends" The
physician took him hack into the tun,
mel, put him in the medical airlock
at the foot of the shaft, and, as is
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-06-28
Bow Loses Arm.

st. Pah-Benjamin Scott, son on
MIR. and Mrs. j. II. Scott, while pick
ing out some waste in a large ma
chine in the Blackhawk Linen mill sc
St. Paul Park, had his right hand
caught in some knives in the machine
The rollers drew in the entire arm,
20 it was mangled and crushed the
entire length before the boy was
rescued. DR.. Crandall took the boy
to st. Joseph's hospital, where the
arm vas amputated at the shoulder.
The same machine caused the loss OF
part of a arm to an operative a few
weeks ago and the loss of a finger to
another a week ago.
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Border on Humorous.

Border on Humorous.
Some of the escapes, miraculous as
they seemed to be, were not without
their suggestions of humor. One
workman fell from the Manhattan
anchorage to the ground, so feet be-
low, struck a pile of lumber, and lived
to tell of it. He struck the lumber
with such force that he broke one of
the planks neatly in the middle. An
other workman plunged into one of
the well holes in the Brooklyn tower.
AT the bottom, 104 feet below, was a
pool of water with an empty cement
barrel floating around in it. The fall
ing mar landed on the barrel and
rolled off into the water. He was
only slightly hurt.
An unprecedented record was made
when the Williamsburg bridge was
built between 1897 and 1904. AL
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when he became an invalid from e
posure, overwork and anxiety.
The Deadly Bends"
The centers of interest in this great
engineering feat were the caissons-
huge wooden boxes sunk 40 feet be-
low the water line, to hold the founda-
tions-and in these caisson disease,
or "the bends" caused endless anxiety.
The disease is the more dangerous be-
cause the physicians have not made
up their minds precisely what it is.
Men who work under compressed air
in tunnels or caissons are seized with
cramps, v pains in the joints,
and dizziness, and are doubled up
like jackknives. Not infrequently
paralysis and death follow. The re-
ports of the building OF the Brooklyn
bridge show that there were % cases
of the bends,' three of them ending
in DEATH
While the caisson work was under
way a disastrous fire occurred in the
box on the Brooklyn side in Deem
Der, 1870. The chamber was flooded,
and the damage cost weeks of labor
and delay. On the day of the fire Col.
Roebling spent seven hours in the
caisson. When he returned to the
surface he was partially paralyzed.
This was one of the Use of his i'll
health.
There were between 80 and 40 fatal
accidents while the towers and super
structure of the bridge were building.
Three of the workmen were killed by
falling derricks on the Brooklyn
tower. Two more fell from the Man.
haitian tower and received fatal in
juries.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-06-28
Evidently.

Tom-Fred had his eyes glued on
Miss Peachley during the entire eve
ming.
Jack--Stuck on her. Ell?
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of them crossed the traverse platform
from one blazing foot bridge to the
other just as the burning, structure
fell. For awhile he hung there over
the river swaying to and fro like a
spider whose web is torn by the
wind. Then he climbed t the big
cable overhead and crawled slowly to
the Brooklyn tower.
When the bridge was nearly fin
ished a riveter slipped on an icy plat
form and fell $50 feet to the East
river. He turned several somersaults
on his way down, struck the water
with a great splash, and was fshed
out almost uninjured. Later a rivet-
er's apprentice stepped on a greasy
girder, slipped and fell to the ground,
100 feet beneath. He landed in a
heap Of sand, got up and looked
around, as he said later, ito see if
he was dead" His only injuries were
a broken arm and some bruises.
Lives Lost in Subway.
In the building of the subway
there have been nearly $50 accidents,
costing 80 lives, or four victims for
every mile of track. Hardly had the
work been started, in 1900, when fall
ing rock in the south heading of the
One Hundred and Sixty-eighth street
tunnel killed five workmen and in
jured two others. A similar accident
in one of the Murray Hill tunnels cost
the life of Maj. Ira A. Shaler, a sub
contractor. Chief Engineer William
B. Parsons, who was with him, had a
narrow escape.
The explosion of dynamite in the
same section Of the work, near Forty
second sereet, On January 81, 1902,
shattered the windows for blocks
around and killed five persons, four
of them being in the Murray Hill
hotel. In October, 1903, another fall
of rock near Fort George killed ten
workmen.
1t was not these more serious acct
dents, however, that swelled the list
of dead in subway building to a for
midable total. Rather was it the
casualty to single workmen or to
some careless bystander-death in
the dark recesses of the East river
tunnels or a Harlem bluff, the re-
suits of a misstep that sent a work
man crashing into the depths of an
open trench, injuries from falling
timbers, or lives snuffed out by mis-
calculated blasts, or an avalanche of
soggy soil. In 1900, when the sub
way was started, 81 workmen and
eight outsiders were involved in acct
dents more OF less serious. Con-
structive work was in progress al
many points in 1901, and the number
of casualties YVES swelled to 176. OF
those killed or injured. 156 we're
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sank deeper and deeper beneath the
river bed, until, when the workmen
were LOT feet below water level, the
shifts had been reduced to two a day
of 45 minutes each. The sand hogs
were provided with dressing rooms,
hot baths, steam elevators to carry
them to the surface, and plenty of
hot coffee. Some of the men were
attacked by caisson disease, but none
Of them ended fatally.
This great public work was not to
be accomplished, however, without
the usual tribute of human life. The
working force on the bridge varied
from 400 to 800 men. Twenty of
them were killed, mostly by falls. AS
was the case with the Brooklyn
bridge, some of the escapes were
grotesQue, some almost miraculous.
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Williamsburg Bridge Fire.

Williamsburg Bridge Fire.
Many New Workers will recall the
splendid spectacle one night early in
November, 1902, when burning oil and
woodwork atop the Manhattan tower
of the bridge shone over the city like
a blazing meteor. Then the fremen,
powerless to fight the blaze 100 feet
in the air, watched the flames spread
to the swaying foot bridges until they
became great festoons of running
fire.
Several men were on the bridge at
the time, but they all escaped. One
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-10
OPEN BIDS ON BOATS.
BUILDERS ESTIMATES ON FIVE
DESTROYERS.
Vessels for which Congress Provfd-
ed In Two Acts VIII Cost $500, 900
Each-Man Killed In Explosion of
Mill.

Bids were opened at the Navy Depart
ment the other day for the construction
of five torpedo-boat destroyers under the
terms of the naval appropriation acts of
1906 and 1907. Provision was made in
the first act for three of these boats, but
because of the insufficient appropriation
their construction was delayed until Con-
gress at the following session had an OPP
portunity to correct the deficiency and to
add two TO the number of boats. The
limit of cost was fixed at $4,000 for
each vessel, and no bidder was authorized
to receive contracts for more than two
of them. The new destroyers will not en-
body in their designs any startling de-
partures in naval construction. In one
sense the de- igns seem reactionary, for the
maximum speed required is twenty-eight
knots an hour, whereas some of the boats
constructed several years ago were obliged
TO show a trial speed of more than thirty
knots. But the twenty-eight-knot vessels
are expected TO be much more serviceable
than the early types, as they represent
several years experience in the hardest
torpedo-boat drills The little hotillas
have made worlds records in long-distance
voyages, and their commanders invariably
have reported in favor of structural
strength, stability and coal endurance as
against high speed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-10
ASK CHANGE IN SHERMAN LAW.
Traffic League Wants Association of
Carriers LegaIfzed.

taTTfeSs leeS8ffZcu
Amendment of the Sherman antitrust
law so as to permit associations of COM
mon carriers in a given territory for the
purpose Of establishing rates and classifi-
cations was urged at the meeting of the
board of directors of the National Indus
trial Traffic League at the Great North
ern hotel in Chicago. Such associations
and agreements, the league decided, are
essential to any sort of satisfactory trade
conditions. The league recommended,
however, that all agreements and associa-
tions of this sort be under the direct
supervision of the interstate commerce
commission, and President Rooseyelt's at
titude. as reported in press accounts, was
cited as favorable to this plan. The league
represents 10000 shippers. 1t further
went on record as favoring the addition
to the interstate commerce commission OF
a practical railroad man or two and some
one fully conversant with the needs or the
shippers Members of the board of di-
rectors seemed not inclined to accept what
the interstate commerce law defines as
the shippers responsibility. 1t was con-
tended that the railroads should be en-
tirely responsible for rates quoted to ship
pers, and the assertion was made that not
only could no outsider make sense out OF
a railway tariff, but that railway en-
ployes themselves are often unable TO
do it. After much debate the meeting de-
clared that the interstate commerce COM
mission has no jurisdiction over car-ser-
vice rules or those covering demurrage,
holding that in these instances the railway
acts simply in the character Of ware
houseman. The next meeting of the league
will be held in Washington Oct. 10.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-10
CHICAGO.

Although business conditions invite
close scanning as to the probable effect
OF developments, the factors in evidence
disclose no decline in present activity. No
adequate relief appears in money to Off
set the pressure, while crop moving needs
must be met, but this does not minimize
operations in the leading productive in
dustries, many of which employ macl.in-
cry and forces fully and steadily. new
orders adding to the assured period of for
ward work. Bank statements this week
were not quite so unfavorable as expected,
and the fact that loans have increased de-
spite shrinkage in deposits is an encourag-
ing testimony to confidence in the funda-
mental basis of commerce.
Distribution is maintained at the high
est level this season, indicating that the
purchasing power is yet without appar-
ent check. At no time hitherto have more
visiting buyers appeared here to secure
fall and winter merchandise.
The volume of payments through the
banks is notably in excess of the high
total year ago, and leading retail lines
make sales of necessaries which compare
favorably with previous corresponding
seasons. Late advices sustain improve
ment in the corn crop, and the high prices
ruling for grain and live stock must even
tually modify any financial anxiety.
Grain markets reflect the highest aver
age of values established this year, but
the speculative features discouraged the
extension Of cash demand for the princi,
pal cereals and flour. Live stock receipts
have been disappointing.
Failures reported in Chicago district
numbered "A, against IA last week and %
a year ago, and include an increase in de-
faults exceeding $5,000.-Dun's Review.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-10
Foreign News Notes.

Enrique Creel, Mexican ambassador
to the United States, was recently elected
Governor of the State Of Chihuahua,
Mexico. 1t is said that he will continue
to serve both as Governor and ambassa-
dor.
Word comes from Piatigorsk, Caucasus,
that on the morning of Aug. Gen.
Karakozoff, ex-governor general of Odes-
sa, was shot and killed in the center of
the town by several assassins, who es-
capped. He had aroused the hatred of the
revolutionary class by his severe measures
in depressing disturbances.
A vigorous anti-clerical agitation has
broken out in Italy, which has led Pre-
mier Giolitti to announce that the gov
eminent would not interfere in any fash
ion, though it had issued orders to pre-
vent violence and protect the churches,
converts and other religious property. Re
garding the charges brought against the
religious bodies, he said THAT is a mat
ter for the courts to decide, and the coun-
try would have right to complain if the
government interfered to restrain the
press, which is free both for clericals and
anti-clericals.
The Hague conference has recognized
the success Of the airship inventors by
taking up the practical question of aerial
warfare The commission on humanita-
rian usages has agreed that only dirigibie
balloons, manned by trained aeronants,
may be employed and that no explosives
may be thrown upon dcfenscless cities.
A preliminary vote on the consideration
of the American proposition for a per
manent international court OF arbitration
y-as favorable, twenty seven nations as
senting. Great Britain, by mcderating
III terms of the proposal to limit arma-
ments. has won Germany's appeal and
it is assured of adoption.
A dispatch from Teheran, Persia, states
that over 5000 Turkish troops recently
entered Persian territory on the western
frontier, destroying the village OF Ma
yaneh, routing a small force of Persian
soldiers and killing seventy-eight villagers,
Of whom sixty we're women and children,
mostly Christians. As the Urumiah col
Iege and the Fiske seminary for girls
are located in that region. it is considered
probable that Russia and Great Britain
viii be appealed to for protection.
The deepest sounding on record was re-
Gently made in the North Pacific, where
the bottom is $3.50 faihoms, or a little
less than six miles. The abyss is called
Nero Deep.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-10
RICHARD MANSFIELD DEAD.
Eminent Actor Expires mt His SUM
mer Home I'm Connecticut.

Richard Mansfield, the best known
actor on the American stage, died Friday
at his summer residence, Seven Oaks, near
New London. Conn. Death was directly
due to disease Of the liver, aggravated
by complications.
Richard Mansfield, the most daring,
able, and successful player of his time,
was born in Heligoland, Germany, in
1857, and during the course of his career
has been artist. singer, poet, playwright
and player His mother was a singer of
unusual ability He'was not always sue
cessful at everything he did, but on the
stage he was remarkably successful in an
extensive and wide range of parts ex-
tending from Koko in the comic opera Of
1.-THE Mikado" to Richard, Carlos, Shy
lock, Alceste, and Peer Gynt.
He brought more glory to the English
speaking stage than any ten of his con-
temporaries and his history is a record
of succession of remarksble and cour-
ageous attempts to achieve great things.
Artistically and materially he succeeded
beyond all others of his time.
Mr. Mansfield several years ago mar
ried Beatrice Cameron, who was then his
leading woman. He leaves one child. a
boy not yet in his teens. His home was
on Riverside drive in New York, and
there he passed much of his time when
not playing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-10
SAYS GOOD TIMES WILL star.
Secretary Wilson Declares Condi-
tions Favor Continaed Prosperity.

Secretary Wilson Declares Condi-
tions Favor Continaed Prosperity.
The great West is prosperous and the
country as whole, therefore, is in
no danger of hard times. That is the
word that Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson HIS brought back to Washing
ton with him on his return from long
tour on the other side of the Mississippi
river and in the intermountain States.
He is aglow with enthusiasm over the
crop outlook, general trade conditions
and the political temper of the people.
'.The people of the West" said Secre-
tary Wilson. ''are not fearful of panic
or of hard times. The West is prosper
GUS There is plenty of money. In
fact, l have reason TO believe the West
is leaning money to the East instead
of the East to the West, aud this is be-
ing done at good rates of interest. The
people Of the West. are not worrying
over Wall street ana its troubles. They
scarcely know that such troubles ex-
list, save as they read of them In the
newspapers. The rest of the country is
no longer dependent on Wall street.
The crop outlook is good. Grain
crops generally will be good, with the
exception of the oat crop. There will
be good corn crop. not a bumper crop,
but good one, If frosts do not come
too early. Prices for farm products
and Tor stock are high, and the farm
ers are making money
The special mission of the Secretary
of Agriculture on the trip just finished
was to study forest reserve problems,
the reserves having been placed under
the direction of his department two
years ago.
with regard to the forest reserves /
found two chief problems" said the
Secretary, first, to insure protection
from fire, and, second, to reforest the
land where continual fires have destroy
ed the young trees. There are millions
of acres growing nothing except little
grass. The question of reforestation is
pressing.
THE price of lumber indicates that
we are up against a wood famine Lum-
Der is beiRg, shipped from the North
west all over the world. In the forest
region the homesteader, or the man
who gets patent under the timber and
stone act, often sells to private corpo-
rations, some Of which have as many
as 100000 acres and are still buy
ing. Considerable pressure comes from
persons who want to get title merely to
sell to such companies and put the
money in their pockets. failed to
find much sentiment against the re-
serves except from the small element
that would like to get possession to
sell. What seems to be the best offer
of the government is that of land in
the reclaimed districts for the cost of
the water used in irrigation.
''The only apprehension 1 observed
among the people in the West grows
out of the fear of fuel famine next
winter. l am glad the people appre-
ciate the situation, because much can
be done to prevent a famine by those
who can put in their coal supply in ad
vance Of cold weather"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-10
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $7.35; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $6.15; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1910; wheat No. 2, soc to Gle;
corn, No. 2, J9c to Gle; oats, STANDARD,
49c to Gle; rye, No. ., Sic 70 SIC; hay,
timothy. $14.O0 to $21.50; prairie, $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, 2lc
to 26c: eggs, fresh, 15c to zoe; potatoes,
per bushel 5Sc to 66c.
Indianapois-C shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$500; sheep, common to prime, $500
to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, SIC to SSc; corn,
No. 2 white, 60c to Gle; oats, No. 2
white, 47c to 4Sc.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $40;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, SOC to 90c corn,
No. 2, 5Sc to SOC; oats, No. 2, 44c to
46c; rye, No. 2, 76c to 7Sc.
Cincinnati-Cattle $500 to S6.10:
hogs, $4.0O to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
No. 2 mixed, Gle to CSC; oats, No. z
mixed, 47c to Ace: rye. No. .. roe to Sic.
Detroit-Cattle, 500 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to Se.25; sheep, $3.50 to $475;
wheat No. 2, Ole to 92c; corn, No. 3
yellow, 64c to 65c; oats, No. 3 white,
sic to 52c; rye, No. 2, Sic to SIC.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
S1.OO to S104; corn, No. 3, Coo to Gle;
oats, standard, soc to 56c; rye, No. 1,
Sic to S3c; barley, standard, SIC to SSc;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to S675; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $7.OO; sheep, common TO good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to S7.75.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $6,SS;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to Csc;
corn, No. 2, &c to Csc; oats, natural
white, Coo to 62c; butter, creamery, pc
to &c; eggs, western, tic to 21c.
Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, soc to
Ole; corn, No. 2 mixed, Gle to 63c;
oats, No. 2 mixed, 4Sc to Ace; rye, No.
2, 76c to 7Sc; clover seed, prime, $3.50.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-10
Roy STABBED BY FATHER.
Interferes When Parents Quarrel
and Is Slain by Frenzfed Sire.


and Is Slain by Frenzied Sire.
While his mother, in whose defense he
gave his life, wept Historically at his
bedside, John Oster, Jr., % years old
died in Mascoutah, H., early Wednesday
from knife wounds inflicted by his father,
60 years old, at the family home during
the night. The elder Oster is a man of
violent temper and during quarrel with
his wife struck her violently in the face.
The son rushed to his mothers assistance
and was attacked by the father During
a struggle the old man drew a knife and
stabbed his son repeatedly in the body.
The wounded boy fed from the house
pursued by his frenzied father. The lat
ter is lame, but kept up the chase until
the son collapsed near the home of
neighbor, who saved him from further
injury. Young Oster was carried into the
house and attended by a physician, but
he had lost so much blood during the pur-
suit that he was unable to rally. He
died a few hours later The mother is
broken-hearted, and demands the prose-
cution of her husband, who has been ar
rested.