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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

The towns of Birthright and Ridge
way. Texas. are practically annihilated,
as the result OF a terrific windstorm that
swept the vicinity Monday. Two deaths
are reported from Halesboro, and great
loss of life is believed TO have occurred
at Caney. a negro settlement.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
Many Go Down with seats.

Five hundred people of Youngstown,
Ohio. escaped death or serious injury
when the seats at the society circus given
for the benefit of the Young Women's
Christian Association collapsed. Mrs.
Fred Orr was the only person injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

In Syracuse. \. " the city treasurer,
If Is alleged. has discovered shortage
in the accounts Of the office during the
term of f. F. Allen as treasurer. II is
impossible to tell. until experts report,
how large the shortage is. but it is pos
sible that ii will exceed 100000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

Edward r. Moore of Michigan has been
appointed by the President TO succeed
Frederick I. Allen as commissioner of
patents. Mr.. Moore. who is the present
assistant commissioner, won his appoint
ment through pure grit.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

The new British srmored cruiser In
vincible was launched fiom the Elswick
shipyard. This is one Of trio of the
largest cruisers in the world. the first of
which was the Iadomitable. The dimen-
sions of these two vessels are alike. name
". 1880 tons, length $50 feet. The
armament includes eight Pinch guns, al
most equaling the main battery of the
great battleship Dreadnought Under adj
miralty orders the greatest secrecy was
observed regarding the details of the new
vessel.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
Woman Kills Baby and self.

Despondent because of i'll health, Mrs.
Carrie Sigsworth. 81 years old. killed her
1S-months-old child and then shot and
killed herself at her home in Allegheny.
Pa. The bodies were found by her hus-
band. Alexander Sigsworth. when he re-
turned from his nights work in a steel
mill
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
legally Hanged. bnt Lives.

Reports received from trainmen and
negro passengers site that John Arm
strong. the negro hanged at Columbus.
Texas, Friday. April ~. for wife MUIR
der. revived after being placed in the
coffin and IS now living.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
Bank clerk Pleads Gui,,x

W. o. Douglass the New York bank
clerk who stole $4,000 worth of bonds
from the Trust Company of America.
pleaded guilty 10 the charge and turned
States evidence. On his testimony
Broker bennett was indicted
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
IRON IMPORT RECORD BROKEN.
Caused by Great Demand for Raw
Material in Making Steel.

Because of the great demand for raw
material used in the manufacture of steel
all records were broken last month in
the imports of iron ore and pig iron.
Through New York and other eastern
seaboard points no less than 210, $50 tons
arrived in April, being an increase Of
more than so per cent when compared
with the imports during March. The
shipments came from Cuba, Europe and
Africa, while pig iron was sent here from
Russia and China. Swed n sent $40
tons ALSO this being the first lot of Scan
dinavian ore ever imported into this
country
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
RuiIder of u. :. Navy Is Dead.

Charles Haines Hasweil, one of the
best-known civil and marine engineers in
the country. is dead Mt his home in New
York. lie was 9S years old. He was
engineer in chief in the navy from 1886
20 IS11
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
BASE BALL STANDINGS.
Games Won and Lost by Clubs In
Principal Leagues.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
Five Years for DeSertinn.

Five years Imprisonment IN The milf
tary prison at Fort Leavenworth is the
sentence of Edward E. Ievi2or. Co
lrmbus. Ohio. hoy who VAS charged with
deserving in the face q the ene-ng in the
Philippines while he WAS member OF
Company II Of the Seventeenth infantry.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

W. f. Corey, head of the steel trust.
welded Mabelle Gilman. the dancer. a
few minutes after midnight TIES day
morning in private chapel in the kSteI
Gotham. New York.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

George 3. Hart. aged p. freeman on
tie PENNSYLVANIA railroad vas saS.antIy
Sillea IN the SssAar.is os 2ail2sleaphis lie
WIS leaasas ont 81 sia,ow N the cas-
o. his nine Nhsn his head struck :
bridge and wss crushed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
WOULDN'T MARRY; GIRL is SHOT.
North Dakota business Man Kills
Sweetheart When She Declines.

Sweetheart when She Declines.
Alfred Thoreson, a prominent business
man of Epping, Ward county, n. D.. shot
and instantly killed his sweetheart, Amy
Willard. Thoreson then turned the wea-
pom on himself and died almost instantly.
Nils Willard was II years old and an
exceedingly pretty girl. Thoreson was
well-to-do and 80 years old. He had been
infatuated with Miss Willard for some
time and had paid her devoted atten-
tions. The other day when he met her
there was a stormy scene. He insisted
that she be married to him, and when she
positively declined he fired the pistol
shots
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
Five Killed i'm New Mexico.

Word has reached FL Paso, Texas. that
west-bound passenger train No. { on the
Southern Pacific has been wrecked near
Lordsburg, y. Nj. Five persons are said
10 have been killed and many injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
SMALLPOX VICTIM AT LARGE.
Frighteps Residents of Osgood, o.,
Almost Into Mysteries

Almost Into Mysteries.
A man running amuck with the small
pox has frightened the residents of Os.
good Ohio, almost into Mysteries and ex-
posed almost every person in the village.
Guards cannot be secured to make him
stay indoors and while suffering from the
malady he went into barber shop and
was shaved. The prosecuting attorney of
Darke county has been appealed to. New
port is the seat of the infection and there
are fifty cases in the village and immedi-
ate vicinity. At Lorraine several cards
have been put up. At Wynant trips by
the rural mail carriers were forbidden
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
Young Woman Ends Lite,

Miss eileen Clemow, aged %. grand
daughter of the late Senator Clemow.
committed suicide in Ottawa, Ont. She
was found in her room with bullet hole
through her head.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
AsSnssinntion Plot nfScovere,l.

An elaborate conspiracy 10 asSaSSinate
Emperor Nicholas. in which eighty men
are involved, was discovered accidentally
at St. Petersburg and thirty-four men
were arrested
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
spanish Primes " Bor,.

Queen Victoria Of spa gave birth
Friday to a son. who becomes heir to the
throne Of Spain. The baby viii be
named Alfonso.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

Charles Doll, wanted on a charge of
numbering John PartlOw in Hamilton.
Ohio. was arrested in q stable. He had
eaten nothing since the murder and was
almost starved. 1t is said he has con-
fessed. claiming he acted in self-defense.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
MARVIN MYSTERY uNsoLvEp.
Father Declares Lad Was Kidnapped
and Allowed to Starve.

The body Of Horace Marvin, Jr, the
4-year-old son of Or. Horace Marvin,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

An enterpriSing American has be
gun to manufacture cement tomb&
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
KIDNAPING AN EDITOR.

Probably the individuals who were
responsible for the kidnapping of a San
Francisco editor Saturday in an at
tempt to hale him away to another city
on an alleged criminal libel charge,
did not intend their action as a benefit
to the newspaper man, but it Will I'M
doubleday work out that way. 1t will
make him and his paper all the more
conspicuous, and as the cause of the
attack on him was his activity in aid
ing in the cleaning up of his city. the
attack will create a great amount Of
sympathy for him and largely increase
the popularity and widen the influence
of his paper.
1t is doubtful If the San Francisco
grafters could have made a worse
break than this attack on Managing
Editor Older, of the Bulletin. at this
time. To be sure, they are becoming
desperate. One of the men higher
up has already been sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary and another
is on trial. And an aggressive editor
of big newspaper making a fight
against graft is a serious proposition
for the grafters.
The manner in which the attack was
made on Editor Older. arresting him
surreptitiously and spiriting him away
before he could communicate with his
friends, indicates that there was little
legal merit in the cause against him.
Otherwise why did not the complain
ant prosecute him at San Francisco
where the alleged libel took place? It
looks from this distance simply like q
scheme to get rid of a bothersome
newspaper man at critical time. And
the outcome will be that the editor and
his newspaper will have more power
than ever
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
NO KNOCK ON KNOX.

The Knox presidential boom is not
making much Roadway through the
country because 1t is generally believed
that the Pennsylvania senator is back
ed by the machine and corporate inter-
ests in that state. But If a story told
in the current number of the American
Magazine is true, Senator Knox is the
kind of official the public is looking for.
Lincoln Steffens relates the incident
in his story of how Francis ]. Heney
grappled with the land graft in Oregon.
That was while Senator Knox was at
torney general in President Roosevelt's
cabinet. Heney's appointment to the
post of prosecutor aroused great oppo-
sition. The bar association of Oregon
met and resolved against his appoint
ment, and these resolutions, sent to
Senators Mitchell and Fulton, were
made the basis of a protest by them
in the senate and to the president and
the attorney general. Mr.. Steffens goes
on:
This should have shown Heney that
something big and strong was against
him, but he wasn't wise enough yet
to read such signs. Neither was the
president. but Mr.. Knox was The
president listened to the opposition and
considered it, but when he spoke to
Mr.. Knox about 1t, the attorney gem
eral declared that if Heney was with
drawn he (Knox) would resign. And
when the president asked, in surprise,
why he felt so strongly about so small
matter, Knox answered that it was
the very fact that United States sena-
tors and other such powerful persons
were so deeply concerned over so small
a matter which convinced him there
was something back of it. This salts
fed the president and he stood by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
CREDIT FOR THE SANTA FEE

While many Of us say some harsh
things about the railroads occasion
ally, it is good sign that most news
papers are willing to give them credit
for the good things they do. And in
this the newspapers are only repre-
sentative of the majority of the public.
The great mass of the people desire to
be fair and just towards the railroads,
but they also insist that the railroads
shall be fair and just with the public.
So while some of US censure the
railroads for discrimination and over
charges and occasional poor service,
we are always glad to give them credit
for doing good things. The Leaven-
worth Times illustrates this fact in the
following good word for the Santa Fe:
"A few years ago the Santa Fe rail-
road system received many hard
knocks for its Indifferent service and
lack of attention to the comfort of its
patrons And it must be said that in
truth the Santa Fe deserved every
word of such criticism. But of late
all this has been changed. At a time
when other railway corporations have
been protesting loudly about inter-
ference in their affairs by what they
termed 'Gemagogues,' when they have
been ceasing practically all characters
OF improvements thus allowing work
already under way to deteriorate, the
Santa Fe has been going right ahead
employing men and machinery and
spending vast sums of money. 1t may
be said truthfully that among all the
railroads of Kansas IT is doing easily
the most to make It's service first class
The editor of this paper recently made
q trip to western Kansas on the Santa
Fe. He was surprised to find that so
obscure branch as the Great Bend
line has been equipped with new ties
and improved in other ways With
the exception of the Pollywog, be-
tween Leavenworth and Holiday, it is
believed that the Santa Fe has not a
mile of really bad track in Kansas
There is certainly no better line and
probably none quite so good in the
matters respectively of roadbed and
maintenance between Chicago and the
Pacific coast as the Santa Fe
Particular credit for this new or
der of things must be given to ]. E.
Hurley. general manager of that rail-
way system. Hurley is a Kansas pro-
duct. claimed both by Cottonwood
Falls and Emporia. AS a capable rail-
road man he is credit to the state. a
fact which Is perhaps attributable to
the Kansas ozone or whatever the
quality or quantity is that makes a
man bigger, broader, more confident
and more aggressive. Hurley is of
that type of men which leaves behind
1t a record for doing things, for keep
ing it's feet to the ground and adj
vancing on the grades as steadily and
persistently as II does on a plain-the
type which gets there"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
The Bearded Ghost.

Mark Twain on the Minnetonka,"
said a Duluth man, talked good
deal about Christian Science, to which
he seems to be very strongly opposed.
I believe, in fact. that he has written
a book against 1t.
But the book is neither here nor
there. 1 know nothing about that.
What I want to tell you is story
Christian Science. He said that the
attempts of Christian Scientists to
prove their system scientifically were
about as truly scientific as the method
of a widow he used to know in Hart
ford This widow, at a sewing circle,
announced one day that the hair grew
after death. This was a positive fact.
She had scientific proof OF it.
"'How ghastly!' said a young girl.
And how did you get this proof, Mrs.
Jones?'
Well Mrs. Jones answered, L be-
lieve in Spiritualism, and last Satur-
day night I attended a seance.
The room was very dark and still.
We held one another's hands. In the
darkness and the stiffness the medium
materialized poor dear Joseph for me.
Il recognized his dim outlines. He
approached softly. He bent over and
kissed me, sweetly and tenderly, on
the lips. And do you KNOW
"She paused to give weight to her
words.
land do you know, whereas Joe
was clean-shaven in life, he now has
the softest. silkiest mustache and
beard -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
LFrom the Philadelphia Record,

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Even the victim of insomnia is oc>
casionally caught mapping.
1t isn't safe to call a policeman q
lobster. He might pinch you.
1t appears that sometimes even the
still. small voice of conscience Is
tongue-tied.
When a fellow has money to burn
it generally results in spontaneous
combustion.
1t is wiser to admit we are in the
wrong than to wait for our antagonist
to find it out.
The beauty about being a critic is
that you can roast other people and ger
paid for doing it.
Some people catch religion as easily
as children catch measles, and with
about as serious results.
Little Ethel-'When the mouse ran,
UP the clock what did the clock do y.
Little willie-'I s'pose the clock ran
down"
The fellow who claims that he Is
tired of the world doesn't stop to con-
slider that the world may also be tired
of him.
Tommy-"Pop. what is an eeotfst? p.
Tommy's Pop-"An egotist, my son. *
a man who thinks he can form an i'm
partial opinion of himself"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The Wichita Eagle is authority for
the statement. in some statistics on
Kansas newspapers, that Kansas edi-
tors have on hand cash and sundries
to the value of $3.50, 1000. Personal ex-
perience leads this department to- be-
lieve that the item is made UP mostly
of "sundries.''
Having tried all other plans for
winning the pennant." says the Kan
sas City Star, regarding that towns
baseball team, why doesn't Mr.. Te-
beau make the experiment of spend
ing some real money for real play
ers ?" This department makes no
claim to being an authority on the
subject, but 1t would ask if Mr.. Te-
beau has ever tried the experiment of
having his players play real baseball?
Speaking of smooth theatrical stor-
les, the one about a southeastern
Kansas preacher taking up collec-
ton to make up a shortage which a
local playhouse manager had guar
anteed to get a certain play, is one
of the best turned loose for a long
while, and the funny thing about it is
that 1t was not framed up by any ad-
vance agent
AS a whole, this department has no
desire to change places with Mr.
Rockefeller, but since learning that
his income is nineteen dollars a min
ute we might be persuaded to hold his
job for a few minutes each day while
he goes to dinner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
GOLDEN Rod.

once there was an Indian maiden
Floating in her birch canoe,
AS she floated she was longing
For a flower Of golden hue.
A water-nymph had heard her dream
And dripping walked out on the sod
And in her footprints rose a stem,
That blossomed into "Golden-rod."
The Indian maiden grasped the flower,
ana scattered all it's seeds around
Until by some magnetic power
Ihere is no spot where tits not found.
The Indian maidens gathering flowers,
round 1t where no foot had trod
AND crowned their brave young warriors
with
Their favorite flower. 'tGolden-rod."
And years had passed until it grew
On every hill in every glen
The white men came to love it. too
And honored it as their emblem.
And now there is no flower that blows,
NO blossom on it's stem that mods
with half the pride that ever glows
Around the brilliant "Golden-rod"
-Woman's Review.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.1


A man feels as Ill at ease in a dry
goods store as he does in a kitchen.
The man who Is interesting as speci-
men is not so interesting as a fellow
citizen.
Women are naturally more grateful
than men, except when they attempt to
run.
Talk to q man, and see hiw quickly
he will give evidence that you are not
entertaining.
Time sometimes works rapid changes.
That word affinity which went into
1907 looking like lily, will emerge the
complexion of soft coal.
Almost any woman can attract more
than passing attention from a married
cry married man is looking for COM
forter-
When a woman is never seen sewing
that doesn't indicate laziness: Perhaps
is doing all her sewing in the back room
up stair.
When a United States senator visits
Atchison. people think he must ride ev-
erywhere in a carriage. STILL we i'm
agine that United States senators walk
a good deal in Washington.
A pastor recently married a couple
and a society reporter asked him: How
were they dressed % WELL replie5 III.
pastor, "alI 1 observed was that the wo-
man wore a dress, and the man pants"
IT become angry every time an agent
calls on me. know he has picked me out
as victim. and 1 know 1 Will be COM
PEELED to listen. to the same old talk:
an agent never says anything new. For
thirty years / have been the victim of
agents; that is. they always rob me of
my time and often rob me of my
money I am in favor of a law giving
man right to refuse to see agents.
Rarson Irvine. ...,-.--..-..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

LF'rom the Chicago News.1
Men who always look before they
leap seldom leap
1t is harder to beat a poor carpet
than a good one.
Being in loye furnishes a girl with
one more excuse for crying.
Speaking of dogs, pointer should
have more than one good point.
Some people find fault with a bad
man because he isn't worse.
It's the easiest thing in the world
for a widower to marry a widow.
A woman will honor her husband
as long as he is willing to love and
obey her.
Which goes the faster after being
broken-a thoroughbred colt or a SO
bill?
He is a wise man who doesn't let his
business interfere with his pleasure at
all times
Feminine curiosity originated with
Mother Eve when she took the first
bite of that apple
A woman has lost her chief attrac-
ton for a man when he ceases to won
der what she will do next.
Why does the average girl bestow
more affection on pet dog when
young man is present than at any other
time? s s. = ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
AYHAWKER JOTS

Corn cutters in Butler county are
paid eight cents shock and board.
Some of them cut 200 shocks last
week, earning SIG besides their board.
The Leavenworth schools had stiff
competition during their first week.
Monday was circus day and the rest
of the week was taken up with the
fair.
Boom note from the Cimarron jack
sonian: 1t is reported that three or
four new dwelling houses will be built
in Cimarron as soon as the carpenters
can get to them. Building is on the
boom here.
Tom Cordry believe that even the
present big bank deposits IN Kansas
will be increased some when that east
ern farmer who ordered a pint OF
alfalfa seed of a Kansas farmer sends
his draft in payment for 1t.
Sylvia will have a lecture course the
coming winter, opening 1t with Bin
Gus as his namesake, Harry Bone,
United States district attorney for
Kansas, Sylvia will get its moneys
worth.
Concordia Blade: Fred Larocque
had a sale the other day at MS farm
amounting to $4,000. Everybody paid
cash, except one party who gave his
note for something in the ne1ghbor-
hood of 5000. No better indication of
the RTedl pIOSPCAANJ Va OAOAN 1890
could be given.
Due warning issued by. the Wells
Vile Globe: This is fair warning to
the people who have been asking the
editor and wife out to eat dinner
They'd better not do it again for we've
a horse and brand new Staver buggy
with its rocking chair springs ana
we're going to accept some of these
country invitations this fall"
Boast from Roy Tapley: Wichita
claims greatness because girl VINO
once lived there was at one time en-
gagged to a cowboy who claimed to be
heir to an earldom in England. We
refuse to be cowed. Lawrence was
once the home of a woman VINO after
wards shook hands with a man who
sat on the jury in the Thaw trial. So
there!
War CORES pondence in the Larned
Chronoscope: The residents on Main
street enjoyed a thrilling sight last
came marching down thehill in full
uniform, off for the war at Fort Riley.
Deacon" Mcfarland saw the soldier
how as he came marching down the
hill, and his patriotic soul was touch ed.
In his enthusiasm he buckled on his
snare drum-the one that did SUCH
valiant service in the old Larned band
and rushing out to the street, peat
a quickstep until the young soldier was
cut of sight.
Sounds-like-a-nature item from
the Atchison Globe: Charlie, the
faithful old horse which has hauled
mail from the depot to the postoff1ce
for years, is a very intelligent animal.
Near the depot is bill board. Charlie
will never look at 1t unless a new bill
appears on it; then he will cross the
street and look at it as if taking IN
every detail. If he thinks the girls are
pretty, he will smile, and If he thinks
they are homely he gives them the
horse laugh Many times Charlie
hauIs the mail to the postoffice without
a driver, and when his dinner time
arrives he will go to the stable by him.
self.