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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
BALLOONS In RACE.
FOUR GREAT NATIONS VIE IN
AERIAL CONTEST.
Nine Teams of Leading Countries of
the World Race Amid the Clouds
at the International Afrshfp Con-
test at st. Louis.

Nine mammoth balloons, represent
ing four of the great nations of the
world, started at ST. Louis Monday
afternoon on a voyage which was ex-
pected to add an important chapter to
the history of aerial navigation.
The contest was known officially as
the second international aeronautie
cup race, and the prize, a massive sill
yer trophy and $500 in cash, was to
be awarded to the pilot whose skill
and daring should land his car farthest
from the starting point AS the bal
looms were of similar des On and ma
terial the race would go To the French
English, German or American aero
naut who was capable of taking the
best advantage of favorable winds and
who lost the least ground under adj
versity.
The race marked the entrance Of the
United States into competition with
the European nations in a field which
had been left almost exclusively to
them in the past. 1t was through the
winning of the cup last year in race
from Paris by Lieutenant Frank p,
Lahm of the United States army that
the contest was brought to this coun-
try. The three American teams are
all that were allowed TO enter under
the rules of the competition, but SO
great has interest grown that tha Aprn
Club Of America, which was in charge
could have entered many times the
number of balloons permitted
The average person who reads about
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
Inferesting News Items.

Railway fremen on all eastern lines
will demand an increase in wages in the
near future. 1t will be refused by the
companies, officials say.
In Springfield, Ohio. George +. Niuffer
former member Of the board Of public ser
vice, was sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary for padding payrolis.
Policeman Anton Bachman was shot
and killed by Peter Clarity, a plumber,
in Cincinnati Clarity, it is said. was
intoxicated and fred apparently without
provocation.
Judge Barnes Of Chicago has postponed
until Nov. s the execution of Herman
Billek. convicted of the murder of Mary
Yrzal and sentenced to hang on Oct. IL.
The stay was granted so BiIlek's attor-
ney could prepare the record Of the case
for an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Railway Commissioner Williams, after
inspecting the Missouri Pacific tracks in
Nebraska. has pronounced the roadbed
unsafe. He urges that passenger trains
be restricted to twenty-five miles an hour.
freight trains TO twenty. and heavy freight
trains to fifteen miles. He wants gaso-
line velocipede to examine the roadbeds
Of railways in the State.
The Central Federated Union at New
York has received an appeal from Presi-
dent Gompers Of the American Federation
of Labor which has been sent to all the
affiliated unions asking them TO request
all political candidates in the present cam
paign to commit themselves openly as to
government by injunction.
Two broken arms. one man believed to
be seriously injured internally. one man
with an ear nearly torn off and dozens Of
others that have inj1ries of minor ma
ture. resulted from one Of the briefest
but most spirited flag rushes in the his
tory Of Ohio Wesleyan university, which
occurred in Delaware. Ohio. and ended
in victory for the freshmen.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
In the snortins World.

Sir Thomas Upton expressed great dis
appointment at not being able to make
terms tc race for the America Cup.
Keene's Colin won a $1,000 stake at
Brighton.
George Bennett announced he would
quit the tiirf forever.
The Yale football eleven started of
with a smart victory over Wesleyan.
Bobby Walthour, the American cyelist,
was seriously hurt in a race in Berlin.
Line bucking won the game for the
University Of Pennsylvania which it's
team played with Villa Nova.
Philadelphia and Detroit American
League teams played remarkable seven
teen-inning game TO drawn score.
The Cardinals, in St Louis, took more
than their share of the games played,
while the Browns did wonderfully well On
their eastern trip.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
EDIsoN,s CEMENT HOUSE.
To BE Built In "A Day and at Very
Moderate Cost.

Moderate COST.
In greeting the members of the Ameri-
can Electro-Chemical Society and show
ing them through his laboratories and
manufacturing plants at Orange, \. j.,
Thomas A. Edison showed his visitors a
big model of a three-story house. Il
have had New York architects working
on the plans of that" he said, land am
ready to begin on it myself. In fact, L
already have made the molds for the win
dow castings. Next summer | will build
just such a house within twelve hours
at an expense of $1,000, and the man
who labors on it will know that it was
built on his basis of wage-$1.o0 a day.
What / am going to inaugurate," he said,
sis this. | am going to fashion cast iron
molds for the entire house. This outfit
will cost $4,000 for house of this de-
sign. All the builders will have to do is
to put it up and pour in the concrete.
Then they will allow six days for settling
and drying and the family may move in.
The cast iron mold of that house may be
used on countless other buildings. The
economic value of this rests. for one in
stance, in that the house will never be in
need of repair. The roof and floors will
be of concrete: the concrete will be made
on the site; there Will be no fire insur-
ance; as another instance of its saving
value, the man who owns the house can
let his children hack at it with harchets
and axes and lose nothing. There will be
no wood in it save for a strip upon which
carpets may be tackled" All of the more
recent structures in the group of labora-
tories of Mr.. Edison's plant are of cement
made by him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
MAelLLs SET FREE.
Judge at Decatur Declares Murder
Is Not Proven.

Judge at Decatur Declares Murder
Is Not Proven.
Fred FL. Magill and his young wife,
Faye Graham Magill, are not guilty Of
the murder of Mrs Pet Candy Magill
at Clinton, H., last May. So declared
the jury in the case at Decatur, acting
under instructions of Judge Cochran,
who said that. while the State had
proved beyond a doubt the death of the
first Mrs. Magill, it had failed to show
that murder had been committed.
This being the case, the jury was or
dered to bring in verdict of not
guilty.
On May 81 Mrs. Pet Magill was found
dead in her home at Clinton, ILL.,, ans a
post-mortem examination held six weeks
after her death showed that she had been
sufocated by chloroform.
On July in Denver Colo, Fred Ma
gill and Miss Faye Graham, a young
woman who had been close friend of the
family, were married.
Four days later in San Diego, Cal,
Magill and his second wife were arrested
on charge of numbering the first Mrs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
UtEE lTIEAlgs 2sS[5RS
.s.sssS0SIITS ssS1S Ii Ef<sS$)-=9~ GN
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Chicago Cattle, common TO prime.
$500 S7.35; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $500; sheep, fair TO choice, $500
to 1913; wheat, No. 2, $1.0l to Si.of :;
corn, No. 2, Gle to 62e; oats. Standard.
51c to j2c; rye, No. ,, SIC TO SSc hay.
timothy, $500 to $1,000; prairie, $500
to $1,000; butter, choice creamery, 21c.
to 2Sc; eggs, fresh, Zoe to 24c potatoes
per bushel 55c 10 6Jc.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to $40; hogs, good to choice heavy.
$500 to $3.50 sheep common 20 prime,
$500 to $4.75: wheat, No. ,, Sl.03 to-
$104 corn, No . white, 63e to 6fc :;
oats, No white, 31c TO 52c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to s715;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to,
$3.50; wheat, No ., $1.05 to $1.06; corn
No. ., 63c to 64c oats, No. ,, Joc TO-
Gle; rye, No. ., SIC TO S3c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 500;
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 To-
1925: wheat, No .. $1.01 to $1.03; corn,
No. 2 mixed Csc to soc; oats, No. 2
mixed. 53c to 54c rye, No. 2, Ole to 93c-
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
S4.UO to $500; sheep, Sou 10 Hf.fo'
wheat, No. ?. $103 to $1.0f corn, No. 3
yellow, &c to Csc oats. No. 3 white,
DOC to 56c; rye, No. 2, SOC to 9oc.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. northern
Sill to $113; corn, No. 3, 62c to CSC;
oats, standard, SIC to Doc; rye, Ne. !,
SIC to SSc; barley standard, $l.1e to-
Sill; pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$500 to $500; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to 500; sheep. common to good mixed,
800 to 1925; lambs, fair to choice.
$500 to $7.75.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500.
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to.
$3.50: wheat, No. red. $1.09 to Sill
corn, No. 2, Tie to TIE; oats, natural
white, 5Sc TO 62c butter, creamery, 25c
to 2Sc; eggs, western, l9c to 2fc.
Toledo Wheat, No 2 mixed, $1.00 to-
STOP; corn, No. mixed, 63c to &c /;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c TO 54c; rye, No.
2, soc to 90c; clover seed, prime, S1e.7O.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
Prairie schooner on broadway

New York City recently witnessed the
novel spectacle of an old-fashioned prairie
schooner drawn by yoke of oxen pass
ing down Broadway. This outfit was the
property of Ezra Meeker who had come
all the way from Puyallup in the State
OF Washington, traversing the old Oregon
trail, over which he went to the Pacific
coast in 1856, from his home in Ohio.
Mr.. Meekers purpose in making the trip
east is to arouse public sentiment in fa-
vor of bill which he will have intro
duced in Congress, at its next session, to
build permanent concrete road along the
route of the old trail in commemoration
of the pioneers who constituted the adj
vance guard to the West. 1t is his in
tention to go to Oyster Bay to see the
President, and will afterwards proceed to
Washington
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
WHY JAPAN WANTS NO WAR.
Another Struggle Would Impose an
Unbearable Financial strain


Unbearable Financial Strain.
Japan's national debt is 81. 100. OO0. 900,
sum equaling almost one-seyenth of her
total national wealth. OF this amount
S31f, 135,jo0 represents loans made
abroad for carrying on the wars with
China and with Russia, and the remain
der internal obligations. These loans
bear. on an average. = per cent interest.
making her interest item alone some 500.
100000 annually. To meet this debt.
principal and interest, and to provide for
her running expenses, Japan has reve-
nue., estimated, for the present year. at
$30S, 22I 900. derived in large part from
direct taxation on land. incomes. business
mining, customs, sugar, bourses, etc. The
fact that this estimate exceeds that of
1904 by $l4t,494.090 affords a striking
illustration of the increasing strain upon
the taxpayer IN paying the cost of wars.
Furthermore, there has been an increase
in the annual pension expense of Japan of
from S15,000.000 to $1S,000,000 during
the past two years. Another war would
mean more interest charges. increased
pensions and heavier taxes upon a people
already overburdened with war debt.
Japan could not hope to prosecute a
war against the United States with less
expense than that of her struggle against
Russia, even if she were successful in OBJ
taxing the necessary funds for conduct
ing the conflict 1t will be recalled that
her 4O-year ) per cent bonds for her
Sill, 100000 loan in London aud Paris
lest March brought only 99la, whereas
gilt-edged, 40-year, ) per cent investment
securities ought TO bring more than par.
If it is true that the money markets de-
termine wars in these days it is clear
that war between the United States and
Japan is not among the possibilities of the
immediate future.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
SUED IN COAL TRUST.
U. 8. Government Makes Defendants
of Persons Named in Answers.

U. :. Government Makes Defendants
of Persons Named in Answers.
In an amended bill filed by attorneys
for the United States government in the
equity proceedings in Philadelphia against
the alleged anthracite coal trust forty
five additional defendants are named. All
the new defendants were mentioned IN
the answers filed by the original defend
ants They are named in the amended
bill on the ground that they were con-
nected with the previously named coal
roads and mining companies by certain
financial transactions and coal purchase
contracts. Subpoenas will be issued for
the last named defendants, who will be
examined by government attorneys on all
matters mentioned in the governments
petition for an injunction against the al
legged combination. Most of the new de-
PENDANTS are coal companies, but they in
clude in addition the Mercantile Trust
Company of New York City, the Pennsyl-
vania Company for Insurance on Lives
and Granting Annuities, Mrs. Sarah
Drexel Van Rensselaer,, Joseph, George
3. and Emma j. Jermyn, and the Della
ware and Hudson company.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29

ton, became known when John r. Brad
ley, the wealthy New York sportsman. re-
turned to North Sydney en- his schooner
yacht after landing Cooke, with sledS,
dogs and provisions COR two years. Mr..
Bradley. who is the financial hacker of
this expedition, says that their intentions
were kept secret for fear that the Peary
expedition would be stirred to greater ae-
tivity. Cooke will leave Smiths Sound
at 80 degrees north latitude next spring,
and after crossing Ellesmereland, VIII try
10 reach the pole by the open polar sea.
Unlike Peary. Dr. Cooke is to be accom-
panied by only two Eskimos and dogs
sufficient for two sleds. The sleds are
built with roofs and warmed with lamps
so that the occupants may sleep while
progress is being made. Two canvas
boats are also carried
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
war UntiI End of Time.

In recent address in the army chapel
on Governors Island Bishop Henry Q.
Potter expressed the belief that while the
objects of The Hague conference were
very beautiful, they were only a dream.
He called the armies of the world the POI
lice of the world, contending that their
existence was as necessary TO the safety
of the globe as was the existence Of the
police to the safety Of man in his home
at night He did not believe that peace
would ever prevail, for, said he: Until
the last day of the earth there will be
armies and there viii be wars"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
oustr womnn, 10000 MAY Qnlt.

Three thousand employees in the big
mills of the ]. 4 F. Coats Thread Com
pany, in Pawmcket. X. l., threaten to
strike if Mrs. ThoI:as Tuite, an employee
of the mills for thirty-ive years, who was
recently discharged is not reinstated.
Mrs Tuite was dismissed for alleged in
competency, but because she was presi-
dent of the Carders' Union and active in
union affairs. the employees profess to be-
lieve that this is really responsible for
her dismissal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
From Far and Near.


The best glass eyes cost about SOC
each.
Mrs. II. u. Money, wife of the Sen
ator from Mississippi. died suddenly al
her home near Beauvoir, Miss.
The body of Mrs w f. Turner, a
niece of the late Samuel ]. Tilden, was
taken from the river at Detroit She
had committed suicide
The Navy Department has awarded to
Armour & Co. Chicago. the contract for
furnishing 100000 pounds of beef AT
S70.S0O. This is part of the supplies for
the Pacific cruise of the battleship squad
rom
Three lives were lost and thirty-seven
persons were hurt in a collision on the
Southern railway at Rudd, y c., when a
passenger train ran into freight stand
ing on a siding.
Plans of the National City bank FOL
remodeing the old custom house at Wall
and William streets, New York. have been
announced. When completed the bank
viii be one of the largest in the country.
The Madrid government has decided to
recall General Santa 0lalla, the Spanish
commander at Casablanca. whose differ
euces with General Drude have caused
endless frictions between the French and
Spanish forces.
Discouraged By i'll health, Gen. Ifivro
Roian. commandment Of the Braves district
Of the Mexican army. committed suicide
h his quarters at Juarez by shooting
himself in the head with pistol. Gen.
Roian was ~ years Of age and had COM
manded the Braves district for the last
five years.
Miss Helen Miller Gould of New York
has gwen $4,000 for the equipment of
the gymnasium OF the new $4,000
Rockefeller gift, the naval y. NJ. c. A.
AZ Norfolk. Va. The entire building will
h furnished at a minimum OF S10O per
room as memorials to persons named by
the donors There are 10 be about 200
OF these memorials.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
CROWDED CAR RUNS DOWN HILL.
Over Enhancement in Cincinnati
One Killed; Many Injured.


One Killed; Many Injured.
One man was killed, six persons were
dangerously and probably twenty-five 9TH
ers slightly hurt when an Elberon ave-
nue. car jumped the track and went over
twenty-hve-foot embankment at Mount
Hope, in the western end of Cincinnati.
Attorney Harry ii. Bausch was taken
from the wreckage badly injured and died
before he could be taken to the hospital.
1t is feared that some of the injured may
also die The Elberon avenue line skirts
the southern section of Price hill, having
a steep grade around Mount Hope. As
the car was coming down this grade the
motorman lost control of the car, which
jumped the track soon afterward, appar-
emily striking a bad rail, going clear
across the street and over the bank. 1t
landed upside down at the foot and the
heavy trucks crashed through the car,
number of those most seriously hurt be-
ing caught in the car. The car was
crowded and only three or four jumped
before the accident, so that the entire
carload went over the bank and nearly
every one was more or less seriously hurt.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
y,ny Trees i'm small space.

In the Garden Magazine II. T. Barnes
advances the opinion that the raple
spread OF the San Jose scale and s.ber
tree enemies will bring about the adoption
of dwarf varieties for the production CT
fruits. especially by the amateur fruit
grower. The reascns be gives for this
are the greater eSse with which small
trees NAV be treated with sprays for pro-
tection from enemies that feed upon the
foliage and bark and the possibility of
raising these trees in small yards. the
earIIness with which they come into bear
ing and the scantiness OF their shade, thus
lea wing the ground available for small
fruits and vegetables.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29

Magill. They We're brought back to Gin
ton on requistion papers issued by Gov.
Deneen, and secured a change of venue to
Decatur.
In the trial the State charged that Ma
gill and Miss Graham by their conduct
had driven Mrs. Magill to suicide, and
were therefore guilty of murder. The de-
Tense introduced letters written by Mrs.
Magill shortly before her death, in which
she complained of ''unbearable headaches"
and constant 'nagging' of her husbands
relatives. Witnesses also testified that
Mrs. Magill had often talked of commit
ting suicide.
In letter to her husband. written the
day before her death, Mrs. Magill asked
him to marry Faye Graham in case any
thing should happen to her.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
5000, 900 ACRES FOR SETTLERS.
Through Construction of Irrigating
Dams Vast Area Is Reclaimed.

As the result of the construction of
irrigation works by the government and
private parties, it is expected that 5,000,-
600 acres of land in the West will be
opened to settlement next year. Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson has divided
the irrigation and the drainage investiga-
tions of the Office of experiment stations
into two sections and promoted DIR. Sam
uel Fertier, irrigation engineer, stationed
at Berkeley, Cal, to be chief Of irriga-
ton Investigations, and G. G. Elliott,
chief drainage engineer, to be chief of
drainage Investigations. The Office of ex-
pertinent stations will make special eff
fort to aid settlers in adopting the most
economical and effective methods of irri-
CATION 1t has made plans for the drain
age of 100000 acres, principally in
States east of the Mississippi, during the
M 81 wear
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
Cold over the Equator.

At the recent congress of German sci
entists Prof Hergesell of the Strassburg
university said that balloon experiments
had proved that the atmosphere at high
attitudes is coolest over the equator and
warmest over the poles. The balloons
used in these experiments had automatic
instruments attached and were unnamed.
AT the height of twelve and half miles
the thermometer registered temperature
OF 14S degrees below zero over the equs-
tor, while at the same altitude over CEN
tral Europe the balloons registered only
76 to 81 below zero.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
HONORS GO BEGGING.
YOUNG MEN NOT ATTRACTED
TOWARD MILITARY LIFE.
Vacancies as Second Lieutenants Are
Many and Few Are Applied for
Slayer ON Trial for Triple Murder
I'm New York.

There is short cut to a commission
in the United States army without passing
through the four-year course at West
Point, but young American college men
do not appear disposed to take advantage
of the opportunity. There has always
been the strongest kind of pressure by
young Americans to get into West Point,
yet now that the way opens to secure an
appointment as second lieutenant directly
and without the four-year course at the
military academy, no one seems to be dis
posed TO profit by it. Capt. Hagood of
the coast artillery. who has been desig-
mated to collect information for the War
Department as to tine causes and remedies
for this remarkable situation, says: For
the first time in the history of the army,
vacancies in the grade of second lieuten-
ant are going begging. The artillery bill
of last year authorized the appointment
in the coast artillery each year for five
years of sixty second lieutenants over and
above ordinary casualties. Invitations
were sent to the presidents of 125 of the
principal technical schools and colleges
requesting them to send in the names OF
graduates who desired to be appointed
second lieutenants in the coast artillery.
After waiting six months no names have
been submitted Eighty-fve vacancies in
the grade exist to-day and the only APP
plications on file are about twenty enlist
ed men and civilians" The enlisted force
is even worse off, and, according TO Capt.
Hagood, there is need for 10000 able
bodied men for the coast artillery at S13
month with board and lodging. Not
only is it impossible to recruit the army
to the authorized strength" he says, but
the inadequate force is shrinking day by
day. On Oct. IL there were only 1928
enlisted men in the coast artillery, al
though its authorized strength is 1892.
so that the service actually has lost 1000
men in the last year, and the non-com-
missioned officers, particularly, are leav-
ing by hundreds for good jobs in civil
life''
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
FIoods sim Rnvnge spain

The floods near Barcelona, Spain, con-
tinue to be most serious. Up to the pres
ent time five persons have been drowned
and 10000 thrown out of work. The
greatest distress is reported from Man
resa. the birthplace of St. Ignatius. the
founder of the Society of Jesus. This vii
lage has been terribly ravaged and the
waters have washed out countless collins
and bodies from the local cemetery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
PENSION ROLL LOSES $4,000.

Decrease In Number of Beneficiaries
Greatest i'm History of Bureau
The decrease of 1900 in the number
of pensioners on the rolls at the end of
the fiscal year 1907, as compared with the
year previous, is the feature of the annual
report of Pension Commissioner Warner,
just issued. This is the greatest decrease
in the history of the pension bureau. The
total number of pensioners June 80, 1907,
was 967.3Tl, and the total value of the
pension roll at that date was 9I40,SJ0,-
$50