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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26

tors and to make them prove, however
reluctantly that Thaw either was and
is incs.rably insane or never was in
sane, good many people began to gel
the idea that the wonderful defense
in the Thaw case is very much like a
stage PLAY, highly artistic and emo
tional production.
Jeromes task is a hard one. The
main purpose of his rebuttal will be to
assail, SO strongly as to destroy them,
the brain storms" upon which the de-
Tense has pinned its faith in Thaw's
the assistance of nine experts, and by
the preponderance of numbers, dignity
and prestige in the world of medical
science of these men the prosecutor eX-
poets to bring the jury to the belief
that when Thaw shot White he was
thoroughly responsible and that he
nationally deliberated and executed the
murder He is supported in his theory
o. the crime by Drs. Flint, Mahon and
Macdonald, who have studied Thaw
throughout the trial. The task before
Jerome's nine experts, all of whom may
not appear on the stand but will take
part in the preparation of questions is
to account for every act by Harry
Thaw on the theory of sanity. Each in
stance indicative of "brain storms" ac-
cording to the defense experts, is to
be logically and scientifically construed
into proof of the mental soundness of
Thaw, by the prosecution authorities
on the brain.
Mr.. Jerome will have his alienists
support the theory that if there was
anything unusual or unnatural in the
appearance of Thaw at the time he
killed Stanford White the exhilaratiop
OF intoxicants was responsible. The
district attorney will also develop the
theory that Thaw's hostility to White
was dse to jealousy. rational jealousy
OF his wife's fondness for his rival
Although the general public has
learned the details of but one quarrel
among the lawyers who are defending
Harry Thaw for the murder of Stan
ford White, it is known among those
who have been in close touch with the
proceedings before the scenes of the
great case-and behind them-that 9TH
er disagreements, Just as violent, have
ragged from time to time among the six
counsellors who are working so hard
To steer for the young millionaire a
course that will dodge the reefs of the
death-chair and the shoals of the mad
house. Yet the defense is moving for
ward in fairly harmonious manner.
Harry Il. Thaw's fight to save the
life the state contends has been for
feited by the death of Stanford White
will cost the young man close to $780,
600 according to an estimate compiled
from authoritative sources. The ex-
pense of the States attempt TO send
the wealthy Pittsburger to the chair
will be in excess of 100000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
NEW YORK.

Spring trade is making most salts
factory comparison with the volume at
this time last Year. except in few sec
tons, where the weather. is still unfav-
orable. and mercantile collections improve
steadily despite the high money market.
Leading industries have orders covering
production we'll into the future. Textile
mills are producing at remarkable rate
without threatening any accumulation of
stocks and advanced prices for cotton
goods have not checked demands. In this
division the statistical position is beyond
precedent. mills being sold ahead for
many months and purchasers readily ac-
cepting whatever deliveries can be Sc
cured. Premiums above regular quota
tons are willingly paid for early ship
ments. Most jobbers have now provided
for all of the spring trade, but others
will not be able to meet the requirements
of customers. This is especially the case
with western jobberS, who still receive
liberal orders. Little interest is shown
by the export division, as prices are above
the views of foreign markets, but produc-
ers need no support from abroad.-Brad-
streets Report
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26

OF Or. II. n. Marvin of Dover, disap-
peared. For time it was supposed he
had wandered away and become lost,
but the conviction was soon forced
upon the distracted family that he had
been kidnapped.
Rewards were offered and detectives
undertook the search for the boy A
ship captain was arrested on suspicion,
but he was speedily discharged. Mean
while the State increased the feryor of
the search by adding to the personal
offers of reward until the sum now
amounts to $4,000 for the recovery of
the boy and the capture of his abduc-
tors
Philadelphia detectives believed the
child had been carried TO that city and
they made a careful search of the ne
gro quarters. This belief was based on
the statements of Walter Winner that
he saw such a child on Market street
in charge of two negro women. At that
time he had not read the kidnapping
story, but he was struck by the beauty
of the child and wondered that he
should be in such company
Then the State authorities received
demand for pay for returning the
boy. This demand came through a New
York detective agency to whom it was
mailed from the Canadian border near
Detroit. The name signed to the let
ter is that of a big negro with a bad
reputation in New York. While the
letter may be fake so much attention
was paid to it that detectives have been
sent to the neighborhood from which it
came.
The disappearance of little Horace
was remarkable. Dr. Marvin with his
family had recently moved upon farm
which he has purchased from Charles
Goodell On the day of the disappear
ance Mr.. Goodell was drawing away
effects not included in the sale. The
Marvin children and their cousins were
playing hide-and-seek and as Goodell
was driving away number of them
raE to him and asked if Horace was in
the wagon. Mr.. Goodell had seen the
boy sitting atop of a haystack as he
drove by. He told the children so and
they ran back. But they could not find
the boy and finally gave the alarm.
That was the last seen of the child.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
~~~~U~~~oo

A dispatch from Rome is authority for
the sta cement that the silence of the
Vatican regarding the publication of the
correspondence of Mgr Montagnini, for
merly secretary to the nunciature at
Paris, is due to the fact that the viola
ton of the nunciature by the French
government is now in the hands of Aus
tria. The question is being examined
under its different aspects, meantime the
Vatican is In the position Of q third par
ty, and will remain passive, awaiting
developments.
The new Lords day act has gone into
force throughout Canada. with the ex-
ception of the province of Quebec. Some
OF the things prohibited on Sunday by
this act are Public entertainments given
for money. baseball football. gambling,
racing, hunting, shooting, fishing, the
sale of intoxicating liquors (except by
physicians prescription between the
hours of p. m. Saturday and 6 a. IN.
Monday, the sale of cigars, the bringing
into Canada or selling of any foreign
newspaper. the selling Of goods and the
carrying ON of any business. When the
bill was passed by parliament, some of
the members from Quebec having protest
ed. a clause was added permitting such
provincial legislatures as wished to do so
to evade the law by enacting a measure of
their own. The Quebec legislature was
the only one to take advantage of this
by passing bill practically maintaining
existing conditions. Some complaints as
to the stringency of the new law are re-
ported on the part of travellers.
Following the announcement that Min
lister of the Interior BRAND had changed
front by refusing to accept the proposal of
Cardinal Richard as to church leases, and
the publication of the alleged church doc
umenss taken from Papal Nuncio Mon
taenini. who was expelled from France,
the Vatican published a note in the Os-
seryatore Romano denouncing the French
government as a vioiator of right and
truth. On the same day the seized docn-
Hents were turned over to the Austrian
embassy for transmission to Mgr. Mon
tagnini, presumably with desire TO make
amends for their seizure. The negotia-
tons for the lease of churches were def
nitely broken off.
The result Of the first elections under
the new constitution of the Trsnsvaal is
clear majority of five for the 'het
volk" or Boz party in the lower house of
tie legislature. On most questions they
will have the support of the nationalist,
laborites and independents, giving ma
jority of twenty-three TO the ministry
headed by Cen Botha. one of the leaders
in the late war. At present the members
of the upper house are appointed BY the
Governor, thus checking the victorious
party. Botha insists that British suprem-
acy is safer in the hands of the Beers
than in those of cosmopolitan capitalists.
He says they are not hostile 10 the mines,
but to the men who run them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
reieeraphic Brsvitie..

The Hardman Rubber Company's plant
at Bellevile. ~ j.. was destroyed by fire,
involving loss of $4,000.
The Y. NJ. c. A. building in Utica, n.
Y. was completely destroyed by fire. The
loss will be Upward of $4,000.
Crossed electric wires caused fire at
Cincinnati which destroyed the Ohio Car
riage Company's plant. Loss $4,000,
fully covered by insurance.
The coroner is investigating the death
of Mrs. A. NJ. Darling, who was found
dead with her skull crushed at her home
in Oberlin. Ohio.
Chief of Police George G. Sheets OF
Salt Lake City. charged with conspiracy
TO defraud tourists by protecting gam
blers who feeced them, was held for trial
While preparations were being made
at Snartanbnrs. :. C. 10 hang John Shell
TON. a negro. convicted Of killing his faith
er-ip-law. sheriff Nichols received an or
der from Chief Justice Pope of the SUI
preme Court staying the execution until
.snril 10.
Frank NJ. Mabry, q well-known banker
Of McGregor. Texas. was sentenced to five
ledfS IN TUE ItdNtilN Oiih pthitfhtidi9 AOI
embezzlement from national bank.
NJ. jor z. W. McClaughry. warden of
the United States penitentiary at Leav-
enworth. Kan, received word OF the de-
tention in Portland, Ore, of James Sey-
mour, one Of the mutineers who escaped
from the penitentiary Nov. Z. 1901.
The judges of the Court of General
Sessions OF New York may ask the Legis-
lature to increase the penalty for black
mail accompanied by threats from the
present maximum of FIVE years imprison-
ment to a maximum Of twenty years
The Iowa standpatters absolutely con-
trolled the making Of federal slate for
the State at Washington, and the Cum
Minis faction was not allowed one APP
Dointment.
: Charles w. McWkorters, formerly as
sistanf cashier IN the city postoffice.
Washington, indicted for embezzlement of
$4,000. entered plea of guilty in the
criminal court He was sentenced to one
year and one day in the penitentiary.
Frask Van Dusen, chief assistant gem
eral passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg. died of pneumo-
MIA at Pittsburg. Two hours later his
wife. Mrs. Sarah Van Dusen, expired in
an adjoining room from the same disease.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
JOHN Des BROTHER A BIG LOSER
Frank Rockefeller, Beaten I'm Mis-
souri, Suit, WOrsted in Deals.

HockeIe1er, beaEcn IN MIS-
souri, Suit, worsted In Deals.
Frank Rockefeller's trouble in Mis-
souri, court recalls the fact that he has
lost heavily in nearly every big deal he
has entered. Notwithstanding his state
ment in court that he was busted" there
are very few of his friends in Cleveland
who take any stock in it. He has beer
raped so hard and so often and so ex
tensively only to come back smiling 70
more, that they say he will be in thi
fighting line again within a week or two
His first tussle with hard luck was when
the Standard Oil Company was being
formed by his brother, John D., Frank
owned an independent refinery and refus
ed to part with it. This was the first
break between the brothers. Frank LOST
and the combine took over his property
He next entered the iron ore business
with James Corrigan, and the two became
involved in fight with John D., and they
lost. Corrigan charged he had been de
frauded out of $500 shares of Standard
Oil stock. He had indor sed notes FOL
Frank and had pledged the stock to John
ID. Frank had put up 1000 shares oil
the Franklin Iron Mining Company stock
as collateral. John d. won the suit and
kept all the stock. Frank was then sue
cessfu in several other business ventures
and bought a stock farm and trottine
horses. In this he lost money. BE drop
ped about 100000 through the suicide OF
Il. w. Prior and the consequent failure
of Denison, Prior < Co., brokers. He
then bought a large ranch in Kansas.
where he is in the stock raising business.
This venture is said TO have cost him
100000. And now comes the story OF
mines
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
BLOW AT RAILROADS.
President Appoints Inland Watel
Ways Com ssfon

President Appoints Inland Water
Ways Commission.
The development of a comprehensive
system of rivers and canals in the Uni
ted States is the object of the inland
water ways commission created by
President Roosevelt. The PresideN
announces that he is actuated solely
by broad considerations of national
policy, and that the railroads have
shown that they are no longer capable
of moving the crops and manufactures
fast enough TO secure prompt transac-
tion of the business of the country
and that the only complete remedy for
the present car shortage is compile
nentary system of transportation by
water.
Progress in inland transportation,
having made full revolution has got
back to where Il started The rivers
were the highways of the pioneers.
Their canoes and freight boats gave
civilization to the wilderness. The first
settlements Rugged the muddy banks
OF western streams. The first crops
were sent to market by river. Then the
railroads came and river transporta-
ton was almost abandoned The
canals which have been constructed at
heavy cost before the railroads were
built fell into disuse.
Now the country has outgrown the
railroads. In ten years the traffic of
the northern interior States has dou-
bled, though railroad facilities have
increased only one-eighth during the
same period. 1t seems probable that
the discrepancy between traffic and
train capacity will continue to grow
greater as time goes on. The rivers
must come into use again. This is rec
0gnized by President Roosevelt, who
has appointed an inland waterways
commission of eight members, It's
chairman being Congressman Burton
of Cleveland, the chairman of the
House Committee on Rivers and Har-
bors. This commission has for its task
the formulating of a report giving the
best methods of developing "a compile
mentary system of transportation by
water
This is hopeful sequel of the wide
spread movement which has been in
augurated by the commercial organiza-
tons of the Mississippi valley to secure
the Improvement of the inland rivers.
One may suppose that the commission
will approach the task assigned to it
with a full realization of the import
ance which its recommendations will
have to the entire country. 1t should
work out broad and systematic pro-
gram for river Improvement to be made
effective by Congress. To supersede
the haphazard, logrolling appropria-
tons of the past by appropriations
made with system and knowledge must
prove a great gain to the nation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
KILL JEWS IN RoUMANlA.
MObs Slaughter the Semites, Sac
stores and Loot Homes.

MObs Slaughter the Semites, Sack
stores and Loot Homes.
Masacres of Jews that equal in bar
barity the bloodiest ever perpetrated
in Russia have taken place in Rou-
mania. The most horrifying news
comes from Podihilo, OH this side of
the border, from Kishineff, where at
least 200 Jews have been killed and
hundreds more wounded. In numerous
districts of Moldavia bitter warfare
is being waged against the Jews, thou
sands of whom have been driven from
their homes, robbed, and mercilessly
beaten by mobs of peasants. The starv-
ing and otherwise distressed Jews who
have survived attacks and massacres
have appealed to King Charles for pro-
lection. Troops have been sent out in
response.
The massacres at Podihilo were car
ried on through several days. The
towns population of 1000 was made
up of 1000 Jews and 5000 Rouman-
ians. The whole population was in
volved in the fighting, and in addition
several thousand peasants from the
country districts assisted the Rouman-
ian urban conbatants.
For the most part the Roumanians
We're armed. They attacked the Jews
with ruthless hand, sacking stores
smashing windows, looting residences,
and striking, shooting or cutting down
ali who resisted. The Jews were
stricken with panic Immediately after
the first onslaught of the anti Semites
They locked themselves up in homes
or places of business and barricaded
doors, but barricades were shattered
by the mob and many defenseless
Jews dragged forth TO slaughter.
Detailed information of the loss of
life and destruction of property has
not vet reached the capital The gov
eminent has forces at work trying to
restore order and ascertain the cause
of the fighting. 1t appears that the
town IS >'actieally in ruins, and that
many jess are suffering for wart of
food as we'll as from attacks by moss.
In tia country districts of Moldavia
the peasants continue to pillaee and
massacre Jews in spite of all that has
been done by the government 1t is
hoped, however, that re-enforcemsn
of soldiers will be able to quell tn.
trouble.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
ADMITS MURDER OF WOMAN.
Youth of 10 Tells of Choking Her in
Quarrel Over Money.

AOuth Oh 10 IelAA or OnOktnE Her I'm
Quarrel Over Money.
Herbert Davisson, aged 10, confessed
to the murder of Fife Mason. young
woman who was found strangled to death
in her room in Columbus, Ohio, last
February. A mystery has surrounded the
case. DAVIDSON was arrested when he
went into a pawnshop to redeem watch
that had been identified as belonging to
the murdered woman. In his confession
he said he had quarreled with the woman
because she refused to return some money
he had given her He had been drinking,
he said and in a furious passion he seiz-
ed the woman by the throat and choked
her, leaving her, as he supposed, only
insensible. Being unable to find the
money, he says, he took the woman's
watch and pawned it. He claims he did
not know he had killed the woman until
he learned of it in the newspapers the
next day.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
The Death RON ofrnan.,

Arthur b. Reeve. writing in Charities
and the Commons. speaks of the thou
sands Of wage earners who We're killed or
injured in gar of prosperous business.
He says that all methods of estimate lead
to the conclusion that the total number of
men. women and childres who were killed
or injured is in the neighborhood of 800
600. Cold statistics of railway accidents
show that railsoading is nearly twice as
dangerous as it was eighteen years ago.
when the interstate commerce commission
first began keeping record of the casual
ties. and that travelling on the railroad is
more than twice as dangerous.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26

In his official report, Lieut.. Gen. Smir-
noff asserts that the surrender of Port
Arthur and the defeat at Mukden were
due TO the plumbers and cowardice of Gen.
SSoessel and his aids. Fock and Reiss.
who surrendered Port Arthur to the jap
anese. Smirnoff's report forms the basis
for the Indictment of these three men.
who are now on trial for their lives be-
fore the supreme court-martial at St
Petersburg. Stoessel is directly accused
OF Fastening the surrender to save his own
life, in defiance of the decisions of two
successive councils of war. thus commit
ting treason
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
BURGLAR BREAKS UP SERVICE
Pastor and Congregation Capture
Man RObbing Church of Plate.

Rev. Charles r. Brown OF the First
Congregational church of Oakland, Cal,
was preaching to a large congregation
Sunday morning when suddenly from the
vestry room came shrieks and cries for
help. The preacher and number of
leading parishioners made a rush for the
place, where they found the sexton en-
gagged in a desperate fight with a burglar.
who had entered the church and had
quietly stolen into the vestry room, where
he was slowing the costly communion
plate into a bag. After the burglar had
been captured and sent to Jail the preach
er resumed his sermon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
THOUGHT DEAD, COMES HOME.


KIondike' Gold Seeker Surprises Pa
rents After Absence of 8 Years.
Mourned as dead for fifteen years,
John Marshall, son of William Marshall
OF Tuckahoe, y. ", who was supposed
TO have persisted in the Klondike, turned
up the other day and surprised his par
ents. The gold seeker is said to have
accumulated a small fortune. When 10
years old, in 1892, he became victim of
the Klondike gold fever. His parents
were then living in Cleveland, Ohio. A
few weeks after the boys departure the
news reached this country of the terrible
landslide that occurred near Dawson
City, Alaska, in which he was supposed
to have lost his life. Marshall remained
in the Klondike until 1899, wherl he went
to San Francisco, married and went into
business. As his parents had moved to
New York, the son lost track OF them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
BRIDGE MAN DECLARED GUILTY
Jury COnvicts William n. Cleveland
for Restraint of Trade.

After a trial lasting through the entire
week in Lima, Ohio, the jury in the so
called bridge trust case against William
n. Cleveland Saturday afternoon re-
turned verdict of guilty. The jury was
out five hours. Sentence was not passed,
and counsel for Cleveland reserved their
right to file a motion for a new trial.
The indictment against Cleveland was
similar to others pending there against
bridge companies, agents and officers, and
charged conspiracy and restraint of trade
in violation of the Valentine antitrust
law. Mr.. Cleveland is connected with a
Columbus bridge firm.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
rENs1oN no poon rARENT.
Ohio Official Proposes New Method
of Preventing Child Labor.


of Preventing Child Labor.
State Shop Inspector Morgan in his
annual report submitted to the Governor
of Ohio the other day makes the novel
proposition that the State of Ohio set
aside a fund to be devoted to paying par
ents IL poor circumstances who are now
compelled to let their young children
work in factories, to enable then to take
the children from the factories and put
them in school. Gov. Harris is inclined
to look on the proposal with favor and
may recommend law to the Legislature
covering the matter. Mr.. Morgan says
that Ohio leads all the States in child
labor legislation, but he is openly opposed
to giving employers discretion to employ
children where parents need their wages.
Instead he suggests school pension
law by which the parents may be paid
an equivalent sum out Of the public treas
ury and the child sent to school.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
Fire In sincIair,s Colony.

In the burning of Helicon Hall. Upton
Sinclair's cooperative colony home near
Englewood, \. j., one man was killed
and nearly every inmate suffered some in
jury, many serious. Dynamite has been
found in the ruins OF Helicon Hall. Mem
Der of the colony who is known to have
been dressed and about the place is under
SuSDicion
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
LouisvilIe Exposition Opened

The pressing of a button by President
Roosevelt in the White House at 2 80
o'clock Monday afternoon opened the
Greater Louisville exposition with jung
ling of bells and a screeching of whistles.
Addresses by President A. L. Mcdonald,
Vice President Fred Levy. Gov. .. c. w.
Beckham. Mayor Paul Barth and VII
liam Rogers Clay of Lexington concluded
the dedication exercises
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
Loui.v,,,e Car s,r,r. pna.

BY unanimous vote the 500 striking
union employees of the Louisville Railway
Company decided to accept the terms
agreed upon by their executive committee
and the officers of the company. All the
strikers have gone back to work and full
service has been resumed. The terms pro-
vide for an increase &C wages and better
conditions