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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
FARMERS TO TRADE WIVES.
Double Wedding Follows Two South
Dakota Divorces,

Abraham n Endler and Edward ID.
Whisper, two former Sweetwater, Neb-,
county farmers, have contrived in n law
ful way to trade wives According to
adxic.es received from VerniIion they
Gently applied for and obtained DEGREES
Of divorce and a few days ago, at double
wedding celebrated in Arizona, each took
as a wife the woman the other had di-
vorced. The two men and their wives
had been friends and intimates for years.
With no i'll feeling on the part of any of
them. they agreed that it would be best
for the two men to trade wives and the
husbands went to South Dakota and pro-
cured divorces, the wives permitting the
divorces to be obtained without contest
The couples have gone 10 western Canada
together to make their homes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

1t does not pay to be a shIrker.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
wEsrERN LEAGUE.
SEE WHALES AND wATERsPoUT.
Passengers ON InsuIar Line Steam
ship Also View Comet.

Unusual natural phenomena alternately
delighted and awed the passengers of the
lns,llar line steamship Brooklyn, which
has arrived at New York from Porto
Rico. The most remarkable of these was
a school of fourteen whales which swarm
after the ship for scores of miles. One
of the cetaceaA3 even got so familiar as
to bump against the side of the vessel and
had to be pelted away by the stokers with
s1mps of coal. Friday morning Captain
Mclean, who was on the bridge, saw a
comet appear. The skipper told his pas
sengers and all got up before dawn ON
Saturday and saw the comet appear and
vanish, Saturday afternoon the Brook
lyn's passengers saw a third wonder of
the sea. 1t was waterspout and was
seen in the form of a great column of
water miles ahead of the steamer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
New Light Aids ocuIists.

The Academy of Science at Paris re-
ports that DR. Forth has discovered that
the light from a mercury yapor lamp,
passing through two sheets of blue glass
and reflected into the eye by large lens,
reveals the internal condition Of the eye
infinitely better than the ordinary white
light. By placing a screen with pin
hole beSween the light and the eye mag
nified image Of the vessels at the back Of
the retina has been obtained, whereas
heretofore they have been almost invisible.
The capillary veins, with a diameter OF
2-1OOOth Of a millimeter, are seen to dis
tend with each heart beat, and it is pos
sible to count the blood corpuscles.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
Chicago shut OF.

Chicago on Saturday was practically
shut off from the outside world by the
telegraphers' strike, the Postal men join
ing the walkout and making the tieup al
most complete. The long-distance tele-
phones were resorted to in lieu of the
telegraph wires tied up by the strike
Officials of the tive telegraph companies
declare the strike is without just basis
and that no concessions viii be made to
the arnrlnVaS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

Preliminary returns indicate winter
wheat crop of about 400 100000 bushels,
or an average Of 14.6 bushels per acre,
as compared with 1871 bushels per acre
last year This preliminary estimate of
the yield of winter wheat and the esti-
mated acreage on which it is based are
subject to revision and correction when
the final estimates of the bureau are made
next December.
The following table shows the estimat-
ed average yield per acre in each of the
eleven principal winter wheat States IN
1907 and 1906, the figures for 1906 being
the final estimates issued Dec. 20:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
AND OIL INDICTED.
-Four Companies Held in New York
and Fine May BE Millions.

-Four Companies Held in New York
and Fine May BE Millions.
-Four big corporations were indicted
by the federal grand jury for the western
district of New York, which reported to
Judge HAZEL. The report was only
partial one, but 1t included ten indiet-
ments. Two Of these were against the
Standard Oil Company of New York, one
of them containing 1873 counts and the
other forty counts; two were against the
Vacuum Oil Company of Rochester and
containing 1SS and forty counts respec-
lively; two were against the New York
Central and the Pennsylvania Railway
companies, jointly, and two more were
against these two companies separately.
In each of these the counts were similar,
1888 and forty. The indictments against
the oil companies charge receiving and
accepting illegal concessions in the ship
ment of oil, and those against the railway
companies charge Illegally giving and
granting such concessions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
BODY of MAN FOUND.
Skeleton Is Dug from Colorado Grav'
Located by steve Adams.

Skeleton Is Dug from Colorado Grave
Located by Steve Adams.
The skeleton of w. ]. Barney, the
timberman employed or the Smuggler-
Union mine, who mysteriously disappear
ed in the month of June, 1901, was ex-
humed the other day twelve miles from
Telluride, Colo, by Buckley Wells, man
ager of the Smuggler- Union Mining Com
pany. The location of the grave was
pointed out by Steve Adams, now in Jail
in Idaho awaiting a second trial on the
charge of murder. He is alleged to have
confessed to the assassination of Arthur
Collins, formerly general manager of the
Smuggler- Union mine, and also told how
Barney was murdered because he had
incurred the i'll will of the union. Dr.
Lord, dentist, who had performed GER
tain dental work for Barney, was I'M
able to identify the skeleton from this.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
GOES TO BED WITH A CORPSE.
Clerks Mistake Causes Sensation In
Kentucky Hotel.

Major James Morton, editor of the
Hardaman (Ky.) Free Press, unwittingly
went to bed with a corpse at Junction
City the other night. He had missed his
train, and going into the hotel asked for
room. The clerk said the house was
crowded, but assigned the editor to a
room with another man. By mistake
the clerk sent him into the wrong room,
and the editor quietly disrobed and got
into bed. Soon a young man and wom-
an came in and took seats near an open
window. The major thought the proceed
ure strange, but said nothing. Listening
to what they said, he heard remark
about sitting up with the dead. Then he
rememba7ed that his bedmate had not
moved, and reaching eyer touched his
hand. With yell the major jumped up
with the sheet over him and rushed out
of the room. Believing that the corpse
had come to life, the two watchers broke
for another door, and all met in the Office
of the hotel for explanations.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
STAYS NEIGHBoR OVER COSTING.

President Roosevelt Grants Liberty
to Indian Territory Woman.
A dispute over a sosling, which ended
in the murder of one woman by another,
the latter of whom was sentenced to pay
a $500 fine and serve ten years in the
Ohio peniteptiary, has just come to light
through the pardon issued by President
Roosevelt for Nancy Miller, who was con-
victed about six years ago in Indian Ter
ritory. Mrs. Miller killed neighbor,
Alice Brake, and has served six years.
The President thinks that she has been
sufficiently punished for her crime. The
pardoned woman is the mother of six or
eight children, and it was largely through
their petition that the pardon was Sc
cured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
BASE BALL STANDINGS
Games Won and Losa by Clubs In
Principal Leagues.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
80 cnnner FieId niscnrcred.

Recent dispatches from Berlin an
nounce the discovery of rich copper mines
in Southwest Africa. 1t is said that near
Luederitzbucht layers Of copper have
been discovered in the river beds at
depth OF 10 feet. Prospectors have found
strata of ore netting $40 a ton and Ger
man capitalists are organizing a scheme
for developing the mining industry.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
nayonet Irish Moh in Riot.

The most serious riotipg that the Bel
fast strike has produced filed the narrow
streets in the Falls Road district for
many hours Sunday night and led TO sew
eral hayonet charges by the troops. The
trouble began when crowd tried TO res
cue two men who had been arrested by
the police.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

Method Discovered for Ascertaining

Presence OF Dfsease.
A method by which the presence of
tuberculosis can be detected has been
made known TO the French Academic des
Sciences in Paris. According to advices
received at the State Department, it con-
sists in inoculating the patient with a
few drops of the tuberculin of Koch If
tuberculosis does not exist the little in
cision heals rapidly, but if the patient is
affected the incision rubbed with the tu-
berculin becomes infamed and a pustule
similar TO that of vaccine appears.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
nnr Eve in Nude.

AT Joplin, Mo, Frank Il. ~hie, aged 81.
was rejected by the United States army
recruiting station because of a figure Of
Eve in Paradise tattooed on his arm near
the wrist Later the young man appeared
with a deoollete gown tattooed over the
nude figure and was accepted.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
Dynamite k,rrs and Mains.

Half car of niroglycerin exploded at
Essex, Ont. killing two and wrecking the
town. At Boulder, Colo. an incendiary
fire exploded a large quantity of dyna-
mite. killing four and injuring 400.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
Wire strike spreads.

Monday the telegraph operators in New
York. Washington, Philadelphia. Pitts
burg. Buffalo, Baltimore and other cities
OF the East joined the strikers, and the
trouble spread through the South, grew
worse in the West and extended to Can
ada. Operators on Associated Press cir
cults walked out, capping the newspaper
service Of the country.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

The first gathering Of the Philippine
Assembly, according TO advices from
Gov. Gen. Smith, will be on Oct 10.
Secretary Taft has promised to be rses-
ent at the opening. and IL the steamship
.Asdules are maintained he will arrive
Il Manila Oct Il, two days before the
nisst3Ng.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

John Sharp Williams was declared
The Democratic MOI linss for United States
Senator by the Mississippi Democratic
State executive con. nittee. 4 canvass of
the returns shovel . plurality Of Gas
votes for Williams sis total being 59,49a,
TO -5S.S4S for Narlaman.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
FIVE BABES BORN At ONCE.
Mother Has Triplet. and paught.

Mother Has Triplets and Daughter
Has Twins in Same Room.
Five children were born on the ne
night and in the same room of a noun
tain cabin on the estate of Judge Henry
G. Stuart of Russell county, Virginia.
This wholesale baby harvest took place
in the one room hut of a mountaineer,
who lived there with his wife, his daugh-
ter and her husband, and all four living
in the same room. The mountaineer's
wife gave birth to triplets and his daugh-
ter to twins.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

cIared in San Francisco two days fofore
news of it reached Chicago.
Wages in those days ranged from 500
to $175 a month and the company, in an
attempt to curtail expenses, decided to
dispense with the services of several oper-
ators in San Francisco. The determine
ton of the company precipitated trouble
and the entire San Francisco force walk
ed ont.
Two days later 100 operators in the
Chicago Office quit work and when the
grand chief operator heard of the dis
turbance ne ordered general strike, it
is said, without knowing the grounds of
the controversy. This strike lasted only
ten or twelve days, and was unseccussful
so far as the operators were concerned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
Orders cat i'm Wheat Rate.

Commissioner Harlan of the Interstate
commerce commission has issued an order
directing that. brzinning ON Sent. Il next.
the through rate on wheat from points
in Nebraska to Pacific coast terminals
should DC not more than 10 cents per 100
pounds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

The most unusual method of delivering
mail doubtless is that employed by steam
ers passing the islands Of the Tonga
group. in the Pacific. On account Of many
reefs. handing is extremely dangerous, and
the few letters to b delivered are at
tached to large skyrockets, which are fred
and reach the shore in safety.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

State Superintendent J. L. McBrien Of
Nebraska issued proclamation designat-
ing Aug. % as ''housecleaning day for
the schools of the State. He asked ali
school officers and teachers to help clean
school buildings for the beginning of the
school year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
Pump on Into ocean.

The crew OF the San Francisco tank
steamer Santa Maria. on their last voy-
age from San Francisco TO Seattle. i'm
bibed too freely. ard by mistake brought
into action oil pumps instead OF bIye
pumps, and emptied 5000 barrels. or
about 100000 gallons. of oil into the sea.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
nrnnnmcnt to Confederacr,s Hena.

The final act of the Alabama Legisla-
ture was TO provide for the erection of a
monument to Jefferson Davis. 1t will
stand within a few feet of the place
where be received the oath of Office aud
just in front of the old capitol, where the
ceremony took place.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
CORN CROP is SHORT.
Government Report Shows Only
slight Improvement.

The crop reporting board of the bureau
of statistics of the Department of Agri-
culture finds, from the reports of the cor
respondents and agents of the bureau, as
follows:
The condition of corn on Aug. l was
SIS, as compared with 500 last month,
$50 on Aug j, 1906. 800 on Aug. /,
1905, and ten-year average of ST.
The following table shows, for each of
the States having 100000 acres or up
ward in corn, the condition on Aug. 4
in each of the last two years, with the
ten-year August averages:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
Name Filininn Rnhies.

PocahontaS, jamestown Pacific. and
Patrick Henry Bryan are the names con-
ferred on three Filipino babies at the
jamestown exposition and under which
they viii Stagger FOR the rest Of their
Gt-.sS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
MONUMENT TO M'KINLEY.
Shaft to Be Dedicated in Buffalo
September 5.

Shaft to Be Dedicated In Buhalo
September 5.
The beautiful white marble shaft erect
ed by the State of New York in Niagara
Square, Buffalo, n. Y, to the memory of
President Mckinley, is to be formally
dedicated Thursday, Sept. 5, and the
event will be the central feature of Buff
falo's Old Home Week, Sept. / to z.
Former residents of Buffalo and the pub
lie at large are cordially invited to at
tend the dedication, and the gay carnival
that will run all the week..
The Mckinley monument was planned
ED executed under the direction of a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
General. GrandchiId Elope..

Julia Jackson Christian of Atlanta. a
granddaughter of Gen "Stonewan's Jack
son. eloped with w. ]. Alexander, a
young lawyer of Charlotte. \. c.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
women Mar Helm Make Lar..

The bill making women electors eligible
TO election as members of the upper
house was adopted by 81 to 20 votes in
the New Zealand Legislature.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

Soldiers of the Tw snty-ffth infantry,
the colored organization that figured in
the Brownsville riot, created a disturb
ance on the Barbary coast" at San Fran
cisco. Eighteen Of the negroes were ar
rested on charges Of disturbing the peace.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
cup,d Kept Busy at Panama.

According to advices from Panama.
the government has promised every man
who brings his bride to the canal zone or
msrries there q detached cottage. The
result has been such boom in marrying
that the brides and bridegrooms are ahead
Of the cottages by several laps.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

Noah Coffee and F6n Frssier, young
whits boys, in jail at Mayield. Ky,
charged with store breaking. fastened the
keeper in jail and escaped over the high
wall. It was an hour before the jailer
was rescued from prison.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

4 new postal card has been issued by
the government. 1t will be known as the
Mckinley card. for it bears picture Sf
the martyred PreSide4t in a wreath On
which are inscribed the date Of his Dir ID
and death-1S4S-l901.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
DEFICIT OF MILLIONS.
Delaware and Hudson irregularities
Amount to S7,OOO,OOO.

delaware ana Hudson irregularities
Amount to S7,O00,OOO.
Irregularities aggregating over $1,000,
600 are charged against the old manage
ment of the Delaware and Hudson COM
pany. 1t is believed that David 81. Will
cox, the late president, was driven to
suicide by fear of the impending exposure.
Stockholders of the company will be treat
ed to some startling disclosures concern
ing the past management of the company
if the results Of an investigation into the
concerns financial methods recently made
by a committee of directors ever sub
mitted to them in full.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

English Clergyman Enters Politics.
The Rev. r. ]. Campbell, the English
clergyman. has been formally invited by
the labor party to contest the new va
cancy in the parliamentary representa-
ton of Cardiff
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
pnr1r Ieader Enhs Ifis Iffa

George Wallace Delamater, former
State Senator and one-time Republican
candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania.
shot and killed himself
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
scn,,or Hevcridrc ,y,-r,..

Miss Katherine Eddy, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Augustus \. Eddy of Chicago.
was married in Berlin to Senator Albert
j. Beverage of Indiana.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
rhienSo.s Population increases.

Chicago's population has increased BY
66,5oo in the last year and is now 1851
600. according TO the estimates of those
in charge Of the compilation Of the city
directory for 1907
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
To,a.toolx Eat.l Food

One dead and four dying is the result
of family party eating toadstools for
mushrooms at Deep Valley, W. Va.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20

In a raid on an alleged cosnterfsiters'
den. near Smithfeld, Pa, FIVE men were
arrested large number of molds cap
tured and a big quantity of spurious coin
found.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
CORPSE GLANDS FOR IT'S PHOTO.

Body Is Propped Against Tree
While Camera Is Used.
When the funeral of Michael Bekeski,
who lived near Independence, Pa, reach
ed the grave the body was taken from the
casket and propped against tree while
photographer took picture of the
corpse. Several other pictures were taken,
one of them group including several
who attended the funeral The purpose
was TO send a picture of the dead man to
his widow in Austria.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-11

celebrated new federal building. Scene 2; The lawn of Mildred Towards cot tage. Scene 3: The sensational rescue from the burning top story of sky scrapef.
 Act II.-Three years later. Mildred,
 Philip and their baby in the cosy little flat.
 Act III.-scene i: Same as Act II.
 (Mildred and Philips paradise turned to an earthly perditlon.) Scene 2: Cor ridor of one of the Chicago's famous panel houses. Scene 8: A mystifyine room in the panel house. | Act IV.-Scene 1; Speck and Bobsey's | hang out" in deserted shack. :" Scene 2: The laboratory of horrors and chamber of death in the home of Her | man Valarz. specialtfes between Act l., Scene ?; Beck and Aeby, Her Fatal Love" Vance and Sulli- vans melo-dramaic success, was pre- sented to a large audience at the New Haven theater last night. The scene at the climax of the first act is undoubt- edly the most realistic effect electric sKlll has ever attempted. It shows the burning house topst firenen with their ! scaling ladders; the panic stricken ten- 1 ants clamoring to reach the fire escap- es; and the hero who rescues his 1 sweetheart by climbing hand over hand | on @ slender wire, with his loved one clinging to his neck. The effect is startling in the extreme.
 The performance will be given again
 to-day, matinee and night.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-11
PRESIDENT HARTMAN
 STILL OPTIMISTIC Returns from Tour of His Rail- road Lines in the Vest
 ern States. PROSPERITY IS GREAT People Have Plenty of Money, But Are Not Seeking
 Investments.
PROSPERITY IS GREAT

New York, Sept 1O.-Edward H. Hartman returned to his office to- day after an absence of several weeks in the west, in the course of which he has been making a tour of the. so-called Hartman lines, the principal parts of which system are the Union Pacific and Southern Pa cific lines. MT. Hartman went as far as the Pacific ocean.
 ''The west is prosperous, prosper ous as it has never been before, and there is no sign of a panic out there, D he said this afternoon AS for the crops, 1t is true that in spots they are not as good as they were last year, but the west will have a fair crop. Our lines appear to be well favored in this respect, the reports showing that the crops are in excellent condi- tion all along the line of the Union Pacific.
 ",The Union Pacific-Southern Paci- fic promises to have the best year in its history, and, despite the fact that expenses are higher from various known causes, the net income prom ises to be considerably better than it was last year. We are moving a much larger volume of traffic than we were last fall when new high record was made by the lines, and the present prospects are for a continued increasing business"
 Mir. Hartman then referred to the financial conditions he found in the west, remarking;
 "The country banks and individuals in the west have plenty of money, but they are hanging on to it and are not seeking investments. There is no question in my mind that a great deal of money is tied up in this way all through the west But the time Is coming when these people who are now hanging on to their money will be seeking avenues of investment"
 Regarding the local situation, MT. Hartman declined to talk, but did say:
 'The opportunity now offered to buy New York city 41-2 per cent. bonds is something that comes only once in generation"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-11
oNTARIo's GOOD YEAR.
Big Increase in Business and Profits
 Also.


 The annual report of the New York, Ontario & western railroad, a proper ty under lease to and operated by the New Haven railroad, which has just been made public, shows that the past fiscal year was the best in the history of that railroad. The road has earned three and three-fourths per cent. on its capital of S5S,1179S2 This is the fifth year of the administration of the New Haven railroad over this property and the coming annual report has been watched with interest here where the lease was regarded at the time as a wise piece of railroad work.
 The surplus for dividends is s1,654,- TSP The report shows that a large sum is set apart for depreciation and renewal of plant.
 The through business has increased greatly since the property has been operated by the New Haven road. In five years the gross business has in- creased 50 per cent. and the net profits have increased 97 per cent. For the past year the through passenger busi- mess has increased 32 per cent. and the through freight nearly 12 per cent.