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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
NEW YORK.

Trade responds TO seasonable weather
distribution of spring merchandise, fully
equaling sanguine expectations. and coun-
Try merchants purchase literally from
Wholesalers at leading centers. Reports
from principal cities are uniformly favor
able, active business being accompanied
by further improvement in collections
Leading industries are fully occupied and
no strikes of more than local significance
have materialized. Manufacturers are
busy on goods fos early shipment and
sample business Cor later seasons promises.
continued activity. Improved traffic CON
dlitions make deliveries more prompt Few
lines of finished steel can be delivered
promptly. mills averaging four to six
months capacity engaged and quotations
are consequently well maintained. Pri-
mary markets for textiles are more quiet,
bur there is no diminution in the output
OF mills except where labor cannot De
secured. Commodity exchanges have re-
sumed normal conditions and prices show
some recovery from the unsettled position
after the Easter holiday. which was pro-
longed abroad, -Dun's Review.
Despite some cross-currents in demand,
due mainly to the withdrawal of the
Easter stimulus TO trade and a succeed
ing spell of cold weather. the develop
meuts of the week have been mainly
favorable. Chief, perhaps. of these is the
final satisfactory settlement of the west
| ern railway mems demands by arbitra-
| ton. All reports as to trade in wholesale
and jobbing circles in the first quarter are
in high degree favorable, and failure
returns confirm the smallest number of
casualties for a generation past. Reports
! from most leading industries are still of
full order books and of backward deliv-
cries. There is, however. slightly more
manifest disposition TO move more con-
| servativeiy as regards distant positions,
some easing of metal quotations and a
softening of asking prices for various pro-
ducts, and the jewelry shoe, leather and
wool trades note quiet, pending clearer
view of later developments. Business
failures in the United States for the week
ending April number 1877, against 1866
last week and 151 in the like week of
1906. Canadian failures for the week
number 20. against p last week and IL
in this week year ago.-Bradstreet'
Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
R;p VeIepbone Earningx.

The annual report of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company shows
total earnings of S24.326,09T, an increase
Of nearly $3.000000 over those of the pre-
ceding year The net earnings were $12,-
970937, which means an earning of SIT
per cent on the S15S,661 800 of capital
stock The net output of telephones in
the year was 1,409,57s, making total
of T,107 .S36 in the hands of operating
companies. The total number of calls
shows about six for each man. woman
and child in the United States. The main
tenance and reconstruction of all the Bell
lines cost nearly s33000,000. President
Fish says that the recent improvement in
cables makes il possible to place in I'M
derground conduits cables containing 400
or even 600 circuits. while a pole line cad
carry GOO pairs of wires in the form or
cables. as compared with the old-fashioned
pole. which rarely exceeded twenty pairs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
NIGHT RIDERS DESTROY CROP
Kul<lux Methods Revived in Fight
Against Tobacco Trust


Against Tobacco Trust.
Instead of a tobacco war. real war
with shooting and bloodshed is liable to
grow out of the strained situation in
western Kentucky over the tobacco fight
So-called Independent or unorganized
growers are tired of having their tobacco
barns dynamited or burned and their beds
of seedlings destroyed by night riders
and are open in their threats to begin
reprisals. Damage TO the extent of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars has been
done in the last few months by methods
sayoring of the kuklux
All this is because certain tobacco
growers refuse to band themselves with
organizations which are fighting the to-
bacco trust by holding their tobacco at
an upset price There is deep resent
ment against the trust. To deal openly
with it in violation of the organized
growers program invites midnight out
RACES. The authorities are becoming
alarmed at the prospect of a more serious
situation as the result of prolonged law
lessness.
The State government has been repeat
eddy called upon 70 afford protection. but
has only caused the arrest of three al
legged incendiaries. The State fire mar
shall has made repeated visits TO the dis
trict without being able to check the out
RACES, which are committed almost public
ly by mounted bands of men
This is the planting season, and night
riders are out nearly every night burn
ing warehouses and tobacco factories. SOW
ing grass seed in the tobacco nursery
beds. or sowing them with salt. or raking
them over, running the very foundation of
some little farmers hopes of a crop this
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
PARDON FOR SLAYER.
WILLIE SELLS RELEASED BY
KANSAS GOVERNOR.
Quadrup,e Murderer to Be Given
Freedom After 20 Years Impris-
onment - Railroads Closing Up
Telegraph Offices i'm Iowa.

Gov. Hoch of Kansas has granted
conditional pardon to Willie Sells, who
has spent nearly twenty years in the
Kansas penitentiary for the murder of
his father, mother, brother and sister.
The murders were committed March q.
1886, evidently for the purpose of rob-
berry. j. w Sells. 40 years old. a farmer
and school teacher, lived near Erie, Kan,
with his family-the wife, a son, Watty,
10 years old; daughter. Ina, 10, and
son. Willie. 16 years old. The family
were murdered at night and were slashed
in a horrible manner. Willie stoutly
maintained his innocence and declared
the murders had been committed by
man who had attacked the members of
the family while they slept. He declared
he was awakened while the man was fin
ishing his work and chased him as he fled
from the house. In defending Sells his
attorneys argued that it would have been
a physical impossibility for him to have
committed the crime, as he was sickly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
FIRE IN CAR BARNS.
STRUCTURE DESTROYED, WITH
LOSS OF $500, 900.
Captain of Fire Company Crushed
10 Death Under Falling wall
Washington syndicate Sells Ready
Made Essays TO Graduates.

Fire early Monday destroyed the car
barn and power plant of the New York
City Railway Company, covering the
greater part of the block bounded by
Lenox and Seventh avenues and 146th
and 147ta streets. The loss will reach
81, 100000. More than 300 cars were
burned. and the plant, except for the
electrical department. was destroyed. One
fireman. Captain j. Ryan, was killed un-
der 2 falling wall, and half dozen fire
msd and others were injured. The fire
ftarted in the repair room. where large
MUNGER of cars were stored, and spead
through the building with great rapidity.
Captain Ryan's crew and the crews Of
two other engines were working in an
alley outside the building when an explo-
sion in the paintroom on the fourth hoor
ripped out the west wall. sending tons of
brick down on the firemen, carrying down
the fire escapes ON the rear of row of
fat houses and buryins half a dozen in
the ruins. A hundred men with picks and
shovels at once set to work to dig their
comrades out of the ruins while scores of
others turned their attention to the fiat
houses to which the flames had spread.
Captain Ryan was the first man taken
from the heap of debris by the rescuers.
He was horribly crushed. but still alive
when taken out and laid on the ground
in the driving rain. A priest knelt at his
side and administered the last sacraments
a moment before Ryan died One by one
the other fremen were dug out and taken
to hospitals. Meanwhile the fire in the
car barn had practically burned itself
out and the fiat houses in the rear had
been damaged to the extent of $4,000.
Three hundred open cars valued at $1,000
each. which had been stored in the barn,
were destroyed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
Sparks from the Wires.

A coolie riot occurred at Port OF Spain,
Trinidad, during hich the manager of an
estate was killed.
Former President Cleveland was pre-
sented with silver loving cup by the
entire Undergraduate body of Princeton
university in honor of his SEVENTEEN birth
day.
The Rothschids have purchased for
s.. 600 600 the famous Beatson group of
conner mines on La Touche Island,
Prince William Sound, Alaska, according
70 reports received in Seattle.
4 certificate Of incorporation Of the
Toledo. Wabash and st. Louis Railroad
Company was recorded at Augusta, Ne.
The capital is s6,000o00.
The manifest of the German steamship
Arabia. which arrived at Portland. Ore,
from Hongkong and japanese ports,
shows 2S,S45 cases of firecrackers. des-
tined for forty-six cities of the United
States.
The indictment of the Cincinnati Trac-
zion Company and its officials is declared
to be called for, according to questions
submitted by the grand jury at Cincin-
natl IN connection Win the lHNeStisdt
into an accident last December.
Jesse +. Welborn has been chosen by
the board Of directors Of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company to succeed the
late Frank J. Hearne as president OF that
company.
Gov. Vardaman announced at jackson,
Miss. that he would appoint Assistant
Attorney General K. V. Fletcher as At
torney General to succeed William Will
liams. deceased
The court martial in the case of Second
Lieut.. Morris c. Foote. Twenty-eighth in
fantry, stationed in Cuba, has convicted
him Of financial irregularities. A similar
result has followed the courl martial OF
First Lieut.. Eugene P. Crowne, Twenty
ninth infantry.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
ISLE OF PINES cueA's.
Supreme Court Decides 1t Is Mo-
American Territory.

Supreme Court Decides lit Is Not
American Territory
The Isle of Pines is not American ter
ritory. The United States Supreme
Court so formally declared in decis-
ion announced by Chief Justice Fuller.
This decision by the highest court of
the United States apparently disposes
of the question of the ownership of the
Isle of Pines once and for ALL The
treaty between this country and Cuba
has not been ratified. Owing to the
decision of the Supreme Court it hardly
needs to be ratified now, because both
of the other branches Of the govern
ment, executive and legislative, are
necessarily bound by the action of the
court, and could take no action to sep
arate the Isle of Pines from the parent
republic of Cuba except as an act of
war. So far as the United States is
concerned, it has judicially yielded pos
session of the island to Cuba, and it
could not regain possession except by
force.
This diSposes of troublesome CUES
ton which has disturbed this country
and Cuba almost ever since the Span
ish war. There are several hundred
Americans on the Isle of Pines. There
are several thousand American citizens
who were induced to buy property in
the island under the belief that it was
territory of the United States and that
it was to be treated in the same way
as Porto Rico.
This dispute over the ownership of
the Isle of Pines dates back to the
treaty of peace which was negotiated
at Paris after the war with Spain. This
treaty provided in Article /, that
Spain relinquishes claim of sovereign
ty over and title to Cuba" In the sec
ond article of the treaty is was provid-
ed that "Spain cedes to the United
States the island of Porto Rico and
other islands under Spanish sovereign
ty in the West Indies, and the island
of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones."
The Philippines were disposed of in a
separate paragraph.
There is scarcely any doubt of the
fact that at the beginning. at least the
Isle of Pines was either forgotten or
was treated as an integral part of the
island of Cuba, to the government of
which it was always attached under
Spanish rule.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
DEEz lE1A'g23lgRS
.s.ssSasslls2s 9s}SS lR$Ss--lN.
0@t.s-E % 5000

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, Sf0O
TO $6.65; sheep, fair to choice $500
to $6.35; wheat, No. ,, T4c to 76c corn,
No. 2, 43c to Ace; oats standard, Ace to,
42c; rye, No. 2, Csc to CSC; hay, timo-
Thy, $500 to $500; prairie $500 to
1890; butter, choice creamery. pc to
30c; eggs, fresh, he to 15c potatoes,
30c to 4Sc.
Indianapolis shipping $500
to 5000 hogs choice heavy. 800 to
S6.95; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$500; wheat, No. >, 74c to 76c; corn.
No. 2 white, 45c to 46c; oats. No. ?
white, 42c to 44c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50;
hogs $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
s6.10; wheat, No. ?, &c to re; corn,
No. ., 43c to 44c; oats, No. ., 40c to-
42c rye, No. 2, &c to Csc.
Cincinnati Cattle $4.00 to $3.50;
bags. $500 to $685.; sheep. $500 to
$500: wheat, No. ,, lie to 79c; corn.
No. mixed. Acc to 47c oats. No. =
.nixed, 43c to 44c; rye, No. 2, Ire to 74c-
Detroit-Cattle, S4.0o to 1925; hogs.
$400 to $500; sheep. $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat. No. >. 76c to 7Sc corn. No. 3
yellow, &c to 47c; oats. No. 3 white,
45c to 46c; rye, No. Q zoe to Tie.
Milwaukee Wheat No 2 northern,
7Sc to Sic; corn, No. 3. 40c to 42c,
oats, standard, 41c to 42c; rye, No. /,
69c 20 zoe; barley, standard zoe to Tic;
pork. mess, $15.S5.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to 5000 hogs, fair to choice. $500
to S7.15: sheep, common TO good mixed.
$500 to $40; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-CattIe, $500 to $3.50:
hogs, S400 to S720; sheep. $500 to-
$3.50; wheat. No. . red, soc to S2c;
corn, No. 2, SIC to 54c; oats. natural
white, 47c 10 Acc; butter. creamery, 20c
to Bic; eggs. western. 15c to lie.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, 76c to
7Sc; corn, No. mixed. 44c to Acc;
oats. No. mixed, 42c to 44c; rye. No
.. Csc to 69c; clover seed. prime, 1915.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
II PERISH IN FLAMES.
Men and Women Cremated in San
Francisco HosteIry.


At least seventeen persons, possibly
more, were killed in FIRE which destroy
ed two hotels in San Francisco at !
a. m. Thursday. More than a score were
hurt, several of whom will die. Seven
teen persons are missing, among them the
wife of the proprietor of the hotel and
several other women. The most of those
who persisted were roasted to death as
they slept. The actual number Of the
dead is not known. The fire started in
the kitchen of the Geneva hotel, in which
more than 100 persons were sleeping, and
soon spread to a smaller adjoining hotel
in which forty-five were asleep. 1t is be-
lisved that all those in the smaller hotel
escaped. So rapidly did the fire spread
that it was impossible to do much in the
way of rescue, and even when the fire de-
partInent arrived the blaze was so fierce
that the 6remen were hardly able to place
ladders against the walls. They did. how
ever, manage to save a number OF per-
sons on the top story. In the work OF
rescue w. A. Cole, a fireman, fell from
a ladder and, it is believed. was fatally
injured. The majority of the injured
were hurt in leaping from the upper win
dows. A number of women are reported
to have been in the building mad all of
them are thought to have persisted. Men
and women appeared at the windows in
night clothes and their appeals for aid
were pitiful Many persons gathered at
the fire, but could do nothing to aid the
imperiled inmates Of the doomed build
ing. As the fire spread those in the win
dows jumped to the ground to escape GER
tain death in the flames. In a very
short time the walls collapsed. burying
nearly a score of victims Teams were
harnessed and automobiles
brought into service and the injured were
rushed to the Pctrero emergency hospital,
vslere several died while awaiting treat
ment. The small wards of the Potrero
hospital were soon filed with the victims
of She fire. The scene was terrible. But
in the midst of the suffering, the surgeons
worked calmly and swiftly over the vic
tins. The property loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
RELEASE JAMES GILLESPIE.
Supreme Court Saws Trial of Alleged
SLAYER Was Invalid

Supreme Court Saws Trial of Alleged
Slayer Was Invalid.
By decision of the Indiana Supreme
Court James Gillespie of Rising Sun,
serving a life sentence in the State pris-
on for the murder of his sister, is set
free. The decision is based on the ground
that an error was committed in not
granting a new trial. 1t holds that fur
Their prosecution be abandoned.
Miss Elizabeth Gillespie, woman of
middle age, was killed Dec. 3, 1908, by
a load of shot from a shotgun fired
through the window of a room of her
home. Her brother, James Gillespie, to
gether With Belle Howard and Mr.. and
Mrs. Myron Barbour, were indicted and
placed on trial charged with the crime.
The jury disagreed, and later Gillespie,
who elected to be tried separately, was
placed on trial and convicted in 1905.
He was sentenced to prison for life. The
other three defendants We're later acquit-
ted.
In the first trial, after the jury had
been sworn, it was found that one of the
jurors was a second cousin of the deceas-
ed husband of Belle Howard, one of the
defendants.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
CHICAGO.

Spring trade shows steady advance in
the leading branches. and the remarkable
volume of new demands reflects continued
strength in the buying power, making the
best testimony that confidence in the out
look for industry suffers 40 impairment.
The city election interrupted dealings in
the primary markets and the operations
in breadstuffs and live stock were less
ened, but factory production, wholesaling
and forwarding of finished products and
general merchandise exceed those OF
year ago.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered Is, against % last week
and % a year ago. For the first quar-
ter of this year the similar failures to-
tailed 296, against 800 in 1906 and 800
in 1905.-Duns Review.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
WILL OF DR.. powlE.
Devfses Bulk of Estate to Extend
Christian Catholic Church.

DeT1Se9 BULK OF estate To Extend
Christian Catholic Church.
The last will of the late John Alex
ander Dowie has been filed for probate
in the County Court of Lake County,
at Waukegan, III. 1t devises the bulk
of the estate of the dead leader Of Zion
City to extend the Christian Catholic
Church, of which he died the exiled
and communicated head. To the
widow, Mrs Jane Dowie, only the strict
allowance demanded by the law is be-
queathed, and to mis- son, A. ]. Glad
stone Dowie, from both of whom Dowie
died estranged, the sum of so is de-
vised. An attendant, Barnett Burleigh,
is given $1,000 "as his fee and reward
for the loyal service that God used him
in, in the saving of my life in Jamai-
ca"
All of the remainder of the property,
the existence aud value of which is
clouded by extensive litigation, is de-
vised TO John A. Lewis, friend and
adviser of the dead prophet, who was
iii Mexico at the time DoWie died. In
brief the provisions Of Dowie's will
are:
Orders payment of just debts.
Gives widow, Mrs. Jane Dowie, only
her dover and statutory rights in estate.
Gives son, Gladstone Dowie, SO.
Gives Barnett Burleigh $1,000 for saw
ing Dowie's life in Jamaica.
Gives balance of estate to John A.
Lewis as trustee.
Appoints Lewis spiritual successor as
head of caurch.
Directs continuance of church work by
Lewis, using estate for purpose.
If court finds Dowie had no legal title
to property, directs selection of commits
sion of FIVE to determine disposition OF
whatever of estate may be left
Names Lewis, Fielding II. White anC
James Il. Peters executors of will.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
DYsPERADo OF NINE YEARS.
Robbed Store, Shot Woman, Assault
ed Friend and Gets Sentence.

Leon Greenwood, aged 8 years, who is
considered the most desperate youngster
ever arraigned in Manchester, n. H., was
sentenced to the State industrial school
during his minority by Judge Peaslee.
His sentence was under an old indict
mert charging him with an assault on
Miss Emma Lemire last February. Green
wood robbed a grocery store on Nashua
street and with the money he stole pur-
chased a gun at local hardware store.
He met Miss Lemire on McGregor bridge
while on her way to school and, taking
deliberate aim, fired at her. The bullet
struck her in the forehead, inflicting
dangerous though not fatal wound Green
wood was indicted, but the case was con
tinued for sentence during good behavior.
A few days ago he assaulted a companion
and told him if he disclosed the crime to
the authorities he would kill him. As
result o. was brought into the Supe-
rior Court and sentenced.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16

The sentence of death imposed upon
Mrs. Aggie Myers of Kansas City and
Frank Hoffman of Higginsville, Mo-,
who were convicted of having murder
ed the womans husband, Clarence
Myers, in 1904 were committed by
Governor Folk to Imprisonment for
life.
In message to the Secretary of
State relative to the action in commut-
ing the sentences Governor Folk states
that he believes that public morals
will be better conserved by committing
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
SELLS LAZY BOYS ESSAYS.
Washington Syndicate Which Pur-
veys Ready-Made Lessons.

Quietus has been put upon the opera
tions of syndicate, with headquarters
at Washington, ID. c., which in a circu-
lar letter expresses itself as being solicit
Gus of the welfare of prospective gradu-
ates of the high school. 1t desires, says
the circular, to spare the young men and
women ''the shame and humiliation" of
reading poor graduation essays and offers
to write fine essays, for a consideration,
of course. Prof. K. L. Kirk, superintend-
ent of schools in Aberdeen, S. D.. sent a
'decoy" letter in reply to which the syn
dicate stated that it has a corps of spe-
cial writer's and is fully equipped to han
die any and all subjects. A range of
twelve subjects is offered, an essay on
either of which will be furnished by the
syndicate for the modest sum of $40.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16

the sentence of Mrs. Myers to life inn
pris1nment than by hanging her. In
the Hoffman case, he said, similar
facts to those in the Myers case exist,
and for that reason he also committed
Hottman's sentence to life imprison-
ment.
The woman had been divorced be-
fore she married Myers. After her
marriage to Myers she fell in love
with Hoffman. and they conspired to
murder Myers so they could get mar
ried. She admitted him to the house
after midnight and directed him to
the bedroom where Myers lay asleep.
Myers arose in bed when Hoffman
struck him with a club. The men
clinched. and the woman came to
Hottman's aid. Mrs. Myers beat her
husband with bed slau and stabbed
him with a pair of scissors. AS he
cried to her, Help me, Aggie, help
me. - she slashed him nine times
across the face, throat and chest with
a razor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
odd statistics ON Chinese,

Statistics prepared by the immigration
board at San Francisco show that, ac-
cording to the claims of all the Chinese
who swear they are native born, every
Chinese woman in this country must have
been the mother of thirty-eight children.
This interesting condition was made
known when the figures collected from
various points in the country we're tabu-
lated
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
Kius CbiIdren He y,oved

William Simpson, a prosperous young
farmer of st. Charles, Canada, during his
wife's absence shot and killed his two
infant daughters, respectively . months
and 2 years old, and then tried to kill
himself by putting two revolver bullets
in his own body. Physicians say that
excessive affection for his children caused
insanity.