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sp;rtt voice of Death.

The alleged spirit messages from the
late Dr. Richard Hodgson to bis living
friend and former co-worker Prof. Hys-
lop. through the mediumship of Mrs.
Piper of Boston, are described by DIR.
Isaac Funk the New York publisher, in
his book, 1.-The Psychic Riddle" DIR.
Funk says the subject is one that should
not be scoffed at. The spirit of Hodgson
is believed to have talked to Mrs Piper
while she was in the trance state and
wrote what was said on sheets of paper
in Hyslop's presence. One message says
sit is delightful to go through the cool
ethereal atmosphere and shake off the
mortal body" The spirit said further
that during his effort to communicate
to the living he felt as if in a stuffy at
mosphere or as if going into a place of
foul smells. DIR. Funk believes that we
are in the presence Of "a scientific dem
onstration of future life" if Hyslop is
right about these messages being received.
He, Funk, has no doubt now that I'm
telligences foreign to our fire senses can
and do communicate with some of those
who are living in the flesh But he is
not certain that they can and do identi-
fly themselves as those who once lived in
the flesh"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-09
NEW YORK BANK sUsPENDs.
Corbin Company Makes Assignment
for Benefit of Creditors.

Corbfn Company Makes Assignment
for Benefit of Creditors.
The Corbin Banking Company in New
York has assigned for the benefit of cred
itors to George G. Austin. The two
members of the company are George S.
Edgell and Austin Corbin. Edgell is pres
ident and Corbin vice president of the
Manhattan Beach Hotel and Land Com
pany. At the office of the company the
following statement was given out: THE
assets exceed the liabilities by more than
$1,OO0,000. The principal assets consist
OF valuable real estate, which could not
be sold except az a sacrifice, in time to
meet maturing obligations The creditors
will undoubtedly be paid in full" The
Corbin Banking Company was establish
ed by the late Austin Corbin, ST., who
was for many years the controlling infu-
ence in the Long Island Railroad Com
pany. Mr.. Austin said a rough estimate
placed the liabilities at $1,7000OO and
the assets at S3,0O0,OO0. THE assign
ment was due to the maturing of obliga-
tons" said he. Times are hard and
money is high. The company owns 400
acres of land at Manhattan beach and
Far Rockaway, which is worth S3,000,-
0OO but it could not be sold under exist
Ing conditions for $1,500,Oo0. You can
not get any one to buy real estate at
present. There is other valuable real es-
tate ia the South and West, bat loans
and contracts prevented it from being dis
posed Of"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-09
All Around the Globe.

Gov. Sheldon of Nebraska has signed
the railway commission bill, which be-
comes effective Immediately.
Miss Nancy Miller. Pittsburg wait
ress. was stabbed seven times with a
butcher knife by Walter Howard, whom
she had Tilted, and died.
Hugh G. Shaugh the organizer of the
Brotherhood of Railway Postal Clerks,
was dismissed from the railway mail SER
vice. Shaugh was employed in the Los
Angeles division and was suspended two
weeks before.
A child answering descriptions of the
Kidnapped son Of Or. Horace n. Marvin Of
Dover, Del. is reported TO have been seen
at San Antonio. Texas.
The Pennsylvania Senate passed the
House 2-cent railroad fare bill, with an
amendment providing for a heavy fine
for failure to comply with the law.
The Nebraska Legislature passed a bill
providing for the taxation of terminals
OF railroads in the cities, in addition TO
the regular mileage assessments.
Two men were killed and four or five
injured by an explosion IN mine No. III
belonging to the Sunday Greek company
at Sugar Grove, near Athens, Ohio
E. T. Brady of Boston. Mass. an erect
ing engineer, was killed aC the b. K.
Goodrich plant, Akron, Ohio, where he
was installing a boiler. He fell twenty
feet from the top of cylinder
A boiler explosion caused the explo-
sion Of 10000 pounds Of powder and
wrecked the machinery and a number OF
houses Of the Nicholson Coal Company
at Nicholson, Tenn. The loss was $780,
600.
In the case of Congressman-elect
George K. Favrot, charged with the muir
der of DR.. r. Fl. Aldrich at Baton Rouge
La. last summer, the appeal of the State
from the District Court has been sub
United in the State Supreme Court.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-09
GIVE UP HOPE FOR BOY.
Marvin Case Likely to Be Parallel
to Charley Ross Kidnapping.

Marvin Case Likely to BE Parallel
to Charley Ross Kidnapping.
AS the dismal days come and go the
seemingly impenetrable mystery in the
disappearance of little Horace Marvin
from Dover, Del, grows deeper. And
the army of astute detectives on the
case several of them masters of crime
and hidden circumstance, admit that
they are utterly baffled. 1t is an aston
ishing fact that these detectives, to-
gether with the police machinery of all
the principal cities in the United States,
the famed Pinkerton Detective Agency,
and host of amateur sleuths, have
failed to develop one single distinct
clew to the missing boys whereabouts
since the search was begun on March 4.
What did happen to little Horace
Marvin when he passed from the eyes
of his now sorro~ing father for the last
time? 1t is a question that may never
be answered. And from present indi-
cations the case will go down as rival
ing all other kidnaplng mysteries in
the history of the country.
Charles Brewster Ross, whose case is
classic in criminal annals, was eX-
actly the same age as the Marvin boy
when he disappeared from the home of
his father, Christian Ross, Washington
lane, Germantown, Pa, July ], 1874.
He is now generally believed to have
been stolen from his home, although
kidnapping was not at first suspected.
Ross reported the loss of the child to
the Philadelphia police He had hopes
of the safe return of Charley up to July
6. Then he received a letter demand
ing $4,000, conditional on the safe re-
turn of the boy. The police set out to
capture the kidnapers. From all parts
of the country boys who looked like
Charley Ross were reported. One after
another they were shown to be other
children.
On Dec. IA, the same year, the first
real clews were found, That night two
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STAYS WIFE WITH AK
WoMAN'S SKULL CRUSHED BY
BRUTAL HUSBAND.
Chicago Murder Is Committed While
Children Sleep an Adjoining Room
-Presfdent ZeIaya's Wife Does
Red Cross, Work.

Charles Graf of Chicago crushed his
wife's skull with an ak, killing her in
stantly early the other morning, while
their five children were asleep in an adj
joining room. He fed after the murder,
but was captured by detectives in a sa-
loon at % West Harrison street. He
had given a note to the bartender to be
delivered TO the proprietor. Fred Abeel,
who was absent 1t read Dear Fred
killed my wife last night. l can't write
just now. Keep papers that | gave you
and say nothing. and come, please. and
see me- The murder was committed at
446 West Harrison street, where the cou-
ole lived. Graf narrated how he had
killed his wife when questioned at the
police station. but insisted that he acted
In self-defensa. II was awakened shortly
after midnight" he decs0red. by her lean
ing over me- She had razor. jumped
out of bed and ran to the kitchen. | got
the ak. She was pursuing me, waving
the razor, and l had to kill her.' Graft
confession was made only after he had
been shown the bloody ak, which had
been taken to the station by the police.
His story is not borne out by the state
meEts of his children. They told the po-
lice that they heard their mother and
father quarreling violently after they re-
tired, their father particularly seeming in
a rage. The quarreling continued until
the children fell asleep. They said also
that their father was intoxicated when he
returned home Sunday night The police
believe that he killed his wife while she
slept. The tragedy was discovered by
William Graft, Is years old. one of the
sons Arising at o'clock and finding no
FIRE in the kitchen stove, he went to arouse
his mother. She was on the bed, dead.
The other children are Henry, IA years
old; Anthony, % August, o, and Char
iotte, named after her mother, u years
old
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $685. hogs, prime heavy, S4.00
TO $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1919; wheat, No. ,, 74c to Toe corn,
No >, 42c to Ale; oats, standard, 4Oc to
42c; rye No. .. &C to zoe; hay timo-
thy, $500 to $780, prairie, 5000 to
$500 butter choice creamery, &c TO
soc: eggs fresh, lie to Ice; potatoes,
30c TO 39c.
indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to $3.50; hogs, choice heavy, $4.0O to
S6.45; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$500; wheat No. ,. 73c to 75c; corn,
No. 2 white, 45c to Ale; oats, No 2
white, Ale to 43c.
st. Louis-Cattle $3.50 to $3.50;
hogs $500 to S6.70; sheep, $500 TO
$500; wheat, No. ?, 76c to re; corn,
No. 2, 42c to 43e oats, No 2, 40c to
Ale; rye, No. 2, &C to Csc.
Cincinnati-Ca Cattle. $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. ,, nc to roe; corn,
No. mixed, 46c to Ale: oats, No.
mixed, 43c to 44c; rye, No. 2, I3c to I4c.
Detroit Cattle, $500 to S525 hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50:
wheat, No. 2, T5c to re; corn, No. 3
yellow, 46c to 47c; oats, No 3 white,
43c to 45c; rye, No. 2, zoe to tic.
Milwaukee Wheat. No. northern,
7Sc to Sic; corn, No. 3, Ale TO lie;
oats. standard, Ale to 42c; rye, No. 1,
Csc to 69c barley, standard zoe to re;
pork, mess. $1,000.
Buffalo--Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to 5000 hogs, fair to choice, $500
TO $7.15; sheep, common TO good mixed,
$500 to $J.40 lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50
New York-Cattle. $500 to 500;
hogs $400 to $40; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. . red, SOC to SIC;
corn. No 2. SAC to SIC; oats. naturals
white. 47c to 49c: butter, creamery, 29c
to gle; eggs. western, 1jc to lie.
Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, Toe to
re: corn, No. 2 mixed, Acc to 4Gc;
oats. No. . mixed, 42c to 44c; rye. No.
2 csc to G9c: clover seed prime, 1920.
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Told in a Few Lines.

James Young, who with NJ. NJ. Towle
founded Hammond Ind. thirty years ago,
is dead at San Diego, Cal.
Fire destroyed half hundred tenant
houses in Spartan Mills. cotton mill
district of Spartanburg, S. 9.
A brutal murder was discovered at 4G3
3 street. North Oakland, Cal. The body
of Mrs Martha Soder5erg, 81 years of
age. was found hidden in a closet of her
home. Erland II. Soderberg her son, a
stevedore has been arrested Oh suspicion
Of being the murderer.
Ten smallpox cases of a mild form were
discovered in Lawrence, Mass. The board
OF health has ordered general yaccina-
ton.
The town Of Lincoln, y. j.. has offered
UPTON Sinclair a big house and fertile
land Tor the burned-out colony of He'll
conites.
1t is understood that Dartmouth col
lege will soon have a new gymnasium as
result Of 100000 bequeathed By Thomas
p. Sater Of New York.
William John Neral. vice president
and director of the Acker, Neral & Con-
dit Company. died at his home in New
York City. He was rs years old.
The largest balloon in America is now
being built for the Philadelphia Aero
Club, of which A. y. Chandler is bresl-
dent. The basket will be capable OF hold
ing nine persons.
J. Pierpont Morgan has announced his
intention OF demolishing the old Dodge
mansion near New York, for which he
recently paid $4,000 in order TO make
his art museum absolutely safe from fse.
The only complaint Simon Dresher had
to make when he landed at the bottom OF
an elevator shaft in the building at IA
West Tenth street, New York, after hsv-
ing fallen from the tenth floor, was that
he had caught cold coming down. BE es-
capped with slight internal injuries.
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men committed burglary in the Bay
side district Of Brooklyn. Their names
were William Mosher and James Doug
las. Both men died from wounds re-
ceived in trying to escape from the po-
lice.
Before dying Douglas confessed that
he and MoSher had kidnapped Charley
Ross. Search was renewed for their
fellow conspirators, and William Wes-
teryelt, brother-in-law of Mosher, was
arrested. He was finally convicted as
accessory after the crime and was SEN
fenced to seven years Imprisonment.
No trace OF the boy ever was found,
and it is now believed by the Philadel-
phia police that the kidnapers, in fear,
murdered the boy to get him off their
hands.
Horace Marvin, the lost boys father,
Is in great fear lest the kidnapers Of
his son be driven to some such desper-
ate act by too strenuous police action.
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improperly nourished At the same time
he asked the board to supply eyeglasses,
free of cost, to children of needy parents,
who may De suffering from imperfect Wis
ion The commissioner of health had
found 1929 children with defective eyes
in the schools last year.
Through the energetic efforts of Nine.
Brisson, university for women has been
opened at Paris, in which a course in
housekeeping is to hold the place of honor
in the curriculum. There will be other
courses in dressmaking, millinery, short
hand hygiene, morality, history and lit
erature. The idea is to attend to the
practical matters of life first, but not to
neglect the ornamental.
Although President Eliot of Harvard
refused to make any reply to the speech
of President Roosevelt in defense of foot
ball and other rough sports, he has giysn
out a statement saying that no one had
proposed to stop intercollegiate athletics
at Harvard. Last year they said they
would stop it or change it. Football had
been changed and it would be played next
fall President Eliot thought his position
on this subject was not essentially diff
ferent from that of President Roosevelt,
Taking direct issue with President
Roosevelt in his recent "molly-coddle"
address at Harvard in defense of all
rough college sports. the annual report
of Harvard's head, Dr. Charles w. Eliot.
takes the radical stand that football is no
game for gentlemen to play or for gentle
men to watch; that is, an undesirable
one. President Eliot admits that under
great pressure of public opinion last year
the game was much improved, but says
the Harvard players suffered about the
same kind of injuries as before. He in
sists that no game is fit for college uses
'in which recklessness in causing or suf-
fering serious bodily injuries promotes
efficiency. and so is taught and held up
| for admiration" He finds the same sort
of recklessness in hockey and basket ball.
and thinks that intercollegiate contests
should be limited to two year in each
sport He believes it high time that the
teaching profession unite TO protest
against the present exaggeration of ath-
letic sports during the whole period of
education.'' He deplores the waste of
money and says that pumped cheering
during good and BAD play has no coun-
terpart in the contests of real life and
Is weak. hysterical and Ineffective on
the part of the spectators.
At a recent conference the educational
authorities of North Dakota iopted a
plan to avoid the overlapping of work in
the different State schools and colleges.
The Wahpeton school of science is to
have a three-year science course. and ~
Rottineau school of forestry is TO be-
come an agricultural high school. limited
to forestry and horticulture. All the in
situations are to have a commercial
course. and the State university is to de-
velop a college of commerce, while the
normal schools viii limit their work to
two years above the high school course.
Nearl; one million kilograms are
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-09

Nearly one million kilograms are
sent over the worlds wires daily.
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HussE WINS in CHICAGO.
Republican Candidate Chosen Mayo
of western Mctropclfs.

Republican Candidate Chosen NYayor
of Western Metropolis.
Fred ~ Busse, Republican. was
Tuesday elected Mayor of Chicago. for
four years by a plurality of 1921. He
overcame a plurality of 24,51S by which
Edward +. Dunno defeated John NJ.
Harlan two years ago. making a total
change in the figures between then and
now of 1869 votes.
The total vote on Mayor, according
to the police returns. was 335.9O1. out
of a registration of 91.5SS. The total
for Busse was 164,S39 and for Dunno
151,T1S. George Koop, the Socialist,
candidate, polled 13,469 and W. A.
Brubaker, on the Prohibition ticket,
received $3.50. The Socialists stood a
net loss of nearly 1000 from the figures
OF two years ago. while the Prohibit
tionists almost doubled the vote for
Oliver w. Stewart in 1905.
John f. Traeger was the one Demo-
crat to be elected. He was chosen city
treasurer by a plurality of 1888 over
Gen. Edw. c. Young. John r. McCabe,
Republican, was elected city clerk,
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where The ,.iddle west Leads.

A fact which will be surprising to
some fasteners is that the people of the
middle West are ahead of them in the
matter of average education. The rate
of illiteracy in cities of $4,000 or over
in the Northern Atlantic States, which
include New England. New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, was at the date
of the last national cansus IS per cent
and outside the cities 7.3 per cent. In
the north Central States, which include
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin. Minnesota, Iowa. Missouri. North
and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas.
the percentages were 3.3 and 4.6 respec-
tival.-
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Deaf-Mutes Good workers,

A business man wkc conducts large
bottling establishment in the lower east
side district of New York City has dis
covered that deaf-mutes make the most
reliable help that he can obtain. He
commenced about seven years ago by en-
ploying a deaf-pute boy, who filed his
place so satisfactorily that others were
employed from time to time, until now
there are a dozen or more of these af-
flicted persons drawing good wages at
this establishment The employer says
he finds them faithful, and when they
have fully grasped the idea of the task
to be accomplished, rattle. more intelli-
gent than the normal workman. More
over. they are very little given to dissi-
M ffon
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WAR IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
Present Conflict Was Precipitated
by Trifiing Incident.

by Trifing Incident.
The present war in Central America
was precipitated by trifiing incident
A Nicaraguan agitator who fed into
Honduras was followed by Nicaraguan
soldiers who failed to capture him, but
went away with his mule. After hasty
diplomatic notes had been exchanged
war was declared and real war began.
Better organized. better armed and
better trained than ever, the forces of
Nicaragua on the one side and Hon
duras and Salvador on the other,
clashed. The recent battle of Potillos
dc Namasique saw 100 killed on the
side of Honduras and Salvador alone
This is three times as many as the
American fatalities in battle in the war
between Spain and the United States.
There were 5000 Salyadoreans and
Guatemalans in the fight, SO the loss
was 20 per cent.
Personally leading his armies, which
have invaded Honduran soil and cap
tured town after town, is President
Zelaya of Nicaragua. War found him
doubly ready for the conflict His sue
cesses on the coast have been followed
up by the United States navy, which has
landed small forces of marines at La
Ceiba and Trujillo, towns captured by
Nicaragua, and at Puerto Cortez
threatened by Zelaya, to protect neu-
trail property. Costa Rica may become
involved, an old feud against Nicaragua
making it potentially an ally of Saliva
dor and Guatemala.
The armies of Central America are
made up of Indian stock mixed with
Spanish blood. The secondary weapon
consists of the ever truly machette.
Large bodies of the troops are armed
only with these long, heavy knives
The deadly machete is responsible for
most of the carnage. Even when pro-
vided with guns the Central Ameri-
cans are VIGOROUSLY bad shots
Honduras has been helped in this
war by Salvador. with whom she had
an offensive and defensive alliance,
and she has had to contend With re-
bellious outbreak of her own people
This was the case in Nicaragua, the
latent revolutionists in each country
seemingly taking advantage of the diff
culties of the government to further
their own cause. Only three Central
American states have become involved
Costa Rica and Guatemala remaining
neutral.
The government of the United States
sent gunboats to both the Pacific and
Atlantic coasts and marines were land
ed at two or three ports on the north
ern coast of Honduras for the protec-
ton of American interests. These ports
were in the possession of enemies of
the Honduran government at the time,
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and the government OF Honduras ap-
proved the action taken by the United
States
The capture of the capital of Hon
duras by the Nicaraguans, coupled
with the recent defeat of the forces of
Honduras and Salvador at Choluteca
and the flight of President Bonilla of
Honduras, it is thought. practically
puts an end to the war
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SHIP WRECKED BY U. S. SAILORS
Men from Battleship Put Crew to
ROut and Do Much Damage.

Men from Battleship Put Crew to
Rout and Do Much Damage.
One hundred sailors from the United
States battleship Connecticut lying in
Hampton Roads, while en- route from
Willoughby Spit to Fortress Monroe on
the steamer Ocean View, without appar-
ent cause took charge of the steamer and
put the crew completely to rout The
sailors broke out window lights, broke
down doors, smashed the glass in the
frames containing the boats government
licenses, drove the cooks from the galley,
poured out all provisions aboard the
steamer, dumped on deck the fire in the
kitchen stove, turned steam on the fire
extinguisher in the lamp room and did
other damage. The officers were power
less. and the sailors, as soon as the steam
er landed at Fortress Monroe, jumped to
the pier and hurried aboard the battle
ship Connecticut. Their names are not
known, but the company which owns the
vessel will make out bill for damages
and send it to Captain Swift, command
ing the Connecticut, with the request that
the same be deducted from the pay of the
men who boarded the battleshfp at Fort
ress Monroe Immediately after the occur
renee
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-09
HILL ROAD UPHELD.
Supreme Court of Minnesota Re-
verses Decision on Stocks

Supreme Court of Minnesota Re-
verses Decision on Stocks.
The Minnesota Supreme Court has up
held the Great Northern railroad in its
contention that it had the right to issue
$60,OOO,O00 of additional stock which was
authorized by the board of directors sew
eral months ago. The issue was enjoined
through the intervention of Attorney Gen
eral Young, who held that the railroad
compant should first go before the State
railroad and warehouse commission and
submit to an examination to show the
necessity of the issue. The contention of
the State was upheld by Judge Hallam
in the Ramsey County District Court,
and he ordered an injunction to issue.
The Supreme Court reverses that decis-
ion
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STRAITS OF MAcKINAC OPEN.

West of Mackinaw City Entire Ice
Field Has Disappeared.
The straits of Mackinac are open to
navigation, says report of Friday. A
small field of broken ice is jammed be-
tween Mackinac and Bots Blanc Islands,
but the channel is open to the north side
Some floating ice is visible in Lake HUI
ron. West of Mackinaw City the entire
field has moved into Lake Michigan and
out of sight. There is no ice west of that
point. Ice in the south passage is still
holding, but southeast gales are breaking
it up and carrying it down the lake. Boats
can now pass the straits at any time. Old
Point Mackipaw lighthouse is now in OPP
Grafton,