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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

A 15-year-old son of Frank Burdck ac-
cidcntally shot and killed his 19-year-old
sister at the home of their parents in
Rensselaer,, opposite Albany, N. Y. The
boy was playing with a shotgun when be
suddenly pulled the trigger, the contents
lodging in his sisters neck. She died al
most INSTANTLY
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
Fast chicago Train pitched.

The fast California limited on the
Santa Fe road went into the ditch twelve
miles west of Topeka, Kan, Engineer
Rossiter was killed. Mrs. Reginald
Reeves of New York was the most seri-
ocsly injured among the passengers. An
open switch caused the wreck.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

State Auditor Iverson Of MINES .ta
has sent out checks amounting to $I3.-
$4,000. representing the Sfsse bounty for
WOLVES killed in the various counties. This
i the 6rst wolf bounty payment made
since March. and is the largest Ia amount
IN many years The checks sent out coz
cred 1.1ss5 full-groNn animals. for which
$50 eash is paid, and l.357 cubs. at
So each
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
Kentuckians Punish Blacks.

Being unable to secure the real muir
derer of white man a mob in Russell
vile, Ky, lynched four negroes whose
only offense had been to express sympa-
thy for the slayer. The negroes who we're
lynched were members of lodge, and at
a meeting recently. it is said, they APP
proved of the killing of James Cunning
ham, white farmer, by his negro ten
ant, Rufus Browder.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Rex Beach, the novelist, who has just
returned from bear hunting trip in
Alaska, is confined in Seattle hospital
under the care of an eye specialist with
serious attack of iritis, which, it is
feared, may result in permanent loss of
sight. The affection resulted from ex-
posture while hunting in the Copper river
country
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
Noted pickpocket KiIled.

James Ryan, one of the most noted
pickpockets Of the country, was killed by
a tram car of the Tennessee Coal, Iron &
Railroad Company at Pratt City, Ala.
He was serving a five-years' sentence for
robbery. He was arrested in Mobile
DUNG the visit of President Roosevelt
four years ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Charlotte Walker. an actress, was
granted divorce from her husband, DR..
John B. Haden of Galveston, whom she
married about twelve years ago. Char
lotte Walker is the only child of the late
Col. James Walker, a distinguished Con-
federate soldier. and is leading woman for
James K, Hackett.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
american Niagara Unharu...ea.

During the greater part OF the week tbs
American side Of the Niagara power con-
nection has been idle, great buIkhead
stopping the flow o. waters Ia the mile
tunnel 80 that workmen could repair the
walls and roof, where the force OF the
current and the ice jams had done dam
age. At the same time divers were put 10
work repairing the abutments Of the
upper steel arch bridge. which had begun
- ao1
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
Formulation.
Population.

A<AhO $500 TN JduTdy lUU
The City of FerLie b. c., a place of
5000 population. is wiped off the map
Michel, fourteen miles distant, is also
devastated, and the fate of Hosmer,
Olsen and Sparwood intervening
towns, was in doubt, they being cut
off from all communication. OF the
200 lives known to have been lost sew
enty-four of them were iii Fernic. Six
ty-one men and two women were burn
ed to death in No. logging camp of
the Elk Lumber Company The camp
was surrounded by fire and not a sin
gle person escaped. A territory of 100
square miles in extent was seething
mass of flames. Through it were scat
tered hundreds of lumbermen and pros
9ectors, so that the actual loss of life
will not be known for days. The prop
critics of the Canadian Pacific and
Great Northern railways are destroy
ed, the bridges and rolling stock burn
I'd. The inhabitants of the towns fed
to open districts in the vicinity in the
hope of safety. The railway compa-
lies placed all available trains at their
disposal. The confiagration is the
greatest which has ever visited Can
ada
For the last month forest fires have
been raging in the mountains of the
Elk River Valley country, bit they
have not been considered seriously. Sat-
urday morning heavy wind sprung up
from the west, and early in the after
noon the flames appeared over the crest
of the mountains to the west of Fer
ME. They ran down the mountain side
and before fire guard could be organ
lied had entered the town Within an
hour the town was doomed, and the
inhabitants sought safety in flight,
leaving their all behind them.
All night and the following morning
the exodus continued, the destination
being a small prairie in the valley
three miles south of the town. Three
thousand people camped there in the
open, their only protection being shell
tiers built of brush or blankets, while
constant shower of sparks from the
burning area kept falling through the
pail of smoke by which they were sur
rounded. The hills in all directions
were a seething mass of flames.
In Fernie the only buildings remain
ing are six small shacks on the banks
of the Elk River, the offices of the
Crows Nest Coal Company and the
Fixes Wood warehouse. The offices of
the Canadian Pacific Railroad and
Great Northern are gone, together with
all Of the rolling stock in the yards,
the sleeping car Osceola being the only
car left. One hundred cars of coke. the
property Of the Great Northern, are
gone and tie stock piles Of coal and
coke, holding about 100000 tons, were
also burned.
The fire followed the crest Of the
mountain chain above Sparwood, eating
down into the valleys on either side.
1t travelled at tremendous rate. Fire
fighting apparatus was of no avail, for
the air was filed with fragments of
burning wood and sheets of flame SEEM
ed to leap ahead of the confagration,
as If the air itself were in flames. The
heat was intense and many of the fire
fighters went down ahead Of 1t. APP
peals were sent out from the burning
section to the mayors Of Winnipeg,
Vancouver, New Westminster, Victoria,
Spokane and Helena asking that relief
be hurried to Its residents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
CHICAG0's HEAT RECORD.
Temperature Rises to o6.4 Degrees,
Highest Since July 81. 1901.

Temperature Rises TO So.4 Degrees,
Highest Since July 81, 1901.
A heat wave that killed, Frustrated.
sickened, crazed and irritated struck
Chicago Monday. The thermometer
reached 96.4 degrees. There was only
one place in the United States warmer
than Chicago, and that was Kansas
City, Mo. The federal thermometer
there registered 9S degrees as its high
mark. but even with this record it is
not certain that different wind and hui
nudity conditions may not have made
the Missouri city much more endurable
than Chicago. The odd part of it ali
was that there was wind of from
twenty to twenty-five miles an hour
most of the day. Not since July 81,
1901, has Chicago had higher Their
mometer. On that date the mark show
ed 103 degrees.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Two acres of growing tobacco belonging
to Hedrup Elslager, near Russellville,
Ohio, was cut down with hoes by persons
incensed because he was said to have
pooled his 1907 crop and afterward sold
it to outsiders. The barn on Fred
Sohatzman's farm, near Russellville, was
burned the same night.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
Nineteen Cars DemoIished.

The greatest of freight wrecks, involv-
ing the destruction of steel cars, occurred
on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
near Meadowbrook. Philadelphia suburb.
when out of a coal train of twenty-eight
cars nineteen were demolished, entailing
a loss estimated at 100000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
Trnin Crash KIM. two.

Two men were killed and six seriously
injured. two of them probably fatally. in
IRE 0nis-io and Western yard at May
field. Pa. The men were repairing cars
on a siding when another train crashed
into them. The cars being repaired we're
hurled from the jacks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
KIN. Child and wounds VIE.

Jesse Filter, gripman. killed his s.
yearold daughter Hazel: Mrs. DENIM.
Nihoul. patient; fatally wounSSa his
wife. ~. l. Fifer, and seriously wodat
ed las. ethel Warren. his sister-in-law.
in private hospital in Seattle, Wash.
Ne t,,ea committed suicide.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
Automatic rrnin.top wanted.

Secretary Boriand of the Signal and
Train Control Board of the Interstate
Commerce Commission says it will be
worth S1,000,000 to the person who in
vents an automatic train stop to be re-
lied upon and which can be installed at a
reasonable cost. After going over the
plans of many inventors, the board has
found none altogether acceptable, but it
was decided to give trial TO the Rowell-
Potter system on the Burlington road
over a period of several months.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

A story from Atlantic City that dele
CATION s-om the First Baptist church
there is TO invade La Crosse. Wis. 10
persuade the 6ancee of Rev. John Wei
lingfon Hoag to consent to marry hirs at
once surprised members OF the church IN
the Wisconsin town. as they did not know
their pastor was engaged.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

The new York State Department Of
Agriculture has ordered the cutting down
81 a large number Of fine apple orchards
where the presence Of the San Jose scale
has obtained foothoId. IL the owners
do not act the department will send men
to cut the trees and collect for the work.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Gov. John 5. Little of Arkansas has
been placed in sanitarium in st. Jo-
seph, No. He has been suffering from
nervous breakdown almost ever since his
election. and it has developed into acute
melancholia. His condition is not en-
courag cling.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
rooo-Foo. R.iIdIng yert.

Before the new tower of the Metro
nc!itan building is complete, with its title
to the highest occupied structure in the
world, New York is told that plans have
been drawn for the erection Of tower
1000 feet high on the Mills building. In
Broad street. The owner has not de-
cided definitely.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

A patient in the Manhattan Eye, Ear
and Throat hospital at New York. whose
name the doctors refuse 10 reveal. is SUI
fering from a peculiar form Of blindness
which makes him sightless when standing
up, but when lying down his vision is I'M
impaired
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
states Revenue. Cut Down.

According to the State auditors re-
port there are AS fewer saloons in Ohio
than there were Jan. last. This re-
duees the States revenues since Jan.
1897. 20T. IL is believed, however. that
the revenue this year and the $1,000
Aiken tax win amount TO about $1,000
600
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Three burglars attempted to rob the
c. Converse. director in the United States
Steel Corporation. bur were driven Of b.
Mr.. Converse and a Waterman after =
battle with revolvers The burglars drove
Up 10 an automobile.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
c. A. r. TO BUILD wARsHIP.
Popular Subscription Movement
Started by Civil War Veterans.

= OPuAAE SunscEiRtAUh hOtCmCht
Started by Civil War Veterans.
A movement to raise money by popular
subscription to build a mammoth United
States battleship has been inaugurated by
Owen Gray Post, G. A. r., at Larue,
Ohio. The only request to be made of
the national government, according to the
resolution adopted by the post, is that the
battleship shall bear the name Grand
Army of the Republic" as a memorial to
the veterans of the Civil War. 1t is
expected that every Grand Army post in
the country will take up the movement.
Contributions of 81 or more are to be
received from all citizens, subscriptions
being in charge of the commander of each
local post, and by him to be forwarded
to the department commander of the G.
A. r., who will send all contributions to
the Secretary of War.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
Now styIe Apnrtment Home.

a New York realty company has ac-
cepted plans for the biggest apartment
house on record on a novel plan. 1t is to
occupy one whole city block, and will
have an interior court. fitted up as a
summer garden or green, for the common
use of all the tenants. All the sleeping
rooms will face into this court.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

dispatch from Pietermaritzhurg.
SoutA Africa. reports the discovery of
= gigantic conspiracy TO rob the Rand
tsold mines of enormous sums One hun
dred thousand dollars in gold has been
stolen this year and many thousands of
dollars worth was stolen in 1901 De
teetives are shadowing the suspects
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
roo,pass Kiu Motorman.

Frank l.. Brown, a motorman, was
murdered by one of four aighwaymen a;
the end of the p street car line in TIA
coma. Wash. and Conductor G. r. Wind
sor was robbed by the highwaymen of his
watch and SIS in money.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
NURSE SAVES BOYS LIFE.
Makes Lad Lie Stin as Five Cars
Pass Over Him,

MIKES Lad Lie StiII as Five Cars
Pass Over Him.
Mrs. Ethel Willis, a nurse, saved the
life of an unidentified boy in Superior,
Wis. While waiting for a street car she
saw the boy half block away fall under
train. She saw that one car had pass
ed over the boy without doing injury.
But the lad began to crawl toward the
rails and was nearing sure death when
the woman commanded the half-dazed
youth to lie still. All the while waving
to the trainmen to stop, she kept COM
handing the boy to hug the earth, and
after five ears had passed over him the
train came to stop, the boy being I'M
hurt
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
cr.a, FIR. An british columbia.

At least 200 lives have already been lost
in bush fires which have wiped opt sew
eral towns in British Columbia. Fernie
Is destroyed. and thousands are fleeing be-
fore the flames Property loss is over
S1ooO0.oo0. and no end of Tie i.re is N
p,~ht
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

The executive committee of the Mime
sofa Territorial Pioneers Association is
planning for specssl exercises as a golden
jubilee celebration at the fair grounds
during State fair week this year. The
secretary Of the association has received
q donation of $500 from the State Arxi-
cultural Society for use in the telebra-
ten
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
After standard OIL compa.x

Government attorneys will prepare at
once their petition for rehearing of the
case in which the $50. 24O, 900 fine against
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana
was wiped out.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Prof. Andrew C. Mclaughlin OF the
University Of Chicago won his Sight in
California courts for a 5000 legacy,
withheld because Of a controversy between
relatives over $4,000 worth of securs-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Tad Smith. negro boy. IS years
old, charged with assault on Hiss Viola
Delaney at Clinton, Texas. was lynched
BY burning at the stake. He had been
taken before the young woman and iden-
flied
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
omcer KtlIs Fleeing Man

After an exciting three-miie chase in
an automobile John Duffy. paroled pris-
oner. was shot and killed By Marshal
Cadwallader of De Soto. Mo. h> fed
when the marshal attempted TO arrest him
for violating his parole.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Virginia Harmed. the noted actress and
wife Of f. III. Sothern. now the foremost
American actor. has begun proceedings in
Nevada for divorce, on grounds Of in
compatibility.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
DRIVER QUITS AFTER as YEARS.
Faithful Messenger Retired by Com
pany on Half Pay.


pany on Half Pay.
Mahlin G. Robb, one of the most ia
miliar figures in the business and fnan-
cial district of Cincinnati, is missing from
his route, and his kindly face, with neat
white beard, is seen no more in the banks,
subtreasury Office, nor on the seat of the
American Express Company's money
wagon. Robb has been for more than for
ty-fye years the money delivery messen-
ger for the company in Cincinnati, and
during this time there has been no loss
to the company He has handled more
than $4,000, 100000 in money and bonds.
Saturday was his last day, and on that
day his great toe was crushed by truck
filled with silver falling on it. The COM
pany has retired him on half pay.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
HARVEST HANDS PLENTIFUL.
For First Time in Years Kansas Has
Workers Enough In Fields.

Workers Enough In Fields.
Kansas actually has enough harvest
hands, for once. This surprising an
nouncement by Director I. 3. Gereow of
the State employment bureau in Topeka,
Kan, reveals thes for the first time in
many years such a condition prevails.
Instead of crying more and more" as
usual, Mr.. Gereow has said enough to
his Kansas City and Chicago agencies.
I can account for it., said Mr.. tierecw,
from the fact that lots of people are out
of work. Men who wanted jobs are lying
in wait for the harvest, and in lots CT
wheat counties harvesters were on hand
several Gays before the wheat was ready
to cut
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
yvannn Pntient Leaps 40 peath

Mrs. Samuel Cane of Moandsyille. W.
Va. Jumped from Mount Carmel hospital
roof garden in Columbus, Ohio, and was
killed. The woman had been at the hos
pital suffering from melancholia.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
Chicago,s Hottest Day.

Chicago had on Monday its hottest day
in seven years, the mercury reaching 96.4
degrees; four persons died of heat and
two were in serious condition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Fire which it is thought originated with
a gasoline explosion on board 3 motor
barge destroyed the fish wharses OF the
Philadelphia Fish Merchants AsSoela1ion
~ the Delaware river. Loss Size CO..
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERLY LEAGUE.
NEW MURDER AT LAPoRTE, IND.
Body of Wen Dressed Man Found
with Gun Shot Wounds.

A murder mystery developed near La.
porte, Ind, Monday "lth the finding OF
the body of well-dressed man about 40
years of age buried under a pile of rails
about one-half mile east of Rolling Prai
RE, at point near the Murdoch street
car line and the Lake Shore road. The
man had been shot in the head with a
shotgun and his body dragged to The place
of concealment. His murderers had strip
ped him of any evidence as to identified
ton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

The president and vice president Of the
Eagle Savings and Loan Company, New
York. have been arrested and indicted on
charges of grand larceny.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

PRESENTATIONS announcing general am
nesty TO political fugitives from Turkey
have been posted in New York and hailei
with jey. Many thousands Of exiies an
expected 70 rssurn 70 their native land
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

1t is stated on good authority that the
saloons throughout Oklahoma will reopen
as the result of the finding of faw in
the prcAbitlso law.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

". F. Walker, the former bank cashier
Of New Britain, Conn. at last has been
extradited from Mexico and brought back
to is5s trial for his crime
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

DIR. Alberto, member Of the cabinet OF
President Manned BoniIIa wHen the lat
Ter was president Of Honduras, declares
the revolution In that country win con-
time until the Davila government is over
shrrzru
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
Hnrrieane wrecks seventeen 81

A dispatch says that the Labrador coast
has been swept by hurricane which
wrecked seventeen fishing vessels In one
harhor. Grave fee y are entertained for
the safety Of Sir William MacGregor.
Governor of newfoundland. who is On an
official visit 70 Labrador.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Senator William r. Allison of Iowa is
dead and Gov. Cammins announces his
candidacy for the vacant seat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Hogs reach s. per hundred in Chicago
during the week. Experts say high prices
are likely 10 continue for six months at
least
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
Harer. Not Rein.tated.

President Roosevelt says he has NOT ap-
proved tie reinstatement of the dismissed
West Point haxers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Miss PauIi0e Kohlsaat became the
bride Of Potter Palmer at Chicago wed
ding notable for its simplicity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Three fires in Gary Sunday made TWEEN
ty-three families homeless. destroyed ten
buildings. and caused loss Of 10000.
The police and insurance officials are in
vestigating the fires. some of which, il is
believed, were Of incendisry origin.
The state herald., 1908-06-26
Northern Coal Miners, s,rIks.

Denyer.-A Lafayette dispatch Fri,
day night says; The 500 miners en-.
ploycd In the coal mines here quit work
this afternoon at I o'clocl, In response
To an order received from headquarters
following the referendum vote In which
the proposition made by the mine own.
orH operating In the northern Colorado
fields was turned down. There was no
demonstration whatever. and no trou.
Bile Is anticipated, Engineers ana
enough men are left at the mlneS to
Keep them In good shape and when air
fcronces OF the men aud mine owners
are settled they can ro.urn TO work on
days notice.
Those towns where the men walked
out this afternoon are Lafayette, Louis.
vile, Erie Marshall. Superior, Dncnnn.
Downrr and Frederick Nearly thirty
mines Hre affected and practically
2.O00 men arr idle.
The state herald., 1908-06-26
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