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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
CHICAGO

business activity responds promptly to
'he stimulus of seaSonable weather. and,
with the passing of the drought through
our the agricultural regions, blowing and
seeding are vigorously advanced. A bet
ter tone develops in money, EMPLOYMENT
or funds has increased and recently bank
statements testify TO an abundance of re-
sources for the normal requirements of
commerce.
Dlstributive trade shows further recov-
cry, lower temperatures helping the gen
eral demand for necessaries, and there is
strong absorption of apparel, food products
and house furnishings.
Forwardings of staple merchandise COM
pare favorably with this time last year,
and jobbers' house and mail orders remain
Of fair aggregate in dry goods footwear,
hats and caps, woolens and suits,
Mercantile collections in the interior
are fairly prompt. and an increasing num-
Der of country merchants take the best
discounts on current purchases.
Money is seen to be circulating more
freely among the farming classes. and
there is less drain of currency shipments
TO move crops than a year ago. although
marketings thus far have been liberal.
Manufacturing moves steadily forward,
more machinery and hands being active,
and there is notable decline in the num-
Der of idle cars.
Movements of raw materials to some
extent exceed those at this time last year,
while values mainly hold firm, The abb
sorption of forest products steadily inn
proves, and yard stocks being lower than
usual, 1t is easier TO obtain better prices
for some varieties
The total movement of grain at this
port, 9,50S, 1919 bushels. compares with
10.2S3,315 bushels last week and 15,1S0.-
O32 bushels year ago. Compared with
1907, there are decreases in receipts of
1854 per cent and in shipments of $50 per
cent.
Bank clearings, $226, 493,090, are 1870
per cent under those of the corresponding
week in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 81 against % last week and
20 year ago. Those with liabilities over
$4,000 number 6, against Z last week and
4 in 1907.-Dun's Review of Trade.
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Fred Beel, the wrestler, has bought an
eighty-acre farm near Colby, Wis, and
will wrangle with the stumpS hereafter.
NJ. H. Griffin of Joliet, H., who won
second place in the discus throw in the
Olympic games in London, will enter Be-
lott college this year.
Freddie Welsh, the English lightweight,
krOcked out Frank Carsey of Chicago IN
the fourth round before the Pacific Ath-
letic Club at Los Angeles.
Manchester college this year has forty
husky candidates for the football team,
and Carlisle has thirty-fve The smaller
colleges ought to put up some good games
this fall.
At Nashua, \. H, Charles 1. Van Zant,
for several years a prominent baseball
player and a member of the Albany club
of the New York State League, commit
ted suicide at his home by shooting.
Mighty Roseben has probably run his
last race. At least that is what Dave
johnson and Trainer Weir said after the
Big Train had been badly beaten in the
Flight stakes at Sheepshead Bay. 1t
was a complete breakdown that caused
Roseben's defeat.
With a notable field of eleven horses,
including Geers' TeaseI, Spanish Queen.
Acquin and Dewitt, it took five heats
and some sensational racing to decide the
big race at the New York State fair,
the Empire State stakes of $4,000 for
2 IA trotters.
Magofin, the new football coach of the
North Dakota agricultural college, has ar
rived. He is from the Michigan univer-
sity, where he was a star on the team for
some time and a favorite protege of Coach
Yost. This will be Magofin's first effort
at coaching and he has a hard task TO fill
the shoes of Gilmore Dobie.
President O'Brien of the American As
ISOLATION suspended Catcher James Block
of the Minneapolis club for three days
for delaying the game by refusing to )eave
the field promptly when ordered to do so
by the umpire.
The feature of the 2 :O4 pacing event
for the $1,000 Hamline purse at the Min
nesota fair was the rivalry between Cita-
ton and Lady Maud c. for first honors.
The horses had met at two previous race
meets this year, and each one of them
had captured a race, so that this was TO
be the deciding event. Citation won two
heats and the race. Lady Maud captured
the other. Time, 2 90, 2 :0412, 2 :0412
The withdrawal from amateur athletic
ranks of John J. Hayes, winner Of the
Marathon race az the Olympic games in
London recently, is announced in a letter
written by Hayes resigning his member
ship in the Amateur Athletic Association.
The second day of the Great Western
fall meet at Peoria, Ill. was filed with
interest, Tommy Swift, heavily backed in
the 3-year-old pace, after winning the
first heat in the remarkable time OF
. :O9s4, the fastest heat in this class Of
the year. broke in the second heat and
was distanced Katherine Direct and
Earl Jr. fought the race out between
themselves. the former winning through
the superior craftsmanship of McMahon.
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PENSION INCREASE s1s,se4,s21.
Loss of 1888 Persons from Roll,
but Amount l. Largest Ever.


The report of the commissioner of
pensions for the fiscal year ending ON
June 30 last, shows that during the
year there were 34,333 deaths among
civil war veterans who were on the
pension roll. This falling off was equal
to about ) per cent of the total, and
left 62S,0S4 survivors ON the roll The
number of deaths was 1882 greater
than during the previous year.
The total number of pensioners at
the end of the year was 951 ,687. Dur
ing the year 54,356 pensioners of all
classes were dropped and 3s,6s2 added,
making net loss of 54,6S4. The state
ment also shows that 1SS,445 widows
of soldiers already have taken advan-
tage of the law of the last session of
congress increasing to So a month the
pensions to widows.
The actual expenditure for the year
on account of pensions was 1858, 093,-
0S6, but on account of the law increas-
ing the rate to individual pensioners
the annual value of the roll at the
close of the year was $159, 495, 701, an
increase of $1S,644,S 21 over the previ-
GUS year. The expenditure was the
largest in the history of the bureau.
The total number of applications for
pensions of all kinds pending at the
close of the year was 1858, against
356, 1S1 at the beginning of the year.
There are now only a little more than
one-third as many claims pending as
there were year ago, and these are
being adjudicated as rapidly as the
evidence necessary to determine their
merits is furnished.
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Utah has organized a State Federation
of Labor
The membership of the Cigarmalsers'
Union in Porto Rico is more than 1000.
The Federal High Court, at Sydney,
New South Wales, has declared that the
registration of trade union label is un-
constitutional.
The recent Scottish Trades Union Con-
gress passed resolutions in favor of old
age pensions and in favor of compulsory
Intervention in labor disputes.
st. Louis, Mo-, has a man named John
Samuels, who is 90 years of age, and still
takes an interest in organized labor, and
writes articles for publication, his favor
lite topic being cooperation.
The Trade Union Congress of England
passed a resolution asking Parliament to
enact a measure under which the organ
izers of strike-breaking movements, as
we'll as the men themselves could be prose
cuted.
Until 1901 the United States and Great
Britain had more trade unionists than all
the rest of the world put together, but
since 1901 the rate of growth of the
unions in France and Germany has been
very marked.
The eight-hour demonstration in Bris-
bane, Australia, recently was marked by
the participation for the first time in II
history of the day of organized women
workers. The new recruits represented
the Clothing Trades Female Employees
Union.
School Director DR.. ". G. Weaver Of
the Wilkes Barre (Pa.) School Board,
proposes to pension the aged teachers in
the employ of the city by appropriating
a pension fund of $4,000, which the
board saves to the city annually in the
salaries, fees and other expenses; the
teachers to contribute their pro rata share
to the fund.
In Italy for admission to labor in mnps
and tunnels the age must be thirteen full
years, when mechanical traction is EN-
ployed, and full fourteen years when me-
chanical traction is not employed, and
females of all ages are forbidden to labor
of this nature Females Of less than q
years will not be admitted to dangerous
labor of any kind.
James E. Roderick, chief of the De-
partment of Mines, of Pennsylvania, in
issuing his report for the bituminous dis
trict for 1907, urges a fund for the re-
lief of widows and orphans by a tax Of
three-fourths of a cent a ton on all coal
marketed.
The government of the city of Liege,
Belgium, not only does all it can to pre-.
vent idleness, but it encourages the work
ing class to obtain homes instead Of vast
ing their earnings. The government in
1866 commenced to contract houses for
workingmen, selling them at minimun
cost on the installment plan.
Krupp's workmen's colonies at Essen
are called the West End, the Nordhof, ths
Baumhof, the Schederhof, the Cronen-
berg, the Alfredshof, the Frederichshof
and the Altenhof 1.-THE latter for disabled
and pensioned workmen), and they con-
tain 5000 residences, including some de-
tached houses at Essen. In addition the
firm has rented 31S residences from pri-
vate owners for number of years. The
firm has erected a large number of hos
pitals, eating houses, lighthouses, etc.
Mr.. P. NJ. Draper, secretary of the Do
minion Trades Congress, has been nomi-
mated as the labor candidate for the board
OF Control of Ottawa, Canada.
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$40, 900 IN SMUGGLING PLOT.
Customs officials Seize Canoes and
Jewels, Exposing Big SwindIe.

Customs officials Seize Canoes and
Jewels, Exposing Big Swindle.
News of the seizure by custom-house
officers in New York City of more than
$4,000 worth of costly canoes and coral
jewelry led to the disclosure of a gigantic
smuggling plot involving more than $2O,-
100000. These seizures are the first
open moves in an investigation which
Collector of the Port Edward S. Fowler
has been conducting for the last three
weeks with the utmost secrecy for fear
that the conspirators might take alarm
and escape before the evidence against
them had been completed. Already it has
been ascertained that the smugglers did
not confine their operations to jewelry.
The scope of their illicit traffic was of the
widest and embraced almost every article
of value that is imported into this coun-
try from Italy. Priceless laces from
Florence and Venice, silks and gloves
of the costliest grades were struggled in
by the barrel and bale, the one under the
guise of apples and the other listed as
hav
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
MISSING BOY HAZERS' VICTIM.
Bound, Gagged, Put in Box Car and
Shipped Away by Students.

Bound, Gagged, Put in Box Car and
Shipped Away by Students.
Through a sensational story told in
Lexington, KY, by a small boy it is re-
garded certain that w. S. Smith, who
disappeared from the State university
recently, was overpowered, bound and
gagged during the course of hazing at
the university and then placed in Queen
and Crescent box car, the door of which
was afterward locked, and Smith was
shipped away. The car was sent out of
the yards, but no trace of it can be found,
The seal on the car was broken by the
students, who are said to have sealed it
up again. The police and the faculty of
the university are at loggerheads over the
investigation. A detail of police was sent
to the university by the Mayor. If any
thing definite is learned, arrests will be
made.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
Conner. Required to Answer

Chief Justice CIabaugh rendered the de-
cision of the District of Columbia Su-
preme Court holding that President Com
pers of the American Federation of Labor
must answer the questions put to him at
the last hearing in the Buck Stove Com
pany boycott case relative to matter pub
lished in the current number Of the Fed
erationist. The court decides that it is
customary for such questions to be an
swered and their relevancy to be decided
ty the court later. Gompers had justified
his recent editorials on the Sght Of free
press and free speech.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
5000 Men Apply for Work.

The announcement made by John Wan
amaker that he would give employment
to 1000 men in the work of demolishing
the old section of his store on Chestnut
street, Philadelphia. beginning last Mon
day morning. brought to the place a
throng of at least 5000 men, who surged
about the streets and so impeded traffic
that the police reserves had to be called
out to make way for the cars. After the
favored ones had been chosen the rest of
the crowd dispersed without disorder.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
More Dry Victories i'm Ohio.

Perry county, Ohio, by a majority
of 1927, voted to Danish saloons, of which
there are fifty-six within its boundaries.
This is one of the important coal mining
counties. Brown county, on the Ohio
river. also voted out the saloons by a
majority of $50. There are twenty-three
saloons in this county. Nineteen counties
have now held elections under the Rose
law and all have gone dry, the total num-
Der of saloons affected being 4S2.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
GIGANTIC SMUGGLING PLOT.
Government Officials Cnearth Big
COnspiracy tn Defraud u, s.

government Omc1ats neaftn big
Conspiracy to Defraud U. S.
What the customs officials claim to be
the biggest smuggling plot in recent
years at Phila delphia and which involves
a business man OF the city and a promi-
nent resident of Boston, was unearthed
in the arrest of Walter Parker of the
crew of the steamer Marion. 1t resulted
in the seizure of rare laces and gowns
and quantity of cloth. In addition to
the Philadelphia and the Boston man re-
ferred to, the plot, according to govern
ment officers, involves the largest lace
dealer of Queenstown, Ireland. 1t is ex-
peeted that members of the crews of other
transatlantic steamers will be shown to
have been connected with a gigantic con-
spiracy to defraud the United States.
Warrants for the arrest of two other per-
sons were issued.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
U. s. LEADS AS COAL PRODUCER.
Sixty Per Cent Ahead of Great
Britain i'm 1907.

The United States produced 60 per
cent more coal than Great Britain in
1907, over 100 per cent more than Ger
many, and, exclusive of Great Britain,
more than all other countries combined
The geological survey, in report on the
worlds production of coal, estimates such
production at 1909, 1874, 100 short tons, of
which the United States furnished almost
40 per cent. More than 90 per cent of
the total worlds production is from coun-
tries north of the equator, the countries
south producing less than 20,OO0,000 tons
annually. During the last forty years
the percentage of the worlds total pro-
duced by the United States has increased
from 14.32 to 1913, and since 1899 this
country has held first place, having dis
tanced Great Britain so far that that
country can no longer be considered
rival
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
Born as Castaways Are saved.

The castaways from the British steam
err Aeon. who passed nearly two months
on Christmas island, an almost barren
coral formation in the Pacific ocean, ar
rived at Suva, Fiji Islands. on the steam
err Manuka of the Canadian-Australian
line. all we'll and increased by one in
number. A daughter was born to the wife
of Chaplain B. r. Patrick, United States
navy. twenty-four hours before the Ma
nuka was sighted.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
Bars Up Against Standard.

In reply. to their inquiry the members
of the board of commissioners of Rogers
county, Oklahoma, have been notified by
the State Attorney General that they have
no authority to give permission to the
Prairie Oil and Gas Company to build
pipe lines in public highways. The oil
company has asked the commissioners
for their permission.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
SON Attacks VIII of Leslie Carter.

Claiming that undue influence was
brought TO bear on his father, the late
Leslie Carter. former president of the
South Side Elevated railroad in Chicago,
and that the terms of the document are
unjust, Leslie Dudley Carter, only son of
the deceased inancier will contest the
will which disinherited him and cut him
off without a share in the $4,000 estate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
STANDING Or THE CLUBS.
Progress of Pennant Race in Base
Ball Leagues.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
De Wolf HOMER Badly Hurt.

De Wolf Hopper was the victim of a
serious accident on the stage of the Wet
ing Opera House in Syracuse, n. Y. The
buckle of belt by which he was suspend
ed in the air slipped and Mr.. Hopper fell
10 the stage floor, distance of about
eight feet. with great violence and suf-
fered a slight conclusion of the brain.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
GREAT LAND RUSH BEGUN.
Registration for Land in the Rose
bud Reservation Is Started.

qua reservation Is Starteus
The Trip county, S. d, land rush be-
gan Monday morning, Judge Witten al
lowing notaries to write applications the
minute Monday came. Actual registra-
ton was started in Gregory and Dallas
at 0 o'clock and applications dropped into
large metal cans at these two points.
Judge Witten has issued notice to persons
registering that applicants must swear
that they honestly intend to make their
homes on the land and that those regis
tering for speculation or intending to sell
accomplishments may be prosecuted by the
government for attempt to defraud. A
light rain freshened up the Rosebud Sun
day night. Gregory and Dallas people
did not go to bed, fearing to lose a half
nights time in starting the lottery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
School of Sanitary Science.

Much favorable comment is appearing
in the press for the proposal made by DR..
Norman e. Ditman in the Columbia Uni
versity Quarterly to create a school of
sanitary science devoted to enlightening
the public upon preventable agencies of
death. DR.. Ditman brought to light the
fact that ever 100000 lives are sacrificed
in this way in our country each year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13

Company and the American Oil Com
pany had been operated for years as in
dependent concerns, although in reality
owned by the Standard. Squire admitted
that this was done. but said it was to
take advantage of the good will of the
old names. Squire told how he had dis
missed c. J. Castle, in charge of the
Cleveland business of the Standard, for
giving rebates to customers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
P,unrtnr Caused Brown Failure

The examination into the accounts of
the failed brokerage firm of A. o. Brown
& Co. of New York brought out the coz
fession of one partner, buchanan, TO the
effect that credit given TO the PittSburg
broker, Whitney, who failed last Janu-
airy. had much TO do with the Brown
failure. The speculations of the Pitts
burg plunger had been carried under a
secret name or number, so that he had
to put up no margins
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
Boy Held as Train Wrecker.

Two recent train wrecks on the Lin
coin, Neb., division of the Missouri Pa
cific are charged to Vernon Shipman, a
17-year-old boy of Lincoln, who was ar
rested and confessed that he placed fish
plate in the frog of the switch at Barnes
Station. Section men on handcar were
thrown from the track just before the
arrival of the express train. Shipman
denies he caused the previous wreck.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
Bear Trio Shot Near school.

Harry Steele, who recently won fame
by shooting four out of six bears which
sprang up about him one after another
just outside the city limits of South Bend
Wash, has added to his reputation as a
rimrod. While hunting in the woods only
a little distance from the high school
building he was suddenly confronted by
three bears. He shot all three, killing two
and fatally wounding the third.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13

1t is now expected that Japan will re-
duce the large force of troops held in
northern China to only two companies.
By making this reduction in the Chinese
forces Japan viii be able TO make a saw
ing of $4,000 yen (about S315Oo0) an
uually
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13

Having heard thelr PRESIDENT eXpOund
the revelation of the words of wisdom
which prohibit the use of all intoxicants
by the faithful. $1,000 members of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints have proclaimed their faith in the
practical application of the ecclesiastical
law by voting unanimously approval of a
resolution pledging the entire membership
of the church to support prohibition legis-
In ton
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
burglar Gets UnIucky Ring.

Mrs Silas Smith of Paterson. \. J..
reported to the police the loss of an opal
ring which she declares has always
brought bad luck TO its owner and which
she believes the burglar took in order to
pass it on TO some one against whom he
has a grudge.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
Night Riders Kill Three.

Fifty night riders set fire TO the home
of Dave Walker, a negro, near Hickman,
Ky. and. as the house was burning. shot
Walker, his 5-year-old daughter. and his
infant child to death as they attempted to
escape. Mrs. Walker and three other chill
dren are believed to be fatally injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
YEARS GOLD PRODUCT DROPS.
Decrease in Silver Also i'm This
Country, with Colorado Leading.

Country, with Colorado Leading.
The production of gold and silver by
the mines of the United States for the
calendar year 1907, as determined by the
bureau of the mint and the geological
survey, acting in conjunction, aggregated
4.374 1877 ounces Of fine gold of the value
of S9O,435, 700, and 56,514, 700 fine ounces
of silver of the commercial value averag-
ing sc cents per ounce, or $37, 299, 100.
As compared with the output of 1906 a
decrease is shown in the value of gold of
S393S, 100. While the production of sill
yer in 1907 was only 5000 ounces less
than for 1906, the commercial value, on
account of the decline in, the price of sill
ser, was $95S,7O0 less. Colorado leads
in the production of both gold and silver.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13

Ruling against high school fraternities
and sororities, Judge Windes in the Cir
cult Court in Chicago sustained the con
tention of the board of education that it
is empowered TO exclude from the schools
pupils who are Numbers of secret socie-
=,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
Shot by Unknown Persons,

Henry c. Risley, prominent contrac-
tor of Chattanooga, Tenn, was shot and
killed as he lay in bed at his home by
someone who forcibly entered the house
while the other members of the family
were attending church, a double-barreed
shotgun with both barrels discharged be-
ing left by the murderer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
College Rush Hurts Boy.

David Arnold. a Trinity college fresh
man. is in the Hartford, Conn. hospital
in a serious condition as result of in
juries received in the annual class rush
on the college campus. 1t is thought he
may have conclusion of the brain. His
home is in New York State.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
Blast Heard Twenty Miles.

Two powder houses southeast of Sioux
Falls, S. H.. exploded with defamation
that was heard twenty miles away. One
boy was killed, and it is feared two others
persisted. The powder houses belonged TO
the Larson Hardware Company.