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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24
NATIONAL CAPITOL NOTES.

Representative Stevens of Minnesota
has introduced bill to remove the duty
on pulp wood and white paper.
Congressman Hamilton of Michigan
has introduced a bill providing for Sc
we're penalties for circulating false reports
about national banks.
Congressman Cook of Colorado will in
a few days introduce bill to restore
the duty on manganese ores, which are
used largely in the manufacture of steel.
The tariff was removed in 1897 by the
passage of the Dingley tariff bill.
Senator Culberson's resolution directing
the Secretary of the Treasury to inform
the Senate if any national banks outside
of New York City complained between
Oct. and Nov. Is, 1907, of the refusal
of national banks of New York to pay in
cash. New York exchange or to respond
to calls for reserve was adopted by the
Senate.
The President received a visit from
Charles G. Burton, commander-in-chief
of the G. A. R.. and three members of the
pension committee of that organization,
who talked with him about the bill pend
ing in Congress increasing the pension OF
widows from So to S12 per month.
Resolutions demanding the restoration
to the army of the colored troops dismiss
ed as fine result of the Brownsville af
fair were adopted at a mass meeting after
addresses by Bishops III. ii. Turner OF
Atlanta, W. d. Chappelle of Nashville,
and other negro leaders. Fifteen States,
having large negro population were rep
resented.
The first reading of the Fowler cur
reucy bill was completed by the House
committee on banking and currency. The
bill. together with the several amendments,
tentatively agreed to. viii now be taken
up and discussed preliminary TO final re-
vision and report.
The United States board of food and
drug inspection made public its decision
in the matter Of what constitutes an
original unbroken package" The board
decides that in enforcing the law orig
inal unbroken packages will be restrict
ed TO such package containing the food
and drug product as has been prepared
for shipment or transportation as an en-
tirety or unit"
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At Los Angeles Big Bow won the four
mile race for the Norfolk stakes.
S. C. Hildreth's Meelick won the Cali
fornia derby at Oakland with ease.
Pete O'Brien is going to be captain of
the Minneapolis ball team this season.
Drake university of Des Moines has
practically completed her football sched-
ule for next season.
Frank Balm, who makes one of the larg-
est books in the Oakland ring, quit Derby
day with a balance of $500 on the
wrong side of his sheet.
At Wanganui, New Zealand, Webb, the
worlds sculling champion, retained the
title by defeating r. u. Ressider in a
contest on the Wanganui river.
To Jockey Chris Kirschbaum fell the
riding honors at the Emeryville track,
Oakland, Cal. Five firsts, four seconds
and FIVE thirds out of 80 times in the
saddle was his record for the week.
John w. Rogers, trainer for Harry
Payne Whitney. died from pneumonia at
Aiken, s. C. Mr.. Rogers was one of the
best known trainers of thoroughbreds in
the United States. At one time he was
employed by Ed. Corrigan
According to an announcement made BY
John Camel, manager of the Cincinnati
National League team, Grand Rapids of
the Central League will use several of
the surplus players now under contract
to the Reds. Camel states that he will
let Arnold have a catcher, two pitchers
and an out6elder, all with big league ex-
perience,
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$500 to $6.40; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $6.10; wheat, No. 2, 94c to 96c;
corn. No 2, Gle to 63c; oats, standard,
SIC to 53c; rye No. 2, soc to S2c; hay,
timothy. $3.50 to $1,000: prairie, $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, 25c
to CSC; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c potatoes,
per bushel 62c to zoe.
Cincinnati--Cattle, $500 to 1919;
hogs, $500 TO $500; sheep. $500 TO
1925; r'heat, No. 2, S1.0o to $l.01 corn,
No. mixed. 6Jc to SEC; oats, No. 2
mixed. SIC TO dc; rye, No. 2, SIC to SIC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 TO $500; hogs,
$400 TO S4.65; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat. No. ., 96c to Csc; corn. No.
yellow, 65c to 67c; oats, No. 3 white,
53c to 5Je: rye. No. 2, SAC to Soc.
Milwaukee Wheat. No. northern,
$1.07 to $1.0S: corn. No. 8, G0c to 62c;
oats. standard, 34c to Doc; rye, No. l,
Sic to SIC barley, No. 2, 90c to 92c;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to s6.10; hogs. fair to choice, $3.50
TO $5.05, sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1925; lambs. fair to choice,
$500 TO $40.
New York-Cattle, 500 to $3.50;
hogs, $3.50 to $500: sheep, $500 20
$500; wheat. No. . red. 99c to $1.01;
corn. No. 2. CSC to CSC; oats. natural
white. SIC to 60c: butter, creamery, &c
to 29c: eggs. western. lie to 15c.
Toledo-Wheat No. . mixed, 95c to
&c: corn. No. mixed, &c TO 64c;
oats. No mixed, BE to Doc; rye, No
2, SOC to Sic; clover seed. prime, Sl2.4O.
dianapolis-Cattle shipping. $500
10 1915: hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 TO S4.S5; sheep. common TO prime,
$500 to S4.50: wheat. No. ., 96c to
orc; corn. No. white, 62c to 63; oats,
No. 2 white, 5lc TO 53c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to S6.25: hogs.
$500 to $40: sheep. $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. .. $1.02 to S1.03; corn. No. 9,
63c to G4e; orts, No. ., J4c to 5Jc; rye,
No. .. SEC to Sic.
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B1DwELLs ARE CONVICTED.
Cold Motor Promoters Found Guilty
of Operating a Confidence Game.

Benson Bidwell and his son, Charles
Company, cold motor concern, were
found guilty in Chicago of operating a
confidence game. Benson Bidwell is a
brother of George and Austin Bidwell,
who, it is said, defrauded the Bank of
England out of $5,000,O00 He started
the electric company in 1896. He de-
clared that he had invented an cleo
trio motor that would not burn out
He also asserted that he was the in
ventor of the trolley car and of the
electric fan. Investors from all parts
of the United States answered his adj
vertisements, sending to the company
a total of $225,000, according to the
books of the concern.
1t was alleged by the prosecution
that the Bidwells sold their private
stock in the company to persons who
thought that they were buying treasury
stock. This allegation was supported
at the trial by Miss Ida C. Palmer, who
had been employed as an assistant by
Charles Bidwell. In addition to testi-
flying against her former employers, she
turned over to the state a secret book
containing the names of investors in
the concern.
The State also brought forward ex-
pert electricians who declared that the
motor invented by the elder Bidwell
was impractical A model of the motor
was also exhibited. In operating it
carbonic acid gas was pumped into the
apertures. The expanding gas caused
the outside of the machine to be coat
ed with frost, but the State declared
that the armature was not affected and
was likely to burn out, as in an or
binary motor.
Benson Bidwell maintained through
out the trial that he had invented a
real motor, and denounced the proceed
ings as part of a plot to wreck his
company for the benefit of rival con-
Germs.
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Junior Republic Extension.

In view of the success which has at
tended the junior republic system in iso-
lated cases a movement is on foot for
the formation of a National Junior Re
public Association. for the purpose of adj
vancing the idea in the various States.
William R. George, founder of the George
Junior Republic, will be the director of
the enterprise A farm for the training
of colonists and head workers for new
republics has been secured at Freeville,
n. Y. 1t is also planned to institute a
system for boys and girls below the age
of 10 years, who will have a community
carrying out the self-governing and eco
nomic ideas to a lesser degree. These
will probably be called the junior colonies,
to distinguish them from the junior re-
publics, which are distinctiVely for older
boys and girls.
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FLOOD IN THE NORTHWEST.
Rivers Are Out of Their Banks and
Tracks Are Under Water.

Rivers Are Out of Their Banks and
Tracks Are Under Water.
Many points in the Pacific Northwest
face serious damage from floods. For sew
eral days heavy rains have fallen and
every river is lake. Bridges have been
washed out or dynamited, railroad tracks
are under water and huge landslides block
the way. The most serious reports come
from Walla Walla. Mill Greek, which
flows through that city, has caused heavy
loss, destroying several houses. At Pen
dleton the levees built last year are still
holding, but there is fear that they are
becoming undermined. In western Wash
ington the rivers around Seattle and Ia
coma are rising, but little damage has
been caused. The Oregon Railroad and
Navigation (Union Pacific) system has
not been able to send train through for
thirty-six hours. This road is blocked
principally by heavy landslides east and
west of Pendleton. Train service in the
vicinity of Walla Walla and from Lewis
ton north is at standstill. The North
ern Pacific suffered to an extent from
slides in the western part of Washington
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24
CHICAGO

OI11OAGO.
The weekly review of trade in the Chi
cage district, published by IL. G. Dun &
Co., will say:
Trade exhibits further recovery, sea-
sonahie weather proving beneficial, and
there IS Improvement in both production
and distribution, together with larger
movements of breadstuffs and livt stock
and 5e'ter general demand for money.
These gratifying developments are also
supplemented by volume Of payments
through the banks little short Of that a
year ago and commercial mortality the
lowest in several months. The supply OF
funds for business purposes is made am.
pie by unusually high deposits, and this
encourages more bidding for discounts.
with the rate for choice paper easier at
81 per cent.
Resumption appears in heavy con-
struction and new building, involving out
lays exceeding those at this time last
year, but railroad work is III allegiance
pending financial arrangements. Condi-
tons favor an early lake traffic, and this
stimulates renewed activity throughout
the docks and shipyards.
Factory employment has gained mod
erately and the idle hands are smaller in
number, although new contracts in iron,
steel and equipment come forward slowly.
ore piles on hand exceed the normal, but
pig iron stocks in this district disclose
little accumulation, and with prices down
TO expectations inquiries become more nu-
merous and suggest increased furnace out
puts shortly. Woodworking branches re-
fleet brighter outlook based upon cur
rent demand, and wages of ca5inec work
ers are advanced, but the aggregate buy
ing of lumber is not yet equaGng expecta-
tionS
Tanning indicates some effort to aug
ment stocks, and there is lirmer tone in
leather, but the market for hides con-
tinues depressed, notwithstanding smaller
receipts. Shoe manufacturers are season
ably active, and there is steadiness in
novelties and trunks, while furniture
leather shows increasing shipments.
Building materials are in stronger re-
quest, lower average of cost inviting more
investment in residence property, and the
packing industry is exceptionally busy
and giving employment to more than the
normal forces at good wages.
Mercantile collections at western
points occasion less difficulty, and ship
ments If general merchandise to the
South and the gulf States surpass those
at this time last year.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 80, against 40 last week
and % year ago. Those with liabilities
over $1,000 number IL, against Is last
week and in 1907
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24
FIVE YEARS FOR WALSH.
Convicted Chicago Banker Sentenced
to Fort Leavenworth Prison.

John r. Walsh, the Chicago banker,
convicted Of the misuse of depositors'
funds, was denied a new trial by
Judge A. B. Anderson in the Federal
Court and was sentenced to five years
in the government prison at Fort Leay
enworth. The sentence was five years
on each count on which the president
of the old Chicago National Bank was
convicted, but it is to run concurrent
ly. All the points raised by the attor-
neys for the defense in their plea for a
new trial were overruled by the court,
who, in his opinion, reviewed at some
length the events during the trial and
after the return of the verdict.
In overruling the plea for new
trial the court commented on the evil
dence of guilt shown in the hearing.
asserted that the trial had been fair
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24

$3.50 IOr weeks ana the
struggle attracted national attention.
Bradley's election was effected by the
detection of four Democrats, who re-
fused to support Beckham.
Senator Bradley is one of the best
known politicians in the State and has
gained wide distinction as a criminal
lawyer. He was born in Garrard, KY.
in 1S47 and was admitted to the bar
by special act of the Legislature in
1866. being under 81 years of age. In
1870 he was elected prosecuting attor-
ney and in 1888 received LOG votes for
Vice President in the national conven-
ton. In 1896 he was endorsed as Ken
tucky's candidate for the presidency.
His election as Governor in 1895 broke
all political records in Kentucky and
turned a registered Democratic major
ity of 10000 into Republican plural
ity of 5000.
Senator Bradley has long been proni-
nent in Republican national politics and
at one time declined the appointment
by President Harrison, of minister to
Corea. He is an unrivalled story teller.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

The seven terrorists condemned to
death for a plot against Grand Duke
Nicholas Nicholaievitch and NJ Chtcheg-
lovitoff, minister of justice, were hanged
at Lissy Moss, opposite Kronstadt, Rus
STA.
i. l. Isham, a window washer in New
York, who started to fall from the eTev-
enth story, was caught by workmen when
be reached the tenth floor and saved. He
says he will give up window washing and
get a job lower down, in a subway, if
possible.
The New York Women's Peace Circle
denounced President Roosevelt for his
support of rife shooting for boys and
girls in the public schools.
Seventeen women in New York attend
ed Turkish bath luncheon in sheets, so
as TO appear in their real figures. They
went through various exercises and heard
a lecture on How to Be Attractive,
Though 40 Plus"
Two men who at Brigham City, Utah,
a year ago ran away with $4,000 be-
longing to japanese laborers have been
convicted and sentenced in Japan. That
government, moreover, paid Utah for col
lecting and forwarding afidavits.
Since its relief department was organ
lied twenty-five years ago ST, 434,0J9 has
been paid out in benefits by the Pennsyl-
vania railroad OF this sum S10,316,O96
was for disablements.
Mrs. Mary Mayer committed suicide by
taking carbolic acid at Munith, Mimi,
when she heard failed bank that had all
her uoney might pay only 10 per cent,
and her 17-year-old daughter died in con-
vuIsions as a result of the shock.
Mark j. Knapp Of New York urges
that PHYSICIANS in future be trained to
diagnose disease in human beings by strip
ping them and observing the lines and
shadows which the internal organs pro-
duce on the skin during respiration
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24
PACKERS MUST PAY FINES.
United States Supreme Court Decides
Against Large Firms.

The proceeding by the government
against the Armour Packing Company,
Swift & Co, Morris & Co., and the
Cudahy Packing Company, all Of them
operating in Kansas City, Kan, under
which the companies were each fined
$4,000 by the United States Circuit
Court for the western district Of Mis-
souri, on the charge of receiving re-
bates contrary to the provisions of the
Elkins act, has been decided by the
Supreme Court of the United States
adversely to those companies.
The courts opinion was announced
by Justice Day, who held that the Ell
kins act is applicable to transporta-
ton anywhere, and that an offense is
not confined to the initial point. He
also held it applicable alike to shipper
and carrier.
The four packing companies mention
ed were convicted in the United States
District Court of receiving concessions
on export shipments of packing house
products and fined by Judge Smith
Mcpherson at Kansas City, Mo-, on
June %, 1906. At the same time the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road Company was fined $4,000 for
granting concessions and George l..
Thomas, of New York, freight broker,
and L. B. Taggart, his clerk, were fined
and given Jail sentences for conspiring
to receive concessions from railroads.
Recently Thomas and Taggart threw
themselves upon the mercy of the court
and Judge Mcpherson withdrew the
Jail sentence, the defendants paying
their fines and being released. The Bur-
lington's case is now in the United
States Supreme Court.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24
CONVICTED OF CAPITOL GRAFT.
Four Are Found Guilty of Fraud
in Pennsylvania Case.

in Pennsylvania Case.
The jury in the first of the Pennsylva-
mia capitol conspiracy cases to be tried
gave verdict of guilty as to every one
of the four men who have been on trial at
Harrisburg for the last seven weeks The
men found guilty are John II. Sanderson,
contractor; William p Snyder, former
auditor general; w. l.. Mathues, former
State treasurer; and James NJ. Shumaker,
former superintendent of public buildings
and grounds The State claims that
frauds to the amount of S5.000,0OO were
committed. The four men were convicted
of defrauding the State in furnishing the
new capitol, which cost the State about
S13,000,000 instead of S4,O00,00O, the fig
ure at which the contract was estimated.
The prosecution was the outcome OF the
political upheaval in Pennsylvania in
1908, which resulted in the election of
William II. Berry, a Democrat, as State
treasurer in the fall of that year. Berry
threw open the books of the State treas
ury and showed that the cost of building
the capitol was more than three times the
amount of the contract. The case was
laid before the Attorney General and in
dictments were found against fourteen
persons When the cases now pending
against the four persons who were con-
yicted are concluded the other defendants
will be heard
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.

The Ohio state Senate has passed a
county option bfll.
Mrs. Lydia A. White. aged so, a real
daughter Of the American revolution, is
dead of pneumonia at Lancaster, Pa.
Fire in the mining town of Sewell, on
New river, W. Va, destroyed eleven
buildings and caused a loss of $4,000.
The Michigan constitutional convention
and the South Carolina Legislature each
voted down proposition for State pro-
hibition.
The collier Caesar has arrived at the
New York navy yard to be overhauled to
carry two submarine torpedo boats to the
Philippines. They will be part of the
permanent dafenses of Manila.
Caleb Powers, tried so often on the
charge of completely in the murder of
William Goebel. is expected to be a can
didate for the Republican nomination for
Congress in his Kentucky distr.c5.
Fire starting in Lembke's dry goods
store at Albert Lea. Mimi, caused loss
to the building and four mercantile firms,
the Northwestern Telephone Exchange
Company and six other tenants of $780,
600.
J. E. Brady, formerly president of the
Merchants Refrigerating Company Of
Kansas City. which failed last November,
was indicted in that city. charged with
the emhezzlement of $4,000.
Henry Bergh. nephew Of the founder of
the American Socisey for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, offers prize of
$500 for an invention that viii be more
humane than the present method Of
slaughtering animals.
Andrew Charlton, Jr.. and Anna l..
REYNOLDS have been married at Stamford,
Conn. for the second time. The first
marriage took place in 1892 when Charl-
ton was % years and his bride IA Eight
years ago they were divorced.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24
EVELYN SEEKS DIVORCE.
After Standing by Thaw Since
Tragedy, Wife Would Be Free.


Evelyn Nesbt Thaw has instituted
proceedings for the annulment of her
marriage to Harry Il. Thaw. The ac-
ton is based on the allegation that the
defendant was insane when the union
was contracted. Mrs. William Cof1ey
Thaw is made co-defendant.
1t is understood the attorneys for
Mrs. Thaw will depend practically on
the evidence of insanity introduced at
the last trial of Thaw to prove that he
was mentally incompetent at the time
to legally contract a marriage Alien
lists will probably figure prominently as
witnesses and the men who appeared
as experts for Jerome in Thaw's trial
will be summoned as witnesses in Eve
lyns behalf. Mrs. Thaw's lawyer de.
MED the report that it had been agreed
to settle $4,000 on the younger Mrs.
Thaw. He denied also the report OF
an allowance of $4,000 a year for life.
He also emphatically denied the report
that Evelyn is contemplating a return
to the stage, saying: Mrs. Evelyn
Thaw has no plans for the immediate
future"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24
pAIRYMEN WIN PRIZES.
Minnesota Man Gains First In MIX
and Iowan Leads In Cream.


and Iovan Leads In Cream.
Prizes were awarded at st. Paul in
the butter scoring contests held in con-
nection with the national convention of
creamery butter men. The first prize in
the milk division was won by j. c. Past
of Hector, Mimi, who scored 9S points.
E. o. Blomquist of Center City, Mimi,
won the second prize. A. Christensen OF
Royal, Iowa, won first place in the gath
cred cream division. l.. p Hansen of
Window, Mimi, was second. Wisconsin,
Iowa and South Dakota are the winners
of the association cups awarded to the
States having the highest individual
scores outside of the State which wins
the high average banner. In a special
butter scoring contest between Iowa,
Wisconsin, South Dakota and Minnesota,
Iowa won first place and Minnesota and
South Dakota tied for second place. Win
ners in each division of the sweepstakes
contest received a gold medal valued at
So, and those who captured second place
received a silver service tea set of four
pieces
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24
CUPID ovERWoRKED IN PANAMA

Even Nurses Get Engaged on Their
Way by Steamer to the Isthmus.
Panama is one place where leap year
is not needed, Miss Helen Varick Bos-
well, who organized the women's clubs on
the isthmus at the instance of the govern
ment, told the members of the Portia Club
in New York. Cupid is tremendously
overworked down there" said Miss Bos-
well. ut is impossible to keep woman
single. At one of the hospitals they told
me they had lost seventeen nurses by mat
rimony from April to June and sent word
to the States that they positively would
not take young nurses and plain ones
must be sent. The nurses become engaged
to the men returning to Panama on the
way down on the steamers"
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hewed to the line in carrying out it's
provisions. The cry arose that the law
was being administered in hard and
fast way with consideration for chem
zeal analyses alone, and no considera-
ton for the welfare of the makers of
foods and drugs.
According to his supporters, Dr.
Wiley has been deciding doubtful ques-
tons in favor of the public and so has
made trouble for himself His oppo-
nents are declared to be in gleeful
state, thinking they at last have the
doctor suppressed and loaded with
burden of disaffection from which 1t
will take him long time to free him
Golf