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CHICAGO.

Trade conditions in Chicago for the
week are summarized by Il. G.. Dun &
Go. as follows:
Seasonable conditions have impaired
a more hopeful tone to industry, and new
demands make an improving exhibit in
iron, steel, metal and Woodworking. there
being also steady additions to the ma
ehinery and hands employed. Building
operations and heavy construction open
promptly, the work in sight assuring q
busy year, with heavy capital investment,
and the outlook strengthens the buying
of structural needs, lumber and quarry
products. Navigation between nearby
lake ports is effected, thereby widening
the general movement of freight. which
aggregates heavier tonnage by rail than
a month ago, although marketing of grain
has slackened. Farm reports indicate
widespread preparatory work and inn
provements
"A healthy indication of the improve
ment under way is a better offering of
commercial paper and an easier tendency
in the cost of money. Currency ship
ments to the interior have fallen behind
those at this time last year, but larger
sums are being reserved for use in man
ufacturing and other properly extensions.
while savings deposits are on the upturn.
Few commodities disclose any significant
decline in prices.
Mercantile collections generally reflect
increasing promptness, and credits are
less disturbed by the lower commercial
mortality this week. Retail trade pro-
crosses encouragingly, and is relatively
very good at outside points, where higher
temperatures have prevailed. Wholesale
dealings in the principal staples include
a very satisfactory gain in the number
of new accounts, and the aggregate sales
of textiles, footwear men and women's
wear, food products and hardware com
pare favorably with year ago, although
many buyers anticipated forward require
ments more conservativey.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 81, against so last week
and 20 a year ago. Those with liabili
ties over 5000 number 10, against II
last week and q in 1907"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
WILL FEED THE HUNGRY.
Fashionable Pittsburg Congregation
Forms Unique Club.

On a recent Sunday in the Second
Presbyterian church, one of the most
fashionable in Pittsburg, was organ
lied what is known as the Breakfast
Brotherhood Club. The organization
consists of men and women enlisted in
a good but certainly most original
cause. Each Sunday morning before
services breakfast will be served in the
basement of the edifice to the poor and
needy Word was scattered, perhaps
more as a joke than anything else, by
someone connected with the church that
there would be free breakfasts Sunday
in the vestibule, served to all who were
hungry. Two hundred people were as
sembled at the church door when the
pastor, S. Edward Young, arrived. He
was slightly disconnected for moment
not having heard of the breakfast
movement" but when he learned the
reason for the gathering he met the
situation calmly and at once proceeded
bers of the congregation who had al
ready assembled Food was quickly
procured and coffee made, and the en-
ergetic pastor personally helped look
after the wants of the hungry 200.
Upon thinking the subject over he and
his people came to the conclusion that
feeding the needy of Pittsburg every
Sunday morning wouldn't be hard or
UNPLEASANT task and SO the club was
formed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
STATES POWER LOST
BY HIGH COURTS ACT
Rate Laws of Minnesota and North
Carolina Knocked Out by
Supreme Tribunal.
FEDERAL CONTROL wIDENED.
Justice Harlan, Alone Dissenting,
Predicts Disaster from Sweep
ing Decision.

A smashing blow at States rights
was delivered by the Supreme Court
of the United States Monday when the
tribunal Knocked out the railway rate
laws of two commonwealth. Dividing
eight to one, the court, in a decision
rendered by Justice Peckham, sustains
the federal side absolutely in the Min
nesota and the North Carolina cases, in
which lhe clash between the authority
of the United States and the State
courts formed an issue that was nation
wide in the interest attracted.
Justice Harlan was the dissenting
member of the court in each case, ex-
pressing the opinion that the decisions
rendered marked new era in the rela-
tionShip between the States and the
federal government and between the
federal and the State courts, and nre-
dieting that the result would be disas-
trous.
The Minnesota freight and passenger
rate laws are declared unconstitutional
on their face by reason of the excessive
penalties imposed. The opinion in the
Minnesota case was declared TO apply
also to the North Carolina case, al
though the processes by which the two
cases were brought before the Supreme
Court were different.
The right of railroad corporations or
stockholders in such corporations TO APP
peal to the federal courts to test the
constitutionality of rate laws enacted
by State Legislature is clearly set
forth. Beyond that the essential thing
laid down is that when such test is
made the right of injunction lies with
the federal court to restrain admins
trative State officers from proceeding
to enforce the provisions of the laws
through the machinery of the State
courts, until the constitutional question
has been finally determined.
In short, the federal courts are given
what really amounts to the power to
pass upon the reasonableness of rail-
road rates fixed by a State for inter-
state traffic. The decisions greatly min
lnllLC uliS DOMcl VI lLC loldlCo " ANaiA
with the regulation of railroads even
within their own borders. The queS-
ton of the constitutional right of the
States to Iegislate at all on this subject
was not brought directly before the Su-
preme Court, but, in view of the decis-
ion rendered, there is strong posi-
bility that once this question is raised
it may solve the problem completely
by denying absolutely the States power
to regulate rates in any degree.
Justice Harlan deemed the cases of
sufficient Importance to justify r.
000-word dissenting opinion, taking
strong ground in support of the theory
that the proceeding in the Minnesota
case was suit against the State and
therefore not permissible under the
constitution.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
NORTHWEST NUGGETS.

The Mile Laos Chippewa Indians.
most of whom live on the Write Earth
reservation in Minnesota, will soon share
in division of $1,000 received from the
government.
The commission which has charge of
the awarding of the Carnegie hero med
ais is investigating a rescue by South
Dakota young man named Earl Nanscot-
ter. who saved the life of John Flock
hart. a companion. while the two were
skating on the Missouri river, near Green
wood
Disregarding the shrieks of warning
from the locomotive whistle, and refus-
ing to leave the track upon which he was
walking. an unidentified lunberjack delib-
erately permitted himself to be struck by
a switch engine at the junction near
Tower. Mimi, and was instantly killed
The farr, home Of John Donthitt, near
Westboro Wis, was destroyed by fire
while the mother was outside. The stove
exploded and her three small children,
one four years old one two years old
and a baby. were burned to death. The
father was away from home working in
a lumber camp.
Determined to convince his hearers
that he was God. as he claimed. and
that he was immortal. an unknown
stranger deliberately sat upon the rails
before an onrushing passenger train and
was ground to death beneath the wheels
tefore the eyes of a large number Of peo-
PIE at Salem, Wis.
Sanlt Ste. Marie. Mich people are
divided by bitter factional fight over
the question as to whether the new fed
eral building shall be erected this year
with the 100000 appropriated by Con-
gress. or whether the building shall be
DELAYED while an effort is being made to
secure an additional $4,000.
Finding herself locked in a school house
at Columbus. Wis. Alice Grant. 10 years
old. pulled the fire alarm. The janitor
and the FIRE department arrived in a very
short time and the little girl calmly
walked out.
The standing of the graduates of the
naval academy of the year 1906 on the
final examinations. prior to their being
commissioned as ensigns. has been APP
proved by the Navy Department Allan
]. Chantry. Jr., of Malvern, Iowa. as
honor man. with a percentage of 652.73
out of a possible 692. will enter the con-
struction corps of tine navy. George B.
Wright of Fergus Falls, MIMI, ranks
9Th, with a standing of 6t3.S6.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
church system Not Right,

Rev. DR. William n. Bocock, pastor
of the First Reformed church of Bay
onre, n. j., created no slight sensation
when he declared from his pulpit that
the doctrines and ecclesiastical system of
the church to-day were unsuited to the
needs of the twentieth century that the
doctrinal system of the church was a her
itage from the sixteenth century: that
while it contained soul of truth, the
body was unsuited to these times. The
church, he said, was not founded upon a
book. and referred to the story of Daniel
in the lions den. the opening of the Red
Sea before the fleeing Israelites, etc, as
fgurative and very exaggerated language.
He said: THE prophets of the old time
sought the best means of conveying to the
minds of the sort of people then liv-
ing the religious spirit. but the things
that were vehicles OF those days cannot
be vehicles of to-day" He declared his
intention of asking the authorities of the
church for permission to preach the
truth for the next Two years While the
older AID more staid membership of Or.
Bocock's church are against his opinions.
it is said that many members of his flock
are standing Loyalty by him, and a split
in the society will probably ensue.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
TELEeRAPH1c BREvITIEs

Carshops at Macarthur, Ohio, burned.
Loss $4,000.
In the burning Of the San Francisco
almshouse three inmates lost their lives
The Ohio House passed bills abolishing
the boards of public service ami the
boards of public safety in municipalities
Abraham Ruef Of San Francisco has
sued Judge Dunno and others for $4,6J9,
the amount he alleges he paid out of his
own pockets for prison quarters, automo-
bile hire and living expenses while in
charge of Elisor Biggy.
San Francisco police are looking for
a religious sect which is said to be win
ming. through alleged crooked methods,
young girls for the Chinese white-slaye
traffic.
John L. Ivaneovich, fruit packer OF
Santa Clara, Cal, was accidentally killed
in a scuffie with a probation officer, who
found his boy on the street during school
hours and attempted to carry him of to
school in his buggy.
Fire OF unknown origin broke out In the
council chamber in the city hall nj Clegc-
land and the building narrow'y escapcd
destruction. The council chamber was
practically destroyed. Many valuGb's
public records were badly damaged.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
InhaIds CoIarLine

Judge Howe in the District Court has
ruled that negroes cannot, under the civil
tights law in Iowa, demand equal priv
ileges with white people in the matter of
distribution of gifts Deciding in a spe-
cihc instance that coffee company dem
onstrating at public show had the right
TO refuse to serve coffee to negroes when
it was dispensing this coffee free.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
FIRE TRAPS EVERYWHERE.
Every Village and City Has Its Po-
tential Collinwood Tragedy,

tential Col1inwood Tragedy.
That New York city is full of fire
traps and that every village and city
possesses the possibilities of just such
calamity as visited Collinwood, Ohio,
is the opinion of Richard l.. Humphrey,
engineer in charge of the structural
materials laboratory of the United
States government. He says:
The shocking catastrophe at Collin
wood did not result from exceptional
conditions, but from conditions that are
to be found in thousands of instances
throughout the United States. The
same or even worse firetraps prevail
in every village and town and, indeed,
in many of the large cities. Even where
municipal laws are supposed to govern
the erection of such structures the con-
ditions are often worse than in Collin
wood. The only surprise is that these
catastrophes do rot occur more fire.
quently.
THE remedies for these conditions liz
not in elaborate systems for fighting
fire or any elaborate fire drills, which
may or may not be effectively. carried
out, but in the enactment of strict mu-
nicipal laws compelling the erection of
structures entirely fireproofed with ma
terials of the highest quality, and es-
pecially in the prevention of the cree
ton of fiimsy structures, where women
and children gather in large number,
as, for example, schools, theaters, hos
pitfalls and similar buildings Unless
such action is taken greater calamities
than those at Collinwood and Boyer
town, attended by even greater loss Of
life, will undoubtedly occur.'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
Lower Wages Inevitnble.

Henry Clews. the New York banker
and broker, addressing the Pittsburg chap
ter of the American Banking Institute,
said that general reduction of wages in
all the great railway and other indus
tries had become absolutely necessary be-
cause still at the high figures to which
they were pushed during the long period
of prosperity. He said the labor unions
should at once reduce their wage scales
land not wait until they are forced to
yield He pointed out that half loaf
is better than none. and urged that the
workmen owed this cheerful acceptance
of the cut as a duty to society at large
Mr.. Clews defended stock speculation on
the exchanges, saying that it lis no more
gambling than specializing in real estate
or ordinary merchandise" He deplored
the recent attacks on Wall street, the
financial center of the country, by both
Roosevelt and Bryan.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31

Cs
tants of the southern continent are on
the east of the Andes, so that it would
be of no advantage to make use of
tie canal to reach them.
Mr.. Stevens also says that in our
commercial relations with the islands
of the Pacific and Far East the canal
will be of little value. Our coal and
wheat centers are inland Their prod
ucts have to be started on their way by
rail. When once loaded on cars it
would not be cheaper to ship to the
Atlantic and then ship to the east by
the way of the canal than it would be
to send directly to the ports on our
tactic coast and then get on board
ship. Mr. Stevens believes that our
coal supply is fast diminishing and that
China will be the coal country for the
future. Siberia, he says, Will be the
wheat country of the future, with India
a close second.
ar Stevens maintains that the Pan
anna canal cannot hope to become any
thing other than an expense. 1t will
not meet expenses and it will cost more
than is expected. 1t will be an advan-
tage. he says, to European countries,
but not to US. The date of the finish
ing of the canal he fixes as January.
1915.
The idea OF the canal being of great
value to us in times of warfare since
our naval forces can be quickly sent
from one coast to the other, he says,
is utterly absurd. 1t would take days
for the ships to get around, and during
that time hostile shells could have done
their work.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31

Six railway companies, the Elgin,
Joliet and Eastern, the Grand Trunk
Western, the Belt Railway Company, the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Chi
cage ard Northwestern and the Michigan
Central, have been found guilty in the
United States District Court at Chicago
of violating the safety appliance law. In
two of the cases punishment was suspend
ed pending a motion for a new trial In
the other cases fines varying from 500
to $500 were imposed.
The announcement of the placing of an
order for $4,000 tons of steel rails on the
1907 basis by the Erie railroad is taken
to indicate the collapse of the steel rail
deadlock. particularly as it has been fol-
lowed by the statement that practically
every railroad in the country has placed
tentative orders for the estimated require
ment in steel rails for 1908. The aggre-
gate of the estimates is less than that of
last year, totaling in the neighborhood of
2, 100000 tons.
The connecting link between the Hi
nois Central and the Central of Georgia
is now finished and soon the Harri-
man system will be in operation from
ocean to ocean. This link is the branch
line from Corinth, Miss. to Haleyville,
Ala, whence trains will run to Birming-
ham over the tracks of the Northern
Alabama and Frisco lines.
Evidence of the gradual resumption of
business and industrial activities is found
in the order of the Pennsylvania railroad
to fire up fifty freight locomotives on the
Pittsburg division, which have been laid
up on sidings for several months.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers has asked general conference with
seventeen Southern railroads regarding
the 10 per cent cut in wages to be made
on March i.
The Pullman Company has mailed
checks. representing a total of $4,000.
to certain of its employees as an express
sion of its gratitude for courtesy to the
travelling public in 1907. The checks
went to 1853 conductors and 2,617 por-
tiers, being one months pay to each man.
These are all on the roll of honor Five
hundred and thirty-six conductors and
l.7S3 porters received no checks. The
system will be continued in 1908
The railroad COMMISSION OF georgia
has ordered that all common carriers
which contemplate wage reductions to
notify it with the figures and the rea-
sons for such cuts, thus deferring action
until the commission is satisfied.
Eastern railroads hare decided to 1on-
test what is known as the commodity
clause Of the Hepburn amendment, which
REQUIRES them by May / TO cea1 a4Ssls-
portinc beyond State c0niDes anvthiny in
which they are financial intere sted. At
fer several conferences between presidents
of all roads, it was u sanimo-sly decided
to refuse TO comply win tbs section Of
the law and to defend the action on the
ground that the law is unconstitutional.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
BURNED IN sTocKYARDs FIRE.
Blaze Breaks Out I'm Electrical Sup
pIy-House of Transit Company.

Blaze Breaks Out in Electrical Sup
pIy-House of Transit Company.
Two iremen were overcome by smoke,
burned slightly, and employees of sur
rounding packing houses were frightened
and property valued at $4,000 was de-
stroyed in fire which broke out in the
electrical supply house of the Union
Stock Yards and Transit Company, For
tieth street and Laurel avenue, in the
center of the Chicago stock yards. The
building was partly destroyed, and the
flames threatened fer time to spread to
sheephouse No. 4, a four-story brick
building adjoining on the south, and sew
eral wooden runways used for the con-
veyance of cattle from cars to the pens.
e. A. Bull, superintendent of the sup
ply house, said he believed the fire was
the result of carelessness on the part of
one of the employees, and declared that
an investigation would follow. The blaze
started in pile of rubbish in the rear
Of the first floor, and was discovered by
Superintendent Bull, who sent in an
alarm to engine company SO, which is
stationed in the center of the yards.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
MEXICAN WAR is PREDICTED.
Paper Says U. s. Has Designs on
Lower California.

Lower California.
War between Mexico and the United
States in the not distant future is prophe-
sled by El TEMPO, organ of the Catholic
church in the Republic of Mexico. 1t
published on its first page the other day
an article which appeared in New York
newspaper recently, in which the writer
advocates the purchase by the United
States of the peninsula of Lower Cali
fOrnia. Commenting editorially on the
article, the paper urges that Mexico irl-
mediately begin to prepare for war
with the United States, as it is declared
the northern republic, failing to obtain
the consent of Mexico for the sale of the
peninsula and its harbor, Magdalena bay,
will take It by force of arms. The editor
speculates on the result of the predicted
war, saying Japan would take advantage
of it to seize the Philippines should it oc-
cur and the Republic of Colombia would
undertake to regain Panama. 1t is point
ed out that England has large interests
in the Republic of Mexico and in the
immediate vicinity of Magdalena bay and
that the United States is determined to
obtain the harbor for strategic reasons
before the completion of the Panama
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
LOVE HELD OUT; WANTS MONEY

Ohio Man Sues to Set Aside Contract
Giving Up wife's Property.
Ernst Drewitz, formerly a preacher,
several years ago made an agreement with
his wife, Mrs. Gussie Ogden Drewitz,
widow of the late Frank Ogden of Gin
cinnati, to release all claim on her estate
in exchange for her love and affection.
Tuesday he sued to have set aside this
contract. charging that his wife failed to
deliver the love and affection. Mrs. Dire
WITT is worth 100000 in Cincinnati real
estate Drewitz was once connected with
n piano player company in Cincinnati.
Their married life was not a happy one,
and Mrs Drewitz sued for divorce, later
withdrawing the suit. Shortly after that
they moved from Cincinnati and engaged
in the simple life on a chicken farm.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
Annex for Morgan. bank.

The First National bank of New York,
the colossal institution. known as ]. P.
Morgan's financial power station, has ar
ranged to organize what will be known
as the First Security Company, to be
financed with the banks surplus funds
and differed by the same men who direct
the affairs of the bank. Being organized
under State laws. it will be free to do
many things which are unlawful for the
bank chartered under federal laws. Here
after the bank will be confined strictly
to the busiress of banking, and leave the
syndicating and specializing to the slbsi-
diary State organization. Capital for
the trust company will be provided by
declaring a dividend of 100 per cent on
the banks S10,OO0O00 capital.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
KURT LITTLE BY PANIC.
Railroads Net Income Larger in Last
Half of 1907 than 1906.

Every Indication points TO an I'M
provement generally in the railroad and
industrial situation of the country ac-
cording to reports made by the great
railway systems Of America to the in
terstate commerce commission. These
reports are to the effect that, while
the railroads suffered to some extent
by what has come to be referred to as
the October panic" the loss was by no
means so serious as generally has been
supposed.
1t appears from the reports that the
effect was felt particularly by the east
ern lines and by the lines in The south
eastern part OF the country, while west
ern and transcontinental roads have
not suffered materially. The figures
available to the interstate commerce
commission indicate also that the gen
era condition in the country is i'm
proving materially. with prospect
that it soon will be normal or better.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-31
DOCTORS SKILL CHEATS DEATH

Brings Life to Man Apparently
Killed by Strong Electric shock.
Declared dead by physician after hav-
ing received a i ,600-volt shock from feed
wire in the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany's power house, Stephen Curtis, 10
years old, was restored by artificial in
ducement of respiration Curtis accident
ally seized the wire while at work in the
power house. He was unable to let 60
and his cries brought Ralph Stewart, an
engineer, to his assistance Stewart also
was shocked When an ambulance arriv-
ed the surgeon pronounced Curtis dead.
Later, a faint movement of the heart be-
ing discovered artificial respiration was
tried. After nearly two hours work
young Curtis had recovered sufficiently to
warrant his removal to a hospital.