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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29

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Congress. In this connection he cites
the case of the reversal of the Standard
Oil fine of more than $29,000,000, in
which an application for a writ of GER
tiorari has been made to the Supreme
Court.
He holds that az amendment of the
present laws would be appropriate in
the case of all -climinai proceedings, but
suggests that il would be especially SO
in connection with prosecutions where
the wealth of the defendant usually
renders al appeal on his or its part
from any adverse Judgment matter
of course.
The Attorney Generals opinion is
thai in such cases there is no question
of double jeopardy, as the appeal of
the defendant from the original convic-
ton is recognized by the undoubted
weight of well-considered judicial au-
thority as a waiver of his rights in
this respect and as in the absence of
some such provision of law as the At
torney General recommends guilty per-
sons may escape from just punishment
under the law as finally determined by
the court of last resort.
He declares that the consistent pol
Icy of the Department of Justice during
the year in enforcing the statutes in
tended to protect the interstate and for
eign commerce of the country from
evils arising through combinations in
restraint of trade and attempts to Gre
ate monopoly, as we'll as discrimina-
| tons and other Illegal practices on the
part of common carriers engaged in
such commerce, has been to investigate
carefully all complaints submitted to it,
whether by public authorities or by re-
sponsible private citizens, and to au-
thorize proceedings, whether civil or
criminal, only when such investigation
has shown the complaints to be serious
and well founded and that success
might be reasonably expected.
Mr.. Bonaparte reports that this pol.
icy was attended during the year by a
| fair measure of success in the proceed
ings Authorized and that as a conse-
quence of decisions already obtained
or expected soon the statutes dealing
with such cases will soon be interpreted
so authoritatively that those seeking to
comply with the law will be relieved
| from all uncertainty as to what the law
really is He says that serious obsta-
Giles have been encountered in enforcing
the statutes and that these may be with
advantage readily removed by further
| legislation.
| ''The United States has had occasion
| of late years, and will probably have
occasion in future" he declared ito
| prosecute criminally many corporations
or other artificial persons. As such of
| tenders cannot be physically arrested
1t is obviously desired that a simple
and convenient form of process shall be
prescribed by law to have the legal eff
feet of an actual arrest and removal to
the trial district as in the case of a
natural person"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
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Chicago Cattle. common to prime.
$500 to $50; hogs prime heavy, $500
to $3.50; sheep. fair to choice. $500.
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, $l02 to S1.04;
corn. No. ., J5c to J6c. oats, standard,
4Se to 49c: rye, No. 2. Toe to T6c; hay,
timothy, $500 to $1,000; prairie, $500
to $500 butter, choice creamery, Doc
to 27c; eggs, fresh, 2Tc 70 Doe; potatoes,
per bushel, G0c to 75c.
indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to 500; hogs, good TO choice heavy,
$3.50 70 $500; sheep, good to choice.
$3.50 to $500 wheat. No. =. $l03 TO
$104; corn, No. 2 white, J9c 10 60c;
oats. No. white. 49c to sic.
ST. Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to $760; hogs,
$500 to $3.50: sheep. $500 70 $4.25 :;
wheat. No. . S107 to S1.0S; corn. No. ?,
SIC to sc: oats. No. ?, 4Sc TO 40c; rye,
No 2, 74c to 76c.
Cincinnati-C Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs. $500 to $3.50; sheep $500 to
81 90: wheat. No ,. 81 6 to 81 07 corn,
No. 2 mixed, GOc to 61c oats, No. 2
mixed 51c to J2c rye, No. 2, 7Sc TO soc.
Detroit-Cattle. 800 TO 500: hogs.
S4.lM TO 500 sleep, SZ.Jb 10 S3.JUi
wheat, No 2 $102 TO $1.03; corn, No. 3
yellow. SOC TO G0c; oats, No. 3 white,
Sic to 52c: rye, No. 2. Toe to 77c.
Milwaukee Wheat. No. . northern,
S1.O5 TO Sl.OS. corn. No. 3. sc TO J9c;
oats. standard. Sic 10 52c; rye, No. !,
75c to 7Gc barley, No. /, Gjc TO see;
pork. mess. S1460
Bufralo-Cattle choice shipping steers,
$500 to $6.75; hogs. fair to c'loice, S4.0o
TO $3.50: sheep, common TO good mixed,
$500 10 $4.73. lambs. fair to choice.
$500 to S7.75.
New York-Cattle. 800 to $3.50;
hogs. $3.50 to 5000; sheep. $500 to
s4.15; wheat. No . red. $1.06 to S1.07
corn. No. ., &C TO sc; oats, natural
white. 5Jc to j7e: butter creamery, 29c
to 32c: eggs, western, &c to 3Gc.
Toledo Wheat. No. mixed, s10o to
sI.O4 corn. No. mixed. zoe to 60c !:
oats. No. . mixed J1c to 52c; rye, No
2. TIE to 7Sc; clover seed. $500.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
TORN BY GRAFT ARRESTS.
Conspiracy and Corruption in Deals
Involving Pittsburg City Funds.

Seven members of the Finance Com
mittee of Councils. including the presi-
dent of the Common Council. vert ar
rested in Pittsburg charged with con
spiracy. corrupt solicitation and brib-
cry. The accuser is Tensard De Wolfe.
secretary of the Civic League of Ale
gheny County, which has been aiding
Mayor Guthrie in gathering evidence
The accused are William Brand, presi-
dent of the Common Council; Jacob
Soffel, Jr., Hugh Ferguson, Captain
John +. Klein, w. H. Melaney, Joseph
G. WATSON and T Oils Atkinson. All
are members Of the Common Council
except Atkinson. who is a member Of
the Select Council.
Informations were also made against
President w. w. Ramsey and \. A..
Vilsack. cashier of the German Ma
tional Bank, by De Wolfe, charging
them with conspiracy. Mr.. Vilsack was
arrested and his brother furnished
$4,000 bail. President Ramsey was ar
rested also. 1t is alleged that the Ger
man National Bank gave the members
of the Common Council 1880.
WATSON. Soffel. Klein and Brand are
members of the Common Council known
as The Big Six" They have been OBJ
structing legislation.
SO great a stir was caused by the
arrest that the boards of directors of
number of banks were called into
extra session TO conceal the banks
which are to be charged with bribing
the Finance Committee in order TO be
selected as depcsitaries. This is one of
the charges which will create the great
est stir because the banks will undoubt-
eddy be dragged INFO the trials
The charges against the seven men,
stripped of legal phraseology, are as
follows That they offered brides to
obtain and influence the votes of num-
Der of members of the Select and Com
mon Council to secure the passage Of
certain ordinances designating the de-
positares for the funds of the city,
bridge ordinances. bond ordinances for
| freeing bridges. ordinances for filter
beds, the IIeberton Street Railway or
/ dinance. resolution to pave Fourth ave-
nue. with wood blocks and other resolu-
| tions The informations say the charges
referred to cover period of two years.
The amounts of money the members Of
| the Council are said to have received
are fabulous. They are alleged to have
held up all city legislation against May
or Guthrie.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
HOUSE SLABS AT ROOSEVELT.
Calls on Him to Tell on What He
Bases Secret Service Charges.

The House of Representatives Thurs
day, by unanimous vote, adopted res
ojuti2n requesting the President to sup
ply it with any evidence that may be
in his possession that will justify the
statement in his last annual message in
relation to the attitude of members Of
Congress toward appropriations for the
secret service of the government.
Mr.. Perkins, chairman of the special
committee charged to investigate the
allegations made in the Presidents mes
sage, and John Sharp Williams OF Mis-
sissippi both stated on the floor that
it was the desire of the special commit
tee to be just toward the President In
allowing him to submit any evidence he
may have, and both declared that the
committee would give it full and i'm
partial consideration. Mr.. Perkins said
the committee would cQgtinns. in 90
sion during the Christmas holidays 50
that it might receive such evidence from
the President promptly and proceed to
consider it.
Both the resolution and all of the
preamble, except that part of the latter
Interpreting the meaning of the Presi-
dents message in relation to the secret
service, were adopted unanimously by
viva voce vote Mr.. Bennett of New
York demanded a division on the pre-
amble provision stating the commit
tees Interpretation of the Presidents
structures upon Congress, but before
the division was entered upon endeav-
ored to withdraw his motion. Mr.. Will
Jams insisted that this could not be
done, and, the vote being taken, 21O
part of the preamble.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
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NEW YORK.

Holiday trade shows further expan-
sion and most cities report buying OF
this character eqp-d to or slightly in
excess of last years In some sections,
particularly in the Soutf. holiday trade
IS not so good as ln 1907 The larger
centers are doing well and armies of
shoppers are in evidence. hut many
small cities report a relatively hight
business and demand shifting TO cheap
or lines.
In Regular retail lines unSeasonahly
warm weather has been drawback,
particularly Southwest and South.
Wholesale trade is qu.eter except for
some hurry orders 10 sort up depleted
stocks.
Inventories and stock takings nat
urally predispose to less activity from
now till after Ian. l. Reports from
leading Industries are of gradual gains
and slow progress back TO normal.
There are some orders for steel rails
from railroads, and the tin plate mills
are buster; there is better supply Of
water in New England and paper mills
are running more freely; Eastern shoe
manufacturers report three months or
ders anead, and there is more demand
for laisber, some of this ON account of
railroad buying. with drmer prices for
yellow pine.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending Dec II
number $40, against POS last week. 800
in the like week of 1907 DOT in 1906,
30 in 1905 and 249 in 1904, Business
failures in Canada for the week NUM-
Der 81, against GO last week and 10 in
this week of Bradstreet's Com
mercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
The Other John ID.

John ID. Archbold started life as an
Office boy But he evidently didn have
to look after the letter fles.-Angusta
Chronicle.
1t is difficult for Mr.. Archbold to re-
member anything without referring to his
letter files, which, as the world knows,
are sadly incomplete. Washington Star.
Mr.. Archbold was unable to explain an
item of $50, 100000 paid TO 2. $. Trainer,
beyond the mere fact that it was for lad
justments" Perhaps Mr.. Trainer did
some plumbing for the Standard Oil Com
pany.-KanSas City Star.
We infer that the cost of the Archbold
letters is not included in Mr.. Hearst's
outlay of $4,000 for the Independence
campaign. The letters have been listed
as a permanent investment, in all proba-
bility-Houston Post.
Though a man of letters. Mr.. Arehbold
will waste no time writing an autobiog-
raphy-Atlanta Constitution.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
ALL ARoUNp THE GLoBE.

Three men held up the East Side Bank
at Portland, Ore, and took $1,000.
Prof. W. ]. Knapp. formerly connected
with the University of Chicago, is dead
in Paris, France
a library on the labor increment. own
ed by the late Henry II. LLOYD Of Chi
cage. has been presented TO the University
of Wisconsin,.
Miners and operators of the Kanawha
field in West Virginia failed to reach an
agreement on wage scale at their con-
ference in Charleston.
Rupert Higgins. son of the director OF
che Covent Garden Opera Company, Lon
don, was hurt in taxicab collision in
New York.
Or. Simon Flexner Of the Rockefeller
institute. Ne.y York. announced he had
discovered remedy to render man inn
,nune 70 tuberculosis.
Il. :. BaleStier. brother-in-law of
Rudyard Kiplins, was nor arrested at
Brauleboro. VI. as reported. but was
sued in civil case.
In the letter to the mining congress al
Pitt> burg f. H. Hartman asserts that a
few rich men do not Own the railroads
Of the United States.
Irvine I.inehan ended an unhappy life
of TWENTY-FIVE years hy hanging himself in
his cell at the Harlem prison. New York.
lie mad been arrested. charged With burg
larry.
Fire of unknown origin broke oat in
the thrce-Story business block of Floyd
-,
The department store of \. lazarus and
CHER business houses. loss S1o.0n
Col. SilaS Mesee y said 10 be ready
90 relinqaish al claims On the property
az N-s. Baker L. Edwards formerly
Mis- sonhie tia-siSo@. a BncS Shouts
X q. for Si.1ca IRIS. Edwards Is Sa'e
~ be opposed 10 a settlement o. stcl
terms.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
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Milwaukee is after tb rext bowling
congress and looks good % get it.
Percy Houghton has been elected foot
ball coach at Harvard for another two
years.
James r. Keene was the largest winner
on the American turf this season. He
won 1882 ,075.
Cornelrs track team will meet the Ma
rooms ON an indoor track at the Bartlett
gymnasium this winter.
Tommy Burns. the Canadian. is not
only champion heavyweight fighter. but
he is champion of all weights as a finan-
cier
The most profitable race horse in the
United States this season was Sir Martin.
He captured stakes to the value Of STS.-
800.
In the relay run from New York TO
Washington nearly 1000 boys carried a
silver tube containing message from
Rudolph Foster to President Roosevelt
Patsy Donovan who has been let go
as manager of the Brooklyn National
League team, will in all probability be
appointed manager of Che Boston club
next year.
Fred Bradley of Boston was Knocked
out in the fourth round of boxing bout
with AL Kubiak of Grand Rapids, Mich.
at the West End Athletic Club in Pbila-
delphia. He became unconscious and was
hurried to a hospital.
Mordecai Brown has gone TO work as a
buyer in the Chicago stock yards. The
thres-hngered pitching wonder says he vii.
some day be out of baseball and wants
profession to fan back upon.
Christx Mathewson. the famous New
York Giant. will coach the Harvard pitch
inc squad next spring. Negotiations
which haze been under way for some time
have practically been completed.
Prospects for the resumption of boxing
IN Chicago were shattered when Chief
Of Police Shippy caused the arrest of prin-
cipals and promoters of boxing mat,.b
given in the Illinois Boxing Club a few
days ago.
| University of Chicago and captain OF the
championship team that defeated Wiscon-
| sin. was given the greatest demonstration
ever accorded a Midway athlete The
| demonstration was arranged at Handel
hail. where Stefen was presented with a
| gold watch purchased BY the student body.
G. h. G. Billings Of Philadelphia. who
was once a leader in Speedway sport and
| occupied 8 very prominent position in
| amateur road drivers and matinee circles.
/ has turned his attention TO the use OF
| horses- all trotfers. under saddle for pleas
ure ridin-. and for this purpose he now
owus several Of the, best race trotters il
! the country
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
HAIR. Revolution.

Nord Alexis speedy departure viii OBJ
viate the necessity of his making finan-
cisI report-Detroit News.
With little education those Haitians
might be able to settle their differences
through old-fashioned debating societies
instead Of evolutions.-Toledo Blade.
Old President Nord Alexis has seen al
most as many revolutions as a roulette
gambler. and looks upon the freaks OF
fortune almost as cynieally .-Atlanta
journal.
If Haiti keeps on having revolutions the
first thing she knows the chiyalrous but
firm hand of the United States will be
stretched out in her direction.-Augusta
Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
COUPLE MURDERED IN SLEEP.
Assassin Hacks Faces of Man and
Wife with Hatchet.

Assassin Hacks Faces of Man and
Wife with Hatchet.
Vicente Florczik and his wife were
murdered by an assassin at their resi-
dence. 1872 Bird street, Wilmington, Del.
Their bodies were found by Alexander
Florczik. brother of the murdered man,
and lodger at the house. who is detain-
ed at police headquarters. Alexander
told the police that when he went home
about IL o'clock at night he was unable
to gain admittance, and spent the night
with an uncle. He went to the house
about 8 O'Clock in the morning and found
the bodies. He said the two children. 2
girl , years old and 2-months-old baby,
had not been molested. The baby lay in
a crib between the beds occupied by the
parents. Both of the victims had been
hacked in the face with a Ratchet which
was found on the mans bed The murder
is thought to have been committed for
revenge Florczik was 3S, and his wife
"a years old. The prisoner is IS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
MANY WEEP AT BANKS DOORS.
Napoleon, o., Institution, Involved
I'm Insurance Failure, Assigns.

Napoleon, o., Institution, Involved
In Insurance Failure, Assigns.
Men cried and women tainted in the
streets of Napoleon, Ohio, when they
found notice of assignment posted on
the doors of the Citizens State Bank.
u. d. Donovan was named as assignee.
President Heller of the bank is now coz
fined in a hospital in a Minnesota town.
The failure is said to be due to overloans
made by Cashier Groll to Judge Michael
Donnelly, who is president of the Ohio
German Fire Insurance Company, and the
assignment is also said to be the direct
result of the recent failure of that insur-
ance company. These loans to Donnelly,
it is alleged, were made without the au-
thority of other officials. The bank is
capitalized at $1,000 and has an undi-
vided surplus of $21 900. the deposits
amount to $3.50, The bank examiner
objected to an extension of credit to Judge
Donnelly and required the amount to be
made up by the end of this month. The
directors determined to make an assign
ment in order to furnish equal and full
protection to all the creditors.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29

SUPPOSED DEAD MAN FOUND.
Indianian, Thought to Be Drowned,
Taken and Charged with Fraud.


Henry e. Agar, former secretary and
treasurer of the Princeton tlnd) Ele-
vator Company. who was reported
drowned in the Wabash river two years
ago. was arrested in Harlingen, Tex
and confessed his identity. After his
DISAPPEARANCE Agar was charged with
forgery and embezzlement approximate
ing 100000. He was a member of the
Indiana Legislature in 1909. Agar's
life insurance, amounting to about $50
600 in various companies. has been Bit
terly contested in the courts. but two
policies had already been paid to the
supposed widow and estate at the time
of his capture.
1t is stated by Aga; that he was rid
ing on his grainboat down the Wa
bash river when he accidentally fell
overheard. He narrowly escaped
drowning but was finally rescued by
a man on a houseboat His business at
fairs were in bad shape he says. and
he took advantage of the opportunity
to let the world believe that he was
dead
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
MAIL FINES ABOLISHED.
Railroads Expect to Save Money as
Result of Federal Order.

Result of Federal Order.
Thousands of dollars will be saved to
the railroads of the United States annu-
ally on account of the new order issued
by the Postmaster General. 1t eliminates
from the regulations of the department
governing the transportation of mails the
requirement that the roads shall be fined
for failure to maintain schedules on mail
trains The order also provided that the
roads no longer shall be required to make
out and forward to Washington the vol
luminous monthly reports showing in de-
tail the full performance of each mail
train that is delayed over thirty minutes
at any point on its route. The order
was received with great satisfaction by
the railroad officials, who long have con-
tended that the regulations of the Postal
Department were unreasonable.
Heretofore fine OF 10 per cent of the
earning capacity of a mail train, based
on its contract remuneration has been inn
posed on the road for a delay of thirty
minutes or over at any point on its route,
the fine being based on the distance trav-
eled while the train was that amount be-
hind its schedule.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
TIE UP RAILWAY SYSTEM.


4 snail boy with a Fiobert rifle delay
ed the operation II trains on the Lake
Shore railroad several hours the other
night and tied up the block signal system
eighteen hours. The boy was Frank
yovshzili. aged II. of Cleveland and he
fred seven bullets at a block target. Sew
eral lodged in the electric mechanism,
short-circaited the current and the signals
did NOT work. Il was shooting at tsrds. "
young yoyshzill told the Juvenile Court.
He was sent to the detention home.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
EXTRA SESSION DATE.
Practically Decided to Call the New
Congress on March Is.

Practically Decided to Call the New
Congress on March Is.
March IL is the date upon which
Congress win be called in extraordinary
session by President Taft 10 revise the
tariff. according to unofficial advices.
The sixtieth Congress will expire v
constitutional limitation on March 4.
1t is the expectation that Immediately
following his Inauguration President
Taft will issue a proclamation conven-
ing the new Congress in special session.
Republican leaders believe, according
to a Washington correspondent. that
the new Congress will sit until late in
the summer While the tariff revision
bill to be reported to the House may be
passed in that body early in April, its
consideration in the Senate will be
marked by more mature deliberation
II is believed that many weeks will be
consumed in debate upon the measures
in the Senate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
So, ~. kiIlea sveeth~ar,.

Charles Clayton. serving four years in
the penitentisry for alleged horse steal
ing near Columbus. Ohio. has given TO
Deputy Warden Wood what purports 10
h, confession of 4 murder committed
in Franklin county. Illinois. in 1896. His
victim was Miss Alma Wilmore. his sweet
heart. whom be lured TO a lonely spot. he
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29

In a running midnight encounter be
tween a gang of safe robbers and the po-
lice of Greenwich. Ohio. Night Marshal
Wood and one Of the burglars are report
! I'd killed. The other burglars escaped,
carrying one of their number who is be
Iieved to have been shot dead.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
FLEEs FROM PEoNAGE.
Charles Nerman Asserts He Escaped
from Corn Products Stocl<ade.


Emaciated and apparently starved,
Charles Verman. 81, appeared at Central
police station in Chicago the other day
and declared he had escaped from the
stockade about the new Corn Products
Company plant at Argo, ILL.,. after having
been held in peonage four months. His
story. which included assertions that he
was fred at by guards about the plant
when he tried TO escape, prompted the
police to send him to the United States
District Attorneys Office, and he was at
once taken before the federal grand jury,
now investigating the peonage charges.
Verman declares he planned four months
to escape until he hit upon the idea of
hiding himself in load of dirt. Officials
of the Corn Products Company are ex-
pected to appear before the grand jury to
make denial of the charges lodged against
their concern.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29

Senate. 1t is said that Mr. Knox's resig
nation from the Senate is ready to be
submitted TO Gov. Stuart.
Senator Knox was appointed Attor
ney General by President Mckinley
and remained in that position under
Roosevelt until 1904 when upon the
death of Matt Quay he became Senator
for Pennsylvania.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29

A snowslide at the Tom Moore mine at
Eureka. Colo. killed William Mondell,
foreman. aged %, and destroyed the large
mine boarding house. 1t is reported that
sIides damaged the Precious Metals prop
erry at Chattanooga and the Shenandoah
at Howardsville. There are many slides
running in the San Juan country