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Chicago-Cattle. common to prime,
$500 to $500; hogs, prime heavy, 800
to $40; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. ., Ole to 92c;
corn, No. 2, 74c to Toe; oats, standard,
53c to sic; rye, No. 2, re to 74c; hay,
timothy. $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to $3.50: butter, choice creamery, 19c
to 22c; eggs, fresh, lie to 19c; potatoes,
new, per bushel, Toe to $1.10.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to $500 hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $3.50; sheep. common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, Sic to
SIC; corn. No white, 69c to zoe; oats,
No. white, 51c to 52e
st. Louis-Cattlc, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to 800; sheep, $500 to 1925;
wheat, No. 2, 90c to 92c corn, No, 2,
soc to Sic; oats No. 2, 53c t. Doc;
rye, No 2, 74c TO Toe
Cncinnati-Cattle, $500 to S6.75;
hogs, $500 to $500 sheep, $500 to
1885; wheat, No. 2, soc to Ole; corn,
No. mixed, 76c to nc; oats. No. 2
mixed, 53c to soc; rye, No. 2, Sic to Soc.
Detroit-Cattle. $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $3.50 sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, 90c to 92c; corn, No. 3
yellow, Toe to nc; oats. No. 3 white,
Doc to SIC; rye, No. 2, Toe to 76c.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
$1.13 TO S116; corn. No. 3, 73c to Tie;
oats, standard, soc TO Csc; rye, No. 1,
73c to 74e barley, No. ?, 74c to Zoe;
pork. mess, $500
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$500 to S725 hogs, fair to choice, 500
to $725; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50
New York-Cattle. 500 to S735;
hogs, $3.50 to S720; sheep. $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. 2 red, 9Sc to 99c;
corn, No 2. Sic to SIC; oats. natura,
white, SOC to Gle; butter. creamery, 20c
to DC; eggs, western, lie to 19c.
Toledo--Wheat, No mixed. soc 10
soc; corn. No. mixed, Toe to nc;
oats. No mixed, 55c to SIC rye. No.
2. 70c to Tie; clover seed, October, $T.G7.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

thusiasm by the lung-weary delegates.
The final session of the convention
was enthusiastic, but not uproarious.
1t was the morning after the night be-
fore.
Up to the time that Bryan was
named in the morning the vice presi-
Dental situation was up in the air, far
above the mile-above-sea-level ele-
walton of Denver. BY a process of
elimination the two score and odd pos
sibilities and probabilities whose booms
had been confidently brought to the
convention city had narrowed down to
a field of nine on Thursday.
At sunrise Friday, after the nomi-
nation of Bryan, the simmerlng down
process went on merrily, and when the
delegates assembled for the final SEES
sion, sleepy-eyed, hoarse-voiced and
languid, the names of only four candi-
dates We're brought before them The
four who survived out of a field of
over forty entries were:
Jonn w. hern, Indiana.
Charles A. Towne, New York.
Archibald Mcneil, Connecticut.
Clark Howell, Georgia.
Chairman Clayton was so hoarse
after the prolonged Thursday night
session that he yielded the gavel to
Ollie James of Kentucky, the man
whose voice shakes the windows when
he talks above a whisper. Il
One by one as the roll Of States was
called for nominations the delegations
fell into line. Thomas Taggart, chair
man of the national committee, the
original Kern man, and the contingent
from the Hoosier State kept the ball
rolling Governor Joseph w. Folk and
the "show me" men from Missouri
gave it a push; Roger G. Sullivan and
the Illinois delegates, New York and
the Tammany chieftains, Ollie James
and the stanch Bryan adherents from
Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Ohio-all
gave it impetus, and at the end of
four hours of speechmaking Towne and
Mcneil withdrew, all the delegates
from Alabama, first on the list, down
to Porto Rico, last on the call, Joined
in the rush, and Kern was put on the
ticket without dissenting voice.
4 number of resolutions were pass
ed, and the national Democratic con-
vention of 1908 adjourned sine die.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

In spite of the fact that Secretary Taft
has often laughingly declared that mo
real gentleman weighs more than 800
pounds" his solid bulk combined with the
compact frame of his running mate, James
S. Sherman, makes the heaviest ticket
ever put forward by any national party.
The two men together tip the scales at
something net far short of 500 pounds.
The record before this was held by the
Democrats on the strength of the avoirdu-
pois of Grover Cleveland. When nomi-
mated in 1892 Mr.. Cleveland weighed
about 275 pounds. but the small figure
of Adlai z. Stevenson kept the total
around 425 pounds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
PRICES AT F1GH MARK.
Level for 1907 Twenty-Ni Per
Cent Above AVERAGE for Years.

Cent Above Average for Years.
1t viii be of interest to those who
were busy last year in keeping the wolf
from the door to know that figures on
wholesale prices of 25S representative
staple articles reached the apex of
their soaring last October. These sta
tistics are for the eighteen years be-
tween 1890 and 1907.
The annual report on this subject OF
the Commerce and Labor Departments
shows that the average for the year
1907 was 5.S per ceit higher than for
1906; IA per cent higher than for
1897, the year of lowest prices during
the eighteen-year period, and 29.5 per
cent higher than the average for the
ten years from 1890 to 1899. Prices
reached their highest point during the
eighteen-year period in October, 1907,
the average for that month being IL
per cent higher than the average for
the year 1907, and % per cent higher
than the average for December, 1905,
the month of highest prices in that
year.
When the commodities are divided
into nine groups every group shows an
increase in price in 1907 as compared
with 1906. For farm products taken
as a whole this increase was grassest,
namely, 1913 per cent; for food, 46 per
cent; for clothes and clothing, So per
cent; for fuel and lighting, "a per
ceit; for metals and implements, 6.1 per
cent; for lumber and building materi-
ais, 40 per cent; for drugs and chem
icals, S3 per cent; for house furnish
Ing goods, 6.8 per cent and for the mis-
cellaneous group, 5 per cent.
The effect Of the money stringency in
the latter part of the last year is re-
Elected in the decrease recorded in all
commodities during November and De-
cember, the average price showing a
decrease of 3.5 per cent below October.
OF the 25S articles for which whole
sale prices were recorded 1T2 showed
an increase in the average prices for
1907 as compared with 1906; thirty-five
showed no change and ffty-one showed
decrease.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PLATFORMS COMPARED
Anti-Injunction.
DEMOCRATIC.
REPUBLICAN,.

Anffnj unctio
Rules procedure in OF nn
provide defined
indirect S should
lin should be
were
in
Tariff.
special of Congress made
Curren
Of adj
rsran~ of bank deposits sysen IS enpha lied.
Physical and
allow roads to publish traffic
fnss,ed on ments
is fol-
patronage
officers cleared
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
v. ]. BRYAN IS NAMED
FOR The IH|RS time
Democratic Party Koists Him as
Standard Bearer in Battle
for Presidency.
CHOSEN ON THE FIRST BALLOT.
Conventions Progress Is Delayed by
Slow Work of the Resolutions
Committee.

Denver correspondence
William Jennings Bryan of Nebras-
ka was nominated for the presidency
by the Democratic party in national
convention at $40 O'Clock Friday
morning. At the same session the plat
form on which Mr.. Bryan and his rum
aing mate are to make their political
bow to the American electorate was
adopted unanimously. 1t was a Bryan
platform from first to last, even the
antitrust plank being finally adopted
as Mr.. Bryan wanted it. Both the
nomination of Mr.. Bryan and the
adoption of his platform were accom-
panied by scenes of widest enthusi-
asm
Mr. Bryan was nominated on the
first ballot, the vote standing:
Bryan ...... .................S 9212
tray ...... ...............-.. o912
The nomination was made unani-
nous on motion of w. S. Hammond,
of Minnesota, who had nominated Gov
ernor Johnson.
The convention was called to order
at II 80 o'clock Thursday. Henry d..
Clayton of Alabama took the gavel as
permanent chairman, and delivered a
speech lasting an hour. Clayton's
speech was we'll received by the 11,000
persons crowded into the auditorium.
1t was radical, compared with the adj
dress Bell of California delivered when
he took the platform Tuesday. Chair
man Clayton denounced the Republican
party, President Roosevelt and the
Chicago convention in scathing terms.
He did not mince his words in char
acterization of the sins of omission
and commission of the Republicans as
he saw them. His remarks were taken
as message direct from Bryan. He
had conferred with the NebraslSan and
revised his speech at his suggestion,
according to common report.
Thursday was the biggest day of
the convention, with the stage all set
for the nomination of William j.
Bryan for the Presidency OH a plat
form practically drafted by himself,
the only exception being the anti-in-
junction plank, which was more radi-
cal than the Nebraskan demanded. 1t
was planned that after the address of
Mr.. Clayton the convention would take
a recess until night, which meant
that the nomination of candidate for
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

Architects for the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Socisey of New YORK have filed plans
for new building on the site Of the pres
ent home Of the business on lower Broad
way, which viii put the Singer tower and
the Metropolitan Life building in the
shade This new structure IS TO Be 900
feet high. and have sixty-two stories The
only structure that viii outrank il win
be the EiFel Tower, and that is in no
sense building for Offices with solid
walls to incioSe. TIE main building.
which will occupy enc complete block. viii
be thirty-fo1r stories. or $50 feet high.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

C. o. Drayton, of Illinois, has been
authorized to hold seventy dollar wheat"
rallies in the Red River valley.
Frederick Arthur Stanley, earl of Der
BY. former Governor General Of Canada,
died in London. He was 81 years old.
John B. Lonsdale made proposal in
the house of commons that the date for
starting the penny-postage plan between
Great Britain and America be changed to
July 4. but it was not adopted on the
ground that Oct. l is the more expedient
date.
The dirigible balloon built for use of the
signal corps Of the United States army
BIZ Capt. It. A. Baldwin will be tested at
Fort Myer, Wash, about July 10.
The President appointed James A.
Fowler of Knoxville, Tenn, TO 5s Assist
ant Attorney General in place Of Ed
ward T. Sanford. appointed United States
judge for the middle and eastern districts
of Tennessee.
The Louisiana Legislature decided by
a vote of IS to 81 not TO change the ex-
else law when it declared IN favor Of
po<tponing consideration Of the Doussan
bill providing for referendum on state
vide prohibition.
The United States government has
oou,e IN the rescue Of the small cream
cries throughout the Middle Skates which,
II is claimed. are being drjsen out OF
business By corporations win nsonopoIisfic
Tendencies. Government experts testified
before the interstate commeror commission
in Chicago, favoring higher rates for the
protection Of local crSamsries on the
ground that their butter vas better for
consumers
Walter j. Barnett, vice president Of
the failed CallfSfnia Safe Deposit and
Trust Compsny and administrator of the
estate Of Mrs. Ellen NJ. Cotton. was found
guilty at San Francss1S of eunbezzling
sa1,700.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
Denver Had Time of Its Life.

Denver had the time of its life. Cow
boys from the plains emitted Indian war
whoops. Loud voiced men from Cripple
Greek and other mining districts We'd with
lank fanatics from the agricultural region
in piercing the night with Bryan yells
High rolling jewellers from the East dash
ed along the crowded streets in automo-
biles Gaping thousands from the noun
tains and plains, Indian braves from the
Uncompagre, Warm Springs and White
River reservations, decxed out in the spec
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

average speed of thirty-four miles an
hour and passing over most Of northern
Switzerland. AT all times the ship was
under perfect control, turning, rising and
descending at win. and sailing either with
or against the wind. The distance cover
ed was 225 miles and the greatest altiruce
attained was $500 feet. The next test of
the ship was to be fight Of twenty-four
hours.
In an address before the Society OF
German Engineers at Dresden, Count
Zeppelin said that the basis OF all his
efforts TO solve the problem Of air nAviga-
ton was his observation thar the resist
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
big July L Resumptions.

Some of the largest corporations in the
Middle West joined in the movement to
set the wheels of industry going on the
list Of July, which was widely advertised
by the Prosperity Association as ''re-em-
ployment day" The Illinois Central rail.
road put to work $500 men in its shops
at Burnside, H., and elsewhere. The Iii
nois Steel Company is said to be again
working at its full capacity. and the In
ternational Harvester Company to be
working night and day shift once more.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
Cowgirls March in the Han.

The picturesque features Of the demon
stration in Denver Wednesday were
heightened by the cowboy band and the
twenty-five cowgirls, who are an auxiliary
part of the organization. Both the cow
boys and cowgirls were dressed in the
typical western costume of COW country,
buckskins, leggings, and wide hats. The
girls carried six shooters in their holsters.
When the band was brought down to the
speakers platform from the music stand
near the roof of the building, the cow
boys and cowgirls formed into a procession
in single file and marched across the main
floor in regular formation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
CHURCH BELLS DISTURB.
Old French Law I'm Regard tn EARLY
Morning Ringing Is Violated.

Under the law regulating religious or
ders in France, stipulations were in
PRODUCED providing that church bells are
not to be rung before o'clock in the
morning or late at night, good republi-
cans having complained in all parts of
the country that changing bells at unearth-
ly hours prevented sleep. In most towns
the law remained more or less dead let
ter, both parties making a compromise
but in Lyons the clergy in charge of
eleven parish churches have just been
fined francs each for an infraction of
the law by disturbing the peaceful slum-
bers of citizens.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

SO much was said
of Taft's $30,000,00O
Brother Charlie" in
connection with the
Chicago convention
that the fact seems
worthy of record
1t is also worth
while because Chas.
w. Bryan is a good
ex III pl e of the
wide awake, hus-
tin G Westerner,
and has worked like
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
nInnr Lived fn sleeping cars.

During the Denver convention many of
the eastern visitors lived in their sleeping
cars, which were parked" in the railway
yards. There was a great cutlery from
the Denver hotel keepers at this. During
the Chicago convention the railroads were
made to agree that not single sleeping
car should be kept Or tracks and used for
sleeping quarters. Not being so experience
ed. the Denver hotel keepers forgot to in
sist on such an agreement.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
Inne., boomerang Flies.

Charles o. Jones made a remarkable
trial fight in his airship Boomerang,
starting at Hammondsport, n. Y. He
sailed first to Watkins, twenty-six
miles. and then on to within six miles
of Bath. where he ran into a tree and
ripped his gas bag. The novel features
in the Jones ship are the use of second
gas bag trailing behind to replace the sup
ply of the main bag, which is 90 feet long
and cigar-shaped. and system of ballast
moving that employs little sand car
moving on tracks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

living or dead. In Pittsburg they call
him Lucky jim" His flowing hair and
mustache are snow white He wears a
rundown collar, not quite Byronic
though often so termed, and a soft hat
of the type which he learned to like when
working as clerk in Louisville rail
road office
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
BECOMES NEW WOMAN AT 81.
Black Curls End Badness and Real
Teeth Replace False.

Mary Smith of Lynn. Mass. who cele-
brated her ninety-seventh birthday May
"a, has surprised her friends by growing
a new head Of nair. For fifty years Mrs.
Smiths hair has been as white as snow.
About a year ago it began TO come out,
and in little while she was bald. Now
the new hair, thick, black and curly, is
coming in, and there promises to be lux
uriant growth. About twenty years ago
Mrs. Smith lost her last tooth. Since
then she has worn false teeth. Now,
with the growing of the new hair, she is
cutting new teeth. Four front teeth al
ready have appeared and she is now cut
ting two molars. Mrs. Smith is the
widow of former mayor of Lynn and is
in excellent health
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
BRYAN's PENNSYLVANIA ENEMY.

James NJ. Guffey has been Democratic
national committeeman from Pennsyrva-
MIA since 1897, and long previously con-
trolled his party in the State, although
he has not run for Office since 1873, when
he was beaten for Congress. He is a
millionaire several times over and has
struck oil literally and figuratively more
often than any other man in the business,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

a Trojan for his cHAs' W. BRYAN
brother. For eleven years he was
w. Us secretary, in which capacity he
handled a correspondence running from
300 to 1000 letters a day. When the
Commoner was established he was
made publisher. w. J. is editor and
proprietor. c. w. has managed the
business end of the Lincoln publication.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

ance of air 70 a moving body decreased
in proportion to the surface going against
the air. Hence bodies of great size must
be made nse Of. He denied the sSatement,
frequently made. that his ship would
never be able to alight on the ground. say
ing that landing stages could be construct
ed with little difficulty. He said his work
was only beginning. and proposed to
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

John Worth Kern of Indiana was
nominated by reclamation Friday aft
ernoon as running mate for William
Jennings Bryan. The choice of Kern
brought an end to seemingly hope
less deadlock and was greeted with en-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
AMERICAN NssocIATIoN.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
WILL LIST NATIONS RESOURCES
Census Bureau to Collect Data for
Conservation Board.

An important step in the work of con-
serving the natural resources of the cum
try has been taken by President Roose-
welt who has directed that the census
bureau collect and compile certain infor-
nation relative to the subject for the use
of the national conservation commission.
The gathering of the data is to be under
taken at once and will include the present
condition of the water power of the coun-
try, irrigation the lumber cut, and the
resources of the nation in men and such
other material on other subjects as may
be suggested by the conservation COM
mission.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
SAVES SISTER FROM DOG.
Child Badly Bitten by Animal, but
Prevents Injury to Baby.

Child BndIy BItten by Animal, but
Prevents Injury to Baby.
In New York, while protecting her baby
sister from big New Foundland dog
which had attacked her, S-year-old Rose
EiSenberg was terribly bitten by the ami.
mai. Despite her terror and the pain,
however, the child kept her body between
the infant and the dog until policeman
had beaten the animal into submission
with his club. Then the little girl was
rushed away to a hospital. where her
wounds were treated and where every eff
fort will be made TO guard against the
possibility of hydrophobia developing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

Bryan Cheered for SO Minutes.
William Jennings Bryan, although four
hundred miles away, was cheered for one
hour and twenty-eight minutes in the
Democratic convention. 1t was the long
est political demonstration and unques-
tionably the greatest in the history of
the United States. Bryan's record sur
passes the Roosevelt stampede in the Chi
cago convention by forty-one minutes.
They cheered Roosevelt forty-seven min
utes They cheered Bryan lightweight
minutes Had the tumult continued six
more minutes Bryan would have just dou-
bled the Roosevelt record.
The words that ripped the lid from the
great assembIage and sent the thunder
rolling over the 1900 men and women
were spoken by blind Senator Thomas Z.
Gore of Oklahoma. Senator Gore was
discussing the Oklahoma constitution
when he said this:
oklahoma rejected the advice OF Mr..
Taft and accepted the advice of William
Jennings Bryan"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

Edwin Rawiey. who has returned &c
New Yorx from an inspc~tion 'rip over
the Minneapolis and St. Louis and the
Iowa Central and the Chicago and Alton,
saws he found crop conditions much bet.
ter than he had expected. business men
EXPECT better times soon. Mr.. Hawley
rausDrtS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

The amazing tribute to her father was
witnessed by Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt,
daughter of William Jennings Bryan.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth was also spec
tator of the scene. Thus both of the
presidential daughters" as Denver term
ed them, were on the spot for the big
spectacle of the convention.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

and above this win rise a square tower
of twenty-eight stories. capped with
cuposa- The facades are TO be of brick
and granite. with terra Gotta trimmings
in the Renaissance style. There win be
fhirty-eight passenger elevators, eight Of
which viii run to the top Of the tower
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
Kntfe Eater Has n NriShnp.

Charles Henry of West Hazleton. Pa,
swallowed table knife ten inches long.
He submitted to an operation for its re-
moval. and his condition is serious. Henry
was entertaining friends at knife eating
when the cutlery accidentally slipped
!.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

Two chemists in the University of
Washington at Seattle now claim TO have
diszN,-ered q method of treating the ripe
banana so that it can be faxed or shred
ded as a breakfast food. and preserved in
seass., tely in any climate. with al its
fave. 4ad food value preserved.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
Love Idea Breaks win.

\ PENNSYLVANIA judge refuses to allow
an institution of learning at Lancaster to
inherit $4,000 because il teaches Swe-
denborg's views on tOniugal love-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

Delasrange, the French serousut. con
tinuing his aeroplane tests at Milan, Italy.
has surpassed al previous records BY fly
ing from sixteen TO thirty minutes, during
ali which time his machine was between
10 and IS feet high-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

With bis head cut completely OF the
body of Alphonse Durel. a widely known
Bourbon street hair dresser was found
at his shop in the old Fcench quarter OF
NV Orleans. There Is no clew to the
murderer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
So Cnrnnrntion aim.

No corporation gifts. limit on cam.
paign contributions and publicity of re
ceipts and expenditures are to rule the
Democrats. according to the national COM
lnirtee's decision at Lincoln.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21
The Latest nammonaport FiiSht

The airship known as the June Bug
designed BY c. H. Curtis. has had sue
cessful trial flight at Hammondsport ter.
ritorv. The June Bug went the record
distance of c1T5 feet at speed of thirty
six miles an hour.