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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25

which ruled the state capital for forty.
eight hours. 1t is not to be under
stood that the trouble is over. The dis
play of strength made by five regi-
ments of the States organized militia,
simply overawed the population which
has been responsible for all of the
disturbance. There was comparatively
little disturbance after the Second In
fantry from Chicago swept through the
streets Sunday afternoon. The news
of the coming, also, of the Seventh In
fantry and the First Cavalry, both of
Chicago, had been heralded all over
the city, and this went far toward
bringing about little peace.
The most overt act of Saturday
night was an attempt to cut the fire
alarm and telegraph wires at It'll and
Washington streets in the heart of the
business district. With the wires
down, the city would have been prac-
tically at the mercy of the ,incendiaries,
who found firing the buildings in
which negroes lived or maintained
small businesses the easiest way of
keeping the rioting going. The man
who would have cut eff the fire pro-
lection Of the city was discovered in
the act of reaching for the wires. A
half-dozen shots from troops who were
on patrol in the courthouse square
were aimed at him as he stealthily
climbed toward the wires. One bullet
probably hit him, for he dropped to
the roof of the hailding, but made
successful escape. To this affair is
added the attempt to fire the negro sec
ton on the northwest side of Spring
field.
Overawed by the presence of the
great body of troops, the largest that
has been assembled in an Illinois duty
camp since the riots in Chicago in
1894, the lawless element of the city.
white and black, which in it's fury has
been responsible for the death of five
persons since the rioting began Sun
day, made no demonstration during
Sunday. The city is under strict mill
tary rule. Soldiers are everywhere
Every street in the business portion of
the city is patrolled. National guards
men, with loaded rifles, keep an inces-
SAINT march up and down the thorough
fares. No gatherings of citizens are
permitted. Every one is kept on the
move. The troops have been given
strict orders to allow no mobs to be
formed, and are Obeying these orders
to the letter. The big fact stands out
that the majesty of the law, as repre-
sented in the khaki-clad troops of the
State, has been recognized, and
through fear of the riot ammunition
which was issued with orders to shoot
10 kill, Springfield was again at peace.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
CHICAGO.

1ne steady Improvement in commercial
GREATS Is emphasized by a decline in fail
ures 10 the lowest level reported this year,
ana the volume of payments through the
oanKs again makes a closer comparison.
= copious rainfall has removed spprehen-
slons as to the corn crop, and the position
now affords more announcement for
splendid results Movements of commodi-
Ties show recovery IL some important lines
and there is further reduction in idle
cars of the Chicago roads, heavier for
warding of finished products. merchandise
and the leading foodstaffs drawing more
largely upon rolling stock.
Activity in the leading industries is
stimulated by a wider aggregate of de-
mands, and some gain is noted in outputs
OF steel mills, furnaces, forging and heavy
hardware. Specifications have extended
for structural materials aud current book
lngs are good in wire, electrical supplies
and machinery. Heavy construction and
building needs become more encouraging,
the work in sight assuring increasing en-
ployment at fabricating plants, planning
mills and lumber yards.
Outside demand is seen to be strength
ening for forest products, hides leather
ana wool, and prices generally sustain
hrmnesS for the raw materials More ca
pacity and workers are engaged in tie
factory districts, and rising pay rolls add
70 recovery in the purchasing power.
Money is quoted at 31s to Az per cent,
the lowest discount rate in some years.
and this favorable banking condition sup
ports manufacturers in their disposition
TO advance industrial efforts.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 10. against 2l last week and
~ year ago. Those with liabilities over
$4,000 number 3, against last week and
in 1007.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
NEW YORK.

Trade is of fair volume, crops have
made further progress, corn especially be-
ing helped by rains, and collections chow
tangible improvement, though backwa ID
ness is still a subject of complaint here.
All advices agree that buyers are in the
various markets in large, if not record,
numbers, but caution and conservatism
are strongly apparent Industrial reports
are as favorable as for some weeks past.
There is still slow, gradual Improvement
in the iron and steel and allied trades,
though pig iron is lower this week, and
as southern lumber prices are higher
there is talk of many mills being again
set in motion. Still there are numerous
reports of curtailed output and textile
lines ae one leading center are running to
only 80 to go per cent of capacity. The
wool trade has a cheerful tone and good
interest is displayed by large and small
buyers.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Aug. Is number 243.
against 205 last week, JAG in the like
week of 1907 143 in 1906, 147 in 1905
and 203 in 1904. Canadian failures for
the same period number 81, against 10
last week and 30 in the corresponding
week of last observation-disclosures CONNER
cial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25

by the woman, and great crowd col
lected about the jail. After Richard
son had been identified by Mrs. Hallam
the crowds grew even more violent, and
it was decided to take the prisoner cut
of town.
Sheriff Charles Werner made ar
rangements to take the men TO Bloom
ington and the attention of the crowd
around the Jail was distracted by an
alarm Of fire while the men were placed
in Harry t. Loper's automobile and
whisked away to the railroad station
near the fair grounds. where a train
was stopped to let the sheriff's men and
their prisoners get on board
As soon as this was known the mob
began to gather, bowling for vengeance
against the man who had assisted in
the escape of their prey. The cry,
Come on to Loper's," was raised, and
few minutes later bricks were crash
ing through the windows. Lopez met
the mob with rife. They paid no
heed to him, and he was forced into the
back part Of the building, where he was
compelled to witness the complete de-
struction of his property
The restaurant was the largest in the
city, and had large trade. Within
an hour it was complete wreck. All
Of the furniture was taken out and
piled on top of the automobile, which
had been turned over on the street. and
then match was applied to the gaso-
line tank. The bonfire ragged until mid
night The police were utterly power
less to cope with the mob and the fire
department, which had been called out,
was not allowed to extinguish the
flames
During the attack an attempt was
made to do bodily harm to Mayor
Reece.
At 10 o'clock Louis johnson, a 10
yearold boy, was found dead in a rear
stairway leading to the basement of
downtown building. He had been shot
through the groin.
At the time the riot began Eugene
w. Chain, the Prohibition candidate
for President, was addressing a meet
ing in the courthouse yard. A negro
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
VAST PROJECT LAUNCHED.
Irrigation OF More than a Million
Acres In West Contemplated.

Irrigation OF More than a Million
Acres In West Contemplated.
With the appearance in Salt Lake City
the other day of Frank H. Bull, the
Sharon. Pa, millionaire, and George A.
Baird of Idaho. news was given out con-
corning the launching of another great
irrigation enterprise. The PROJECT involves
nearly 100000 acres along the Snake riv-
er in Idaho, west from the Little Salmon.
When completed it will reclaim a district
extending a distance of $50 miles west
and covering more than a million acres on
the south side of the Snake river. The
main canal which supplies the Twin Falls
tract is to be enlarged and carried across
Little Salmon river canyon for 1900 feet
and at the height of $40 feet. A system
of reservoirs is to be constructed on the
new lands. These are intended to con-
serve 700 acres of the food waters of the
Snake river and to supply the ground
around them. When this undertaking has
been completed Mr.. Bull and his asso-
ciates will have expended 100000 to
So, 100000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
FAST TRAIN RUNS WILD.
Engineer Falls from Cab of Grand
Trunk Locomotive.

Engineer Falls from Cab of Grand
Trunk Locomotive.
With Engineer Charles Strang lying
injured along the track and the fireman
busy on the back of the tender, Grand
Trunk flyer, east bound, ran for miles
through southern Michigan the other af-
ternoon without a guiding hand at the
throttle and with 300 passengers ignorant
of the fact that they were on a runaway
train. Finishing his work on the tender,
the fireman returned to the cab to find
the engineers seat vacant. He brought
the train to a stop and backed it up until
the engineer was found beside the track
with his left arm and left leg broken, one
shoulder crushed and his skull fractured.
1t is supposed the engineer lost his bal
ance in leaning from the window or gang
way to look for a hot box. Strang was
taken to Nichols hospital in Battle Creek,
where it was said there was a chance that
he might recover.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
NOTES OF SPRINGFIELD RIOTS.

A second negro was hanged, but res
cued by soldiers.
Governor Deneen ordered the First,
Second and Seventh Regiments to Spring
field from Chicago.
Springfield pastors united Sunday in
preaching against the rioting which has
disgraced the city.
Forty-five hundred soldiers at last
overawed the mobs in Springfield and re-
stored q semblance of order
Troops aided the Springfield FIRE de-
partment, keeping mob in check while
flames in negro refuge were fought
Prominent negroes in Chicago denounce
the mob violence at Springfield and d.
clare the law should be sufficient to pun
ISL all offenders.
4 woman arrested on charge of melting
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Cigarettes of a Year,

From the preliminary report of the
commissioner of internal revenue it ap-
pears that there were smoked in this
country last year cigarettes to the num-
Der of 55,4O2, 1886, 113, not counting the
little cigars. From the same report it is
apparent that the consumption of spiritu-
GUS liquors is on the decrease. On the
other hand, the consumption of beer is
increasing. During the fiscal year $751;
1922 was paid to the government on
spirits, as compared with $147 $50, 281
the previous year. The decrease in liquors
distilled was over 100000 gallons. In
the same time 5S,747,6S0 barrels of beer
were made, gain of POI 600 barrels. To-
bacco yielded total revenue of $40, S62,-
754, or loss of nearly 100000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25

riot was released on bail, but number
of men are held on suspicion of taking
part in the mob work
Governor Deneen issued formal state
nrent reviewing acts leading up to the
outbreak. the results of the rioting and
the efforts to restore peace.
The brutal murder of an aged negress
by man of her own race, crazed BY the
Springfield riots, almost resulted in a
lynching in Chicago's black belt"
Chicago sent 1900 additional soldiers
including $50 cavalrymen. to Springfield,
making a total of more than 5000 guards
men in the capital to maintain order.
A boy who attempted to board the First
Regiment train at Kankakee was stabbed
10 death with bayonet by a soldier from
Chicago. and the authorities insisted on
ar-estin- the man.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany's new tower over the Madison
Square building at New York. which is to
be, when completed, the highest structure
in the world, has received 8,746 news
paper clippings already containing some
reference to the tower, and Frank A
Burrele, the clipping expert, estimates
that these clippings would make a total
of 104,952 inches, or 1,469,32S agate lines.
To buy this amount of notice for the
company at advertising rates would have
cost S440,70S.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Hawaii Drought Lasts a Year

The severest drought experienced in
the Hawaiian islands for a number of
years is being felt i'll the Kula region of
Maui. This is a region devoted to small
farming. There has been no rain there
for nearly a year. Crops have failed and
animals are dying for want of water.
Many of the people have been obliged to
leave the region.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
SHERMAN IS NOTIFIED.
UTICA HAS GALA DAY
Republican Choice for Vice Presi-
dent Told of Nomination by
Senator Burrows.
ENDORSES TAFT PRINCIPLES.
shall the Administration of Roose-
Welt Be Approved" Declared
Big Issue by Nominee.

Utica. N. Y. correspondence:
With one of the briefest speeches
ever delivered by candidate for so
high an Office, James Schoolcraft Sher-
man Tuesday accepted the nomination
OF the Republican party for the Vice
presidency. He spoke from a flag-cov-
cred stand erected in front of his home,
and was surrounded by party leaders
from different sections of the country,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Girl Sees Ffance Murdered.

AS George d. Sheehan, 10 years old.
was walking along Barnes avenue. New
Haven, with his fancee, Miss Bessie
Lewis, he was attacked and murdered.
Miss Lewis said two Italians did the
killing. 1t is said that the melon patches
of Italian farmers have often been robbed,
and it is thought the Italians may have
taken Sheehan for a marauder.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Number of Failures Decreasing.

The commercial failures in the United
States during July, as compiled by Dun's
Review, were 1,232, with liabilities of
81, do, 12G. which is the fewest of any
month in the past year, except May. Still
it is heavy compared with the correspond
ing month of last year. when the total of
failures reached only III. Manufacturing
failures last month were 334. against 211
In July, 1907. There were 81 trading
failures against 531 such defaults in the
same month of last year. The CONNER
cial failures in Canada were 134 against
Ga in July of last year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Kills and Burns Parent

George Vail, Jr, 20 years old, charged
with the murder of his father, George
Vail, ST., 81 years old, who disappeared
June 10, 1907, at Batavia, Ohio, con-
fessed the crime. According to the con-
fession young Vail took the body into a
hollow near his hsme and burned it. Some
of the bones were found and this led to
the arrest
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Fugitive Cashier Dead.

A young man who died at La Toilette,
Tenn, about two weeks ago under pecu-
liar conditions has been identified as L. A.
Westford, cashier of a bank at Alma,
Okla, who disappeared last January and
was found to be a defaulter When the
man arrived at La Toilette he seemed to
be a nervous wreck. He was attacked
with pneumonia and died in a few DAYS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
APPLE GROWERS PLAN A POOL
HCpe to Increase Profits and Lower
Price to Consumer.

Hope to Increase Profits and Lower
Price to Consumer.
scheme of huge proportions and of
the utmost interest to the American peo-
pie, apple consumers in particular, was
launched at the Congress of American
Apple Growers, in session at the South
erlI Hotel in St. Louis. The plan is to
organize all apple growers for the pooling
OF their product. The immediate objects
are to fight the railroads, withdraw pat
ronage from the jobbers or commission
merchants, cheaper the price of apples to
the consumer and raise the profit of the
grower. The last object, the growers
think, can be accomplished best by deal
ing directly with the public instead of
through middlemen. One part of the plan
has to do with the establishing of apple
depots and market houses in the larger
cities of the country. The depots are to
be owned and controlled by the associa-
ton, which will regulate the selling price
of aDpleS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
EveIyn's Income to Cease.

After this month Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
will receive no more payments from her
husband. This means that the $1,000
month spending money it is understood
Harry Thaw has been giving her, in addi-
ton to the allowance of the So me amount
which she has been receiving from Thaw's
mother, is to be cut off.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Held as RooseveIt,s InsuIter.

Arthur jenkins, young United States
seaman at the Norfolk naval training
station, has been arrested by order of the
Secretary of the Navy and placed in the
brig on the receiving ship Franklin await
ing a preliminary trial upon the charge
of having sent an obscene postal card to
President Roosevelt at Washington.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
SHOOTS SPOUSE AND SELF.


Wife Kills Husband In Bed and
Tries to End own Life.
Driven temporarily insane by constant
brooding over the alleged neglect of her
self during an illness, Mrs. Mary Cassidy,
AZ years old, shot and instantly killed her
husband, As years old, in their rooms on
the third floor at 226 Illinois street, Chi
cago, and then shot herself through the
body. She was taken to an hospital in
a precarious condition. Six shots were
fired by the woman, three striking her
husband, two missing him, and one being
used in her attempt at suicide. Mrs. Cas-
sidy, it is said, was released three months
ago from Dunning, where she had been
taken by her husband
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Chicago Tribune.

bearing infantry, cavalry and artillery
Early in the state of riot all the sa-
looms and disorderly houses in the city
were closed by the Mayor, and the mill
tiamen did their best to prevent the col
1ecting OF any crowds in the streets.
Their efforts were futile, however. They
would dispense a crowd in one neigh
borhood, and it Immediately reassem-
bled in another.
When at 2 a. N. the burning of negro
houses commenced the negroes retail
ated by shooting from the upper stories
of the houses in the neighborhood where
the torch was applied. number of
persons were hit during these fusillades
and were carried away by their friends
before their identity was discovered
Origin of the Trouble.
The melting cause of the trouble was
an assault made on Friday on Mrs.
Earl Hallam, wife of a street ear con-
ductor. Mrs. Hallam, whose husband
works at night, was pulled from her
bed at midnight by a negro, who then
dragged her into q garden in the rear
OF the house, where he assaulted her.
This was the last straw on the minds
of the whites of the city, the hatred
against the blacks having been smoIder-
ing since month ago, when Clergy A.
Ballard was slain in his home bv a
negro, who, it is said, had entered the
Ballard home in an attempt to assault
Mr.. Billiards. young daughter.
George Richardson, negro. was ar
rested for the assault upon Mrs. Hal
lam and placed in the city Jail with
Joseph James, who was accused of the
Ballard murder
Mutterings of mob violence began
soon after the Richardson Identification
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25

Pursuing a chance roommate at Lin
coin, Neb.. for more than a mile, Col.
Reuben Hurt of Sommersville, KY. COM
PEELED the man to disrobe and surrender
a suit of clothes belonging to the Ken
tuckian. The colonel then left the man,
clad only in white hat and pair of
shoes, on the banks of Salt creek.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25

Filing of the will of the late Robert
Pratt, former mayor of Minneapolis, re-
vealed a romance. A share in an estate
valued at $4,000 is left to Mary Bettin.
Mr.. Pratt's housekeeper, who has agreed
to become my wife" reads the will Mr..
Pratt's five sons and daughters by for
mer marriage share the estate with their
fathers fancee, who receives $1,000 in
stock and life policy for $500.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Te.s.tool. KIN Two, Others HI.

T6nNstOOIs NH IWU3 Uthers III.
Harry farrell of Baltimore and his
sister-in-law. Mrs. Lillian FARRELL, wife of
J. Oscar FARRELL of Rochester, n. Y, are
dead. and Mrs. Jarrell's husband and her
mother, Mrs. Margaret H. Scheib, are
critically i'll from the effects of eating
toadstools picked by mistake for mush-
rooms
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Buffalo Has s1,OoO.OOO Fire

Fire was discovered in the East Buffalo
stock yards of the New York Central rail-
road about 2 80 o'clock Saturday morn
ing. The flames spread with great rapid
ity among the frame buildings Three
alarms of fire have been turned in, bring
ing all the fre-fghting apparatus in the
city to the scene. The loss will reach
81 OOO 600
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
TANNED IN TRUNK WHILE ALIVE
Mans Body Found at Camden, N. j.,
Evidence of Horrible Crime.

Mans Body Found at Camden, N. j.,
Evidence of Horrible Crime.
damned into an ordinary travelling
trunk and securely tied with a clothes
line, the body of a man, presumably MUIR
dered months ago, was found by picnick-
ers few miles below Camden, n. J. Cor
oner Ethan of Camden, who made a
cursory examination, is convinced that
the man was shot or strangled, and then
while alive, placed in the trunk The legs
had been bent in such position that the
knees were directly beneath the mans
chin. About the neck was a yellow shirt,
the sleeves of which were tied tightly
across the neck.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Progress of Pennant Race in Base
Ball Leagues.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Cruiser FIoated, Damage Slight.

The cruiser Colorado, which ran
aground at Double Bluff, in Puget Sound,
was not seriously damaged. The Colo
RADIO was f1oated at high tide and repair
ed to the Bremerton navy yard to go in
dry dock for examination.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
woman Bound and Murdered

Her feet tightly bound together and a
stocking stuffed down her throat, Mrs.
Adeline NJ Miller, 40 years of age, was
found dead by her husband, a mail clerk.
when he returned from work in st. Louis.
The police are searching for young man
who is said by neighbors to have called
on Mrs. Miller
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Hold-Up Man Killed.

Leemond Smith. alias William Fay, 40
years old. a well-known confidence man,
according to the police. was shot aud al
most instantly killed by Larry MctSraw,
a bartender in the saloon of Peter Mes
singer. 206 West Adams street, Chicago,
when he and two companions attempted
TO rob Mc(Sraw.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Mrs. Duke is Found Guilty.

Mrs Alice Webb-Duke, divorced wife
of B-odie l. Duke. the tobacco merchant.
was found guilty in the Criminal Court
In Chicago of passing fraudulent check
on the Great Northern Hotel Company.
The penalty for the ofense is confinement
for one year in the house of correction
and a fine of $4,000, or both.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Riot in Darkness.

Rioting was resumed at Springfield
Monday night and troops and assailants
met in combats as a result of attacks
made in cover of the darkness: the entire
camp was reused and fires added to the
confusion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
Trolley. Hit Auto; Two Die.

Sergeant Major A. H. Belyea and Mas
ter Electrician Sergeant c. H. Jones, at
tached TO the Preside military forces.
were almost instantly killed when thrown
from a runabout automobile which was
crushed between two street cars running
in opposite directioL>- at Market street
and Van Ness avenue, ssn Francisco.