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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
NEW YORK.

Buyers of spring goods are more in evil
dence this week at all markets, responding
to the advance of the season, and jobbing
trade shows more vim than at any time
since last autumn. In no case, however,,
is the buying reported as equal to year
ago, and in some cases the decreases are
very heavy. The easing of prices of sta
pies shown in January has gone further
this week Building was at low ebb i'm
January. and this is reflected in easy
prices for lumber. Business failures ip
the United States for the week ending,
Feb. 10 number S24, against 272 last
week, 204 in the like week of 1907, DOS
in 1906, 243 in 1905 and 231 in 1904.
Canadian failures for the week number
Al, as against 80 last week and 20 ip
this week year ago radstreet's Com
mercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
ARMY DISCOURAGED
IF PAY IS NOT RAISED
Officers Deeply Concerned Over
Future if Men Are Not Given
Adequate Compensation.
MORE INFANTRY is NEEDED.
Half-Filled Regiments Result of Low
Wages for Notwithstanding
Article by General Carter.
Washington correspondence :

Washington correspondence
One could not exaggerate If he would
the spirit of actual hopelessness with
which the officers OF the American
army will view the future if Congress
fails at tie present sHsion to pass the
bill granting an increase of pay to the
rank and file. At some of the posts
there are barely enough soldiers to do
guard duty as it ought to be done.
1t is a present condition with which
the army officers are concerned first,
and it is future condition over which
they are concerned second. The flu
ttIre condition is the more serious, be-
cause it means that if things go on as
they have been doing the country and
its island possessions will be defense
less.
Men who have worn shoulder knots
since the days of the civil war say
in all seriousness that unless the peo-
pie bring pressure to bear upon Con-
gress to provide adequate pay for the
soldiers the people will find them
selves, as far as the regular army en-
tiers into the matter, practically with
out defense, and reduced almost to the
stage of having no seasoned force as
a nucleus of efficiency for unframed
national guardsmen and green volun-
teers. Post libraries, recreation rooms,
field athletics, comfortable quarters,
good food, good clothing, free medical
attendance and plunge and shower
baths all avail nothing to attract men
to life which would draw them by
the thousands if decent allowance
of pay for the service they render in
peace, and always have been willing to
render in war, were added to the in
ducements.
Joint encampments of the regulars
and the national guardsmen will be
held next summer. The regulars en-
joy camp as well as garrison service,
though the duties are harder. 1t is
the belief of officers of the army that
these encampments, into whose mill
tary life the national state soldiers en-
ter, would induce enlistments from
the national guard by the hundreds if
the men knew that their pay would be
commensurate with the work they are
willing to do for their country.
In a recent number of the North
American Review General William II.
Carter, commanding the Department
of the Lakes, has an enlightening arti-
Gle under the strongly suggestive tftle,
when Diplomacy Fails" 1t is writ
ten by an officer not given to sounding
trumpet alarm notes and who for the
worth of his service was made Brig
adler General years before the time
when under the ordinary rule of pro-
motion he would have been entitled to
wear his star.
Army officials believe that if the es-
tablishment were enlarged post life
would be far more attractive because
of the greater number of soldiers in
the garrison. If the proposed advance
in pay is passed by Congress the Off
GERS also believe that there will be no
trouble in keeping the ranks filled, and
that re-enlistments will be tie rule
rather than the exception, as they are
to-day.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
Repudiates "Christian Psychology"

Repudiates "Christian Psychology"
Bishop Fallows, who is heading the
movement of Christian psychology in
Chicago, has made it very clear that this
movement is not to be mistaken as a
phase of Christian Science. Now Mr..
Archibald Mcclellan, speaking for Mrs.
Eddy through the Christian Science Sem
tinel, utterly repudiates any recognition
of Christian psychology, saying: Her
teachings show that she cannot indorse as
Christianity the two distinctly contradic-
tory statements and points of view con-
tanned in the term Christian psychol-
ogy'-otherwise Christian materialism."
Speaking of the teaching of Jesus, he
says: HE never complicated spirit with
matter, never taught the finite opposite
of God, spirit, infnity, all. As revealed
in Christian Science, God is unconscious
of matter, for if he is spirit and all, he
cannot know aught that would be the
very unlikeness of himself in quantity,
quality and divinity"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
MARINES LEAP INTO THE SEA.

Son of Minnesota Congressman One
of the Two Drowned.
Two men, one in the uniform of the
United States marine corps, and the other
in citizens clothes, jumped overheard
from the tug Annie r. Wood while on
the way from Newport to Fort Greble
and drowned. The man in uniform is
Private Benjamin G.. Stevenson, a son
of Congressman Halvor Stevenson of
Minnesota. The other man is believed to
have been John NJ. Mcintosh, a marine
who was awaiting discharge from the
service.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
NEW TRAFFIC SYSTEM OPENED

Business Starts Between OhiO-Penn-
sylvania State Line and Virginia.
Through interurban traffic has been
opened between the Ohio Pennsylvania
State line and the Ohio river to Mounds
vile, w. Va, and Shadyside, Ohio. The
recently completed $2,000,O00 extension
OF the East Liverpool Traction and Light
Company and the Steubenville Light and
Power Company's lines were placed in
operation. March l traffic eastward will
extend to Midland, Pa, and later to Van
port, Pa. East Liverpool, Wellsville.
Yellow Greek, Port Homer, Empire, To
ronto, Costonia, Steubenville, Follansbee,
Wellsburg and Wheeling now are con-
nected.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
YOUNG KING OF PORTUGAL.
Manuel II, at Age of Eighteen Takes
His Murdered Fathers Place.

Manuel IL, at Age of Eighteen Takes
His Murdered Fathers Place.
Very Unexpectedly boy of IS is
raised to the responsibilities of King of
Portugal. Young Prince Manuel natur-
ally felt that the burdens and dignity
of that high place were far removed
from him. His royal father was in
the prime OF life and his elder brother
stood between him and succession. But
the bullets of the assassins removed
the King ard the crown prince in a
twinkling and upon an unframed boy
develops the tremendous duties and
cares of Kingship.
Manuel H., who was proclaimed
King the morning after his fathers
death, has served his country in the
navy. He is a blonde, tail, well edu-
Gated and considered good-looking. He
is said to possess the qualities which
go toward making a determined ruler.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
MtIIs Resumfag WORK.

Signs of returning prosperity are given
by the resumption of work in various in
dustrial establishments throughout the
country. During the past week the Her
reschof works at Bristol, f. l., put near
ly 200 employees back on full time, after
working for several months on four and
oEs-half hour basis. The American Car
and Foundry Company Of Detroit re-
opened. giving employment to 5000 men.
The Cadillac Motor Car Company of the
same place resumed with a full force of
1000. and several furnaces and other in
dustrial plants in the Pottsville and Pitts
burg districts are reported as resuming
operations On full or part time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
HORSE IN CAFE; SIX ARE HURT.
Animal with Blind Staggers Causes
Panic and Wrecks Place.

Animal with Blind Staggers Causes
Panic and Wrecks Place.
Crazed by an attack of blind staggers,
a street railway horse plunged into Mi
chael Sameth's cafe and restaurant on
East Houston street, New York, and be-
fore he was caught and shot injured half
a dozen persons, one possibly fatally. The
interior of the place was wrecked and
there was a panic among the numerous
patrons seated at the tables In the con-
fusion several were knocked down and in
jured. The most seriously hurt was
Aaron Rissner, 20 years old, who was
passing from the cafe when the horse
charged the storm door. He was knocked
to the pavement, seriously bruised and in
jured internally to such an extent that
he was unconscious when taken to the
hospital
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
WORK OF
CONGRESS

Senator Rayner of Maryland spoke at
length in the Senate Wednesday on the
currency bill. The Senate devoted two
hours to considering the criminal code
bill. The tariff question and the Presi-
dents message were the principal themes
of discussion in the House. In the course
of the concluding debate on the Indian
appropriation bill the proceedings were
enlivened by Messrs. Hamill and Leake
of New Jersey. both Democrats. discuss
ing the virtues and faults of William ].
Bryan.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

A jury has decided that Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Blatch cannot compel the Hoff-
man House of New York to serve meals
to her after 6 in the evening when she
is unaccompanied by a man. Mrs. Biatch
at once appealed the case, and she will be
supported in carrying the matter to the
highest court by the Consumers League
and the Federation of Women's Clubs. A
bill to prevent the discrimination against
women by hotels in this way has been
introduced in the Legislature.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
Typothetae Loses SUIT.

Judge Thompson, in the United States
Court at Cincinnati, has handed down a
decision adverse to the United Typothetm
in its case against the International
Printing Pressmen's and Assistants
Union of North America. asking for an
injunction to prevent the officers of the
union from calling a strike. The Typoth-
et@ set up an agreement for a nine
hour day until Jan. /. 1909. This, while
signed by some of the officers, had net
been ratified by the union, therefore the
court holds that it was not binding upon
the members
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
railway in Receiver,s Hands.

On complaint of George A. Fernald &
Company of Boston the Chicago, Cincin-
natl and Louisville railroad was placed in
the hands of a receiver by the federal
court in Indianapolis. James p. Good
rich was appointed and he went to Gin
cinnati to take charge of the company's
Office and property. The road is known
as the short line between Chicago and
Cincinnati and has been in operation
about FIVE years. 1t is 2S5 miles long,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
CANADA SPLIT BY JAP ROW.
Dominion Government to Kill Law
of Province.

Dominion Government to XIII Law
of Province.
The fight between the dominion and
provincial governments over the question
of japanese exclusion has reached crisis
in Vancouver b. G. The federal govern
ment has announced that it will disallow
the Natal act just passed by the Legisla-
ture of British Columbia This act pro-
vides an educational test for all immi-
grants. 1t must remain in force ten days
before cancellation. Meantime the fed
eral governments lawyers in Vancouver
have seen instructed to obtain the admit
lance of all Japanese held by the provin-
cial enactment, by applying habeas cor
pus proceedings in the courts. The OF
tawa government has advised the EN-
peror of Japan that the rights of Jap
anese coming to British Columbia will be
fully protected. If the provincial govern
ment fails to keep out the japanese by
reason of federal interference, working
men may make another demonstration
against the orientals.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
BANKS UNDER GUARANTY LAW.
OF 1872 State Institutions In Okla
homa 400 COIlply with Statute.

OF 1872 State Institutions In Okla
homa 400 Comply with Statute.
The first two laws enacted by the pres
emf Oklahoma Legislature, the State guar
anty banking and the Jim Grow" coach
and depot laws, went into effect Sunday.
Since the banking law vas first passed an
amendment has been made with the pur-
pose of permitting national banks to take
advantage of the law without the consent
of the comptroller of the currency. Thus
far forty national banks out of 300 in
the State have applied for permission,
and of 1872 State banks 400 complied with
the law. The case brought to test the
legality of the law was fled in the SUI
preme Court, the Nobele State bank be-
ing the plaintiff.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
Chauffeur Guilty In killing.

Chauffeur Jesse Watson was sentenced
in st. Louis to one year in Jail and fined
$1,000 for killing little Christine Musick,
who was struck by Watson's automobile
last October. Watson was in the employ
of Clay Arthur Pierce, son of Henry Clay
Pierce, chairman of the board of the
Waters Pierce Oil Company. Testimony
during the trial was to the effect that the
automobile was running between forty
FIVE and fifty miles an hour.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

Mr.. Davis on Miss Ashford and no fur
tween them. These statements, accord
ing to a Washington dispatch. we're
made by Miss Ashford Rumors had
been circulated that this would be the
outcome, because of the strong opposi-
ton to the proposed marriage by Mrs
ElAins, daughter of Mr.. Davis, and
members of her family.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
PLAN FARMS FOR UNEMPLOYED.
Secretary of Agriculture Promises
Support for Proposed Schools.

Secretary of Agriculture Promises
support for Proposed schools.
Seth 7. Farnsworth of Chicago, advo-
cate of the idea of self-supporting agricul-
tural schools as a remedy for enforced I'M
employment, and John Ellis of Boston,
secretary of the national convention of
the unemployed recently held at st.
Louis, had conference with Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson in Washington for
the purpose of ascertaining to what ex-
tent self-supporting suburban schools of
farming might be encouraged by the fed
eral government. Secretary Wilson said
that it was the duty of State and NUM-
cipal governments to establish such enter
prises, and that if they would provide
land within the range OF a 5-cent fare
from towns he would send experts free of
charge to demonstrate the work and also
would send the necessary seeds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
MANY ARE GIVEN WORK IN OHIO
Industrial Concerns Around Wells
willie Resume Operations.

Industrial Concerns Around Wells
Vile Resume Operations.
Nearly all the industrial concerns in
the vicinity of Wellsville, Ohio. have re-
sumed operations after having been clos
ed down for a number of weeks. The
United States, Pioneer, Pattersons and
the McNicol potteries have resumed, Civ
ing employment to over $50 men and
women. The Wellsville plant of the
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
also has resumed, giving work to over
1000 men. Extra labor is being en-
ployed 81 the Cleveland and Pittsburg
railroad shops. and it is reported addi-
tional freight runs are to be posted with
in a few days to care for an increased
freight traffic. Sewer-pipe and friedrich
plants have started and this industry
gives employment to nearly 500 men.
Extensive railroad improvements have
been started and this means that hun
dreds of laborers are to be put to work
at once.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

Fortunately for him, in the present
disturbed condition of affairs England
is bound by treaty not only to prevent
an invasion Of his country but to main
tain the present dynasty on the throne.
Any effort, therefore, to place a pre-
tender in his place would lead to arm
ed Intervention on the part of Great
Britain
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
Philadelphia Customs Receipts.

The records of Collector Hill of the
port of Philadelphia for the month of
January show an increase of 100000
over those of the same. month last year,
indicating revival of business. After
the financial furry business fell from an
average of 100000 day to as low as
$4,000. while the average has now reach
ed $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

The Mare Island navy yard. San Fran
cisco, is infested by thousands of rats As
it is known that they are spreaders of
disease, board was recently appointed
to investigate the situation. The board
was recently appointed to investigate the
situation. The board has reported recon-
mending q preliminary expenditure of
$4,000, which is to provide means for
getting rid of the pest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
COURT ORDERS BOY PROMOTED
Lad of Seven Years to- Enter Seventh
Grade Despite school Board.

Grade Despite School Board.
Terry Wiskham, years DID, of Syca-
more, Ohio, was promoted from the fifth
to the seventh grade last June, but be-
cause of his age the school board at the
beginning of the fall term declined to rec
ognize the promotion and sent the boy
home. His father brought mandamus
proceedings against the board and the
Circuit Court has handed down the decis-
ion, severely scoring the school board, and
directing that it permit the boy to begin
in the seventh grade at once. Before rem
dering the decision the boy was given a
special examination and stood the test
without a flaw. He is regarded as the
most extraordinary lad in the State.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

Herbert Jordan, SO years old, who vas
private secretary to former Governor Will
lis ]. Bailey when the latter was in Con-
gress, was assassinated in Main street,
Seneca. Kan. One shot was fired. Jor-
dan fell and died almost Immediately.
The street was almost deserted and no
one was near by, though persons at dis
lance saw Jordan fall and another man
run around a corner and disappear.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
DAVIS NOT To MARRY.
Family Opposes Union of Aged Mil
ionaire and Miss Ashford.

Miss Maud Ashford will not become
the wife Of former Senator Henry Gas
saway Davis, the northumberland
West Virginian and father-in-law of
Senator Stephen B. Elkins of that
State. The engagement between Miss
Ashford and Mr.. Davis has been brok-
en-, it is stated. There will be no breach
of promise suit. no money settlement by
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
Prohibition Defeated in mississippi.

FruhADItEOh DeIeateu IN MIssIssIpph'
The surprise of the Mississippi Legis-
latiye session occurred Tuesday morning
when an amendment seeking to establish
constitutional prohibition was defeated IN
the lower house, lacking two votes of che
required twO-thirds. Those favoring a
constitutional convention are credited
with having defeated the amendment.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
ALL BUT ONE ARE SAVED.
Twenfy-ksight Miners Imprisoned by
Run OF Coal.

Twenty-3ight Miners Imprisoned by
Run OF Coal.
All except one of the twenty-eight men
and boys entombed in the Mid-Valley col
liery at Shamokin. Pa, were rescued
after few hours. Frank Orloskie, a
miner of Mid-Valley, fell down shute
after the accident and was killed. The
men were entombed by the running of a
number of pillars of coal, causing a gang
way to close. When the miners were inn
prisoned they gathered in a long, we'll
ventilated gallery and made plans as to
tine best means of digging their way
through the blockade. They had picks
and shovels and began work without de-
day. Then the imprisoned men heard
sharp raps on the steam pipe running
through the drift and felt certain of be-
ing rescued. When the rescuing party
penetrated to them it was found that the
men had dug a long distance through the
fall of coal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
a, ooo .ooO on Concerr r.u.

On tie petition of b. y. Russell, the
National Consolidated Oil Company. a
milsion-dollar concern. with outstanding
bonds of 100000. was placed in the
hands of receiver in Lima, Ohio. Geo.
W. King being named. The receiverShip.
il is stated. followed default upon semi
annual interest due on the bonds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
Kills Himself as Son Did.

Henry d. Sellers. one of the wealthiest
real estate men in Pittsburg. committed
suicide while the other members of his
family were st church. In exactly the
same manner, while the family was at
church year ago, his son, Henry ID. Sci
1erS, Jr.. killed himself.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

Charles W. Morse was arrested on ar
rival of liner at quarantine in New York,
gave bail and issued statement denying
the charges against him, and saying that
he would plead not guilty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
shot by Nesroe. from Ambush

Cooper Henderson, mill owner, and
Sam Culpeper, county convict manager,
were fred on from ambush near Graham's
station, Miss, by three unknown negroes.
Henderson was probably fatally wounded,
while Culpeper received serious injuries.
The negroes escaped.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

Gen. Zebulon NJ. Pixies original manu-
scripts and papers relative to his explora-
tons in 1906, which were taken from him
at chihuahua, Mexico, after his capture
by the Spaniards, have been found by
Herbert E. Bolton, professor in the
University of Texas. who has been max
ing extensive researches in the Mexican
Archives
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
shoot. wife, Kills Himself.

Joseph March, bookmaker at the New
Orleans race tracks, shot and fatally
wounded his wife at their boarding house
He then killed himself. Jealousy is be-
lieved to have been the cause of the ira
xady
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
GIRL BURGLAR IN CELL.
EeeelIa Peterson Makes Remarkable
Confession of Her Crimes.


Confession of Her Crimes.
Cecilia Peterson, Is years old, who
was arrested the other day following an
attempted burglary at the home of Mrs.
Mary Cormacal in Chicago, with August
Zander, Is years old, and Albert Prettack.
10 years old, made remarkable confess
sion to the Canalport avenue police, adj
uniting that she and lander had commit
ted over fifty burglaries and that their
thefts extended over a period OF year.
Zander was arrested in the home of Mrs
Cormacal by Sergeant Kilcrane and De-
tectives Vana and Maher of the Canalport
avenue police station. Prettack, who was
acting, the police say, as a sentinel, was
arrested in the passageway. His woman
accomplice was in the house when the
police arrived. She succeeded in getting
nway in the excitement attending the ar
rest of the men. Zander when questioned
at the station gave the police informa-
tion which resulted in her being taken
into custody at her home later.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
shot Dead, Put on Tracks.

Special Agent ]. II. Crawford of the
Southern railway was shot by unknown
persons and the body placed on the tracks
Mt Twenty-seventh street, Birmingham,
Ala, where it was run over by an incom-
ing passenger train.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
KILLED or Eve of His Election.

Jonas Silcox, who would have been
elected to the school board of st. Clair,
Pa, at the next days election, was killed
by an explosion of gas in the Eagle Hill
eolliery of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company. Thomas Wade
was perhaps fatally burned
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
Railway Cut. Men. wage.

President Tuttle of the Boston and
Maine railroad announces that rsdue-
tiou Of 10 per cent in salaries of all en-
ployes of the road receiving over 500 s
month will be made at once About 500
empioyes will be affected. Business de-
preston is given as the cause.