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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
City Hall and Police Buildings Of
Portland, Me-, Destroyed

Portland, Me-, Destroyed.
Fire which caused damage of ST.
100000 destroyed the Portland. Me-,
city hall and police buildings and en-
dangered the lives of more than roc
persons. The city hall was occupied by
city and county Offices. while the police
building sheltered the Supreme, judi
cial and municipal courts, in addition
to the police department. Delegates at
tending the Western Maine knights of
Pythias jubilee were in the auditorium
of the city hall when the flames were
discovered, but only a few persons were
hurt.
The estimated financial loss does not
include papers in the Office of the reg
istrar of deeds, where everything was
DESTROYED. Other city departments lost
everything. with the exception of the
city clerk and treasurer's Offices. One
of the most valuable libraries in the
State. the Greenleaf Law Collection,
was destroyed, with loss estimated
at $4,000
The fire originated in the city cleo
trician's Office and was caused By
crossed wires. which made it impossi-
bic TO ring call for the fire depart
ment in any of the boxes.
The city hall survived the great fire
of 1866, although it was damaged at
that time. The building had front
age of $50 feet and was $50 feet loI>..
Its central dome rose 100 feet above the
roof. The building was constructed of
eolored Nova Scotia Albert stone, and
contained eighty rooms.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

The mistake that most persons make
when they decide to go into the poul-
try business is that of starting with
mongrel fowls and trying to drift into
the pure-bred line year after year. They
will buy, perhaps, sitting of pure-bred
eggs of pure-bred fowls and at the end
of the season they allow the entire lot
to run together, and when the next
years Matching season comes around
they decide that they will stils keep
some of the mongrel hens, If for no
other purpose than to furnish eggs for
the table 1t naturally follows that the
two breeds get mixed, and at the end
of the next season there are but few
of the young fowls which do not show
cross. Another mistake that they
make is that of trying to keep more
than one breed. Those who have had
years of experience and have provided
ample yards and houses for each breed
may be able TO do this, but those who
are not so arranged should never at
tempt to keep more than one.
- 40 AOA1 " NABSNA " supply tbGIJ
kind Of fowls which individuals may
ask for, and no one should attempt to
do so.
Select one pure breed-one best suit
Ell to the needs of nearby markets and
the one you fancy most. Dispose Of
the mongrel fowls on the place and
keep the breed pure. Each year select
the best males and females and again
dispose of those that do not come up
to all the standard requirements. Year
after year small defects Will disappear
and you will soon have flock which
will not only be handsome. but at the
same time profitable. Don't try to sup
ply all customers. Make a speciality
OF one kind and let your customers
know that they can get nothing better
than you can offer them.-Wisconsln
Farmer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

A new type Of roadway has been de
yeloped In some parts Of California.
known as the petrolithtc, which is moth
Ing more or less than well-bullt oiled
road The leading feature OF this pave
ment is the very complete compacting
OF the oiled material by means OF a
rolling tamper, new piece OF road ma
chinery. 1t was designed to insure the
tampIng Of the material from the lower
portions upward 10 the surface. IN
stead Of downward from the surface.
The inventor received the idea from
seeing large dock OF sheep walk over
a newly plowed rszd- After the sheep
hsd passed over II the soil was found
TO be packed 50 hard that pick in
dented gt but short distance. To OBJ
tain this effect with roller the cir
cumference OF the main RON is covered
with hampers. which act like 50 many
feet waking over the earth and pack.
Inc IL DOWN
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04
MARTIN ", LTTTLETON'
THkR'S CHIEF COUNSEL :

preparatory schools in New York City
caused a meeting of twenty angry nothers
at the home of Mrs Elizabeth Moore
Their first purpose is to break up the
local organization of the Sigma Gamma
Society, and their second is to start a
campaign throughout the country against
secret societies amcng school girls.
1t was the story of Julia Mills. not yet
II. as told by her to her mother, that
Julia Mills was initiated" the other
night
Miss Mills, according to her story, was
summoned to appear at the Moore home
When she was ushered in she was led into
a dimly lighted room between two col
umns of black ro5ed, black masked fig
uies, up to the nigh prieStess.
This will be test OF your fortitude
! of your fitness to be a sister. You are
ordered TO thrust your hand into a small
caldron of molten lead. which you see be-
fore you. Ready Obey orders
Miss Mills dashed her hand into the
liquid and sank to her knees in fright.
After she recovered her composure in part
she was surprised to note that the caldron
was filed with mer<ry.
Suddenly the lights went out. Miss
Mills felt the floor give way beneath her
and she felt herself go down. down. and
then land on the pillows.
The candidate was ordered TO grasp the
hand. for which she could only feel. Shud-
dering, she involuntarily drew back her
arm when she felt the clamrny fingers.
She had grasped wet ohamois skin glove
filed with sand
Again she was led forth. this time TO
drink nauseatins liquid out of skull.
which liquid would serve to make her
of one blood with her other prospective
sisters"
Revolving At each gulp. she was COM
PEELED to drain the skull
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

1546-Martin Luther preached his fare
well sermon at Wittenberg.
1639-Civil government organized in
Connecticut With the adoption OF
what is said to be the first written
constitution known to history.
1666-Louis XIV. Of France declared
war on England
100 Lemoine dIberville took possession
of the Mississippi in the name or
France.
1T12-Robert Walpole expelled from the
House of Commons and committed to
the Tower.
1T51-First colonial assembly of Georgia
met.
1166-Pitt advocated in Parliament the
repeal of the stamp act.
11717-vermont declared itself free and
independent State.
ITS France recognized independence Of
the United States.
1ISi-Americans defeated the British az
battle of Cowpens.
1TS4-American Congress ratified the
treaty with Great Britain.
11S9-Charles ". proclaimed King Of
Spain.
1T91-Weekly mail service established
between the United States and Can
ada
1S05-Michigan territory formed from .
part of Indiana.
1902 English defeated the French at
hattla nf (torunro
1S10-Masked balls prohibited in New
York and Philadelphia.
1S13-Americans repulsed the British at
Frenchtown, on Lake Erie. John
Armstrong of New York became Sec
rotary of War.
Thanksgiving in Great Britain for
successes over Bonaparte. +. Bayonne
invested by the British.
1S16-The French standards taken at
Waterloo deposited in the Chapel
Royal. Whitehall.
1896 Phurtpore taken by the British
under Lord Ccmbermere.
1S40-Steamboat Lexington burned on
Long Island sound, with loss of t4i
lives.
1S47--Gov Bent of New Mexico killed
in an uprising of Mexicans
1S52-New constitution published by
Louis Napoleon CT France.
1SJ4-William Walker, the flibuster.
proclaimed the republic of Sonora
in lower California.
1S61-Lola Montez, adventures who
caused abdication of Louis Charles
of Bavaria. died in poverty in New
York.
1S71-United States Supreme Court de-
clared the legal tender act of 1862
constitutional. King William OF
Prussia proclaimed German Emperor.
1S75-President Grant approved the act
for resuming specie payments.
1S75-Steamer City Of Columbus wrecked
off Gay Head, with loss of 81 lives
....New State capitol at Des
Moines. dedicated
1SS5-British force defeated the troops
of the Mahdi at battle of Abu Klea.
1S91-Parnell presided over meeting OF
Irish National League in Dublin.
1S96-Capture of Coomassies and end Of
the Ashanti war.
1909 Several thousand lives lost in
earthquake at Andijan, Russian Tur-
key.
19O5-Japanese entered Port Arthur.
Fifty-nine lives lost in avalanche at
Bergen, Norway.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04
Corn In Illinois.

In an Interview recently, Doctor
Cyril G. Hopkins of the University of
Illinois. at urbana. remarked:
Some years ago corn was strang-
er. We found ii here when we came
a native of the country. yet until If
Then close study OF its individuality
and peculiar characteristics demon
strated that 1t was possible TO breed
up corn just as we improve animals.
although we have not yet learned how
To control the male parent. Tb inn
portance OF this may be appreciated
WI N we remember that the corn crop
of this country is worth 1900, coo, GOO
every year,. 25o 900 bushels. We are
trying to get one ear of corn to the
stalk That is what we are working
Tor. because some stalks are barren
we don't know why. Various people
have various theories, but they have
not been demonstrated.
Take a hundred ears OF corn. plant
them exactly alike. three kernels to
the Hill. the kernels from each ear In
row by themselves, in exactly the
same soil. cultivate them the same
way. and the yield viii vary 100 per
cent. We cannot account for that
variation. IL Is impossible thus to de-
termine why some corn viii grow and
other corn will not: but in planting. q
farmer should always use the seed
from the best ears. because that Is
likely to yield more than the poor
ears. But every ear Of seed corn
should be tested by terminating pan
during the winter. This Is a new
thing. but IL is being introduced rap
idly: all seed men and the better class
OF farmers are taking this precaution.
None OF the big corn planters viii use
any but tested seed.
I'VE sre teaching these methods 70
our students by practical experiments
conducted In twenty-five different
counties OF the State OF Illinois. as
well as on the campus of the unlver-
ssty. The results have been most sat.
lsfacsory. and they are appreciated by
the farmers We have a corn breed.
ers' association In this State COMPOSED
OF twenty-five seed growers. and they
are all working earnestly. with u In
breeding up TIE corn OF Illinois to the
very highest quality and the greatest
yisld--
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

In an attempt to rob the Citizens
National bank at Long View, Texas. Alex
Walker, negro was shot by Sheriff Liz
tie and probably fatally wounded.
The new whitehead torpedo developed a
speed of thirty-one and thirty-two knots
in tests off Newport, r. l.. Of consign-
ment recently purchased abroad.
Bright sunshine and summer breezes
called a summertime crowd to Coney ISL
and, n. Y. the other day 1t is estimated
that 10000 people went to the island.
Rioting followed the announcement in
Mid Devonshire, England, that an cleo
ton to I'LL a vacancy in the House OF
Commons had been won by the Conserva-
tives.
President Roosevelt has approved the
recommendation of the isthmian canal
commission approved by Secretary Taft
TO increase the width of tbs canal locks
to 40 feet
Senator Jefferson Davis of Arkansas
said. Il don't believe any man on earth
ever made a million dollars honestly in
an address before a mass meeting Of the
Progressive Democratic League in Cooper
Union hall, New York
Frank Pixley. the Chicago playwright.
i quoted as saying in Los Angeles. Cal.
that King Carlos Of Portugal recently
conferred on him the decorations of the
Order of Christus and also the Order OF
yasco de Cana in appreciation Of his en-
joynent of The Prince of Pilsen-~ Mr.
Pixley displayed the jewels Of the orders.
Ticket scalpers lost their fight in the
United States Circuit Court in New Or
leans to save part of their business from
the recent Supreme Court order making
ticket scalping Illegal The scalpcrs ask
ed for q decree making the Supreme
Court decision applicable only to tbose
tickets bearing the signature Of the pur,
chaser.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04
surgeon. Knife Cares Headache


After suffering excruciating pains in his
head for twenty-five year Louis Wolf
son of Cincinnati has secured relief by
having the surgeons cut out two nerves.
The pain was above the eyes and at the
temples and required four or five times
a week. He had consulted the leading
specialists, tried medicines. various forms
OF massage and electrical treatment in
vain. The two offending nerves. one on
each side, were between one and two
inches long and about as thick as a pin.
nerves which give the sense of feeling and
not control of the movements of mus
Giles. The headaches have not returned
since the operation. Local surgeons say
this is the first case of the kind on record.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04
PROGRESS OF THE
THAW MURDER TRIAL
Court Refuses to Exclude the Public
While Defendants Wife Is
on the Stand.
EVELYN A MATCH FOR JEROME
Drops Child-Like Pose and Fences
Well-District Attorney Merciless
in His Examination.

just as year ago, Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw has been the star witness in the
second trial of her husband for the
murder of Stanford White District
Attorney Jerome. of whom ii had been
limited that he would spare tie woman
no mercy this time. asked that the pub
lie be excluded. and Littleton. for the
defense. raised no objection. but Judge
Bowling held that the prisoner had a
right to a public trial.
During the first week Littleton de-
voted himself to demonstrate Tkaw's
insanity. by right of Inheritance and
by his actions from infancy to the eli
max Of murder. His purpose in putting
Evelyn Thaw on the stand was to dem
onstrate how the story of her abuse
by White, which she says size told
Thaw in Paris. acted on his erratic
brain with such force as to make him
irresponsibly insane
Under his questioning she maintain
ed her pose of the ingenious school
girl who in her innocence had been
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04
To Rcd a car one Year.

In an experiments to ascertain the
cost OF raising a calf Professor Shaw.
OF Michigan Station, took a dairy calf
and kept an accurate account OF the
expense Of feeding for one year from
its birth, The amount OF feeds used
In that time were ISL pounds OF whole
milk. ZOOS pounds Of skim milk. 1890
pounds os sllage. 2l9 pounds OF beet
pulp. l,2a54 pounds OF hay, l.e47 pounds
OF grain. la pounds OF roots. IA pounds
OF alfalfa meal and 80 pounds OF green
corn The grain ration consisted of
three parts each OF corn and oats and
one part OF bran and oil meal At the
end OF the year the calf weighed 500
pounds at cost OF S2S.o5 for feed The
calf was Holsteln.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04
pru..lnn Suffrage uprls,ng.

The desire for manhood suffrage in
Prussia and the refusal of the German
chancellor, Won Buelow, to meet the de-
mand with consideration. eliminated last
Sunday in q tremendous demonstration
at Berlin, where more than 10000 So
cialists and their friends attempted to
parade the principal streets and to hold
public meetings. Prior 10 this pro-
cession before the Parliament building
had been dispersed by the police with
great violence after the Landing had
voted down the suffrage proposition with
cut division. Won Buelow had told the
Landtag that parades and riots would not
influence the gr::gs ;4sss.s bit Sternest
measures were taken TO preserve order on
Sunday large bodies of police and sol
diers being stationed about the city. In
most cases the parades were broken mp.
the police charging with swords and the
people resisting with clubs and stones,
so that many on both sides were injured
Thousands Of women joined in the demon
STATIONS, marching and singing with the
men. Resolutions for the suffrage and
the secret ballot were passed by all the
meetings. The movement extends through
out Prussia.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04
DEFENsELEss PACIFIC COAST.
One Cruiser ona Foggy Night Could
Destroy Seattle and Tacoma.

The departure Of the fleet of sixteen
battleships for its long cruise has at
least served the purpose of drawing
attention to the lamentably weak and
unprotected condition of our Pacific
coast. writes Washington CORE
spondent. From Lower California to
the Canadian boundary we have abso-
iutely no protection against invasion,
save at San Francisco. Representa-
tive Humphrey, of the State of Wash
ington, made it plain to President
Roosevelt recently that seeond-class
cruiser on a foggy night could steam
int, Puget Sound and shell Seattle and
Tacoma off the face of the earth with
out receiving shot in reply.
The President was so impressed that
he asked Mr.. Humphrey to prepare a
report, in conjunction with his Pacific
coast colleagues, as to what defenses
and coast protection were necessary
and desirable.
San Diego and San Pedro in Callfo--
mia are equally as unprotected as the
Washington cities, and are wholly at
the mercy of any enemy which may
approach from the sea. 1t would not
cost much. however, to give San Diego
reasonable protection and to prepare
there a rendezvous for Pacific fleet.
1t is estimated that $150,O00 expended
in dredging out the approach would
furnish San Diego with splendid har-
Dor, easily defended by land fortifica-
tons and by battleships the latter Of
which would be instantly available for
service anywhere along the coast
Just what the great Atlantic fleet
viii do when it reaches our Pacific
coast is question not definitely set
tied. Mexico has granted us permits
sion to make use of Magdalena bay for
target practice. but it is claimed by ex-
perts that the ships will be in no con-
dition for anything except to go into
drydock for a complete overhauling
For this the Pacific coast is absolutely
unprepared. There is not drvdock
or navy yard commensurate for the
task it would be called upon to meet.
The Mare Island navy yard at San
Francisco is absolutely inadequate.
There is doubt expressed by those
who ought to know, having had expe-
riences in the commissary end of the
navy, that the provisioning of the
feet, when it arrived in the Pacific,
may turn out to be as poorly prepared
for as are the other functinns.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04
Imita,iou ButtermiIk.

Buttermilk dletarians will probably
oe appalled, TO learn that the lumpy
liquid which for years has been served
In all our big cities under the general
classification of buttermik. Is nothing
more or less than mixture of acid
and skinned milk. A certain amount
Of cultdre Tactic acid bacteria are adj
ded 10 skim milk-the sort which is
commonly looked upon as the rightful
property OF the pigs. The bacteria adj
ded 10 the skim milk produce cSagula-
ton and flavor not unlike genuine but
termllk. Then the mixture is churned
TO produce the Jumps.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04
Numcro.. Theater Indsctmens..

The grand jlry at Kansas City, NO.,
has returned III, indictments against per-
sons engaged in theatrical work. charged
with violating the old Sunday closing
law. many Of those indicted being non
for trial or forfeit bonds. Each manager
was indicted as many times az he had
actors and employees working at his the
alter the preceding Sunday. on the theory
that the employer violates the law as
much by forcing his employees to work as
does the employe by consenting TO work.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

Dispatches from London re'5ort that the
Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Com
pany. a British concern. has received
from the Soudan government a csatract
for the construction of combined road
and railway bridge over tie Blue Nile at
khartoum. where the length Of water
way to be crossed is LOO feet IT is
expected that the bridge viii be complet-
ed by the end of 1909. This is said to be
the most valuable bridge contract ever
placed for any part of the African con-
fiuent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04
An.trin. 90 condute nath..

The Austrian government has decided
to establish radium baths on an extensive
scale at Jochimsthal. the only present
known source of radium. II is said that
both the Carlsbad municipality and an
English syndicate approached the govern
ment some time ago with propositions
for a similar scheme. The government
rejected their proposals. partly with the
idea of anticipating the revenue and part
" with the idea that a therapeutic insti-
ton Of such worldwide importance
ought 70 be in the hands of the State.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

At the last annual meeting of stock
holders Of the American Sugar Refining
Company a formal statement was made
that the old policy Of secrecy would be
abandoned, and resolution was adopted
providing for. the issue Of a statement
showing the company's assets. including
the various plants, active and inactive. 10
was also decided TO preserve the accumu-
lated surplus as working capital This
decision for publicity is attributed large
Iy to the efforts Of Mr. Claus Spreckels.
who is a large stockhcider in he conn
uanv
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

Word comes from Morocco that the
pressure Of the populace upon the ulemas
or wise men. mas forced them TO decree
at Fee the overthrow OF Abdul Azziz and
to proclaim Mulai Hahd sultan in his
place. although his ascension TO the
throne will be accompanied with certain
conditions, mainly looking to the rejec-
ton of foreign interference with Moroc-
can affairs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

The latest outcome Of the bank inverfi-
CATION Of the New York grand jury IL the
jndictment OF William X. Montgomery,
president of the Hamilton bank, cbarE-
ing him with misdemeanor In making
oyerirafts in September and October Of
last year. Montgomery pleaded not gull
~ and bail was axed al $500 ON each
Of two indictments. His counsel holds
that his violation Of law was purely tech
meal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

Imprisonment for the n<nipulators OF
trust funds is the Recommendation OF z.
& Rittenhouse. commissioner Of insur-
ance for Colorado. in a report Of the IN
vsstix1tian Of the Prosident Savings Liza
Assurance Society Of New York.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

The congressional act known as the
employers liability law has been pro
nounced unconstitutional and invalid by
the Supreme Coart Of the United States
by vote Of ) 10 T. The ground OF the
decision was taat the act embraced sub
jects upon which Congress had no power
TO iegislate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

OF the S30.0o0.ooo of equipment trust
bonds of New York Central lines recently
offered for public subscription $4,000
600 was taken the first day. They were
offered at prices 10 yield from 4 to 57s
per cent. 1t is understood that several
millions Of these certificates we're placed
abroad
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

Bishop Tuttie Of the Episcopal church
in a mission conference at Houston.
Texas, praised the work of other denonli-
nations and predicted closer uuioh Of all
Christian bodies for the conflict with
sin and sei6shness.-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

Adrian B. Larkin, counsel for the or.
ganization committee pf the Westinghouse
company of Pittsburg. announced in New
York plan for rehabilitation had been
agreed upon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

Labor bNties OF Anaconda. Moat-. viii
petition president Roosevelt 10 pardon
two linemen imprisoned for violating an
injunction granted the Rocky Mountain
Telephone Company to protect eupioyes
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

Fer good results in farm dairying
and butter making in winter, keep the
milk at an even temperature. Keep 1he
cream sweet until the day before
churnlng. and stir the cream well.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04

4 wide range In the cost OF produc~
ing eggs IN winter. was brought out
hy the tests OF Henry II. Wing at the
Cornell experiment station The peri
cd from December ! to March 3 was