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The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-21

Prof. Stone-To the geologist thou sand years or so are not counted as time at all.
 Man in the Audience-Great Scot! And to think that I made a temporary loan of two pounds to man who holds such views-Tit- Bits
The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-21

Well Pat, after a year at the au- tomobile school, I suppose you under stand everythlng?"
 Ali but one thing, sir"
 Whats that?"
 What makes the thing go without horses. Life.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-21

To tho police: If you have any re gard for human safety, concentrate your efforts to-day upou that short thrilling fifteen minutes after the game. when, in the thickeniug darkness of tho November twilight will rush along some thirty thousand people, each bent upon reaching the center of the city or lo Dho depot in tho shortest possible space of time Then and there the greatest danger exists, and caution, both on the part of the police and on the part of those who value their lives and theh limbs. is advisable
The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-21

Jack Lend me a dollar, will you?" Tom-"Till when?"
 Jack-"Till you get 1t back again. Exchange.
 She--They say girls can't throw straight, but when e girl throws a sly glance I notice she generally hits the mark.
 He (recently blttenl Yes-the easy mark. Exchange.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-21

While the city authorities were jn. tcrrering to make tranc conditions bet ter on Chapel str ct this afternoon by ordering the autos off. they might well have ordered the trolley company to see to 1t that the many places where 1t tore up the street surface to weld it's
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
NEW YORK.

Weather. trade and industrial condi-
tons are little changed from last WI TX,
and farm work, retail and jobbing bust
ness and the movement of old crops to
market have been restricted by heavy
rains, low temperatures or bad roads
The only notable exceptions to this are
found in the Pacific coast and at few
southwestern centers.
Reports from the leading industries are
still of great quiet. Manufacturers feel
the lack of confident buying by iobbers,
and wholesalers, who, in turn. report
final distributors cautious in buying only
what they need TO replenish broken stocks.
The textile trades are duh and on short
time. but cotton goods men are more con-
fident that bottom prices have been reach
ed. The iron and steel industries show
little change The leather trade is rather
quieter and eastern shoe shipments are
30 per cent off from 1907. Collections
are still backward as whole.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending May number 2SS,
against 2S2 last week. 1J4 in the like
week of 1907 162 in 1906. los in 1908,
and POI in 1904. Canadian business fail
ures for the week number %, which COM
pares with % last week and Is in this
week of 1907.-Bradstreet' Commercial
Report
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
HARD LUCK TALES.


Because a restaurant keeper at Santa
Barbara, Cal. charged two sailors from
the battleship feet So for a meal. mob
of blue jackets wrecked his place. 1t
was the elimination Of a series of trou-
bles arising from the robbery of the sail
ors By local tradesmen.
Charles Coster Of the stock exchange
firm of Coster, Knapp & Co, GO Broad
way, well known in amateur athletic cir
cles and a member of many prominent
clubs and society organizations, shot and
killed himself with revolver in his home
in New York. Financial troubles were
the cause.
At Springfield, Mimi, the public
school was burned. causing a loss OF
$4,000. of. which $4,000 is covered by
insurance The high school and seven
other departments are without quarters.
Fearing that his children might get
hold of them, much to tbs menace Of their
lives. Frank Ball, a miner employed Ct
the Tobin property, Western Menornt-
nee iron range. took a tox Of dynamite
caps to a nearby vacant lSt to destroy the
explosives. The caps exploded before
Bail couId get ont Of tie way after be
had lighted the fEse- His face and hands
we're blown full Of powder and sand ana
be may lose one eye
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
BATTLESHIP FLEETS TIN
ERARY AROUND THE WORLD

President Roosevelt has approved an
itinerary for the Atlantic battleship
feet on its way around the world, COW
ering the trip to the Philippines, up
China and Japan, and then back to
Manila.
The itinerary is as follows:
Fleet will leave San Francisco July Z.
Arrive Honolulu July 16, remain seven
days.
Arrive Auckland Aug. 8, remain six
days.
Arrive Sydney Aug. 20, remain seven
days.
Arrive Melbourne Aug. %, remain
seven days.
Arrive Albany, Australia (for coal)
Sept. IL, remain six days.
Arrive Philippines Oct. /, remain nine
days.
Arrive Yokohama Oct. II, remain seven
days.
At Yokohama the Feet will be divided,
che FIST squadron going to Manila, and
is scheduled to reach there Oct. 81
The second squadron will go to Annoy.
reaching there Oct. %, and after a stay
IF six days will go to Manila, reaching
there Nov. Z.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
THROWS TORCH AT FoorPAD.


Authorities Looking for Man Sup
posed to Have Been Badly Burned.
The authorities at Springfield, Ohio,
are looking for highwayman who, they
believe, was seriously burned after he
attempted TO hold up and rob A. +. Nc
Manas, railroad engineer The high
wayman is thought to have been burned
by oil that was thrown over his body by
the engineer when an effort was made to
hold up and rob him. McAianus was in
charge of the train due at Durbin about
IL o'clock at night. After stopping at
the station, the engineer left his cab to
oil up his engine. He had no sooner
reached the ground with the lighted torch
in his hand until he was struck over the
head with some blunt instrument. The
blow stunned him for a few seconds and
when he recovered he found the highway
man going through his pockets. Nc
Manus, in an effort to get away from the
robber, threw the lighted torch at his
assailant. The oil spread over the mans
clothing and ignited. He made hurried
getaway, beating the flames out with his
hands. AlcManus mounted his engine
and made the run to Urbana, where he
left the engine and his injuries were at
tended by physician. The wound on
the head indicated that the highwayman
used a pair of knucks to knock out his
victim.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19

Buildings on Adelaide street, Toronto,
Ont. were burned. Losses Jones &
Moore, S90.cO0: ]. J. Took. 10000 !;
Canadian Silk Company, $4,000
At melting Of advocates Of Espey-
anto in Pittsburg II was said that 1,OO0.-
900 now are studying the new language,
(which lneans a worlds peace"
Mrs Borman Wells, the English wom-
an suffrage speaker, has complained TO
the New York police that she was brutal
ly treated while attempting to address a
meeting at Harlem.
LaGuMira, Venezuela, is completely $50
lated because Of decree closing that port
for fifteea, days. THE fatal disease thesf
Is SPREADING rapidly. but the governments
win not Admit II 10 be The bnbonic plague
John J. Taylor. convicted of second.
degree nurier for killing his wife at Coal
Basin. Col,,., last August and sentenced
IA tweuty y.ars in the penitentiary, cheat
cd the court order by hanging himself
in his cell
Investigation By the naval department
shows that txttooing il decreasing among
eavarcs. uher. II originated. and increas-
ing IN genera. About 60 per cent Of
seamen who have served ten years are
sattooed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
EXPIRES AS TROOPS HUNT.


u
After company of State militia had
been ordered to capture Berth Deyany.
who barricaded himself in a barn near
Washington Court House, Ohio. after
having slain two persons, possibly a
third, and fatally wounded another, De
vany committed suicide Devany's first
victim was Miss Ida Bird, aged %
years, whom he shot to death in her home.
Her mother, who attempted to save the
girl, was fatally wounded. The cause
of this shooting is not definitely known,
but is supposed to have been jealousy.
Devany then fled and took refuge from a
crowd which was following him in the
barn of Silas Shackelford The owner
entered the barn and ordered him to
leave. He was shot down. Thomas
Shackelford, son of the slain mar, is
thought to have been in the barn at the
time his father was murdered. Four shots
were heard by the crowd outside later,
and it is supposed the younger man also
waA slain. Seeing the local police were
unable to effect capture, the Mayor sent
an appeal to the Governor for aid. In
response the State authorities ordered
Company NJ. Fourth regiment, o. y. g.,
under command of Capt. Allen, to storm
the barn. They found Devany inside
dead
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
FACTS ABOUT
!: THE CENSUS.


A humorous feature of the work is that
of the 100 agents sent out to gather
divorce statistics, a large majority were
bachelors. They were to find out wheth-
@" the husband or the wife had been 70
blame for the trouble that brought about
the divorce; from whom the application
came; the number of children from thu
union, if any; whether alimony had been
paid, and also whether intemperance had
been directly or indirectly the cause of
the separation. 1t seems curious that the
question. rs marriage a failure" has
come under the consideration of the cen
sus bureau bachelors, but these statistics
will prove valuable in view of the fact
that over 32S, 5000 divorces were filed from
1867 to 1887. From 1887 to 1897 the
aggregate was over 100000 cases. and
the startling fact was disclosed that most
of the divorces were furnished by the
rural districts and smaller cities, and that
a divorce case is filed every three minutes.
When the bachelor brigade have collect
ed all the facts for the divorce census
we may look for information that sill
provide food for thought for the sociolo-
gists and philosophers. and give them
ample material upon which TO dilate FOR
many years TO come.-Joe Mitchell Chap
Die in National Magazine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
ItE5 lrlIEAAIaEz>lERS
.s.s&ssasslfsS sN al'SsSls a.
I'D = 9, r.
--trs2aos -'4rEQ9Cc

Chicago-Cattle. common to prime.
$500 to $40 hogs prime heavy, $500
to S5.67; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1913; wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to $1.05;
corn, No. 2, zoe to Tie: oats. standard,
54c to Doc; rye, No. 2, Sic TO SIC; hay,
timothy, $3.50 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery, dc
to &c. eggs. fresh, lie to 15c; potatoes,
per bushel, COO to TIC.
indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to 500: hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to 500; sheep. common to priIuc,.
$500 to $3.50 wheat No. >, 9Dc to.
S1.00; corn. No. . white, Csc to G5c; oats,
No. white, Ole to 52c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to S7.15; hogs,
S40o to $500; sheep, $500 TO $5.2a;,
wheat, No. 2, $1.04 to $1.05; corn, No. Q.
re to 73c; oats, No. 2, 49e to 51c; wye,
No. 2, Toe to soc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $685.;
hogs. 800 to $3.50; sheep, $500 10
$500: wheat, No ., $1.02 to $1.03; corn.
30. 2 mixed, Tie to re; oats, No. ?
mixed, sic to 52c; rye, No. 2. SEE to Sic.
Detroit--Cattle, $500 to $3.50 hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat. No. 2. S101 to $102 corn. No. 3
yellow, lie to 72c oats. No, 3 white,
53c to 54c; rye, No. 2, SIC to SIC.
New York Cattle, 800 to $7.15;
hogs, $3.50 to 1910; sheep. $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. 2 red, S1.02 to $l.03;
corn, No 2, 73e to Toe; oats, natural
white. 5sc to co.. butter, creamery, 23c
to 25c; eggs, western, 13c to lie.
Milwaukee-W Wheat, No. northern,
ST 90 to Sill; corn, No. 3, roc to Tie,
oats, standard SIC to J5c; rye, No. I,
Sic to SIC: barley, No. 2, 74e to Toe;
pork, mess, $685..
Buffalo-CattIe. choice shipping steers.
800 to $7.05; hogs. fair to choice, 500
10 $3.50: sheep, common TO good mixed,
$500 to 1913; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to 1885,.
Toledo-wheat. No. . mixed, s1.00 to
s1.O2; corn, No mixed, 73c 10 74c;
oate. No. 2 mixed. 54c to Doc: rye, No.
,. SIC to S4c clover seed, prime, $1,000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

4 deluge of rain and hail at Laredo,
Texas, did great damage to the onion
crop. 1t is estimated that fully one
third of the crop will be a total loss.
Farmers of Clliekasaw county. Iowa,
are having all the large cottonwood trees
sawed into timber. This plan was adopt
ed because of the high price of lumber
According to a ruling of the supervisor
If Stony Greek National forest no sheep
will be allowed TO Craze on the national
forests unless they are dipped before
July Is.
Iowa State college viii hold short
summer course in agriculture at Sheldon.
Iowa, in July, especially for public school
teachers who wish to learn something of
the subject.
The total acreage of wheat grown in
Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Canada, this year viii be about 20 per
cent greater than last year, and all in
dications point to a record yield.
The board of food and drug Inspection
of the United States Department Of Ag-
riculture has issued ruling requiring the
proper labelling of barn seeds and medi-
cine sar stock and poultry
A perfectly turned snake in a newly
laid egg wSs tbs curio-s find made By
Mrs. Henry Goirs Of Illinois The reptile,
watch died socn after the shell was
cracked open, win be sent to the State
museum
AS result of objections raised by the
Secretary of the Interior Representative
Stevenson has decided not TO press his
bill providing for the sale Of certain parts
Of the Red Lake reservation in Mime
sofa The department will send a rep
resentafive OF the Indian land Office to the
Red Lake agency during the summer TO
sake up with the Indians the question OF
administering their pine timber lands in
a naanner whereby they would derive the
greatest benefit without denuding she
lands
Millions Of dollars worth of growing
crops ard other property hare been der
strcyed BY facds in the Colorado and
BRACES river valleys IN Texas
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
uAr1oNAr, cApITAL NOTES.

A bin providing for the compulsory
saving of a part of the monthly salary o.
each enlisted man in the army, navy ant
marine corps was introduced in the HOUSE
by Representative O'Connell Of Massa
chusetts.
1t is stated at the Department Of Jus
tice that arrangements are well under
way for a test case of the commodities
clause" Of the Hepburn act 10 be made
unless material change takes place IN
the situation as a result of legislation OF
other circumstances.
The Eolstead bill. authorizing the drain
ing of certain lands in Minnesota, was
passed by the House.
Senator Lodge has secured favorable
action in the Senate committee on for
eign relations on three propositions look
ing to the purchase Of a building IN
Paris for use as an American embassy.
Each makes an appropriation Of $4OO'VV0.
Lawrence o. Murray, former assistant
Secretary of the Department OF Commerce
and Labor. took the oath Of office as
eomptroIIer of the currency. He succeed
ed william B. Ridgely, recently elected
president of the National Bank OF Com
mercs Of Kansas City
An oruibus bridge bill, the first meas
ure Of its kind to be framed and intro
duced in Congress, has been reported
favorably By the House committee.
The conference report on The .-rmy
AUTHORIZATION bill car. ying x0J,377 ,240
has been adopted by the Senate This
amount was S3.463 90 less than the bill
carried when frss passed by the Senate
Senator Lodge nas reported srom TIE
committee on foreign relations an amend
nenf which is intended to enable the Sec.
refary Of State TO return to contributors
the $50, 900 raised TO ransom Miss Ellen
NJ Stone, an Americaa missionary to
Turkey. who was abducted by brigAnds
On Sept. 3. 1891.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
~N~N-~~-~~~~
CHICAGO

Heavy May settlements and interest
disbursements account for largely in
creased volume of payments through the
banks, while commercial defaults sustain
their recent high average. The business
situation generally presents no special de-
veiopment. production and distribution n
the leading industries rejecting but lit
tie departure from conservative policies
pending a clearly defined revival in de-
mands. Unusually wet weather binders
seasonable ACTIVITY in leading retail lines.
construction and farm work, but encour-
agement is derived from further favora-
BILE reports as TO winter wheat growth
and the promising outlook in agriculture.
Crop narketings run short of those a
year age, and there is smaller outgo of
breadsuffs from this market, although
operations ia the May deliveries appear
on !, heavy scalf and prices have risen
to the highest aeerage this season.
Money is oaoted lower and choice COM
mercial p:.Per commands the easiest rate
in several years. Offerings of desirable
discounts, however, remain extremely
light, the best borrowers being in posi-
ton 20 dispense with customary accom-
mediation. More investment is seen in
real estate and improvements. and better
demand strengthens the market for high
grade bonds, but sales of local securities
are of smaller volume than at this time
last year, With values moving irregular
~ although averaging above those of a
month ago.
Bank deposits here and at interior
points show steady gain, but some com
plant is noted as to the inability to find
adequate employment of surplus funds
Freight movements compare unfayor-
ably with the corresponding period of
last year, there being continued falling
off in heavy materials forwarded.
Iron and steel returns disclose little
Roadway in outputs over recent low fig
ures. Quarry products builders hardware.
cement and plumbing materials reflect
wider absorption, and there is more de-
mand for some hard woods.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number SO, against 80 last week
and 10 a year ago. Those with liabilities
over $1,000 number 0. against o last
week and in 190T.-Dun's Review of
Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
METHoDIsTs IN CONFERENCE
ouadrennial Meet at Baltimore Is
One of Much Interest.


The general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church is in session at
Baltimore. 1t is an imposing gather
ing. 1t conyenes once in four wears
and its sessions cover the month Of
May.
1t is the law-making and governing
body of an ecclesiastical denomination
whose church spires point heayenward
in every country on the face of the
globe. John Wesley. the founder of
the church, declared that the world
was his parish and thai spirit has ami
mated the church from the days of the
fathers. The church is noted for its
missionary zeal, and the amount Of
money sent to heather lands every
year is marvellous
The conference is having many i'm
portant matters to consider. There is
always an element in every church de-
nomination which is ready to agitate
creed revision. One element is fear
full that the church will deteriorate
unless the articles of faith are mod
ern.' Others hesitate about departing
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
MURDER FARM IS A MAGNET.
Thousands Visit Scene of Slaughter
Officials Will Push Investigation.

Lemuel barrow, mayor OF Laporte,
Ind, after conference with prominent
citizens, has declared that the inyesti-
CATION into the Guinness murder mys-
terry would be pushed with greater
vigor Said the mayor Il suspect that
more tragedies will be discovered. We
intend to push this inquiry the way it
should be pushed There should be a
more centralized effort to solve this
mystery"
Laporte of late has beeen a morbid
magnet Morgues and morticians have
been the centers of attraction which
converted the city into show ground,
and the murder farm an exhibition
tract that would make a circus man
ager turn green with envy.
Thousands of curious persons, their
sordid cravings supreme, have tram
pied over the rnins, gaped at the open
graves in the Guinness yard and strug-
gled to tear down the doors of the
barn where the disarticulated skele
tons of the credulous victims of Belle
DlOOQ JdoSlOu anu lllOHcy luSI
lay.
On the Sunday following the discoy-
cry from dawn until darkness an alter
mating procession of humanity choked
the narrow winding thoroughfare
which leads from the town to the gore
stained scene While hucksters, livery
men and souvenir vendors raked in the
shekels from the gay throng of holiday
torso searchers and human bone yard
picnickers, the agents of the law were
continuing the serious business of at
tempting to solve the mysterious crime.
Two letters written to Mrs. Guinness
just before the fatal fire, which reach
ed the Laporte postoffice after the four
charred bodies had been removed from
the ruins, are now in the hands of the
authorities and some clews which may
lead to the discovery of co-conspirators
in her death-luring marriage bureau
are said to have been found in them
1t is the conviction of Sheriff Shutter
that Mrs. Guinness had some one asso-
ciated with her in the operation of her
marriage bureau. Perhaps it was Ray
Lamphere. He is suspected. The prob
ability that it might have been some
one else is not, however, being over
boxed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19

from ''the old paths" lest the founda-
tons of faith be undermined. Out
of the antagonism of these two ele-
ments energies the decision as to what
stand the church shall take. There
has been much talk that the Methodist
church Is about to modify its long
time attitude with reference to the
amusement question, and church peo-
pie of all denominations have been in
terested in the outcome of the discus
sions.
Another important and always in
teresting matter is the naming of new
members of the board of bishops.
During the last quadrennium Joyce,
McCabe and Fowler have passed
away. Other members are very old
and are ready to lay aside the work.
Much care has been exercised in Sc
lecting new men to take up the great
responsibilities in these offices.
Then there is the arranging of
the finances which will require the
most skilled management, and null.
titude of other matters which enter
into the general scheme of church
management and polity.
This quadrennial General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
commentaries the one hundredth ami.
versary of the organization or reorgani.
cation of that church upon the basis
of its present constitution. an achieve,
ment which also was effected at Balti,
more and which marked not any radi-
cal transformation of the Church or
departure from the original Wesleyan
principles, but simply practical recog-
milton of the needs of an establishment
which was growing almost beyond prec-
edent and which felt the necessity of
adapting its ways and means to its ex,
banded status. The century since 1908
has been marked with continued
growth at an exceptional rate, until
that Church now considerably outnum-
bers any other Protestant denomination
in this country. No church--save foI
the unfortunate division between the
North and South, which, however, is
technical rather than spiritual or dog,
matic-is more truly national in scope
or more evenly distributed throughout
all parts of the Republic, in city and IN
country and among all sorts and condi.
tionS of men.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
SAVE CREW OF IMPERILED SHIP
Seventy-TwO Men Rescued from
Danger on the Peter Rickmers.

Danger on the Peter Rickmers.
Seventy-two men, who for more than
twenty-four hours had been facing death
in the raging sea near Fire Island, New
York, were rescued in surfboats from the
crumbling hulk of the big German ship,
Peter Rickmers. The rescue was effect
ed after one of the most trying expert
ences the life savers on this exposed coast
had ever been called upon to face. No
less than a dozen times hope of saving
the men on the doomed ship was all but
abandoned, and it was only the easing
of the gale and terrific sea that made
their salvation possible. Fortunately not
man was lost aud it is believed that
not one of them suffered any permanent
harm as a result of their long fight
against death. The great steel ship, one
of the finest sailing vessels that ever rode
the sea, is q total wreck. Her bow and
stern have been completely torn off by
the waves, her masts were ripped out
her deckhouses and bridge Swept away
and she is full of water. She is lying
far back on the bar, and it is unlikely
even that any effort will be made to tow
her TO deep water again.