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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
WILHELM II. SAILS IN AIR.
Kaiser Takes Trip hboye Berlin in
Zeppelin's Aluminium Craft

Kaiser Takes Trip above Berlin I'm
Zeppelin's Aluminium Craft.
Emperor William made a successful
ascent in the Zeppelin airship at Berlin.
The airship is as long as many an ocean
going steamer and the biggest aerial craft
ever built. 1t is the fifth of the monster
Zeppelin skyboats. Count Zeppelin is one
of the oldest. but most indefatigable aero
nauts In Germany. He is an advocate of
bigness in airships. His earlier creations
were sharply criticised by the other ex-
perts, both private and of the amy but
they made good. This vessel sureasses
them all in size. 1t is AS feet long has
a diameter of 1912 feet, has three 49,
horsepower motors and is built for speed
Of nifty or more miles an hour The best
any of his earlier machines recorded was
thirty-one miles. 1t is fitted with wire
less telegraphy apparatus, a powerful
searchlight, and cost 100000. 1t car
Ties sufficient fuel to permit its remain
ing in the air 100 hours, sleeping ac-
commodations being provided for the
crew. A condition of the building con-
tract was that the ship be able to ma
newer at an altitude of 1000 feet. 1t
has lifting capacity of sixteen tons and
carries. two tons of ballast.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
TOBACCO TRUST IN COURT.
Government Victorious in First Bout
with Big Corporation.

with Big Corporation.
The contention of the government
that the American Tobacco Company,
the great corporation that practically
controls the trade of the world. is II
trust operating in restraint of trade
and competition in violation of the
Sherman antitrust law was sustained
III decisions handed down by Judges
Lacombe, Coke and Noyes in the Unit
ed States Circuit Courss IN New York.
Judge Ward handed d..s-an a dissenting
opinion.
In the suit against the American To-
bacco Company. which was prosecuted
by James C. McReynolds and Edwin
T. Grosvenor, special assistants of the
United States Attorney General, the
government asked for an Injunction
dissolying the combination of the Amer
lean Tobacco Company and its six sub
sidiary companies on the ground that
1t was illegal in that it operated in re-
straint of trade and commerce. The
government also asked the United
States Circuit Court to appoint re-
ceiver TO wind up the affairs of the
allied corporations. The injunctions
are, however, stayed pending an appeal
to the United States Supreme Court.
The petition asking for the appointment
of receiver to take charge of the
companies included in the combine was
refused. as being ''impracticable and
wholly unnecess, ny"
This important victory for the gov
eminent in its attempt to dissolve the
great corporation came after long con
sideration of the great volume of testl-
mony taken in the many months since
the suit was begun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
TRADE AVID INDUSTRY.

Pawnbrokers Of Grand Forks are max
ing a fight against an ordinance pending
in the city council in which IL is re-
ouired that daily leport Of transactions
ghaH be filed with the chief Of police.
II il drafted from the ordinance in force
in Minneapolis. A similar ordinance is
IN effect in Fargo. The pawnbrokers OPP
pose the passage OF the ordinance on the
ground that they win ba Obliged 20 di-
sulee business that many Of their pat
.ons. thoroughly honest. would rather not
have conveyed TO a third party.
A spectacular FIRE broke out at the
Canton plant Of the Standard Oil Com
pany. a short distance beyond the eastern
limits Of Baltimore, and IL was not until
four hours later that il was under con-
troll The loss is estimated At 100000.
The giving Of q contract for a dirigible
balloon 70 cost about 5000 to Capt
Thomas s Baldwin, inventor and builder
os the dirigibis balloon recently sold to
the United States government, marks the
first step taken by the Aerial Navigation
Company since the company was incorpo-
rated sorne months ago for the purpose %
operating an aeTial irelght anu I'nssen-
ger line 10 New York.
The Illinois and Wisconsin congres-
sionai delegations and the mayors Of
towns along The Rock river viii asszin-
bic in Chicago to consider plans for max
ing the Rock river nayigable from its
source in Wisconsin to the Mississippi,
thus opening a new waterway from NORTH
ern Wisconsin 10 the Gulf Of Mexico
The proposed improvement includes the
building Of number Of power dams along
fhe river. sites for nineteen Of which
have already been secured
On account Of the danger from forest
fires. northern Michigan ioggers have de-
siaed 70 delay opening their camps until
snow flies.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
CHICAGO.

The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade.
published by r. G. Dun & Co, says:
commercial defaults again furnish a
g., Ifying decrease. and it is notable that
busA IS activity, as measured by the vol
ume of payments through the banks, is
now above that of the corresponding
weeks in 1907 and 1906.
A healthy sentiment finds general ac-
eeptance and prevailing conditions derive
strength from the improving outlecR, al-
though election interest caused some ten
Isorary recession in distributive channels
and transportation. Prospects in tire
main widen confidence in manufactures,
and preparations indicate an early in
crease in the active machinery and labor.
Iron and steel industries have consid-
eraple new demands in sight, while there
Is more actual buying of railway equip
ment and supplies.
building operations within the city
limits compare favorably in value with a
year ago. Unusual quantities of materials
are now required and, while competitive
bidding is keen, there is more firmness
IN quotations of quarry products and lum-
Der, although cost averages are less than
at this time last year.
Deliveries of commodities exhibit a
smaller aggregate and lake traffic is rath-
err light, but the earnings of Chicago
steam roads continue their recovery.
Fewer buyers, as expected, appeared in
the wholesale markets and house trade
was limited, yet mail orders reached an
encouraging total for dry goods. boots and
shoes. food products and Christmas wares
Bank clearings- $226, 343, 31A-are Io1
per cent over those of corresponding week
IN 1907 and compare with $2l2, 454, SS1 in
1906.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
triet number a. against As last week, 81
in 1907 and 10 in 1906. Those with liza
bilities over $1,000 number Z, against 13
last week, 10 in 1907 and 1 in 1906.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
DoWIE CONCERNS TO BE SOLD.
Receiver Abandonn Zion City ideals
for Real Business Methods.

Receiver Abandonn Zion City ideals
for Real Business Methods.
Under plans recently formulated by Gus
ID, Thomas, receiver for Zion City, H.,
and his advisers, there is to be inaugural
ed soon a radical change in the manner
of carrying on the receivership. Mr.
Thomas feels confident that Zion City's
darkest hour is past and that from now
on, as the receiver says in a letter to
Zion investors, the city will go forward
increasing in prosperity and in industrial
Importance" Mr.. Thomas proposes
among other things to sell practically all
business concerns established by Dowie
as adjuncts to the church, in order to pay
off as much as possible of the indebted
ness. He will also give deeds to those
holding leases since the Dowie regime. The
new move means the abandonment of the
plan to carry on the receivership along
the line of the ideals existing among the
people at the time the receivership was
inaugurated and getting down to an abso-
lutte business system.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
LAND MONEY LEFT NEAR HOME.
Government VIII Deposit Receipts
I'm Banks in Scattered Cities.

Government Will Deposit Receipts
I'm Banks in Scattered Cities.
After Dec. / the money derived by
the government from timber sales, per-
mits for stock grazing and for special
uses of various resources in the national
forest reserves will be deposited with ma
tional banks instead of being forwarded
to Washington, to be l1cke5 in the treas
ury. In making this .hange in policy it
is the object of the government to keep
the money available for circulation in the
part of the country from which it is de-
rived. The banks which have been named
as repositories for these funds are the
Western Montana National at Missoula,
Mont; the Denver National. the First
National at Albuquerque, n. NJ. the
First National of Ogden, Utah the First
National of San Francisco and the First
National at Portland, Ore. The estimated
receipts from the national forests for the
present fiscal year will approximate ST.
100000, making the deposits in each of
the six districts range from $275,000 to
S350,000 annually
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
200 FLEE FIRE IN SCHOOL.

Students Believed to BE Safe, but
Building IL Burned.
Fire which started in the kitchen of
the Bliss electrical school at Tacoma
Park, a Washington suburb, compelled
nearly 200 students to flee for their lives
in their night clothing. The building, a
three-story frame, was destroyed. All the
students escaped, but lost al! of their eff
fects. The loss is upward of 100000. The
fire caught from a defective insulated
wire. All the students were asleep in
their rooms almost half an hour after the
fire started. Many were forced to jump
out of seeond-story windows to save their
lives
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
GAS KILLS A BRIDEGROOM.
Young Wife Also May Die as ResuIt
of an Accident.

William Coil, % years old, is dead,
and his wife is in a serious condition in
a hospital, as the result of being over
come by gas in their fiat at 25S North
Clark street, Chicago. Coil and his wife,
who is "a years old, were married last
week, aud had occupied the fiat but four
days The man had been employed as a
teamster. Mrs Amelia Calhoun, an oc-
cupant of the building, was passing the
Coil apartments when she detected the
odor of gas. Web the assistance of sew
eral other persons she forced open the
door and discovered Mrs. Coil uncon-
scious on the fisoS. Her husband was I'M
conscious in bed Coil died early the
next morning.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
Won't Mary tho LIMIT.

Rev Herbert S. johnson of the Warren
Avenue Baptist church Of Boston, Mass,
has announced publicly that be viii re-
fuse henceforth to marry persons afflicted
with consumption or with any hereditary
or communicable disease If be has per
sonal knowledge Of the facts. and that be
will not marry divorced persons, except
the innocent party. He also is opposed
to marrying persons in poor eircum-
stances, believing that man should be
able to earn at least $l5 week before
undertaking the responsibility Of fam
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
FOREST FIRES IN SOUTH.
Vast Damage in Tennessee, Western
Kentucky and Alabama.

Forest fires are doing vast damage in
Tennessee, western Kentucky and north
ern Alabama. Timber worth hundreds of
thousands of dollars has been destroyed
in ten days and the fires are reported to
be burning fercely. In Madison county,
Tennessee, forest fires have prevailed for
several days and an immense amount of
valuable timber in the West Tennessee
river bottoms has been ruined. In Hop
kins and other western Kentucky coun-
ties, where no rain has fallen since July,
the loss has been great. In northern
Alabama, and especially in Limestone and
Madison counties, tracts of timber and
miles of fencing have been wiped out.
Dense smoke lowered over Nashville.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
Po,.es Roommate, kills Him

Bowen Smith. aged ~, was shot and
instantly killed by his roommate, Albert
Kennard, in Pueblo, Colo. Kennard de
clares the shooting was accidental. He
says he was trying to awaken Smith by
pe'ing him in the side with the muzzle
&c re revolver when a cartridge explod-
ed. Keanard il under arrest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
ACCUSED OF EMBEzzLEMENT.
Wall Street Speculation III Declares
to Have Been the Cause.

"ah StFeet speculation HI Declared
TO Have Been the Cause.
Charles r. Jones, cashier of the First
National Bank of Seabright, N j. was
arrested Thursday by United States
Marshal Thomas j Alcott on the charge
of embezzling $4,000 from the institu-
ton by classifying accounts. He was
placed under $4,000 bail to await the
action of the federal grand jury. The
government authorities kept the arrest a
secret until it leaked out several days
later. A United States bank examiner
made the complaint against Jones. The
officials are now investigating how he dis
posed of the money. Jones operates the
Globe hotel at Red Bank and is well
known in that section of the Stat :. When
questioned United States Attorney John
b. Vreeland declared that the abstracting
of funds from the bank would not result
in any serious harm to the institution.
He admitted the evidence pointed to Jones
as dabbler in Wall street, but beyond
this would make no further statement
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17

Ernest Leffngwel, geologist and ex-
plorer, who was with Ejnar AIikkelsen
schooner Duchess of Bedford, which was
wrecked in 1907. arrived at San Fran
cisco Saturday from Point Barrow ON
the whaling vessel Narwhsi. Lefingweii
is said to have discovered and mapped
out three rivers in the extreme northern
part of Alaska emptying into the Arctic
ocaaO
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
Holm d. DecrIes GrubbIne.

Ia the second installment Of his 'ReTDi-
niscences' for the Worlds Work, John
y. Rockefeller says he knows "of moth
ing more dispicable and pathetic than
the man who devotes al the waking hours
of the day TO making money for moneys
sake" but that his business associations
were always a JOY. and that he would 90
into il again if he were younger. he
pays a high tribute 70 John y. Arch
bold and other old friends, and tells how
they aided him. lie gives 20 Henry VI.
Flagler. the Florida railroad man. the
credit for making the Standard Oil Com
tanv a sfIccess
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
Bov KIN. PLAYMATE I'm Fight

John Bushway. Jr-, The 1o-year- old
son of John Rushaway of West Brainerd.
Mimi, was instantly killed by Ralph
Murray. the 11-year-old son of a neigh
Dor. The boys had quarreled and young
Murray and a companion went to the
house and got a rifle belonging to Muir
rays father. Young Murray loaded the
gun and shot Bushaway in the throat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
Ethel Roosevelt Near Injury

Ethel Roosevelt was riding behind the
hounds in the Genesee Valley Clubs fox
hunt at Geneseo n. Y, when her saddle
horn slipped as her mount was taking the
fence The thoroughbred became frac-
tious and it looked for moment as
though Miss Ethel was in for bad tum-
BILE. Harry Wilson of GeneSeo dashed
up in time to put Miss Roosevelt's horse
under control
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
Family Insane: All Seek Death.

Mrs. Priscilla Abers, aged 60; her
children, William, aged %; Ella. aged
20, and May, aged Is, of Carey, o., APP
parently all became demented Monday.
Locking the doors and fastening the win
dows. they poured coal upon the furni-
ture and carpets and set fire to the
house. Neighbors rescued them, and they
were indicted for arson.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
kissing Dead spread. Disease.

tuberculosis is said to be thinning the
population of the Aleutian islands at an
alarming rate DIR. Robert Oleson of the
revenue cutter McCulloch. who arrived in
San Francisco from Alaska, says that 40
per cent of the natives are afflicted with
consumption. He expressed belief that
the ceremony of kissing the dead is in
eaSp
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
Prison for Misuse of Mails.

In Minneapolis James I. Mulhall was
sentenced to fifteen months at Leayen-
worth. Kan: Edgar McConkey to one
year at Leavenworth. and Felix Nathan
son to six months in the county Jail. Use
of the mails in an alleged fraudulent OF
Grafton of the Nieollet Creamery Com
pany in Minneapolis last fall is the
charge upon which the men We're con-
vicfad
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
rive Years for hank Looscr

W. Harry Schmick. former cashier OF
the First National Bank OF Leetonia. o.,
who was indicted with his father. c. y.
'chmiek. president Of the bank, on
ssarSes of embezzlement aad making false
ENTRIES. was sentenced 80 prison for FIVE
years by Judge Taylor in the Federal
Court in Cleveland. The father was set
frea
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
october business Failures.

Dun's Review gives the number of com
mercial failures for October as 1,1S7. in
volving S15.S9S, 66S, a slight increase over
the number and amount for the same
month last year. The Review says that
there is much in the statistics of insol-
vency to indicate substantial progress to-
ward recovery from the panic which had
its beginning IN October of last year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
Train Robbers Are relied.

Two would-be train robbers were dis
covered in the dining car attached to a
Big Four passenger train due in Column
bus, Ohio, at o 30. In the fight to cap
ture the men, one of them, II. +. Emmit
a printer of Columbus, was fatally wound
ed. The other, who gave his name as
Patrick Wakem. is locked up.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17

Postmaster Edward NJ Morgan of New
York City was shot down in the street
as he was leaving his house at 10th
street for the poStoffice Monday morning
by Erie II. b. Mackey, stenographer
employed b. a downtown law firm. who
then shot and instantly killed himself.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17

As the result of a shooting ARRAY near
Alliance, Neh., Lizzie Braner is probably
fatally woundedand her brother. Charles
Rraner. who did the shooting. and her
sweetheart. Frank Augustine. are in the
county Jail. Braner objected to the at
tentions Of Augustine TO his sister aud
shot her By mistake
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
France and Germany Agreed.

The question that has arisen between
France and Germany over what has come
to be known as the Casa blanca Incl
dent" arising out of the arrest by the
French authorities of deserters from the
French foreign legation, will be referred
10 a court of arbitration.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
FARMERS ASK JUDGE FOR BOYS.
Sentence to Plains Given Youth
Results I'm MANY Queries

Results i'm Many Queries.
Since he sentenced Clyde Haines, IS
years old, to serve three years on the
plains of South Dakota as farmer, Mu-
nicipal Judge Newcomer, sitting iii the
Criminal Court in Chicago, has received
many queries from Illinois farmers asking
for boys. Young Haines was arrested re-
Gently with some tramps. When arraign-
ed Judge Newcomer sent him to the farm
of a friend. A letter was received the
other day from c. J. Reid, a farmer of
McHenry, ILL.,, asking the judge to send
him a boy for farm work.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17

President Roosevelt has made public "a
letter replying TO questions regarding w
IL, Taft's religious belief, in which he de-
elares such matters no concern Of the
public. and he insists discrimination for
or against a candidate because Of his re-
lirious views un-American, unfair and
dangerous 10 the nation and TO civiliza-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
American Tobacco Co. e Trust.

The American Tobacco Company was
declared a trust in restraint of trade by
decisions of the United States Circuit
Court in New York. but action on govern
ment's plea for an injunction was sus-
pended until ruling on appeal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17

The resignation of f. Benjamin An
lrews as chancellor of the University of
Nebraska has been rendered 10 the re-
gents and accepted. Chancellor Andrews
will retire Jan. l. The question of his
successor was left open.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
Tricky pnnkers Found CuiI,y

Charles w Morse and Alfred III. Cur
tbs. New York bankers, have been found
guilty of miSapplication of funds and
falsifying the books by a jury before
United States Circuit Judge Hough and
locked up in the Tombs prison.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
CoIoninI Landmark. RurpS.

The house in which Asa Pollard, the
first soldier of the colonial army killed
in the battle of Bunker Hill, was born,
was burned in Billerica, Mass. The three
story landmark was located in North Bill
lerca and had been visited by thousands
of sightSeers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17

Prince Louis d'orleans-Braganza and
Princess MariS-Fia Of Bourbon Sicily
were married al Cannes, France. TIE
ccrem3ny. which was al elaborate enc.
was attended by Representatives OF the
allied families Of the contracting parties.
The princess Ires born in 1878
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
BIG RAIL MERGER RUMoRED.
officials of Alton, ''<aty'' md Other
Lines Make Denial.

Tentative negotiations for the merging
of the Toledo, st. Louis and Western, the
Chicago and Alton, the Minneapolis and
st. Louis, the Iowa Central and the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railways are in
progress. Although none of the higher
officials of any of the roads will admit
that the consolidation of these lines into
one great system is planned there appears
to be foundation for the report, emanat-
ing from reliable sources that it has been
considered and is a probability
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
Lamphere placed ON Trial.

Ray Lamphere was taken from the
county jail in Laporte, Ind, to the Cir
cult Court room Monday to answer to the
charge of murder in the first degree for
the death of Mrs. Belle Guinness and her
three children
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
RockcfeIIer Pastor Resigns.

Rev. Charles Aubrey Eaton. seven years
pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist
church in Cleveland. attended by John d.
Rockefeller, has resigned to accept a call
TO the Madison Avenue Baptist church,
New York City.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
wilhelm Has Beeu Indiscreet.

Speakers of all parties in the German
Reichstag scored Kaiser Wilhelm for his
iudiscreet interviews, and Chancellor Won
Buelow has warned him against repeat
Ing the offense.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
seren killed by a Train.

Seven lahorers were killed by a train
on the Grand Trunk Pacific railroad zoo
miles east of Winnipeg. Man. They were
at work on the tracks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17

PreSideat-elect William H. Taft, Mrs
Taft and Fred W. Carpenter. private
secretary. left Cincinnati the other night
for Hot Springs. Va. where Mr.. Taft viii
remain for rest and reeuperation until
THANKSGIVING.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17

In an interview Of Emperor William
with an Englishnaan the Kaiser is quot
ed Is saying that during the Roer war
he sent d plan Of campaign fer the sub
jagation Of the Beers to Queen Victoria
A similar piss. be says was followed 5y
Lord Roberts later.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
chinesr stnnmer Gnn. nnpn

\ small steamer, carrying Goo paSsen-
yrs from Annoy TO Tungan. China. few
Nles distant, sank. Two hundred of the
passengers were drowned Chinese junkS
rescued the Others
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
Two children Die i'm Fire.

The home of Seymour Phillips st Cam
bridge. Ohio, was burned TO the ground
and two children, Georgia, aged 4, and
Jessie, aged ,. were cremated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17
,n,urea Gr,diron player Die.

Ernest Dickson, n years old. right end
Of the University of Arkansas football
team. who was injured in the game with
the University OF Oklahoma Frld4y, o'ed
in Austin. Texas.