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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
NEW YORK.

Weather trade and crop reports are
irregular, warm days alternating with
heavy transforms. and retail and johbing
demand has been of fiuctuating charae-
ter. There is evident, however, meas
urable improvement in the tone Of affairs.
commercial and Industrial, a partial re-
Election, perhaps. OF the better feeling in
financial lines. The most significant fea
ture in actual trade circles is perhaps the.
wider acceptance of the belief in the cot
ton goods trade thas this branch of trade
has seen the bottom as to prices. There.
are reports of a slight gain in orders by
wooden manufacturers and large auction
sales of carpets and silk ribbons have de-
veloped demand.
Best reports as TO the improvement i'm
fall buying come from the larger centersi
like New York, Chicago and St. Louis,
while current retail trade reports are best
in the Southwest and Northwest.
Agreements to maintain pig iron quota
tions having proved Intellectual efforts to-
peg" the market at a steady level have
been abandoned. Therefore prices are
easier, and those who were bound by OBJ
legations are again in a position to take
business
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending May IA number PSI,
against 2SS last week, 1S4 in the same
week of 1907. 161in 1905. 191 in 1905
and 215 in 1904. Business failures in
Canada for the week number %. against
% last week and % in the corresponding
week of Bradstreets Commercial
Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
coNFessEs TRIPLE MURDER.
Zastera, Farmland, Admits killing
the Shepherds at Mafauan NJ

Zastera, Farmland, Admits killing
the shepherds at Matawan, n ).
The prosecutor of Monmouth county.
y. j., announces that Frank Zastera. the
Polish farm hand, he's made a confession
that he killed Mr. and Mrs William b.
Shepherd and their domestic. Miss Jennie
Bendy, who were found murdered in Mr..
Shepherds farmhouse Saturday morning.
Zasteras statement is to the effect that
he killed Mr.. and Mrs Shepherd 10 get
their money. Zastera says he waited in
the parlor of the house Saturday morning
until Mrs. Shepherd came downstairs to
warm bottle of milk for her baby and,
as she was returning upstairs with the
milk, shot her in the side of the head with
heb husbands shotgun. At the sound of
the shot Shepherd ran downstairs Zas-
terra was standing in the hall with the
gun and when Shepherd was half way
down fred at him. Shepherd dropped on
the stairs and his body fell upon that of
his WIFE Zastera, according to his re-
ported confession, then entered the kitch-
en- with the gun and, meeting Jennie
Bendy, shot her in the breast All three
were instantly killed. Zastera then went
in search of Shepherds money, ransack-
ing the farmers clothing and the bureau
drawers of the house. Zastera is said to
have toll the authorities that helhid the
money somewhere about the house or
grounds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
Death from Blow on Funny Bone.

Strange indeed was the form in which
death came to Abel B. Castor. son of
DIR. w. f. CASTOR of Plainfeld, y. j.
The young man, Is years old and very
popular, was a student at the local high
school. With other members of the
school young CASTOR was attending a
class reception a few days ago. and while
Waiting with Miss Margaret Lambert,
struck an iron pillar in seeking to avoid
other dancers. a sharp corner caught the
ulnar nerve, commonly known as the
funny bone" and he Immediately COM
planned Of numbness in the limbs. He
was assisted to an ante-room, where he
became unconscious, remaining thus until
death. about 80 hours later, -Four physi-
clans diagnosed the trouble as meningitis,
and worked hard to restore the sufferer.
They assert that the attack was the di-
rect result of the blow on the elbow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
BRINGS NEWS OF 10000 KILLED
Steamer Titan Has Details of Tidal
Wave Engulfng Chinese.

News OF one CT the greatest disasters
that China has ever known, sudden
tidal bore in the Yangtse-kiang, which
involved the loss of nearly 10000 lives
at Hankow, was brought to Seattle by
the steamer Titan. A bore twentysix
feet in height passed without warn
ing down the river, over which hung
thousands of iunks, sampans and small
boats, wrecking large river steamers.
Some 5000 Chinese were sleeping In
sampans ana small craft and mat sheds
and huts by the river side at Hankow
and they were enveloped by the great
wave. which swept away broken junks.
splintered sampans AMI heterogeneous
mass of debris. with swarms of
drowned Chinese mixed with the wreck
age. The scenes for many days after
the disaster were horrible, the river
side being strewn with dead and de-
bris of wrecked craft for many
miles
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
Value of Irrigation.

Moreover we can add enormous tracts
of the most valuable possible agricultural
land to the national domain by irrigation in
the arid and semiarid regions and BY drain
age of great tracts of swamp land in the
humid regions.
We can enormously increase our trans
portation facilities By the canalization OF
our rivers so as TO complete a great sys-
TEN of waterways on the Pacific. Atlantic
and gulf coasts and in the Mississippi Val
lev from the great plains TO the ALE
ghenies. and from the northern lakes TO the
mouth Of the mighty father OF waters
But all these various uses OF our nat
ural resources are 50 closely connected that
they should be co-aulinated. and should lie
treated As part of oae coherent plan and
rot IN haphazaFd ard piecemeaI fashion
We are coming 10 recognize as never he
fore the right Of the nation TO guard its
own future in the essential matter OF nat
uFal resources.
In the past we have admitted the risnt
of the individual tc iniure the failure ~
the republic for his own present profit The
time has come for a change.
As a people We have the right and the
duty. second 10 none other but the right
and daty Of obeying the moral lax, OF re
quiring and doing Justice, to protect our
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

Busfs Of Franklin and Washington
have been placed IN the American em~
bassy in London.
Fire at the jamestown exposition
grounds destroyed the arts and crafts
village end other buildings.
The massacre Of 700 parsons and the
piliaging IF thirty-six villages by Kards
is reported from northern Persia.
A design he's been selected for New
York City's skyscraper. in which are to
be housed most Of the municipal depart
ments.
One man probably was fatally Infused.
many were slightly hurt and traffic on,
the Pennsylvania raiiiTsad was suspend
ed for several hours wnen a passenger
train collided with 2 freight near South
Elizabeth Statitx,, y. j.
Despondent because The sale for his
oriental curios had fallen Oh. Lang Wnn-
do. a New YORK Chinaman. jumped from
the roof OF six-story building and was.
instantly killed.
John ID. Rockefeller has donated 500
to enable the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church Of New York 10 continue its cbo-
rus. This is his smallest church contri-
bution-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26

How Edouard Belin. French engi-
neer. has employed an entirely new princi-
pie for the successful transmission Of pho
tographs ! 900 miles over a telegraph
wire is told in the April Current Litera
lures excerpt from London Engineering
That principle is the effect of light rays
on biehromate gelatine-namely. that the
geiatine loses its capacity to swell when
immersed in water. When a picture IS
printed on this the brightest portions are
the deepest cavities and the darkest the
highest projections. To transmit these
gradations 10 a corresponding surface at
a distance IT is only necessary to produce
electric current oscillations corresponding
70 the relief Of the various portions Of
the picture. and then to reeonyert them
into light fluctuations.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
DG4s lfslEA'g2E&l57g
EsSl~,cGO-.
9@E11 5000
~~o~o~~~~~>

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 TO 1928; hogs prime heavy, $500
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1928 wheat, No .. 99c to $1O0:
corn, No ., Toe to 76c: oats, standard,
53c to dc: rye, No. 2, SIC to SIC; hay,
timothy. $3.50 to $3.50; prairie. $500
to $780, butter, choice creamery, lie
to gle; eggs. fresh, 12c to Ice; potatoes.
per busliel, G0c to zoe.
Indanapolis-Ca shipping. $500
to ST.00; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to 1852; sheep, common to prime,
$500 to $40 wheat, No. ?, 99c to-
$500; corn, No. white, Csc TO CSC; oats.
No. white, Ole to 52e.
ST. Louis-C,attle. $3.50 to s715. hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep. $500 to 500;
wheat, No 2, $1.01 to S1,03; corn, No. .,
tic to re; oats, No. ,, 49c eto Ole; rye,
No. ., soc to S2c.
Cincinnati Cattle, $500 to 1913;
hogs. $500 to $500; sheep. $500 TO
$500: wheat, No. ., sac to $100; corn,
No. . mixed. tic to 75c: oats, No. 2
mixed, j2c to J3c rye, No. 2, SIC to Sac
Detroit-Cattle, S4.00 to $500; hogs,
$500 10 $40; sheep, $3.50 to $4.75;
wheat No 2, Csc to Doc; corn. No. Z
yellow. Toe to 7Gc: oats. No. 3 white.
54c to &c; rye, No. ?, SEE to SIC.
New York Cattle. SIO0 to $3.50;
hogs. $3.50 to 5000; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. . red. S1.03 to Sl.04;
corn. No =, 73c to Toe; oats, natural
white. SIC to 5sc; butter. creamery, 2lc
to 22c; eggs, western, BE to lie.
Milwaukee Wheat. No. northern,
S1.06 to S1.OS: corn, No. 3, re to I3e;
oats, standard, 54c to 55c; rye, No. /,
SIC to s3c; barley, No. 2, 74c to Toe;
pork, mess, S133J.
Buhalo-Cattle. choice shipping Steers.
$500 to sos; hogs, fer to choice, 500
to $50: sheep. common 20 good mixed.
s4.00 to $3.50; lambs, fair TO choice,
$500 to $500.
Toedo-Wheat. No. 2 mixed. DC TO
Csc: corn. No. mixed, &c TO 14cs
oats. No. mixed. SIC to BE; rye. No.
.. Sic to S2c: clover seed. prime, $500.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
MOSQUITOES DIE, SOLDIERS LIVE

Warfare ON Deadly Pest Greatly Re-
duces sickness at Army Posts.
= Careful attention to the eradication of
the mosquito and the destruction of its
breeding places, a thorough screening of
the buildings and the use of quinine by
army surgeons at Forts Hunt and Wash
ington, on the Potomac river, during the
year has resulted in decided reduction Of
the sick rate Last year those posts had
the highest sick rate from malarial fever
in military posts in the United States, bat
through the efforts of the medical officers
tie rate at Fort Washington has been
reduced to less than one-half of the pre-
ceding year, while the reduction at Fort
Hunt has been about oRe-third.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
CHICAGO.

The mortality in business now shows
less than year ago. but the volume Of
payments through the banks again fur
nishes an unfavorable comparison. and
the State bank exhibits reflect further
piling up of deposits aad unemployed
funds. The latter conditions appear as a
natural result of curtailed commercial
operations and are less disturbing than
the spread of labor troubles in the coal
fields and the purpose to advance rail-
read freight tariffs.
The situation il the leading industrial
branches has become no worse, but the
uncertainty as to the trend of costs and
the laucity of demands for finished pro-
ducts add 10 the hesitation in making inn
portant contracts.
Weather conditions continued mostly
adverse to seasonable activity in distribu-
tive dealings and local retail trade was
irregular. More favorable reports as to-
the consumption of general merchandise
come from the interior and buying would
De even better were the rush of delayed
farm work less pressing.
Visiting buyers in the wholesale dis
trlct are not now expected in large num-
oers, as necessaries have been obtaiued or
provided for, but the current buying is
yet good in staples, although confined to
absolute needs. Mail advices indicate
that road statesmen meet with less diff
Guilty in securing substantial orders in
fall and winter goods Continued case
in money is making collections generally
prompt.
Transportation returns testify TO fur
Their falling off in the offerings of freight
by both rail and lake. Local building
operations steadily extend and there is
more heavy construction being planned.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number n, against SO last week and
26 a year ago. Those with liabilities
over $1,000 number {. against last week
and 4 in l907.--Dun's Review OF Trade
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
knocks out Texas Tax Law.

In the case of the Galveston and San
Antonio Railway Company versus the
State of Texas, involving taxes, the Su-
,preme Court of the United States held
unconstitutional the Texas law of 1905.
fixing the tax rate on railroads equal to
per cent on their gross earnings when
they lie wholly within the State and a
proportionate sum when they lie partly
within the State. The opinion was de
l;vered by Justice Holmes. who held that
the law is an effort TO regulate interstate
commerce
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
BRIDE DRIVES MAN 20 DEATH.


Indiana Political Leader Kills Him
self on Accour of Graft Charges.
John McGaughey, former county COM
missioner, killed himself with a revolver
on account OF scandals growing out of
graft charges against the board of county
commissioners in indianapolis. He had
been prominent in Republican politics
The grand jury recently returned an in
dictment against one member Of the pres
ent board, but McGaughey had not been
indicted. Ned McGaughey, the dead mans
son, said his father had been threatening
for a month to kill himself because of de-
spondency growing out Of the board of
commissioners scandal. McGaughey's
term as commissioner expired Jan /,
1907 The only instance in which his
name had been connected with the grow
ing scandal in the commissioners Office
is in a deal where the Atlas Engine works
is charged with paying bride of $500
to the commissioners. Emmett Higgins,
former bailiff, in his confession told that
ne gave Thomas Spaford. commissioner,
$500 of the $500 to be given by Spafford
TO McGaughey. McGaughey denied re-
ceiving such a sum or knowing anything
ahout II
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26

The recent warning to intending emf
grants. issued by the minister of the in
terror, that the economic situation in
America had not shown sufficient inn
provement to give prospect of obtaining
work. has failed to check the outflow from
Hungary The minister now announces
that emigrants who have gone to the
United States since Jan. ! last viii not
be given the privilege of returning TO
Hungary gratis.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
BUYS LARGE FUEL FIELD.
Boston Concern Pays $1,25O,OOO for
Property of the Federal Company.

The property of the Federal Coai and
Coke Company near Fairmonr, ". Va.
has been purchasad by the New England
Gas and Coke Company OF Boston for
$1,250,O00 spot cash. The purchaser, one
of the largest concerns of its kind in the
country, which controls the coke and gas
business of Boston and surrounding
towns, will expend $4,000 in the de-
yelopment of the property. The purchase
includes $500 acres of exceptionally good
gas and coal fields, situated twelve miles
south of Fairmont, on branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The field
has 800 acres of surface, containing a
nine-foot vein of coal. The selling com
pany was controlled by Pittsburg CAPT
talists
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26

Grafton Of his candy and caramel factory
While passing electric currents through
milk TO s4eriIize il he found in the milk
a soft, white. elastic substance. This was
the beginning Of series Of experiments
resulting in the produc: sos which be has
now coined the name soEcsite."
Sixteen pounds OF onsite can be pro
auced from zoo pounds Of skim milk ;"
the latter having market value of eight
cents for 100 pounds 1t is said to be
imperyious TO acids, unaffected by heat
or cold, an absolute noR-conducfor Of
electricity, 6reproof and practically indie
sfructibIe-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
OIL ON STEPS OF SCHOOL.
Secret Investigation by Detectives
of Board of Education.

of Board of Education
Private detectives, understood to be in
the employ of the board of education, are
investigating a fire that was discovered in
the Clarke school, Ashland avenue and
West Thirteenth street, Chicago. The
lower steps of the front stairway were
covered with oil, according to the inves-
tigators, and a basket of paper near by
was blazing. The flames were discovered
by q pupil in one of three rooms in the
school devoted to teaching the deaf and
dumb. The child ran back and dragged
one of the teachers to the scene. She mo-
tilted the janitor, who quickly extinguish-
ed the blaze. No fire alarm was sound
ed and few of the 1000 pupils who attend
the school knew of the FIRE. Although
the blaze looked like an incendiary one,
neither the Maxwell street station nor
Fire Attorney Frank j. Hogan was no.
tilted. The school is one of the most
crowded in the city and contains, besides
the deaf and dumb, several blind students.
The investigation by the school board is
said to have been conducted with utmost
secrecy
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
sustains Negro Dismissal.

The right of President Roosevelt sum
marily to dismiss. a negro soldier of the
Twenty-fifth infantry for alleged partici-
patton in the riot at Brownsville, Texas,
was sustained by Judge Hough in the
United States District Court in New
York Judge Hough ordered a verdict
against Oscar W. Bald, the soldier who
sued the government to recover $122 as
wages from the date of his dismissal to
the expiration of his enlistment, holding
that the President had a right to dismiss
The soldier.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
shoots Negro Marauder.

Ex-Mayor Edwin J. Bidaman, of Terre
who, it is alleged, was attempting to
gain an entrance into Bidaman's home for
the purpose of robbery. Mr.. Bidaman
was aroused by noise and upon investi-
eating found one of the windows being
pried open. He drew a revolver and
killed the intruder
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
Rain and winds Destroy Crops.

A severe storm passed over eastern
Ohio and the West Virginia panhandle.
The storm, which included downpour of
rain, hail and wind. first appeared in the
vicinity of Adena. Ohio, on the Wheeling
and Lake E-ie railroad. Here the rising
waters washed out a number of houses,
carried away quantities of ties and lum-
Der, destroyed Telephone and telegraph
lines, washed out highways and did dam
age estimated at $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26

Through the accidental discovery of a
process by which a solid substance hav-
ing the qualities Of rubber can be pro-
duced from skin mill" George W. Frye
of Lexington. Ohio. has enlisted the in
sereSt of manufactures 70 such an extent
that three offers of SJ.000000 each are
said 10 have been refused By him for
all rights and patents in connection vita
il. He Is not satisfied with this. and
company capitalized At s1000aOo0 Is 10
be Incorporated TO make and market the
new material
Mr.. Frye made the discovery in the OF
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
ARREST GUARD FOR ROBBERY
Charged with Stealing $4,000 from
Express Company.

Deputy Sheriff w. II. Farmer of Daw-
son was arrested in Springer, n. NJ, in
connection with the robbery of the strong
box of the Wels-Fargo Express Company
of $4,000 at French on Thursday. Far
mer had been detailed to guard the treas
ure from French to Dawson, where the
money was to be used IL paying off min
ers. Farmer was taken to Ration and
incarcerated with two men arrested the
previous day. 1t is reported, but uncon-
firmed, that one of the men arrested has
confessed, duplicating two men not yet
arrested.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
A,os IN FATHERS UNDoINe.
Sfxteen-Year-Old Boy Exposes Sire's
Fraudulent Practices.

sixteen-Year-Old Boy Exposes sire's
Fraudulent Practices.
James t. Mulhall. whose use of the
mails in furtherance of a fraud, from
which he is alleged to have Melted $780,
600 in twenty years, was betrayed by his
son, is years old, is believed to be under
arrest in Venice, Cal. The son, Joseph,
testified last January before United States
Commissioner Foote in Chicago to his
fathers wrongdoing, but before the au-
thorities could act the father had fed.
Joseph then lent his aid in tracing him.
The boy charged that he had been beaten
and otherwise abused and forced to aid
in his fathers schemes. Mulhall is al
legged to have fleeced farmers in Mime
sofa in fraudulent egg and butter COM
mission scheme, under the name of the
Nicolet Creamery Company.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
Twenty Arc Murt in a wreck.

A Norfolk & Western passenger train,
on the branch line between Sardinia and
Hillsboro was wrecked by the spreading
of rails at Sand Bank two miles west of
Columbus Ohio. There was only one
coach on the train, in which were riding
fifteen or twenty people. of whom ten or
twelve were painfully injured. The coach
turned over.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26

The Reserve Trust Company made an
assignment in Cleveland 70 the Superior
Savings and Trust Company. The liabili-
ties of the concern are aboGr S2-..o0.0oa
Inability to realize on outstanding loans
is said TO have precipitated the failure
Officers of the bank say depositoEs will be
paid in full.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26

Thomas ". Harvey, former teller Of
the Enterprise National bank of Pitts
burg. which failed several years ago for
nearly S2.oooo00. failing in bis attempt
70 interest the United States Court of
Appeals in his case. surrendered and was
sentenced to seven years in the western
peuitentiary.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
Life saved hy X-Ray.

X-rays, used by 1.-THE surgeons in Har-
lem hospital, New York, located needle
within a fraction of an inch of Nicholas
Huyler's heart and made possible the saw
ing of the mans life. The needle entered
the chest of Huyier, tailor, while he was
carrying garment on which he had been
working
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
Annnr.,li. stuaent DROWN.

Midshipr4an Arthur Linford Lucas of
Cleveland, one of the graduating class.
was drowned at Annapolis. Md, and Mid
sbipman Csrl II. Hubbard of Mortified,
Mimi. who Vas with him at the time,
early lost his own life in an effort to
save his friend.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
rrnlnr wrec.ea, rwo pena.

South-bound passenger train No. , on
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad.
running fifty minutes late. colsded head
on. three miles north of Muskogee, Okla.
with north-bound through freight. Two
trainmen were killed and fifteen pasSen-
GERS injured
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26

Federal officers at Denver, Colo. have
arrested the Rev. Ira n. Williams, a
preacher of IIiT. Colo, on tire charge
of having sent through the mails libel
Gus and defamatory matter upon the con-
duct Of the President Of the United
States The defamation was pasted on
the envelope. but Mr.. Williams denies
uatting il there.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26
Pulp MIL Is DESTROYED.

The pulp mill of the Lake Superior
Corporation at the Canadian 500, across
the river from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
was destroyed by fire. The loss is about
100000. 1t is reported that two men
are missing. The power plant is out of
commission as a result of the fse and
there are no electric cars or lights in the
citv
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-26

From the streams that drain the South
ern Appalachian mountains Washington
experts say 100000 horse power of
water power has been developad in III.
last few years This power is used by
southern mills. 1t is estimated thar these
resources may be utilized to the extent
If ssann. 600 horse power