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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
CHICAGO,

The general state Of trade testifies
to well-sustained recovery, although
new demands in the heavy industries
dc not appear with the promptness ex-
pected This delay does not detract
from the outlook, as the requirements
are known to be accommodating. Trad
ing defaults again are large, but the
volume of payments through the banks
makes a gratifying exhibit. Retail ae-
tivity in Christmas and general mer-
chandise would be of ampler proper
tons We're the weather more seasonable.
Early buying, however, has been UNI
usually strong and the prospects
brighten for satisfactory aggregate
Interior advices indicate that stocks uR-
dergo rapid depletion, and this has IN
duced frequent recorders. Wholesale
lines have a rather light house trade,
as expected at this time and attention
is now given to inventories. Mail or
ders for spring and summer wares
| show increases.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number Al, against 40 last week,
| % in 1907, and 2S in 1906. Those with
liabilities of more than $1,000 number
13, against 10 last week, II in 1907,
and 9 in 1906-Dun's Review OF Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
MISSOURI GUSTS OIL TRUST.
Standard of Indiana, Republic and
Waters Pierce Fined $4,000 Each.

Standard of Indiana, Republic and
Waters-P Pierce Fined 5000 Each.
Declaring that the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana, the Republic Oil Com
pany Of Ohio and the Waters-Pierce Oil
Company of Missouri had conspired and
combined to monopolize the oil bust
ness in the State, the Supreme Court
Of Missouri has issued a decree GUST
ing all three from the commonwealth
and filming them $4,000 each.
The decree against the Water-Pierce
company is tempered by the proviso
that it may continue in business If by
Jan. Is, 1909, it can show to the court
that it has taken steps to operate as
an independent concern and has salts
fed the Judgment against it, The other
companies are given until March /,
1909, to wind up their affairs in the
State.
The decision, which was unanimous
ON the part of the seven judges, and
was written by Judge Woodson, is so
sweeping that Attorney General Hadley
and Governor Folk hail it as the end
of Illegal commercial combina tions in
Missouri. and the former asserts that.
in conjunction with the decision of the
Supreme Court Of the United States in
the tobacco trust case. it will affect sim
liar suits in other States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
SUGAR KING sPREcKELs DIES.
Founder of Huge Refineries Is Vic
tim of Pneumonia.

Claus Spreckels, widely known as
the Sugar king of the Pacific coast i
died at A 80 o'clock Saturday morning
at his home in San Francisco ia his
eightieth year The immediate cause
OF death was an attack of pneumonia,
which developed with alarming symp-
toms during the past few days. His
condition Christmas night told his ply
sicians death was near and relatives
remained at his bedside until the hour
of his death
Despite his advanced age Mr.. Spreck-
els had devoted large share of atten-
ton to the various enterprises in which
he was interested, and it is not more
than month since he appeared before
the Ways and Means Committee Of the
House in Washington as an authority
on the subject of sugar duties.
Apart from the Importance which at
tached to Claus Spreckels as the pio-
neer sugar refiner of the Pacific coast
and as an investor of millions in Cali
fornia and the Hawaiian Islands, the
Spreckes family has for many years
been one of the most prominent in the
State :
Claus Spreckels was born in Lam
stadt, Germany, in 1923, and came to
the United States in 1916. After being
employed for some time in Charleston,
S. c., and New York he came to San
Francisco, reaching this city in 1856
He established a store there and later
conducted a brewery. In 1868 he built
the Bay Sugar Refinery and began the
importation of raw material from
Hawdii. Prospecting in this business
he established other refneries and
promoted the beet sugar industry by
establishing refneries and engaging in
the farming of beets on large scale
He also built a refinery at Pbiladei-
phia, invested largely in the Oceanic
Steamship Company and many other
enterprises, including the building of
the San Joaquin Valley Railroad
Many of his interests in Hawaii are
reported to have been disposed of by
his son Rudolph during the latter's
recent trip to the islands.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
TRADE OF WORLD FALLS OFF.
United States Not Alone with De-
creased Exports and Imports.

United States Not Alone with De-
creased Exports and Imports.
The United States is not alone in the
record of smaller imports and smaller
exports that will characterize the his
tory of our foreign commerce in the
year 1908. OF the twenty-five principal
countries of the world all but four
show falling off in exports, and neac-
ly two-thirds show a falling off in inn
ports. Every country with the excep-
ton of Argentina, Spain, Greece and
Sweden show experts of 1908 below
those of 1907.
1t will thus be seen that the falling
off of approximately $3OO,000,000 in inn
ports and perhaps $150,000,000 in ex-
ports in the commerce of the United
States during 1908 is part of a general
condition which prevailed the world
over. An analysis of our foreign com
merce this year shows that the princi-
pal decrease on the import side oc-
cured in trade with Europi and on the
export side in the trade with North
America.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
WILL GIVE UP CUBA JAN %.
Provisional Government of Island to
Terminate on That Date.

Provisional Government of Island to
Terminate on That Date.
Answering Governor Magoon's re-
quest for authority to convene the
Cuban Congress and give formal pos
session to the Cuban government on
Jan. %, the following was received
the other day from Washington:
Magoon, Havana Pursuant to in
structions from the President, the Secre-
tary of War directs:
/. That you assemble the Cuban con-
gress on convenient date. to be selected
by you, to act on the credentials of mem
bers-elect of the Senate and House of
Representatives.
,. That, having passed on the creden-
tials of members-elect and completed their
organization. they assemble in joint ses-
sion to canvass and declare the result of
the vote of the electoral college for Presi-
dent and Vice President, and thereafter
be in recess until reassembled by you for
the purposes specified in the following
paragraphs:
g. That the terms of Office of the
President-elect and Vice President-elect
of Cuba shall begin on the 2Sth of Janu-
airy, 1909, on which day they shall be
inaugurated; that congress shall be as
sembled during the forenoon of Jan. %,
1909, the call therefor specifying the in
itial duty of congress to be the induction
into office of the President and the Vice
President. and thereafter the considera-
tion of all matters within the jurisdiction
of congress at its regular sessions; that
the President be inaugurated and the
provisional government terminated at IL
O'Clock noon on said Jan. %, 1909.
This means the complete approval Of
the plan submitted by you.
EDWARDS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
KoREsH l. is DEAD.
Body of C.. r. Teed, Head of Queer
Sect, Held for Resurrection.


Sect, Held for Resurrection.
Cyrus X. iced, known as Koresh l.,
founder and head of the Koreshan
Unity Corporation of Western people,
who bought large tract of land in
Lee County, Fla, several years ago and
sought to establish their peculiar be-
liefs in that section of the country,
died early Tuesday morning.
The fact of his death was not dis
closed until Thursday, and when inves-
tigation was made, his devout followers
said they were awaiting resurrection.
While the body of the leader lay unat-
tended, Victoria Gratia, the supposed
wife of Teed, assumed the throne with
much solemnity, and declared that the
body should not be buried until there
was manifestation of the divine will.
The basis of the Koreshan cosmog-
ony is that all life is cellular, originat-
ing in cells, all living structures being
composed of cells and propagating
cells; whence the conclusion that the
universe, the great aggregation of all
cells, must itself be a cell, the material
walls of which are composed of the
shell of the earth.
Teed was one of Chicagos company
of eccentric religious leaders UP to
about six years ago, when he removed
his headquarters to Florida. 1t was In
Chicago that he developed his cult of
Koreshanity and gained the nucleus Of
following that eventually numbered
from $4,000 to 10000 believers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
1E4z lZAES]aEIlERS
..sshS9SRS X,SR $se1-N-
-N&C@

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $7.S5; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $3.50 sheep, fair to choice, $500
TO $500 wheat, No. 2, $1.O2 to $1.03;
corn, No. ., Soc to SIC; oats, standard,
4Sc to 49c: rye No. 2, Toe to T6c hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, &c
to Gle eggs, fresh, PC to Gle; potatoes,
per bushel, 60c to Toe.
indianapolis shipping $500
to 500; hogs, good TO choice heavy,
$3.50 to $500; sheep, good to cnoice,
$3.50 to $500 wheat, No. 2, $l.03 to
$1.O4; ccrn, No white, SOC to COO /;
oats, No white, 49c to 51c.
St. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $7.S5; hogs,
$500 to $685.: sheep, $500 to $4.25;
wheat, No. 2, $1O6 to SLOT corn, No 2,
BIC to 5Sc; oats, No. 2, 4Sc to 49c; rye,
No. 2, 74c to 76c.
Cincinnati Cattle, 800 to $6.25;
hogs, $500 to 5000; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, $106 to $107; corn,
No. 2 mixed, coo to 62c; oats No. 2
mixed, sic to SIC; rye, No. Q 7Sc to SOC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500 hogs,
$500 20 S5.25; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat. No. 2, S1.o2 to $103; corn, No. 3
yellow, 59c to Goo; oats, No. 9 white,
SOC to sic; rye, No. 2, Toe to nc.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
S1.O4 to $1.07; corn, No. 3, Sc to Soc;
oats, standard, Acc to soc; rye, No. I,
TIC to Toe; barley, No. !, &c to Coo;
pork, mess. S14.70
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
800 to $6.75; hogs fair to choice, $500
to S610; sheep, common TO good mixed,
$500 TO S475; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $7.S5.
New York-Cattle 500 to $500;
hogs, $3.50 to 5000; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. red, $1.07 to $1.08;
corn, No. 2, CSC to Gle; oats, natural
white, SOC to SIC; butter. creamery, 29c
to 32c; eggs, western, CSC to BIC.
Toledo Wheat, No. mixed, S102 to
S1.O4; corn. No. 2 mixed, SOC to Coo;
oats, No. 2 mixed, Ole to 52c rye, No.
2. tic TO TSc; clover seed, $5.57.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
NEW YORK.

Holiday trade shows further expan-
sion and most cities report buying Of
this character equal to or slightly in
excess Of last years. In some sections,
particularly in the South. holiday trade
rs not so good as in 1907 The larger
centers are doing well and armies of
shoppers are in evidence. but many
small cities report a relatively light
business and demand shifting to cheap
err lines.
In regular retail lines unseasonably
warm weather has been drawback,
particularly Southwest and South.
Wholesale trade is qu;eter, except for
some hurry orders 10 sort up depleted
stocks.
Inventories and stock takings nat
uraliy predispoSe to less activity from
now till after Jan. /. Reports from
leading industries are of gradual gains
and slow progress back TO normal
There are some orders for steel rails
| from railroads, and the tin plate mills
are buster; there is better supply OF
water in New England and paper mills
| are running more freely; Eastern shoe
manufacturers report three months or
ders ahead, and there is more demand
for lumber some of this on account OF
railroad buying, with firmer prices for
yellow pine.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending Dec. II
number $40, against 29S last week. 800
in the like week of 1907, 227 in 1906,
2S5 in 1905 and 249 in 1904. Business
failures in Canada for the week num-
Der 81, against 60 last week and 10 in
this week of 1907 Bradstreet's Com
mercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05

years old and native of tie depart
ment of Savoie. Medals CT General
MERCER, the former Minister of Wa: !;
stamps bearing the head of the Duke
of Orleans, card of membership in
the Patrie Franchise and other &oyal-
list documents were found on hS per-
son. During the examination Maths
boasted of being a Royalist and talked
confusedly of having done his duty
and obeyed the dictates OF his con
science" Quantities of Royalist reac-
tionary literature were found by the
police when they ransacked his resi-
dence.
The investigation reveals the fact
that Maths was in close relation with
the Royalist organization, and this
gives color to rumors that he was the
instrument of Royalist plot. Serious
evidence in this direction. however, is
lacking up to the present time
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
ATTACKED IN STREET
Man Throws Arms About FaIIieres'
Neck and Tries to Pull
His Beard.
RoYALIsT PLOT is SCENTED.
Insult Generally Believed to &c Act
of Vainglorious Seeker After
Notoriety.

While Armand Fallieres, the Pr j.
dent of France, accompanied cy [.
Ramondou. his secretary, and Cal I
Lasson, military attache at the 4
palace, was taking morning
near the Rue de l'Etoile in Pa
poorly clad individual, who evf{o 10:
had been lying in wait, suddenlys,S ~
ed upon the President from behinG and
threw his arms about NJ Falleares'
neck in an effort to seize his Dafd.
Colonel Lasson and Secretary Ramon
dou sprang TO the assistance of the
President. dragged off his assailant and
turned him over to two special detee-
tives who had been following the party
on bicycles President Fallieres' cane
was broken in the struggle, but be yond
a scratch on the ear he was moi in
jured and insisted on continuing his
walk
AS the detectives slipped the hand
cuffs on the man he cried: II am I'M
armed. / simply wanted to pub the
Presidents beard At the station
house the Presidents assailant proved
to be Jean Maths, cafe waiter, "a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
INVITES TWO NATIONS.
President Roosevelt Asks Canada and
Mexico to Aid in. Conservation.

Announcement has been made at the
White House in Washington of pro-
posed plan for a conference looking
toward the conservation of the natu-
raj resources of North America, TO be
held at the White House Feb IS next
Letters suggesting the plan have
been addressed by President Roosevelt
to the Governor General and to the
Premier of Canada and to President
Diaz of Mexico. They will be deliv-
cred to the officials in person by Gift
ford Pinchot, chairman of the Nation
al Conservation Commission and chief
forester of the United States whom
President Roosevelt has chosen as his
personal representative to convey the
invitations and to confer with the au-
thorities of the two governments Mr..
Pinchot first will visit Canada. He then
will carry the invitation to President
Diaz at the City of Mexico.
The proposed North American confer
ence is the outgrowth of the two con-
ton, in which the governors of the
States and Territories were the princi-
pal conferees. The representatives des-
ignated by the Canadian and IIeXican
governments will, under the proposed
plan, consult with representatives of
the State and other departments of
this government and with the National
Conservation Commission. The main
object of the conference, as announced,
will be to point out that natural re-
sources are not limited by the bound
airy lines which separate nations, to de-
velop a better knowledge of the natural
resources of each nation on the part of
the others, and to invite suggestions
for concurrent action for the protection
of mutual interests related to conser-
VatiOn
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
STRANGER Stays STUDENT
Man Enters House of Rich woman,s
Relative and Kills Youth.

aAQ nils n.
Van Dwight Sheldon, an engineering
student in the junior class at New York
University, was shot to death after a
struggle at 8 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning in the cellar OF the, home OF.
Charles H. Snow, dean of the school
Oh arts and sciences of the university
in New York City While dying he
gasped out an incoherent statement
whose purport seemed to be that he
had been killed by a strange man who
was seeking Miss Helen Gould.
Dean Snow is married to a cousin of
Miss Helen Gould, and Miss Gould has
been in the habit OF visiting her cousin
and remaining over night There was
a report that Miss Gould was in the
house Tuesday night, but this the dean
denied. He said, however, that the in
truder probably thought that the house
belonged to Miss Gould, that she was
in it and that he went there with the
idea of getting money.
Sheldon, who was "a years old, was
living with Dean Snow and helping
him about the house. The young man
lived three hours after he was shot.
When found his wrists and ankles were
bound. Only ragmentary story of
the tragedy could be drawn from the
dying boy, and he expired while strug-
Cling to make an ante-mortem state
ment to Coroner Macdonald in the
Fordham Hospital
Young Sheldon said that just as he
approached the furnace a man stepped
out and said: rs Miss Helen Gould
in this house?" NO." replied the star
tied student. 'Is this her house|'
NO." repeated the young man, picking
up the furnace shake fer a weapon.
You lie" cried the man, springing AT
the boys throat. Then began the strug-
gle which the dying young man sought
in vain to describe. 1t was ended by
shot that penetrated the left side Of
the abdomen, passed through several
organs and lodged IN the spine. The
police were unable to. find traces of an
Intruder and were inclined to call it a
case of suicide.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.

The Chattanooga chamber of commerce
adopted resolutions requesting President
elect Taft TO reappoint Secretary Wright
of the NSc Department
Vestments and Furnishings of the saeris-
ty il the Church of ST. Dominic. San
Francia,a, we're damaged to the extent of
$1,000 by some unknown person.
Fire AT Enterprise, W. Va. destroyed
the tipple. slack bins. boiler house and
other buildings of Fairmont Coal Com
pany The loss is estimated at $4,000.
1t is reported at Rome that a farewell
cable message sent by the Duke of Alb
with the words Il will remember you for
ever"
4 man in evening clothes and with a
Jimmy" in his pocket was arrested al
YonkerS. y. ". while picking a lock at
the home of Foster Slade. New York
engineer.
Francis Donohue. lahorer who per
sisted in ringing the doorbell of Mayor
Metlennan of New York in an attempt
TO see him. was arrested for disorderly
conduct. He said he wanted to defend
the Mayor against plotting foreigners
Thomas II. sheppard vas appointed by
the federal court of PittSbu~g receiver foi
the WeiSSer-I.ow Company. operating i
department store in thar city.
w. III. Shinn. president of he Window
Glass Cutters and FiaUeners Association
Of pitssburg. announced sat the Amer
lean Window Glass Company had agreey
20 grant an increase in wages. This, il
is believed. will end the labor dispute.
Two years Imprisonment and fne q
500 was melted out BY .l,.5.--s Kunkel il
Harrisburg. Pa. in rae capitol graf
cases. but the defesdanfs John ii. san
derson. James NJ. Shursaker. William Z
SNYDER and William l. Mathues. obtaineS
n supersedeas and give bail.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
MISS ETHEL's DEBUT.
All Parts of the Country Represented
az White House Ball.

Miss Ethel Roosevelt. daughter of
the President. was formally presented
TO society Monday night at Il small
dance given in the historic east room
of the White House. In this same room
her half sister. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt
Longworth. made her debut ON the
night of January 3, 1902
This suspicious event which has
been SO eagerly anticipated by society
was attended by 600 debutantes and
beauN of the season. guests being pres
ent from every section of the country
Only one member of a family was in
vited and invariably the youngest one.
No married people were present save
the matrons of Miss Roosevelts imme-
diate family.
At 10 O'Clock Miss Roosevelt took
her place In the blue room beside her
mother and received her guests, She
looked very girlish and handsome.
gowned in soft white satin trimmed
with crystals. Her hair was in an
effective couture and caught through
the tawny brown tresses was narrow
Grecian fillet. Mrs. Roosevelt was
gowned in dark blue satin. The room
was tastefully decorated with palms
| and cut flowers
A notable feature of the evening was
the number of Harvard and other col
lege students present. Besides the col
lege boys unmarried attaches of for.
eign legations and army officers in
their gay uniforms made up the bulk
| of the male contingent.
| Among the onlookers were Mrs. vii
liam Sheffield Cowles, Mrs. Dougla,
Robinson, sisters of the President
Representative and Mrs. Nichola,
Longworth, Mrs. j. Ellen Roosevelt
the entire Kean family, Mrs Nat Sim
kins, Mrs. Robert Bacon. Mrs. Charlie
| A. Mum, Mrs. Richard Wayne Parke
and Mrs. Herbert WadSworth. Presi
dent Roosevelt viewed the dancing fol
some time and then returned to hi,
work. Miss Ethels two brothers, The
odore and Kermit Roosevelt wer,
among the dancers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
GROSS EARNINGS TAX Is LEGAL.
Minnesota Wins Cases Against Great
Northern and the Maple Leaf

The State of Minnesota won a double
victory in the Supreme Court in st. Paul
when that court, by Justice C. L. Brown,
hied opinions in its favor in both the
Chicago Great Western and the Great
Northern railways tax cases. The court
upholds the validity of the law increasing
the railroad gross-earnings tax from to
4 per cent, which the roads attacked as
unconstitutional. Attorney General E. T.
Young personally fought the roads con-
tention that they could not be made to
pay gross-earnings tax larger than the
3 per cent, which was provided for in
their territorial charters. The Great
Northern case nominally involves $780,
1878 for 1905 taxes The Great West
ern case involved about $4,000. The
amount at stake, however, is really more
than $4,000 year to the State treas
ury, if the decision is sustained by the
United States Supreme Court, TO which
it will undoubtedly be appealed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
FREES CONVICTED PARRICIDE.
Kansas Governor Pardons John Col
Inns, Witness Having Recanted.

Kansas Governor Pardons John Col
Inns, Witness Having Recanted.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas pardoned John
Collins. now serving a life sentence for
the murder of his father, j. S. Collins,
well-to-do real estate and insurance man
of Topeka. in May, 1898. Young Collins
was a student at Kansas university at
the time of his fathers death. He was
convicted upon the testimony of three
negroes. all of it being circumstantial.
The State set up the plea that Collins
was in love with Miss Frances Babcock,
a wealthy young woman of Lawrence, and
planned the killing of his father that he
might gain the big life insurance which
the senior Collins carried One of the
negroes has since written a book assert
ing that the testimony at the trial was
part of a plan by enemies of young Col.
Inns to ruin him
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
BURGLAR GETS s2e, 600.
Baak Theft Due 10 Faulty Repair
Work

But for the reversing Of a spring in
the vault time lock a burglar could not
have carried away S29.700 from the FirSt
National Bank of Monrovia- Cal. -Four
days before the robbery an expert lock
smith from Los Angeles overhauled the
lock. He did his work faulty ssld left
the lock outwardly in good shape. bat
actually useless. The fact that the burg
lar had still 10 open an ordinary conbi-
nation lock has caused the belief that he
was skilled in TIE handling Of locks