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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
LIFE TERM TO BOYLE;
WIFE GETS rs YEARS
Woman Also Is Fined $4,000 and
Costs in the BILLY" WhitIa
Kidnapping Case.
BOTH PRISONERS COLLAPSE.
Husband and Spouse Are Carried
Most of Way Back to Cells-She
Weeps Violently in Jail.

In Mercer, Pa, Judge Williams on
Monday sentenced James Fl. Boyle, con-
victed of kidnapping Billy Whitla, to
Imprisonment for life in the western
penitentiary at Pittsburg. Mrs Boyle,
indicted as Mary Doe, was sentenced to
twenty-five years in the penitentiary
and to pay a fine of $4,000 and costs
OF the prosecution Boyle did not
cause the scene in court which he had
threatened and did not utter a word
however, pleaded for leniency for both
Boyle and his wife. The lawyer said
that until a recent period the extreme
penalty for kidnapping in this State
that the boy had been treated with
every consideration and that all care
had been taken not to inflict unneces-
sary mental anguish upon the parents
he felt leniency might be asked with
propriety. After Attorney Miller of
counsel for the Boyles had completed
his plea for leniency in behalf of his
clients Judge Williams told Boyle to
stand up and asked him if he had any
thing to say as to why sentence should
not be pronounced upon him. Boyle
merely said, II have not, and shook
his head. Judge Williams then adj
dressed the prisoner and told him of
the seriousness of the crime of which
h0 no hao I'D
his wife collapsed on hearing their
sentences pronounced. Mrs. Boyle wept
violently when returned to her cell.
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The Burlington Railway has decided to
make 21a-oent passenger rate, effective
in Missouri and this action is expected
to end the proceeding to nullify the ,
cent law.
All the coal carrying roads are rush
ing large quantities of coal to the tide
water. and to Western points, and every
railroad crew is busy, while miners are
being worked full capacity.
Plans for the construction of the Great
Northern Railroad line from Noyes.
Mimi. to Winnipeg, have been filed with
the Manitoba government. The line is
to be in operation by Sept. l.
Since the completion of its line to the
head of the lakes, the Wisconsin Cen
trail has advanced the rate ON soft coal
between Manitowoc, Wis, and the Twin
Cities from 80 cents to $1.15 per ton.
The stockholders of the Southern Pa
ci6c Railroad Company have voted to
issue S1OO,OO0,0O0 of new stock which
viii be offered at 800 per share in ex-
change for the company's bonds at $3.50.
About thirty iron ore carrying con-
tracts between the Guyana Range Rail-
way Company and fee owners and lease
holders on the Guyana range have been
fled for record at Brainerd. The rate is
65 to 66 cents a ton.
The Missouri representatives have
passed a prohibition law for passenger
trains. making it unlawful to drink or
expcse intoxicating liquors on passenger.
trains in that State, or to ride on pas
~, fnfn tel 4.
The Chicago and Northwestern Raj.
WY Company has completed its double
track system between Chicago and the
Missouri River The last link in the
double track system was completed when
the second track of the new bridge across
the Mississippi at Clinton was finished at
a cost of S2.0Oo0Oo.
The Iowa representatives passed the
Senate bill prohibiting drinking intoxi-
cants on trains. This puts an end 10 the
sale of liquor in dining cars for consump-
ton while on the trains. Members of
the train crew are given the power TO
eject offenders and cab upon local Off
GERS TO arrest them, but mas not make ar
rests.
For excellence in track maintenance
the coming year the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company is TO offer nearly $1,000
in prizes TO track employees. To make
the record accurate glasses of water will
be placed on the sills of the inspectors
car sttached to the fast trains. and every
spill of water from the glasses win be
counted against the section OF track
where II occurs In addition TO this an
instrument has been devised witch viii
register every vibration of the car vera
caIEy or horizontally
It IS row claimed that as a result Of
the panic in 1907-S. the earnings OF
AD<rican railways decreased $330oo0.-
0C5.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $7.25; hogs, prime heavy, $3.50
to $40; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1910 wheat, No. 2, $1.42 to S1.45;
corn, No. 2, 73c to 74c: oats, standard,
56c to 5Sc; rye, No. 2, S3c 20 SIC: hay,
timothy, $500 to $14.J0; prairie, $500
to $3.50; butter. choice creamery, pc
to 25c; eggs, fresh, 1sc to Gle; potatoes,
per bushel, DOC to S1.o0
Detroit-Cattle, 800 to 5000, hogs.
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 TO $500;
wheat, No. 2, S144 to $1.46; corn, No. 3,
yellow, 79c to soc; oats, No. 3 white,
SIC to soc; rye, No. 2, SOC TO 9Oc.
Milwaukee, Wheat, No 2 northern,
$1.27 to $1.30; corn, No. 3. CSC to zoe;
oats, standard, SIC to Soc: rye, No. ],
SIC to soc; barley, No. !. &c to sic;
pork, mess, S1737.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$500 to 1913; hogs, fair to choice, 800
to S7.75; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $4.75: lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $500.
New York-Csttle, $500 TO $685.;
hogs, $3.50 10 $3.50: sheep. $500 to
5000; wheat, 40. 2 red, SLAB to $1.45 :;
corn. No. 2, roc to SIC; oats, natural
white, Gle to G3c; butter, creamery, &c
to 29c; eggs, western, lie to pc.
Toledo-Wh No. 2 mixed, $1.43 to
s1.44: corn, No. mixed, 75c to 7gc
oats. No. 2 mixed. J7c to 59c; rye, No.
2. soc TO 90c; clover seed, $3.50.
indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to S7.4O; hogs, good to choice heavy.
S3.5O 70 s7.45; sheep, good to choice,
$3.50 10 S61j; wheat, No. 2, $40 to
S1.42; corn, No. white, &c 10 6ae;
oats. No white, sic to &c.
ST. Iouis--Cattle, 800 to $500; hogs,
$500 to s7.45; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat. No 2. S1.4s to $50; corn, No. 2,
73c to Toe; oats, No. 2. 55c to 5Gc; rye,
No. 2, S3c to Sac.
Cincinnati-Cattle, 800 to $3.50;
hogs. 800 to $7.45; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat. No. 2. $1.47 to S1.49; corr,
No. 2 mixed, 75c TO TIC; oats. No. 2
mixed, Joe to SIC; rye, No. 2, $50 to 0Oc.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
GRAFT SENTENCES IN PITTsBURG
Former Bank President Among
Seven Men Sent to Prison Cells.

Former Bank President Among
Seven Men Sent to Prison Cells.
Sentences were imposed in the Crimi-
nal Court in Pittsburg Wednesday, by
Judge Frazer on seven persons, convict
ed within the last few weeks in the mu-
nicipal graft cases. The sentences fol-
low: w. w. Ramsey, former National
bank president, convicted of bribery, one
year and six months imprisonment and
fine of $1,000. Capt. John +. Klein,
councilman, two years and a fine of 81
600, on the bribery conviction, and one
year and six months on the conspiracy
conviction. Joseph c. WATSON and Will
lam Brand, former councilmen, each one
year and six months and fine of $500
for conspiracy. III. M. Bolger, bookkeep-
er, two years and fine of $500 for
bribery. Charles Colbert and John Col
bert, convicted of attempting to bride a
jury in the Ramsey bribery case, two
years and a fine of $500 each. A. A.
Vilsack, former bank cashier, was not
sentenced to-day, and it is said will not
be till after he has testified in several
other cases which are likely to come up
SOON
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
TAFT RAPs PORTO RICO
Says Failure to Pass Money Bills
Makes Serious Situation in
the Island.
GENEROSITY is FORGOTTEN"
Special Message to Congress Urges
Change in Foraker Act-Holds
Politicians irresponsible.

President Taft sent to Congress a
special message recommending legisla-
ton at the present extra session to
amend the Foraker act, under which
Porto Rico is governed. The President
directs attention to "a situation of I'M
usual gravity the result of the fail
ure of the legislative assembly of
Porto Rico to pass the usual appropri-
alton bills. leaving the island without
support after June 80.
Porto Rieans have forgotten the gen.
crosby of the United States. the Pres
ident says. in the desire of certain of
their political leaders for power, and
he adds that the situation indicates
that the United States has gone too
fast in the extension of political rights
to the Porto Ricans Mr. Taft con-
cludes that the absolute power of APP
preparation should be taken from
those who have shown themselves too
irresponsible to enjoy it,
The President suggests to Congress
the wisdom of submitting to the appro-
priation committees the question of
qualifying some of the provisions of
the fundamental act as to the respect.
i've Jurisdictions of the executive coun-
ell and the legislative assembly. But
no action of this kind, he says, should
be undertaken before the Foraker act
is amended, so that when the legisla-
tive assembly shall adjourn without
making appropriations necessary to
carry on the government sums equal
to the appropriations in the previous
year shall be available from the cur
rent revenues and shall be drawn by
the warrant of the auditor on the
treasurer, countersigned by the cover.
nor. Such provision applies to the
legislatures of the Philippines, and of
Hawaii, and 'it has prevented in those
two countries any misuse of the power
Of appropriation"
The message presents an exhaustive
review of conditions on the island, its
trade. its wealth and the improved edu-
cational facilities. It points out that
there never was time in the history
of the island when the average pros
peTlIy Oh the PORTO hlcdn was llgner,
his opportunity greater, his liberty in
thought and action more secure" For
the first time in it's history Porto Rico
is living under laws enacted by it's
own legislature
The President points out that if the
Porto Ricans desire a change in the
form of the Foraker act the subject is
a matter of congressional considera-
ton, dependent upon the effect on real
political progress in the island. Such
a change he says, should be sought in
an orderly way and not brought to
the attention of Congress by "paralyz-
ing the arm of the existing govern
ment." The President says that the
Porto Ricans' forgetfulness of the gen.
crosby of this government Should not
be an occasion for surprise. nor in
dealing with whole people can 1t be
made the basis of charge of ingrati-
tude"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
CHURCHMAN IN THIEF'S CELL.
Charles III. Meyer, Prominent in
Church. Confesses Embezzlement.

Charles III. Meyer, Prominent in
Church, Confesses Embezzlement.
Charles H. Meyer local preacher"
in Woodlawn Methodist Episcopal
Church in Chicago, president of the
Cook County Bible Glass Athletic As
sociation, Sunday school superintend-
ent, secretary and treasurer of the Ep-
worth League, occupied a cell at the
Harrison street police station the 9TH
er night, self-confessed embezzler of
s1,700 on complaint OF officials of the
Clarkson Glue Company, which en-
ployed him as bookkeeper and general
accountant. Meyer. who is As years of
age and has wife, son, and a
daughter. at first denied that he had
cashed checks belonging to the COM
pany for his own use. Then he adj
mitted taking s400, and by degrees
was led to confess that the amounts
taken during the last two years footed
up to S1,700, Including interest
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
5 GUILTY IN BUcKET-sHoP CASE
Cincinnatians Convicted by Jury Of
Using the Mails to Defraud.

Using the Mails to Defraud.
The jury in the case of Louis w.
Foster and five others. who were
charged with using the mails to de-
fraud in conducting a so-called bucket
shop, returned verdict of guilty in
the United States District Court in
Cincinnati Friday. The men found
guilty are Louis w. Foster, John Cor
man, w. j. Campbell, A. c. Baldwin,
John M. Scott and Edwin F. He'll. The
penalty is fine of from 81 900 to S.
600, eighteen months in the peniten-
tiary, or both.
William j. O'Dell, who died in Gin
cinnati several years ago, left an es-
tate estimated at $2,000,000. He amass
ed this fortune by running bucket
shop on larger scale than ever before
known in this country. having branch
es IN all the principal cities and towns
in the West and South At his death
the ,ssfendants found guilty Friday
continued the O'Dell Brokerage Com
pany. German, Baldwin, Scott and
He'll were formerly telegraph opera
tors in the employ of ODell William
Dudley, telegraph operator, and Attor
ney Thomas Shay, both of whom are
dead, were interested as partners at
one time. All these men are credited
with having cleaned up $1,000,000.
most of which, however, German and
Dudley and Shay retained.
The verdict is clean victory for
the government, which contended the
defendants did not even play the buck
ct shop game honestly, but by slow
wires and fast wires to Chicago and
New York took advantage of the mar
ket quotations and closed out trades
with their customers to the best adj
vantages to the defendants.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
REPORT SHIP LOST WITH 81.
Shores, Six Days Overdue, Believed
Sunk in Lake Superior.

Advices received at Duluth are to
the effect that the steamer Shores, six
days overdue at Duluth, went down
off White Fish Point in Lake Superior
with all on board. The crew and pas
sengers numbered twenty-one.
News of the destruction of the
Shores was brought to Duluth by the
crew of the steamer Northland, who
say that as the latter was passing that
point on the way up they discovered
wreckage strewn all over the lake,
and, in their opinion, it belonged to
the Shores. The fact that she was d
week overdue at Duluth and no word
of her has been received adds color to
the theory.
The Adelia Shores belonged to the
S. o. Neff Transportation Company of
Milwaukee, and is said to have been
up bound from Michigan with load
of salt. The ship was of 1850 tons
burden and under command of Captain
S. Holmes. The engineer was R. S.
Mott. The names of the crew and pas
sengers are not obtainable.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
CHICAGO.

A cheering animation is seen to be
pervading current operations in trade
generally, and conditions have become
distinctly encouraging as TO the imme-
diate outlook. The important, develop
ments include the stimulus which
comes from seasonable weather and
the opportunity to advance Industrial
md farming activities. together with
P readjustment of labor controversies
which threatened construction lines.
significant feature which fore
hadows increased production at the
mills and factories appears in more
numerous demands for furnace out
puts, steel shapes and equipment. A
tendency toward rising prices for sup.
plies characterizes iron, textiles, mi
nor metals and leather.
Important May settlements at the
banks and hoard of trade were
promptly liquidated and the demand
strengthened for money. although the
discount rate for choice commercial
paper was unchanged.
Prices for the leading breadstuffs
stand at the highest average for the
season, and the profits to farmers in
duce larger expenditures for imple-
ments, materials and improvements.
Forwardiugs have become heavier to
Western points of fabricated steel,
wire, hardware, machinery and cleo
trio appliances,
Outdoor work is again remarkably
extended, and this creates exceptional
deliveries of quarry products, plumb
ing supplies and lumber. Leather
working trades obtain satisfactory con
tracts. especially for footwear and the
market for hides is firmer. April per-
mits for business structures were for
ty-tive in number and S2,437, $50 in
value and compare with similar num-
Der and $1.0S2.900 In value for April,
1908.
Bank clearings, $295. 991, 231, exceed
those of corresponding week in 1908
by 1863 per cent and compare with
$3.50 ,694,S15 in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 80, against % last week,
SO in 1908 and 10 in 1907. Those with
liabilities over $4,000 number Z,
against last week, a year ago and
4 in 1907.-DJn's Weekly Review of
Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
Saturday.
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Buhalo's population is 415.532. accord
ing TO a police house-to-house census
Congressman Taylor of Colorado is
tive mansion at Glenwood Springs as a
summer home for the President to cost
$250,0oo.
japanese and American sailors will
decorate the graves of the soldier dead
in Tacoma. Wash. on Memorial Day.
when the japanese cruisers, accompanied
by United States battle ships. will visit
the western port
AS a memorial to the Rev. DIR. :. W.
Hamilton Nesbii of Clonmell, County
Tipperary, ireland. who was killed in
New York recently by falling under s.
subway train. committee of New York
Protestants propose to erect a club house
at Cloumen for the use of British and
Irish troops.
In receiving a delegation of the Union
Of Catholic Women in the Vatican. Pope
leo expressed himself on the question of
women in politics as follows Woman
can never be mans equal and can not.
therefore. enjoy equal rights. Few wom-
on would ever desire TO legislate. and
those who did would only be classed as
eccentrics.'
In last desperate sortie to relieve the
starving and besieged City of Tabrix. in
Northeru Persia. where the Nationalist
have been penned by the forces OF the
shah for many weeks. party of sol
,,iers. led by an American teacher named
III. c. Baskerville. was completely crush
al and Baskerville was among the killed.
who numbered sixty. Within the citx
1000 soldiers of the National party had
undertaken the defense of the population.
numbering 100000. while the besiesers
numbered 6.oo0. with modern guns snd
equipment. Starvation or massacre faced
the city. it was thSaght. and the Euro
pesn Bowe3~ were seeking TO intervent at
Teheran.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
NEW YORK.

Improvement in retail trade, some
operations and a distinctly more OPP
timistic feeling as TO trade for the flu
ture are the leading favorable features
in this weeks reports to Bradstreet's.
Jobbing and wholesale trade for imme-
date delivery shows between seasons
quiet. but fall trace is developing a
better tone and enlarged demand. Per-
haps the most encouraging feature or
the week, business affecting one of the
countrys basic industries, is the en-
iarged demand9, more cheerful tone
and higher range of prices reported
in the iron and steel Industry Coin
cidently, there ID rather more doing
in the Western coal trade.
The wool marketAis strong and act
i've at higher prices. and leather and
hides are selling better at higher quo
tations, although fall business in shoes
does not develop rapidly. Collections
show little change and are still in
clined to slowness Taken as a whole,
trade feeling is optimistic, and much
is hoped from the passing of tar.a
uncertainty, the development of warm
er weather and the progress OF crop
planting and growth to a point where
the business community can safely
make calculations as to ultimate out
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with May
6 were 214. against 26S last week, 288
in the like week of 1908, 154 in 1907,
1862 in 1906 and 1853 in 1905.
Business failures in Canada Tor the
week number 49, compared with 21
last week and 20 in 190S.-brad.
streets
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
PERSIA GIVEN A CONSTITUTION.
shah Sees No other Way TO Secure
Restoration of order.

Shah Sees No other Way TO Secure
Restoration of order.
A proclamation granting constitu-
ton to Persia has been signed and is
sued by the Shah. The document an
nounces that as a constitutional re-
gime alone is capable of bringing
about the restoration of order and pro-
noting the welfare of the people, his
majesty accords constitution to the
nation. Elections will be held in ac-
cordance with the new electoral law,
to be published shortly, and should be
completed by July 10, when the dep
uties will assemble at Teheran The
decision of the Shah follows six
months of revolutionary agitation on
the part of the Persian people for the
restoration of representative govern
ment
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
ST. ELMO AUTHOR DIES.
Augusta Evans Wilson, Well Known
for Her Novels, Passes Away.

49, . uSeo INd&tS w A1SOu, well AuOWu
for Her Novels, Passes Away.
Augusta Evans Wilson, author OF
st. Elmo and many other novels,
popular generation ago and still
widely read in the South, died at her
home in Mobile, Ala, Sunday as the
result of an attack of heart failure.
She was born in 1885 in Columbus, Ga.
She was the daughter of Matt Ryan
and Sarah Howard Evans, one of the
oldest families in the South.
While a child she removed with her
parents to Texas. then a frontier State.
Soon after the Mexican war, her peo-
pie located in Mobile, Ala. 1t was there
that. in 1868, she married Colonel l..
NJ. Wilson. The marriage was very
happy one, and, although they had no
children, they were known among
their friends as the clover couple" un.
til Colonel Wilson's death in October,
1891.
1t was in 1855 that her first novel,
''Inez. Tale OF the Alamo" appeared.
1t met with only moderate success.
Her second novel, "Beulah," published
four years later. won instant apprecia.
ton and she soon became recognized
as one of the leading writer's of the ro-
mantle and intensely emotional school
In 1864 she found time to complete
"Macaria,' which she sent to a
Charleston, S. c., publisher, who copy
righted it under the laws of the Con.
federate States of America" The book
was published on coarse brown paper
all that the printer could obtain, and
soon after it left the press the entire
edition was confiscated by a federal
officer A blockade runner, however
struggled one copy through to Havana
Cuba, whence it later was taken t.
New York City and published The
book met with heavy sales immediate
ly.
"St. Elmo the most popular, mos
criticised and most widely read of Mrs
Wilson's books, appeared in 1866. ant
it is still one of the "six best sellers
in the South. "Vashti" and "Infelice'
followed quickly and in 1887, Mrs. VIII
son published AT the Mercy of I'll
berius,' a strong argument against cir
cumstantial evidence as a means o.
conviction. "A Speckled Bird" was
published, and her last book, "Devota, "
appeared above year ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
HITS CHURCH AGREEMENT.
Judge Says Raising of Children il
Given Faifh Cannot Re Enforced

Judge Says Raising of Children in
Given Faith Cannot Be Enforced.
Stipulations before marriage by
which one or the other party agrees
to permit the education and religious
training of children in a given faith
cannot be enforced by law Judge
Matthew G. Reynolds of st. Louis the
other day handed down decision to
this effect. This decision, said by at
torneys to be the first of its kind,
holds to be of no effect one of the re
quirements of the Catholic Church,
that non-Catholics who marry Catholics
sign an ante-nuptial contract giving
control of the religious educate n of
children born to them to the Catholic
party to the agreement.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
LOSES $4,000 PLAYING FARO.

Two Days Mt the Table Prove FG-
pensive for New York Man.
Marshall Bell of Newburg, N. Y,
lost $4,000 in two days play at faro
in New York City, according to an
answer he filed in White Plains to a
suit brought against him to recover
$4,000 in a note, the signature to
which he does not deny. but which he
says had been given with no consid.
GRAFTON and was in payment OF gam
bling debt. Joseph Mayer, who gives
his address only as Westchester Coun-
ty, is the plaintiff in the action, and
asserts that he obtained the note from
James Thompson on an assignment.