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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
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Country Jay, the 13-year- trot-
ter, in the grand circuit races at the
State fair at Detroit, reduced his rec
ord from 2:11 to 2:07A. The old geld
ing was not considered in the betting
and sold in s12 field in pools of s492.
Harry G. Legg, of the Minikahda
Club, Minneapolis, won the trans Mis-
sissippi golf championship by defeat
ing Bernard G.. Guinand. of the Wavel
Club, of Des Moines, 10 to s to play in
the final match at the Des Moines Golf
and Country Club.
The Glidden tourists. while in the
Twin Cities, were entertained at NJ. w.
Savages stock farm by race in which
Dan Patch and Minor Heir paced a
dead heat. 1t was a magnificent race,
the time being variously figured at
from 2:O5A 10 2:06A.
Fifteen Russian racing horses of the
famous Orluff breed from the imperial
racing stables of Moscow are to be ex-
hibited in America this fall at various
State fairs to determine whether or
not there is sufficient interest in this
class of animals TO warrant importa-
ton for sale.
Lilly b. the dam of Speedy Rob R..
cannot now be located. She was last
heard from at Versailles, Ind, where
she was traded to an unknown man.
She had previously been sold for $40.
after having been included in a bill of
goods. hay. etc, sold to horse trader
The old mare was the mother of thir-
teen colts. a majority OF which were
good winners.
Automobile races on the new Indian
apolis speedway. rapidly nearing COM
pletion. will be held Aug. 1921 The
Fiat. the first foreign car to be en-
tered. will be driven by Navarro. who
comes to this country especially for the
indianapolis races
In the recent automobile races at
Lansing Driving Park. Lansing. Mich.
Lewis Strang won the 50-mile DERBY
with cash prize of $1,000. with 40
horse power Buick stock car. His
TING was 50 minutes 1s seconds.
Reports from England say that DAN
nv Maher, the American jockey, who
has made an enviable record for him
self abroad since 1901. viii retire from
the race-course because of increasing
weight Maher is the only jockey in
the last twenty years who has cap
tured the famous English derby three
times. Maher has accumulated a for
tune of s75.ooe. and is said to be the
wealthiest jockey in the world
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1000 STRIKERS IN RIOT.
McKee's Rocks Workmen Take Pos
session of Street Cars.

uACLASS . NOCkS w OIAAuSA Lake 1O5-
session of Street Cars.
Goaded to fury by the threat of evic-
ton from their homes, 1000 workmen
who have been on strike at the big
plant of the Pressed Steel Car Com
pany of McKees Rocks, Pa, broke into
Il riot Wednesday night. The rioters
took possession of all street cars run
ming in the neighborhood of the plant
and refused to permit any man who
is not striker to ride. They also
compelled the motormen to haul them
about and would not pay fares.
The State troopers were forced to
fire volley after volley over the heads
of the strikers, who threw stones in
return. At least dozen persons were
struck with missiles and three were
wounded by glancing bullets. Scores
were dubbed by the troopers, who rode
into the crowd on the gallop. Twenty
men were arrested and marched in a
hollow square to the box car prison
within the stockade.
The first fatality growing out of the
strike occurred early Thursday, when
Steve Harvat, one of the strikers, was
shot and killed by Major Smith, ne
gro, whom a crowd of two score strik-
ing foreigners had attacked by mis-
take for strike breaker
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CHScAGo.

The developments continue entirely
throughout the industries. The i'm
portant basis is the strength derived
from .he rise in new demands for
factory outputs and wider disposition
to enter into commitments for future
needs. Iron and steel production in
this district now compares favorably
with the best previous records. Con-
struction plans denote considerable ac-
emulation for railroads, manufacture
ers and mercantile houses.
The government crop report was as
important factor as expected, and
its effect has created great encourage
ment throughout the productive and
distributive branches. High absorp-
ton of breadstuffs and provisions is a
notable feature, but live stock mar
kets are yet without adequate sup
plies for packing
Transportation returns show fur
Their recovery in freight handling by
both rail and lake.
Money is SlSntly uearer ana III
strong request at the advance, rates
for choice commercial paper being
now quoted at Az to 5 per cent. Sales
of local securities are double the vol
ume at this time last year
Dealings reflect much improvement
in the cash markets for leading grains
and flour. the buying being intlu.
enced by easier values and necessary
replenishment after a long period of
very conservative absorption. The
total movements of grain at this port,
11,067,547 bushels, compares with
9,329.1S7 bushels last week and $685.,
205 bushels a year ago. Compared
with 1908, increases appear in receipts
1874 per cent and in shipments 9.3
per cent.
Bank clearings, $25S 6O6, 1876, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1908 by 21.7 per cent and compare
with $224,174,169 in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number 30, against % last
week, 16 in 1908 and % in 1907 Those
with liabilities over $4,000 number T.
against last week, in 1908 and 4
in 1907-Dun's Weekly Review of
Trade.
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STREET GAR MEN AGREE
TO TERMS IN CHICAGO
Presidents of Two Traction Com.
panies Make Offer Which Union
Leaders Call Good.
GAIN OF $1,oOO.ooo IN WAGES
That Much Additional Pay for EN-,
ployes in Three and a Half
Years of Contract.

The wage dispute between. Chieago's
lV'ooo street car employees and the
surface traction companies, which a
week before resulted in a vote to
strike, was practically settled in a
big joint conference of traction off.
Gals and union leaders Friday night,
apparently to the satisfaction OF
everybody concerned.
John M. Roach and Thomas E. Nit.
ten offered wage scale to the men
which representatives of the union
said they would recommend to their
respective organizations for accept.
ance. 1t was in the nature of com
promise agreement. applying to the
employees of the Railways, City. Calu.
met and South Chicago and Consoli-
dated companies
traction representatives, in com.
pany with Walter L. Fisher. repre-.
senting the city, who was credited
with the pilotage of the negotiations
estimated in round figures that the
offer represents an aggregate addi
tlonal expenditure in wages of 81. 900.
600 during the next three and a hall
years-the term of the proposed con
tract.
Terms of Proposed Contract.
The contract will run three and a
half years, dating from Aug. 1, 1909,
and to all old men who have served
one year at q cents per hour--the
old maximum scale-it will grant an
immediate increase to % cents for the
first year of the contract, % cents for
the second year, and 80 cents for the
last eighteen months.
TO men who have been in the sery-
Ice less than one year the rate of pay
proposed is the same as at present
(23 cents for six months, % cents for
six months, and q cents for one
year, until they have served a year
at n cents, wnen they will begin the
climb which the old employees will
start as soon as the contract is COM
pleted.
New men will progress at the max
imum more slowly than at the pres.
ent. The first six months of EN-
ployment they will receive % cents;
the second six months, "a cents; the
second year. % cents; the third year,
&c cents, and the last six months, 81
cents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24

pal Church in Chicago in 1869. Later
he was pastor consecutiYely of First
Methodist Episcopal Chcroh, Chicago,
First Church at Aurora and Centen-
airy Church, Chicago While pastor
of this church he was accused and
convicted of heresy.
His first wife died on Jan. 5, 1896.
They had seven children, the only sur
viving one being DR.. Homer W. Thorn
as of Chicago. Early in 1899 the Rev.
DR.. Thomas met Miss Vandalia Var
mum, a lecturer on liberal religion and
ethics. They married several months
later, and she was ordained soon af-
forwards as assistant pastor of Peo-
PIES Church.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24

down almost unnerved. Arrangements
had been made to let him know the
decision as soon as it was made public
by the clerk of the court When he
learned his fate, Thaw stopped in his
nervous walk up and down the cell
and stood still. He did not seem to
comprehend what had been told him.
Then, when he realized that he must
go back to Matteawan, he staggered
backward and fell upon the cell cot
He covered his face with his hands
and for time could not be aroused.
Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, the prison
er's mother, and his sister, the former
Countess of Yarmouth, were almost
overcome at the news. Alice Thaw
tried to comfort her mother, but the
aged woman, who has battled so long
and so untiringly for her son. showed
plainly that the decision was terrible
blow to her and she is near a collapse.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
CALLS INHERITED RICHES EVIL.
Aged Millionaire with Large Family
Leaves Wealth to Church.

Theodore Harris, the aged banker
who died few days ago in Louisville,
leaving more than $1,000,00O, left
practically his entire estate to the
Baptists of Kentucky He left COM
paratively few cash requests to his
family, which is large. His blood heirs
will have life tenure in certain por
lions of his estate, enough to net
them an income of $3.50 a month each.
In his will, written and signed on
April Is, 1907, he provides further that
should the benefciaries he names die
or become otherwise disqualified, the
portion set aside for them shall re-
vert to the estate as whole and be
paid eventually into the hands of the
Baptist Church organizations
The discrepancy between his be-
quests to the church and those to his
own children he explains by saying:
"The observations of a long life have
taught me that inherited wealth is sell
dom useful to the one inheriting it,
while, on the other hand, with the
blessings of God, these benefactions
will do good to thousands yet I'M
horn -
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FIRE LOSS AT SUMMER RESORT.

Thfrty-six Buildings, Including
Three Hotels, Are Destroyed.
A loss estimated at $1,0O0,000 was
caused by the fire which swept thirty
six buildings from the main street of
the summer resort town of Monticello,
IN. Y.
Three hotels filled with summer
guests, mainly from New York City,
were destroyed. They were the Rock
well House, the largest hotel in Sulli-
van County; the Palatine Hotel and
the Bolsum House. All the guests es-
capped with most of theirepersonal eff
fects. The Monticello House was not
burned. The Union National Bank,
two newspaper Offices and every store
but one in the town were destroyed.
The further spread of the fame was
prevented by the use of dynamite.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24

An explosion of fire damp occurred
in one of the mines at Clermont. Fer
rand, France, which resulted in the
Death of twelve miners,
All the members of the cabinet oil
President Gomez of Cuba, except the
Secretary of Justice, resigned to ena-
BILE the president to reconstruct it in
accordance with popular demands
The South Australian government
has purchased 1000 acres of land for
the purpose of encourag ing and DEM
onstrating the best methods of dairy
farming A government expert is to
have charge of the farm.
That the recent campaign for the
two-power standard Of the British
navy has won may be judged from the
announcement of First Lord of the Ad-
miralty McKenna, in the Commons that
four additional super Dreadnoughts
would be laid down for completion in
March. 1912.
It is expected that considerable con-
fusion will result from a recent decis-
ion of Canadian bankers to GUST Ameri-
can silver coins from general use in
the Western provinces. All along the
border the Interchange of Canadian and
American money has been common. no
distinction being made. The people
generally do not favor the move.
On July Is, according to agreement,
the evacuation of the island Of Crete
by the four protecting powers of Brit
ain, France, Russia and Italy. was be-
gun. The people rejoiced. But the
Turkish sovereignty was still recog-
nized by the stationing of four war
ships of the powers in the Suday Bay.
A report from Stockholm Is to the
effect that 10000 workers in the paper,
wooden. cotton and allied industries
have gone out on strike The strike.
il IS stated. viii be extended to the
ironworkers. A circular has been g
sued 10 the trades unions Throughout
the country calling for q general
strike.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
GROWS EGYPTIAN LOTUS.

Calumet River and Historic Nile
Only Streams that Can Do 1t.
The Egyptian lotus is flourishing in
the Calumet river three miles east of
Hammond, Ind. Thousands of the gor-
geous flowers are in bloom. The Nile
and Calumet rivers are said to be the
only streams in the world where this
flower grows in a state of nature.
The flower is five or six inches in di-
ameter and is of a delicate yellow
tint tipped with green. 1t is open dur
ing the day and closed at night Old
settlers of Hammond have no account
of the importation of the plant from
Egypt and believe it is indigenous to
the Calumet as well as to the Nile
rivers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
TRAIN KILLS MAN AND A GIRL

wooster. o., Merchant and Child
Dead and Woman Dying.
William Reed. 40 years of age. a
prominent business man of Wooster,
O., and 5-year-old Evelyn Trautman
were instantly killed, while Mrs. GUY
Trautman, the girls mother. was per-
haps fatally injured ~ being struck
by a passenger train while driving
across the Erie tracks at North Cen
ter. near Barberton. Ohio. in the
night The tragedy WIS discovered by
a freight crew.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.

Miss Elsie Gasser. is years old,
daughter of Cincinnati lawyer. died
after an operation. as the result of
tight lacing. in the opinion of the fam
lily physician.
The steamships Umoria and Etruria
of the Cunard line are for sale, be-
cause their engines are regarded as
out Of date and burn too much coal
The vessels were Atlantic record
breakers about twenty years ago, being
the first ships TO cut the ocean trip to
about SIX days
Caleb Powers, recently pardoned
after long term in Kentucky pris-
on for alleged completely in the muir
der of Gov. Goebel. is said TO he can
didate for Congress in the Eleventh
Kentucky District II is also said he
will soon we'd Miss Eleanor Robson of
York. Pa.
John d. Downing. of Meadville, Pa,
former president and principal stock.
holder of the Eldred bank, which fail
ed last fall, was arrested at Bradford
Pa. on complaint of a depositor. who
alleged that Downing received his de
post WHICH hS NASW INC AhSSASutlOli
to be insolvent.
Capt. Rowland V. Webster. who was
appointed by the Royal Geographical
Society to lead an expedition in search
of the south pole. left Los Angeles for
New York. whence he viii embark for
London to prepare for the antarctic
trip, to begin next August.
That fifteen persons We're killed and
the town of Bastrop Bay, fourteen
miles from Angleton, Tex, devastated
and that the few survivors are barely
subsisting on a scant supply of sea
food was the report brought to Hous.
ton by Captain Pat Benson when he
returned from tour of that section
of the coast swept by the recent storm.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
DEATH TAKES DIR. H. W. THOMAS
Founder of the Peoples Church, Chi
cago, Expires in Florida.


cago, Expires in Florida.
One of Chicago's most noted clergy
men of days gone by has been claim
ed by death. The Rev. Hiram W.
Thomas died Thursday night at De
Funiak Springs, Fla, where he had
lived recently because of his feeble
health. The body was taken to Chi
cago for burial Jenkin Lloyd Jones
of All Souls Church conducted the flu
neral services.
DR.. Thomas ranked with Prof. Da-
yid Swing as one OF the most noted
preachers of the West when both were
tried and convicted Of heresy nearly a
generation ago. Theological opinions
have changed since then and many or
thodox clergymen now accept and
preach the same doctrines which
caused the expulsion of Thomas and
Swing from their respective denomi-
nations
After the expulsion of Dr. Thomas
from the Methodist Episcopal Church
in 1879. he established the undenomi-
national Peoples Church, which held
regular services in Mcvicker's Thea
ter. In 1901 he resigned as pastor
and was succeeded by the Rev. Frank
Crane.
Hiram Washington Thomas was
born in Hampshire County, Va, on
April 20, 1882. He was converted at
the age of IS and at once began to
prepare to become clergyman He
took private course of study and af-
forwards attended Cooperstown Acad-
envy and Berlin College. He came West
and Joined the Iowa conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in 1856,
having married Miss Emmeline C.
Merrick of Pennsylvania the preced-
ing year. For three years he was
chaplain of the Iowa penitentiary,
which position he left to become pas
tor of Park Avenue Methodist Episco-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
CHRONOLOGY OF THAW CASE.

June 25, 1906-Thaw shot and
killed Stanford White in the thea
ter on the roof of Madison Square
Garden.
Jan. 3. 1907-Trial began.
Feb. Jury completed.
Feb. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw,
wife of defendant. told the story
of how she was attacked by White.
March 20-Lunacy commission
appointed
April 4-Commission pronounced
Thaw sane.
April 10-Case given to Jury.
April 12-Jury reported disagree
ment and was discharged after
having been out forty-seven hours
and eight minutes.
Jan. 8. 1s0S-Secoad trial began
with Martin w Littleton as chief
counsel Insanity principal ground
of defense in second trial.
Jan. 10-Jury completed.
Jan. 1S-Opening pleas made
Jan. S1-Case given to the jury
Feb. Jury returns verdict of
not guilty on ground defendant was
insane at time he shot White Jus
tice Bowling committed Thaw to
Matteawan asylum and til defend
ant was taken to the asyl,,m on the
same day.
Aug u. 19o9-Justice Mills held
Thaw still insane and ordered him
returned to Matteawan.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
HANGS HIMSELF NEAR HOARD.

Economical Husband Whose Wife
Left Him Had $2,119 in Garrett.
When Albert Burt's wife left him
several weeks ago she said he was so
economical that she could not stand
it any longer, and in few days he
committed suicide. Mrs. Burt has re-
turned to their home at Mineola, L. L.,
and has Just founu s2,119 hidden in
the rafters of the ga-ret where her
husband hanged himself. With the ex-
pectation of finding much more money
she has begun systematic search of
the house.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
FIVE PERISH IN BURNING HOUSE

Occupants Lose Lives While Asleep
in Dwelling mt Hancock, Mich.
Five lives were lost in a fire in a
dwelling in Hancock, Mich, Thursday
night. The dead are Mrs John
Dionne; Edward Dionne, s years old;
Peter Dionne. an infant; Aminia
Dionne, II years old, and girl named
Racine. The fire started when the
family was asleep. Mrs. Dionne got
out of the house, but, returning to
rescue a child. persisted in the flames.
Her body was found with the infant
clasped in her arms.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
SAYS THAW IS INSANE;
| BACK TO MATTEAWAN
Justice Mills Rules Against the
Slayer, but in Strongest De-
cision Yet Made.
CALLS HIM A CHRONIC LUNATIC
Thaw, His Mother and His Sister
ALI in a Collapsed Condition
on Hearing News.

Harry K. Thaw was Thursday adj
judged insane by Justice Mills in a
decision handed down in the Supreme
Court at White Plains, n. Y, and or
dered to be sent back to the Mattea-
wan State Asylum for the Criminal
Insane Immediately.
The order of Justice Mills was turn.
ed over to the Westchester County au-
thorities by the Clerk of the Supreme
Court and Thaw himself, in the Jail at
White Plains, was informed of the de-
cision. Arrangements were made to
take him back to Matteawan Friday.
Decides Thaw Is Insane.
Justice Mills decision was the
strongest against Thaw that has been
handed down by any Judge since the
two trials of the prisoner. His decis-
ion can be summed up as follows:
h@S IuC Ludb N.
Thaw was afflicted with in June, 1906,
the date of the shooting of Stanford
White, was chronic, delusive insan-
ity, generally known as paranoia.
That Harry K Thaw has not recov-
cred.
That in paranoia recovery is very
doubtful
That the release of Harry K. Thaw
now would be danger to the public
peace and safety.
Justice Mills in his decision finds
that Thaw is now insane and unable
to properly care for himself The de
cision contained 5000 words and thor
oughly covered the insanity hearing
that had been neld before Justice Mills
Thaw awaited the decision in his
cell in the Jail at White Plains. He
was plainly nervous and paced up and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
BOYCOTT WORRIES ENGLISH.

Proposed Hindoo Move May Mean
s1OO,OOO,OOO Annual Loss.
English merchants are plainly per-
turbed to-day over the outcome of the
Indian boycott on English goods. If
the boycott becomes as effective as
row feared it will make a loss Of
500 .O00,0 900 annually by English mer-
chants and the gain of this in trade
by American, German and Japanese
merchants.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
WEST SWEPT BY HEAT WAVE
Oklahoma Thermometer Registers
liz, Hottest in Fifteen Years


liz, Hottest in Fifteen Years.
Unusually intense heat, officially re-
corded by the government weather bu-
reau as high as 10 degrees, caused
at least three deaths Monday in Kan
sas City, numerous prostrations and
much damage to crops in Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Southwest
generally. Throughout the Southwest
the day was the most trying since the
devastating drought of 1901 AS the
whitening winds swept across the
plains much vegetation fell. The day
was the hottest Topeka has had III
eight years, 1O2 degrees being official
ly recorded. Two prostrations result
ed there. The past eight days in Kan
sas have shown a maximum tempera-
ture above 80 degrees and a minimum
which has now been below 70-the
hotteat period of that length of time
since 1901.
In Oklahoma City the government
thermometer registered 1903, while
thermometers in the business district
reached 112. 1t was the hottest day
recorded there in fifteen vars. At
Muskogee the government thermome
ter registered ITO. This was the high
est recorded in the three Stats. Dis
patches state Oklahoma crops have
been materially damaged by the sultry
wind. Enid, Okla, reported los;
Fort Smith, Ark, 1902; Concordia,
Kan, 102, and Lamar, Mo-, 101. Three
deaths were reported in st. Joseph,
Mo-, due to the heat, among them be-
ing William A. Kenyon, a civil war
veteran, aged "A.
Reports from the Panhandle in Tex
as indicate that moderate temperature
has prevailed on account of the alti-
tude and prevailing winds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
HARVEST JOBS SCARCE.
Three Men. Drawn to Dakota by

Three Men, Drawn to Dakota by
Hope of Work. Do Net Get IL.
Arthur Fries, Benjamin Brandloss
and Eric Seaman. three of forty or
more young men who went to St Paul.
Mimi. from Cincinnati 90 North Da-
kota. where jobs il the harvest fields
were supposed to be waiting for them,
were in police court on a charge of
vagrancy. They told the Judge that
after they had paid So each for trans
portatioa they had been unable 10 get
work All hid receipts for the money.