davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
MAI. GEN. E. M. M'CooK DIES.

Officer in Civil War succumbs After
Illness of Months.
Gen. Edward NJ. McCook, two times
Governor of Colorado when it was still
a territory and Major General in the
army during the Civil War, died at the
Chicago Baptist Hospital. Gen. Nc
Cooks home was in Denver, Colo. The
body was taken to the generals for
mer home in Steubenville, Ohio. Mr..
McCook came to Chicago two months
ago. He was suffering from Bright's
disease and went to the hospital for
treatment. Gen. McCook wa3 born in
Ohio on June Is, 1888 Following his
serving as Governor OF the Territory
of Colorado he was appointed United
States Minister to Hawaii. Gen. Nc
Cook was a member of the family of
fighting McCooks," almost score of
whom have been military men of fame.
He was active in the territorial legis-
lature of Kansas at the time the State
of Kansas was formed. On the first
shot at Sumter he joined the Kansas
legion and sustained the reputation OF
his family throughout the war. Re
was eloquent as an orator and on the
death of Gen. Thomas delivered the
funeral grafton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
AHOOzS
elD COLLEGES
n
~00N0~o>S

The school board at Hastings Mimi
have elected Miss Irene Cox, of Clog
net, as supervisor of music and assist
ant teacher in English.
Prof Charles Frazee of Richmond,
Ind, was elected as a member of the
faculty of the Duluth normal school by
the Minnesota normal board.
The Western College for Women, at
Oxford, Ohio, through the efforts of its
president, John Grand Newman, has
raised an endowment fund of $3.50 O0O
During a recent electric storm the
Charles City College at Charles City,
Iowa, was struck by a bolt of light
ming. No serious damage was infiict-
ed
Students must show an average of
80 per cent for their senior high school
work in order to be eligible for a place
IN the freshman class at the Minneso-
ia ~"
Prof. Frederick Starr. anthropoiogist
of the Chicago University, will go to
Toxic, where he will appear as Jap
anese shopkeeper. He will adopt the
habits, manners and customs of the
japanese in an attempt to study Japan
and its people.
If President Taft consents, 100000
school children of Chicago will form
double line of honor through which the
President win pass when he visits Chi
cago. Sept. 16.
Morningside College, Sioux City, has
been given $4,000 in order TO complete
the $4,000 necessary for the college
to raise the $4,000 which had been
granted conditionally by the American
education board Morningside now has
an endowment of 100000.
The county superintendent Of North
Dakota have appointed committee to
formulate course of study in elemen-
tarv agriculture for the rural schools
of the State. If the course proves sat
isfactory an attempt viii be made to
make the work compulsory by State
law.
E. Clyde Robbins, of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. a member Of the senior class Of
the liberal arts college Of the Iowa
state University, has been asked by a
Twin City publishing house TO prepare
a book on the commission plan of city
government. Mr.. Robbins was one Of
the debaters who debated this subject
in the Iowa-Illinois debate last year.
Closer cooperation between the Uni
versity of Wisconsin and the normal
schools of the State in the training Of
high school teachers is the aim OF the
plan just adopted by the university
after conference with representatives
Of the norInals.
The board of education in Chicago
wiIkmake war on all fraternities and
sor6rities in the city schools Presi-
dent Urion of the school board says.
The .frats' are the bane OF public
school life. an injustice 10 hundreds OF
young pupils who are seeking an edu-
cation, and they viii not be tolerated
as long as am president OF the
board
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
NuRBINs OF NEWS

No able bodied man in New York
need so idle if he wants work There's
plenty of IT," So says the manager of
the National Employment Exchange.
Chicago singers won the two first
prizes for choral work at the conven~
ton of the Swiss Singing Societies at
Louisville. Ky. besides winning the
convention for neNt year.
In a coal mine accident near Vic
toria, H.. Willard Oliver was killed
and Charles Suydam and James Lux
more were injured. the cage falling
seventy five feet with them when the
brake failed 10 hold.
Nine. Fabric Mueller. who intro
duced grand opera into San Francisco
in 1872. died there the other day as the
result of a stroke of paralysis She
was 70 years old. She sang witt Patti
AZ Covent Garden in London more than
a generation ago.
John Ellison. an 1r-year-old negro.
VISA caught by an alligator while steal
ipx water-meions from the patch OF
Edward Thompson, a farmer residing
near Horntown. va. Having lost a
number of his melons by the depreda-
lions of negroes in his neighhorhood.
Thompson had variety of alllgators
shipped to his farm early last spring
from Florida to do police duty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
GEN. H. C. CORBIN DIES.
Operation Fatal to Veteran Army
Man Upon Return from Europe.


Lieut.-Gen. Henry C. Corbin, u. S.
A., retired, died in Roosevelt Hospital
New York, Wednesday, after an opera
ton for renal disorder. Gen. Corbin
would have been 81 year old in few
days. Mrs. Corbin and ex-Gov. Myron
t. Herrick, of Ohio, were at the bed
side when death occurred. Gen. Cor
bin had been suffering for two years
from the malady which caused his
death. He left widow and three
children by his first wife, Rutherford
B., of Washington, Mrs. Parsons and
Grace Corbin, of Wilmington, O.
Lieut.-Gen. Henry Clark Corbin was
born in Clermont County, Ohio. Sept.
10, 1912, the son of a farmer. He
studied law for time, but deserted
his practice for the army. He joined
the Union forces as a second lieu
tenant in the Seventy-ninth Ohio Vol
unteers at the age of 10, and was with
the Army of the Cumberland until the
close of the war. rising to brigadier-
general of volunteers. Gen. Corbin
was mustered out of the service and
entered the regular army as a second
lieutenant in the Seventeenth Infantry.
Congress conferred upon him the rank
of major-general in recognition of his
services in the Spanish-American war.
Nov. 6, 1901, he married Miss Edyth
Patten and he was placed on the army
retired list Sept. Is, 1906
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21

and obscurity to almost fabulous
wealth and colossal power, from bro
ker's clerk to master OF more than
$4,000 miles of railroad and steamship
lines, enough to belt the globe with
triple girdle; from market "scalper"
to arbiter of more than $150,000,000 in
cash and with nearly billion dollars
In stocks and securities al his beck
and call-such is a bird s-eye view of
the career of the Napoleon Of the
railroad world" as they call him, who
has just gone the way of all flesh.
How Hartman got his stare has
always been somewhat of a mystery
to Wall street. The methods by which
he bounded into command of the cap
tains of industry have always been
an enigma to his rivals and associates
alike. Taciturn, mysterious, sphinx
like, but still welding a wand that
seemed to turn everything it touched
into gold, Hartman was the psyche
logical puzzle of the street"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
CHICAGO.

R. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review of
Chicago Trade says: 1.-The growth in
banking power reflected by the Official
statements this week adds further tes-
timony to the improved commercial
position. Loans are seen to have in
creased considerably over this time
last year and there are developments
in progress which foreshadow a
stronger demand for money in the
near future. The discount rate, con-
sequently. gathers firmness 1t is for
tunate that credits operate smoothly
and make financing easier for the
needs of the industries and transporta-
ton interests now entering upon a pc
Rod of greater activity,
Trading defaults again make an
encouraging exhibit. Movements Of
commodities make favorable com
parison with a year ago. Increasing
production is noted in iron, wood,
brass and leather manufactures. No
abatement yet appears in heavy con-
tracts for railway equipment. rails,
structural steel and pig iron.
Machinery makers report wider re-
mand TO rnew outfits, especially for
mining purposes. and the Improvement
is well sustained in electric lines,
heavy hardware and furniture.
Despite poor export requirements
the dealings in grain and flour remain
large. Mail and road orders are ex-
ceptionally good, and aggregate book
ings make high total for dry goods.
footwear and food products.
Bank clearings for five days, $751;
500,334, exceed those of the CORE
spending period last year by 1873 per
cent. and compare with $242, 95f ,602
for six days in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number twenty-one, against
twenty-five last week, and twenty
three in 1907. Those with liabilities
over $4,000 number five, against four
last week, six in 1908 and five in
1907"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
RkWZS
OF
SSp@RR

Reports from Memphis are to the eff
feet that John w. Schorr is once more
to enter the racing game upon large
scale.
Charles A. Comiskey, of Chicago, has
spent 100000 for new players this sea-
son and has about twenty five young
sters On his staff.
A crowd of $4,000 were present at
Saratoga when Rocky O'Brien, owned
by James McManus, won the $4,000
Hopeful stakes, six furlongs. at 40 to /.
r. d. Little, former internationalist,
won the New York State tennis cham
pionship singles on the courts of the
Crescent Athletic Club. In the final
he defeated Robert Leroy, Columbia
University's intercollegiate champion,
6-1, IS, 6-3, S-6.
]. B. Handy, of the New York Ath-
letic Club, and l.. B. Goodwin, of the
Illinois Athletic Club, gave c. M. DAN
iels. the champion swimmer, a hard
fight in the 440-yard event at the
swimming meet of the New York Ath-
letic Club. Daniels won in 5:57 AS.
At the Wilmington, Del. races the
best race was won by Ruby R, who
defeated ]. G. Hartman's Wesley, Jr.
Ralph Hoagland. of Chicago, won the
golf championship flight of the open
tournament of Grand Rapids by defeat
ing Phil Stanton. former Michigan
champion, 2 up and / to play. in a 60
hole match
Chicago won the athletic meet in San
Francisco with a total of SO points. The
OLYMPIC team scored 40, and Boston
10. Snedigar, of san Francisco, won
the broad jump with 22 feet sIs inches.
Leahy. of New York. won the hop. skip
and Jump with a mark of 40 feet s
inches
Sam Berger. manager of James ].
Jeffries. has gone TO the Pacific coast
10 look over the offers that have been
made for the big bout between JEFF
fries and Johnson
Armstrong. of St Paul. carried off
the honors at the Mid West tennis
tournament at Omaha when he took
two out OF three sets from Hoerr. an
experienced player OF St Louis
William ]. Clothier of Philadelohia.
former national tennis champion. won
the national tournament at Newport.
r. l.. when he defeated Maurice Me-
Loughlin. the 1s-year-old California
phenomenon. who had beaten most of
the old experts
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
MEN BEATEN IN LUMBER CAMPS
U. S. immigration Agent Says White
Slavery Exists in Minnesota.

That system of peonage and white
slave labor exists in Minnesota so pro-
nounced that it may involve the fed
eral government in trouble with Rus
STA is the sensational charge made by
John Clifton Elder of the United
States immigration department in a
letter to Governor Johnson.
Mr.. Elder charges that foreigners
are tricked and beaten if they attempt
to leave their employment, and in
some cases the machinery of the law
is used to detain these laborers.
When laborers owe transportation
and try to leave they are arrested and
forced to work out the Indebtedness"
says Mr.. Elder. 1.-THE writer has
found case in northern Minnesota of
two subjects of the Russian govern
ment employed in a lumber camp who
tried to escape and were taken before
a justice of the peace and sentenced
to thirty days" Mr. Elder says that
these conditions are general in north
ern Minnesota lumber camps.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE.

Family of 10 ImperiIcd by Filling
of Gasoline stove Tank.
Three children were burned to death
when fire destroyed the summer cot
tage of Robert A. Walsh at White
Bear Lake, Mimi. The victims were:
Constance Walsh, months old; Rob
ert Walsh, years old; John Walsh, 5
years old. William, another son, 9
years old, was burned about the head,
arms and chest in his efforts to save
his brothers and sisters, six of whom
were sleeping on the second floor of
the cottage Sarah, another daughter,
was burned about the arms in her eff
forts to help the imprisoned babies on
the second floor. The father was burn
ed in the explosion of gasoline stove
when he attempted to fill the reser-
voir, supposing none of the burners was
lighted. One had been left burning,
and the gasoline caught fire. In all
thirteen children and the parents were
in the house at the time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
TARIFF BOARD IS NAMED.
Three Men Who Are to Assist ii
Enforcement of New Law.

Enforcement of New Law.
President Taft has appointed the
new tariff commission or board. which
is to assist him in the execution OF
the new tariff law, with especial refer
ence to applying the maximum and
minimum clauses to nations which
are unfriendly or friendly in their re
lations with the United States.
The aew board consists of three
members-Professor Henry C. Emery
OF Yale, chairman; James B. Reynolds
of Massachusetts, now Assistant Sec
rotary of the Treasury, and Alvin H.
Sanders, of Chicago, at present editor
and proprietor of the Breeders Ga
zette. In announcing the selection of
this new board, authorized bv the
Payne tariff bill, the following state
ment was given out at the executive
offices in Beverly, Mass: The Presi.
dent and the Secretary of the Treas
nry have agreed upon the plan that
these gentlemen are to constitute the
board and are to be given authority to
employ such special experts as may be
needed in the investigation of the for
eign and domestic tariff
The announcement followed con-
ference between the President and
Secretary MacVeagh. Mr.. Taft had
left entirely in the hands of the Sec
rotary the selection of the new COM
mission, and simply approved the men
recommended by Mr.. MacVeagh. 1t
had been a question as to whether the
new board should consist of three or
five members.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
HARTMAN, RAIL KING,
GOES WAY OF ALLFLESH.
Napoleon of Traffic World Expires
at His Residence in Arden Sur
rounded by Family.
WORLD LOSES FINANCIAL POWER
The Cause of His Suffering Is a
Mystery Which May Never
BE Solved.

Edward Henry Hartman died at his
home at Arden, N. Y, some time be-
tween 80 and 1886 o'clock Thursday
afternoon.
His end removes from the railroad
world of the day its supreme figure
1t leaves the greatest railroad system
in the world-a system which he him.
self built up and welded together
without a head. 1t marks the closing
of a career unique in the financial his
tory of this country. At Ia Mr.. HalS
riman was an Office boy; at % owner
of seat in the Stock Exchange of
New York, and at So millionaire At
40, though wealthy, he was still me-
diocrity and in the wider sense I'M
known. In the ensuing twelve years
occurred the meteoric rise that made
him the undisputed emperor of the
railroad business of the nation. His
death at 81 is an event that will make
itself felt throughout the entire finan-
clal fabric of the world.
While it has been known for weeks
that Mr.. Hartman was doomed man
The greatest mystery surrounds the
nature of the disease from which he
suffered. Stomach trouble was the
name given to his illness by his doc
tors, but during the last three or four
weeks the rumor gained wide circula-
ton that he had cancer. 1t has been
intimated by men who were in a posi-
tion to know that he was afflicted with
the same ailment that caused the
death of the late William Rainey Har-
per. president of the University of Chi
cago.
The death of Mr. Hartman removes
from the world its greatest single rail-
road and financial power of modern
history. Like story from The Ara
bian Nights" reads the biography OF
this magician of steel rails and stock
markets. In forty years. from poverty
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
HUSBAND SLAIN; BRIDE HELD.
Scott Sprague, Who Wed Girl ina
Chicago, MysteriousIy shot.

ChAcaBO, mystSrlOusly SnOt.
Mystery surrounds the shooting and
death early Thursday of Scott
Sprague, a machinist, who came to
Cincinnati from Williamsburg, O., and
his bride of two weeks is being held
by the police on suspicion. The shoot
ing occurred in the sleeping room oc-
cupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Sprague at 225
West Sth street The bullet entered
Sprague's right side, penetrating his
liver and lung. The location of the
wound is said to be an unusual one
to be self-inflicted. and this, taken
with the fact that there we're blood
spots on Mrs. Sprague's night robe,
caused the police to place a charge of
suspicion against her. Mrs. Sprague
said she was awakened by the shot
and found her husband huddled up in
corner of the bedroom in his night
clothes She declared her husband had
no enemies, and she knew of no rea-
son why he should have shot himself.
Mrs. Sprague is the daughter of Frank
Cross, of Rockford, Ill.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
NEW YORK

Operations in industrial lines are
still expanding, and in some branches
OF the iron and steel trade record out
puts are the rule. In fact, manufacture
ing is in the forefront as regards ac-
tivity. Jobbing trade is good, and at
some centers, particularly where fall
festivals are held, purchases of dry
goods, groceries and staple lines in
general have really increased.
The earlier gathered crops, such as
wheat, cotton and oats, are being
moved to market quite freely, and the
good prices being realized from the
sale of these products will make for
easier collections and growth in trade.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending Sept. 9
were 1911. against 166 last week, 191
in the same week of 1908, 172 in 1907,
164 in 1906 and 1873 in 1905. Failures
in Canada for the week number 25,
which compares with 33 last week and
"a in the same week of 190S.-Brad-
streets
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
GETS 100000 FOR SAVING LIFE.
Widow Will Come Into Legacy
Result of Presence of Mind.

Widow Will Come Into Legacy as
Result of Presence of Mind.
Mrs Hattie Carhart Winders, a
young widow living with her parents
in Edinburg, N. j., will shortly come
into a legacy of 100000 as a reward
for having saved the life of young
man in a runaway seven years ago.
For more than year agents of the
estate of William H. Anderson in Eng
land have been searching in America
for Mrs. Winders. They finally To-
Gated her through an advertisement
The story of the accident, which she
believes was the cause of the bequest
in his fathers WILL she told as fol-
lows: "One evening Mr.. Anderson
took me to Princeton. AS we were
leaving TOR home he had a sudden
seizure and toppled back in the car
riage. The horse ran away while
was trying to arouse him. Finally /
got hold of the reins and brought the
horse under control"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
N%gz55(@j0lzal
~~oN~~~~~~~

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$500 to $40; hogs, prime heavy, $3.50
to $780, sheep, fair TO choice, $425
to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.05 to $1.07;
corn, No. q &c to Csc; oats, standard,
S9c to 40c; rye, No. 2, zoe to 72c; hay,
timothy, $500 to s14.50; prairie, $500
to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, CSC
to zoe; eggs. fresh, 1Sc to 2dc pota-
toes, per bushel, 55c to Soc.
Indianapolis shipping, $500
to 5000; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $780, sheep, good to choice,
$3.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.0S to
$110; corn, No. 2 white, Tic to 73c;
oats, No. 2 white, Csc to 39c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $40; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, $10S to Sill;
corn, No. 2, &c to CSC; oats, No. 2,
&c to 39c; rye, No 2, nc to 73c,
Detroit Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs.
$500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, $f.10 to Sill; corn, No.
Q yellow, re to 74c; oats, standard,
39c to 40c; rye, No. /, Csc to 69c.
Wheat, No 2 northern
$1O0 to $1O3; corn, No. 8, 50 to 60;
oats, standard, &c 10 399e;; rye, no. 1,
zoe to Tic; barley, standard, Sec to
&c; pork, mess, 1920.
Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping
steers, $40e to $500; hogs. fair to
choice, $500 to $780, sheep, common
to good mixed $500 to $3.50; lambs.
fair to choice, $500 to $500
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $110
to Slip; corn, No 2 mixed, CSC TO
73c; oats, No. mixed, CSC to 40c:
rye, No. 2, CSC to zoe; clover seed,
1886.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 1925:
hogs. $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to.
s435; wheat, No. 2, s1.O9 to $111;
corn, No. mixed, Tic to re; oats,
No. mixed, SIC to 3Sc; rye, No. 2,
Tic to 73c.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, S1.06 to $1.07;
corn, No 2. TIC to roc; oats. natural
white, 40c to ACC; butter, creamery,
27c to &c; eggs, western, PC to
26c.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
HIGHER REGISTRY FEE ASKED.
Soon to Cost Ten Cents to Register
Letter-Five Cents fer Package.

After Nov. /, 1909, it will cost 10
cents instead OF s cents, as at present,
to registe. a piece of mail An order
to this effect was issued by Postmas-
ter General Hitchcock Monday.
The order increases the maximum
indemnity paid to the owner of a lost
or rified registered letter from S25 to
$50, thus doubling the departments
liability for valuable articles intrust-
ed to its registry branch. This addi-
tional insurance of $25 for cents is
granted at a much lower rate than is
offered for similar amount by any
private concern.
The changes ordered constitute the
first move toward making the postal
service self-sustaining. The registry
system is reported to be conducted at
a loss, and in order to make it pay
its way radical measures are neces-
sary. New features being considered
by the Postmaster General include the
establishment of a parcel registration
system with a scent fee and a small
AHuCnHlty, anu plClCi Sd Niooo VI
registered matter of high value with
increases in the fee and indemnity up
to 20 cents and s160, the limits fixed
by law
1t is pointed out that the parcel
measure will meet a public demand
for cheap and safe means of trans
hitting Christmas packages and 9TH
ers of like character, and that the
graduating of the fee in accordance
with the risk involved and the amount
of care necessary to insure safe trans
mission is in accord with sound bust
ness principles. 1t has been also sug-
gested that the idea be carried step
further by asking Congress to raise
the limit of fee and indemnity, in or
der that the department may assume
full liability for all matter accepted
for registration, and may impose an
adequate charge for the responsibility
undertaken.
In addition to these changes affect
ing the amount of fees and indemni-
ties, the Postmaster Generals commit
tee of experts, which is still in session,
has under consideration important
notifications of the registry system
that should lessen the cost of opera
ton without any impairment of the
efficiency
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21
NEW YORK BANKER A SUICIDE.
]. w. Castles, President of Union
Trust Co., Cuts His Throat.

John w. Castles, president of the
Union Trust Company at 80 Broadway,
committed suicide at the Grand Union
Hotel in New York by cutting his
throat with a razor. He had been ill
for several months With nervous pros
tration as a result of overwork. The
bank is one of the big New York in
stutions and has deposits of over
$60,000,000.
Castles was elected president of the
Union Trust Company in December,
1908, and assumed Office early in jan
uary, after he severed his connection
with the Guaranty Trust Company.
The panic at that time was thing of
recent passing. Castles found heavy
load of work awaiting him. AS re-
suit of this heavy work his health
suffered