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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
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John Gates, 2:19A, is now owned by
j. H. Hopkins, of st. Paul.
Hamburg Belle failed in an effort to
Randall track. Cleveland, 2:03A being
the best she could do.
Before 5000 people at Scarbori
Beach Park, Toronto, Alfred Shrubb
ran Tom Longboat off his feet in seven
and one-half miles of twelve-mile
, race.
An offer for match between James
]. Jeffries and Jack Johnson has been
made by the directors of the Tulcare
County (Cal.) Agricultural Association,
who claim the backing of fifty business
men willing to subscribe $4,000.
John Welch, of Lexington. KY, is
pushing a movement to have the af-
fairs of the Latonia Agricultural and
Fair Association investigated. WEIGH
is one of the stockholders and if his
statements are found to be true the
attorney general of Kentucky will
probably take steps that viii result in
Latonia FORGETTING her charter.
a new worlds record in the hop
skip-and- jump was made at Boston by
Daniel F. Ahearn. of the Irish-Ameri-
can A. c.. of New York, who made the
distance of so feet 81 inches.
Melvin Sheppard. the worlds great
est runner. is out of athletics for the
rest of the season. He has been in bed
for some time suffering from an alb
scess on the calf of one of his legs.
Mrs. Christine Struhm. so years old.
is walking from Alberta, Mich. to Chi
cago in the hope that dispatches tell
ing of her journey will reach her lost
SON. William Wallace Cutler. whom she
has not seen since he left home in
Grand Forks, y. D., in 1891.
w X. vanderbilt's Messidor III. won
the Prix de viIlers at DeauyilIe. Mr..
yanderbilt's Bats Delight finished
fourth in the Prix de Honfeur.
G. L. Harrison's Waldo. at Sarato-
"a easily won the Saratoga special
six furlongs. and in doing so proved
himself the best 2-year-oId of the year.
Thomas K. a.I7l4. the bay geidiug
which has earned the title. The Iron
Horse by his remarkable perform
ances in the track. has been sold and
retired 10 private life. He is now
owned by Frank Ellis. OF PHILADELPHIA
who will use him exclusively for pri-
vate driving. He has won over twenty
blue RIBBONS st various track events.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
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The Legislature of Georgia came to
the end of it's session without having
permitted the federal income tax
amendment proposed by Congress to
come to a vote.
Maryland Democrats favor a suf-
frage amendment to the State consti-
tuition to be voted on this fall. The
suffrage amendment will disfranchise
the illiterate negro.
President Taft plans to placate the
insurrectionary Middle West during
his forthcoming Western tour by max
ing a series of speeches explanatory of
the Payne tariff bill
The "drys" won the local option cleo
ton in Santa Rosa County, Florida.
The saloon element ordered the cleo
ton and sought 20 regain territory lost
to them by election two years ago.
The President has decided to have
the census appointments divided
equally among Democrats and Repub-
licans in the States of the solid South
which are wholly Democratic, in all
other States the Republicans to get all
the places.
Since the adjou .nment of Congress
the word has been passed around
among the leading Democrats of the
Empire State that the time had come
for a new effort 20 revive the genuine
simon-pure Democratic spirit in the
party councils. 1t is proposed to hold
a general conference at Saratoga on
September 9.
The Connecticut Senate agreed to de-
fer until the next session of the Leg
islature the consideration of the fed
eral income tax amendment to the
constitution. Gov. Weeks has vetoed
the liberal Sunday law, passed by the
Connecticut Legislature 1t would have
repealed the old blue Jaws.
Advocates Of equal suffrage are plan
ming a campaign which viii emanate
from Boston as a starting point. Those
who are enthusiastic in the campaign
see in its elimination the election Of
lane Adams as future President OF
the United States.
Capt. Richmond P. Hobson. while
addressing the Chautauqua assembly
at Correctionville. Iowa, said: The
best thing that could happen to this
couatry would be to have all Of the
States doubtful. That is, have half of
the voters so independent in thought
and action that they viii vote ire
spective OF party in order 20 advance
the ends of good government"
The name Of Seth Low. former may
or OF New York. and once head of CO.
lurnbia University, is given serious
consideration by President Taft in the
selection OF successor to WhiteIaw
Reid as ambassador to Great Britain.
As a result of the refusal of Sena-
tor Aldrich and other tariff conferees
to grant an important request made by
Secretary Macyeagh. ii is quite unlike
" that any bonds for the Panama ca
nal work viii be sold the coming year.
Instead, certificates of Indebtedness
viii probably be sold TO pay for the
canal work and to repIenish the treas
ury in the event Of the development OF
a deficit
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Chicago-Cattle, common TO prime,
$500 to $500; hogs, prime heavy, $3.50
to $S05; sheep, fair to choice, $4.25
to $500; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01;
corn, No 2, 66c to &c; oats, standard,
36c to BIC; rye, No. 2, CSC to re; hay.
timothy. $500 to $1,000; prairie, $500
to $1,000; butter, choice creamery, &c
to Use; eggs, fresh, lie to 21c, pota-
toes, per bushel, 4Sc TO Doc
Indianapolis-Ca shipping, $500
to $3.50; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $S15; sheep, good to choice,
$3.50 to s4.75; wheat, No. 2. s1.OS TO
S1.1O; corn, No. 2 white, Tic to 73c;
oats, No. 2 white, CSC to 39c.
st. Louis Cattle, $500 to $7.45;
hogs, $500 to sS.12; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, S105 to $1.O8;
corn, No. z, Csc to &c; oats. No. 2,
Csc to Gee; rye. No 2, zoe to nc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 tG 1855; hogs,
$500 TO $500; sheep. $3.50 to $4.25;
wheat, No. 2, sIo6 to s1.07; corn. No.
2 yellow, nc to 73c; oats, standard,
&c to 3Sc; rye, No /, &c to 69c.
Oincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $6.15;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 TO
$3.50; wheat, No 2. s1.08 to s1.10;
corn, No. 2 mixed, roc TO Tic; oats,
No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 2,
Tic to TIC.
New York-Cattle, $500 to 800;
hogs. $500 to $40; sheep, $500 to
s4.EO; wheat. No. 2 red. s1.06 to $1.09;
corn, No. 2, 79c to soc; oats, natural
white, CSC to 42c; butter, creamery,
23c to 28c; eggs, western, &c to
25c.
Milwaukee Wheat, No 2 northern.
LOO to s1.O2; corn, No. 3. 63c to Csc;
oats. standard, CSC to 39c; rye, No. /,
re to 74c; barley, standard. Csc to
&c; pork, mess. s2240.
Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping
steers, $500 tc $500; hogs, fair 10
choice, $500 to $3.50; sheep, common
to good mixed. $500 to $3.50; lambs,
fair to choice, $500 to $s.15.
Toledo-wheat. No mixed, s1.0s
to MOI; corn, No mixed, zoe TO
Tic; oats, No. 2 mixed, BIC to 3sc;
rye. No. 2, sSc to sec; clover seed.
s715.
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CHICAGO.

Dun's Review of Chicago trade ddr-
ing the week, published by R. G. Dun
& Co., says:
Trade generally reflects the prog
ress looked for, production and distri-
button of finished products and neces-
saries being distinctly enlarged and
the demand for money stronger at the
recently advanced discount rates.
Heavy consumers are now protecting
their future requirements, with the re-
suit that enormous bookings are
made for 1910.
New contracts in the prominent in
dustries become notably extended, par
ticularly for rails, structural steels,
pig iron, cars, wire and forge and foun-
dry outputs. Prices of most supplies
show further firmness, while furnace
product and minor metals cost more
and lumber turns dearer for some
grades.
The markets for foodstuffs indicate
wider activity. Breadstuffs show east
er price tendencies, but live stock and
provisions bring the highest average
values this year, and east bound rail
shipments of the latter gain over both
last week and year ago.
There is seasonable attendance of
outside buyers in the markets for gen
eral merchandise. This adds strength
to the absorption of fall and winter
wares, sales being encouragingly good
in the textiles, footwear, furniture and
house furnishings. Prolonged warm
weather has heightened the buying of
light weight apparel at retail here and
throughout the interior and stocks are
reduced gratifyingly.
Bank clearings, $685. 1855, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1908 by 25.4 per cent, and compare
with $212,233, $50 in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number 26, against II last
week, "a in 1908, and "a in 1907.
Those with liabilities over $4,000 num-
Der 5. against 6 last week, in 1908,
and in 1907.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

A china egg was found in a six-foot
black snake killed near Bloomfield
n. ].
French and American capital will
establish & s5O.Ooo.0O0 steel plant in
the City of Mexico within twelve
months
John +. Cosgrove of Hartford. Conn
was elected Supreme Chief Ranger OF
the Foresters of America At the SUI
preme Court session at Toledo. Ohia.
The council of Waterville. Kan. has
PASSED an ordinance making it a mis-
demeanor to swear, BY chowder
was exempted as not being swearing
The Thomas Is. Jeffery Company OF
Kenosha, Wis. has refused TO pay .
hin of $3.50 for the inspection of oil
and as a result the State has filed sui
to test the law.
Marian Bleakley. 5 years old. ~incu.
hator baby" has been placed in Gus
fody OF the Juvenile Court at St. Lsoui:
uutn court and fourteen lawyers ascer.
tain to whom she belongs.
Cigarette dealers in Minnesota ar,
confident that the s.nti-cigarette Law
will hold. Cigarette smokers hav.
been stocking up in anticipation Of tbs
law going into effect and bought i
large quantities before the lid vas af-
fixed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
RAILWAYS ARE READY
FOR CROP MOVING
Great Surplus Supply of Box Cars
Being Sent West to Carry
Grain.
BIG DEMAND WILL BE MET
Gradual Increase in Transportation
Business Shown by Report of
Committee.

The crop moving season in the Mid
die West and in the great grain belts
will not find the railroads Mapping. Ac-
cording to the fortnightly report of
the committee on relations between
railroads of the American Railway AS
sociation great supply of surplus box
cars already is in the section of the
country which will first feel the de-
mand for cars and in which the most
serious car shortages occur. The lat
est report of the committee records
that throughout the country there are
159.424 surplus cars, decrease of 3d.
579 from the corresponding period in
1908. The largest decrease was in box
cars, in which class the surplus was
reduced 21,141. The sulplus number of
this class of cars at the present time
is about 10000, and half of these are
in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minneso-
ia, and the Dakotas, known as group
6, awaiting the call for crop moving
purposes.
Before the crops really begin to
move a still greater number will be
sent West to meet the estimated de-
mand. The report of the committee
also shows gredual increase in rail-
road business as measured by the de-
mand for cars from April, 1908, when
the financial panic struck full force.
On April 20, 1908, the number of sur
plus cars reached the highest point in
the history of American railroads. At
that time nearly 100000 cars were
standing idle in yards and on side
tracks. By the following August, when
the panic had spent it's force, this
number was reduced to 253,003. Dur
ing the last year the climb has been
gradual, and it is estimated that in
the latter months of the year the crop
moving will call into use nearly every
idle car in the country.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
TAFT TO URGE POSTAL SAVINGS.
Will Ask Congress to Keep Party's
Pledge as Soon as Possible.

President Taft has indicated in talks
with callers that in his message to
Congress next December he will
strongly urge the early establishment
of a postal savings bank system. The
President realizes that there is strong
opposition to such legislation and,
while he does not propose to rush Con-
gress on too many matters at once, he
will ask that the platform declaration
of the Republican party in favor of
postal banks be fulfilled as speedily as
possible. Influential members of the
Senate and House are urging that the
matter be left over until the monetary
commission has made its report and
ensuing financial legislation has been
disposed of. 1t even has been said
that the relation between the subjects
to be dealt with by the monetary COM
mission and the postal banks is so
close that the two should be handled
together. President Taft believes that
several hundreds of millions would be
placed at the disposal of the govern
ment through postal savings banks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
FATAL CRASH IN AUTO RACE.
One Killed, One Perhaps Fatally
Hurt at Brighton Beach.

Hurt at Brighton Beach.
Leonard Cole, mechanic of the
Stearns car in the twenty-four hour
automobile race at the Brighton Beach
track, was killed and Laurent Crosse,
the driver of the car, was perhaps ia
tally injured in an accident. The
crash happened just beyond the club
house as the cars were punching to
take the turn. Cole was crushed un-
der the machine and instantly killed.
Crosse was thrown to one side and
his spine fractured.
The fatal accident came moment
after a minor sensation. The score
for the first hour had been given out
when the Fiat and the Allen-Kingston
came into collision. The latter ma
chine caught fire, and the 10000 per-
sons in the stands had a thrill, as it
appeared to them that somebody must
be in the flames. Announcement was
made as quickly as possible that no
body was hurt, and the spectators mad
settled down again when the fatal col
lision occurred. The Stearns car was
a complete wreck. Cole was found
under the wreckage and was pulled
out dead.
The Indianapolis motor speedway
commission is held responsible for the
deaths of William Bourque and Harry
Holcomb, driver and mechanician of
Knox car in the automobile races in
that city recently, in the finding of
Coroner Blackwell. Bouruue and mol
comb were among several persons
killed on the course during three days
racing. The coroner in his report
says the speedway was not properly
built for racing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
FINDS BIBLE NOT ORIGINAL.
U. of C. Professor Says Pagan Be
liefs Have Aided Christianity.


The Bible is not original with its
supposed compilers, according. to the
opinions expressed by Professor Ger
aid B. Smith of the faculty of the di-
vihity department of the University
of Chicago. The story of creation
and the deluge appeared long before
the Bible was written" the speaker
declared. Both Of these stories were
traditional in the early literature of
the Babylonians.
THE theologian of to-day is &C
quainted as the theologians of former
days were not, with the reality and
vitality of non Christian religion, and
in the investigation of the Old Tesla
ment religion it has been found that
many of its elements were derived
from Israels contact with Babylon.
The history of Christianity reveals the
fact that Christian beliefs have grown
and changed as Christianity has met
with the secular forces of its history
There are elements in every pagan re-
ligion which every Christian is COM
PEELED to recognize as truth. The ques-
ton must be raised whether the con-
tact with oriental peoples, which is to
be so prominent a factor in the near
future, will not mean that Christianity
will be influenced and modified as it
has been in the past"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
MEN IN MINORITY IN CHURCH.
Census Report Shows Women the
More Religious Sex.

More Religious Sex.
Standing out as conspicuous fea-
ture of bulletin issued by the census
bureau entitled Census of religious
bodies" is the fact that out of a
church membership in the United
States in 1906, of nearly 100000 men
formed considerably less than half of
the total OF the total church mem
bership reported by the various relig-
ious bodies and classified by sex, 43.1
per cent were men and 569 per cent
were women. Among the Protestants
the difference was greater, only 1913 per
cent being men, while in the Roman
Catholic Church the men formed 1913
ger cent of the total membership. Few
er men than women were found among
the Latter Day Saints, the Lutherans,
Disciples, Methodists, Baptists, Presby-
terians and Protestant Episcopalians,
the percentage of men members de-
creasing in the order shown, and there
being only 35.5 per cent men among
the Episcopalians. Among the Chris
tian Scientists, only 27.6 per cent were
men, and of the Shakers, only 21.3 per
cent, but in the Greek Orthodox
church, 93.9 per cent were men.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
JOBS FOR MEN WHO KNOW GRAIN

Government Seeks Assistants for the
Bureau of Plant Industry.
Students with an agricultural train
ing, who are familiar with laboratory
and field work and with classes and
varieties of cereals, are sought by the
government at salaries ranging from
$1,000 to $4,000 a year. The civil SER
vice commission has announced an ex-
animation in Washington, Sept. % to
select eligibles for positions as assist
ants in grain standardization in the
bureau of plant industry of the de-
partment of agriculture. One of the
requirements is the writing of a the
sis of not less than 1000 words on the
kinds of cereals grown in the United
States and the method of harvesting
and marketing with special reference
to CHASING and grading grain. CONNER
cially.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
EARL GREY GETS LOST IN WOOD.
Without Companions ON Hunt, He
Almost Fails Over Precipice.

Without Companions ON Hunt, He
Almost Falls Over Precipice.
Earl Gray, Governor General of Can
ada, who returned to Victoria, B. c.,
Monday from Dawson and Skagway by
the government steamer Quadra, had a
narrow escape from death while lost
in the woods of Jervis inlet for five
shooting experition. He was without
companions other than his dog, and
once came near falling over preci-
pice. The governor general clambered
over fallen trees, fought his way
through underground and slid down
rocks in the darkness, tearing his
clothing to rags.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
TWO MEN ROB BANK OF $1,000.
"Shoot Up" Iowa Town and Escape
No Clew to Identity.

SAAoot " T. -c"o ]oWA dAu GSCdpe-
No Clew to Identity.
After shooting up" the town Tues
day afternoon, two men robbed the
German National Bank of Mineola, Ia,
sixteen miles south of Council Bluffs,
of $1,000.
When the men stopped shooting they
separated, one going to the rear of the
bank and the other stepping into the
front door, pushing by Cashier Neff,
who had been attracted to the front by
the shooting. The second man then
entered the bank and started to talk
with the clerk. Milf went back into
his cage, and as he did so the man
who had pushed by him drew a re-
vollver and, pointing it at his head,
crowded in. Mfr grappled with him,
but the man jumped away, sprang into
the cage and picked up a package of
bills and stepped outside. While the
man who had the money coolly stuffed
it into a small grip, the second rob-
Der covered both cashier and clerk
with his revolver. Then, bidding the
bank men good day, the two robbers
walked to the front door, closed it be-
hind them, walked down the street
and escaped.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07

for Latham to ride out the storm, but
to their delight he only mounted the
higher and took his machine over the
tribunes at height of 800 feet.
The fifth day of aviation week was
ushered in with ideal weather condi-
TONS The light airs and overcast sky
brought the flyers out early, and be-
fore noon no less than a dozen ma
chimes, like huge gulls, were circling
above the plain. The program of the
day included the continuation of the
trials for the Grand Prix de la Cham
payne, the endurance test, the lap event,
the speed event, a race between dirigi-
BILE balloons and landing competition
for spherical balloons. Latham, in a
beautiful monoplane, was the first avi-
ator to get away He announced his
intention to make an effort to beat
Paulhan's great record for the endur-
ance prize, made yesterday-two hours
SO minutes and "a seconds. He start
ed flying at a great height. Sommer.
Cockburn, Buneau-Varilla, Delagrange
and finally Glenn H. Curtiss, the
American contestant, followed Latham
into the air.
A noteworthy feature was witnessed
when Delagrange, flying low. started
to overtake Latham, who was still
high in the air. There was a pretty
race for four miles and Delagrange
was overhauling Latham when he was
compelled to descend.
The international cup of aviation,
known also as the Gordon Bennett tro-
ply, was won by Glenn H. Curtiss, the
only American aviator entered in the
Rheims races. in the fastest aerial
journey of twenty kilometers (12.42
miles) ever accomplished by man. His
time, Is minutes 50 3-5 seconds, was
only five and three-fifths. seconds fast
er than that made by Bleriot over the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
Girls Drown as Car Hits Boat.

Alice Boisnot, 10 years old, and Ma
RE Mueller, 16, daughters of Philadel-
phia eottagers at Ocean City, were
drowned tonight while sailing in
Great Egg Harbor Bay. Two boys were
with them in small sail boat, which
drifted against the trolley bridge that
crosses the hay from Sommers Point
to Ocean City. A car passing over the
bridge hit the mast of the boat and
caused it to capsize.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
HORSE DRAGs HIM TO DEATH.

Nebraska Farmer Pulled in Front
of Train by Ba1l>y Animal.
John King, a young farmer, was
killed by a Union Pacific flyer near
Central City, Neb., in an unusual way.
He was leading horse across the
tracks with the halter wrapped around
his arms. The animal baked on the
track and although Reeves was safely
across he was dragged back and under
the wheels when the engine struck
the horse.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
COAST LINER HITS A ROCK.
Wireless Hero Summons Help and
Then browns at His Key.

The coast liner Ohio of the Alaska
Steamship Company struck a rock in
the Pacific off Steep Point while push
ing northward in fog from Seattle
to Cordova with 219 souls aboard. All
the passengers save three were res
cued by other vessels which rushed to
the sinking steamers aid on the call
of the wireless &C Q. D." But Purser
F. ]. Stephens of Seattle sank with
the ship, as he was till lowering pas
sengers over the side into the boats.
and Wireless Operator George c. Ec-
cles also went down still sitting at
his key and still sending the story of
the wreck to the operator at Ketchi-
kan, Alaska, as the Ohio plunged to
the bottom.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
AIR FULL OF RACERS
OVER RHEIMS COURSE
Ideal Weather Conditions at Aero.
drome Bring Out Dozen Ma
chimes for Contests.
TESTS BY MANY AvIAToRs.
Latham Breaks Record Made by
Paulhsn for the Time and
Distance.

Hubert Latham, the French aviator,
Thursday broke the worlds record for
time and distance in the contest at
Rheims, France. He came down after
he had covered about 1913 kilometers,
or 95.01 miles. Paulhan in his flight
Thursday made 1907 miles. When
Latham started on his second effort
there were ominous black clouds on
the horizon, and during the aviators
fourth lap sharp squaI of wind and
rain broke over the aerodrome. The
spectators did not believe it possible