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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
NEW YORK.

While there has been some expansion
in house jobbing trade in dry goods,
millinery and kindred lines and bust
hess in agricultural Implements, seeds
and fertilizers has been large, the UNI
settlement caused by price reductions
in the irSn, steel and other metal mar
kets the weakness in securities and
the near approach of tariff revision
have all made for degree of uncer.
tainty not so plainly visible for a long
time past.
Weather conditions, too have played
a part in arresting retail trade. coun-
try roads are in bad shape, farmers
deliveries are affected despite attract
i've prices for grain, and there has been,
in fact. an apparent slowing down In
the current of trade. which. however
temporary ii may be. has tended TO
make comparisons with year ago at
this time largely favorable as they
still are, less satisfactory than was ex-
pected some time ago.
AS yet the reductions announced or
believed to be impending in the metal
markets have not made for large bust
ness being booked.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending with Feb. - were
Pa, against 2S2 last week, 81 in the
like week Of 1908, 1914 in 1907, 1870 In
1906 and 206 in Bradstreets.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
HoRsEWHIPs BILLY SUNDAY
Stranger Causes Sensation at Big
Meeting by Assaulting Revivalist.

Stranger Causes Sensation at Big
Meeting by Assaulting Revivalist.
A stranger horsewhipped Billy Sun
day, the baseball evangelist, as rhe lat
H., what is designed to be the great
est religious revival in the history Of
that city. The widest sensation was
created among the audience of 1900
built especially for the meeting
The assailant of the revivalist is be-
lieved to be insane He gave mis- name
as Sherman Potts and said his home
was at Lovington, Moultrie County.
He says he is missionary and was
constrained 10 chastise the evangelist
because Of the naughty" language Sum
day used in the presence of women
and young girls. He says he has fol
lowed him for several months, await
ing an opportunity to assault him.
Mr.. Sunday said he suffered several
painful bruises from the horsewbip.
According to the prisoners statements
at the Jail, he was once declared in
sane and committed to the Jacksonville
asylum, whence, after a brief confine-
ment, he was released as cured. The
evangelist severely sprained one ankle
in leaping from the platform, but was
able to deliver his opening sermon as
scheduled.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
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Chicago-Cattle. common TO prime
S400 to $40; hogs, prime heavy. $3.50
to $685.: sheep, fair to choice. $500
to 1919; wheat, No. 2, $123 to $l.24 !;
corn No. 2, 63c to 64c; oats, standard,
54c to Soc; rye, No. ., 76c to 7Sc: hay.
timothy, $500 to $t3.J0; prairie, $500
to 81 30; butter choice creamery. pc
to Bic; eggs. fresh, 20c to 24c; potatoes,
per bushel, Soc to SIC.
napolis-Cattle, shipping. $500
to $3.50; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $500; sheep, good 70 choice.
$50 to $500; wheat No. 2. $l.20 to
S1.22; corn, No 2, white, Gle to 63c !;
oats, No. . white, 49c to Sic.
st. Louis-Cattle $3.50 to 500: hogs.
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $3.50:
wheat, No. .. $12S to $1.30: corn. No. 2,
63c to G4c oats, No. 2, 53c to ole: rye,
No. 2, 76c 10 re.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to 500:
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to
S5.25; wheat. No. ., $l.27 to SIPS: corn,
No. 2 mixed, &c to Csc; oats, No. 2
mixed J4c 10 Doc; rye, No. 2, Sic TO SIC.
Detrot-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to S475:
wheat No. 9. Sl.23 to $1.25; corn. No. 3
yellow. 67c to Csc: oats. No. 3 white,
54c to Doc; rye. No. 2. soc to SIC.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. northern,
$1.13 TO S1.15: corn, No 3. Coo to 68c
oats, standard. 53c to SOC; rye. No. I,
tic to Zoe; barley, No. !, Goo to 66c;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Bufralo-Cattle. choice shipping steers
$500 to $500 hogs, fair to choice, 500
10 $3.50; sheep, common TO good mixed.
800 to S475; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, 800 10 $500;
hogs. $3.50 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat. No. 2 red, S1.23 to Sl.24:
corn. No 2. Tic to re; oats. natural
white. SIC to G0c; butter, creamery, 27c
to Bic: eggs. western. poo TO 23c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed. Si23 TO
1925: corn. No mixed, CSC to 67c;
oats, No 2 mixed. soc TO SIC; rye, No.
2. Sic to SIC: clover seed, 1852.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

The Minnesota Senate has passed
resolution forbidding the State live stock
sanitary board to iJcur further obliga-
tions without the consent Of the Legisla-
fure. and the board has ceased TO CON
denim live stock on account Of tuberculo-
sis or CHAMBERS or to furnish tuberculin or
mallein.
At Superior. Wis. the contract is to be
soon let for the preliminary construction
cork on the big steel plant to be bull; at
the head Of the lake by the steel trust
and the appropriation for that purpose
will be raised to S27 100000.
Governor Davidson, Of Wisconsin. rec
,mpends that the State reserve 10 itself
III rights in its undeveloped resources
md that legislation be enacted forbiddng
he granting to private corporations OF
lam franchises except under special speci-
ications approved by State experts. lie
estimates that the State has 1.00000O
,orse power In its streams
The convention Of the United Mine
Workers finished It's three weeks sessions
II indianapolis with the adoption of the
aew Sage scale demands, including the
light hour ddS without decreaSed wages
and complete recognition Of the unioa
Lewis. the reelected president. and his
ival. Walker. exchanged felieities. and il
sas voted that in future majoritS
should determine the choice Of officers.
In Colorado company has been form
ID 10 utilize the power of ccaI AT the
mines by installing longdistSnce cleo
trio plant there. The coal is to BE- con-
ferted into electric power and sent out
IN feed wires to a 1JO-nsile circuit
Fred bennett, commissioner OF the
general land Office. has announced that
The Spokane reservation, $4,000 acres,
and tie Yakima reservation, 1,l4j.O00
acres. both 10 the State of Washington
and the Occur d'AIene reservation. 321.-
900. In Northern Idaho, viii probably be
opened to settlement this year. also that
the Lemhi reservation. $4,000 acres, in
Idaho. gay be ready in time to be includ-
ed in the 1906 drawings.
President Gompers Of the American
Federation Of Labor now asserts that
since October. 1907. more than 100000
American wage earners have been walk
ing the streets wbo we're employed before
that time
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
VICTORY FOR STANDARD OIL.
Judge And srson Intimates He Will
Limit Prosecution to SO Offenses.

Before the battle of Chicago has
fairly begun two successive victories
over the government have been won by
the Standard Oil Company. Judge An
derson's statement that he would con-
strue the Court of Appeals decision
to mean that the company could be
tried for orly thirty-six offenses in
stead of the 500 which the government
expected to prosecute, was a decisive
triumph for the corporation.
Attorneys point out that if the high
er courts affirm Judge Andersons de-
cision it will open way by which ev-
cry shipper in the country can iesrIhe
the practice of accepting rebates, and,
by making annual settlements. can es-
cape with a penalty of $4,000, which
would be only drop in the bucket
compared with the large sums that
would be saved. SO, while this deci-
sion will limit the maximum fine
which can be imposed upon Standard
Oil to $4,000, government attorneys
declare it also tips railroads and ship
pers to :. plan by which they may
evade the anti-rebating laws.
Although the decision has gone
against the government in this iu-
stance, as in the case of the jury pam
Ell, District Attorney Sims finds a
crumb of comfort when he compares
it with the clause in Judge Grosscup's
decision that limits the fine to the
amount of the capital stock of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana,
which is S1,O0O.OOO
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
DEFENSE IN CARMACK CASE.
Evidence Brought Out Tends to Show
That the Senator Fired First.

One after another the three princi-
pals charged with the murder of ex-
Senator Carmack at Nashville have
been placed upon the stand by the de-
Tense and been subjected to cross-ex-
animation, the main point of their sew
eral stories being that Carmack fired
first. First Robin Cooper described
the encounter and the circumstances
leading up to it. At the time he said
he was going with his father Col. Dun
can B. Cooper, TO confer with Gov.
Patterson, at the latter's request, in
the hope of adjusting the cause Of
trouble between Col. Cooper and Mr..
Carmack. This gave color to the con-
tention that when they met Carmack
on the street the elder Cooper APP
ing some sort of a conference to set
tie the matter. Mr. Sharp had joined
the CoOpers on the way, said Robin.
The hope of the latter had been to
avoid street meeting between his
father and Carmack. knowing the bit
ter feeling which existed between them.
But he had taken the precaution to
borrow a revolver. so as to defend his
father If attacked. He swore that he
had been twice wounded from Car.
mack's pistol and that he then re-
turned the fire, shooting three times,
with fatal effect upon his adversary.
One bullet had grazed his neck and
shoulder, and the other went through
his left sleeve. The clothing worn by
Robin, showing the bullet holes, was
put in evidence. The story told by
young Cooper was closely corrobOrated
by both Sharp and Col. Cooper. but
the cross-examination of the State
brought out some discrepancies which
might prove troublesome later, in view
of the position of the bullet wounds i'll
Senator Carmack's body.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
TAFT CABINET IS FILLED.
Franklin Macveagh Of Chicago Ac-
cepts Treasury Portfolio.

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Franklin Macyeagh of Chicago has
accepted the post of Secretary of the
Treasury and will go to Washington
next month to become the ranking cab
met officer after the Secretary of State
No official or unofficial declaration Of
Mr.. Macyeagh's appointment is to be
made by Mr.. Taft until he promulgates
his entire cabinet.
The cabinet as completed with the
selection of Mr.. Macveagh is as fol-
lows:
Secretary of State-Philander Chase
Knox, Pennsylvania.
Secretary of the Treasury-Franklin
Macveagh, Illinois.
Secretary of War--Jacob NJ .Dickin-
son, Tennessee.
Attorney General-George w. Wicker
sham, New York.
Postmaster General-Frank H. Hitch
cock, Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Navy-George Won l..
Meyer, Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Interior-Richard A..
Ballinger, Washington.
Secretary of Agriculture-James Will
son, Iowa.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Charles Nagel, Missouri.
Mr.. Macyeagh's final acceptance re-
moves from the realms of speculation
the question about which there have
been so many rumors md SO much talk.
Chicago is now assured Of being repre-
sented In one of the most important
positions in the cabinet by a citizen
who for many years has been leader
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
CONGRESS HAS LOST
MANY men OF NOTE
Retiring II Senators and II Repre-
sentatives Include Familiar
Faces.
PLATT AND TELLER BOTH CO.
Hepburn of Iowa, Bourke Cochran
and J. Adam Bede Also to BE
Among the Missing.

Twelve Senators and seventy seven
Representatives will be absent when
the Sixty-frst Congress assemblies in
special session on March To- These
changes in the personnel of the Senate
and House include many whose names
are bywords to every reader-of news
papers.
OF the seventy-seven Representatives
who retire on March 3, one, AIR. Hep
burn Iowa-, has served twenty-five
years in Congress, and another, Mr..
sherman On. ", who becomes Vice
President, has served twenty years in
the House. Mr.. Cousins (Iowal and
Delegate Smith (Ariz) have served six
teen years, while Jenkins (Wis.), Coop
er (TeX.), Overstreet (Ind.), Williams
(Miss.) and Acheson (Pa.) each have
served fourteen years. OF the other
Representatives wAe retire eight served
twelve years; two, ten years six, eigh,
years; nine, six years; fifteen, four
years and twenty-eight two years, or
a single term
Representative Hepburn of Iowa has
been conspcuously interested in all
matters relating &c interstate COM
merce. his connection with public af-
fairs going back TO antebellum days,
he having been a delegate to the Re
publican national convention of 1860.
John Sharp Williams former minority
o. fina. Of fha 10 nfn~
the Senate two years hence. Repre-
sentative j. Adam Bede of Minnesota.
who has contributed to the humor Of
many campaigns, and Bourke Cochran
of New York, who has figured in many
oratorical contests, also retires.
In years of service Senator Teller
of Colorado is the nestor of the retir-
ing sta tesmen, having been elected Sen
ator upon the admission of his State
to the Union, taking his seat Dec. 4,
1876. since which time he has been
continuously and prominently in the
public eye. Senator Platt of New
York served in the Forty-third and
Forty-fourth Congresses as member
of the House, entering the Senate in
1881. Senator Foraker, whose political
career is fresh in the mind of every
one, has served "a the Senate twelve
years. senator Hemepway succeeded
Vice-President Fairbanks. He had been
a prominent member of the House since
the Fifty-fourth Congress, being chair
mai of the committee on appropria-
tons, when he resigned to go to the
Senate. Senator McCreary also had
long service in the House of Represent
atives. Other Senators who. retire are
Ankeny of Washington, Fulton of Ore
gon, Gary of South Carolina, Hans
brough of North Dakota, Kittredge of
South Dakota. Long of Kansas and
Milton of Florida.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
WOMEN IN VOTE RIOTS
CHOOSE TO GO TO JAIL
fitted Suffragettes, Arrested in At
tempt to Reach House of Conn
mons Are Sentenced.
ANGRY AIDS WOULD USE BOMBS
sympathizers Gather Near Bow
Street Court and Make Threats
Against Authorities.

Refusing to give security foi their
fragettes arrested While attempting to
reach Premier Asquith to present TO
him a petition in the interests of the
cause, were sentenced TO Imprisonment.
Most of the terms were for one month.
Exceptions were made in the cases of
Mrs. Esthick Lawrence and Miss Law
less, who, having previous convictions
against them, were sentenced to two
months
Sympathizers gathered in the streets
and there were frequent clashes with
the police, who sought to keep them
from the Bow street court. Some of
the more rabid made wild suggestions
Of resort to bombs, but the leaders
coupseled them to continue present tao
tics The women made two successive
attempts to raid the House of Commons
during the night, but both failed.
The program of assault was a repeti-
ton of previous ones. The procession
started from Caxton Hall nominally
to present petition to Premier AS
guith. The women were permitted to
reach the palace yard, but there they
told by officials that the prime minis
ter was absent, and it was added ne
would not receive them even if he were
present. The women then tried to push
their way in. When they were resist
ed they fought and struggled desperate
ly with the obvious intention of being
arrested. The police, after long-suffer-
ing forbearance, used less tenderness
and rushed the women toward the
erowd, of onlookers. These latter were
unsympathetic and refused to let the
women through, pushing them back
into the police ranks.
The situation has taken on an en-
barrassing aspect for the Government,
owing to the high social position OF
many among some thirty or more wom-
en- arrested, these including Mrs.
Pethick Lawrence, Lady Constance
Lytton, sister of Lord Lytton and
daughter of the former viceroy Of n
dia Miss Stratford Dugdale, daughter
of Commander Dugdale and cousin OF
Hon. William r. w. Peel, who was
elected in {. by-election as member of
the House OF Commons for Taunton ;
Miss Daisy Solomon, daughter of ~ e
ex-Premier of Cape Colony. and Mrs.
Catherine Elizabeth Corbett, an aristo-
cratic supporter of the suffragette
movement
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
CHICAGO.

Money conditions reflect an easier
tone and discount operations extend
slowly, out the improving trade &c.
tiyity is seen in a larger volume of
payments through the banks and less
difficulty in handling credits. Price
readjustments take the course expected
in iron and steel, but other raw mate
rails undergo no special change.
Freight movements recover from ef-
feet of recent storms, larger forward
ing BEING noted in heavy materials,
foodstuffs and general merchandise.
Crop marketings gain in wheat and
corn, but stocks here steadily decrease
and give firmness to quotations, for spot
demands. Very profitable returns to
growers induce liberal shipments, de-
spite bad state OF country roads,
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number "A. against % last week.
% in 1908 and IL in 1907. Those with
liabilities Of more than 5000 num-
Der ), against last week. IA in 1908
and in 1907,-Dun's Weekly Review
of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
RkKUo
9psGsRR

At Pittsburg Rodney Powers. of st.
Louis. broke the one-mile roller skating
record. the time being . :46 %.
Objections to the driving of hobbled
horses in races have given rise to bill
in the Minnesota Legislature prohibiting
the practice.
Frank Gotch, worlds champion heavy
weight wrestler has signed articles TO
meet Rauel de Rouen, in a match for the
worlds title and purse of $4,000, win
ner to take 60 and loser 40 per cent. at
Kansas City.
When Delaney's challenge to Jefries
on behalf of Kaufman was made known
to Jeffries. the ex-champion laughed and
said why, Kaufman couldn't lick a
postage stamp" Kaufman had challenged
flor a $4,000 side bet"
Brown University has asked Chicago
for a foot ball game this fall, and the an
swer of Stagg is eagerly awaited in
Providence. Brown wants two Western
games, Chicago. Minnesota and ST. Louis
being preferred, but Chicago especially de-
sired
A report from Boston says that John
Clarkson. the famous pitcher, died there.
Clarkson was the original Ten thousand
dollar beauty" and was generally deemed
the best pitcher in the history of the
game He had his greatest fame with the
Chicago team under Arson.
At Mason City Drivers Charles Har-
die aud o. Il. Swift now have their fine
strings of horses on the new driving
course. and drivers from other cities and
towns in Northern Iowa and Southern
Minnesota are arranging to bring their
strings as soon as the weather will per-
nit
James Il. keene. the dean Of the Amer
lean turf. has no thought of retiring from
participation in American racing. As an
evidence of his loyal support he has in
training at the Saeei,Shead Bay track
seventeen of the finest thocoughbredS that
were eyer foaled in this country. Other
owners will follow suit.
Al Los Angeles, Freddie Welsh played
With George MenlSic in ten-round fight,
exert himself.
After practically leading all the way.
! Ning James, one of the stars in the sta
BILE of Sam Hindreth. gained a head vic
tory over Dorante in the Burns handicap
al Oakland Cal,
AT Los IAn-ses. Cal. Jack Akin, car
rying the crushing weight of l3S pounds
proved himself the champion Splinter of
America, when he won the Alhambra
handicap at Santa Anita park in hard
drive BY half length from DomInus Ar
vi The six furlougs were run in the re-
markably fast time of 1:lI So
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
CANNOT REACH sEARs-RoEBUcK.
Court Holds Mail Order House Need
Not Answer Iowa Indictment.

Court Holds Mail Order House Need
Not Answer Iowa Indictment.
BY simply ignoring the indictment re-
turned against it by the federal grand
jury in Des Moines two years ago the
Sears Roebuck Company of Chicago will
escape trial on charge of using the mails
to defraud. In an opinion handed down
by Judge Mcpherson of the United States
Court it is held that the big mail-order
house cannot be compelled to appear for
trial in the federal court. Judge Nc
Pherson points out that a corporation can
not be arrested and brought before the
court as would be done in the case of one
individual, and there is no federal stat
ute which requires a corporation to go
into another State to stand trial If it does
not wish to do So In the indictment the
Sears Roebuck Company was charged
with selling by mail paints and jewelry
which were different in form and quality
from those advertised in its catalogues.
Judge Mcpherson says if the government
so desires the alleged crime can ne COW
cred by an Indictment in the Northern
District of Illinois.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
srABBER CAPTURED IN BERLIN.
Man Caught I'm Crowded Street as
He Tries TO Attack a Woman.

Man Caught In Crowded street as
He Tries TO Attack a Woman.
A nan has been arrested in connection
with che series Of attacks upon women
made in the streets of Berlin, Germany,
in the last fortnight. He tried to stab
a woman on the Friedrich strasse, one of
the crowded shopping streets of the city.
The clothing of his intended victim was
cut, but she suffered no harm. The wom-
an screamed, and her assailant fed into
house in an adjoining street, where he
was seized by a policeman. He is a
young man. This attempt was the thirty
sixth ripper case. The descriptions of
the ripper" do not agree, and it is be-
lieved that various men may have been
engaged in the work A state of terror
has existed among women of Berlin,
many domesfics refusing to go on the
streets alone at night. The police made
every effort to capture the assailant. They
even had detectives dress as women and
sauDter through the streets, inviting at
tack, but to no purpose. The attacks
have been made. by day as we'll as by
night and in the streets as well as in the
halls and stairways of houses. The rip
per- would approach his victim quietly,
strike at her swiftly with a sharp stiletto
and then escape.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-09
ELECTRICITY FROM THE SUN.
Inventor Claims He Can Produce
Power by Storing Old Soils Rays.


That he has successfully solved the
problem of storing up the suns rays
and converting them into electrical
energy, problem on which the scien-
fists of the world have been diligently
working, is the claim made by a Bos-
ton inventor, George S. Cove, of Som
merville. Mr.. Cove demonstrates the
success of his Invention by lighting his
workshop with electricity generated
from simple apparatus on the roof
No electric wires of any sort enter
his building from outside lighting
sources, vet the incandescent globes
twinkle merrily day and night, and
electricians from the Institute of Tech
nology who have watched with interest
his experiments declare themselves en-
thusiastic over his success.
Cove has demonstrated that his sim
pie mechanical device viii store up
sufficient electricity for an entire house.
He also says the machines, which can
be built at cost of 500 each, when
incased in glass, win least ten years
without repair or alteration. He began
his experiments through an accident
when one day he let some glass and
other metals remain on the floor in the
direct rays of the sun, and a connection
between the metals and his storage
battery resulted in storing the latter
with electricity.
From this he perfected a machine
which generates through day of sun
shine enough electricity to-=light five
lights of twenty-candle power each, to
last from three to four days of .contin-
uous lighting. In two days of sunshine
the device generates and stores up suf-
ficient electricity to last six days.