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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
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The ST. Paul Y. NJ. C. A. have open
ed an outdoor gymnasium.
The annual rowing races between
Yale and Harvard on the Thames were
won by the crews of Harvard. Cornell
won on the Hudson.
The base ball team of the University
of Wisconsin has about decided to
abandon the project of visiting japan
as had been planned.
Minneapolis made it four straight
over Indianapolis for the series by
taking the last game on the home
grounds in the twelfth inning, AS.
The spring meeting of the Montreal
Jockey Club was a huge success this
year. At the closing events a major
ity of the finishes were close and ex-
citing
The frequent rains have retarded
training throughout the country, and
as a result the trotters and PAGERS are
at least three weeks late in their
"preps" for the races.
Lou Dillon is creating quite stir
on the Berlin tracks. After being in
retirement for nearly four years she
proves that she has lost none of her
old time speed. The record she now
makes is 200 S-5.
A novel experiment has been tried in
Cincinnati 1t has been demonstrated
that base ball can be successfully
played by electric light. President Her
mann, of the National Base Ball Com
mission, pronounced the attempt sue
cess.
The New Zealand rover. r. Arnst,
defeated " Webb, in a contest on the
WanganLi River. n. T., which victory
allows bin to retain the sculling cham
pionship of the world. His record is
S9 miles in is minutes, IA 3-5 sec
onds.
The Chicago Automobile Club have
sustained losses amounting to $4,000
as a resolt of the Crown Point meet,
and they have decided to drop auto
races from the schedule for 1910. If
the races are given they will be con-
Quoted on vastly different lines.
A few years ache three heat,
every heat a race. piaa found many
followers, and for time it seemed
that the system would take the place
Of the other but it is gradually being
discarded, and there will be few races
of that character this season.
The fourteen stakes TO be decided
during the Kentucky Trotting Horse
Breeders Associations thirty-seventh
annual meeting at Lexington, Oct 5
TO Is. inclusive. have closed with a
total entry of $50 horses. an average of
fortS-two nominations per race.
Edward and Joseph Madden, the
youngest trotting horse breeders and
owners in the world. will this sesson
campaign one of the most prete1tious
stables; of harness horses that will go
down the Grand Circuit.
The French Derby at Chantilly was
won by ". K yandertilt's Negofol
in impressive style from Edmond
Blanc's Union. with Negofors stable
companion, Oversight. third.
Miss Gvendolyn Rees of St Paul
defeated Miss Marie Wagner, the ma
tional indoor champion tennis player.
in Philadelphia.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
NEBRASKA ELECTION LAW voID
Superior Court at Lincoln Gives De-
cision in Test Case.

Superior Court at Lincoln Gives De-
cision in Test Case.
In Lincoln. Neb., the Superior Court
handed down a decision declaring the
Donohoe nonpartisan judiciary cleo
ton law invalid. TIE decree says: THE
majority of the court holding that
the act is void, the Judgment of the
District Court is affirmed" This
means that the election of judges of
the Supreme Court, District courts. re-
gents of the State University, county
judges. and county superin tendents by
use of a separate ballot, cannot take
place. The old law will continue to
hold. The chief objection of the court
was to the provision requiring that
for 1000 names to be on petition
for judge, not more than 500 of which
could come from one county. They
declared that it was a hindrance to
the free exercise of the franchise, and
was repugnant to the constitution Of
the State. Four of the six members
sitting believed this provision formed
the chief reason for the passage, and
thus invalidated the whole act. The
entire court declared the provision de-
nying the right of party conventions
to indorse candidates for the Offices af-
fected by the act was without force
and void.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
NAGEL GUSTS 100 employees.
Commerce and Labor Secretary Finds
Them inefficient.

Commerce and Labor Secretary Finds
Them inefficient.
The greatest "shake-up" that has
ever occurred in the personnel of the
Department of Commerce and Labor
in Washington took place Monday,
when approximately 100 employees
were reduced and the resignation Of
about ten others accepted. This &C
ton was taken by Secretary Nagel as
the result of an investigation into the
efficiency record" of The employees.
The reductions were made, it is stated,
because the employees were found to
have "loafed on the job while those
allowed to resign were found to be in
efficient. The secretary's determine
tion to inject new life into his depart
ment prompted the radical step. Fur
Their dismissals are to be made and
designations asked for, it was intimat-
ed, as soon as Secretary Nagel COM
pletes his examination of the efficiency
report. Many of the clerks will re-
ceive promotions as a result of these
changes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $40; hogs, prime heavy, $3.50
to $805; sheep, fair to choice, S/.@5
to $5.40; wheat No. 2, $1.25 to 1927;
corn, No. 2, 73c to 74c; oats, standard,
soc to SIC; rye, No. 2, roc to soc; hay,
timothy, $500 to $1,000; prairie, $500
to s14.50; butter, choice creamery, &c
to Csc; eggs, fresh, TIC to 21c; pota-
toes, new, per bushel soc to $1.00.
Indianapolls-Cattle, shipping, $500
to $3.50; hogs, good to choice heavy.
$3.50 to $500; sheep, good to choice.
$3.50 to $6.15; wheat, No. 2, $1.40 TO
S1.4l; corn, No. 2 white, 74c to Use;
oats, No. 2 white, SIC to sac.
st. Louis--Cattle. $40) to $40;
hogs. s400 to $500; sheep, $500 to
S4.25; wheat, No. 2, $f14 to $115;
corn. No. 2, 67c to Csc; oats, No. 2, 4sc
10 acc; rye, No. 2, SOC to SIC.
Toledo-Wheat, No mixed, s13f
to S1.35; corn, No mixed, roc 70
72c; oats, No mixed. Sic to SIZE, rye,
No. 2, 7Sc to 79c; clover seed, $500.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to s640s
hogs. $500 to sS.15; sheep, SO 90 to
s4.25; wheat. No 2, s1.38 to SLAP;
corn, No mixed, Tic to re; oats,
No. 2 mixed, SIC to sac; rye, No. 2.
8sc to 9Oc
New York Cattle. $500 to $500:
hogs, $3.50 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, s1.44 to si.f5;
corn, No 2, TIC to 7Sc; oats, natural
white. SIC to 6Oc; butter creamery,
22c to zee; eggs, western, lie to
PC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 TO $3.50; hogs.
s4.00 to 1890; sheep, $3.50 to s4.O0;
wheat No. 2. s1.SS to s1.35; corn. No.
3 yellow, 73c to nc; oats. No. white.
SIC to SIC; rye, No. 1, SIC to SIC.
Wheat. No. northern,
s1.24 to s1.2S; corn, No 3, 64c to csc,
oats, standard. 4Sc to 49c; rye, No. /.
79c to soc; barley, standard, CSC to
66c; pork, mess, 1925.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping
steers, s4.oc to 800; hogs. fair to
choice, $500 to $50; sheep, common
to good mixed. $500 to s4.75; lambs.
fair to choice, $500 to $3.50.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
GHOUZS
COLLEGES

The University summer school, un-
der the direction of Dean George F.
James, has begun. 1t promises larger
attendance than last year, when 1900
students attended.
The Chicago school board has decid-
ed to abolish Latin and algebra in the
lower grades and readjust the course
of study, making it more practical. A
training school of domestic science for
girls is to be established.
In the recent examination of fores-
try in ire University of Michigan,
William W Morris received the mark
of 1913, the highest mark won in the
recent forestry examination in all the
universities of the country. He has
been almost wholly supporting
while at the university.
The feature of the Manchester Col
lege commencement, aside from the
formal announcement that the en-
dowment fund of S450,000 had been
raised, was the recital given by the
department of music.
The Minnesota Indian School atMor-
ris will not be taken over by the
State for an agricultural station for a
while. The government has appro-
priated $4,000 to maintain the Indian
school until the State takes hold.
St Joseph's Academy granted di-
plomas to thirty-one girls who finished
the course at that institution in ST
Paul last week. The commencement
exercises were held outdoors. Arch
bishop Ireland delivered the address.
In Des Moines, Iowa, Miss Maud
Ewing and Miss Ida May Tilden,
school teachers. were arrested,
charged with having beaten 9-year-old
David Kaplain.
Crivitz. Marinette County, Wis, is
to have new agricultural school, pro-
viding the residents of the county will
donate eighty acres of suitable land
for that purpose.
All of the seventy-one counties OF
wisconsin, except Florence County.
we're represented at the University of
Wisconsin last year. in the total en-
rollment of 1921 students
New York City school authorities
have denied the truthfulness Of the
sensational report made at the Allan
tic City meeting Of the American Med
zeal Association by DR.. T. Alexander
MacNicholl. The report made by the
doctor was to the effect that a medi-
cal inquiry covering 10000 New York
public school children had disclosed
that 1900. or So per cent, drink reg
ularly, or occasionally, alcohol in
some form; that 11.100, or 81 per cent
drink daily from one TO five glasses
Of beer; that $500. or q per cent
drink wine or spirits
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Capt. Abraham f. Culver of the
United States navy died suddenly in
Washington. d. c., aged SO years.
Polish societies from several cities,
including Chicago, attended services
in New York for the late Nine. Mod
jeska, the actress.
For the first time in history wheat
has been shipped back from New York
TO the West for consumption. Recent
inquiries have been received from as
far away as Texas for New York red
wheat.
A. Teon, Mexican banker, and his
wife and seven children arrived in
New York from Europe. after spending
$1,000 on years vacation.
The three years fight of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
roSd for the right TO own or control
the Boston and Maine system ended
in victory for the New Haven.
The piece system of wages instead
of the hour system has been adopted
by the Omaha Railway Company al
the car shops in Hudson. Wis. This
will raise the pay Of some and lower
that of others. the employees claim.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
NEW YORK.

Future trade continues good; conf
dence is unimpaired. Buyers are ar
irving in the larger markets Cereal
crop reports, despite rains in some
winter wheat and corn growing sec
lions, are encouraging. Country trade
promises to be heavy on supplies in
market. Industrial lines are becoming
more active. calls for harvest hands
absorb large part of the floating sup
ply of labor and the long-drawn out
discussion regarding tariff matters
promises to be soon ended On the
other hand, the general situation IS
not without its drawbacks. Thus cool
or rainy weather has retarded retail
trade over a goodly part of the coun-
try. particularly in the central West,
South and Southwest, where floods
have also deferred railway traffic and
injured crops and country trade. AT
the same time, clearance sales are
pretty general and these tend to slim
ulate business where normal weather
conditions prevail. In wholesale and
jobbing lines current trade is mid
summer character and recorders are
comparatively light. Moreover, the
high prices that have prevailed for
raw material suggest small profits ON
many manufactured articles. Collec-
lions range from poor to fair, though
there are special lines which report
prompt settlement.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with July s
were 1872, against 213 last week, GAG
the same week of 1908, 1875 in 1907,
143 in 1906 and 166 in 1905. The
weeks failures in Canada number q,
which compares with 20 last week and
80 in the like week of 190S.-Brad-
streets.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
BIG CONTEMPLATING PLOT.
Secret Service Men Say Gang Has
Operated for Years.

Secret Service Men Say Gang Has
Operated for Years.
What the secret officers declare is
an international counterfeiting plot
with agents throughout Italy and the
United States was revealed the other
day when operatives arrested two
Italian women and two Italian men in
Chicago. A fifth arrest is expected.
The officers refuse to divulge the
names of the prisoners. According to
the secret service men the gang has
been operating in this country for
four years. The plant where the coun-
terfeits are made is in Italy, they de-
clare, and is under the eye of the Ital-
ian police The operatives say thou
sands of dollars of bogus$5 and $40 sill
yer certificates have been passed which
were so well made that even experts
had difficulty in detecting them. Sc
cret Service officer Richie recently To-
Gated members of the gang at Warren,
Mass, it is said, but made no arrests,
hoping by following them to locate the
plant. The Italian police later discov-
cred the plant in Italy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
STEAMERS COLLIDE; IA DROWN.
Ore Freighter Sinks in Three Min
utes-Crashes with New Boat.


Three minutes after the steel steam
ers Isaac M. Scott and John B. Cowle
had collided in Lake Superior early
Monday morning, about a mile and a
half off Whitefish point lighthouse,
the Cowle had gone to the bottom in
fifty fathoms of water, carrying with
it fourteen members of its crew. The
Scott, although badly damaged about
the bows, put back to Sault Ste. Marie,
where it arrived in the afternoon with
part of the crew of the Cowle.
A heavy fog was responsible for the
collision. The Scott, a new boat on
its maiden trip to the head of the
lakes, had just passed the light at
Whitefish point and Strengthened out
it's course up the lake when suddenly
the John B. Cowle doomed up through
the fog broadside on to the Scott and
only few feet away. The Cowle was
downbound with 5000 tons of iron ore
in the hold.
The ships were SO close that 1t was
said to be impossible to avoid col
lision and the Scott crashed into the
side of the heavily laden Cowle. For
fifteen feet the bow of the Scott pene-
trated the side of the Cowle. Tons OF
water rushed into the great opening.
Immediately after the collision a
line was thrown from the deck of the
Scott to the forward deck of the Cowle
and three members of the crew es-
capped to the deck of the upbound
boat by this means. The rest of the
crew who were saved jumped from the
sinking steamer into the lake, some
without life prsservers, and were pick
ed up by the Scott and the steamer
Goodyear, which was short distance
astern of the Scott when the collision
happened. Capt. Rogers, Of the Cowle,
was one of those who were rescued
by the Goodyear.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
NEWCOMB, SCIENTIST. IS DEAD.
Military Funeral for Noted Astron-
omer in Washington. D. C.

Military Funeral for Noted Astron-
omer in Washington, D. C.
Prof Simon Newcomb, astronomer.
mathematician, traveller, and rear adj
miral, retired, who died at his home in
Washington, d. c., was buried with
military honors in Arlington Cemetery
Wednesday. High officials Of the gov
eminent attended and the honorary
pallbearers included prominent men.
Prof Newcomb is survived by his
widow, a daughter of the late DR..
Hassler, surgeon, U. S. NJ, and three
daughters, DR.. Anita NewcomD Nc
Gee of Washington, Mrs. Francis Will
son, and Mrs. Edward Whitney, both
of New York. Simon Newcomb Was
the recipient of more degrees and
similar honors abroad than any other
American man of science. He was the
first American associate of the French
institute since Benjamin Franklin, and
was decorated by Kaiser Wilhelm with
the order Pour lie Merite fur Vissen-
schaften und Kunsten." He was a
writer on political economy as well as
in his own peculiar department of
learning, that of astronomy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20

Two factories were destroyed at De-
troit with damage of $4,000 when
the Milled Screw Company and the
Michigan Stamping Company plants
burned. Three firemen were serious
" but not fatally injured at the fire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
FLOOD IN MIDDLE WEST;
SANTA FE TRAIN UPSET
Coaches in Eighteen Feet of Water
at Pomona, Kansas-Chicago
Child browns.
800 ARE RESCUED IN BOATS
Unprecedented Rains Swell River
and Do Great Damage in
Missouri Valley.

Weakened by excessive rains and
covered with water to a depth of two
feet. the road of the Santa Fee line,
one-half mile east of Pomona. Kan.
gave way under the weight of the sec
ond section of west-bound passenger
train No. 5 at o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. Three coaches turned tur-
tie on the right of the embankment
and now lie in eighteen feet of water.
The 4-year-old daughter of Mrs. Car
rie Rose of Chicago was drowned. Two
of the 800 passengers on the train
were injured.
Coaches Topp1ed Over.
The train had been detoured from
the main line to the Emporia cutoff
to avoid flood blockade and encoun-
tered rising water a mile from Pomo-
ma. A stop was made to examine the
track and the train slowly entered the
flood. Half the distance to the depot
had been traversed when the baggage
car left the rails. The smoking car
and the day coach followed, turned
from the rails and slipped gradually
over the embankment and down into
eighteen feet OF water that filled the
slough at the side of the roadbed. The
turn was made so slowly, however.
that the passengers, previously warned
Of the dangers of the track, succeeded
in gaining the tops of the coaches that
still stood upright in the flood.
A relief train from Ottawa came in
sight through the rising waters at
o'clock, but was compelled to return
for additional boats and coils of rope
to steady the boats against the swift
current. Four boats, manned by ex-
pert crews, took the passengers off.
Homes were found for all the refugees
of Pomona.
Boat Is Swept Away.
One of the first of three boats to
reach the spot was caught in the
wreckage and lost The rescue train
on its second trip plowed through two
feet of water for three-quarters of a
mile before it reached the point from
which the boats were launched.
In Pattonsburg, Mo-, the dead are
George Palmer, a harness-maker, and
Harrison Walker, section man, and
.. Bower and wife, E. G. Nelson, a gro
Gerry clerk and a man named Scott are
missing. During the morning a call
for aid was sent out from Pattonsburg,
a town of 1000 in Daviess County,
which was reported under seven to
ten feet of water, and relief trains
we're made up at ST. Joseph and Kan
sas City.
A dispatch from Santa Rosa, Mo-,
stated that the ST Joseph relief train
was marooned between that place and
Pattonsburg. Teh water had gone up
until it was two feet over the track.
Two Kansas City boats which started
from Pattonsburg to the train are
missing. But one ST Joseph boat got
through The engine whistled all
night to guide the boatmen.
The worst flood of the year is raging
in the Des Moines River Valley. The
river has reached the fourteen foot
mark and threatens to go higher.
Thousands of dollars worth of corn
has been swept away. Residences in
the southern part of the city of Des
Moines were surrounded by c foot of
water. Every railroad running trims
into DeS MOineS is hours late
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20

Notwithstanding that in the Sta~s
of Georgia "near beer" is the nearest
approach to an exhilarating beverage,
the records of the Atlanta police de-
partment at the close of the six
months of 1909 show 1875 arrests in
that city for drunkenness. This rec
ord is in excess of that Of last year,
1923, and almost equals the record
fer the first six months of 1907.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
HARBcR AFLAME AS OIL BURNS.
Blazing Barge Endangers Shipping
in Bay mt PrOyideuce. II. L.

Blazing Barge Endangers Shipping
in Bay at Providence, II. 1.
A drifting barge, sending forth fire.
quent explosions from her cargo of
burning oil, end quarter of a square
mile of the harbor waters ablaze from
the same cause, endangered the entire
water front and shipping of Provi-
dence, r. L., the other day. The Texas
Oil Company's barge Harrison, load
ed with $4,000 gallons of oil, was in
flames 1t destroyed the company's
wharf and several of its buildings
The loss is estimated at $4,000. Two
were injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20

Denver is preparing to care for at
least 10000 delegates and visitors to
the N. E. A. convention which opens
there early in July, according to the
statement of Chairman c. E. Chads-
ey of the committee of arrangements.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.


The Black Hand or some similar
agency is operating in Richmond Va.
Wealthy men have received letters
threatening the abduction of their chill
dren if the writers were not paid mon
ey. With such alarm did one of the
recipients regard the letters that he
forthwith sent his wife and children
to a neighboring city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
EXPLOSION kin. Nine Miner.

Nine men were killed by an explo-
sion of gas in the mine of the Cedar
Hill Coal and Coke Company at Toll
lerville. Colo. They were descending
in the cage at the time of the explo-
sion. Those who were not killed in
stantly were slowly sufocated by gas
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20

The Congregationalists of the Unit
ed States have just announced the
raising of more than 100000 Of a
fund of 100000 to iquidate the in
debtedness Of the American board of
foreign missions and other mission.
ary agencies.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20

Leon Naimais, bell boy in a New
Orleans hotel, has been left $4,000 in
the viii of Starr II. Nichols, New
Yorker, who short time before his
death visited the hotel and took a
fancy to the lad.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
-Iub. wife, Hang. Himself

During a quarrel at their home in
Waco, Tex. J. NJ. Parks. 90 years old,
attacked his wife with club and in
iicted probably fatal wounds He
then hanged himself to a tee in the
back yard.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
Tb,r,een prisoners Break jail

While the jailer and his deputies
were at dinner thirteen prisoners, sew
en- white and six negroes, escaped from
the county Jail in Paducah, KY,
through an eighteen-inch hole that
had been dug in the wall.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20

Eighteen million feet of lumber.
valued at between s45o.o00 and $780,.
600. was destroyed by fire of al I'M
known origin at the mills of the vir-
ginia & Rainy Lake Company at Du-
luth. 1t was insured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20

0razio Runfola, alleged Black Hand
leader. was held by the United States
commissioner in Pittsburg in $1,000
bail to appear before the District
Court of northern Ohio.