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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
rSArE AVID INDUSTRY.

Soap men firm twenty-sour different
points In .ae Middle West met at Bur
lington, Iowa, and entered protest
against increase in freight rates.
During the last year l.. A. Sweet of
Martin county, Minnesota, produced and
sold 5000 worth of produce from his
torty-acre farm, the greater portion com
ing from his cows.
The independent glass manufacturers
have decided TO stand pat on the wage
scale made with their employees last Sep
TENDER and to make no concessions. This
means that 12,0ca men on strike will re-
main out Of work until they come to the
Farms Of the employers. There are about
1900 skilled workers who made the de
nland for sn increase said to average
from Is to 40 per cent.
wash sales" on the floors of produce
exchanges or chambers Of commerce are
aimed at ia bill offered by Senator B. f.
sunberg Of Kennedy. A penalty of from
$500 10 5000 is to be imposed when one
member OF firm makes a sale to another
member Of the same firm.
William b. Dickson, second vice presi-
dent of the United States Steel Corpora
ton, has been elected first vice president
to succeed James Gayley, who retired
several weeks ago. David @. Kerr of
Pittsburg. who has been connected with
the raw material department Of the cor
poration, was elected second vice presi-
dent to succeed Mr. Dickson.
President Gonpess Of the American
Federation of Labor has notified the
unions affiliated that on account Of the
application Of the Sherman antitrust Law
TO the unions by the decision of the Sa-
prems Court in the Loswe hat boycotting
case and the imposition Of fno Of three
times the supposed damages, nv has de-
cided. BY advice Of counsel, to discontinue
the awe Don't Patronize" list In future
numbers Of the Fedcrationist, or until
Congress could be induced 20 amend the
Sherman law so az not to apply to labor
unions.
The Grotan shipyard, where the steam
sh;na Minnesota and Dakota were built
for James ]. Hill 10 being dismaEtied
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
SHORT NEWS NOTES

An explosion of fire damp in The Auka
coal mine al Yeszprim Hungary, resulted
in the death Of fifty-six men. OF $40
men entombed 1874 were taken out alive.
Mexico is TO be invited to take part in
the conservation conference at Washing
ton Feb 49, Canada has accepted an in
vitation TO cooperate with the United
States.
Fire destroyed the buildings occupied
by the Hudson Dry Goods Company. the
Brown, Eager & Hill Book Company
the Scotch Woollen Mills Company.
Knapp's jewelry store and Fleischmann's
cafe in Toledo, Ohio
John NJ. Gushing, a "'49er," died in
San Francisco. lie was born in Salem.
Mass, in 1925.
Frank NJ. Howe, who designed the cleo
tricity building at the Columbian expo
sition. died in Kansas City, Mo, aged 80.
Witnesses summoned from Chicago will
testify in New York at the hearing Of
the governments suit against the alleged
powder trust.
Reports that George B. CorteIyou. Sec
reta-y # the Treasury, is TO become presi-
dent of the Consolidated Gas Company
Of New York are denied In the eastern
metropolis.
David Jackson, a millionaire land own
er ana pbilanthropist of Monterey. Cal.
died there. He was born In Scotland
lightweight years ago and came to Cali
foruia in 1S49.
Thomas w. lawson was blamed for
his financial troubles by Cardenio FIayius
King, when he was sentenced to from
ten to fifteen years in the penitentiary
for larceny and enlightenment
Senator Buckley win introduce bin
in Congress for the incorporation Of the
descendants Of siguers.v the purpose of
which Is the organization of descendants
Of those who signed the declaration Of in
dependence.
The steam schooner SybiI Marston.
loaded with lumber for Redondo. Cal
was driven ashore near Surf, Cal. and
two of the crew lost.
Fire destroyed the Peekskill IN. VI
Military Academy, causing a loss of STE
600. The $50 students escaped in safety
and had time 10 save their books and
other movable property.
Ii is reported In st. Louis that the
STANDARD Oil Company is attempting to.
force H. Clay Pierce out Of tho Waters
Pierce Oil Company as a punishment for
his attitude in -ne custer suit The
Standard has cut I've price Of oil ard
brought a competitor into the Miss ri
field
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
INDIANA COUNTIES GO DRY"
Four Practically Swept by Militant
Anti-Liquor Forces.

Complete returns from four Indiana
counties holding local option elections
Tuesday show that four have been
added to three that entered the dry
column some three weeks ago. In every
county the victory was more decisive
than the advocates of option had ex-
pected and rout of the liquor forces
comes with crushing force because
overwhelming results were not antici-
pated. In Decatur County the MAORI
ty is close to 1900, with only / per
cent wet; in Putnam, 1884, with only
two precincts out Of thirty four wet;
in Upton, 1927, with all twenty-four
precincts dry, and in Hamilton the ma
jority Will reach 1900. with possibly
only one or two precincts wet. Elec-
lions in all the counties were quiet
and orderly. The anti-saloon elements
were busy all day. Women in cities
and towns took leading parts in get
ting voters to the polls In some cities
church bells were rung at regular in
tervals. In others, teachers marched
at the heads OF their classes to the
polls, wearing badges. In country dis
tricts and in cities and towns schools
were given a holiday and the children
went out with the teachers election
eering
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
MANY DIE IN LAKE
HORROR OFF CHICAGO
Ninety Workmen Caught In Blaz-
ing Prison on the Chicago
Water Crib Structure.
LEAP FRoN FLAMES TO WATER.
Hundreds of Persons, Powerless to
Give Relief, Witness Struggles
of Laborers from Shore.

Over three score unfortunate work
men lost their lives and many others
were badly injured Wednesday morn
ing In fire which destroyed the inter-
mediate crib in Lake Michigan, mile
and half off list street, Chicago. used
by George w. Jackson, the contractor,
In the construction of a new water
tunnel. Estimates of the fatalities
ranged from sixty to seventy. Ninety
men, who lived at the crib and
worked in shifts, were on the structure
when the are broke out Many Of these
were burned to death before they could
reach the doors. Others, their clothes
afame, leaped into the icy water re-
CARELESS Of the results. A number, un-
able to swim, sank beneath the surface
Others swan to cakes Of ice to support
themselves until the arrival of relief.
Starts from Powder Explosion.
The fire originated in the powder
magazine on the first landing, Many
Of the employees were asleep in hunks,
and others were just going to work,
when sheet of fame shot through the
building. The alarm spread rapidly.
Chicagoans who heard of the impend-
Ing disaster were appalled, when they
learned that over seventy workmen
at the crib were completely isolated
from the shore. Smoke could be faint
ly seen putting up 5000 feet away,
where light mist lay over the water.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
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CHICAGO.


Sustained gains in payments through
the banks and low commercial NOR
tally add further testimony to inn
proved conditions. Despite the un-
favorable weather, trade activity re
fleets healthy progress. leading distrib-
utive branches showing seasonabie
volume and forwarding of general mer-
chandise increasing in response to nu-
merous requests for prompt deliveries.
Farm products show heavier market
in&s, together with larger outgo OF
breadstuffs. A shortage of hogs re-
ceived adversely affects the live stock
aggregate, and prices of the principal
cereals and provisions average higher,
those of hog product recording sharp
advances. Factory outputs contribute
more tonnage for transportation and
movements of raw materials run closer
to normal. Earnings of the Chicago
steam roads steadily recover and to
some extent exceed those at this time
asst year.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %, against SO last week,
80 in 1908 and "a liz 1907. Those with
liabilities of more than $1,000 number
7, against 10 last week, 10 in 1908 and
s In 1907.-Dun's Weekly Review Of
Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02

shore As soon as the alarm was given
prompt measures Of relief were taken,
but the quick spread Of the flames In
the wooden structure and the distance
to be covered made these efforts all but
useless.
The crowds ON the shore watching
the distant blaze with its plume of
black smoke. the squad of men on the
adjoining crib and those working from
the fire tug Conway, which had been
hurrid through the ice foes from its
station in South Chicago to the scene
of the connagration, were greatly
alarmed when 1t was learned that three
tons of dynamite were stored in the
substructure of the burning crib. The
flames spread rapidly, and it was but a
few moments when the crib was a
mass of flames Hundreds, helpless to
aid, watched from the shore
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
Saturday.
RRIEF NEWS ITEMS

The Senate committee on commerce has
approved & bill requiring all motor ves-
sells to carry life preservers the collector
of customs estimating the number of such
beats In the United States to be about
10000.
II. u. Lee who has just retired as
president of the Farmers National Bank
of Saiins. Kan, was at one time a full
partner Of John ID. Rockefeller In the oil
business in Ohio. lie owned forty-nine
shares of the company and Mr. Rookie
Teller owned fifty-one.
After consultation with Roy Knabeu-
shue, the seronaut. persons interested in
the project of building balloon railroad
up Mount Wilson in California have or
dered detailed statement prepared.
Dr. John H. Biggar, the physician and
personal friend of John u. Rockefeller.
says the oil king will live to be 100. He
saws the reason is found in absence of
worry, open-air exercise and light eating.
Representative Goldfogle of New York
hes introduced joint resolution TO have
the treaty of 1888 between the United
States and Russia abolished. unless Rus
STA ceases what he declares is diserimina-
tios against American Jews.
lgorrote head hunters raided an lion
cano village in the Philippine Islands and
carried of three heads, a detachment Of
constabulary being dispatched at once af-
ter the head hunters.
Because Pope Iaio. leader of a band
of fanatical ladrones. who is under sen
tence of death for murder at Manila, p.
L. surrendered without tight, the off,
GERS who captured him have suggested
communication Of sentence.
According to decision of the Superior
Court in San Francisco, CAL, E. J.
tLuckyl Baldwin win have TO pay a note
of $4,000 His attorneys gave up the
case because they had heard nothing from
their client after the suit was brought
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
TWO SEA GIANTS VOTED.
House Grants Demands for Battle
ships to Cost 100000

The war god held full sway in the
House Friday and the navy appropria-
ton bill, carrying $135, 100000, including
$1S,0OO,000 two first-class battleships,
was passed just as it came from the
committee. The Japanese war scare
was the sole topic, in the discussion Of
which the leaders on both sides joined
In addition to the passage of the bill
favorable action was taken by the COM
mittee on the Notifications bill, pro-
visions for coast batteries in the Phil
ippines, Hawaii and Fort Travis.
BY a vote of 100 to so authorization
was given for the construction by the
United States of two of the greatest
battleships in the world. This action
was taken despite the opposition of
some of the Presidents Republican enc
mics in the House, powerful lieutenants
Of Speaker Cannon, and over the heads
Of the few men Of both parties who
sincerely believe it mistake to go on
enlarging the American navy. The ac-
ton authorizes the construction of two
Dreadnaughts, leviathans Of $4,000
tons each, carrying 14-inch guns, the
largest on any warship. and the two
vessels to cost when In commission
nearly $3O,OOO,0O0. The vote was ac-
companied by a patriotic demonstra-
ton on the floor and in the galleries,
participated in by both Democrats and
Republicans and significant Of what the
spirit of the nation would be IL for
eign war were actually threatened
The opponents of the two battleship
proposal, led by Chairman Tawney of
the House Appropriations Committee,
attacked President Roosevelt, virtually
declaring that the present japanese
agitation was ruse cooked up at the
White House to induce Congress to
vote for naval increase. II am tired
of these annual wars with Japan,
which always occur simultaneously
with the consideration Of the naval ap-
preparation bill by Congress" declared
Mr.. Tawney. "All the rest of the time
our relations with Japan are friendly,
but as soon as we begin to consider the
naval appropriation bill then We learn
from the press and other sources that
war is imminent"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
DElS lLSa&5RS
..attsSSRS Gs&EcR-.
SGR,: -NEqS~

Chieago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to 500; hogs, prime heavy, $3.50
to $6.45; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, $106 to $1.0S;
corn, No. 2, hSc to Soc; oats, standard,
49c to Soc; rye, No. 2, Toe to TIC; hay,
timothy, $500 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to $11.50 butter, choice creamery, 27c
to 30c; eggs, fresh, 27c to Soc; potatoes,
per bushel, csc to 7Sc,
Indianapolis shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $500; sheep, good TO choice,
$3.50 to $500; wheat, No. 2, $1.03 to
S1.04; corn, No. 2 white, Doc to 60c;
oats, No. white, 49c to 51c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $40: hogs,
$500 to $6.05; sheep, $500 to 1928;
wheat No. 2, $40 to $1.13; corn, No. 2,
Doc to 60c; oats, No. 2, 50c to 52c rye,
No. 2. TIC to 7sg.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 1925;
$500; wheat, No 2, Sill to SLIP. corn,
hogs, $500 to S6.45; sheep, $500 to
No. 2 mixed, Gle to 62c; oats, No.
mixed, sic to 53c rye, No. 2, SOC to Sic.
Detroit-Cattle, 800 to 1925; hogs.
$500 to SG45 sheep, $3.50 to $500:
wheat, No. 2, $1.07 to $i.0S corn, No.
yellow, Gle to &c; oats, No. 3 white,
Sic to 53c; rye, No. 2, 76c to 7Sc.
Wheat, No. northern,
S1.07 to $1.10; corn, No. 3, Gle to &c;
oats, standard, Sic to SIC; rye, No /,
Toe to TIC; barley, No ], 6ic to 65c;
pork, mess, $3.50.
BuHaIo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
500 to 500; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $500; sheep, common TO good mixed,
800 to $4.75; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $40,
New York--Cattle, $500 TO $3.50;
hogs, $3.50 to $605 sheep $3Oo to
$500; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.07 TO S1.O3;
corn, No 2, &c TO &c; oats. natural
white, J5c TO SIC; butter, Creamery, Doc
to &c. eggs, western, 25c to 29c.
Toledo Wheat No. 2, mixed, $1.06 to
$1.0S; ctrn, No mixed, 60c to &c:
oats. No 2 mixed soc to 52c; rye, No.
q TIC 10 7Sc: clover seed, 1852
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
BILLIK's NECK IS SAVED.
Sentence of Alleged Chicago Prisoner
COMMITTED to Life Imprisonment.

Herman Billik, sentenced to hang on
Friday, Jan. 20, was rescued from the
gallows when Governor Deneen, on rec
ommendation of the State Board Of
Pardons, committed his sentence to i'm
prisonment for life. The convicted
slayer of Mary Vrzal, who FIVE times
was granted an eleyenth-hour reprieve,
fell on his knees at the county iaii and
wept when the news from Springfield
was conveyed to him.
Life Imprisonment means liberty"
he declared Il shall now have the
chance l have been fighting for to
prove my innocence"
Communication of Billik's sentence is
due to the testimony and subsequent
confession of perjury of Jerry Vrzal,
who, with his sisters, Emma Neiman
and Bertha Vrzal, were the only mem
bers of the yrzal family to escape
death by poisoning.
"We are of the opinion that even
with the elimination OF this testimony
there is evidence to support the YER
dict of the jury beyond reasonable
doubt" says the pardon board. But
in taking into consideration statements
later made by some Of the jurors we
feel we are warranted in the conclu-
sion the death penalty would not have
been inflicted"
Billik. who is AZ years old and was
born in Yolfort of bohemian parents,
was indicted more than two years ago
for having poisoned five members of
the vrzal family. He was placed on
trial in June, 1907, before Judge Alfred
G. Barnes for the murder of Mary
Vrzal, the oldest daughter. and was
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
KILLS HIS OWN CHILD.
Baby's Neck Is Broken by Father
to Stop Cry.

odpy . week Is broken Dy EaCner
to Stop Cry.
John David Stewart was tired when
he came home at night after his work
in Kansas City. He had heard the
changing of tools and machinery all
day and quiet was what he wanted.
But there was no quiet at his home.
little girl, ten months old, was
part of the Stewart family. She cried
frequently, after the manner of babies
when the father comes home tired A
child of ten months was but fluffy
bit of nothing in his hands. The fin
gers accustomed to hard work gripped
too tightly for baby's comfort. And
with those same strong hands Stewart
choked the baby. He shook it hard
one night and then slammed it down
on the bed and told his wife to care
for 1t. Babys temper was broken. So
was its neck. The coroner and the doc
tor said Stewart killed the child and
the wife pointed the accusing fiuger.
In criminal court Stewart withdrew
his plea or not guilty and pleaded
guilty to manslaughter in the fourth
degree. His sentence to the peniten.
tiary was two years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02

Occasionally tongue of red flame
Jared up. An alarm was sent at once
to South Chicago, where the fire tug
Conway was stationed.
Confined in a fiery prison, with all
means Of communication with the shore
cut OF and the icy waters of Lake
Michigan all about them, the workmen
made desperate fight for their lives,
which was witnessed by crowds on the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
{:aizS':s:;f 5 @s
he.News -
Nooo0ooooo

The Tennessee Night Riders are begin
ming to see daylight.
If the ''foot-and- mouth" disease should
ever strike Washington
Things are still little bit shaky in
the neighborhood of Messina.
The Senate seems to have blackballed
New Mexico and Arizona again.
Somehow, hanging doesn't seem to be
quite enough for a Night Rider.
Japan might get some satisfaction by
declaring war against the California Leg
islature.
President Castro considers 1t much
more pleasant to be hung in effigy than
in real life.
Judge Lands thinks $20,OO0,OOo worth
of fning entities him to a rest in the
Standard Oil case.
Uncle Sam tells Miss Columbia that
two year is all he can afford of Merry
Widow-size battleships.
MFR. Taft told the Georgia girls that
matrimony isn't necessary. No; but they
all know it is very desirable.
II they don't quit bothering him, Farm
er Jim Wilson will pick up his scythe
and NOW down a few professors.
When Uncle Sam is sending those 1900
houses over to Italy he might send along
some firm and stable land to put 'em on.
The Ohio nan who has invented a cur
rent of ali which will throw people ont
of the way of a street car is hot stuff all
right.
The New Yorke. who has found a
Rockefeller prototype 200 years old
must have been going back to the old
Adam.
His doctor friend says John d. Rookie
feIler viii live to be 100 years old By
that time will the rest of the country have
any money left?
-Phonisfev is the new name for the
telephone girl But the man who can't
get his number viii probably continue to
cali her the same old names.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
EXPLOSION KILLS MINE OFFICER
superintendent Loses Life and Ten
Men Are Caught I'm Wreck.

superintendent Loses Life and Ten
Men Are Caught I'm Wreck.
While Superintendent j. G. Logan and
a party of miners were investigating con-
ditions, which had been Unsatisfactory, in
the coal mine of the Merchants Coal
Company at Boswell, near Pittsburg, a
gas explosion occurred which has already
cost the life of one man and may result
in the death of ten more. Because of the
anticipated trouble the night shift was
not permitted to enter the mine, and thus
the lives of many men were spared. When
the explosion occurred the mine caved in
and the passageway was completely block
3D. with ten men back of the obstruction.
The superintendent was carried out seri-
ousIy injured and died soon after being
taken from the mine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
DUAL TRAGEDY IN OHIO.
Man Sends Note to Girl, Then Kills
Wife and HfmaeIf.

Man Sends Note to Girl, Then Kills
Wife and Himself.
when my son returns home he will
find his mother and myself dead. Be
kind to him." This was the note 19-year-
old Earl Hilborn delivered to his sweet
heart, Helen Williams, when he came for
his Sunday evening call. 1t was given to
him before he left his own house by his
father r. l.. Hilborn, well-to-do farm
er, living near Willoughby, Ohio. The
envelope bore this direction: This must
not be opcled until my son leaves you to-
night" In obedience to this Miss Will
ia ms did not read the contents of the note
until she had closed the door behind her
sweetheart Then she ran after him and
they drove to the Hilborn home. They
arrived there about midnight and found
Mrs. Hilborn dead in the kitchen with a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02

The Sangre de Christie land grant, one
Of the oldest given by the Mexican gov
eminent, has been thrown open 20 set
tlers after having been in the possession
Of the Cosfiila family more than = CEN
fury and a half. 1t comprises 10000
acres. The grant hes partly in New
Mexico, but mostly IN Colorado
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
QUAKE VICTIMS SWAMP ITALY.
Cost of Caring for 100000 Homeless
Esfimated at 100000 Day.

Cost of Caring for 100000 Homeless
Estimated at 100000 Day.
Italy Is confronted with a grave prob
lem, the caring for the 100000 persons
made homeless by the earthquake of last
month in Sicily and Calabria and who
have dispersed not only to the interior
of their native provinces. but have gone in
great numbers to Naples and other of
the large cities of the country. At pres
ent, it is estimated, it is costing 100000
day to meet the simplest necessities of
the poor, a sum which neither interna-
tionai charity nor the State can long con-
tinue to bear. Furthermore, the bestowal
of charity is having an i'll effect upon the
lower classes and many disorders are re
ported to result
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
KANSAS TO DOUBLE WHEAT CROP
Agricultural College Experiments
Promise Wonderful Results.

Promise Wonderful Results.
Prof. H. f. Roberts of the Kansas Ag-
ricultural College has been experimenting
in the breeding of wheat since 1905. His
experiments have now reached the stage
that a warning has gone out to farmers
to increase the size of their granaries The
result of Prof. Roberts researches is the
probable propagation of wheat that will
increase the average yield from fourteen
to twenty-eight bushels an acre. The
wheat crop of Kansas for the last FIVE
years has averaged approximately 80,0OO,-
600 bushels. Roberts gathered 616 varie-
ties from every known country. Through
the process of elimination there now re-
main thirty-nine varieties. "By next fall"
declared the professor, Il will have Sc
cured the ideal wheat. Then watch Kan
sas. Her wheat yield will be doubled, and
the farmers of the State will have their
annual incomes increased to the extent of
nearly fifty million dollars"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02
Promoter Kieran surrenders.

2. j. Kieran, the much-wanted head Of
the Fidelity Funding Company, who has
been sought all over the world for two
months past on account of the big dis
crepancy between the company's assets
and liabilities, has voluntarily surrendered
to the authorities at Pittsburg and given
bonds for his appea rance in court at New
York, asserting that he was prepared to
make good every obligation of his CON-
pany. Many Catholic institutions were
believed to be involved in Kieran's af-
fairs