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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
COURT STOPS RAISE
IN FREIGHT RATES
Twenty-Five Western Roads Are Re-
strained from Enforcing the
New Tariff.
PLEA CITES UNLAWFUL COMBINE
Action Is Begun by Attorney GEN.
eral Wickersham on Behalf Of
Federal Government.

Twenty-Five Western railroads were
temporarily restrained by United
States District Judge David P. Dyer
in Hannibal, Mo-. from enforcing or
making general advance in inter
state freight rates. The injunction
was granted on petition filed by the
United States government on the allie.
cations that the advance in rates were
fixed by the defendants by agreement.
without competition and in violation
of the Sherman antitrust act.
The petition was filed in the United
States Circuit Court at st. Louis and
was brought 10 Hannibal to present to
Judge Dyer. 1t states that unless such
a restraining order be issued the ad-
vances will become effective at once,
to the grave harm and injury of the
people of the United States
The petition was presented by Ed
win P Grosvenor of Washington, spe-
cial assistant to the Attorney General,
and Frederick n. Judson of ST. Louis,
acting as special counsel 1t was sign
ed by George w. Wickersham, Attor-
ney General; William S. Kenyon, AS
sistant Attorney General, and Charles
A. Houts, United States District At.
torney
The roads restrained from increas.
ing their freight rates are:
Missouri Pacific Railway.
Chicago and Northwestern Railway.
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road.
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railway.
Wabash Railroad.
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railway.
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago and Alton Railroad.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
road.
Chicago Great Western Railway.
Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway.
st. Louis and San Francisco Rail-
road.
San Francisco Railroad.
Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City
Railroad
St. Paul and Des Moines Railroad
Minneapolis and ST. Louis Railroad.
Iowa Central Railroad.
Fort Dodge, Des Moines and South
ern Railroad.
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railroad
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad,
Chicago, Peoria and ST Louis Rail-
road Company of Illinois
Chicago Milwaukee and Gary Rail-
way.
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Sault Ste.
Marie Railroad.
Kansas City Southern Railroad.
Chicago, Indiana and Southern Rail-
road.
Western Trunk Line committee
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
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President futile, of the Boston and
Maine, announced that passenger rates
on that line would be advanced on June
l to those prevalent before the 10 per
cent reductions of 1907. The increase
is said to be due to the recent advance
in wages paid to employees. 1t will not
affect the suburban service.
Records now published show that
the number of accidents since the pay
as-you-enter cars were put into opera
ton on the Chicago Rapid Transit
System about two years ago. have de-
creased 81 per cent. This is due to
the fact that the new system requires
that the car shall not be started till
all passengers are aboard. At the
same time the receipts of the Chicago
system have increased Az per cen.,
and, allowing one-third OF this for in
creased traffic, there still remains TO
the company gain amounting to ST.
900 day.
Several more railroads have Joined
the procession of those which had
granted better wage scales TO employ
es, and the largest of the independent
steel companies of Pittsburg have fol-
lowed the example of the steel trust
by volunteering a per cent increase.
Trolley companies in many cities have
agreed to pay 10 per cent more, and
the Postal Telegraph and Cable Com
pany gives notice Of advances of from
5 TO Is per cent At the same time
the railroads of the Middle West have
given notice of coming advances of
freight and passenger charges, the
Ger.ff
coal miners in Central Pennsylvania
and in Pittsburg district have received
an addition of 512 per cent and have
gone to work. The Pressed Steel Car
strike at McKees Rocks, Pa, ended
without material results.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad has or
dered 400 600 treated cross-ties from
a new creosoting plant in New Jersey,
whose special process il il claimed will
double the life o. the ties. This new
process differs from that already IN
use in that the saturation in creosore
oil is only partial
BY order Of Judge Kinkead OF Column
bus former Attorney General Sheets Of
Ohio and Henry J. Booth were appoint
ed at receivers for the Hooking Valley
Railroad and an injunction was issued
To prevent the retirement of 315,000,-
600 of preferred stock. as was proposed
by the new owner Of the majority. the
Chesapeake and Ohio.
Advances in railway wages already
made or to be made before the end OF
the year are estimated at 500, coo, 900
for the entire country. This Is the fig
ure stated by W. C. Brown. Of the New
York Central
The strike Of the car men employed
by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Company which started February 10
and resulted in the phenomenal gen
eyal strike movement was declared off
formally by the Executive Committee
acting under instructions from nation
al officers in Detroit. although the men
had voted By a small majority against
the terms Of settlement offered By the
company.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
NOW At 52,S36,445
Protestant Denominations Report
zo,287,74z and the Roman
Catholics Iz,o79,I4o.
NUMBERS ARE ON THE INCREASE
Statistics Are Based on Report of
United States Census, Soon to
Be Published.

The aggregate number of communi-
cants or members of all religious de-
nominations in the United STATES in
1906 was 32,936,445, according to the
United States census of religious
bodies. OF this grand total, the va
rious Protestant bodies reported 20,-
2S7,742 and the Roman Catholic
church 12,679,142
OF the Protestant communicates, ac-
cording to the report, 500 per cent
were outside the principal cities of the
country OF the Catholics, 27.9 per
class, those having population of
more than 100000, while AIS per cent
were outside the cities of the first, sec
ond, third or fourth classes, the last
class being cities of $4,000 to 10000.
Protestants in the frst-class cities ag-
gregated 7.3 per cent.
OF the Protestants, the Protestant
Episcopal church reported majority
of its communicates in the principal
cities, 51.2 per cent, as did the Church
of Christ, Scientist. 82.6 per cent.
The report shows a growth of all
communicates, both in the cities and
country, since 1890. In the five lead
ing cities the proportion of communi-
cants to population was: New York.
All per cent; Chicago, 40.7; Phila-
delphia, 3S.S; Boston, 626; CT Louis,
466.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
WOMAN GOES ON TRIAL.
Evidence Against Her Is Collected
by Dead Mans Sister.

Evidence Against Her Is Collected
by Dead Mans Sister.
Charged with the murder of her hus-
band, William j. Erder. a st. Louis
postal clerk, Mrs. Dora E. Doxey was
placed on trial in st. Louis before
Judge McQuillen. DR.. Loren B. Doxey,
the defendants first husband, is in
dicted on the same charge The case
is another of Missouri's alleged poi
soning cases. Mrs. Doxey admitted
she married Erder while still the wife
of DR.. Doxey. DR.. Doxey was in Ne
braska during Erder's illness, but the
State alleges he sent poison to Mrs.
Doxey, with directions as to how it
should be administered. Miss Kate
Erder, sister of the dead postal clerk,
will be the chief witness for the State,
having worked on the case unaided
and caused the arrest of the Doxeys
The State claims the motive of the al
legged poisoning was to obtain the in
surance carried by Erder and to avoid
complications from Mrs. Doxey's big
amous marriage. A curious feature of
the case is that while Mrs Doxey has
been in jail, pending trial, she has
been completely cured of the drug
habit.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
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1t is proposed to forbid the exporta
ton to America and Australia of the
famous Angora goats from Turkey
The Turkish minister of the interior is
drawing up regulations on the subject.
Commander Robert E. Peary gave
his polar lecture at the Casino in Ber-
lin under the auspices of the Berlin
Geographical Society. About 200 were
present. The American explorer left
Berlin for Rome.
For the first time in many years the
car visited a theater the other night.
The visit was kept a profound secret
and surprise was great when the fact
became known. The occasion was
grand military concert at the opera
house in aid of funds for old soldiers
In their effort TO suppress the re-
bellion in Albania, the Turkish forces
under Gen. Shefket stormed Katchansk
Pass on the 18th, where the rebels were
stationed in strong force. The AIba1-
ians retreated in good order and took
up their positions on the surrounding
mountains.
Herbert Booth OF London. England.
Youngest son of General William Booth.
founder of the Salvation Army. has an
nounced that he no longer is officially
connected with the Salvation Army.
Mrs. John A. johnson. wife of the
late Governor. has started on q Euro
pean trip. She Joined Madame Frem-
stad in New York. whose guest she
win be. and the two sailed for Europe
ON the Kaiser Wilhelm II.
A japanese official report gives the
area OF peanuts in Japan in 1907 as
I4sa5 acres. yield 1.302.S57 bushels. The
total exports in the same year were
1o.Isslsf pounds. IS per cent being
shipped to the United States
The population of Japan is increas-
ing al the rate of 100000 q year. II is
now nearly 5o.ooo.ee0. exclusive of Ko-
rea-
The Chinese government. by Imperial
resc-ipt. has abolished slavery through
out the empire. and has prohibited
henceforth the purchase and sale OF
human beings under any pretext-
The Pope recently received the pill
grimage headed by Mgr. Els. bishop of
Marquette. Mich The pilgrimage was
made up chiefly of German
The bishop delivered a brief speech
expressing the fidelity OF the pilgrims
to the holy see and presented an Offer
ing. The pontifr replied graciously.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
LoRIMER DEFENDS HIMSELF.
Illinois Senator Makes Speech De-
nying Bribery in Legislature.


Williar- Lorimer the other day ask
ed the Uaited States Senate for an in
vestigation of the charges that his cleo
ton was secured through the buying
of votes in the Illinois General Assem-
bly, at prices ranging from $1,000 up
ward. BY way of preface to this re-
quest he delivered his long-awaited
speech, and in vehement language de-
clared before his colleagues that the
bribery scandal is the outcome of a
political conspiracy" Immediately
after finishing his speech Senator Lori
mer hurriedly put his affairs in order
and caught late afternoon train for
Chicago.
The main points in the Senator's ad-
dress were as follows:
Eulogy of Minority Leader Lee o'Neil
Browne, now under indictment in Chicago
for bribery.
Attack upon Governor Deneen.
Assault upon Representative Charles A.
White, whose confession opened the scam
dal
Attack upon the Chicago Tribune.
Five-thousand-word history of Mr. Lor-
liners political career since 1884, and an
outline of his newspaper "feud"
Declaration that Governor Deneen first
suggested that Lorimer become a candi-
date for Senator, but withdrew his support
on the day of election.
Accusation that Governor Deneen broke
faith with him on water way legislation
Denial that Representatives H. j. G.
Beckemeyer and Michael S. Link have
made confessions corroborating Whites
Declaration that Governor Deneen join
ed the Tribune in conspiracy" to over
throw Lorimer, to get control of the next
Legislature.
Mr.. Lorimer's request for an inves-
tigation was referred under the Senate
rules 10 the committee on contingent
expenses
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
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CHICAGO.

r. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review
Chicago trade says:
The aggregate payments throug
the banks for six days exhibit a sha1
decrease for the first time this we'd
in comparison with the correspondiI.
period of last year and the record
trading defaults continues unfavo.
able. Various contributing causes a
count for these adverse features
the business situation. but all are
a temporary nature, the basic cond
tions being sound in both comr.aly
and finance.
The increase in failures mainly a.
plies to concerns affected by mad
quate capital to meet the high cost {
operation, and the bad weather, whic
limit spring sales, is responsible fo
the collapse in minor retail lines. III
season is still improving very slowl
and the general demand here and 8
the interior does not rise equal to e
pectation, but a few warm days wi
bring an adequate disposition
stocks
Wholesale dealings for future deli
cries compare favorably with thl
time last year in dry goods, footweal
clothing, suits and cloaks, ard men
Furnishings, the attendance Of visitin
buyers being good. although the usl
al uncertainty as to crop condition
causes some conservatism in commit
ments. -
Bank clearings, 1851, 6l9.46 al
5.S per cent under those of the corr'
spending week in 1909, and compar
with s216,460,70l in 1905
Failures reported in the Chicag
district numbered twenty-seven, a
against thirty-one last week, twent,
six in 1909 and twenty-three in 1905
Those with liabilities over $4,000 nun
bered Ave. as against eight last weel
eight in 1909 and eight in 1905"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
NEW YORK.

Quiet still rules in trade and man
lines of Industry while speculation
except in grain, seems in waitin
stage. pending clearer views of ths
ultimate crop and price outcome. Re
atively the most activity In the jot
bling trade is centered in meeting cur
rent demands, and fall business stir
lacks form Retail trade has show
some gain at the big Western mar
kets, but is still classed as below ex
pectations. Unreasonably cool wealth.
err is commonly assigned as the causS
for the backward trade, but there arr
still in evidence signs that uncertain.
ty as to prices holds back future com
mitments.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending May q
were zoo, a sagainst 225 last week
205 in the like week of 1909, 263 ii
1908, and 142 in 1907 and 1877 in 1906
Business failures in Canada for tn,
week terminating with Thursday nun
bered fifteen, which compares will
nineteen last week and twenty-five II
the like week of last year.-Brad
streets
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
FROM FAR AND War

Friends assert that William Kent,
the former Chicago leader of reform
politics now living at kentfield. Cal.
will announce his candidacy in August
for the Republican nomination for Cam
gress in the Fourth California District.
opposing Duncan E. McKinlay
firing OF not being able TO serve the
patrons of its dining cars with the very
freshest vegetables when the same
have TO be shipped from Southern
chimes. the Northern Pacific RAILWAY
Company is preparing TO raise its own
vesetables on its own farm near Para
disc. Mont
Nine. Olive Fremstad. the grand on
era star who failed 70 sing at Milwau-
kee last fall after Mrs. CLAIR. Bowen
Shepard had arranged for her. win not
he punished for contempt. II is an
rounced. despite her defiance OF the
court.
The Great Northern viii spend over
81 ooo. 600 in the Improvement OF its
right OF way between Barnesville.
MINI. and Grand Forks this summer.
The present seventy pound rails are
to be replaced with ninety pound rails
the roadbed is 10 be reoaliasted- Il
practically means the entire recon-
struetion Of the line between the points
named.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07

Berlin, DR.. Koch began his bacteri-
illogical investigations about thirty
years ago, when he was district sur
seon at Wallstein. He first achieved
public notice through his discovery of
a method for coiering microscopical
preparations by means of which he
isolated the tubercle bacillus and pro-
duced tuberculosis by its incubation
in animals. His reward for this was
his selection as privy councillor and
the enjoyment of the full confidence
of the Kaiser.
He gained world fame by his dis
covery of antitoxin for the prevention
and cure of diphtheria and by his re-
search for the cause and cure of
sleeping sickness which afflicted the
tribes of Central Africa. He also was
the discoverer of a ratkilling gas
which proved effective in Kidding ships
of rodents. Koch never claimed that
his lymph cure for tuberculosis was
infalliDle. He did9claim, however, that
it was a preventive and a practical
cure in great majority of cases.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
C. H. TREAT FALLS DEAD.
Former Treasurer of Nation Strfcken
with ADODlexy,

Former Treasurer of Nation Stricken
with ApOplexy.
Charles Henry Treat, treasurer OF
the United States under President
Roosevelt, died of apoplexy in his
apartment at the Hotel Victoria in
New York. He was stricken an hour
before death. and did not regain con.
sciousness. He is survived by his
wife and two daughters.
Mr.. Treat was born in Frankfort,
Me-, about sixty-eight years ago.
Among his ancestors were Robert
Treat Paine, signer of the declara.
tion of independence, and Robert
Treat, a colonial governor of Con.
necticut He was graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1865, and at
once entered business with his father
and brothers, who operated fleet of
twenty-eight vessels engaged in the
import and export trade.
In 1888 he was Delawares delegate
at-large to the Republican convention
in Chicago and was credited with so.
lidifying the Delaware delegation for
Benjamin Harrison. Soon after Nc.
Kinley's election he was appointed
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Wall street district, serving during
the Spanish-American war.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
IS DEATH A HOAX?
Millionaire Convicted as Vote-BuyeI
Declared Alive in France.

Declared Alive in France.
The startling declaration that Dali
las G. Byers, multi-millionaire steel
manufacturer and indicted CRATER,
who was supposed to have died in
France last August, and whose funeral
was held in Pittsburg months ago, is
really alive and enjoying life in a Sc.
cluded French village, is now made.
A. Leo We'll, president of the Pitts
burg Voters League, which has push
ed the councilmanic bribery investiga.
ton, says that reports of his detec.
tives in France and Switzerland prove
this absolutely
Among the facts which lend color
to the report are: Byers turned his
vast holdings of stocks, bonds and real
estate into cash before slipping away
from Pittsburg and the bribery inves
tigation He realized something like
$14,000,000. He left directions for the
distribution of his remaining realty
among relatives, making it unneces
sary for him to leave a will He per
mitted all his life insurance policies
to lapse, fearing, it is said, the
searching investigations which the
companies would make when he was
ready to die" No one in Pittsburg
saw the body over which services
were held and which was buried with
due honors in a Pittsburg cemetery
The casket was tightly sealed in
France.
1t was not long after his flight from
Pittsburg that dispatches were re-
ceived from Dinard, France, stating
that the steel millionaire had suffered
stroke of apoplexy, and that physi.
clans had given up hope for his re-
covery. On August 25 the word came
that he had died.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
ENLISTMENT FOR HEBREWS.
Russia Gusts Jews by the Thousands
from City of Kiev.

from City of Kiev.
One thousand and two Jewish fami-
lies have now received official notifi-
cation that they must leave Kiev, Rus
STA, in accordance with the determi-
nation of the Russian government to
drive back into the pale all Jews who
are unable to establish their legal
right to remain outside its confines.
An additional 1913 families living in
the suburbs outside the city proper
are subject to deportation before June
IA unless in the meantime they pro-
duce proofs of their right of residence
In their present homes.
1t is quite Impossible to secure sta
tistics showing the number of those
already expelled. Even the Jewish re-
lief committee is unable to state the
exact figure, but the committee esti-
mates that between 200 and 300 Jew
ish families have quilted the city
In addition to the deportation order
ed, the Jews of Kiev have been sub
jected to minor annoyances, such as
thO tcluSdi VI pdSSpOTtS, SOuu OFcl
the year. and interference with their
residence at the summer resorts out
side Of Kiev, where all those who are
prosperous enough go during the heat
ed term. the law forbidding Jews tc
settle in the villages or on farms, "in
order to prevent the exploiting of
simple peasantry"
The real hardships for the Jews are
expected to come on June IA, when
the time limit for their departure ex.
pires. All who still remain in Kiev
on various pretexts will be expelled on
that date. Although the Jewish relief
committee is collecting funds for this
contingency, 1t is feared that many
will face deportation by force rather
than leave the city voluntarily. The
committee has collected several thou.
sand dollars, and hopes are entertain.
ed that adequate funds may be secured
from the considerable colony OF Jew.
ish millfoLaires in Kiev.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-07
KELLNER GIRLS BODY FOUND.
Prisoners Husband Is Missing JAM
tor of Church-Grave in Cellar.

Prisoners Husband Is Missing Jani-
tor of Church-Grave in Cellar.
The body of Alma Kellner, who dis
appeared Dec. s, was found the other
chial School, five blocks from the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred F. Kellner, in Louisville, KY.
Mrs Lena Vending, wife of Jo-
seph Vending, who was janitor of
ST. Johns Roman Catholic Church,
and who disappeared Jan. IA, has been
arrested, charged with being an ac-
cessory to the murder. Mrs. Wend-
berg was housemaid for Father George
Schuhmann, the pastor. Vending,
who is "a years old, left no word as
to his destination, his wife asserted.
The child's body when found was
incased in carpet, sewed together
lengthwise, and the child had evident
Iy been slain and then thrown through
trapdoor Almost every bone was
broken and the skull was fractured.
1t was evident that quicklime had
been used and that attempts had been
made to burn the body Alma Kell-
ner was years old, and left her home
to attend mass Wednesday morning,
Dec. 8. 1t was thought she he'd been
kidnapped. and rumors of demands for
money had been frequent. The car
pet wrapped around the body, it is al
legged, belonged to Vending, and the
police have found some of his cloth
ing crimson-stained
The Identification is thought to be
complete. The body was found by
Richard B. Sweet, plumber, who
was pumping water from the cellar.
The ground had been scooped out to
a depth of six inches, making a shall
low grave