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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

The 1000 miners employed at No.
colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
Coal Company went on a strike to en-
force a demand for checking boss.
More pay, shorter working hours and
better working conditions are the de-
mands which Ohio miners offer for the
approval Of the United Mine Workers.
Wisconsin railroads recently issued
the order that coal should have the
preference of all shipments until the
present shortage and urgent need for
coal was supplied.
Three head of Holstein cattle were
recently sold by the College of Agricul-
ture, University of Wisconsin, to G. l..
Saito. of Tokyo, Japan, who win ship
them to his dairy farm in the vicinity
of Tokyo.
A corporation in New York capital
lied at $500. 900, TO control every
thing pertaining to the manufacture Of
women's wearing apparel, is under con-
sideration by the Associated Waist and
Dress Manufacturers.
Control of the Fifth Avenue motor
bus line and the New York Transpor-
tation Company of New York, which
operates between 500 and 500 taxicabs.
has been acquired by the marlborough
Transit Company and the Metropolitan
and Securities Companies.
Statistics prepared in the secretarys
Office of the board of trade indicate in
Duluth, Mimi, that the total shipments
Of grain from that port last year wear
s.413.4O4 bushels, of which 71,94I,3s0
bushels were consigned to American
ports and 6,472.0o0 bushels to foreign
ports.
I'VE must increase production per
acre by more intelligent methods or
we must face the relentless certain
day when we shall not produce enough
food to supply our own necessities"
said President Brown, Of the New York
Central Railroad, in a recent address.
This is a reiteration Of the statement
male by James ]. Hill not long ago.
A grape grower in the Ozark noun
4afn country in Missouri is experiment.
ing with new grape land by following
the Switzerland plan Of planting sticks
Of dynamite deep in the ground and
exploding them. BY this means the
soil is thoroughly loosened to a grear
depth without turning IT over
Powerful foreign interests. headed by
r. s Pearson. London banker. owner
OF Mexican properties and with strong
Canadian connections. have recently
acquired, in the ol,en market. large
blocks Of Rock Island common and
preferred stocks. The exact amount
Is not disclosed. but probably repre-
sents about one-fifth Of the whole.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
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Congressman Dawson, OF the Second
Iowa District, has decided to be can
didate for reelection.
With the installation of the new re-
gime in governmental affairs in New
York City, for the first time in six
wears the chief offices of the municipal
ity are not filled by men allied with the
Tammany Hall organization.
The Joint committee of Congress,
composed of six Senators ard six Rep
resentatives, created to investigate the
official acts of Messrs. Ballinger and
Pinchot, began its sessions. Lewis r.
CLAWS, special agent, was the first wit
ness to be examined His testimony
raised a question of professional eth
les on the part of Ballinger rather than
of official misconduct, the point being
that Ballinger, before becoming land
commissioner, had drawn up an agree
ment designed to convey the rights of
dummy entrants on certain public
lands in Washington to the Wilson
Coal Company. At this point CLAWS
was asked by one member of the COM
mittee to state what he intended to
prove against Ballinger. Thereupon
Lewis G. Brandies of Boston, appear
ing as counsel for CLAWS, said that his
client was averse to formulating a spe-
cific charge and felt that this should
be left to the committee after hearing
the testimony. He promised that the
investigation would bring out more
than was contained in the charges filed
by CLAWS with the President.
Not satisfied with what he has 81
ready written about the antitrust law
and it's efficiency and the desirability
of having the federal control over rail-
roads extended. President Taft is hav-
ing a water-power bill framed that
goes far ahead of anything that Roose-
velt conservationists ever proposed.
A resolution proposing that the
House shall elect FIVE additional mem
hers TO the Committee on Rules, four
10 be Republicans and one a Democrat.
and that henceforth the speaker shall
not be a member of that committee.
which shall elect its own chairman.
was introduced by Representative Fow-
Ter of New Jersey.
NO. you viii never have I'm oppor-
tunitv TO vote for me again / shall
not be a candidate for Office" were the
words which Ex-Governor Lind penned
in reply to urgent requests that he
again enter the gubernatorial race in
Minnesota
on the eve of the congressional in
vas.igation into his official record. SEC
retarv Ballinger found occasion 10 get
IN a sharp thrust at his adversary. PIN
chot. in an address before the Good
Government Club Of Williams College.
Although no names were mentioned. ii
was easy TO see that Pinchot and
Roosevelt were the main targets of his
remarks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
DIE IN MEXICAN MINE.
Explosion in Coal Shaft Is Third
Disaster in Three Days.

One hundred are dead in the Paula
mine in Mexico across from Eagle
Pass, Texas, in the state of Coahuila,
as result of the carelessness of a
Mexican in lighting cigarette. Sixty
eight bodies have been taken from the
shaft. The others are buried further
in. There is no hope that any will be
found alive. Not a single man in the
mine escaped alive. One man was
brought to the surface in a conscious
condition, but died shortly thereafter.
He told of the circumstances of the
explosion. Smoking in the mine is pro-
hibited. 1t seems as if new miner,
not understanding the danger, SNUG
gled tobacco and matches into the
shaft when he went to work, and the
miners had been at work nearly an
hour when he struck match to light
a cigarette. Immediately the explo-
sion followed, burying alive the 100
men.
Frantic efforts were made by the
mine superintendent to rescue the men,
put the smart was so nlled tnat II took
hours OF work to reach the chamber
where the men were confined. The ex-
Dlosion must have been terrific, as the
entire interior of the mine was badly
wrecked.
Some of the bodies of the men were
horribly mangled Those who escaped
death from tha effects of the EXPLOSION
were suffocated, all air chambers be-
ing stopped up by the falling walls.
The Paula mine is one of the Musquiz
group belonging to the Coahuila Coal
Company, an American concern. 1t was
the best equipped coal mine in Mexico
and had all the modern provisions for
the safety of the miners. The loss to
the property will be more than $780,
600.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
CHERRY WORK SLOW;
MEN ARE BURR0W|NC
Explorers in Mine Have Penetrated
Only 400 Feet of Many Miles
Underground.
KICKING MULES TAKE LIFE.
Bodies of Animals Which Hurt Those
Trying to Escape Found-New
Timbers Placed Under Roof.

After three days of incessant labor
only 400 feet of the many miles of sub
terranean passages of the st. Paul
mine in Cherry, ILL.,, were open, and it
was problematical when the 1877 bodies
could be brought to the surface. Ev-
cry effort was being made to clear a
runway from the main shaft to the air
pit. Inspection of the cleared portion
of the second level showed that from
the bottom of the main shaft $50 feet
underground, westward for ESQ feet,
the main road is in good condition.
Some of the heavy timbers near the
shaft are charred, but they are solid
and intact. The main passage to the
east is walled up Behind this wall is
smoldering fire. Back of the fire lie
about 100 dead
About 250 feet west of the shaft the
bottom level ends in blind alley, in
which lie the bodies of two mules, COW
cred with disinfectants. These mules
kicked viciously at several miners as
the men ran for their lives through
the smoky passageways after the fire
started. One miner was kicked into
Inconsistencies and could not escape,
while his companion was injured so Sc
verely that he is still under the care
of a surgeon.
Near the end of the main road tor
tuous runway branches off to the
south, ending in the air shaft. The
top timbers in this passage are bro
ken, letting shale rock through. Some
of the fractured scantlings appear half
rotted. Their was no fire in this tun-
mel.
AS fast as men clear the runway new
timbers are placed under the crum-
bling roof. isaking the ceiling so low
that a man cannot stand erect. Rocks
as large as a steamer trunk we're piled
as high as the roof. So narrow was
the tunnel and so dangerous was the
work that only two worked at time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
ENFoRcEs SUICIDE AGREEMENT.
Letter Carrier shoots Spouse and Her
Father and Then Kills Himself.

Letter Carrier shoots Spouse and Her
Father and Then Kills Himself.
Six years ago, when they were mar
ried, Sandie Morrison, an Omaha let
ter carrier, and Miss Hattie Sumner
entered into a suicide agreement. Ere
quently since then Mr. and Mrs. Nor
rison have talked of suicide and
agreed that one could not live without
the other Last Saturday, when Nor
rison came home from his work. he
remarked: Hattie, | have decided
that we are to 60" The wife begged
for delay He attacked her with
knife, wounding her on the neck. Es-
Gaping, she ran away and sought safe
ty with her parents A few days later
Morrison held a conference with his
wife and her father, ]. H. Sumner. He
appeared rational. She plainly told
him that she had changed her mind.
Morrison then urged his wife and her
father to accompany him to the Office
of justice, where, he said, he wanted
to deed over his property. AS the
three reached the street he pulled a
revolver and shot his wife in the back
of the head and Sumner in the right
eye. AS the two fell to the sidewalk
he turned the gun upon himself and
sent a bullet in his forehead, dying
but Sumner will die.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prince
$500 to SITS; hogs, prime heavy, $4.5O'
to $50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
to $500; wheat, No. 2, 1923 to $1.25;
corn, No 2, Gle to 65c; oats standard
Acc to 47c; rye, No. 2, 79c to Sic; hay,
timothy, $1,000 to $1,000; prairie, $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, 27e
to soc; eggs, fresh, &c to 29c; pota-
toes, per bushel, 40c to Acc.
IndlanapoIis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to $780, hogs, good to choice heavy.
$3.50 to 1855; sheep, good to choice.
1925 to $500; wheat, No. /, $1.21 to
S1.22; corn, No. 2 white, &C TO 63c;
oats, No white, Acc to 47c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to 1857; sheep, $500 to
$685.; wheat, No 2, $1.2s to 1927;
corn, No. 2, Gle to 6Sc; oats, No 2,
47c to 4Sc; rye, No. 2, SOC to sic.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to 1886; sheep. $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, s124 to $1.26; corn, No
yellow, 64c to Csc; oats, standard,
ACC to soc; rye, No. 1, SIC to Sac.
MiIwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern.
Sill to s1.14; corn, No 3. SAC to Csc;
oats, standard, 47c to 48c; rye, No. l,
79c to sic; barley, standard, zoe to
Tie; pork, mess, $21.75.
Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping
steers, 340O to $625; hogs, fair to
choice, $500 to 1906; sheep, common
to good mixed. $500 to $3.50; lambs,
fair to choice. $500 to 1878.
Toledo Wheat, No. mixed, s1.23
to 1924; corn, No. mixed, 64c ia
65c; oats, no. mixed, 47c to 4sc;
rye, No. 2, SIC to SIC; clover seed.
1896.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 500;
hogs, $500 to 1876; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat No. 2, s125 to $1.2S;
corn. No. mixed. e3c to SAC; oats,
No. 2 mixed, 4Sc to ACC; rye, No. 2
S5c to SEC.
New York-Cattle, $500 to. $3.50;
hobs. $500 to $3.50; sheep. $500 to
S525. wheat. No. red, $l28 TO s1.30;
corn. No. 2. Tic to 73c; oats, natural,
white. SIC to 55c; butter, creamery,
2sc to s2c; eggs. western, &c to
csc.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
NEW YORK.

Trade in general displays certain
degree of quietness, not, by the way
unusual at this, between-seasons pc
riod but in several quarters there Is
greater disposition to act conserva-
lively in the matter of purchases For
one thing. the agitation for lower
prices tends to the belief that quota
tons may recede to more attractive
levels, and at the same time some
LIge interests seem to fear inimicat
action from the Federal authorities at
Washington. These factors, together
with the marked weakness in the
country's leading stock market and
the natural tendency of trade to mark
time at this season of the year, tend
to a quieting of the current of trade.
There is some uneasiness over labor
matters. Business failures for the
week ending with Feb. in the United
States were PAP, against 295 last
week, 2S6 in the like week of 1909. 272
in 1908, 1913 in 1907 and 204 in 1906.
Business failures in Canada for the
week number 30, as against AZ last
week and AZ in the like week in 1909
-Bradstreet's.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
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CHICAGO.

The Weekly Review OF Chicago
Trade, published by r. G. Dun & Co..
says:
The course of business generally re-
fleets steadiness in operations and a
satisfactory accumulation of new de-
mands in the prominent industries.
Bank statements this week impart
strength to the general situation by
their exhibit of gains in both deposits
and discounts and the evidence of am
pie resources to meet needs of an ex-
panding activity. With the liquida-
tionsin securities the direction of the
money market is easier and reduced
cost of borrowing win promote wider
effort in manufacturing and new en-
terprises.
Movements of commodities again
approach normal proportions and
transportation returns disclose sus-
tanned gains in gross earnings, indi-
eating that recovery from recent adj
verse conditions permits satisfactory
running of the Chicago roads, The
more seasonable weather has brought
better buying in the leading retail
lines here and at the interior. Win
ter stocks of general merchandise have
undergone adequate reduction and this
favorable factor encourages increasing
number of visiting buyers to attend
the wholesale markets. Higher prices
for some staples occasion little objee-
tion, their scarcity being apparent.
Bank clearings. s267. 2S6.S72. are S.3
per cent under those of the CORE
spending week last year and compare
with 1920, 22S,175 in 1908.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number sc, against 81 last week,
81 in 1909 and 80 in 1908. Those with
liabilities over $4,000 number T.,
against last week, in 1909 and 6
in 1908.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS.
liberals VIII Continue to Direct
Policy of British Empire.

liberals VIII Continue to Direct
Policy of British Empire.
The Liberals will continue to direct
the policy of the British empire. The
lead is cut down some in the present
appeal to the voters. The last time the
Liberals had 354 over the Unionists,
counting SO Irish Nationalist and So
Laborites. Now this supremacy has
been reduced to 124, including 81 Irish
Nationalist and 26 Laborites.
The result is disappointing to the
party of progress. 1t was expected that
the Liberals would elect at least so
members more than they have and that
they would carry all the measures they
advocated through Parliament without
the aid of any other party. AS it Is
now the vote is so close between them
and the Unionists that they must count
upon the Irish Nationalist or the La
borites to get certain of their bills
through. The rightful abridgment of
the power of the House of Lords can
only be done by an alliance with the
two lesser parties. That will come, as
the Home Rulers and the Laborites are
in full accord with the proposal. The
policy of protection gets setback be-
cause the textile centers voted over
whelmingly against it.
The granting of home rule is quite
unlikely, much as it was hoped that
this might come to pass. Premier AS
quith promised Ireland the prize it has
been valorously contending for, but
even he will hardly be able to gain it,
for the landlord strength among his
party is sufficient, by joining hands
with the Unionists, to prevent its con-
summation. The failure to achieve this
after the premiers pledge is most re-
grettable.
The system of labor exchanges will
be established now that the Liberals
have been continued in Office. There
will be $50 of these authorized, which
will bring labor and capital into closer
touch by providing work for idle men
in clearing house in which the en-
ployer is as anxious for help as the
honest seeker for work is after en-
ployment.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
TOLD IN a FEW LINES.

Henry w Taft, brother of the Presi-
dent, who is i'll of erysipelas in Los
Angeles, has been pronounced out Of
all danger.
Nearly 1900 employees of the ma
chine shops of the Bethlehem. Pa.
steel works went on strike over a wage
controversy, and indications point to
complete tie-up of the shops.
Motion for a new trial for Colonel
u. Is. and Robin Cooper convicted of
shaving former Senator E. ". Carmack.
is before the Tennessee Supreme CourT.
but a decision is not expected soon. as
the case is very voluminous.
John Kilpsa rick. a negro. was cleo
+rocuted in the Ohio penitentiary at
columbus. for the murder of John
steele. a Steubenville druggist. last
March
A gift of $4,000 for the erection of
an administration building and library
az the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute.
Troy. n. Y. by the Pittsburg Alumni
Association. is announced.
-Four defendants in what is known
as the Routt County land-fraId case
were dismissed by Federal Judge Trei-
Der at Denver. They are Lewis NJ
Runsey. Charles H. Dodge, Charles
Haberback and Gus Haberbaek, all Of
St Louis.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
ELEVEN DIE IN MINE BLAST.
Gas Explodes in Pennsylvania Coal
Workings-11O Held Prisoners.

WOIhluS ~ 11SlQ GIlSOACIS.
One American and ten Hungarians
furnished the death toll of a gas ex-
plosion the other day in No. slope of
the Ernest mine of the Jefferson and
Clearfield Coal Company, five miles
north of Indiana, Pa. The explosion
occurred in heading where twelve
workmen were located, and one of. these.
Andrew Krazcer, escaped by crawling
a quarter of mile on his stomach to
evade the noxious gases. His inabil-
ity to speak English prevented a lucid
explanation of the cause of the explo-
sion. Some of the dead were founu
near the entrance to the heading, 9TH
ers lay along the track at short dis
tances from each other, almost at the
face of the coal Two bodies nearest
the face were burned slightly about tne
face and arms. The position of the
bodies showed the men had made des-
perate efforts to crawl away from the
heading. One hundred and ten men
working in the same slope escaped
through other headings of the mine,
although they were held back for about
ten hours by the black damp until a
rescue party of twelve mine bosses
reached them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN.
Three Men Commit Bold Robbery on
the Missouri Pacific

Three unidentified men held up and
robbed the passengers on an east
bound Missouri Pacific passenger train
five miles east of Pittsburg, Kan, the
other night. They were unmasked.
About $400 and a small amount of jew
elry was taken from the passengers
The robbers boarded the train on
the outskirts of Pittsburg. They took
seats in the chair car and rode quietly
along until the train was near Cornell,
Kan. There they leaped from their
seats, backed Conductor Clarity into
a corner and drawing revolvers warn
ed him not to call for assistance. One
of the robbers then covered the pas
sengers with two large revolvers. You
will now prepare to give up your val
uables,' he said MY partner here
will pass among you. Please be quiet"
The partner" thereupon produced a
gunny sack and started on his collect
ing tour From each passenger ne
took everything of value. Money.
watches, diamonds and rings all went
into the sack
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
EXPRESS COMPANY MERGER oNp

American Reported Purchaser of Big
Block of Wells-FargO.
1t was said in authoritative circles
in New York that the American Elk
press Company had purchased the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company's
holding of stock in Wells, Fargo & Co.,
which is taken to indicate that a
merger of the two companies is under
way. The Southern Pacific's decision
to sell the stock is in line with the
policy of the new management of the
road to avoid stock market manipula-
tion and confne itself strictly to rail
road management. James c. Fargo,
President of the American Express
Company, and Judge Robert S. Lovett,
president of the Southern Pacific, de-
clined to talk about the reported pur-
chase
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
WIRELESS APPEAL SAVES CREW.
Operator on Sinking Steamer Ken
lucky Off Hatteras Brings Aid.

lucky Off Hatteras Brings Aid.
Thanks to wireless telegraphy and
the international distress signal, IS.
O. S." which has superseded the ia
nous &C. @. d." Capt Moore and his
crew of forty-six men are safe on
board the Mallory line steamer Alamo,
bound for Key West, while their YES
sci, the steamer Kentucky, lies at the
bottom of the sea off Cape Hatteras.
The Kentucky, a wooden vessel of 996
gross tonnage and 203 feet long, was
bound from New York to the Pacific
to carry passengers between Tacoma
and Alaskan ports for the Alaska Pa
cific Steamship Company
First news of the Kentucky's dis
tress was received at the wireless sta
ton at Cape Hatteras at 1880 a. m.
There the operator heard the IS. o.
S." quickly followed by this message:
1--WE are sinking Our latitude is
1910, longitude 1880" Almost stimuli
taneously the operator heard the
steamship Alamo respond to the Ken
tuckyS call Tor help, informing capt.
Moore that the Alamo was making all
speed to the sinking vessels assistance.
The Navy Department at Washing
ton in the meantime flashed wireless
messages along the Atlantic coast, dis
patching the battleship Louisiana and
two revenue cutters to the scene, but
later word came from the Alamo that
it had arrived first and had taken off
all hands in safety. This is the mes
sage as received in New York from
the Cape Hatteras station. Latitude
32.46, longitude 1928. Steamship Ala
mo has just taken Capt. Moore and
crew of forty-six men from sinking
steamship Kentucky. Water already
had reached fireroom and steamer will
sink before midnight. The Alamo is
now proceeding to Key West"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
DERRICK DROPS; TWO DEAD.

Second Fatal Accident in Building
Makes Death List Five.
Two men were killed and two will
die as the result of a second accident
at the Freidherg Building in Cincin-
natl. John Zeach, an employee of the
Bishop Wrecking Company, was kill
ed instantly, and Charles Fox was so
badly hurt that he died when gigan-
tic derrick upon which they we're work
ing collapsed. This makes five lives
which have been lost in the one loca-
ton within fortnight. Two weeks
before the east wall collapsed and
hurled an adjoining house beneath it.
In this accident three were killed and
one other is fatally injured.