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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
DUST EXPLOSION KILLS.
Two Dead, 2S Hurt in American
Maize Company's Roby Mills.

maize Company'S Roby Mills.
An explosion of dry starch powder
in the plant of the American Maize
Products Company at Roby Ind, early
on a recent evening probably killed
two men, injured twenty Eight others,
two probably fatally, wrecked a three
story building and broke windows in
South Chicago and in Hammond, Ind,
three and five miles away. Fire fol-
lowed the explosion. but companies
from South Chicago and Hammond
confined the flames to the wrecked
building.
Thirteen of the twenty-eight ben in
jured are in the South Chicago Hospi-
tai. Ten were taken to their homes.
Seven men are missing. Five of these
have been seen since the explosion, but
later disappeared, and the bodies OF
two, the names not ascertainable, are
believed to lie under the debris of the
building.
The explosion occurred few min
utes before 6 o'clock, just before the
night shift at the factory arrived, in
the dry starchhouse of the sugar re-
fining plant. Thirty men work there
The force of the explosion hurled most
of the men clear of the building, but a
number were rescued from under pieces
of wreckage. Flames shot high in the
air and bricks and timbers we're thrown
for rods.
Calls for assistance in fighting the
flames that threatened the entire plant
were sent to South Chicago and Ham
mond, and two fire companies from
each place responded. The fire was
not extinguished until late in the
night The damage is estimated al
$4,000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
LIVESTOCK RECEIPTS FALL OFF.
Government Figures show Drop
from Previous Years I'm January.

Government Figures show Drop
from Previous Years in January.
Internal-commerce movements in
January, according to statistics of the
department of commerce and labor,
showed heavy movements of coal and
coke in the east, increased grain re-
ceipts at the interior markets and
light movements of live stock in the
middle west and of cotton in the south
At seven primary interior markets
live stock receipts during the month
aggregated 3,0S4,S92 head, compared
with 3,706,S92 and 4,529,S3S head in
January of 1909 and 1905. Receipts
of hogs were 81 per cent below those
of January. 1909, and As per cent be-
low the January. 1908. total. all the
cities sharing in the decline.
Shipments OF packing house pro-
ducts from Chicago aggregated 1877
3S0,123 pounds, compared with 1884,
SS4.534 and 213,29S,423 pounds during
January of 1909 and 1908.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
IDENTIFIED AS ToRTURER.

Aged Victim Accuses n Prisoner IA
Years After Robbery.
This is the man that bound me and
my wife and burned out feet until we
told where we had hidden our money
said John Wagner, so years old, as
he picked Frank Donahoe out of a
line of eight men at the Etna police
station. Pittsburg. ut was fourteen
years ago, but shall never forget his
face" Donahoe was sent to Jail tc
await trial for burglary. Two com
panions are serving terms in prison
for 'le crime, but Donahoe fed and
was captured on his return home As
the prisoner was being led away tbs
aged man wept and said: Il have
prayed that the guilty one would be
captured, because those men were re
sponsible for my wife's DEATH
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS

President Lewis. OF the United Mine
workers. announced that an average
NJ 10 per cent increase in wages
throughout America has been granted.
Robert w. Higbee. o. Detroit, was
elected president OF the National
wholesale Lumber Dealers Associa-
ton at Cincinnati.
Statewide local option bin was
rejected By the Maryland house Of del
egates by four votes
Patrick II. Houlihan. Of Chicago. has
resigned as general manager OF the Al
ton-clover Leaf Railroad lines.
The international commission on
control Of tuberculosis among domestic
animals adjourned in Detroit. and yin
meet next in Ottawa, May 10, - and
q.
The Oklahoma State Senate passed
the House bill on the white slave
traffic. Penalty for violation OF the
law is two to twenty-five years inn
prisonInent
At an election in Hiawatha Kan,
the commission form Of government
was defeated by seventy five votes
Mrs. Grace Gayou. 10 years old was
shot and killed al Kansas City store
bv Louis Hillson. who killed himself
af,er ne had beaten Jack Doyle. a RI
val for Mrs. Gayou's affections.
Investigation is being made ~ the
death OF E. ]. McGannon, Clovis. ~.
NJ. business men. whose body was
found hanging in a cement plant. Les
ter picks a cousin, was arrested
The striking mine engineers az
Butte. Mont, voted 10 return TO work
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
SAVES THREE; LOSES OWN LIFE.
| Crowd Watches Pittsburg Man Slow
Iy Die of deterioration.

Crowd Watches Pittsburg Man Slow
" Die of ElectrocutiOn.
Before the eyes of several hundred
horror-stricken promenaders who were
enjoying the sunshine in the pretty lit
tie Pittsburg suburb of Fair Oaks,
Charles Rommel was electrocuted while
attempting to save two of his young
daughters and young playmate from
meeting the same fate. Rommel had
just started from his home when, cross
ing the street, an electric light wire
dropped and the children became en-
tangled in it's meshes. He succeeded
in extricating them, but in throwing
one end of the broken wire, which was
dead, he inadvertently came in contact
with the other end. This completed q
circuit, and the sparks darted from
the mans face and body by the thou
sand 1t was fully half an hour be-
fore the deadly current was turned off,
and in the meantime the Mortified
crowd stood helpless, watching Rommel
die
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
PRICES UP IN ALL COUNTRIES.
Statistics Show Advance in Meat
Figures Throughout World.

u1SS Throughout WOrlQ.
The advance in the price of meats
in the United States in recent years
seems to correspond, in measure at
least, with conditions which have
caused increases in meat prices
throughout the world, not only in
those countries which do not produce
much meat but also in Argentina.
Australia. New Zealand. Canada and
other countries which produce sur
plus for export The government has
gathered some interesting statistics
upon the subject. 1t is found that the
advance in the price of fresh meats is
less than in sailed and preserved
meats. and in nearly all cases the ad-
vance has been less in beef than in
pork or mutton
In Australia beef preserved by cold
process advanced in export price from
1923 per 100 pounds in 1899 to $40 in
1908, mutton and lamb from 1882 per
100 pounds in 1899 to $6.47 in 1908.
From Canada the value of fresh beef
exports advanced from an annual aver
age of 81 cents per pound in 1898 to
50 cents in 1909, that of mutton from
81 to 11.2 cents; pork from 9.3 to 9
cents and butter from ISL cents to
"a cents.
All the European cities show, wher-
ever statistics are available, higher
wholesale prices in the local markets,
In Moscow, Russia. beef of the first
quality has advanced in price per
pound from Sc cents in 1908 to 10
cents in 1908. Berlin shows an adj
vance in beef from 1872 in 1896 to 165
cents in 1908, pork from 1928 to 162
cents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15

James Smith, woodsman, was eat
en- by wolves in the forest near Ally.
Mo-, after fighting a desperate battle
for his life. The wolves attacked him
turn of brother. When the latter
returned he found his brothers bones
in the center of a circle of five dead
wolves. while an empty repeating rifle
showed that he had been overpowered
before he could reload the weapon
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
KILLS 90 RAILRoADERS.
of

Avalanche on Canadian Pacific Road
Buries Scores of Workers.
Ninety-two Canadian Pacific tran.
men, track men and laborers were
buried by an avalanche in Rogers Pass
on the summit of the Se,kirk range o.
the Rocky Mountains. All probably
are dead Only five bodies have beer
recovered. They are those of Road
master Frazer, Fireman Griffith, Con
ductor Buckley, Engineer Phillips and
a Japanese. Work of recovering the
dead and opening the track was great
ly impeded by blizzard raging in the
pass. There was another big slide
of snow and rock mile east of the
spot where the men were over.
whelmed 1t destroyed portion of 6
snow shed and buried the track fol
400 yards to a depth of sixty feet
There were no victims in the last ava
lanche
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
CHICAGO.

R. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review
of Chicago trade says:
The advent of seasonable weather
adds a cheering tone to business.
Trading defaults have fallen in both
number and liabilities to the smallest
since April 1907 March settlements
are seen to be remarkably heavy and
the volume of solvent payments
through the banks establishes new
high record. Financial conditions be-
come decidedly favorable and ample
accumulation of funds offers eneour-
agement to more extended enterprise in
commerce and investment.
Railroad operations rapidly return
to the normal. while the returns indi-
cate increasing movements of finish
ed and raw products, general merchan-
disc. grain and plantation needs.
outputs of the leading industries
continue rising. and the approach of
spring work involves wider use of
miscellaneous materials and machin-
cry and hands. Permits during Feb
ruary for new business structures and
additions were seventy in number and
s2,964, 500 in value, and compare with
forty-seven in number and $95S,500 in
value in 1909.
Dealings in the principal wholesale
and retail branches of general mer-
ehandise make a favorable comparison
with this time last year.
Bank clearirgs, $S36,O10.197, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1909 by rs per cent, and com
pare with 1894, 397914 in 1905 Fail
ures reported in the Chicago district
number twelve, as against twenty-one
last week, twenty-seyelr Il 1909 and
forty in 1908. Those With liabilities
over $4,000 number three. as against
four last week, ten in 1909 and thir-
teen in 1908"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
% KILLED IN ALASKA MINE.
Powder Magazine Explodes in Gold
Property on Douglas Island.

Powder Magazine Explodes in Gold
Property on Douglas Island.
Twenty-three miners were killed at
midnight the other night by an ex-
'plosion of a powder magazine in the
LOO level of the Mexican mine, one
of the group of Treadwell gold prop
critics on Douglas Island, Alaska.
Eight men were seriously injured, of
whom it is feared four will die. The
last shots had been fired by the shift
of men twenty minutes before the ex-
plosion took place, and the men had
assembled at the landing on the skip
and were arranging to enter it and
go ON top. c'he magazine, which con-
tains 275 pounds of powder, was thir-
ty feet away from the place where the
men were standing, and every man
was killed or injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
KNOBS SON TOO YOUNG TO WED

Baked in Elopement, He Rides ON
s.MiIk Train with BrIde-to-Be.
After vainly trying for two days te
obtain a marriage license and get some
one to wed them, Miss May Boiler, of
Providence, R. l., and Philander C
Knox, Jr., son of Secretary of State
Knox, who ran away from the Rhode
Island capital the other day, passed
through Plattsburg. n. Y, in a day
coach on the milk train" on their way
back to Providence. Mr.. Knox. who
is under age. is student in the Nor.
ris Heights school, where he is pre-
naring to enter college this fall
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
TRAIN ROLLS INTO RIVER.
Two Dead and One Missing I'm Penn
We'll

Two Dead and One Missing I'm Penn
sylvania Wreck.
One man was instantly killed, one
died, another is unaccounted for and
believed to be dead. and nearly a score
OF others had narrow escapes when the
Linesville passenger train of the Penn
sylvania Railroad jumped the track al
Rock Point Park, Newcastle. Pa, and
plunged down fifteen-foot embank.
ment into the ice-filled Beaver River
The engineer and fireman of the train
were carried into the river with the
locomotive and were rescued by means
of long hose.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15

Fifteen hundred persons were hor,
ror stricken at a Cincinnati theater
the other afternoon when performer
named Augusta Fassio, while perched
on her brothers head eighteen feet
above the stage. lost her balance and
fell to the floor, breaking her neck. She
has little chance Of recovery. The
man was on tables piled twelve feet
q hove the stage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15

The Rock Islands west-bound Chi.
cago- Denver train was wrecked two
miles east OF Smith Center. Kan Three
mail clerks were hurt. one perhaps ia,
tally. None of the passengers was Sc
verely injured Five cars caught fire
and were destroyed. Henry Sphinx, Of
Council Bluffs, Iowa. may die.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
$1,000 Horse Eat. s7so Gem.

Captain H. O. Bartlett. veteran OF
the Civil War and wealthy Joplin.
Mo-, mine owner, discovered an unsus-
pected epicurean taste in King, his
81 900 black horse. when the animal
picked a four-carat diamond valued at
$3.50 from his masters shirt bosom,
crushed it between his teeth and swal-
lowed IL
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
100000 Fire Alarm. Bo.son.

The heart of the wool district of
Boston was seriously threatened BY a
spectacular fire that called out nearly
the entire city department on FIVE
alarms and destroyed the seven-story
New England building at 200 Summer
street. opposite the South station. The
loss is estimated at 100000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
yexuviu. i'm New Eruption.

yeSavius has suddenly become active
again. There has been continuous
eruption for several hours OF red-het
stones and ashes, this being accom-.
panied by internal denotations. Sew
eral assures have opened. from which
gas and lava are emerging in great
quantities.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
FIVE DEAD IN RACE RIOT.
Negro Slayers of Deputy SheriHs
LyncLed by Florida Mob.

Negro SbycTS Oh deputy ShcEAhs
Lyncled by Florida Mob.
With three negroes dead as the re-
suit of a race riot in the neighbor-
hood of Palmetto, Fla. the wrath OF
the residents in that section seems to
be assuaged The sum total of deaths
is three negroes and two white men,
with one white man in the emergency
hospital in Tampa with a bullet hole
through his head. The last of the
three negroes implicated in the muir
der of two deputy sheriffs and the IA
tai wounding of the third was lynch
ed by posse at dusk in the palmettos
on the banks of the Manatee River. He
had fallen asleep, and when he awoke
he was gazing into the barrels of 4
dozen rifles and shotguns. Even then
he showed resistance and reached for
his rife In a second he was riddled
with bullets.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
KANSAS TO OPPOSE HANGING.
State officials VIII Ask Taft to Conn
mute O'Niels Sentence.

mute O'Niels Sentence.
Governor Stubs and Kansas State
officers will appeal % President Taft
to commute to life Imprisonment the
death sentence which was imposed by
jury in the federal court two months
ago on Charles ONeil, an army officer.
Kansas has not had hanging since it
became a State. Two years ago CAPT
tai punishment was wiped from the
statutes. None of the Governors of
Kansas ever ordered prisoners hanged
who were sent up for murder They
were permitted to serve life sentences.
When the verdict of guilty was render
ed in the federal court Judge John c.
Pollock ordered that O'Neil be con-
fined in the Leavenworth County Jail
until March 29, when he should be
executed United States Marshal
Mackay is preparing for the execu-
ton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
Loui. James in n Collapse.

Louis James, the actor, was stricken
with heart failure in his dressing
room at the Helena Theater in Helena,
Mont, and for several hours his life
was despaired of. The performance
was Cancelled and Mr.. James was re-
moved to his hotel, where it was stated
that his condition was slightly i'm
proved.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15

Waiter Dagen. so years old. who
was expected TO be the principal wit
ness for the State in the prosecution of
former county commissioners indicted
in THIN. o.. recently for alleged graft.
ing. committed suicide to-day Els
death viii Seriously hamper the prose
cution.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
MORE LANDS FOR FARMERS.
Irrigated Tracts I'm south Dakota
Are Opened for Entry.

Irrigated Tracts in south Dakota
Are Opened for Entry.
The Secretary of the Interior has
announced the completion of the Sec
ond unit of the Belle Fourche, S. D.,
irrigation project, embracing 10000
acres. divided into forty and eighty
acre farms. These farms now are
available for entry No lottery system
is to be employed, settlers being re-
uuired, after making choice of farm,
to ale their entries in the local land
Office, with a cash payment of $40
per acre. The entire cost of water
right for a forty-acre farm is $1,000,
payable in ten annual installments.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15

DR.. Louis Klopsch, editor of the
Christian Herald. who has been i'll
since the first Of the month in the
German Hospital at Park avenue and
list street, New York. is dead. He
underwent an operation for stomach
trouble
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
EngiEecr and Miner Killed.

William Douglas, engineer of The
McAlester Coal Mining Company at
Buck, Okla. was killed. and Paul
Thincher and Case Manual. miners.
were fatally hurt when a cage they
were in dropped to the bottom of the
shaft. Thineher died later.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15

Attorney General Wickersham has
promised to help the American Fedora
ton in its fight against the steel trust.
said Frank s. Monneft at Columbus,
Ohio If the government wins in the
United States Tobacco case. now pend
ing in the Supreme Court
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15

The Empress of Russia has been suf-
fering from a severe nervous attack
and her condition is considered exceed
ingly unsatisfactory.
More power to the interstate conf
mission" was urged by United States
Senator Albert b. Cummins in an adj
dress before the Traffic Club at Chiea-
go recently.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
Drap Hayes. Grand.on q. Cadet

Naval Cadets Hatch. OF New Hamp
shire. and Webb c. Hayes, of Ohio
the latter a grandson of former Pres
ident Hayes. have been found physi
calIy disqualified and will be dropped
from the naval academy rolls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
s,.,I. soo-ooo from aanL

Thomas E. Larsen. receiving teller
of the First National Bank of Cam
den. y. j., surrendered TO the police
when he learned that he was wanted
on a charge of embezzling $50. 900 Of
the institutions funds. Larsen con-
fessed the charge
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15

Oscar B. Wood, postmaster at Cham.
berlain, n NJ. is held by the Mexican
authorities at Juarez On charge OF
assaulting a Mexican official and q
Mexican policeman. He attempted 10
escape on a train. but was captured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
ROBBERS LOOT EXPRESS CAR.
Nearly 1000 Packages on New York
Central Train Broken Open.

Central Train Broken Open.
When train No. q on the New York
Central reached Rochester the other
day it was discovered that one of the
ten American Express cars, through
car, had been looted. Nearly all OF
the 1000 packages had been broken
open and their contents scattered. Just
how much the robbers got will not be
known until an inventory is taken at
Buffalo. 1t Is the belief of the express
company officials that the robbery was
the work of gang that is supposed to
have boarded the train at Utica, get
ting off at Syracuse.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
.au,at. pnrt AM RuIer,. Nrnraer

Asserting he took part in the assas-
sination of Elizabeth. Empress OF Aus
trsa. in 1898. Christian Keppler. aged
~. gave himself up to the police in
Cincinnati Blackmail by a former
convict. says Keppler. drove him 10
surrender
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15

Congressman Lowden's bin to au-
thorixe the expenditure Of s5oo.o a
year for American embassy buildings
was defeated in the House At Wash
ingtop xssen an exciting debate
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15

C. H. Mann, Jr., of Cedar Crossing,
Ga. was fatally stabbed by a negro,
whose name has not been learned, who
entered the Mann home and attacked
Mrs. Mann. The negro was pursued
by a posse, captured and lypched.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
EX-SENATOR PLATT DIES.
Former Empire State Boss Falls Vic
tim to Bright's Disease.

A>CS%
tim to Bright's Disease.
Former United States Senator
Thomas Collier Plat, Republican lead
er of the State of New York for years
and intensely interested in the Repub-
lican party from its organization in
1856, died Unexpectedly the other
afternoon in his apartments, 1873 West
18th street, New York. He would have
been n years old if he had lived until
next July. The direct cause of Mr..
Platt's death was acute Bright's dis
ease For number of years he had
suffered with palsy of the legs, which
necessitated his occupying wheel
chair most of the time Within the
last two years, though, evidences of
Bright's disease had become apparent.
Senator Plat was born in Owego,
N. Y, July 10. 1888. He spent two
years at Yale, afterwards became
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
Hiaaen Fortune Sound.

Tucked away in odd corners. eurren-
cy and coins amounting TO s100. 900
we're discovered in the home OF Miss
Elizabeth Hayes. supposedly poor
spinster. who died in Burlington, y. j,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
Hox slammed. Burn. sister

Enraged because his 5-year-old sis
ter Doris slapped him, Morris Blond,
5 years old. deliberately set fire to her
dress in Kansas City When the moth
er ran in the child was fatally burned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
rntnllY Injured In wreck

Engineer w. A. Gilmore and Fireman
Paul Ash were fatally injured in an
accident to a Burlington stub train be-
tween Nebraska City and Nebraska
City Junction. Iowa.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
Lisbon Bomb. XIII 2; Injure y.

Two bombs we're hurled into room
in which a party of clerical candidates
were dining in Lisbon. Portugal, ane
the explosions killed two of the din
ers and wounded seven others. includ
ing the priest who was presiding.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
s1,iled Labor wage. Increased.

Beginning March l. the Seaboard Air
Line advanced y cents an hour the
pay OF all the 1000 skilled laborers oi
the system
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-07
KENNEBEC
BELGRADE LAKES

Phllander c. Knox, secretary OF
state in President Taft's cabinet an6
Mrs. Knox, accompanied by L. :
Judge Young Of Pttsburg, Pa, arrived
at the Belgrade Monday night for
two weeks
Wallace Ham of Lynn. Mass. is
stopping with Mr. Travis.
Mr.. Deforest of New York is the
guest of Prof Bogart this week.
The New Century School opened
Monday with about 20 pupils Miss
Effie Cummings is the teacher this
year.
party from the Red Oaks Lodge
Sunday afternoon climbed Mt Philip.
quite number of the towns folk
attended campmeeting Sunday at
Lakeside
Mrs. Poillon and her daughter
Gladys, returned to their home in New
York Monday after a pleasant summer
at the Red oaks Lodge
a number of arrivals are registered
at the hotels over Labor day
Fl. l.. Kelley was in Augusta, Tues
day Gu business.
Henry Farnham has sold his farm to
Mrs Allen and has gone to Cviorado