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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
TO RAISE MAINE HULK.
Opportunity May Be Afforded to
Study How Vessel Was Destroyed.


The National House of Representa-
tives has passed bill providing for
the raising of the hulk of the Inflated
battle ship Maine, which was sunk in
the harbor of Havana in 1893 If the
Senate approves the bill the opportun-
ity will be afforded to recover the bod
les of any of the dead sailors that
may be within the wreck and also fur
nish way for an examination to de-
termine if possible the manner in
which the vessel was destroyed.
The bodies of sailors that might be
recovered would be inferred in Airing
ton Cemetery on the Virginia shore,
opposite Washington. The mast of the
Maine would be erected in the GENE
terry near the graves of the Maine
dead.
AS passed by the House the bill was
changed in its general terms, so as to
authorize the work to be done under
the direction of the engineer corps of
the army, with the consent of the re-
public of Cuba. By the insistance of
Mr.. Sulzer of New York, the bill was
worded to require the raising" as we'll
as the removal of the wreck, so that
an examination could be made of the
hulk to determine the manner of the
vessels destruction.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05

DR.. Edward Meyer, professor of an
cient history at the University Of Ber-
lin and one of the greatest living his
torians, is giving a series Of lectures
before the students of the University
of Wisconsin.
A lively discussion is in progress in
Japan in regard to the ACCESSIBILITY OF
adopting the jury system. Even among
the members of the legal profession
opinion is divided. but if anything the
balance appears to be against the in
novation.
A German south polar expedition
virtually has been arranged by Lieu
tenant F4lchner, of the general staff OF
the army, under the auspices o. the
geographical society. Lieutenant
Filchner announced that the expedi-
ton would start in October of this
wear. If the necessary funds were
forthcoming
The announcement that there VIII be
M Horne Rule bill presented to the
nrasent session Of Parliament while
~, ,,nexpected. caused regret in Ire
- ana II is recognized now that il
No., mean another election before Ire
ana win be given the right to govern
herself.
The great German firm that Is
,,,,o,rn 10 everyone as ~Krupps.- and
,,-bich supplies half the civilized world
,'.5tn What ii wants in the way OF can
non. is buying p large tract Of land IL.
4oIland. with the object OF erecting
80 works there, and also have made
investigations iil America with view
TO establishing plant
The naval program Of Russia has
heen finally completed. sanctioned By
he car and presented to the commits
sson Of defense. The plan calls for the
expenditure Of $500. 600 900 extending
over a period OF ten years, and besides
battleshfps and cruisers there viii be
hrslt fifty destioyers and fifty trans
po~ts. Most Of TIE ships, ii Is an
nounced. viii be constructed in Rus
80 but il IS probable that Z few o.
them viii be built IN France. England
ana America
vesnvius has suddenly become ac-
.sre again. Several assures have open
ID FROM which gas and lava are row-
:-S II great quantities.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
GIRL ACCUSED OF POISONING.
Catherine Manz Clings to Story Of
Strange Man.

Pleading not guilty and waiving pre-.
liminary examination, Catherine MANI,
the 16-year-old girl who is accused of
numbering her sister, by strychnine
poisoning, was lodged in jail at Can
ton, Ohio, to await the action of the
grand jury. That body will not con-
vene until May.
The girl has chung to her original
story of a mysterious man who gave
her two supposed quinine tablets, one
of which she claims her sister took ac-
cidentally. She gave the mans name
as Murray" and stated he lived in
Canton, but the police have been un.
able to trace him and express the be-
lief that he is a myth.
The girls father and other relatives,
who disowned her in the first shock Of
the tragedy, have now come to her as
sistance and engaged attorneys for her
defense A special grand jury may be
summoned to consider the case, but
this action probably will be forestalled
by a lunacy inquiry. The girls rela-
tives claim that her brain has been
affected ever since a fall received in
early childhood.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05

NEW YORK.

The weeks developments have been
generally favorable Chief among these
have been the advent of warm spring
weather. which, coupled with the near
approach of Easter, has stimulated re-
tail trade at all markets, allowed of
expansion in the building trades, the
preparation of the ground in the North
for planting. the beginning of seeding
OF grain and cotton at the South and
of oats and vegetables in the middle
regions of the country. The industrial
situation, too. has materially inn
proved in the collapse Of the sympa.
thetic strike at Philadelphia, the re-
turn to work of many thousands of
idle hands there, and the submitting
of the Western railroad mems demands
to arbitration.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending March "a
were 231, as against 20S last week,
226 in the like week of 1909, 2S6 in
1908. 166 in 1907 and 100 in 1906
Bradstreet's.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
DRAG HOUSES TO HILLS.
Residents Take Flight When the
Missouri River Leaves Bed.

The Missouri river has taken no
ton to overwhelm the little town of
Barney, Neb, and practically the en-
tile town is on the move, the proper
ty owners getting their houses back
to the hills as fast as possible.
A month ago Barney was two miles
from the river. To-day the stream is
right in the town. When the high
waters came with the brea..ing up of
the ice in February the current of the
Missouri was thrown against the
farms between Barney and the river.
Those farms have been cut away en-
tirely, ard the other day the citizens
began moving their houses.
An eighty-foot steel bridge over a
tributary of the river was taken down
piecemeal and hauled to the hills. Now
the river is flowing where yesterday
was the bridge. The schoolhouse was
moved, as was the big grain elevator
and a number of houses. Two miles
of Burlington railroad track was
washed away. A new town will DC
built on the hill beyond the reach Of
the Missouri.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
GIVE UP HEREDITARY SEATS.
Lords Vote to Accept Principle of
Roseberry Resolution.

BY a vote of IT'S to II the House Of
Lords in London renounced the heredi-
tary right to legislate which has been
the cardinal element of the British up
per house for centuries. The occasion
of the fateful division was Lord Rose
bery's third resolution dealing with
the reform of the house.
The house agreed the previous day
that reform and reconstruction was
necessarr. The complementary reso-
luton was passed was that neces-
sary preliminary to such reform and
reconstruction is acceptance of the
principle that possession of a peerage
should no longer of itself give the right
10 sit and vote in the House of Lords. .
1t is significant that fewer than 200
OF the Clio members of the house
shared. in the fateful division. Many
of the absentees were reluctant to
sanction the extinction of the heredi-
tary principle. Nevertheless. they so
far recognized its expediency as not to
oppose it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
WINS IN REPUBLICAN FORT.
E. N. Foss First Democrat to Carry
18th Massachusetts, District.


Eugene n Foss of Boston the other
day was elected to Congress from the
Fourteenth District of Massachusetts.
Running on the Democratic ticket In
district which in 1908 gave the late
William C. Lowering. Republican, a
plurality of 1926, Mr.. Foss defeated
William R. Buchanan of Brockton, the
Republican nominee by 5,617 votes.
The victor in this election is brother
of Congressman George Edmund Foss
of Chicago Mr. Foss was adopted as
the favorite son of the old colony dis
trict by the decisive action of Repub-
licans and Democrats, who gave major
titles to him in thirty-three of the for
ty-four towns and in the two cities in
the district. The Democratic candi-
date invaded Brockton, the home of
his opponent, and secured the major
portion of the votes, winning in that
city by a plurality of Ill. This show
ing in the Fourteenth District is ag-
gressively and demonstratively insur-
gent. 1t turned a majority of $4,000
for a Republican into an excess of s.
GIT for a Democrat of comparatively
recent conversion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
.ka%RE15f5'jNzsr/

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to 1915; hogs, prime heavy, $70C
to $11.20; sheep, fair to choice, s4.50
to 1910; wheat, 30. 2, $1.19 to $1.21;
corn, No 2, soc 10 Coo; oats. standard
| 42c to AZ; rye, No. 2, roc to soc; hay
timothy. $1,000 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, 28c
to 32c; eggs, fresh, 1Sc to 21e; pota
toes, per bushel, zoe to soc.
anapolis-Cattle. shipping. $500
to $500; hogs, good to choice heavy
$500 to s11O0; sheep, good to choice
$500 to $500; wheat, No. 2, SLIT tc
$11S; corn, No. Waite. Gle to CSC;
oats, No. white, 45c to Acc.
ST. Louis--Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $11.OO; sheep, $3.50 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, $120 to 1922;
corn, No. 2, Gle to 63c; oats, No. 2,
43o to 45c; rye, No. 2, roc to soc.
Cincinnati-C Cattle, $500 to $S.25;
hogs, $500 to s11.10; sheep, $500 to
$G75; wheat. No. 2, 1921 to 1922;
corn, No. mixed, Coo to &c; oats,
No 2 mixed. 47c to 4Sc; rye, No. 2.
SAC to sec.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs
$500 to s1O.S5; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2. s1.16 to S1.18; corn. No
3 yellow. Coo to Sic; oats, standard
Acc to Ale; rye, No. /, zoe to soc.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. northern.
s1.14 to s1.17 corn, No. 3. Gle to 63c;
oats, standard, 43c to 44c; rye, No. /,
7Sc to soc; barley. standard. CSC 10
zoe: pork, mess, s26.59.
Buffalo - Cattle. choice shipping
steers, $500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to
choice, $500 to s1110; sheep, common
to good mixed, $500 TO $40; lambs,
fair to choice. $500 to 5000
New York-Cattle. $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to s1175; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. red, $124 to 1925;
corn, No. 2, 63c to 64c; oats. natural,
white. 49c to sic; butter, creamery,
31c to SAC; eggs. western, 19c to 22c.
Toledo-wheat, No 2 mixed. s1.15
to s1.1s; corn, No. mixed, Gle tc
e2c; oats, No mixed, 45c to acc;
rye. No. 2. 79e to soc; clover seed
S71O
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
REGULARS COMPOSE COMMITTEE
Republican Caucus Selects Only
Friends Of Speaker Cannon.


Six regulars were chosen at the
Republican caucus in Washington to
represent the majority party OH the
committee on rules which is to sue.
coed the committee retired by the
revolution that took place in the
House Of Representatives few days
ago. The slate as prepared by the
degular leaders was chosen, as follows:
Henry Sherman Boutell, of Illinois;
John Dalzell. of Pennsylvania; j.
Sloat Fassett, of New York; Walter
l. Smith, of Iowa: George P. Law.
renee. of Massachusetts,; Sylvester c
Smith. of California
Both Smith, of Iowa, and Dalzell
are members of the present commit.
tee on rules. having been appointed to
places thereon by Speaker Cannon.
Representative Boutell is one OF Speak.
er Cannon's closest friends and great
est admirers and placed Mr.. Cannon
In nomination for President at the
Chicago convention in 1905 Mr.. Law.
renee, of Massachusetts, has long been
close friend of Speaker Cannon. Mr..
Fassett is one of the orators of the
regulars" Representative Smith, OF
California, has always been one OF
the most regular Republicans in the
House.
Speaker Cannon attended the eau
Gus, but took no prominent part in
the proceedings. He made no speech ;
had nothing whatever to say except
in the heart-to-heart whispered talks
he INDUCED in with his lieutenants OF
old. All the insurgents attended the
caucus except Gardner, of Massachu-
sets, who was kept away by illness.
The insurgent leaders express com
plete satisfaction in the work of the
caucus. None of them bolted or critt
cized in any way the result of the
balloting Out of the total Republican
membership of the House-216-there
were present 1879.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
TWELVE PERSONS DIE
IN BAD CHICAGO FIRE
Flames in Fish & Co.'s Building
Surround Victims and Hinder
the Firemen.
YOUNG WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH
Heroism of Men In Attempting to
Save Girls Trapped on Top
Floor in Vain.

The lives Of twelve men and women
were lost in fire in the l.. Fish &
Co. furniture store, Chicago. Eleven
Of them were burned to death on the
sixth floor of the building. They had
been trapped on the top floor, aearly
100 feet from the ground, with no pos
sible chance of escape, and the flames
roaring so furiclsly about them that
the firemen could not raise ladders to
go to their rescue. The twelfth vic
tim, a girl 10 years of age, jumped to
escape the flames, but was so badly in.
jured when she struck a glass awning
that she died. Miner w. Bell, one of
the department managers of the com
pany, and H. NJ. Mitchell, auditor OF
the Arm, and brother-in-law of Isaac
Fish, were burned to death. They
gave their lives to save the girls who
were trapped by the names.
The fire is said to have started from
an explosion of an alcohol cigar light
er which was being filled on the 4rt
floor of the building. With the excep
NAOAA Va lhtl Ou Tic lhldhG WoNSl luh
mel it was the most disastrous since
the Iroquois theater horror 1t swept
upward through the structure with
such rapidly that the men and won
en- in the general Offices ON the sixth
floor had little chance of escape. There
is no fire escape on the front Of the
building. 1t was fire of horror and
thrills, marked by tragic death and
wonderful escapes. There were forty
or fifty employees In the building when
the report of the explosion was heard
The furniture fed the hungry flames
and in an incredibly short time tie
scorching tongues had burned their
way through the fifth floor Soon this
section was an inferno like the fourth
and then the fire crept to the sixth
cutting of all escape for the girls and
men who were at work in that sec
ton. The financial loss is estimated
at s250.O00 The contents of the build
ing practically were destroyed by fire
and water The bodies were reeov.
cred
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
DUPLICATES CUDAHY ATTACK.
Kansas City Man SIashes Wife's
COmpaniOn-Third Case OF Kind.

Kansas City Man SIashes Wife's
COmpanion-Third Case OF Kind.
For the third time within a few
weeks in Kansas City an angry hus-
band encountered his wife and a man
companion and slashed the man with
knife when c. P. Gard, piano sales
man, met Mrs. Gard at her home early
the other morning after she had been
"joy riding" it is alleged, and, after
bombarding the two men who accom-
panying her with bricks, cut one of
them. The first affair of this kind was
that in which Jack Cudahy attacked
Jere Lillis, banker and clubman. when
he found him in his home with Mrs.
Cudahy. The second occurred on a
recent night when DR.. j. E. King trailed
his wife and William A. Young, an
actor, to Swope Park and slashed
Young
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
FIX UP TARIFF TROUBLES.
Taft and Canada's Representatives
to Announce Terms at Once.

to Announce Terms at Once.
There is to be no tariff war with
Canada. Peace terms have been agreed
upon, and the PRONUNCIATION thereof
will be made simultaneously from OF
tawa and Washington, the day before
the maximum tariff of the United
States would go into effect automati-
cally against Canada in the event of
no proclamation to the contrary by
President Taft
Details regarding the successful
termination of the negotiations be-
tween the United States and Canadian
officials are being carefully guarded,
but it is known that Canada grants
its intermediate rates on a small list
of articles that do not seriously come
into competition with Canadian man
ufacture. Full details are known as
yet only to President Taft and Secre-
tary Fnox on this side of the line and
to Minister of Finance w. S. Fielding
and Minister of Railways George P.
Graham and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the
Dominion premier on the other.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
gNXMERCLAL
60! s:::::j: : HIN
AND ia
ASs en- ~ siSz
'zENANCAL
CHICAGO.


R. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
o. Chicago Trade says:
Easter trade in the principal
branches of distribution equals san
guine expectations, A high volume of
payments through the banks is sus-
tanned and the trading defaults fur
nish favorable comparison with pre-
yious years. Buying in the leading re-
tail lines rose to new high proportions
during the week, and business gener-
ally reflects the quickening derived
from the advent of spring and the re-
markedly fine weather which prevails
here and throughout the West.
New building and heavy construc-
ton are vigorously advanced, and
there are notable additions TO workers
employed at the mills and factories.
Activity among the industries and in
transportation now compares satisfae-
torily with the best previous times,
while the improving position draws
strength for the future from the wider
range of new demands for finished
products.
Earnings of the Chicago steam
roads surpass all former gross records
for this season of the year. and threat
ened difficulties with workers are re-
moved by higher wage concessions.
Offerings of commercial paper have
increased, and the discount rate rose
to 4 y per cent FOR choice names.
L ala n
| those of the corresponding week in 1909
by 1871 per cent and compare with
1922, 409,514 in 1908. Failures reported
in the Chicago district numbered "a, as
against 20 last week, "a in 1909 and 80
in 1908. Those with liabilities over
| $4,000 number 10. as against last
week, 8 ia 1909 and ~ in 1903"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
TOTAL COTTON SUPPLY SHOWN.

Census Bureau Places Six Months
Figure at I1,552,361.
The census report shows the total
supply of cotton for the six months
ending Feb. % to have been 11,552,961
running bales. The distribution is
2,526,9S3 bales consumed, 4,599,6S2 ex-
ported, 1,674,331 held in mills, 1882
521 held in independent warehouses,
and other stocks S18,844 The number
OF bales held on Sept. 1, 1909, was
1,4S3,5S5; ginned during the six
months period, 9,974,99S; net imports,
93.77S.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
KENTUcKY-1ND1ANA LINE OPEN.


Ride from Louisville to South Bend,
200 Miles, Is at High Speed.
The first through electric car from
Louisville. KY, to South Bend, arrived
there the other evening, marking an
important epoch in the history of cleo
trio railroads in this part of the coun-
try. The distance between the two
cities is 296 miles. Chicago and South
Bend already are connected by trolley
dianapolis, Peru, Winona. Warsaw and
Goshen. An average speed of thirty
miles an hear was made and in some
places the schedule was as high as six
ty miles an hour.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
GENERAL HURT; WOMAN KILLED
Trolley Car Demolishes Automobile
on a Washington Road.

Major General ]. Franklin Bell, chief
of staff of the army, was badly but
probably not dangerously injured, and
Mrs. Herbert ]. Slocum. wife of Major
Slocum, of the Seventh Cavalry, was
almost instantly killed in collision
of their automobile with trolley car
on the Tenallytown road in the north
west outskirts of Washington. Cen
eral Bell had one rib broken, suffered
a painful scalp wound and severe bruis-
es. The chauffeur was uninjured. Mrs.
Slocum lived only few moments. Her
husband is attached TO the headquar.
tiers of the Department of the East at
Governors Island. New York. General
Bell absolved the trolley car motorman
from blame for the accident.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
AVERT BIG RAIL STRIKE.

Managers of Western Roads and
Firemen Agree ON Terms.
Peace on the Western railroads was
assured when the general managers
and the representatives of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En-
ginemen reached an amicahle settle
ment OF their differences in Chicago
the other day. Both sides agreed that
the credit for averting what would
have been one of the worst strikes in
railroad history is due to DR.. Charles
p. Neil, Commissioner of Labor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
FIRE COSTS $50 LIVES.
Gay Scene Is Turned Suddenly Into
One of Horror.

Two hundred and fifty people were
killed and many others were injured
in the village of Oekorerite, Hungary,
when fire broke out in hotel at which
a ball was being held. A coach house
connected with the hotel had been fit
ted up as ballroom, and at night
was crowded with several hundred
guests when the fire started 1t was
noticed first when woman's dress
was seen to be ablaze and moment
later the gowns of several other wom-
en- were in flames. A panic followed,
and in a mad rush to the exits many
persons fell and were trodden to death
by others The roof fell before the
hall could be cleared and many in
jured persons and those who because
of the crush at the doors had been pre-
vented from escaping were buried with
the dead in the ruins.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
s1oo.ooo for ntbIe work.

A friend of the New York Bible So
ciety. who withholds his name, has Of
fered the society dollar for dollar any
sum within 100000 that can be raised
to distribute the Bible among immi-
grants, sailors and foreigners in New
York City. Up to the present time
s35. coo has been subscribed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05

William Westover, 1s-year-old son Of
District Judge w. H. Westover, In
Rushville. Neb-. was shot through the
hand and chest by enc of party Of
boys Of his own age bent on hazing
him. The lads had organized a sort
OF lodge and Westover was booked for
initiation. His condition is critical
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
NO CUDAHY PROSECUTION.
Case Against Son of Packer for At
tack In Lillis Dismissed.


tack In Ltllfs Dismissed.
The case growing out of the attack
made by j. p Cudahy, the packer, up
on Jere Lillis, the banker, was dis
missed in the Municipal court in Kan.
sas City by Daniel Howell, assistant
city attorney. Mr.. Howell made no
comment further than to say the case
should not have been brought in the
Municipal court. Brown Underwood,
the patrolman who was called to the
Cudahy home the night Lillis was at
tackled, was the only witness to appear.
The case had been continued twice be-
fore
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
DRY" PETITIONS THROWN OUT.
Chicago VIII Not Vote Upon Local
Option Question This Spring.

Option Question This Spring.
Chicago will not vote upon the ques-
ton of disseminating the licensed sa-
loon and substituting prohibition at
the aldermanic election this spring.
The Board of Election Commissioners
threw out the monster petition of the
Anti-Saloon League calling for the sub
mission of the question to the electo-
rate. The commission held the 'drys"
to be short 1928 of the 63,511 names
necessary to give the petition legal
status, declaring that out of the IA
026 names appearing on the petition
26,12S were not those of registered le-
gal voters and 1920 were doubtful"
The commissioners did not go into the
question of some 1920 obviously fic-
titious names, 1,20a Implications and
600 forgeries charged by the vets"
who filed objection to the petition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05

the transfer Of s1O.s00.Oo0 In geld
bars from che assay Office In New York
CITY 70 the subtreasury vaults recently
attracted a crowd which blocked Wall
street. Clerks carried 1880 bars.
worth $4,000 each, from the assay Of
fee to a truck on the sidewalk, while
policemen guarded them. and then
pushed the truck the short distance TO
the subtreasury and carried the gold
bars In.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05

After spending several hours at Gin
cinnatl In disposing ~ details incident
TO the reorganizing Of the conference
recently broken off at Toledo. the min
ers and operators Of the central COM
petitive field, comprising Ohio Indiana
and Western Pennsylvania, appointed
committees which are considering the
points In issue between the two fac