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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
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Dun's Weekly Review of Chicago
Trade says: The season of good
will" is marked by evidences of bust
ness prosperity which afford much en-
couragement for the future. Heavy
payments through the banks testify to
larger use OF money and Christmas
trade in the leading retail lines here
and ar interior points is seen to COM
pare favorably with all previous sue
cesses. Heavyweight apparel, neces-
saries and Injuries have been under
remarkable absorption and dealers
stocks generally have undergone ample
reduction. The purchasing power of
the people during the past few weeks
has been shown to an extent fully
equaling expectations. High prices oc-
easioned some adverse comment, but
failed to check the onslaught of buy
ers, and it has been demonstrated clear
ly that consumption maintains a pace
close TO the production of ordinary re-
quirements.
Bank clearings. $27S, 19S.SSS, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
los by S1.9S per cent, and compare
with $164,254,S79 in 1907. Both latter
years contained five business days.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number "a, against 2S last
week, % in 1908 and % in 1907. Those
with liabilitiesover $4,000 number II.
against 10 last week, 6 last year and
in 1907.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
8 DIE, 400 RESCUED
IN AN ILLINOIS MINE
Explosion Is Followed by Death
Dealing Gases in Pit Near
Herrin.
OPEN LAMPS CAUSE DISASTER
Prompt and Gallant Rescue Measures
Are Put Forth by Manage
ment and Others.

Eight, men were killed and the lives
OF 400 others were imperiled by an
explosion of gas in mine "A" of the
Chicago and Carterville Coal Com
pany. near Herrin, H. Open lamps
carried by the mines engineer and his
assistants caused the disaster. There
were three men and boy in this
party and all lost their lives Prompt
action by the management of the mine
resulted in the safe exit of the hun
dreds of men who were at work be-
low ground. Within five minutes of
the first reports of The explosion the
miners in the immediate vicinity of
the accident were started toward The
surface and ON the return trips os the
cages rescuers were lowered to entries
Nos. z and s west, where the catastro-
phe took place.
The dead are: Eugene Barrett, as
sistant engineer; Salvatore Greece,
Thomas Harber miners; w. t. Pierce,
mine engineer; Pietro Romeo. labor
er; George Snyder, miner; Thomas
Williams, assistant manager; uniden-
titled boy, about 16 years old.
James Quincy, superintendent of
the mine, and Robert Hueston. mana
ger. headed the first relay of rescuers.
Despite the black damp which flowed
into the chambers adjoining those in
which Pierce and his party were kill
ed, these men plunged into the work
ings Three bodies blocked their path.
Hasty examination showed that the
men were alive, and they were rushed
to the surface. One of them was A. ].
Hueston, a brother of the manager.
The others were Charles Klein and
Albert Shelton. All were revived and
are expected to recover from the eff.
fects of the gas.
The rescuers next found the bodies
of Snyder, Greece and Romeo. None
of these men had been burned, the
condition of the bodies testifying
mutely to the force of the conclusion.
Harber's body was badly burned, the
features being scorehed almost be-
yond recognition. The valiant efforts
of the rescuers to penetrate more
deeply into the workings were re-
pulsed by increasing banks of after
damp. The ventilating apparatus of
the mine had not been damaged, but it
could not cope with the gases and
Quincy and Hueston and their help
ers were forced to retreat, leaving the
bodies of Pierce and his companions.
Fire also began to gain Roadway.
Later all efforts were directed to-
wards fighting the flames. Conditions
are such that it is hoped they will be
confined to the two entries affected by
the explosion.
The mine is under the active man
agement of J. B. Peters, of Carbon
dale, who is vice president of the Chi
cago and Carterville Coal Company.
The president of the concern is James
Pease. of Chicago, former sheriff of
Cook County.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
6HOOzS
COLLEGES
N0NNNNoN0oo

Trustees of the Carnegie College re-
tirement fund have modified the rules
of the trust, so that the retirement
age for instructors will be So, or after
twenty five years.
John M. Humphreys, who graduated
this year from the College of Agricul-
ture of the University of Wisconsin, is
in charge of agricultural instruction in
the high school at Hinckley, MINI.
Frank White has been appointed di-
rector of education for the Philippine
islands, to succeed DR.. Barrows, re-
signed. Mr.. White has been assistant
director of education at Manila for
several years. He was reared in Ne
braska and is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Chicago
LouisiapA will follow the methods of
Minnesoti Wisconsin and the Dako-
tas and teach to every one of the pu-
pills who enter the agricultural high
schools the same curriculum that is
taught in the four Northwestern
States This is the first year that ag-
riculture has been taught with system
and practical work in the high schools
of Louisiana.
The first published report to the eff
feet that the famous elective system
at Harvard had been abolished proves
to nave been Incorrect. 1t appears to
have been true, however, that under
the Lowell administration plans for
improving that system are receiving
attention. One change contemplated is
to require students to complete the
prescribed course in any study that
they elect.
At meeting of the Graduates Club
at New York the subject for discus
sion was DO our systems of public
education prepare children and youth
to enter life with principles of honor?~
A number of prominent educators ex-
pressed the fear that they do not, and
Prof John Dewey thought there was
a much higher standard of morality
in our colleges than there used to be.
The introduction of the professional
element in college athletics was de-
plored.
The university at birmingham. Eng,
this year. for the first time has con-
ferred the degree of doctor of laws,
the recipients being men iistingl. sshed
IN letters, ART pOHllCS. science and
philosophy. Among the men hoaored
by the degree is Andrew Carnegie the
steel magnate.
Delegates from the Fargo and New
Rockford On, d. Congregational coll
leges met recently at jamestown. N
D.. and took the first steps TO raise
s250.O00 for the two schools. Presi-
dent Creegan OF Fargo College. Presi-
dent Hart Of New Rockford College,
and a number of prominent capitalists
Of the State were in attendance
The edict has gone forth at Knox
College that at foot ball games girls
must abstain from joining in college
wells and must content themselves
with songs II is declared a breach OF
dignity and decorum for girls to yell
and indulge in noisy and vehement
demonstrations.
Students Of the Iowa Agricultural
College were awarded first prize in
the students judging competition for
the ]. Ogden Armour scholarships at
the international live stock exposition.
The Iowa students won with a total
If 1910 points. taking first honors in
cattle and hogs. Mississippi took first
Ia horses arr. Ohio first in sheep.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
GALE AND TIDAL WAVE
RAvAGE NEW ENGLAND
Harvest of Death Reaped by Biz
card That Strikes Eastern
States.
SNOW COVERS THE NORTHWEST
Worst December Storm in Decade
Sweeps Wide Area and Cost
Is High.

| Driven in terrific northeast gale,
blowing more than sixty miles an
hour, tidal wave swept the coast of
New England Sunday foenoon, broke
over the seventeen-foot sea dixie at
Chelsea, engulfed $50 houses, took a
toll of three lives, made 1000 house
less and left the shore to the north
and south of Boston strewn with the
wreckage of summer cottages.
Water reached to the second stories
of many houses, and the fact that the
loss of lives was not greater was due
in large part to Policeman James
E Dolan, who saw the tidal wave
come over the dixie and sounded a
warning which sent people scurrying
to the upper floors of their houses
and two children were found uncon-
scious in two feet of water and were
sent to the hospital and were resusci-
tated
The tidal wave swept over Atlantic
avenue in Boston, along which the
coast steamers and fishermen dock,
and filled the cellars of warehouses,
causing damage estimated at 81 900,
600. For several hours the town of
Hull was an island and life-savers res
cued people from their houses in the
lowest section. At Biddeford, Me-,
scores of cottages were wrenched from
their foundations and swept out to sea.
| Wreckage of houses is strewn along
the beaches at Prout's Neck, Old Or
chard, Ferry Beach, Camp Ellis and
Biddeford Pool
The Northwest woke up Christmas
| morning to find that the weather man
had presented them with the worst
December snowstorm in more than a
decade. From the northern limits of
the country to the southernmost tier
of counties in Illinois a smooth, heecy
blanket lay over the whole country
hiding out of sight the bare tops of
hills, filling up valleys and ravines,
and in the broad open spaces where
the wind had full play wrinkling up
into fantastic drifts that buried fences,
blocked roadways and completely oblit-
Grated miles of railroad tracks.
Whipped by gale that at times
reached velocity of forty-eight miles
an hour, the snowstorm swept east
ward from the Mississippi Valley dur
ing the day. 1t took a wide path,
| reaching as far south as Tennessee and
North Carolina and extending north
into upper New York State. In New
York City it almost stalled street car
and suburban train service A pic
turesque Christmas gift and one most
suitable to the day Chicago found it,
but, with the romantic features left
out of consideration, an inconvenient
and expensive one.
Before another twelve hours had
passed thousands of dollars had been
spent in tearing rents through the
blanket to make way for the trains
that carry the country's traffic, and all
night linemen were at work repairing
the telegraph wires that the snow had
broken down in its descent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
N%R5@jNza/

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 TO $50; hogs, prime heavy, $3.50
to $3.50; sheep, fair TO choice, $3.50
to $5.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.23 to S1.24;
corn, No. 2, COO to 62c; oats, standard,
43c to 53c; rye, No 2, roc to soc; hay,
timothy, $1,000 to $1,000; prairie, $500
to $14.50; butter, choice creamery. zoe
to 35c; eggs, fresh soc to 33c; pota-
toes, per bushel. soc to 45c.
Indianapolis-Ca Cattle, shipping. $500
to $775; hogs, good to choice heavy.
$3.50 to $3.50; sheep, good to choice,
1925 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, s1.21 to
S1.22; corn, No. white, Gle to 62c;
oats, No. white, acc to 47c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 to $S55; sheep. $500 to
s5.75; wheat, No. 2. $1.29 to s1S2;
corn, No 2, Gle to SIC; oats. No 2, 43e
to 44c; rye, No 2. 75c to 76c.
Detroit Cattle, $500 to 1915; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, $1.23 to S1.24; corn No.
3 yelipWs Olt " poS' odNot Atdhadlus
45c to Acc; rye, No. /, 76c to 7Sc.
Wheat. No. northern.
$1.13 to s116; corn, No 3, Csc to 66e;
oats, standard, ACC to 45c; rye, No. l.
76c to 7Sc; barley. standard. CSC to
zoe; pork, mess, $4,000.
Buffalo - Cattle. fchoice shipping
steers, $500 to S725; hogs. fair to
choice. $500 to $3.50; sheep, common
to good mixed, $500 to $3.50; lambs,
fair to choice. $500 to $500
Wheat, No. mixed. s1.20
to s1.22; corn. No. mixed, soc to
Gle; oats, No. 2 mixed. 43c to 44c;
rye, No. 2. 75c to ne; clover seed,
5000
New York--Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to 1855; sheep. $500 to
s5.25; wheat. No red s12s to s130;
corn, No. 2, zoe to Tic; oats. natural,
white. 47c to soc: butter creamery.
35c to &c; eggs, western, &c to
35c.
CincInnati-Cattle, $500 to s715;
hogs. y4.OO to 1915; sheep. $500 to
s. 90; wheat, No. 2. 1928 TO $3.50;
corn. No. mixed, Gle to 62e; oats.
No. 2 mixed 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2,
TIC to SOC.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
AIRSHIP SAILS TO PEAK.
Western Youths Aluminium Craft
Lands Trio on Mount Rainier.

Reginald Weatherby, % years old,
who lives at Spanaway Lake, eleven
miles south of Tacoma, has achieved
a triumph in aviation, after three
years devoted to experiments, that
gives him high rank as an aeronaut.
He has completed and successfully
tried out his aluminium aeroplane.
With two companions aboard the air
craft, Weatherby circled the summit
of Mount Rainier on recent night.
The party alighted on the rim of the
crater of the mountain at an eleva-
ton of nearly $4,000 feet and then
sailed off again over the snowfields.
Weatherby was educated at the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology in
Boston. He developed his airship
model at his uncle's home and is jul
bilant over his success. His friends
are amazed. The new feature of the
Weatnerby machine is. substitution
of a system of undulating planes for
the ordinary revolving propeller, by
means of which the inventor has DEM
onstratod a speed of 120 miles an hour
without vibration or jar.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
CAR MENACED BY BOMB PLOT.
Six Conspirators Arrested-Explo-
sives Found in Basement.

Six Conspirators Arrested-Explo
sives Found in Basement.
The Russian secret service police
have unearthed plot against the Car
and Czarina. There were arrested in
Moscow the other day two women and
four men who are members of anarchis-
tic groups. 1t is expected these arrests
may throw some light on the killing
by bomb a few days ago in St. Pc
tersburg of Col Karpoff, the chief of
the secret police of that city.
The arrest of the men and women
was made in house on Baskallow
street, where they had been living for
fortnight. In the house, hidden in
the cellar, were found several bombs
filled with a high explosive. The Sc
cret police have been watching this
house ever since Col Karpoff was
killed.
The information the police received
was that the suspects were making the
bombs to use upon the arrival in Mos
COW of the Gar and Czarina. The
police say the bombs were to be dis
patched to the Kursk depot and ex-
ploded there when the imperial couple
and their suite arrived on the Livadia
railway A Waterman implicated in
the conspiracy disappeared immediate
ly after the arrests were made. The
arrests and the finding of the bombs
created sensation in the city and re-
suited in more rigid supervision over
all persons arriving in Moscow. This
supervision always has been rigid
one, but the watchfulness of the police
is greater just at present than ever
before
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
NUBB1Ns OF NEWS.

The Towle Syrup Conrpany's plant
at ST Paul was dsasgsd 100000 by
fire.
The public sale of 100000 acres of
State school lands began the other
day at Chandler. Okla.
An explosion in mine No. IS of the
Cedar Hin Coal and Coke Company.
near Trinidad. Colo. killed Robert Ra-
ney and James Pedesco
The eighteenth annual convention OF
the National League of Commission
Merchants will be held at Monticello
Hotel of Norfolk. Va. Jan. Il. Is and
IA.
George Q. L-amprecht. formerly man
aver Of the brokerage firm of Lam
precht Brothers < Co. YVES found gull
~ Of endorsement in Cleveland. Lam
precht Brothers & CO. failed over a
wear ago. with liabilities approximate
ing Sl,5o0.o9o.
William Lake of Redwood. Ohio. q
student in the Ohio State University.
and George II. Reed of Bowling Green
were indicted at Toledo for counter
feiting. They were arrested last sum-
mer while working as bell boys at a
hotel in PUTIN Bay, charged with
manufacturing imitation quarters,
with which they played the slot ma
chimes
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
NEGRO IS HERO AT FIRE.
Saves Physicians and Students When
Kansas City Building Is Raced.

Heroic work on the part of Wash
ington Johnson, a negro janitor, saved
the lives of a score of persons in the
Rialto building, a fiye-story Office
structure at 9Th street and Grand ave
nue., Kansas City, which was destroy
ed by fire caused by gas explosion.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
Johnson discovered the fire and,
realizing that number of physicians
and medical students were sleeping on
the upper floors, he rushed through the
halls shouting an alarm When he be-
lieved every one had escaped he made
his way to the street There he learn
ed that Charles r. Marley, a student
who slept on the fifth floor, was miss,
ing. Without a moments hesitation
Johnson rushed up the stairs to the
top of the building. AS he started
through the hall on the fifth floor he
met Manley dazed and halfchoked,
cropping about Taking the man by
the arm, the negro guided him
through the smoke and flames and the
two men reached the street just as a
second explosion shook the building.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
MONSTER wARsHIP LAUNCHED
Utah, Greatest of Battle Craft,
Leaves Ways Into the Delaware.

Declared without an equal afloat,
the Utah, the greatest battle ship ever
built in the United States, was launch
ed from the yard of the New York
Shipbuilding Company at Camden, n.
j., in the presence of several thousand
persons, who crowded the piers and
every other vantage point. AS the
hull started to leave the ways, Miss
Mary Alice Spry, of Salt Lake City,
daughter of the Governor of Utah,
broke a bottle of champagne against
the keel of the ship. Launchings of
warships on the Delaware have be-
come common sight, but the latest
addition to the American navy aroused
the enthusiasm of the crowd, whose
cheers, as well as the din made by the
whistles of river craft, continued sew
eral minutes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
ALBERT TAKES OATH
AS KING OF BELGIUM
Hundreds of Thousands View State
Entry of Successor to Leo
poId ii. Into Capital.
FAvoRs HUMANITY IN KoNGo
New Rulers Speech from Throne
Gives Pledge for Mission of Civ
ilization in Africa.

Albert l., King of the Belgians, with
his queen, Elizabeth, made a state en-
try into the capital from Laeken
Thursday. Cannon doomed forth a
royal salute. church bells rang out
and hundreds of thousands of people
lined the route of the regal march
crying Long live Albert" and Long
live Elizabeth
When the procession arrived at the
chamber, where the oath of ascension
was to be taken, the successor to
Leopold H. was given a notable re-
ception by the assembled senators and
deputies. A feeble attempt of the So
cialists to make a republican demon
stration failed miserably. At every
discordant note a fresh outburst of
cheering drowned the voices of the
malcontents.
King Albert's speech from the
Leopold l. and to his uncle, Leopold
ii. He declared that the latter had
performed prodigious work in
Africa, with the constant thought of
enriching the nation and increasing
the economic resources of Belgium.
Turning to the subject of Belgium's
future, King Albert said: I'VE must
continue our unshakable attachment
to constitutional liberty and the love
of independence, and thus hold sacred
our patrimony while advancing toward
the peaceful conquests in the field of
labor and science. In the Kongo the
nation wishes a policy of humanity
and progress enforced. The mission
of colonization cannot be other than
a mission of high civilization. Bel
GUM always has kept her promises
and when she engages to apply in the
Kongo policy worthy of her, none
has right to doubt her word"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
Saturday.

A freight train running wild wreck
ed the union station in st. Paul.
Ex-President Sheldon, of the Phenix
Insurance Company, died. ignorant of
his disgrace.
From pawn ticket to S5,000,OO0 in
vcton speculation is the story of E. d.
Scales, of Texas.
Canada's trade with the United
States showed a jump of $4,000. 900
in last year; tariff war calamity.
Governor Stubs. of Kansas, said
that the States may have to consult
Federal judges before passing laws.
six boy pirates" starting to sea In
a dory. battled fierceiy with the New
York police before arrested. exhausted.
Fifteen men of a car ferry's crew
were held prisoners by the Detroit
River ice jam that crippled the rail-
roads
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
Find slain Man Under Brush

The body of an unidentified man
who had been murdered with Ratchet
was found beneath pile Of brush near
Kansas City, Kas. He was about As
years old and his clothes bore the
tailor mark M. Kalman, Grand Island,
Neb." A signet ring bore the initials
.W. Me- He had been robbed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
ENGINE CRASHES INTO DEPOT.

st. Paul Union station Resembles
Wreck Caused by Explosion.
The engine of a Great Northern
freight rain plunged through the bag
gage room at the union depot in ST.
Paul at 6 o'clock the other morning
and brought up in the basement. The
cars piled up on the tracks outside, a
mass of tangled wreckage, high enough
to split the roof of the train shed. En-
gineer La Clair jumped just before the
engine struck the building. He was
not hurt, and declared the brakes fail
ed to stop the train. The havoc Gre
ated by the wreck resembled that of a
big explosion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
ZELAYA FLEES HIS COUNTRY.
United States Allows Him to Escape
Upon One Condition.

1t was learned the other day that
former President Jose Zelaya of Mic
aragua has left Corinto on the Next
can gunboat Guerrero for Salina Cruz,
Mexico. Zelaya's departure was very
secret Only few of his most loyal
friends knew that the former dictator
of the country was about to board the
Mexican gunboat The ship left with
out being molested by the United
States officials. The United States has
compromised with its original attitude
toward former President Zelaya of
Nicaragua. The news was general the
other day in the departments in Wash
ington that this government had pur-
posely interposed no objection to the
flight of Zelaya from the anger of his
own people, and that this compromise
was based on the assurance from Mex
leo and Nicaragua that Zelaya would
go into perpetual exile.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04

Former State Senator G. G. Dickin-
son, of Henry County, received the
Democratic nomination for Congress
in the Sixth District of Missouri The
convention took CTS ballots. Dickinson
received forty-two votes and ]. w. Sud
oath thirty-two on the last ballot. The
vacancy in the Sixth District was
caused by the death of Congressman
De Almond.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
Milne Fnrnnce Tor Yenr..

Two Mexicans are dead and a dozen
other persons are lingering between
life and death as a result of volcanic
outburst of gas when workmen in the
Weaver mine of the American Fuel
Company near Gallup. N. Mex, broke
into the old workings of the mine,
which has been burning for seven
years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
slnvs wise. ChiIdren and seIf.

George C. Cheuvrent, prominent
resident of Fresno, Cal, killed his wife
with a Ratchet and then perhaps IA
tally injured his children, boy of IA
and a girl of 10 years. Following
this, Cheuvrent rushed to the Southern
Pacific tracks, threw himself under a
passing train and was killed 1t is
thought he suddenly became insane.
He was a rancher.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04
New orrean. plans Exposition

An exposition will be held in New
Orleans to celebrate the opening of the
Panama canal and incidentally the
2O0th anniversary of the founding of
the city. Plans have been announced
for a meeting of all the commercial
details of the project.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-04

Five are believed TO be dead and
seventeen injured as the result OF the
explosion Of an engine in the shops
OF the Chicago. Rock Island and Pa
cific Railroad in Shawnee. Okla. The
known dead are Roaert Kerr and John
Johns. Kerr and Johns we're working
on the engine.