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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
PHILADELPHIA FACING
PARALYSIS BY STRIKE
Walk-Out Which May Involve 1907
900 Men Ordered and Attacks
on Cars Go On.
POLICE SHOOT TWO YOUTHS.
Bloodshed as Street-Railway Situa-.
ton Gets Worse-organizer Pratt
Held in $4,000 Bail.

While rioting which may cost the
life of at least one victim was going
Oil. the Central Labor Union of Phil
adelphia declared sympathetic strike
of all organized labor in the city affil-
lated with the central body. The union
claims membership of 100000. Its
action was the result of the arrest and
detention of Clarence O. Pratt, nation
al organizer of the street car men.
Whether the order will be obeyed
by all cannot be told now President
Murphy of the Central Labor Union
declares that the order will not go
into effect before it receives the APP
proval OF the presidents of the unions.
The Central Labor body is composed
of 500 delegates, said to represent 100
unions, in various trades. The labor
leaders are holding conferences to de-
eide when the strike order shall go
into effect. If it is carried out to the
letter it will mean serious conse-
quences for the city, which probably
will be felt in other places than Phil
adelphia
Pratt was given hearing and held
in $4,000 bail, charged with melting to
riot, conspiracy and disorderly con-
duct. President Murphy was indig-
nant against the city officials for TAX
ing Pratt into custody.
Trouble was reported from Kensing-
ton, in the northeastern part of the
city, the great mill district, where two
boys were shot. A crowd of youths
lay in wait for car and as it passed
hurled a shower of stones Two police
men who were on the car as protectors
of the crew opened fire on the boys
and when the youths fled it was found
that two had been wounded. Both
were rushed to a hospital and an ex-
animation showed that one had been
shot in the chest and that the other
had been injured slightly.
Coming suddenly when least ex-
pected, this strike was declared against
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit by the
Amalgamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway employees the other
day. Two cars were burned the same
night, score of cars were attacked,
forcing their crews to abandon them,
and numerous arrests were made. EX-
cept in the central part of the city,
street railway service was almost at
a standstill. Cars running through the
central stations we're heavily protected.
Along Kensington avenue lumber and
other distractions were piled on the
tracks.
Two hundred and ninety-seven cars
wrecked, scores of persons injured, and
$50 strike sympathizers arrested was
the result of the second days rioting
in connection with the strike. The
disorders stopped only when the COM
pany decided not to operate its lines
for several hours. BY the time this
decision was made conditions had be-
come so serious that Mayor Reyburn
had sworn in 1900 extra police and
had issued a proclamation enforcing
the riot act and placing the city i'm
der what practically was martial law.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
KING SAYS FIGHT LORDS. +"
Undivided Authority on Finance
Legislation" to Commons.


King Edward Monday afternoon
opened in state the third parliament
of his reign. In a momenteus speech
from the throne his majesty outlined
the plan of the ministerial campaign
against the House of Lords as follows
Recent experience has disclosed Sc
rious difficulties due to recurring diff
ferences of strong opinion between the
two branches of the legislature. Pro
posals will be laid before you with all
convenient speed to define the rela-
tions between the houses of parlia-
ment so as to secure the undivided
authority of the House of Commons
over finance and its predominance in
legislation These measures, in the
opinion of my advisers, should provide
that this house should be so copstitut-
ed and empowered as to exercise i'm
partially in regard to proposed legis-
lation the functions of initiation, re
vision and subject to proper safe
guards of delay"
King Edward was accompanied by
Queen Alexandra, and the state open
ing was marked by all the pomp and
pageantry associated with these occa-
sions since the accession of Edward III.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
ZERO WEATHER CLOSES SCHOOLS.

Indiana and Ohio Snowfall of 20
Inches Frozen Mercury Falls.
Zero weather froze solid the nine to
twenty inches Of snow covering Indi-
ana. Schools in Indianapolis and most
of the smaller cities of the state were
closed. Travel on the interurban cleo
trio railways was slow and uncertain
and many highways were blocked by
drifts. The temperature dropped
sharply at the close of forty-eight
hour snowstorm and registered from
2 to degrees below zero in different
sections of the state. The public
schools at Marion, O., were dismissed
the other day, as practically none of
the children was able to reach the
buildings. A snowfall of nineteen
inches covers the streets. The heavy
fall caused the collapse of the $10,-
900 frame auditorium at GAINESVILLE
Complaints are coming in from central
Ohio farming Districts that live stock
is suffering from lack of water, as the
small streams are frozen up.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
6HOOkS
l6LLEGEs

Cornell won the final game of the
hockey series between Yale and Cor
nell Score, Cornell 3, Yale /.
At Miller, S. D., a school election to
vote $4,000 bonds for new school
house resulted in 3O2 for and Sc against
the project About $50 women voted
President Charles r. Van Hise, of
the University of Wisconsin, was elect
ed vice president of the Association of
American Universities at the meeting
in Madison.
Prof. Samuel Hayes, of the college>cf
law. University of Iowa, has been
awarded a retiring allowance by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching. 1t is understood
that the professor will receive either
$1,000 or $1,000 per year.
The United States Department of
Agriculture recommends the establish
ment of movable schools of agriculture
by the State experiment stations
wherever fifteen farmers can be Sc
cured as students, and the school may
be conducted for a year or longer. The
KIND OF UtpenQ on
the needs of the section.
State Superintendent C. P. Cary OF
wisconsin has issued letter to super
intendents, principals and teachers, in
which he deplores the tendency OF
shaping high school courses chiefly 20
fit students for entrance to the State
University He also assails the COM
mission plan of supervision suggested
by the university educator.
Owing to disagreement about the
conditions inn osed by William c. Proc
tor OF Cincinnati on his offer of $780,
600 for a graduate school at Princeton,
that gift has now been lost, and with
il nearly as much more which
had been raised for a simipar pur-
nose. President Wilson had insist
ed upon maintaining the right of
the university to carry on the grade
work in any way that might seem best
n himself and the trustees, and in this
attitude the board sustained him.
Mrs. Fannie French Morse, for eight
Years superintendent of the State In
dustriaI Schoos.for Girls at Lancaster.
Mass has resigned. Mrs. Morse is to
establish and superintend a similar
school for girls in Sank Center. MINI.
Andrew Carnegie has gigen st.
Thomas College. of St Paul. S25,OOO
which wiz be applied on the 5000 geo
endowment fund. q start on which was
made last spring. Pledges amounting
70 more than 100000 have been re-
ceived by the school authorities. which
includes a gift of $4,000 from the gen.
eral education board OF New York.
given on the provision that the college
raises s225.oo0 more.
Prof. Guido Marx. of the engineering
college at Stanford University. saws
that 50 per cent of the assistant pro-
fessors in American universities must
supplement their salaries BY outside
work in order to make both ends
sneet." He claims that on an average
these men receive just enough to SUP
Dort an unmarried man. and that "a
per cent of the instructors are married
and have families
AT the twenty fourth session Of the
fourth course in agriculture at the
wisconsin college 4sl farmers and their
bows weae in attendance. Nearly ev-
cry county in the State was represent
ed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
ONE KILLED, H SHOT
| IN CAIRO MOB CHARGE
Angry Men Storm Prison in Effort
TO Lynch Negro Youths for
Purse Snatching.
SHERIFF AND DEPUTIES FIRE.
Deneen Orders Out the Militia,
Which Is Held in Readiness for
Serious Work.

single volley from the force OF
ive deputies mohilized at the county
jail in Cairo, H., the other night prob
ably averted the second lynching of a
negro in Cairo in four months. In the
fusillade, in which eleven shots were
fired, one of the members of the mob
was killed and at least two injured.
Two hundred men, who had been in
cited to violence by a man related 10
siiss Anna Policy, whose murder pre-
cipitated the November riots in which
Froggie" James and Henry Salzer
were lynched. stormed the Jail shortly
after midnight. After the sheriffs
men had fired the mob returned the
volley, breaking several windows in
the Jail. None of the deputies was in
jured, however. The militia company
was ordered out by Gov Deneen by
long distance telephone after Sheriff
Nellis had telephoned news of the riot
ing to Springfield
The trouble was precipitated by the
arrest on Wednesday night of negro
who twice, 1t is said, within a week
mad snatched purses from women. This
boy, whose name is John Pratt, was
seized just after he had seized the
purse of young woman relative OF
Miss Pelley Miss Pelley's brother.
who is on a visit to Cairo from ST.
Louis, Immediately began making the
rounds of the saloons, crying for ven
geance for this second attack on a
woman of his family. This led to the
formation about midnight of mob OF
nifty or sixty members. AS this ap
preached the jail it grew to more than
200. Then it was announced that a
young woman was in jail charged with
having set fire to more than twenty
two houses in Cairo since Christmas.
The mob, as it approached the Jail.
cried loudly for these two negroes, and
when it failed to heed the warning
called by the sheriff he ordered his
deputies to fire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
YOUNGSTOWN CONVERTED.
Chilly" Sunday Brings $500 Into
Fold in 0hiO's 'TOughest City,"

One of the most remarkable religious
demonstrations ever witnessed occurred
at The Youngstown (Ohio) tabernacle
Sunday night when Evangelist Billy"
Sunday closed his six-weeks' campaign
in what was conceded to be the most
wicked city in Ohio. The thousands
who heard the evangelist deliver the
most hair-raising addresses that ever
came from his lips became almost ia
natical. Men and women leaped into
the air, screamed, cried, Rugged each
other and prayed in a most beseeching
way. The evangelist himself, carried
away by the great demonstration, in
voked them to continue, and at the
end of the services was accompanied
to his hotel by thousands of enthusi
astic converts, where there was anoth-
er demonstration. 1t is estimated that
over 5000 people, anxious to hear and
see the evangelist, were turned away
from the tabernacle. More than $780,
900 was raised Sunday for Mr.. Sunday.
the only collection taken during the re-
vival, for his personal use.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
CHICAGO.

r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review Of
Chicago Trade says:
a slight comparative decrease in
the volume of payments through the
banks, additional storms interfering
with freight movements. rising security
markets and still higher levels for
breadstuffs and meats furnish the out
standing features of current develop
ments There is also a slower flow of
new demands in prominent branches
of manufacturers. which is due to tenn
porary causes and does not weaken
confidence in the general business out
look
Commercial defaults in both num-
Der and liabilities make the best ex-
hibit thus far this year, and the posi-
ton of credits is very encouraging and
favorable to larger use OF capital
Other gratifying factors which im3art
strength are the easier tendencies in
money and the steady progress which
appears in production of the mills and
factories.
Some accumulation appears in
hides, with prices more favorable to
tanners, and the buying is steady in
leather, footwear and novelties. Build
ing materials again are under widen
ing request for the coming spring
work. Country buyers attend the gem
eral merchandise markets in remark
able force and the buying is broad in
dry goods millinery. clothing, shoes
and house furnishings
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number 10, against 3S last
week, 25 in 1909 and Al in 1908. Those
with liabilities over $4,000 number ..
against last week, in 1909 and II
in 1905"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
IMPERILED BY PAROLE DECISION
1t May Affect Many State Appointive
Officers and Commissions.

Officers and Commissions.
The Illinois Supreme Court, by its
opinion in the Joyce parole case, de-
claring the law establishing the parole
board to be unconstitutional, has caus-
ed political panic in the Statehouse
Interpretation of the opinion by State
officers who prefer not to talk yet for
publication is that close construction
of the Joyce opinion makes it extreme
ly problematical whether more than
one-half of the appointive officers and
commissions of the State are constitu-
tlonal or that the men holding these
places can lawfully draw their salaries.
These officers and commissions are
declared to be in the identical predica-
ment with the parole board, which was
wiped off the map by the Supreme
Court decision
charities.
The fire marshal
The pure food commission.
The Pontiac reformatory board.
The mining investigating commits
sion.
The secretaries to the Supreme JUS
tees.
The greater scare attached to the
hidden paragraph in the Dunn opinion
comes from close reading of the ju-
dicial view that an act creative of IN
office or a commission, which is silent
in its title as to the salary or compen-
sation of the officer or board therein
named, but which in the body of the
bill establishes, provides, or appro-
PIRATES for compensation of these Off
GERS. is unconstitutional so far as 1t
applies to payment.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
EXPLORER THOUGHT DEAD BACK
Arthur It. Leith Returns to wash
ington from Lubrador's Wilds.

Arthur It. Leith Returns to WASH
ington from Lnbrador's Wilds.
Mourned as dead by his wife and
friends for the last four months, Ar
thur T. Leith, geologist, explorer and
hunter, has returned, safe and well,
from the frozen regions of Labrador
to his home in Washington. Mr.. Leith
started out last summer from the north
shore of Lake Superior, with his broth
er, Dr. c. K. Leith, professor of geolo-
gy in the University of Wisconsin; F.
S. Adams of Duluth and Hugh Roberts
of Superior, Wis. They went $50 miles
north of the Labrador trading post of
Great Whales. DR.. Leith and Mr.. Rob
erts made their way home in the fall.
but the other two men remained until
Christmas and experienced terrible
hardships.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
VOTES NEW FRANCHISE.

pany Under Certain Conditions.
By a majority of S,110 Clevelands
voters the other day approved the so
called Tayler traction franchise grant
giving to the Cleveland Railway Com
pany a twenty-five year franchise, 1t
Scent fare for three months and rs
much longer as 6 per cent can be earn
ed at that figure, the maximum fare
being cents, with penny transfer
charge, rebated when the transfer is
used. The end of the eight-year trac-
ton war was brought about in a light
vote on account of blizzard, the total
for the grant being 27.S07. and against
it, 1877.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01

Corporations all over the country are
being urged to make heroic effort to
secure the repeal of the corporation
tax law.
To secure the enactment of a law
requiring the teaching of scientific
motherhood in the public schools Of
Iowa, Mrs b. F. Carroll. wife OF the
Governor of Iowa, will appeal to the
legislators in the interests of the girls
at the next session of the General AS
sembly.
method of settling the women suf-
frage question in New York State is
proposed by Senator Bracket, who has
introduced bill providing that on the
day before next November election all
the women of the State be invited to
go to the polls and vote the same as
men, yes or no, to the proposed suf-
frage amendment. The plan is not APP
proved by the leading suffragists, who
say that If the Legislature could grant
women permission to vote on this ques-
ton it could do so on others, which is
impossible. so that the vote of the
women, il passed, would be illegal
Gov. Shafroth and Chief Justice
Steele of Colorado have issued signed
statement to contradict the assertion
made by Rev. DIR. Underhill. of Denver
before the City Cluc Of New York. I'm
derhill said he Endorsed from observa
ton an article by an unnamed woman
aiming to show that suffrage had de-
moralized the women of Colorado. The
Governor and the judge say these
nj l14 ffaa
women of Colorado are the equal OF
any in refinement. education and fem
mime graces. none of which qualities
have been damaged by their fifteen
wears Of participation in spublic affairs.
while the government has immeasur-
ably improved by such participation.
Otto 7. Barnard, the defeated Re-
nuhlg. an candidate for the mayoralty OF
NeU york. in the last election. now
mentioned prominently as a candidate
for Governor to succeed Hughes, has
presented a report on party conditions
~ the Republican County Committee in
New York
The anti-saloon forces of Chicago
have fled their petition. signed by IA
sos citizens, 1900 more than neces-
sarv which will require the submits
sion Of the liquor question to the vot-
ers of the city at the April elections.
Charges are made by the liquor men
that fraudulent signatures have been
placed on the local option petition.
Control OF Ohio-and control of Ohio
is the biggest thing in American poll
tics to-day--is the prize in the dght
between President Taft and Governor
Harmon. which has shifted to the open.
with the reference OF the pet reforms
OF each leader to committees Of the
Legislature.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has
affirmed the lower court N the appeal
OF Louis OIigny, Christ Hanson et a.
vs.. the City OF New Richmond. in favor
OF the city. This was q case brought
to test the legality OF the vote in New
Richmond LAST spring. when the no-li-
eense forces wsn By majority Of
threk
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
KILLED AND HURT IN THEATER.
Floor Suddenly COllapses Because OF
Flames in Basement

Floor Suddenly Collapses Because OF
Flames in Basement.
Five hundred persons attending a
small theater at Patton, Pa, were pre-
cipitated into the basement of the
building when the floor collapsed dur
ing fire, and one person was killed
The fire started from an unknown orr
gin, in the basement of the build
ing, while the theater on the first floor
was filled with persons watching a
moving picture show. By the time
smoke began to appear in the room
he floor had already been weakened
by the flames, and when the rush for
the doors began the floor collapsed,
allowing the struggling crowd to drop
in a mass to the basement. The en-
tire structure was burned. A score
are injured seriously, several of them
fatally.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
HOGS HIGHEST SINCE THE WAR.
Average Price Reaches $9.11, Break
ing Half Century Mark.

Average Price Reaches $9.I1, Break
ing Half Century Mark.
Packers at the Chicago stockyards
paid more money for hogs Tuesday
than on any day since the Civil Wa,
the average cost being $9.11. The
previous record day since 1865 was
Monday, when the average price was
S906. In May of 1870, when cattle
were selling at unprecedented prices.
hogs sold within a range of from $3.50
to 1885, topping at 10 cents higher
than the most recent figures. but
showing an extreme range of 81, while
all of Tuesdays hogs cleared within
a range of 80 cents, the inside figure
standing at SIS cents higher than in
1870. In 1869 hogs reached $780, but
sales were made at $3.50 for light
hogs. Files of the Tribune for 1855
show that in that year sales of hogs
were made at $12.75. with $40 as the
lowest price
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $500; hops, prime heavy, $4.50
to $945; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
corn, No 2, Csc to 66c oats, standard,
Acc to 4Sc; rye, No. 2, soc to sic; hay,
timothy $1,000 to $1,000; prairie. $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery, 25c
to 2Sc; eggs, fresh, 21c to 24c; pota-
toes, per bushel, 35c to 43c.
Indianapolis--Catt shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, good to choice heavy.
$3.50 to $3.50; sheep good to choice,
1925 to $3.50; wheat, No. /, $1-22 TO
$124; corn, No. white, CSC to Csc;
oats, No. white, Acc to 4sc.
st. Cattle, $500 to $7S5;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No 2, slips to S127:
corn, No 2, 62c to 64c; oats, No. 2.
45c to 47c; rye. No 2, 79c to soc
Cincinnati Cattle, $500 to $685.;
hogs, $500 to 1915; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.25 to SIPS:
corn, No. 2 mixed, csc to CSC; oats,
No. mixed, 47c to 49c; rye, No. 2,
Soc to SEC.
Detroit--Cattle, $500 to $3.50: hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, Nc. 2, $1.23 to s1.25; corn. No.
9 yellow, 63c to Goo; oats. standard.
4Sc to 49c; rye, No. /. &c to S3c.
Milwaukee-W Wheat, No. northern,
s114 to $11S; corn, No. 3, Csc to SIC;
oats, standard. 47c to 49c; rye, No. /,
79c to sic; barley. standard, 69c to
Tic; pork, mess, $2S.75.
Buffalo Cattle. choice shipping
steers, $500 to s6.25; hogs, fair to
choice, $500 to S9.45; sheep, common
to good mixed. $500 to $3.50; lambs,
fair to choice, $500 to 1915.
New York-Cattle. $3.50 to $3.50:
hogs. $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
s5.25; wheat No red, $l.2s to sl.31;
corn, No. 2, Tic to re; oats, natural.
white. SIC to soc; butter, creamery,
&c to gle; eggs, western, 22c to 27c:
Toledo-W Wheat, No 2 mixed. s1.24
to S125; corn, No. 2 mixed, Csc to
SEC; oats, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 44c;
rye, No. 2. Sic to S2c; clover seed,
SS47.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
coNFEssEs A BANK ROBBERY.
Suspect In Kansas Case Impkicates
Four Others, One "a Youth.

Suspect In Kansas Case Impkicates
Four Others, One "a Youth.
]. Bear, one of the two men in Gus
tody in Hutchinson, Kan, charged
with being implicated in the robbery
of bank at Ford, Kan, is reported
by the sheriff to have confessed to his
participation in the affair According
to Sheriff Bell, Bear, in his statement,
implicated four other men in the
crime. One of them, Earl Nav, the
1S-year-old chauffeur who drove the
robbers to the bank in motor car, is
already in custody, and the arrest of
the others is expected hourly Bear
is said to have admitted he was one
of the ringleaders in the planning of
the crime, but says he was in Okla
homa at the time of the robbery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-01
KILLS A RoBBER IN OFFICE.

Realty Man Answers Intruder's De-
mand with Shot.
Drawing revolver from the drawer
OF table in his real estate Office at
1877 East 11Sth street, Chicago. Jacob
Bzdek shot and instantly killed a man
known as Bruce Morgan after the lat
ter had threatened TO shoot him I'M
less he turned over 81 500 which was
in the safe. AS ,Bzdek fred the shot
which killed Morgan, the wounded
man fired two shots. one Of which
struck the real estate dealer in the
head, causing a serious wound.