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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
RISK RATES TO BE LOWER
Frame, Sheet Iron and Veneer Build
Ines Placed BY Insurance Commits
sioner in Glass With Brick.

Madison-A reduction in insurance
rates which may approximate a saw
ing of 100000 annually, was ordered
by the insurance department and will
go into effect on August 1. This ac-
ton is taken under the regulation law
enacted at the last session of the leg
islature.
The order issued by Insurance Com
missioner Cleary under which this re-
duction will be accomplished provides
that mercantile buildings of frame,
iron clad and brick veneer construc-
ton shall on and after August l, 1917;
be given the same term privilege as
accorded buildings of like occupancy
of brick or other construction.
These resolutions with the ruling of
the commissioner on term risks it is
estimated will save Wisconsin policy
holders 100000 annually.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
EDUCATIONAL BOARD NAMED
Governor Appoints Eight Members
Vested With Supervision Over All
Vocational Schools in the State.

Madison-Gov. Philip has appoint
ed as members of the new state voca-
tional educational board E. ]. Kear-
ney of Milwaukee for a term of six
years; Robert Cooper Of Kenosha,
for four years; E. w. Schultz of She
boygan, for two years, all represent
ing employers of labor; Miles L.
Hineman of Tomah, six years; Geo.
F. Comings of Eau Claire, four years;
c.. E. Hanson of River Falls. two
years, representing the farmers, and
Oliver Ellsworth of Oshkosh for six
years, and A. w. McTaggart of Supe-
rior for two years, representing the
laborers. One position accorded to
labor is yet to be filled. The state SUI
perintendent of public instruction and
a member of the state industrial COM
mission, who is to be Commissioner
Thomas Konop, are ex officio mem
bers of the board. The board is vest
ed with supervisory power over all
voca tional schools in the state. The
members appointed by the governor
receive small compensation and ex-
penSeS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
PROTEST PRICE OF WHEAT
MAR Emergency Council Hears Voice
of Farmers, Who Declare Sum
! Set Is Too Low.

! Washington, July 30.-That 81
minimum price for wheat will mean
l$3 wheat and higher priced bread, and
that 95 per cent Of the people are vital
by interested in reasonable prices while
ionly s per cent are interested in high
priced wheat, were assertions made
by the war emergency council of the
baking industry in q protest to the
food bill conferees against the mini
lmum price provision of the pending
measure.
The council, representing $4,000
American bakers, asserted in session
here that fixing the minimum price for
wheat as high as 50 means that the
farmer, instead of the middleman, will
hoard wheat, and that it would not
result in the stimulation of production,
which the country most needs at this
hour.
A return to 5-cent bread, the bakers
said, was impossible, but lower than
present prices can be and should be at
ftained, in their opinion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
BOARDMAN COMMANDS CAMP
Successor to Gen. r. A. Richards Is
Formally Mustered ln-State
Pay Is Assured.

Camp Douglas-Gen. Charles r.
Boardman has been mustered in at
Camp Douglas, assuming command of
the reservation as successor Of Gen,
R. A. Richards.
The Wisconsin national guardsmen
on the reservation hailed with delight
the announcement that Gov. Philip
had approved plans for the transfer of
$225,000 from the general fund to the
state military fund for the payment
of the members of the Badger state
guard for period of thirty days from
the day they were called out, July IA.
The Wisconsin men will receive a diff
ference between the federal pay and
that provided by the Burke law, which
ranges from several dollars a day for
officers to so cents for privates. For
the first months service the privates
will receive $45 and pay day is an
nounced for Aug. IA.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
mE TE hKT@ Watson X. Coleman, wash
FMEEWE ington, pc: Books free. High
DEATH HAZARD IN BATTLE
Insurance Company Statistics Show
the Risks That Men Take When
They Go to War.

Marshal Joffre told James NJ. Beck,
who repeated the figures in my hear
ing, that from February to August last
year $4,000 soldiers were killed or
wounded at Verdun, says a writer in
the Philadelphia Ledger.
A big battle crowds into a few
hours all the likelihood of death that
comes to a civilian over a period
of years.
insurance company statistics show
that in fighting at Gettysburg q man
was as likely to be killed as q man
not In battle to die in the four years
between forty-nine and fifty-three.
If you are thirty, you stand as good
chance of living five more years as
a soldier at Shiloh had of surviving
that one day.
There were compressed into one
brief day at Antietam all the death
hazards which confront a man Of
forty for the next four years: The
Wilderness put into tabloid form all
the casualty risks faced by a person of
forty-two until he was forty-fve
Grants campaign at Vicksburg
matched in death perils the combined
years from fOrty-two onward.
A single half-hour at Cold Harbor
was equivalent to all the civilian dam
gers in young mans life from twenty
eight to thirty-two.
The present war is mostly machine
slaughter-shells and rapid-fire guns
killing more than ten times as many
soldiers as rifle bullets.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
BARLEY MENACE APPEARS
Sounds Warning to Farmers to
Save Crop of Next Year.

Madison-Dean H. L. Russell of the
college of agriculture sounded a
warning to the farmers of Wisconsin
which must be needed if the 1918 crop
of barley is to be up to standard.
Investigation by county agents
working with the state council of de-
tense has proved that the 1917 crop,
supposed to be abundant from the APP
pearance of an average field, will be
injured by the presence of a disease
recently developed In some fields
the loss will be nominal, ranging from
4 to 6 per cent, but in other fields the
loss has been found as high as 36 per
cent.
1.-THE remedy must be applied dur
ing the coming winter" says Dean
Russell. 1T is simple. All the farmer
requires is solution of formaldehyde
with which the seed for his 1918 barley
fields must be treated, This will Grad
icate not only the disease with which
we now are contending, but also bar
ley smut"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
HITS i. S. TR00PsH|P
SARATOGA RAMMED BY STEAM
Err PANAMA WHILE WAITING
FOR SAILING ORDERS.
l,4oo SOLDIERS ARE SAVED
Men Are Taken Off by Other Vessels
and Safely Landed-Craft Kept
Afioat and Taken to
Dock.

An Atlantic Port, Aug. 1.-The Sara
toga, an American transport at anchor,
waiting sailing orders, was rammed on
Monday by the American steamer Pan
anna, inbound here.
A deep hole in the transports port
Quarer extending from below the wa
ter line to the rail resulted from the
collision. The captain of the steamer
which did the damage held the bow
of his ship tight against the transport
effectually blocking the wound. In this
position he kept his vessel until all on
board the transport were taken off.
More than a dozen vessels, including
an American cruiser, were in the res
cUing fleet. A number of them sur
rounded the transport after the other
steamship drew away and supported
1t until it reached shallow waters, two
miles distant.
Meanwhile 1,400 soldiers were safe
~ taken off in lifeboats or by tugs, and
other craft in the harbor, which re-
sponded to distress signals.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
PATROL LIST is GROWING
Number Increased Is More Than Three
Thousand in JuIy.-Insanity
in State Gaining.

Madison-An increase in the num-
Der of persons placed on parole dur
ing the last month is one of the fea-
lures of the report of the state board
of control on the charitable and penal
Institutions this month In June the
report showed total Of 1878 persons
on parole from all institutions. In
July the number has been increased to
3,116. Of course the largest number
on parole is from the state public
school at Sparta, the number reaching
500. There are forty-six on parole
from the prison at Waupun and sixty
six on parole from the reformatory at
Gren Bay.
The total insane population of the
state is 1921 as compared with Sill
last month. The population at the
state and county tuberculosis santa
RUINS this month is 1877, an increase
of six over last month There are still
Ill persons on the waiting lists for adj
mission to tuberculosis sanitariums.
The home for the feeble minded at
Chippewa Falls has population of L.
118; central hospital for insane, 104;
Industrial school for boys, AIT, and
state reformatory at Green Bay 289.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
WILL CARE FOR FAMILIES
State Council of Defense to Look
After Dependents of Guards
men in Federal Service.

Madison-The State Council of De-
Tense will have lists prepared of all
married guardsmen and of all men in
any branch of the service who leave
dependents behind them, and will take
steps to see that the families and de-
pendents of the soldiers are cared for
in every way.
The legislature already has made
provision for state allowance to the
families and dependents of the sol
diers and the state council Of defense
will see to it these allowances are
distributed. The council will also see
to it, so far as possible, that the fam
lilies of all the soldiers are kept in
touch with the men in the field and
are appraised of their physical condi-
ton. In fact the council has much
worked in connection with the share
of the state in the care of the SOL
diers.
The council will also continue to
survey for the location of people in
work, This has proved most success
full.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
HARRISON G. OTIS is DEAD
Los Angeles Publisher Was a Veteran
of Two Wars-PIant Was
Dynamited.

Los Angeles, CAL, Aug. 1.-Gen.
Harrison Gray Otis, president and gem
eral manager of the Los Angeles
Times, died here on Monday at the
home of his son-in-law, Harry Chand.
Ter. Heart trouble was said to have
caused his death. General Otis, vet
eran of two wars-the Civil and Span
ish-American-came of long line Of
military and craftsmanship ancestry.
General Otis was eighty years old, mis-
birth having occurred on a Washing
ton county co. farm, February 10,
1887. On October 10, 1910, his build
ing and printing plant was dynamited
and 20 of his workmen killed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
RUSS DRIVEN OVER FRONTIER
tSIavs Retreating on Eastern Galicisn
Front Retire Behind Border
Town of kuty Captured.

Berlin, July 31.-Russian troops re-
Treating on the eastern Galician front
have retired behind the Russian bor-
lrer at Husiatyn, the German general
staff announced officially on Sunday.
lHusiatyn is 20 miles due east of
IHalicz, Gulicia, recently retaken by
the Austro-German forces.
Farther south the Russians made
n stand between the Dniester and
lPruth rivers, but a powerful German
attack broke their resistance.
Kuty, in the Galician Carpathians,
has been captureu by the Teutons.
In Roumania the Germans completed
ithe retrOgrade movement which they
began Friday on the upper Putna river.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
MRS. MUSsO is PARDONED
Woman Serving Life Term for Killing
Husband Released by Phillip as
Death Draws Near.

Milwaukee-Mr Carmello Musso
serving life sentence in Waupun fol-
lowing her conviction for the murder
of her husband Joseph, has been par
doned by Gov Philip because she is
dying of tuberculosis. She was
brought to Milwaukee and will be
cared for by relatives.
Mrs. Musso was convicted of muir.
der in the first degree largely on the
testimony of Rosa Degratione, a
niece, who swore that Mrs. Musso
strangled her husband to death. The
case was unusual because of the rarity
with which convictions are secured in
the cases of crime in the Italian colony
of the lower Third ward.
Susie Wodjak, another woman com
mitted to Waupun for life on convic-
ton of having murdered her husband,
was ordered transferred to some sana-
forum by the governor. She, too, is
suffering from the white plague. She
will probably be taken to Wales.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
INTELLIGENT Alarm Clock.

An alarm clock awakened lady In
Philadelphia Just in time to allow her
to escape from a burning building.
She had set the clock as usual at five
o'clock, but that morning it failed to
ring. During The afternoon she lay
down for nap on the divan. At five
o'clock the alarm clock started its
racket twelve hours late. She awoke
ito find the house full of smoke and
flames creeping up the stairway. She
was aroused just in time to escape to
the street. THAT clock has been my
pal for years." said she. 81 never
knew it to miss its regular morning
alarm before. 1t must have known
something"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
YEARS WAR BUDGET
FIRST PERIOD OF WAR TO COST
$1o,735, 1907, 900.
War Tax Bill Is Revised-Loans Extra
and More Than $500, 100000
Added Revenue.

Washington, July 30.-Secretary Nc
Adoo, submitting estimates to congress
for the new war budget, said the first
year Of the war promised now to cost
SO, 735, 907, 900, exclusive of loans to
the allies, making it necessary to raise
more than $6,5O00O0,000 additional
revenue.
The war tax bill as revised ny the
senate finance committee provides for
only a little more than ST, 100000
In additional revenue. The $5,000,000,-
600 discrepancy probably will be made
up partly by increasing the bills
levies and partly by bond issue.
Besides the estimate Of more than
$4,000, 100000 additional expenses sub
mitted by the war department, Mr.. Nc
Adoo presented estimates from other
departments tOtaling upward Of 81 ,000,-
100000. All these estimates are for
expenditures during the year ending
next July, and are in addition to more
than $3,000,000000 already appropri-
ated since the war began.
The largest items in the estimates
are $35O0O0,OOO for the shipping board
and $2S8,000,000 for the navy. For the
food survey to be made under. pending
legislation $11,000,000 was requested.
Loans to our allies and possible
emergencies may take the total cost Of
the first year of the war up to $15,000-
100000 or possibly $20,000,000,0 1000.
Against these totals figures submitted
to congressional leaders for compari-
son with appropriations of European
belligerents indicated that for the Brit
ish fiscal year ending March 81 last
the British appropriations, including
loans to allies, aggregated $1O,OO0,OOO,-
600, and an estimate for the current
fiscal year was $12,OO0,OO0,0OO.
The expenses of other government
branches also run into stupendous
figures. Estimates of these branches
are to go to congress soon. Roughly
they will approximate:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
WISCONSIN CROPS
IN FINE CONDITION
HOT WEATHER HELPS AoRIcuL.
.TURE IN THE STATE SAYS
C. P. NoRGARD.
GRAIN is RAPIDLY RIPENING
Most of Haying Is Finished and the
Crop Is Fine in ouality.-Live
Stock in Good Shape and
Pastures Excellent.

Madison-Jrof. c. P. Norgord, state
commissioner of agriculture. said that
the prevailing hot weather was fine
for growing corn and most all other
crops. 1t is too hot for tobacco, caus-
ing that crop to grow to rapidly.
The hot weather is good for all small
grain, which is rapidly ripening and, in
some parts of the state. is being har-
vested. Most Of the haying is finished,
except on low land and in the north
ern part of the state, and the crop is
fine in quality and large in quantity.
The weather has also been good for
all kinds of fruit. Pastures generally
are good, owing to the seasonable
rain fall in most parts of the state.
Livestock generally in the state is in
good condition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
CHICAGO RAIL STRIKE ENDS
SWitchmen Return to Work After
Patriotic Appeal by Govern
ment Agents.

Chicago, Aug. 1.-The $500 switch
men belonging to the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, who struck Friday
because the brotherhood was not al
lowed to dictate appointment Of yard
masters, returned to work Monday,
after settlement in which they won
a partial victory. The patriotic appeal
Of government agents, in which was
pointed out the necessity of quick
transportation of troops and war sup
plies, caused both sides to yield.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
EXEMPTION MADE DIFFICULT
only Conscripts Suffering From
Chronic or Permanent Disabil-
tiles to Be Excused.

! Washington, July 30.-Only persons
)of military age suffering from chronic
ror permanent disabilities may hope to
he exempted from the draft for phys
deal unfitness.
These instructions were underlined
land sent to the various exemption
boards throughout the country. The
provost marshars office announced
that in all probability numerous OBJ
lservation camps would be established
in connection with the environments
for rounding into shape persons of
conscript age suffering from merely
Temporary disabilities.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
TROOPS BREAK ALL RECORDS
Finish Trench Work and Begin Maneu-
Vers With French-Hope Soon
to Be at Front.

American Base in France, July 2S.-
Pershing's "Sammies" have broken all
records for speed in their preliminary
training and have completed their work
in trench construction far ahead of
schedule. They finished in time to be-
gin joint maneuvers with the French
Immediately. The troops are progress
ing so speedily that they have upset
the schedule for training laid down for
them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
R0UMANIANS CLAIM VICTORY
Capture Ten Villages as Teutons Re-
tire In Disorder-Capture Men
and Many Guns.

Jassy, Roumania, July 30-The oc.
cupation of ten villages by the Rou-
manians in their new offensive is an
nounced by the war office. The Aus
tro-German forces retired in disorder,
The statement follows: eve contin-
ued our advance as far as II kilo-
meters (71a miles, from our old front,
occupying all our detectives and TAX
ing possession of ten villages. We cap
tured $50 prisoners, many guns and
much war material. The enemy is re-
firing in disorder"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
WINS FIGHT FOR HOOVER
Conferees on Food Bill Agree to the
Presidents Demand for One
Man Rule.

Washington, Aug. 1.-Conferees on
the food bill on Monday agreed to
President Wilson's demand for one
food administrator instead of a board
of three as proposed by the senate.
The individual will not be subject to
confirmation. The senate conferees
accepted the house provision, Cham
berlain, Smith of South Carolina, Ken
yon and Warren so voting. Gore,
Smith of Georgia and Page stood out
for three-member board.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
Youth confesses Starting Fire

Appleton-Arthur Wells, IA years
old, admitted he threw lighted match
and cigarette into pile of shavings,
starting the fire in the lumber sheds
Of the Ideal Lumber and Coal com
pany, causing a property loss Of APP
proximately $4,000 and threatening
for a time the entire northeast section
of the city. The entire plant, cover
ing nearly a block, was destroyed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
SMASH CROWN PRINCE ARMY
Onslaughts Southwest of Moron
villiers.

Paris, July 30-Five violent German
attacks southwest Of Moronvilliers
champagne 'front.', following an in
tense bombardment, were without gain
to the enemy, the official statement
says.
Two hundred and fifty guns were
massed over the two-mile front on
which the German crown prince tried
for the seventh successive night to
wrest ground from French lines in
the Chemin DIES Danes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
Round Up Auitators.

Kenosha-A drive by agents Of the
department of justice against anti
draft agitation has been started in Ke-
nosha and two men, Ferdinand Krah
and J. Gottschlich were sent to Jail
and a score of others were out under
examination by the federal agents.
They were charged with circulating
literature aimed against army service.
The agents are now seeking men who
distributed a circular recently printed
at socialist headquarters in Chicago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
Mo Linuor for Soldiers.

La Crosse-The state council of de-
Tense and Col. George L. Irwin, COM
handing at Camp Robinson, took a
hand in the crusade against the sale
of liquor to uniformed men with the
result that the La Crosse county
Council of Defense has been ordered to
see to it that the booze traffic among
enlisted men III La Crosse is stopped.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
KING SEES U. S. TROOPS
Ruler of England, Accompanied by
Queen and Princess, Inspect
Americans in CANA

London, July 30.-King George, ac-
companied by Queen Mary and Prin-
cess Mary, went by motor to the Bor-
den camp and inspected the American
troops quartered at the outlying
camps. His majesty was delighted with
the soldierly appearance of the men.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07

and it has helped me in every way. /
an not nearly 60 nervous, no headache
or pain. must say that Lydia E.
Flnkham's Vegetable Compound is the
best remedy any sick woman can take. I"
Mrs. MARGARET QUINN, Rear 259
Worthen ST., Lowell, Mass.
Other warning symptoms are q sense
OF suffocation, hot flashes, headaches,
backaches, dread of impending evil,
timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation
OF the heart, sparks before the eyes,
irregularities, constipation, variable
appetite, weakness, inquietude, and
dizziness. -
II you need special advice, write to
the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
(confdentiaD, Lynn. Mass.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
III 6 lntnrns pair

Omaha, Neb., July 31-John Colbert,
l. w. W. agitator, and John Fentross,
DUnning (Neb.) farmers who recently
beat up another farmers for talking
against the kaiser. were interned by
orders from Washington.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
She Didn't Have One.

Mrs. Worrimore-Why can't you get
up as early as the cook? You both oc-
cupy the same room with an alarm
clock, but you're always at least an
hour late.
lilly, the Second Maid-Yes'm, but
the alarm clock belongs to the cook an
| amt got one.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
Ex.Czar's Leo Broken.

London, July S1.-A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company from
Pe+rograd says that ex-Czar Nicholas
fell and one leg was broken while
cycling in the gardens of the Tsarkoe
lSelo palace.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
WIN Have Livestoek Pavilion

fond du Lac-With the filing of ar
ticles of incorporation of the Holstein
Breeders Sales company with CAPT
tai stock of $4,000. plans for the
erection in this city of one of the
finest livestock sales pavilions in the
world took definite form.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
100 Tons of Food Condemned

New York, July 2S.-More than 100
tons of foodstuffs, valued at about $780,
600, have been condemned this week
by the city health department. Includ-
ed in the lists were hams valued at
$5,57S and about 10000 pounds Of
beef.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
Faces Treason CHARGE.

Omaha, Neb., Attg. 1.-Daniel Wal
lace, alleged deserted from the British
army, was arrested in Davenport, Ia,
because Of circulating literature. He
will be taken before the grand Jury
and tried for treason.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
Standard Oil Man Shot.

Oakland, CAL, Aug. Id. G. Sco-
field, former president and director of
the California Standard Oil company,
was found dead with a bullet wound
in his head and revolver by his side.
He had been i'll for some time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
Rear Admiral Luce is Dead.

Newport, R. l., July 31.-Rear Ad-
miral Stephen B. Luce, founder of the
naval war college and one of the lead
ing advocates of the establishment of
the naval training system, died at his
home here. aged ninety years.