Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-22
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.

Sunday.


Sunday.
Murder trial of T. Jenkins Hams began
in New York.
The American battleship feet was given
cordial reception at Colombo.
Tafts vote was estimated as larger
than that of Roosevelt by New York
paper.
bomb aimed at the First Ward ball
wrecked the Coliseum storehouse and adj
joining building in Chicago.
Walter Wellman, writing from Wash
ington, reports that the japanese govern
ment has decided to bar all Japanese en-
igration to the United States, thus remov-
ing the last remaining difference between
the two nations.
Monday.
The Knights of Pythias. finding pres
ent rates inadequate, levied an assess
ment on the fourth class.
The seizure of a Venezuelan vessel by
Holland called forth a decree from Acting
President Gomez putting the nation in
state of defense.
Judge McSurely OF Chicago held the
Illinois primary election law constitu-
tional, but found flaws in some election
fraud indictments
The President sent a message to the
Senate on the Brownsville affair, recon-
mending terms of re-enlistment for dis
charged colored soldiers.
The United States Supreme Court de
cided that f. ii. Hartman cannot be
compelled to answer questions by the In
terstate Commerce Commission relative to
private transactions, reversing a lower
court.
Tuesday.
Donald Grant Mitchell elk Maryel")
died in his New Haven home.
The corner stone of the New Tneater,
in which commercial success is to be
subordinated to art, was laid in New
York
President-elect Taft, speaking at the
banquet of National Civic Federation in
New York, said the Sherman antitrust
act needs enforcing rather than repeating.
President Roosevelt in a special mes
sage to Congress declared the New York
Worlds charges in regard to the Panama
gave detailed history of the transaction.
Wednesday.
Secretary of War Wright recommends
the addition of 612 officers to the army
and the elimination of all unfit.
Effects of business depression are shown
in the annual report of Secretary of the
Treasury CorteIyou. who tells how the
nation aided in ending panic.
Judge Dupuy ruled that the Field Mu-
scum may be erected in Grant PARK, Chi
cago, but A. Montgomery Ward win take
the fight to the United States Supreme
Court.
Thursday.
Pat Grove, kidnaper and bandit, made
his debut as an evangelist at Evanston,
ILL.,, with a plea against saloons.
Castro landed in France without max
ing the apology the French government
was reported TO have said it wanted.
Abe Ruef was convicted of bribery in
San Francisco after jury celebrates
twenty-four hours may get fourteen years
in prison.
The United States possesses two-6fths
the annual report of the comptroller of
the currency shows.
President Roosevelt announced his in
tention TO prosecute for criminal libel
those editors who published scandalous
reports about Panama canal building if it
can be done.
Friday.
lie. 4, Il rod
left Curacao for Venezuela.
A young mother and baby lost their
lives and three men were badly burned in
a garage fire at 1924 Prairie avenue. Chi
cago.
The author of white Death" letters in
Chicago was revealed as a youth who
sought to prove the Sherlock Holmes
stories faliacious.
The National Rivers and Harbors Con-
gress adjourned in Washington after APP
pealing to the nation for a $500,0O0000
bond issue for the improvement of water
ways.
The decision freeing President Hege-
man of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company from arrest may stop prosecu-
ton of other insurance officials in New
York
The House of Representatives by unan-
imous vote ordered an inquiry into Pres
ident's charges regarding the cutting down
of the secret service appropriation to save
Congressman from investigation.
Saturday.
More than 100 men were killed or
wounded in en- explosion of dynamite at
Bias Obispo, on the Panama canal route.
The President and President-elect were
among the guests at the annual dinner of
the Gridiron Club in Washington and
were made the targets for jests.
The Venezuelan guard ship Alix was
seized off Puerto Cabello by the Dutch
cruiser Gelderland and towed TO Willem-
stad. shore forts making no protest.
Phelps h. Hoyt, secretary of promi-
ment wholesale grocery company, was ia
tally injured in an auto accident in Chi
cago. dying without becoming conscious.
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
A London traveller has figured out thai
President Roosevelt's hunting expedition
in Africa viii cost $2S,05o.
Fruit growers of California have ship