Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-08
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
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Sunday.

Sunday.
Guthrie. Okla. was inundated by rise
of the Cottonwood river.
The row over boycott may result in
war between Turkey and Austria
Paris authorities have disinterred Stein
heil's body 10 probe murder charges.
The Acknowledgements agreement has
evoked expressions of satisfaction at St.
Petersburg and London.
The Postmaster Generals annual report
shows a deficit Of $16,S73, 222, the larg-
est in TIE history of the department.
The Isthmian commission reports 1884,
5I2,9oS has been spent OF the Panama
canal and that labor problem is solved.
Postmaster General Meyer in his an
nual report again urges the establishment
of postal savings banks and a rural par
Gel post.
Monday.
Seven hundred lives were lost when
two Japanese ships sank after collision off
ChefOo
The Non-swearing knights of America,
started recently by Great Northern con-
ductors, now has over 1000 members.
The 5000 ruby ring supposed to have
been sent by the Duke of the Abruzzi to
Miss Elkins has been found to be worth
$11.75.
Deposits of the national banks in Chi
cago increased $S,743,OO0 between Sept.
% and Nov. %, reaching the highest total
ever reported.
Tlho Tynitad c.a+ce c,,ora,,o Co,rt holds
that appeals involving State laws should
go to State Supreme Court, not federal
circuit judiciary.
The signing OF an agreement between
United States and Japan vindicates for
mer Ambassador Aoki. who was recalled
by jealous ministry.
Tuesday.
Mrs. \. p. Errington of Chicago killed
herself and young daughter in a Memphis
hotel.
Secretary Straus, in his annual report,
opposes the creation of separate depart
ment for labor.
Daniel j. keefe has been appointed
commissioner of immigration to succeed
the late Frank Sargent.
Chief of Police William ]. Biggy of
San Francisco was drowned in the bay
and his body washed out to sea.
President Roosevelt has put 10000
fourth-class postmasters under the merit
rule and friends Of the spoils system are
preparing for a fight.
The text of the notes exchanged be-
tween the United States and Japan re-
garding their policy in the far East has
been made public in Washington.
Wednesday.
Six lives were lost when the steel
freighter George rammed and sank the
Finance of the Panama line off Sandy
Hook.
Six robbers dynamited the bank of
Page Neb., securing all the cash in the
bank said to be about $4,000, and made
good their escape.
Robbers blew open the vault of the
Towanda State Bank at Towanda, Kan,
early Wednesday, secured $500 and es-
capped on handcar
Thursday.
The Department of Commerce and La
Dor has issued statistics showing that one
of each twelve marriages ends in divorce,
that divorces are over twice as common
as forty years ago and that Illinois grants
the most DEGREES.
At La Porte, Ind, the jury decided
Ray I.amphere is guilty of arson and he
was sentenced from two to twenty-one
years in the penitentiary, the jury also
ruling that the body taken from the ruins
was that of Mrs Guinness.
Friday.
The Hughes County BalaN at Blunt,
s. d.. was robbed of about $50 the 9th
er day
Suit has been fled in Findlay, Ohio,
TO test the constitutionality of the Rose
local option law.
Mrs. Christina Clark. accused of the
murder of her divorced husband, was
found guilty in Vermilion, s. ID.
Frank H. Hitchcock has been offered
and has accepted the position of Post
master General in Mr.. Taft's Cabinet.
Despite official reticence at Washing
ton, it is learned from reliable sources
that Japan and America have reached an
agreement amounting almost to an often
sive and defensive alliance in the Pacific.
Public Printer John S. Leech sent his
resignation to President Roosevelt. ask
ing to be returned TO service in the Phil
ippines. Samuel b. Donnelly of Brook
lyn, ~ V. former president of the In
ternational Typographical Union, was APP
pointed to succeed Mr.. Leech.
Saturday.
Rebels Won battle in Hayti and are
marching on the capital; the United
States may intervene.
Six men were sutoeated in a salt
mine in the village of lakewood on the
western outskirts of Detroit.
The engagement between the Duke of
the Abruzzi aud Miss Katherine Elkins
of West Virginia is broken of
An explosion in a model mine at Mari
anna, Pa. killed every man at work, the
dead being estimated ut l3S. A State in
spcctor few hours before had left the
workings after a two days study, de-
claring the mine in perfect condition.