Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-04-27
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

Anzi Lorenzo Barber. head of the
great asphalt company, died.
Thousands witnessed the rare cere-
mony of the Qualification of Joan of Arc.
Professor William Henry Pickering of
Harvard University said that with S10,-
100000 he could talk to Mars.
Chicago's death total of 73j for the
week last past was the highest for four
teen months, pneumonia leading.
Wealthy Trinity Church, New York,
broke its silence of 213 years, the rector
defending every act of the vestry.
Turkish troops at Tchatalje notified
representatives of the powers in Con-
stantinople and the Ottoman government
that they would march on the capital city
Monday. 1t was believed in CONSTANT
nople that the sultan would abdicate.
Monday.
President Taft attended a ball game
and rooted hard, but Washington lost to
Boston, to f.
-Four rich men were taken from Jail
and hanged by an Oklahoma mob for al
legged murder of an officer
Senator Aldrich fears too much rev.
enue will be produced if tariff is cut
down; scored extravaganza expenditures
and opposed new taxes.
Rumors of abdication and of fight of
Sultan Abdul Hamid spread in Constan-
tinople and no facts as to his where
abouts could be learned, as the palace
was closely guarded.
Refusal of divorce to Virginia Har-
ned Sothern at Reno, New. held that one
of the parties must be a bona fide resi-
dent of the State and ended the hope of
new Mecca for those seeking to sever
marital ties.
Fully 1000 persons were slain in the
rioting in and around Adana and city
still was burning. according to dispatches
in London. Missionary board officers in
Boston received an appeal for relief and
confirmation of the death of Dir. Rogers.
Tuesday.
John Mitchell. in address to Yale theo-
logs, suggested Golden Rule to solve in
dustrial problems.
Wheat dropped 4 cents from Monday s
close, causing a stampede in the pit; Pat
ten sold in three cities.
Samuel Eberly Gross, former wealthy
Chicago real estate dealer, was sued for
divorce on the ground of desertion.
Nineteen Republicans and twenty-sev-
en- Democrats are expected to vote for
Cummins' income tax amendment to tar
iff bill, thus giving a majority in the Sen
ate.
II 4 6 nc
elected municipal tickets and in some the
liquor question was an issue. Vets won
in a majority of cases. Party lines were
ignored in picking officers, the friends of
good government gaining notable vic
tories.
Wednesday.
Former Senator NJ. G. Butler of South
Carolina is dead.
Democrats in the Senate unanimously
declare for income tax in tariff BILL
Victory of mutinous turkish troops )
complete, new ministry is formed and or
der is being restored.
Government officials are wol4.lg with
the Prssiden, to wipe out conflicts in
work of different bureaus.
Wheat continues its record-breaking
upward progress May corn is given APP
plication of bullish muscle; provisions
firmer live stock lower.
Cubs open the Chicago base ball sea-
son by defeating the Cardinals by a
score of 10 / before 10000 fans. De-
troit defeats White Sox by score of
2 to 0.
TburSdav
L. ident Taft in a specia. message to
Congress urges changes in Phh-. 9.ne tar
iff to give islands benefit.
After eighty years W. o. Clark, god
father of Clark street, Chicago, returns to
that city and is shocked 0y the changes
in the thoroughfare.
The wheat corner puts up the price OF
bread, and poor face famine rates; many
bakers in New York are out of work, and
whole country affected James A. Patten
denies he is manipulating the market.
Friday.
Bears in Wall street have good day
beating down the prices of the leading
stocks
During a massacre of Christians al
Adana, in Asiatic Turkey, 400 Armenians
and two missionaries were reported killed
Chiefs of American Federation of La
Dor called on President Taft and discuss
ed questions of vital interest TO labor.
Rev. DIR. Harvey G. Furbay, once O
noted clergyman. but for years a tramp
viii be restored to the ministry by the
New York presbytery.
The Cardinals handed the Cubs at Chi
cago the first defeat of the season by a
score of ) to 1. Detroit took the third
straight game from the White Sox,, 1C
TO >
One man is killed and seven are in
jared. two probably fatally, in an explo
sion eighty feet beneath the surface in
one of the caissons for the new Chicago
and Northwestern Railway depot at Chi
cago.
SATURDAY.