Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-05
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

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Gov. Conner of Alabama said he will
use troops TO close saloons if sheriffs
fail.
President Taft preached sermon in
the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake,
urging charitable views of neighbors.
New York was overwhelmed and
streets were choked by 100000 visit
ors attracted by the Hudson-Fulton
celebration.
Twenty persons, including Senator
w. A. Lantz, his wife and parents,
were injured in a crash between an
Aurora suburban train of the c., B. &
T. and train of empties at 14th and
Canal streets, Chicago.
Monday.
Taft went far into the earth in in
Vestigating mines in Montana
George F. Baer told the Federal
court there is no hard coal trust.
Foreign visitors to the Hudson-Ful-
ton celebration were officially well
coined.
Ten lives were lost when Pennsyl-
vania flyer crashed into a st. Paul ca
boose in Chicago.
A Brooklyn paper chargR DR.. Cook
with showing as his ownWecent pic
lures, photographs taken in the arctic
in 1901 by other men.
Tuesday.
Illinois is to collect an Inheritance
tax from the Hartman estate.
Biggest crowds New York City ever
saw watched the Hudson-Fulton pa
rade.
Harry Whitney said he thinks Cook
got to the north pole first, but also be-
lieves Peary was there.
Lord Northcliffe, great English edi-
tor, said Germany is preparing for war
while Great Britain sleeps.
The Spanish capital believes the
Moors are whipped and celebrated the
virtual end of the war with Riffs.
Secretary of War Dickinsin was
awarded a gold medal for saving an
aged lawyer from drowning fourteen
years ago.
President Taft delivered his long
anticipated speech on the conservation
of resources and said be will urge
Congress to issue s10,OOO,OOO bonds to
complete irrigation projects.
Wednesday.
President Taft, in speech at Colo
RADIO Springs, pledged himself to the
Roosevelt policies.
Southern hurricane death list was
fifty-six and growing hourly; crop
and property loss was enormous.
Commar der Peary left Truro, n S.,
for Portland he declined to make
further statements on the polar con-
troversy.
Secretary of War Dickinson told
the Daughters of the Confederacy that
the South's sincerity in the Civil War
no longer is questioned in the North
Thursday.
President Taft opened the Gunnison
irrigation tunnel in Colorado
The Republicans of New York City
named their own ticket after leaving
the fusion convention.
James c. Mabray and eighty-four al
legged associates were indicted in Coun-
ell Bluffs, Ia, on charges of using the
mails to defraud in fake foot race.
Commander Peary was given an ova-
tion in Maine from the time the line
was passed until Portland was reached.
He submitted his data to Gen.. Thomas
Hubbard, head of the Peary Arctic
Club.
A verdict of guilty was rendered
against Inspector Edward Mccain of
Chicago, bringing reports of men
higher up for whom States After
ney Wayman's net is spread, the con-
viction being hailed as the knell of
graft in Chicago.
Friday.
President Taft spoke in the Mormon
tabernacle in Provo, home city of Sen
ator Smoot.
The fortieth anniversary of the birth
of the Prohibition party was celebrated
in Chicago with the prediction of vic
tory within ten years.
Theodore p. Shonts was sued for
100000 by frederick Hipsh, with
whose wife the financier is accused of
having conducted an intrigue for two
years.
The Attorney General of Nebraska
held that insurance companies are
amenable to the Junkin anti-monopoly
law, which provides a fine of $4,000
for rebating.
Saturday.
The Mayor of Nation. H., was in
dicted by city grand jury
The dead in the gulf storm totaled
200 and the list was expected to be in
creased
New York had a most gorgeous fire