Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-09

California to pass anti-Japanese legisla-
ton despite threats and coercion" by
President Roosevelt.
Tuesday.
The lower house of the Nevada Legis-
lature passed bitter anti-Jap resolution
after taking out rebuke to President.
Count Komura, japanese foreign min
lister, in speech in the diet declared rela-
tons with the United States are cordial
and that Japan seeks only harmony.
President Roosevelt administered
verbal spanking to the Nevada Legislature
for its attempt to reprove the nations ex-
ecutive and stir up up trouble with
Japan.
1t is said there is good authority for
the statement that George NJ. Reynolds,
president of the Continental National
Bank of Chicago will be Secretary of
the Treasury.
Exposures of gait in the building
trades in Chicago resulted in a settle
ment of the Scully Steel and lion Com
pany strike, and the probability of
similar disposition of the trouble at the
new Northwestern depot.
Evidence before the Senate committee
investigating the Tennessee merger in
dictate that the financial trouble in the fall
of 1907 may nave been brought about by
J. p. Morgan and others to revenge them
selves on John W. Gates.
Wednesday
Isaac Stephenson fell one vote short on
ioipt halIot Cor TDitad GfotaS Sanator in
the Wisconsin Legislature.
Emperor Williams fiftieth anniversary
of birth was celebrated in an elaborate
manner throughout Germany.
f. H. Hartman was elected member
of the board of directors of the New York
Central Railroad, and that he soon will
control the road is prediced.
President Roosevelt appointed COM
mittee to investigate the needs of the
navy and determine, among other things,
whether any Congressman are interested
pecuniarily in shipyards where govern
ment ships are built or repaired.
Thursday.
Gomez was sworn in as president of
the Cuban republic amid gay scenes.
Search for the Republic was delayed
by false tips caused by amateur wireless
operators.
Jesuit fathers will publish a weekly
magazine in New York, giving the views
of the church on all affairs.
Walter Wellman says the "eder states
men" in the Senate have decreed that
there shall be nothing doing" this ses-
sion in the way of legislation.
According to reports in the New York
financial district the firm Of Sidney c..
Love & Co., formerly of Chicago, lost
$2,500,00O, of which William II. Moore
assumed $1,5O0,Oo0.
Friday.
Heavy storm ragged from the Rockies to
the East, bringing death and damage
Former Rector Robert Morris Kemp of
St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church in
Chicago was held to grand jury on charges
made by choir boys.
Clash between Cuba's president and vice
president came on second day of indie
pendence, the trouble starting over the
executives selection of a head for the Sc
cret police.
Saturday.
Inc House voted SOOO,VNO Iot conStruc-
tion of army balloons, and such craft
may be of immense Importance in time of
war.
The Gridiron Club in Washington gave
one of its merry dinners as farewell to
President Roosevelt and Vice President
Fairbanks sud jokes on national affairs
furnished entertainment.
All communications with Southern
Spain ana with the city of Barcelona is
uninterrupted and normal and reports
emanating from England relative to a
disastrous earthquake and tidal wave at
Barcelona are untrue.
American battle ship saluted Mulai Ha-
fid's flag at Tangier, thus giving official
recognition of the new Sultan of Morocco.
A crisis was averted in Cuba. President