Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-04-20
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT iFGWS.
Sunday.


sly students are building an aeroplane
for their own use.
Attorney General Nickersham gave up
light to indct Morris & Co. on charge
OF overvaluing dressed beef for shipment
The Federation of Jewish Organiza-
lions of New York State challenged DIR.
Emil @. Hirsch of Chicago to prove that
immigration Of Russian Jews ought to be
prevented.
A reduction of probably S4O,0O0,OOO in
the estimates of revenue under the Payne
tariff bin was made by the House amend.
ments, and the Senate will have to pro-
vide means for meeting the difference.
A written protest by Castro, prepared
before his forciDle expulsion from Mar
Unique, was made public at Fort de
France. the action of the French gov
ernment being declared Illegal and I'M
warranted
Monday.
-Four candidates for licenses to preach
shocked New York presbytery by their
views on religion.
The gross loss of the railroads, due to
the financial depression, is placed in sta
tistics at $35O,O0O,O00.
Miss Harriet Brown of Baltimore we'd
ded T. Sulfcrn Tailor of New York her
fathers gift was $1,O00,0C0.
The finance committee of the Senate
needed women's plea and cut tariff rate
on stockings, gloves and other necessities.
A new 100000 ball park at Philadel-
phia was dedicated, the Athletics defeat
ing Boston 8 to / in the opening game
of the American League season.
A board of education investigation dis
closed that Chicago children pay $780,
600 annually in excess of the prices
charged elsewhere for school books of
identical type.
a message from General William
Booth, founder of the Salvation Army,
Urging America to lead in righteousness,
was read at the celebration of the eigh-
tieth anniversary of his birth held in New
York.
Tuesday.
Friends fear throat trouble may force
Caruso to quit stage forever.
First opposition ticket in 200 years de-
velops at Trinity parish election.
President Taft is to tour the United
States in order to keep in touch with
the people.
Rochester, n Y, was swept by two
fires, famed by high wind, causing loss
of 100000.
Distrist Attorney Jerome supports the
Sunday saloon bill in speech, denouncing
Bingham and his New York police
The big brokerage firm of Ennis &
Stoppani, operating in New York, Chica-
go and other cities, goes under; said to be
victim of the rise in wheat.
Expert accountants who have been ex-
aiming the books of the Chicago City
Railway condemn the receipt of secret
rebates in a report made to Mayor Busse-
Wednesday.
Storm swept almost the entire country.
Anthracite operators again refused the
demands of workers and asked renewal
of the old contract
The retail price of ice was boosted
from 80 to 40 cents per hundred and fur
Their increases are predicted in Chicago.
A combination of tariff revision Repub-
leans and Democrats in the House
passed an amendment practically putting
oil on the free list, despite protest by
Speaker Cannon, but victory is declared
only temporary.
Thursday.
Mime. Modjeska, actress, died at her
island home in California.
France ordered Casuo to leave Mar
Unique; all refuge being denied him; ex-
dictator may be forced to return to Eu-
rope.
John Anderson, of Aurora, H., got
violently insane and killed one woman.
seriously wounded another and filled
himself.
Two assistant curators of the Field Mu-
scum. department of anthropology, in
Chicago, will undertake the work in
which DR. William Jones met death in
Luzon at the hands of ''head-hunters."
Friday.
+. Marion Crawford, noted American
novelist. died at SolEento, Italy.
Caruso, the tenor, has been ordered not
to sing any more this season and will
return to Italy.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, former Secre-
tary of the Interior, died in Washington
at the home of his son-in-law, Lieutenant
Commander Sims.
Two detectives gained entrance TO the
Yerkes mansion in New York and guard
ali its contents, especially the arr treas
ures, but their presence is Kept from Mrs
Yerkes, who is seriously ILL.,
The Payne tariff bill passed the House
DIT TO 161 no RELIEF was given from tax
on gloves and hosiery. but oil went on
free list; fight for free lumber failed; ;
the Senate may cut down the duties.
Saturday.
Algernon Charles Swiuburne the En-
glish poet and essayist. died at London
aged - years.
The wheat market scored sensational
gains. Leading bulls bought heavily be-
cause of unfavorable crop reports; hogs
3 cents higher.
A New York magistrate advised a
youthful prisoner to wait until he is
president of road before he ventures to
begin the art of stealing.
Cipriano Castro was expelled from the
Island of Martinique, being carried from
his hotel in Fort de France 10 the steamer
which takes him away, in spite of his
protests.
Many stories are told regarding the
condition of Caruso's voice, but it is
stated positively the trouble is due to
overvork, an operation or the vocal cords
and a strain too soon after.
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