Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

A P1ttsburg millionaires wife lost
$4,000 in jewels and detectives think
girl aided the thieves
President Taft laid the corner stone
OF a Portland church and left in the
evening for Sacramento
Governor Wilson advised Kentucky
tobacco growers to kill if necessary to
protect themselves from night riders.
Charles Gilhooley and Marcus Loon
ey, convicted of conspiracy in connec-
ton with the smuggling of Charles j.
Carlstrom during a strike in Chicago,
mas been paroled from the peniten-
tiary.
Monday.
Thirty persons were indicted by the
New York grand jury in the race track
war.
Taft reiterated his pledge to carry
out the Roosevelt conservation policies
and asked the people to aid him.
Italy refused 100000 offer from
j. P. Morgan for the Reggia, famous
ancient royal residence at Mantua.
Albert Pulitzer, brother of New
York newspaper publisher, committed
suicide in Vienna with poison and bull
let.
Charles R. Crane, the newly APP
pointed minister to China, was re-
called to Washington on the eve of his
departure.
Wilbur Wright made a sensational
flight of twenty-one miles from Cover
nor's island over the Hudson River,
making an average speed of thirty
seven miles an hour despite an ugly
wind.
Tuesday
A daughter of Mark Twain is to be-
come the bride of Ossip Gabriolwitsch,
pianist.
Four persons were reported killed
and fifty injured in collision between
l. c. trains between Farmer City and
Parnell, H.
President Taft received enthusiastic
greetings in San Francisco, Oakland
and Berkeley, and again urged ship
subsidy law.
Advices from Washington were that
Charles R. Crane, minister to China,
was halted on the eve of his departure
for Picking for a consultation with
Secretary Knox on the growing deli
cacy of relations between China and
Japan.
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals in Chicago affirmed the judg-
ment of the lower court in the case of
John r. Walsh, who must go to prison
for four years unless granted re
hearing or the United States Court
will consider the case.
Wednesday.
Mayors of twenty large Illinois
cities urged Gov Deneen TO force the
Legislature into granting; commits
sion form of municipal government.
Oklahoma's bank guaranty law was
given it's first severe test in the fail
ure of the Columbia Loan and Trust
Company State banks have been as
sessed and payment begun.
Thursday.
Henry E. Legler was chosen for Chi
cago public librarian.
A failed bank in Oklahoma, run" by
fewer than 100 depositors, is paying
every one in full.
President Taft, in a speech at Seat
tie, declared he will ask Congress for
a ship subsidy bill.
Justice William j. Gaynor was nomi-
mated for mayor of New York by the
Democratic city convention.
Director Newell of the government
reclamation service discussed the pos,
sibilities of s1S,OoOO00 annual expen-
diture for reclamation projects.
Friday.
d. d. Davies, immigration inspector
at Chicago, was suspended under
charges.
President Taft started south from
Tacoma. Wash. after promising that
the Panama Canal will be completed
by 1915.
DR.. Cook refused to submit his
claims of pole discovery to the board
OF American scientists until the Danes
pass on them.
Chief Forester Pinchot returned to
Washington and declared that big
water power monopoly is being formed
to secure control of all the water
power sites in the United States.
Saturday.
New York reported a great, new
$500. 100000 plan for a gigantic con-
solidation of Chicago public utility
corporations.
The Great Western Railroad was
prevented by the Iowa railroad COM
mission from executing plan to with
draw three through trains from ser
vice.
Taft's day of real pleasure in Port
land. Oregon. was marred only by the
arrest of a man armed with revolver
while pushing his way into the front
rank.
The New York cotton market was
stirred by the report that James A.
Patten of Chicago has formed a new
pool to buy cotton irrespective of what
the government report may be
Charles W. Morse has made $780,
600 since June II, paying so per cent
of his debts.
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
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