Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18
Monday.

Secretary Wilson predicted federal
legislation as result of Patten corner.
Mehmed V. plowed in palace ground
as the last event of the coronation
ceremonies.
Mrs. Lavender sued the Rev. E. B.
Crawford in Chicago for $4,000 dam
ages, alleging SANDER.
High tariff men won on test vote in
Senate; eleven Republicans for lower
duty on lead; two Democrats against
it.
Aurel Batonyi's wife in a suit at
New York alleged that he insisted on
having an allowance of $4,000 per
month from her family.
President Taft asked Congress to
amend act for government of Porto
Rico so as to prevent islands from
paralyzing government by holding up
appropriations.
James H. Boyle and wife, convicted
kidnapers of Willie Whitla, began
their sentences in the penitentiary at
Pittsburg, the man getting a life term
and the woman twenty-five years.
Boyle issued statement declaring
Harry Foraker of Sharon, brother of
Mrs. Whitla, the real principal in the
kidnapping.
Tuesday.
Wright brothers returned from aero
plane triumphs in Europe.
Michigan lawmaker was ousted from
house in connection with scandal.
French chamber of deputies delayed
a vote on the labor problem, and as
result an order for a general strike
was issued at once, thousands of en-
ployes walking out Immediately.
Peter c. Hams, Jr., was convicted by
jury at Flushing, N. Y, of man
slaughter in the first degree for the
killing of W. E. Annis, the penalty be-
ing prison term of one to twenty
years.
Wednesday.
Roosevelt broke the record in British
East Africa for killing lions.
Second worlds peace congress closed
in Chicago with a double banquet at
which representatives of foreign nations
and prominent Americans responded to
toasts
f. T. Wegner, detective, swore before
committee at Madison, Wis, that he saw
$4,000 passed as a bride to three as
semblymen and that Senator Stephen
;oI
Thursday.
Big union of State employees in
France took radical steps which may
bring on long expected war on "capi-
talism."
New Sultan of T1z6ey reprimanded
officials for hanging of men implicated
in recent mutiny without his orders
and said it must stop.
Senator Cummins of Iowa, attacking
high tariff, warned the Senate that
the people will still have the lamp
post" as a means of Kidding themselves
of monopolists.
Friday.
Steamer Adelia Shores reported lost
III Lake Superior with twenty-one
lives.
Baroness Won Hutton, author of
Pam" and other novels, divorced by
her husband
Worldwide decrease in prices of
commodities was shown by figures of
exports and imports.
Twenty persons were injured when
a bomb concealed in a basket of vege-
tables exploded in Buenos Ayres.
Saturday.
Chas. HI. Meyer, prominent Chicago
churchman, was arrested and admit
ted the embezzlement of S1,700.
Aldrich declared it makes no differ
ence what the House does with tariff
rates. the Senate will do justice"
Mrs. James H. Boyle was found
guilty of the kidnapping sof Willie
Whitla in her trial at Mercer, Pa.
A letter purporting to prove Laza-
rus Averbuch to have been an aEar-
chist was given out by eLe Chicago po-
lice department. despite declaration
by Chief Shippy that his duty to the
public to suppress anarchy prohibits
him from discussing the Averbuch
case publicly.