Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

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Sunday.
A schooner was wrecked and five or
gale.
w. l.. Seeley, former bank examiner
OF Ottawa, H., was found dead in his
home at Seattle, Wash, beside he bodies
of his murdered wife and daughter.
New York City is throwing away S20,-
100000 yearly because of short hours and
easy bosses in municipal employment, ae-
cording to tatement made to the board
of estimate.
President-elect Taft in an address to
the negro Y. NJ. c.. A. of Augusta Ga,
told his hearers the race must work out
its own problem and he finds encouraging
signs in their condition in Georgia.
Monday.
Gov. Deneen and other State officials
of Illinois took the oath of Office in
Springfield in a simple and impressive
ceremony.
John D. Woodbury., dermatologist, com
mitted suicide by shooting, his body being
found in a blazing bed in a hotel at
Coney Island, n. Y.
The Federal Supreme Court sustained
the Texas decision filming the Waters
Pierce Oil Company 81, 623,900 and GUST
ing it from the State.
Luther Latin Mills, States attorney
of Cook county, H., from 1876 to 1884
and famous for his oratorical powers,
died at his Chicago home of paralysis.
President Roosevelt was griiled in both
branches of Congress. Willett of New
York was shut off by the House in the
midst of an abusive speech. Bailey made
the attack in the Senate.
In his message to the Illinois Legisla-
ture Gov. Deneen urged prompt action on
the deep waterway, enlargement of the
powers of tine railroad and warehouse
commission and other reforms, and re-
viewed the progress made by the State
under his administration.
Tuesday.
One million has been added by John d.
Rockefeller to his gifts to the University
Of Chicago.
The United States Senate voted to IN
crease salary of the President to $780,,
600, chief justice to $4,000, associate JUS
tices to $4,000,
Oregon's Republican Legislature elected
George f. Chamberlain, Democrat, United
States Senator, carrying out the popular
will expressed at the polls.
protocol for the settlement of all dis
putes between the United States and
Venezuela practically was agreed upon at
Caracas and diplomatic relations will be
restored at once.
In response to urgent protest from Pres
ident Roosevelt Gov. Gillett of Califor-
MIA announced that the proposed anti
japanese legislation win not be enacted
by the Legislature of his State.
Wednesday.
The Ohio Legislature in joint session
elected Burton United States Senator to
succeed Foraker.
Benjamin f. Shively of South Bend
was nominated for Senator by Indiana
Democratic caucus.
The new Cuban congress met and pre-
pared to act on bills establishing cock
fighting and national lottery.
Thursday.
The Copeland hotel at Topeka, Kan,
crowded with members of the Legislature
and their families, burned. Isaac Lam
bert of Emporia lost his life.
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, commander
of the Russian feet which was practical
ly annihiated by the japanese in the bat
tie of the Sea of Japan in 1905, died in
st. Petersburg.
Friday.
T. jenkins Hams was found not guilty
as a principal with his brother, Capt
Peter G. Hams, Jr, In the killing of
William E. Annis.
Efforts to free Paul o. Stensland, the
convicted Chicago banker, promise to re-
suit in one of the bitterest fights ever
waged before pardon board.
Twenty-Five thousand hatmakers in
New England and the North Atlantic
States went out on strike when the Assoc
ciated Hat Manufacturers decided to dis
continue using the union label.
President Roosevelt, vetoing a bill for
construction of private dam across a
navigable river, said the nation is threat
ened with a huge hydro-electric power
monopoly that will prove more oppressive
than the oil combine.
Saturday.
The Miners union at Butte defed
courts and reiterated statement for which
Gompers and others stood trial
Walter Wellman wrote that letters
from home have caused Congressman to
see that they have made a mistake in
their war on the President and the lead
ers have ordered halt.
Twenty-one persons were killed and
thirty injured, several probably mortaIly,
In head-on collision between passen-
ger train and freight on the Denver and
Rio Grande near Glenwood Springs, Col
Harry X. T4aw has been granted a
trial as TO his sanity, but he has been
denied a jury hearing and the case is to
20 to New York City, which has angered
Thaw's mother and she has issued a
statement accusing District Attorney
Jerome of persecution.
NUBBINS OF NEWS.