Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-07
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

laSra is germ disease.
Five persons we're killed when
train hit II aEto near st. Louis.
A st. lis priest-editor urges that
families he given vote for each child.
Bishop Fallows of Chicago declares
his belief in communications from the
dead
is improving in health; wife and sis
ter both pleased with condition.
President Taft decides to accept the
resignation of Assistant Secretary of
Commerce McHarg, who criticised adj
ministration policies.
Monday.
The death roll from the flood at
Monterey and vicinity will reach q
600
Earl Grey, governor general of Can
ADA, narrowly escaped death while
lost in the northwest wilds.
E. H. Hartman, in formal state
ment, said he is gaining in health; adj
uniting he was examined by surgeons,
said they found an operation unneces
sary.
The bold theft of $4,000 worth of
diamonds, rare stones deliberately set,
from Mrs. Adolph Hirsch in the din
ing-room of the Vendome Hotel mys-
titles the Chicago police
Governor Johnson of Minnesota said
the people of both parties in the West
ern States denounce the new tariff
law, and he predicts the Republicans
will lose the next Congress.
The wife of w. A. Stone, wealthy
i Uniontown, Pa, coke operator and
banker, returned home after nine
months disappearance, but no one
save husband knows where she has
been.
Tuesday.
A special policeman killed two lake
strikers in Buffalo.
The resignation of Commissioner of
the Internal Revenue Capers revealed
fight in the bureau.
A lone robber held up train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad near Lewis
town, Pa. then found his loot consist
&c of 10000 Lincoln pennies.
Bird S. CoIer, president of the Dor
ough of Brooklyn, filed charges with
Governor Hughes accusing Mayor Nc
Clellan of misapplying public funds
The Mexican authorities, the Amer
lean consul and charity organizations
distributed supplies among 10000
homeless flood sufferers in Monterey.
Wednesday.
The editor of Panama paper has
been slain by revolutionary leader.
President Taft asks interior depart
ment to explain charges made by for
ester.
Taft will urge in a message the ear
ly establishment of postal savings
banks.
Justice Carpenter of the Michigan
Supreme Court says lawyers often bore
judges so badly they sleep in self-de-
tense.
Thursday.
A ball of lightning kills a Cairo, ILL.,,
Secretary Wilson wins in the pure
food fight at Denver; convention APP
proves use of benzoate as a preserva-
tive.
A British scientist says that women
are leading the human race to inevi-
table destruction by demanding equal
rights.
The scrap expected between Chief
Forester Pinchot and Secretary Balm
ger at Seattle conservation congress
failed to develop
Friday.
In Chicago three men were killed
by lightning and the city deluged by
rain.
One was killed and one perhaps ia
tally hurt in an auto race collision at
Brighton Beach course.
Moors attacked Melilla while Span
iards were celebrating high mass for
soldiers slain in battle.
Five were drowned in the sinking
of the steamer Ohio off the Alaskan
coast. The wireless operator stuck TO
his post and lost his life.
The convention of the Association of
State and National Food and Dairy De
partments adjourned after recommend
ing more drastic food laws
Elvert W. Shirk, president of Tip
ton, Ind. bank. was arrested in Chi
tago on federal charge of misappro-
priating S24,252 of the banks funds.
Saturday.
Professor Zueblin, formerly of the
University of Chicago. advocates wom-
ans suffrage.
Hundreds are dead and the property
loss will run into millions as result
of wind and floods in Mexico.
An army surgeon thinks pellagra is
widespread and of long standing in
Illinois and other Western States;
caused by eating corn.
The managers of fire insurance COM
panies conferred on the Kansas rate
regulation and appointed a committee
TO investigate its requirements.
Glenn H. Curtiss. the American avia-
tor. won the international cup at
Rheims, France, and broke all aero
plane speed records by flying 12.42
miles in 10 minutes so 2-5 seconds.
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