Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-06-01
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

New York police stopped Emma
Goldman from making speech.
Chicago Presbyterians celebrated
four hundredth anniversary of John
Calvin with special services.
Army of detectives failed to get any
clew to the men who held up the I'm
ion Pacific Limited near Omaha, so
well laid were the plans of the robbers.
A dispatch from Washington told of
plans of retrenchment on the part of
cabinet officials and said Secretary
Macyeagh will give careful study to
all estimates.
Monday.
c. H. Sargent and wife sentenced to
prison in Paris for maltreating chill
dren coIfided to their care.
CONFIDENTIAL friends of the late H
H. Rogers said that oil magnate's es-
tate will amount to more than $780,
100000.
Free lumber proposition was defeat.
ed in the Senate by decisive vote; Dol
liver afforded surprise by voting with
conservatives.
United States Supreme Court de-
clared Tennessee sheriff, deputy, and
four others guilty of contempt in con-
nection with lynching of negro.
Judge Lands in Chicago imposed
$1,000 fine for rebating on A. Booth &
Co.; assets transferred to Booth Fish
cries Company for $1,GOO.OOO paid to
receiver.
Tuesday.
Joseph Schurmann of Chicago trup-
died wheelbarrow all the way to New
York and won $1,000 wager.
Boston reported that Swift & Co. and
Armour Co. plan extensive opera
tions in Argentina to corral trade in
Great Britain.
Sad story of domestic and financial
troubles was revealed by the suicide in
France of Edward H. Sandford, son-in-
law of former Gov. Hoffman of New
York.
Race war, shortage of food, possible
Intervention of federal troops, train
service in a large area abandoned and
the use of automobiles to transport the
mails were features of the strike of
eighty fremen on the Georgia Rail-
road
Wednesday.
Steamer Monaghan, with 500 on
board, was tight in ice near ST. Johns,
Newfoundland.
Admiral Dewey said American navy
is peer of any in ships, officers and
men; criticism held as unjust.
Chicago charter hopes slaughtered
by both houses of the Illinois, Legis-
lature when consolidation bill was de-
feated.
President Taft praised soldier dead
Of the Union and Confederate armies
in his address during exercises at
Petersburg battle-ground.
BY single vote the ~wets" defeated
the "drys" in the Illinois House when
bill was passed which the Anti-Sa-
loon Leaguers say utilities the local
option law.
Thursday.
Big storm and premature explosion
interrupted Tafts speech at Charlotte,
S. C.
The Rev. Or. Barley of Detroit was
elected moderator of Presbyterian gen.
eral assembly at Denver.
Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould was granted
a decree of divorce and part custody
of her two children in New York.
Explosions and fire, caused by escap-
ing gas, wrecked the Toledo apartment
building in Chicago, with fourteen per-
sons injured, many in narrow escapes
in wild leaps from windows.
Friday.
Cornelius p. Shea, car of Chicago
transfers strike of 1905, stabbed WON
an in New York.
Jacob Kesner of The Fair store in
Chicago purchased lease and business
of Charles F. Gunther, the veteran
candy man.
That a Negroes feelings cannot be
hurt as badly as a white mans and
that ne is not entitled to the same
damages for false arrest was the rul-
ing of the Appellate division of the
Supreme Court of the State of New
York.
Saturday.
Leaders in all lines of industry de.
clared the tide of prosperity is rising;
only obstacle now is tariff.
Armour & Co. of Chicago sold $780,
O00,00 AZ per cent thirty-year bonds
to clear Indebtedness and extend
plants.
Cornelius p. Shea, leader in great
teamsters' strike, was held without
bail in New York, pending the death
of Alice Walsh. the Chicago girl he
stabbed twenty-five times with peck
etknife.