Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

Records of the previous week disprove
the old adage that "a green Christmas
makes a fat graveyard" and the record
of the year shows extremely low NOR
tally.
Confirmation of the appointment OF
Bishop d. ]. O'Connell rector of the
Catholic University at Washington, as
auxiliary bishop Of San Francisco, has
been received from Rome
Canada and Mexico have been invited
by President Roosevelt TO take part in a
conference on the conservation of the nat
ural resources of North America, to be
held in the White House Feb. Is.
Monday.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt was introduced to
Washington society in the gayest party
since her sisters debut.
Andrew Carnegie sees in profit sharing
and joint ownership of industries by work
men and managers the true solution of
the labor problem.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, at
meeting of the American Sociological So
ciety, declared modern home conditions
are a menace to the race.
The board of food and drug inspectors
at Washington OVERRIDE DR.. Wiley, the
government chemist, and allowed the use
of benZoate of soda as O preventative.
Many thousands of persons were killed
and enormous damage was done by an
earthquake in southwestern Italy and the
Island of Sicily. Whole sections were cut
off from communication, and several towns
are believed swallowed by the upheaval
Tuesday.
W. II. Newman, president of the New
York Central lines, resigned after forty
years of active railroad work.
The Herald Square theater in New
York was destroyed by fire which started
just before the close of the performance.
Wall street heard that Andrew Car
negie is back in the steel business and is
furnishing the money for Schwab's Bethle-
hem works
Federal rebate inquiry of Chicago pack
ers started as thirty employees of Morris
& Co were summoned to go before the
grand jury.
Acting President Gomez of Venezuela
practically broke Castro's rule forever
when he personally arrested the presl-
dents brother and others.
Wednesday.
According to testimony at the hearing
of the alleged grafters, SO Pittsburg coun-
cilmen accepted brides for votes.
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison were
sentenced to Imprisonment in jail for con-
tempt in Buck stove boycott case.
Venezuela suspended the shipping order
that caused the trouble with Holland and
the Dutch government ordered its war
ships to cease operations along the Ven
ezuelan coast.
Missouri Supreme Court ousted the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, Re
public Oil Company of Ohio and Waters
Pierce Company from the commonwealth
and ordered each to pay fine of $oO,0OO.
Thursday.
Pittsburg bankers are said to have
paid $4,000 in brides to aldermen to
secure city deposits.
The New York Stock Exchange sus-
pended W. II. Martin and L. w. Moor
head for three years.
The st. Paul railroad has found that
its Montana mines yield good coal and
will save $1.200,000 a year on fuel.
Cyrus r. iced, who as ''Koresh L." rent
Chicago in the early '90s, is dead in
Florida, where his followers are expect
ing his resurrection.
Bishop O'Connell will retire as head
of the Catholic University at Washington
and may become coadjutor at Baltimore
with rights of succession to Gibbons.
Friday.
Charley Gates, son of John w. Gates
dropped nearly $4,000 in betting on Los
Angeles races.
A man attacked President Fallieres of
France in street of Paris and tried to
pull his beard.
The steamer Pretoria arrived in New
York after n terrible struggle with the
weather. which made the big liner take
more than twice her regular time.
Miss Mary A. Hardy. patient in st
Mary's hospital in Racine, Wis, was
crushed to death when nurse pulled the
cable. suddenly raising the elevator.
More than three hundred moving-pic
ture men in New York protested against
Mayor McClellan's action in revokinl
their licenses and shutting off the holiday
trade.
Saturday.
Claus Spreckels, sugar king of the Pa
ciic coast" died.
II. w. Poor & Co. big New York stock
brokerage firm. assigned. with liabilities
of over S5,000,0oO.
The Venezuela revolution is complet,
without the shedding of blood; suits have
been filed to secure Castro's property.
Miss katherine Elkins, wounded in hel
heart by the breaking of her engagement
I, the Duke of Abruzzi, will become
trained nurse and soon is TO enter cours,
of education.
President Roosevelt, e. a reply TO ap
peals in the Gompers case, said he coulC
not pardon the labor leaders while tn,
case was before the courts. but STATED
that the sentences might be given stten
ton if the appeal was dropped.
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