Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-07
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
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Sunday.

SuuSS LuIlOn LOT supreme COuIl.
Cuban politics were seething, with
rumors that President Gomez will be
forced to quit
President Taft ordered an inquiry
into cotton speculation at the request
of textile workers.
DR.. f. A. Cooks brother said the
arctic explorer is taking the rest cure
at the home of a friend
General Verand was shot by an AL
gerian in Paris near the hotel where
President Fallieres had been calling
on King Manuel; crowds thought the
rulers lives were sought.
Monday.
Paris whispers, but dare not print,
that Grand Duke Alexis killed Stein
he'll
Alabama voters rejected prohibit
ton amendment to the constitution
by majority that may reach 1880.
Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy
branded husband a sot who was cured
by pretty faith healer. whose COM
ing broke up their home.
A prominent Washington CORE
spondent wrote that the coming ses-
sion is likely to see Congress in a
deadlock on Cannonism, and that Taft,
trying to stand neutral, is in danger
from Roosevelt boom in 1912.
Tuesday.
Insurgents defeated Zelayan army
In Nicaragua with heavy loss.
Two thousand and three hundred
switchmen on roads in the northwest
went CT strike for higher wages.
The British House of Lords rejected
the budget and forced the Commons
into general election to decide which
shall rule.
Alabama vets will follow up the de-
feat of the constitutional amendment
for prohibition by trying to elect a
legislature pledged to substitute local
option for state wide anti-saloon law.
A delegation of Illinois manufacture
ers reached Washington to state OBJ
jections to the corporation tax law to
President Taft and to urge delay in
enforcement until Congress has time
to make amendments.
Wednesday.
The Cherry mine, still afame, was
sealed up and will not be opened for
weeks; total death list is 1893.
Lord Rosebery warned the Lords In
a speech that the rejection of the
budget may mean political revolution;
he opposes the bill, but says that it
must be passed.
President Taft named James l..
Davenport Commissioner of Pensions.
Chief Justice Mills of New Mexico
Governor of that territory and Benja-
min S. Cable of Chicago Assistant Sec
rotary of Commerce.
Thursday.
Hungary hopes to discourage emil
grafton by forbidding publication of
amounts of cash sent home.
Vincent and Joseph Altman were
acquitted in Chicago of bomb throw
ing ana arson.
Lyman j. Gage, 73 years old, for
mer Secretary of Treasury, welded a
California widow of 50.
An ugly situation has been precipi-
tated by the United States ultimatum
on the Alsop claim sent to Chile.
Sir Maurice de Bunsen, British am
bassador to Madrid, was spoken of as
successor to James Bryce at Wash
ington
Captain Shipley, commander of the
cruiser Des Moines. advised the Navy
Department from Nicaragua that the
revolution was spreading and rebels
were maintaining blockade off the
coast of Greytown.
Friday.
The Illinois mine investigating com
mission has taken steps for forma
inquiry into the Cherry disaster.
An Indianapolis broker was beins
hunted on a charge of blgamy aftel
his supposed second wife committed
suicide.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst in an Or
ehestra Hall (Chicago) address de
Tended militant methods of English
cuffragettes.
As a result of the customs prob,
conducted by Collector Loeb. of New
York, Thomas C. Giddings, an assist
ant weigher. was arrested charged
with defrauding the government in un
derweighing fig shipments.
Saturday.
DIR. Cook had disappeared and nt
two persons agreed as to his where
abouts.
Liberal statesmen in Russia declared
thst the evolutionary movement i
dead and the future is very dark
Chancellor Loyd-George was tn
happiest man in England. believin;
that the House of Lords had delivere,
itself plump into his hands.
A New York woman had a pair al
rested. alleging she gave a seeress $40
600 TO get her divorce and was black
mailed out of another $4,000.
The American vice consul at Muk
den reported that Japanese method
are injuring the United States trad
In Manchuria; Washington is said {
have suppressed facts.