Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-14
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.

Sunday.

Secretary Knox is determined to
force peace in Central America.
China signified that William j. Cal
houn, of Chicago, is acceptable as en-
Voy to Picking.
The King of Sweden, disguised,
worked as a steyedore to learn the
needs of the workingmen.
President Taft ordered a reform of
the diplomatic service, placing appoint
ments wholly upon merit basis.
Trainmen ON many Eastern roads
decide to join workers in the North
west in a demand for wage increase.
Monday.
Congress met in regular session.
Switchmen's leaders said they now
have given up all hope of averting
general railroad strike.
Governor Deneen included twenty
four subjects in his call for special
session of the Illinois Legislature, to
begin Dec. IA.
A shortage of S1,000,000 was discov-
cred in the surplus of the Phoenix In
surance Company of Brooklyn; Presi-
dent George P. Sheldon, accused by
the State, was deposed.
Tuesday.
Grand Duke Nicholas was made
ruler of Finland.
Actor John Drew was thrown from
horse and seriously injured.
The grand jury investigated alleged
startling Irregularities in the Phenix
Fire Insurance Company of Brooklyn.
United States inspectors found lower
percentage of cheating merchants in
Chicago than in any other American
city.
The worlds largest gas reservoir ex-
pioded in Hamburg, Germany, blowing
twenty-seven men like rockets through
the sky.
Professor Jonnesco demonstrated by
operations in New York that stovaine
permits the painless use of the knife
with subjects conscious.
After being pronounced dead by two
physicians and the coroner's office,
Mrs. Charlotte Wilmer of st. Paul was
brought back to life on the morgue
slab by an amateur hypnotist and I'M
dertaker's assistant.
Wednesday.
Armour & Co. took over Boston riv-
ais and plan to build in st. Paul.
An order of TAFT prohibits govern
ment employees from applying to mem
bers of Congress for legislation.
Illinois Tunnel Company and Chi
cago Warehouse and Terminal Com
pany were put in the hands of re-
r. ceivers.
Secretary Knox gave passports to
the Nicaraguan charge d'affairs in
Washington. breaking off all diplo-
matte relations.
Secretary MacVeagh ordered inter-
nal revenue service to tighten up"
and prevent losses to government
which amount to millions.
Thursday.
President Taft revised and com
pleted his message and sent it to. the
printers.
J. Pierpont Morgan bought the stock
control of the Equitable Life Insurance
Company from Thomas F. Ryan.
Secretary MacVeagh stopped the
waste in the treasury. where more mil
lions have been thrown away in the
past than the sugar trust ever stole.
President Taft announced the APP
pointment of Circuit Judge George A.
Carpenter to succeed Solomon H.
Bethea on the federal bench in Chi
cago.
Friday.
John r. Walsh became a prisoner
in the custody of Chicago deputy mar
shals.
Chile sent an ultimatum to the
United States as the result of the
Alsop claim dispute.
President Zelaya ignored Knox's &C
ton and sent emissaries to ask Con
gress to investigate his case.
The United States gunboat trained
its guns o. the palace of the Nicara-
qua governor and prepared for action
The railroads of he country and
the brotherhoods lined up for battle
over wage demand by tSe united labor
organizations.
Reports in New York were that
amalgamation of the Equitable. New
York Life and Mutual Life is possible
as a result of the purchase by j. Pier
pont Morgan of control of the first
named corporation.
Saturday.
The trust is to be called upon to pay
the government s7,OOOOOO for perpe
trating frauds in testing sugar.
King Edward viii send out a procla
nation summoniog a new Parliament
Governor Harmon. of Ohio, ordered
1000 soldiers to Bridgeport to quell q
fierce riot of tin plate mill strikers.
President Zelaya asked the United
States to send commission TO investi
gate his rule, and says he win resign
if condemned.
Ebert Quockenbush. a third-term
prisoner at the Joliet (Illl peniten
tiary, scaled wall at the prison quar-
ry and escaped in broad day.
SHORT NEWS NOTES.
Gov. Charles n. Haskell and his five
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