Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-06
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

ICoUuIS street car SIrlhe lieu up
traffic and churches were unable to
hold services.
United States drew rein on Cuba
with stiff note regarding contract pay
ments and purchase of arms in Eu-
rope
Charges of incompetent inspection
on part of government at East St.
Louis stockyards brought by federal
employe fell fiat; accuser denounced.
Merchant volunteered prayer
while Lame Bob" Eastman was being
buried; Mrs. Woodill believed to have
been slain because she refused to run
away with Eastman.
Bomb No. 81 was exploded in the
rear of 100 Washington street, Chica-
go, injuring seven persons, causing
$4,000 property loss and bringing
wild panics when walls of restaurants
and nickel shows crashed.
Monday.
Pittsburg car strike ended through
efforts Of Mayor Magee.
State Senator Durham of Philadel-
phia, former boss" of Philadelphia,
dropped dead at Atlantic City.
Senate concluded debates on the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and will take
up the income tax propositions.
The coroner's jury decided that Rob
ert r. Eastman had been blackmail-
ing Mrs. Edith May Woodill, who was
slain, for some time.
Prince Won Buelow announced he
will retire from German chancellor
ship as soon as finance reform meas
ure is disposed of.
American expedition had fight in
Chinese interior and one man killed;
Chinese yiceroy demanded that explor-
ers be called home by government
Tuesday.
Senate began fight over corporation
tax proposed by Taft.
Daughter of Mrs. John A. Logan
given divorce from Col. Tucker.
Mayor Busse of Chicago, taken ill in
morning, underwent operation for ap-
pendicitis in Mercy hospital
Iowa farmer killed aged parents of
his divorced wife, then forced latter
and her child into a buggy and es-
capped, pursued by posse of officers and
citizens.
Announcement was made that uni
versities of the United States, Canada
and Great Britain plan an interchange
of students to broaden the scholarship
OF the beneficiarieS.
Wednesday.
Private Joseph B. Klein, accused of
Staying youth, was freed by a. jury at
Paxton, ILL.,, after that body deliber-
ated less than thirty minutes.
AS the result of an explosion of gas
in mine No. Of the Lackawanna Coal
and Coke Company at Wehrum, Pa,
seventeen miners were killed and six
teen injured
Under mysterious threats made by a
fellow countryman Chung Sin, friend
of the suspected slayer of Elsie Sigel,
New York missionary, broke down and
told how the girl was lured to her
death.
Thursday.
Senate increased tariff on shoes and
sole leather.
Former counsel for F. A. Heinze
was found guilty of impeding justice
in disappearance of United Copper
Company's books.
Mrs. Gilbert Woodill, former ward
of Lyman ]. Gage, ex-Secretary of the
Treasury, was murdered in Maryland,
and her body weighted down in a
creek.
Senator Beveridge showed how to-
bacco combine by forcing consumers
to pay repealed war tax has swelled
its annual profits till they reach $780,
1855.
Friday.
Insurgents in Senate prevented at
tempt to place tariff duty on crude
petroleum.
A p Heinze, brother of copper king,
was found guilty of corruptly imped-
ing administration of justice.
Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould
granted separation from Howard
Gould, with an allowance of $4,000 a
year.
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin
published thinly yelled attack on Pres
ident Taft, charging he aided Aldrich
to throttle income tax.
Emmett E Roberts, hunted for muir,
der of Mrs. Edith Woodill in Mary
land. took his own life; proves to be
Robert E. Eastman, fugitive New York
broker.
Saturday.
Ships of the United States Atlantic
squadron assembling at Hampton
Roads and preparing for war test on
the summer cruise.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
announces he is on the warpath for
Indian agents scalp.
Wireless telegraphy rescued 200 pas
sengers from disabled steamer City OF
Racine off Waukegan, Ill
Baron Takahira, Japanese ambassa
dor, was called home by government to
aid in treaty negotiations.
Eastman is shown TO have robbed
Mrs Woodin after murder and then
TO have written letters attempting to
place blame on friends.