Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-23
Monday.

Monday.
President Roosevelt in a special mes
sage to Congress urged legislation in aid
of dependent children.
Three hundred persons were burned to
death in theater at Acapulco, Mexico;
several Americans were among the vic
Tins.
Daniel Frohman in an interview in
New York said that if his wife, Margaret
Ellington, after securing her divorce,
wants to wed E. j. Bowes he will APP
prove.
Attorney General Major of Missouri
demanded that the Waters Pierce Com
pany be ousted from the State following
the payment of the $4,000 fine imposed
upon the concern.
Franklin MacVeagh OF Chicago was of
fered the treasury portfolio in the Taft
cabinet. To accept the position it is said
he may retire from business and banking
in order to be eligible under a statute
r 4ssed in $780,
Tuesday.
National convention for tariff COM
mission met in Indianapolis.
a wreck of Illinois Central passenger
train near Murphysboro, Ill.
William eagle, tramp, confessed the
murder of Ella Schraeder, whom he at
tackled near Gary Ind. Other girls den-
titled him as assailant.
The United States Senate cut tie size
of the proposed battle ships from 10000
to 21,0O0 tons; the amendment calls for
half of navy on Pacific coast.
A prominent correspondent told of the
positive announcement 10y President-elect
Taft that p c. Knox will accept the sec
rctaryship of state, the cabinet being com
pleted.
The widow of former Senator Carmack
was the first witness at the trial in Nash
Vile of the three men accused of his MUIR
der. A woman who witnessed the tragedy
described the scene.
A man with a dynamite bomb attempt
ed to extort $1,000 from Lawrence NJ.
Jones of Kansas City and was overpow-
cred by a ruse He confessed plot. and
vacant house and chains intended to inn
prison his victim pending escape were
found.
Wednesday.
The California assembly reconsdered
and then killed the anti-Jap school seq
regation bill after hours of hot debate.
The Irish national convention in Dub
lin decided on Gaelic as a compulsory
study in the national university, thanked
the people of the United States for gen.
erosity and refused votes for women.
Thursday.
Taft promises completion of canal by
1915 and hopes for it within four years.
New York theatrical man said women
have much to do with lowering stages
moral tone
classification of the financial statement
of A. Booth & Co. of Chicago to the ex-
tent of $1,S00,000. was disclosed in the
testimony of Frederick r. Robbins, as
sistant treasurer.
Friday.
e. G. Cooley resigned the superintend-
ency of the Chicago schools; position too
strenuous" he wrote.
President Roosevelt laid the corner
stone of the memorial to mark the birth
place of Abraham Lincoln.
Alderman Kohout of the Thirty-fourth
Ward of Chicago shot himself dead in
the basement of his home because of re-
verses in his political fortunes.
The Lincoln centennial memorial reach
ed its crest in the most notable tribute to
one man in the history of the United
States. Chcago's celebration leading that
of the nation.
Saturday.
protocol was signed at Caracas to
the United States.
Two masked men held up the Atlantic
Express" on the outskirts of Denver, ran
sacked the mail and escaped.
skinny" Madden was defeated in
settlement of the strike Mt the Chicago
and Northwestern terminal in Chicago.
President-elect Taft hosly defended the
Panama Canal and ITS builders in ad-
dresses ut cities on his way TO Cincin-
natl.
The Democratic minority of the House
committee reported against the bill to
remove bar to Senator Tnox's eligibility
for Secretary of State.
Both sides accepted the Cooper jury AT
Nashville and the taking of testimony in
the trial for the killing of former Sena-
tor Carmack was set to begin Tuesday
SHORT NEWS NOTES.
Damage of $4,000 was done by fire
to the plant of the Louisville Friedrich