Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-16

ma. said he is well satisfied with progress
being made.
James ]. Jeffries declared he is still
heavyweight boxing champion and limited
ne will return to the ring.
Special Lincoln services in many
churches inaugurated the centennial week
In Chicago in memory of the emancipation.
The bill making attempted bribery of
representative of labor crime has been
received by the Chicago federation of la
Dor.
President Roosevelt sent message to
Gov. Giilett of California in which he at
tackled Senator Perkins for urging anti
Japanese laws.
Monday.
California Senate postponed considera-
zion of anti-Japanese bills.
Inventor Maxim gave a test in New
York Office of device to render firearms
noiseless.
District Attorney Jerome of New York
was nearly overcome by gas used by SER
want girl to enc Der life
Death claimed in one day two noted
Frenchmen. Mendes, poet and novelist,
and Coquelin Cadet, actor.
President Roosevelt warned California
that there is very grave mischief in its
pending anti-Japanese legislation.
W. n. Cromwell explained the Panama
Canal deal before the New York grand
jury in the governments libel action
against the World.
The methods of Peter Van Vlssingen
are alleged to have been prscticed by &.
G. Duensing, a Northwest Side real es-
tate agent in Chicago, to the extent of
$4,000 in forged notes and mortgages.
Tuesday.
Kaiser and king We'd in peace profess
sions at Berlin banquet on accession of
Edwards German visit.
President Roosevelt sent to Congress a
special message giving the results of the
investigations of the commission on
country life.
Riotous demonstration of the unem-
ployed married King Edwards visit to
Berlin; police charged crowd and several
men sustained saber wounds.
A hot fight was opened in the Senate
against the lock-leve plan for construct
ing the Panama Canal, and it is intimat-
ed that there is lack of confidence in
the report of President Roosevelts com
mission of engineers in favor of follow
ing out the present plans.
Wednesday.
The lower house of the California Leg
islature, after q prolonged and sharp de-
bate, rejected the anti-Japanese bill.
procidopt DooeoyoIt in n formal Stota-
ment, repeats his opposition to restrict
ing the field of usefulness of the secret
service.
Over Governor Patterson's veto the
Tennessee Senate passed the bill prohib-
iting the manufacture of intoxicants in
the State.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma is one
of seven men indicted by federal grand
jury at Muskogee on a charge of conspir-
aey to defraud the government in town
site land deals.
Thursday.
Ambassador Bryce and Newfoundland
reached an agreement as to what ques-
tons in the fisheries shall be arbitrated
Dy The Hague court.
Miss Florence Miller OF Chicago, ar
rested after attempting to attack Lee
O'Neil Browne at Springfield, alleged she
was party to a plot to ruin the minority
leader politically.
The lower house of the California Leg
islature, by vote of As to %. passed the
bill to segregate Japanese children in the
public schools; Roosevelt urged the Gov
ernor to veto it, as the most Objectionable
of all the anti-Japanese measures.
Friday.
Floods are doing great damage in Ger
many.
President Roosevelt vetoed the census
bill passed by Congress.
Another Young woman was mysterious
ly murdered in Dayton, Ohio.
The Nevada Assembly passed the bill
barring japanese and other Asiatics from
holding land in the State
The government is trying to collect
huge penalties from the sugar trust, al
leging fraudulent weighing at custom
house.
Strong appeals from Governor Gillett
and Speaker Stanton caused the lower
house of the California Legislature to
delay action on anti-Japanese measures.
Saturday.
The moving picture business is in the
grip of the big combine; Independent
plan to fight merger as violation of law.
The American battle ship feet left
Gibraltar on the last lap of its $4,000
mile voyage around the world and will
reach Hampton Roads on the 22d.
Strange maze of politics surrounds the
trial of the slayers of former Senator
Carmack at Nashvillefi Tenn, and the
feuds being aired promise to affect great
issues in the State.
While leading papers in Toxic express
friendly sentiments toward the United
;Slaes, it is feared in commercial circles
that anti-Japanese agitation on the Pa
citic coast may seriously affect trade with
America.