Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-03
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
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Sunday.

labor in London against the proposed
visit of the Car
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
were guests of Ambassador Reid at
Wrest Park in England.
Rev. G. L. Morrill, photographed
women at Minneapolis wearing peek-a-
boo dresses and used the views in a
sermon.
Mark Bassett, Tulsa, Okla, editor,
former manager of the Yates Press
Bureau in Illinois, was found mys-
teriously shot
Six persons were killed and many
injured when a Wabash train was
plunged into the Missouri River near
Kansas City; forty-two were hurt in
the wreck of Chicago train on the
Big Four near indianapolis.
Monday.
An alienist said Harry K Thaw's
insanity was only temporary.
The assistant cashier of the First
National Bank at Upton, Ind, fed
with 100000.
Two men were reported dead and a
number injured in a political riot at
Guadalajara, Mexico.
spanish workmen instituted a gen
eral strike against war and martial
law was declared in Barcelona.
The steamer Minnetonka cut off the
nose of the schooner Hope of Boston in
a collision off Nantucket in fog.
Three men were injured in a strike
riot at McKees Rocks, Pa. Two thou
sand men returned to work at Butler.
William English Walling, of Chica-
go, Socialist, was made defendant in
breach of promise suit at New York
by French girl whom he assisted.
Women missionaries in New York's
Chinatown have abandoned their la
bors, due to hostility on the part of
the celestials since Elsie Sigel's muir
der
A Washington correspondent wrote
that President Taft is making free
hides the nub of the tariff fight, de-
spite the threats of Western Senators
to defeat a conference report contain
ing such provision.
Tuesday.
Aviator Latham descended into the
sea in his second attempt to fly across
the English channel.
A wealthy Indianapolis man was
shot and killed in an Arkansas court
room by the man he had beaten in
lawsuit
Orville Wright broke all world rec
ords in aeroplane flights, remaining in
the air with passenger one hour and
twelve minutes.
A woman from whom Harry K.
Thaw formerly rented rooms went on
the witness stand at White Plains, N.
Y, and said he lured 200 young girls
to his rooms and whipped many of
them with a dog whip.
Wednesday.
A conference at White House ended
in victory for Taft in the tariff fight.
A hurricane hit Galveston and killed
sixteen in a pier on the bay, but one
city was saved from destruction when
the sea wall held the gulf out.
A booklet by Mrs. Mary C. Thaw,
mother of Harry X. Thaw, charges
tried to prevent her sons trial because
they feared to be exposed.
Thursday.
Vincent A. Altman was indicted in
Chicago for throwing bomb 81" and,
with his brother. accused of arson.
The Chicago board of education has
inaugurated course in the science Of
t1at-dwelling for school boys and girls.
A reproduction of Hendrix Hudson's
ship, the Half Moon, arrived at New
York, on the deck OF Dutch freight
er.
Aristide BRAND, Socialist and au-
been offered the premiership of
France.
Friday.
An investigation board unearthed
new forms of hazing at West Point
military academy.
The Moors attacked the Spanish be-
fore daybreak at Melilla, killing and
wounding several officers.
Cornelius p Shea was sentenced to
i've to twenty-five years in Sing Sing
for attempting the murder of woman.
Prince Miguel of Braganza re-
nounced his clsim to the Portuguese
throne in order to marry Miss Anita
Stewart.
Saturday.
Edward Mccain, inspector of the
Desplaines street station in Chicago.
was indicted on charges of accepting
$500 from five divekeepers for pro
lection"
Louis Bleriot crossed the Englis'
Channel in an aeroplane.
Estimates are that the wheat yield
in the Canadian prairie provinces this
year will be the most valuable ever
raised there; railways are said to be
in excellent condition to move the
crop.
The Secretary of the Department Of
Commerce and Labor at banquet of
the National Travellers Association,
urged national control of commerce to
avoid chaos due to lack of uniform
State laws.