Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-04-05
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
sunday.

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Sunday.
Ruth Wheeler, the missing girl who
was found partly incinerated on the
fire escape of New York tenement
house, was burned alive.
A report reached Manila that eight
men had been killed or wounded by
the explosion of gun on the United
States cruiser Charleston.
A Wisconsin legislative committee
decided on the adoption of the German
scale in proposing legislation for COM
pensation for industrial accidents.
Monday.
Several hundred persons we're burn
ed to deaf at dance in Hungary.
Justice Brewer of the United States
Supreme Court died suddenly follow
ing stroke of apoplexy.
Bessie Mitchell, of Chicago, was
murdered at Lorain, o., with her sis
ter, by man who committed suicide.
Theodore Roosevelt defed popular
sentiment among Egyptians by telling
a University of Cairo audience that
their country is not prepared for ma
tionalism.
Tuesday.
Nine more councilmanic grafters
confessed in Pittsburg.
The French Senate passed an old
age pension bill applying to all work
ers.
Eugene N. Foss, Democrat, was
elected to Congress in Massachusetts
on the tariff and high prices issue,
overcoming a Republican plurality of
14,250.
In response to a cabled request
from Theodore Roosevelt, Clifford Pin
chot departed for Europe and will
meet the former President probably in
Naples.
The English House of Lords re-
nounced hereditary principle by
adopting Lord Rosebery's third reso-
luton providing for the reconstruction
of the house.
Wednesday.
Mount Aetna is again active and
violent shocks caused panic at Mes
sina.
big railroad strike in the West
was averted by an agreement between
the managers and enginemen.
The Arkansas land congress met
and laid plans to induce millions of
homeseekers to take farms in that
state.
A Southerner killed the conductor
and porter on the B. and o. train
and was slain after an hours duel with
police.
Six regulars were elected members
of the rules committee of the house
by the Republican caucus which was
marked by harmony.
Thursday.
The Cairo, H., grand jury indicted
twelve men as would-be lynchers.
Ex-Vice President Fairbanks was
given welcome home after his trip
around the world.
Twenty persons we're hurt in the
wrecking of a funeral train in the
Illinois Central yards in Chicago.
The Arkansas Land Congress began
a movement to bring 100000 new set
tiers into that state during the year.
Theodore Roosevelt was given an
audience with the khedive in Cairo
and spent the day in the Egyptian cap
ital.
After hard fight in the Senate the
appropriation for $500 yearly for a
masseur in the new office building was
defeated.
Grave fears are entertained as TO
the results of the violent eruption of
Etna, which belches a stream of lava
1900 feet wide.
Friday.
Mount Etna was laundering from
fifteen craters.
The Cars son, aged s, ran away and
was found three miles from the palace.
The widow of the late President
Faure of France is crazed by the Stein
hill scandal
Twelve persons persisted in the burn
ing of the furniture factory of L. Fish
& Co. is Chicago.
Lieut. Shackleton said shortage in
food was all that prevented him from
reaching the south pole.
A commission urged the United
States to protect Liberia from the
perils of a European nation.
The question of wet or dry Chica-
go cannot be voted upon April 5. the
election board declaring the petition
invalidated by irregular and fictitious
signatures.
Saturday.
George W. Coleman, the Cambridge
(Mass,l bank embezzler, said he lost
$4,000 at faro.
The American-Canadian water ways
treaty vii make Lake Michigan free
to vessels of both countries.
The worst at Etna seemed over; in
dications were that the disturbance
would not last much longer.
Peace terms have been agreed upon
between the United States and Canada
and there will be no tariff war.
The confession of Stewart. one of
pitshprc'S "Bic Five" ii is said will
lead to Indictments higher up"
Acknowledgement Wiekersham was
accused of aiding the sugar trust TO
violate the law and seize lands in the