Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-11
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.
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Sunday.
Charles W. Morse, the convicted
banker and ice king, started for pris-
on.
Agnes Booth, famous actress of Ed
win Forests time, died at the age of
IS.
The United States Department of
Agriculture investigated the dealings
of the milk trust in New York and Chi
cago.
Mayor Gaynor made clean sweep of
the New York City Hall in the first of
his appointments and defended Charles
F. Murphy.
Fire at 261 Wabash avenue, Chicago,
the scene of one bomb explosion,
caused a loss of 100000 and cost the
life of a fireman
A relative of the kidnapped Alma
Kellner said he is in communication
with her abductors and promised not
prosecute ifsshe is returned.
The Pinchot-Ballinger row is to be
investigated by a committee of six
Congressman. and six Senators; their
report is not to be made at this SEES
sion.
Monday.
Four firemen were killed by falling
wall at fire in Milwaukee.
Darius o. Mills, the famous San
Francisco banker and philanthropist,
died suddenly.
The residue of the fortune of John
r. Walsh of Chicago, after satisfying
claims of $7,121,21S, is estimated at
$75O,OO0.
]. Pierpont Morgan engineered the
merger of three New York trust COM
panies in the country's greatest bank
ing concerns.
Tuesday.
The farms in the United States are
valued at s9O.OOO,O 100000. an increase
of A per cent since 1900.
A scientist announced that the Au-
rora Borealis is frozen gas; "neon."
acted on by magnetic currents.
The value of Canadian crops in
creased 500, 900 in 1909 over that
of 1908; one-eleventh more acres were
cultivated.
Wednesday.
President Taft expects this session
of Congress to pass laws in aid of the
natural resources of the United
States.
The French chamber of deputies
passed the tariff bill; it was a victory
for high protectionists and tariff COM
mission
A prominent Washington CORE
spohdent says that Taft's coming mes
sage will precipitate the vital issue of
whether railroads shall be deprived of
the rate making power.
Thursday.
San Francisco. by an overwhelming
vote, approved the municipal car sys-
tenn.
nation wide boycott against COM
binations which increase the cost of
living is planned by the Antitrust
League.
Ray Lamphere died in the Michigan
City penitentiary with his lips sealed
on the mystery of the Guinness ''mur-
der farm"
Attorney General Wiekersham train
ed his guns or he tobacco trust and
filed 26S-page brief with the SUI
preme Court.
The arrest of a labor contractor at
St Paul exposed trip pass frauds of
100000 on the Great Northern Rail-
way; the graft extended over period
of fifteen years.
Friday.
Secretary Knox has asked Brazil 70
aid the United States against Mexico;
Yankee prestige is gone.
Three were killed and forty-fve hurt
when the Rock Islands California spe-
cial jumped the track near Trenton,
Mo.
The new board of administration APP
pointed by Governor Deneen of Illinois
took charge of the State charitable in.
situations.
Lloyd-George, in a speech in London,
cited America as a bad example, charg
ing that there are more unemployed in
United States than in England.
Saturday.
A labor famine throughout 1910 is
expected by Canadians.
Holiday gifts of S6.O00OO0 were pre-
sented to his three children by Tom
Waggoner of Fort Worth.
With the budget election in England
less than a fortnight away popular ex-
element seemed to wane.
william ]. Gaynor became mayor of
New York and invited Herman Ridder
to be commissioner of parks.
TP. o'Connor said the Liberals are
gaining every day in England and
home rule is brought nearer.
Railroads, in fear of hostile legisla-
ton and labor tie-ups, are holding up
improvements to cost sS0o.OOo,OOo.
Senator Cummins at a dollar din
ner' served notice that the fight of pro-
gressive Republicans is not at an end
Canada fishermen are uneasy over
the delay of the United States In pro-
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