Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-01
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

French floods were fast assuming
the proportions of a national disaster.
The British elections appeared to be
a tie; House of Commons is evenly III
Vided
Clifford Pinchot has been made presi-
dent of tie National Conservation As
ISOLATION.
Ezra Kendall, widely known come
dian, died at a sanitarium in indiana
after a long illness.
Negotiations opening in the wage
dispute involved 125,O00 trainmen and
seventy-four railroads.
The National AntiFood Trust
League, with membership of 3,0O0,-
600 and gaining thousands every day,
issued platform telling how it will
fight for continued lower prices OF
food
Monday.
pronounced drop in the price OF
foodstuffs was recorded in the whole
sale markets.
A New York banker was robbed of
$4,000 by two women in New York
street A Chicago pair were held.
President Taft plans a special mes
sage on the high cost of living. Sec
rotary Wilson blames the retailers
combines
The agreement of the members of
the Hooking pool leaked out and evil
dence is that traitor in camp caused
the deals collapse
Paris and suburbs were hard hit by
the flood, which still ragged. The Seine
continued to rise and thousands of per-
SONS were homeless.
Tuesday.
France officially recognized the
birthday of the kaiser
The Twentieth Century Limited was
wrecked in New York State.
The National board of trade will in
vestigate the high prices of food.
The prices of butter, eggs and milk
fall as result of the meat strike.
The Yerkes art collection was order
ed sold at auction by court in New
York.
Receivers were appointed at Column
bus, Ohio, for the Columbus and Hook
ing Coal and Iron group of companies.
The intervention by outside nations,
probably the United States, is the only
thing that can restore peace in Nicar-
aqua
part of France, the suffering being in
tense and the damage enormous in
Paris
A powerful lobby influencing Con-
gress practically to donate Alaska coal
lands to special interests" was alleg
ed by John E. Ballaine, who who asked
lease.
Wednesday.
pool in Hooking stock collapsed;
Keene lost heavily and two New York
firms failed for $S.000.000.
Paulhan, the Frenchman, broke the
worlds record in carrying passengers
CIOSS COuAlIy Al al dSAoPAoAo a. Aoo
Angeles
Chicago and Western Indiana Rail
road Company claimed to have been
swindled out of $S5O.OOO by "kiting"
realty prices.
Thursday.
President Taft and Congress decid-
ed to keep their hands off in the mat
ter of regulating produce exchanges
The Canadian province of Alberta
will operate government pork-packing
PLANTS If farmers guarantee enough
hogs.
Gov. Deneen of Illinois is training
his guns in opposition to direct plural
ity primary and hopes to defeat the
Gibson amendment to the Senate bill.
Paroles were granted to Paul o.
Stensland and Henry W. Herring, re-
spectively president and cashier of the
wrecked Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
OF Chicago,
Friday.
Floods caused death and loss to
property IN france.
Fifteen persons were killed when a
ton of nitroglyeerin exploded at Cold
Springs. N. Y.
Organized labor has appointed a
committee to investigate the carse o.
the high cost of living.
A wreck in Canada killed more than
twenty persons. perhaps forty, and the
cars plunged into an ice covered river.
Four masked bandits held up Mis-
-0uri Pacific train near ST. Louis and
led on the engine with two cars and
the safe.
Saturday.
Mrs. Dore Lyon. the noted woman's
club leader. failed for s50S,246; she
was too poor to pay the fee.
Vincent A. Altman was acquitted in
Chicago of responsibility for bomb 81.
The grand jury investigation Of
great customs frauds at New Orleans
involved three federal officials.
Republican leaders. warned by for
mer experiences of revolt and defeat
following tariff revisions. plan to pre-
vent repetition of history.
Seventy great questions regarding
public welfare are to be acted on at
the fortieth annual meeting of the Ma
tional Board of Trade in Washington.
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