Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

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Figures from Washington show that
meat prices are higher throughout the
world.
Thomas Collier Plat, former Senator
and boss of New York, died at the age
of n years.
Mrs. John D./Biack, known as Mar
garet Horton Potter, was taken to a
sanitarium.
Three persons were shot, one fatal
ly. in clash of police and strike sympa-
thizers in Philadelphia
The government threw open for en-
try 10000 acres of irrigated farm
lands in South Dakota.
The French steamship La Lorraine
reached New York badly battered by a
storm encountered at sea.
John P. Cudahy, millionaire Kansas
City packer, is alleged to have wound
ed banker found in his home.
Philander C. Knox, Jr., son of Sec
rotary of State Knox, after eloping
failed to obtain license to marry and
returned home, disheartened, with a
sweetheart.
Monday.
Mae Wood rejoiced over Senator
Platt's death and said she will fight
to prove herself his widow.
Russia turned down appeals backed
by Great Britain and will try Tschai-
kovsky and Nine Breshkovskaya in Sc
cret.
Jere F. Lillis, banker, who was
slashed by j. p Cudahy in Kansas
City, announced that he will not pros
ecute.
The Philadelphia general strike was
declared to be failure; the police as
serted that only 1S.407 quit out OF
1858; more street cars were run.
Two men probably killed and TWEEN
ty-eight injured was the casualty list
in mill dust explosion in Roby, Ind.
Labor leaders in charge of the Phil
adelphia car strike hope to enlist the
State Federation and have general
strike extended to all Pennsylvania.
Tuesday.
May Yohe filed suit in Oregon for
divorce from Putnam Bradlee Strong,
charging desertion.
Fire destroyed the Chicago Hebrew
Institute, the old-time home of the Con-
vent of the Sacred Heart.
Many suits have been filed in the
United States Supreme Court attack
ing the corporation tax law.
Strike breakers charged through a
Philadelphia street in a car, firing into
the crowd and wounding six persons.
president of the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank, in Chicago, died at the
age of SO.
Canada expects the visit of the
American commissioners to end the
tariff war. although no agreement has
been reached.
France was shaken by disclosures
indicating that the greater part of the
$200,OOO,o00 realized from the sale of
church property has vanished; NJ. Duez
confessed that he alone lost $1,000, 900.
Wednesday.
The Illinois legislature adjourned af-
eminent bill.
The Great Northerns Oriental Lin,
tied was wrecked near Milan. Wash,
by an avalanche; one person was kill,
ed.
Thursday.
Daniel D. Healy, noted Chicago poll
tician, died.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., will devote
his life to philanthropy.
George Bernard Shaw advocated
abolition of marriage and property.
The government has started a new
move to crush the American Sugar
Company
Victims of the snow slide and wreck
at Wellington, Wash, may reach a to-
tai of 100.
Friday.
Estrada was believed to be ready
for United States intervention.
The American tariff ENJOYS con-
tered with Canadian representatives
at Ottawa.
A general strike in sympathy with
street car men was started at mid
night in Philadelphia.
Forty bodies were recovered from
the ravine where the snowslide struck
two Great Northern trains.
BLACK Hand" demanded $4,000 of
Caruso on pain of death, and big de-
tectives guard the tenor everywhere.
Saturday.
Louis James, the actor, died of heart
disease in Helena, Mont.
Ninety-two workmen were killed by
a landslide on the Canadian Pacific.
In the attic of the House of Repre-
sentasives letters have been found from
Martha Washington and Mary Todd
Lincoln.
Ex-Secretary Garfield took the stand
in the Pirchot inquiry and defended
the Roosevelt conservation policies.
Philadelphia was paralyzed by its
gigantic sympathetic strike; the lead
ers defed the Mayor and held pa
rade; many were hurt in clashes with
the police
A Washington correspondent says
that the passage of the postal savings
bank bin in the Senate by a strict
party vote was the result of a drawn
battle between the insurgents and the
regulars.
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