Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-24

gained labor and FOE or Samuel GOm-
pers, died il st. Louis of heart disease.
Samuel Gregsten, pioneer Chicago
packer and Board of Trade operator,
died at his West Hinsdale (Ill.) resi-
dence.
Women and children crowded the
churches of Bemidji, Mimi, praying
for rain to save them from peril of
forest fires, while troops aided the male
population in trying to beat back the
flames.
Monday.
The first performance this season of
tie Passion Play was given at Ober-
ammergau.
Secretary Ballinger dismissed Stem
ographer Kerby in a curt note and
libel suit may follow.
Charles W. Morse was denied the
privilege by the United States Supreme
Court to apply for a writ of habeas
corpus.
DR.. B. Clarke Hyde of Kansas City
sentenced to life Imprisonment as poi
soner, owed his conviction to his own
testimony.
Colonel Roosevelt was given a warm
but quiet welcome in London; he Wis
tied Edwards bier and talked with
King George
John A. Ryerson, president Of an
electric company, leaped to his death
from the thirteenth floor of the Cham
Der of Commerce Building in Chicago.
Tuesday.
The House passed the emasculated
administration railroad bill by vote
of 200 to 126.
King George objects to an offensive
reference to the Catholic belief in the
kingly declaration and an amending
bill is planned by the government.
Joseph T. Talbert, former Chicago
banker, in an address before the Tex
as Bankers Association declared ex-
travagance is one of the nations
greatest vices
Wednesday.
The contest over the oath which
King George of England shall take
grew more heated.
Emperor William hailed Colonel
Roosevelt as my friend" in an unex-
ampled scene before his army.
The court instructed the jury in
Kansas City that the Hyde trial YER
dict must be guilty of murder in the
first degree or acquittal
New York corporations, according
to returns, will pay s3,274,74S. equal
almost to 81 head for the city's pop
ulation, Chicago being second with
$2,2S6,7S6.
Thursday.
gland killed 1877 men.
A Minnesota settler with family
OF eight won desperate five-day fight
in forest fires.
Six girls and two boys, all high
school students in Huntington. Pa.
drowned while out boating.
Express companies were accused of
realizing from 43 to lis per cent
profit by the New York Merchants As
sociation.
The battle ship Florida, biggest OF
American Dreadnoughts built thus
far, was launched at the Brooklyn
navy yard
F. Augustus Heinze was acquitted
by a jury of the charge of misapply.
ing funds of the Mercantile National
Bank in New York.
Serene E. Payne made careful de
Tense of the new tariff law before the
House, insisting that the Republican
party has kept its promises.
Friday.
Edward g. Garriott, chief weather
forecaster of the United States, is dead
Pueblo Indians rose up in New Mex
leo and massacre of settlers was
feared.
Ex-Gov. Rollins of New Hampshire
wife and son were charged BY New
York customs officers with smuggling
Col. Roosevelt issued denial at Der
lin that he ever wrote a letter saying
that he would not again be a candidate
for the presidency and indorsing Taft
After scenes of remarkable bitter
ness the Senate reached a compromise
on the long and short haul clause oil
the interstate commerce bill which
united the insurgents and the regu
lars.
Saturday.
Englands smart set looks forward
to the new court with dismay.
Six Pittsburgers were sentenced te
Jail terms in the bribery scandal.
Frederick Edward Guests election
TO the House of Commons was declared
void by a court because his father-in
law, Henry Phipps, hired autos to gel
out votes.
Both sides of the suffrage question
were presented at the womens club
convention at Cincinnati.
The Kaiser showered more honors or
Roosevelt. presenting him a splendid
vase bearing his Majesty's portrait.
Frederick NJ. Kerby. stenographer liz
the Interior Department, said that AS
sistant Attorney General Lawler die
tated the letter used by the President
in generating Ballinger of the charges
made by CLAWS. The White House
gave out a denial.
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
II was announced in New Haven