Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

ounody.
o. Henry died in New York follow
ing operation.
Chancellor Day declared that auto
mobiles may become the curse of the
nation.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt is soon to wed
Miss Lily Elsie, London singer and
actress, according to London rumors.
Chicago medical colleges were de-
nounced as unfit and the Illinois State
board of health blamed for violation
of law by report made in Carnegie
Foundation.
The United Hotels Company, an Al
bany corporation, is said to plan an in
crease of capital to s50,000,O 900 and OBJ
tain control of chain of hotels in
large cities of United States and Can
ada
Monday.
The postal savings bank bill was re-
ported to the House
Taft and railway leaders met and
ended their warfare in compromise.
Roosevelt explained the origin of the
big stick in a speech at London
press supper.
Dr. Herrick Johnson, noted theolo-
gian, at rs, is to take bride forty
years his Junior, according to Atlantic
City report.
Chief Justice Harry Olson of Illinois,
speaking at the Augustana jubilee in
Rock Island, urged reform in the Illi-
nois court system.
Tuesday.
H. R. Lyon, Minneapolis millionaire,
was held as smuggler in New York.
Death of a fish bill in the Illinois
legislature will be investigated as
promising to expose more graft.
The Federal Supreme Court upheld
the Interstate Commerce Commission
in ordering reduction of rates in
Denver case
United States Judge Dyer at Hanni-
bal, Mo-, issued an order restraining
twenty-five western roads from rails
ing rates. Action was begun by At
torney General Wickersham under d.
rection of President Taft.
Wednesday.
Charles D. Norton of Chicago was ap-
pointed secretary to President Taft.
The army of Madriz, defeated in an
attack on Bluefields, was forced to fee
in confusion.
The present system of administering
law was declared behind the times by
the Bar association statement.
AS Western railroad lines reviewed
the decision enjoining them, Eastern
roads threw bomb into the rate sit
uation by advancing tariffs.
Harry Thurston Peck, professor OF
Latin in Columbia University, was
sued for $4,000 for breach of promise
by Miss Esther Quinn, who offers a
hundred love letters as proof of the
charge.
The government is to halt by injunc-
ton all increases in rates.
August Belmont's polo pony fell and
the banker sustained a broken rib and
was knocked unconscious.
Strong opposition within the Repub-
lican party makes the passage OF
postal savings bank bill doubtful.
Folk, at a dinner to Missouri Demo
Gratis, outlined the platform on which
it is said he will seek the presidency.
Charles Stewart Rolls flew across
the British channel from Dover to Ca
lais and back again without stopping
on French SOIL
New light, to be sold in pint or
h. pound, and five times as brilliant as
ordinary gas, was tried out with sue
cess at Long Island City.
Friday.
Mrs. Doxey was freed of the charge
of poisoning W. F. Erder at ST. Louis,
but was rearrested.
Henry A Blair's merger offer has
been accepted by three of four ele-
waited railroads of Chicago.
Albanian rebels are fighting bitter
ly for tax exemption and teaching of
their own language in the schools.
Congress asked the Interstate Com
merce Commission for statistics ON
which to base new railroad legisla-
tien.
The administration railway bill,
much changed, was, passed by the SEN
ate so to II. the Republicans voting
as a unit.
The House adopted an amendment
voting $4,000 TO the Secretary of
Agriculture with which to expert
ment in paper-making.
Saturday.
Governors of many States favor a
sane Fourth.
A Massachusetts, mother appealed to
Taft to save her boy taken as a rebel
by Madriz in Nicaragua
A blunder in arranging his route
East nearly took Taft into Canada for
seven hours, during which he would no
longer be President
President Taft, speaking in Michi-
gan, warned against Socialism, which,
he declared, is the greatest problem
the nation has to solve.
Dr. E. W LANCE in signed state
ment described the experience by
which he discovered a process for the
transmutation of base metals into sill
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