Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04

Practically nearly all CT the 1000
employees in the porcelain manufactur-
ing plants OF Trenton, N. j., quit work
because the manufacturers declined a
request that they meet with comittees
OF recently organized unions to dis
cuss demands of the employees for a
20 per cent. increase in wages and
recognition of their unions.
Eighteen Princeton students were
taken to Trenton, n. j., and in the
capacity of strike breakers sang the
morning and evening services at St
Michaels Episcopal church in the
place of members of the regular choir,
who hao struck because they declared
the rector interfered with them
Nearly one-quarter of the banking
resources Of the United States, it is
estimated, will be represented at the
annual banquet of the Philadelphia
Bankers association, which will be
held in Philadelphia
Asserting that she was under the
hypnotic influence of a man when she
committed crime of which she is &C
cused in Seattle, Emma Williams
alias Pearl Turner, eighteen years old
confessed that she had committed IL
robberies in Vancouver, b. C.
The lost link in a chain of evidence
on wlich to base a suit for a $4,000,
600 tract now occupied by a part OF
the city OF New Orleans is said to
have been found in the discovery OF
the baptismal record of Joseph Val
liere, an early French adyenturer
Harry O'Brien, fourteen-year-old
orphan from ST. Louis, tumbled from
the blind baggage of a train running
at 30-nile-an-hour clip at Strong
City, Kan. Charles Beach, city mar.
shall, picked O'Brien up, bruised and
bleeding, and took him to his house to
give him care. So attached did Beach
and his wife become to the boy that
they decided to keep him.
President Taft, speaking at the an
nual banquet of the Merchants and
Manufacturers association in Balti-
more, defended the administration s
attitude il the Panama canal disagree
ment with England, declared it's posi-
ton was not unpatriotic or dishonora-
BILE and said there was no reason for
anyone to oppose the proposal for ar
bitration by an impartial tribunal.
The body of John Paul Jones, the
father of the American navy" after
resting for more than a century in a
foreign country. was consigned to it's
final resting place in the crypt of the
Naval academy at Annapolis, Md.
Hearing Of the case of a firm
against % transcontinental railroads,
asking equalization of freight rates SO
articles packed in pasteboard or fiber
boxes may be shipped as cheaply as
those packed in wooden containers,
was begun before LsJ. Flynn, special
examiner for the commerce commits
sion in Los Angeles, Cal
Officials of the pure food board in
Washington hold they have no au-
thority to place government inspec-
tors in Pacific coast packing houses
to inspect citrus fruits before ship
ment, as requested by fruit men after
prohibition of the sale of frozen citrus
fruits.
Thirty-two bills in the interest OF
men and women workers will be rec.
commended for passage in the New
York legislature by the state factory
investigating commission One recon-
mendation will be that working hours
of women in canneries be limited to GO
hours a week. The commission pro-
posed also to prohibit manufacture of
food, dolls or dolls clothing in tene.
ment houses as factories.
A bill prohibiting the intermarriage
of negroes and whites, Caucasians and
Mongolians and Mongolians and ne
groes in Kansas was passed by the
house of representatives at Topeka.
The United States Steel corporation
and the Bethlehem Steel company par
ticipated for four years in an interna.
tional pool in armor plate which di-
vided up the business of neutral mar.
kets," according to William e. Corey
former president of the steel corpora.
ton, who testified at the hearing in
New York in the governments suit to
dissolve the corporation under the
Sherman antitrust law.
Walters agitating a strike found
their plans anticipated at one of the
large Broadway hotels in New York
when the Hotel Knickerbocker man
agement discharged every one of the
$50 walters in its employ.
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