Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24


in New York.
The American battleship feet was gwen
a cordial reception at Colombo.
Walter Wellman writing from Wash
ington, reports that the japanese govern
ment has decided to bar all japanese en-
igraton to the United States. thus remoV-
ing the last remaining difference between
the two nations.
Monday.
The Knights Of Pythas. finding pres
ent rates inadequate levied an assess
ment on the fourth class.
The seizure Of a Venezuelan vessel by
Holland called forth a decree from Acting
President Gomez putting the nation IN
state of defense.
Judge McSurely of Chicago held the
Illinois primary election law constltu-
tional but found flaws in some election
fraud indictments.
The President sent a message to the
Senate on the Brownsville affair. recon-
mendiag terms of re-enlistment for DIS
charged colored soldiers.
The United States Supreme Court de-
cided that E. II. Hartman cannot be
compelled to answer questions by the In
terstate Commerce Commission relative to
private transactions, reversing lower
court.
Tuesday.
Donald Grant Mitchell OK Marvel'D
died in his New Haven home.
The corner stone of the New Theater,
in which commercial success is to be
subordinated to art, was laid in New
York.
President-elect Taft. speaking at the
banquet of National Civic Federation in
New York, said the Sherman antitrust
act needs enforcing rather than repeating
President Roosevelt in a special mes
sage to Congress declared the New York
Worlds charges in regard to the Panama
canal purchase an Infamous libel and
gave a detailed history of the transaction
Wednesday.
p. ]. Muldoon was sworn in as bishop
of Rockford, III.
President Eliot of Harvard said Amer
lea is in the hands of lawless, both rich
and poor.
The United States Senate joined the
House in trying to choke off investigation
into the secret service and strike Roose-
welt for insult"
Better no tariff revision if it be not
thorough and honest was the ultimatum
of Presdcnt-elect Taft at the Ohio So
ciety banquet in New York.
Count Boni de Castellane in continual
ton of his suit in Paris for the posses.
sion of his three children, renowned
g.,
annually.
The people of Caracas rose against
President Castro, burned pictures and
statues of him, plundered his friends and
were checked only when the soldiers were
called out.
Thursday.
P. C. Knox was offered and accepted
the portfolio of Secretary of State in
Taft's cabinet
A $100,0O0,OOO smelling corporation to
compete with the Guggenheims is to be
formed in New York and an international
industrial war is imminent.
Amidst scenes of great rejoicing the
Sultan opened parliament at CONSTANT
nope and the new constitutional govern
ment of Turkey was maugurated.
BY unanimous vote the House of Repre-
sentativcs called on President Roosevelt
10 submit evidence on which he based his
secret service charges in his recent mes
sage.
Witnesses told the federal grand jury
in Chicago of alleged peonage practiced
at the plant of the Corn Products Rein
ing Company. and John ID. Rockefeller,
Jr., caused the Arrest of a New York edi-
tor whose paper accuses him of being re-
sponsible.
Friday.
Judge Chytraus in the Appellate Court
in Chicago decided that no person can
draw two salaries from the public treas
ury at the same time.
The tramp steamer Catalone rammed
and sank a British freight steamer just
outside New York harbor in dense fog,
but by heroic work all hands were saved.
Attorney General Bonaparte in his an
nual report urged that abe government be
given the right of appeal to the Supreme
Court and cites the ease of the big Stand
ard Oil fine.
Details of the recent death in Rome of
Count Muravief. Russian ambassador,
woman when stricken, and rumor hints
that he was the victim of nihilist plot.
Saturday.
More than 100 men were killed or
wounded in an explosion of dynamite at
Bas Obispo, on the Panama canal route.
10 President and President-elect were
among the guests at the annual dinner of
the Gridiron Club in Washington and
were made the targets for jests.
The Venezuelan guard ship Alix was
seized off Puerto Cabelo by the Dutch
cruiser Gelderland and lowed TO Willem.
stad, shore forts making no protest.
Phelps B. Hoyt, secretary of a promi-
ment Wholesale grocery company, was ia.
tally injured in an auto accident in Chi
cago, dying without becoming conscious.