Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-11
Tuesday.

Ton despite threats and coercion Dy
President Roosevelt.
Tuesday.
The lower house of the Nevada Legis-
lature passed bitter anti-Jap resolution
after taking out rebuke to President.
Count Komura japanese foreign min
ister in speech in the diet declared rela-
tions with the United States are cordial
and that Japan seeks only harmony.
President Roosevelt administered a
verbal spanking to the Nevada Legislature
for its attempt to reprove the nations ex-
ecutiye and stir up up trouble with
Japan.
1t is said there is good authority for
the statement that George NJ. Reynolds,
president Of the Continental National
Bank of Chicago will be Secretary of
the Treasury.
Exposures of gait in the building
trades in CHIC 20 resulted in a sett!a-
ment of the S>ully Steel and lion Com
pany strike, and the p~oi'ahility of
similar disposition of the trouble at the
new Northwestern depot.
Evidence before the Senate committee
dictate that the financial trouble in the fall
of 1907 may nave been brought about by
J. z. Morgan and others to revenge them
selves on John w Gates.
Wednesday.
The lower house of the California Leg
islature after prolonged and sharp de-
bate, rejected the anti-Japanese bill.
President Roosevelt. in a formal state
ment, repeats his opposition to restrict
ing the field Of usefulness of the secret
service.
Over Governor Patterson's veto the
Tennessee Senate passed the bill prohib-
iting the manufacture of intoxicants in
the State.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma is one
jury at Muskogee on charge of conspir-
acy to defraud the government in town
site land deals.
Thursday.
The Canadian Northern has decided to
extend it's line from Edmonton to the
coast as the third transcontinental route
in the Dominion.
Ambassador Bryce and Newfoundland
reached an agreement as to what ques-
tons in the fisheries shall be arbitrated
by The Hague court.
News of the separation Of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Hammond Eversz, the latter
a daugher of Mrs. Gustavus +. Swift,
shocked Chicago society.
Miss Florence Miller of Chicago, ar
| n,
O'Neil Browne at Springfield, alleged she
was a party to a plot to ruin the minority
leader politically.
The lower house of the California Leg
iSlature. by vote of 46 TO %. passed the
bill to Segregate Japanese children in the
public schools; Roosevelt urged the Gov
ernor to veto it, as the most Objectionable
of all the anti-Japanese measures.
Friday.
Floods are doing great damage in Ger
many.
President Roosevelt vetoed the census
bill passed by Congress.
Another young woman was mysterious
~ murdered in Dayton. Ohio.
Three children are missing after the
burning of an orphanage in Battle Creek
Mich.
The Nevada Assembly passed the bill
barring Japanese and other Asiatics from
holding land in the State
The government is trying to collect
huge penalties from the sugar trust. al
leging fraudulent weighing at custom
house.
Strong appeals from Governor Gillett
ard Speaker Stanton caused the lower
house of the California Legislature to
delay action on anti-Japanese measures.
Estimates of expenses submitted by
tweuty-three departments of the Chicago
city government are S2,0O0.000 in excess
of the amount figured by Comptroller
Wilson as available.
Saturday.
The House voted $5O0,000 for construc
ton of army balloons, and such Graf
may be of immense Importance in time O
war.
A crisis was avertcd in Cuba, PreSiden
Gomez yielding to Vice President Zaya.