Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-18
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

President Elect Taft, on leaving Pana-
ma, said he is well satisfied with progress
being made.
James j. Jefries declared he is still
heavyweight boxing champion and limited
he will return to the ring.
Special Lincoln services in many
churches inaugurated the centennial week
in Chicago in memory of the emancipation.
The bill making attempted bribery of a
representative of labor a crime has been
received by the Chicago federation of la
Dor.
President Roosevelt sent message to
Gov. Gilett of California in which he at
tackled Senator Perkins for urging anti
japanese laws.
Monday.
California Senate postponed considera-
ton of anti-Japanese bills.
Inventor Maxim gave a test in New
York office of device to render firearms
noise!ess.
District Attorney Jerome of New York
was nearly overcome by gas used by ser
want girl 10 end her life.
Death claimed in one day two noted
Frenchmen, Mendes, poet and novelist.
and Coquelin Cadet, actor.
President Roosevelt warned California
that there is very grave mischief" in its
pending anti-Japanese legislation.
w. \. Cromwell explained the Panama
Canal deal before the New York grand
jury in the governments libel action
against the World.
are alleged to have been practiced by f.
G. Duensing, a Northwest Side real es-
tate agent in Chicago, to the extent of
$4,000 in forged notes and mortgages.
Tuesday.
Kaisel and king wed in peace profess
sons at Berlin banquet on accession of
Edwards German visit.
President Roosevelt sent to Congress a
special message giving the results of the
Investigations of the commission on
country life.
Riotous demonstration of the unem-
ployed married King Edwards visit to
Berlin; police charged crowd and several
men sustained saber wounds.
A hot fight was opened in the Senate
against the lock-level plan for construct
ing the Panama Canal, and it is intimat-
cd that there is a lack of confidence in
the report of President RoOsevelt's com
mission of engineers in favor of follow
ing out the present plans
Wednesday.
Fire in the inbound freight house of
the Wabash Railroad in Chicago caused
an estimated loss of 100000.
The California assembly reconsidered
and then killed the anti-Jap school seq
regation bill after hours of hot debate.
Raymond Hackney of Chicago and
Charles G. Wicker, formerly of the same
city, and a guide were drowned while
sailing on the Gulf of Mexico off Florida.
Some of New Yorks theater mana
gers. alarmed at the agitation over GER
tain classes of shows. have joined in re-
form and urge the abolshing of the too
salacious.
The Irish national convention in Dub
lin decided on Gaelic as a compulsory
study in the national university, thanked
the people of the United States for gen
crosby and refused votes for women.
Thursday.
Taft promises completion of canal by
1918 and hopes for it within four years.
New York theatrical man said women
have much to do with lowering stages
moral tone.
Charles Warner, an English actor,
hanged himself in New York, leaving a
note blaming blackmailers for getting
thousands of dollars of his money.
of A. Booth & Co. of Chicago to the ex-
tent Of $1,SO0,000, was disclosed in the
testimony of Frederick r. Robbins, as
Sistant treasurer.
Friday.
T. c. Cooley resigned the superintend-
ency of the Chicago schools position too
ytrenuous," he wrote.
President Roosevelt laid the corner
stone of the memorial to mark the birth
place of Abraham Lincoln.
The widow of General Edwin Stanton
McCook. formerly of Chicago, was killed
by am automobile in New York.
Alderman Kohout of the Thirty fourth
Ward Of Chicago shot himself dead in
the basement of his home because of re-
verses in his political fortunes.
The Lincoln centennial memorial reach
ed its crest in the most notable tribute to
one man in the history of the United
States. Chicago's celebration leading that
Of the nation.
Saturday.
The moving picture business is in the
grip of the big combine; Independent
plan to fight merger as violation of law.
Strange maze of politics surrounds the
trial of the slayers of former Senator
Carmack at Nashvillef Tenn, and the
feuds being aised promise to affect great
issues in the State.
While leading papers in Toxic express
friendly sentiments toward the United
Staes, it is feared in commercial circles
that anti-Japanese agitation on the Pa
cifc coast may seriously affect trade with
America.
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