Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-10
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

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Sunday.
A gigantic coal strike is thought
likely as result of the coming joint
conference at Toledo.
Thousands in Paris focked to the
slowly falling river, lending an tp-
pearance of celebration of some ma
tional holiday; the darkened streets
we're lighted by lanterns.
Monday.
More than 100 miners we're killed by
an explosion in a mine at Primero.
Col; seyenty-nine bodies were found
in one heap.
Former Lieut.. Gov. Sherman, OF
Illinois, made hit in a New York
speech roasting deep waterways and
state legislatures.
Chicago experts found that strych-
nine caused the death of Thomas
Swope and son, of Kansas City. Dr..
Hyde Of that city sued for 100000
for SANDER.
Charles L. Warmer, defaulting
treasurer Of Big Four railroad in Gin
cinnati, testified in the trial of Mrs.
StewartFord that he paid her in sew
en- years $4,000.
Tuesday.
A big merger Of breakfast food com
panies was planned
France is preparing to loan money
and give work to flood sufferers.
Cherry mine was unsealed and the
work of recovering bodies was to be
taken up soon.
Fisk & Robinson, big New York bond
firm, failed for $7OOO,OOO; a bad Sc
curities market was the cause.
Thirty men persisted in new mine
disaster at Drakesboro, KY; the total
number of victims at Primero, Colo,
was seventy-nine.
The United States was warned by
Canadian government organ that the
Dominion will insist on having min
imum tariff. will ask no fayors and
won't be dictated to.
Wednesday.
The American Express Co. has
bought WeIls-Fargo stock and merg-
er is under way.
Congress passed a bill authorizing
the census, which was amended to in
clude slain animals and hides.
The American National Packing
Company failed for $97,OOO.OOO, but
will continue operations under re-
ceiver.
Warmer testified in Cincinnati that
Edgar Cooke, wife, and son received
s16S,OOO of money stolen from the Big
-Four treasury.
Sixty-eight miners were killed in
an explosion at Coahuila, Mexico; the
third disaster in three days, which
swelled the death roll to 178
Thursday.
Prices in New York of beef and other
staple foods made a sudden rise,
despite the boycott.
The British liberals were still silent
as to how they will try to use their
majority in parliament.
A negro murderer led 200 convicts
in a fign1 on a fire in Joliet peniten
tiary until he fell unconscious.
Guggenheim copper stocks depreci-
ated S23, 100000 in a smash of prices;
Morgan's vengeance was seen.
The United States and Germany
reached an agreement on the main
points at issue in the tariff situation.
Mrs Mary Blair Brokaw was grant,
ed a separation from w. Gould Brokaw
and $4,000 a year alimony in New
York
The Lavender case was practically
thrown out of court in Chicago when
a new bill of particulars was ordered
and the jury dismissed.
Charles L. Warmer, embezzler OF
the Big Four at Cincinnati, unfolded a
remarkable tale of crime, naming
Frank Comstock and E. s. Cooke as
short in their accounts.
Friday.
The Seine fell rapidly and Paris was
again approaching normal
The Nicarauuan insurgents bonn
barded Greytown and captured Boace.
The Roosevelt party arrived at Nj
mule; all members were in good
health
An official of the Canadian Pacific
says 1O0,00O will quit the United States
for the Dominion this year.
Wireless biography saved the cap
tain and forty-six men of the sinking
steamer Kentucky off Hatteras.
A verdict for $4,000 damages was
rendered D. E. Loewe of Danbury,
Conn, against 200 lawmakers of that
State.
Saturday.
Bishop Cyrus d. F'oss died from par
alytic stroke, aged 76 years.
Students of British politics predict
another election within a year.
Chemists reported that they have
found poisin in the bodies of Col
Thomas Swope and his nephew.
The Bureau of Labor of the federal
government has prepared statistics %
show that the increasing cost of living
problem is worldwide
The Seine slowly falling and the dan