Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-17
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

Sunday.
Figures from Washington show that
meat prices are higher throughout the
world
Thomas Collier Plat, former Senator
and boss Of New York, died at the age
of n years.
Three persons were shot, one fatal
", in clash Of police and strike sympa-
thizers in Philadelphia
The government threw open for en-
try 10000 acres of irrigated farm
lands In South Dakota.
Monday
Mae Wood rejoiced over Senator
Platt's death and said she viii fight
to prove herself his widow
Two men probably killed and TWEEN
ty-eight injured was the casualty list
in mill dust explosion in Roby, Ind
Russia turned down appeals backed
BY Great Britain and viii try Tschai-
kovsky and Nine Breshkovskaya in Sc
cret
Jere f. LilIis, banker, who was
slashed by J. P Cudahy in Kansas
City, announced that ne will not pros
ecute
Labor leaders in charge of the Phil
adelphia car strike hope to enlist the
State Federation and have general
strike extended to all Pennsylvania
Tuesday.
May Yohe filed suit in Oregon for
divorce from Putnam Bradlee Strong,
charging desertion.
Fire destroyed the Chicago Hebrew
Institute, the old-time home of the Con
vent Of the Sacred Heart.
Strike breakers charged through a
Philadelphia street in a car, firing into
che crowd and wounding six persons.
William Hamilton Mitchell, vice
president of the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank, in Chicago, died at the
age of SO.
Canada expects the visit of the
American commissioners to end the
tariff war, although no agreement has
been reached.
France was shaken by disclosures
indicating that the greater part of the
00000,000 realized from the sale of
church property has vanished; NJ. Duez
confessed that he alone lost $1,000,000.
Wednesday.
A strike of coal miners in the btu
minous fields on April l was declared
a certainty.
The Des PLANES River, in Illinois,
in flood, carried off sidewalks, uproot-
ed trees and did other damage.
The department of justice filed in
Supreme Court its brief in the suit
to force dissolution of Standard Oil.
The Pennsylvania State Labor Fed
Grafton urged nationwide strike to
win street car contest in Philadelphia,
The Commonwealth Edison Company
bought 109 acres for site for a vast
new plant in Chicago.
Live hogs passed the predicted high
price of $1,000 and reached a record
mark
]. p Morgan & Co. put through ne
gotiations for forming of an automo-
bile company with a capital of mil
lions.
Philander Knox, Jr., admitted he has
been cut off with only 500 a month
as the result of his elopement.
A subcommittee of the House naval
committee refused to reward Com
mander Peary as discoverer of the
north pole until he submits proof.
Thursday.
James R. Garfield at the congression-
Al inquiry accused Ballinger.
William J. Calhoun, new minister
to China, departed for Picking.
The police broke up the parade of
Philadelphia strikers with riot clubs.
Another woman has been identified
with the 100000 shortage scandal in
France
Congressman Fisherman and Steen-
erson will demand an investigation Of
the charges by the Marine league
Friday.
A. p Davis testified at the inquiry
that the hostility of Ballinger. endan-
gered the reclamation service.
President Taft Pennsylvania Sena-
tors and the Mayor were urged to
force arbitration of the Philadelphia
strike
James A. Patten of Chicago was
mobbed and driven from the Manches-
ter Cotton Exchange, but was greeted
with cheers by Liverpool grain traders.
Saturday.
Louis James, the actor, died of heart
disease in Helena. Mont.
Ex-Secretary Garfield took the stand
in the Pinchot inquiry and defended
the Roosevelt conservation policies.
Philadelphia was paralyzed by its
gigantic sympathetic strike; the lead,
ers deffed the Mayor and held pa
rade: many were hurt in clashes with
the police.
A Washington correspondent says
that the passage of the postal savings
bank bill in the Senate by strict
party vote was the result of drawn
battle between the insurgents and the
regulars.
William Bond. formerly, q Kapax,b,