Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-05-05
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

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Sunday.
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain)
was laid to rest beside his wife and
children in Elmira, \. Y.
The government took steps to stop
gambling in cotton, which caused
loss of millions Of dollars in trade.
William Fetzer, manufacturer at
Springfield, H., wrote Taft a letter
attacking trust abuses under the pres
ent patent system.
Monday.
Paris bestowed on Roosevelt her
greatest honor; glowing tributes were
paid at the Hotel de Vile.
Vice President Sherman, in a st.
Louis address, defended the Payne tar
If law as prosperity act.
The grand jury began an investiga-
ton Of alleged fraud in coal purchases
for the Chicago fire department.
Senator DolIiver, assaiIing the rail
road bill in the Senate, said the meas
ure in effect renews pooling systems.
Governor Hughes of New York &C
cepted the Supreme Court offer, put
ting aside his professional and political
career.
A druggist, testifying at the trial
of DR.. B. C. Hyde in Kansas City, said
the strychnine tonic taken by Colonial
Swope was bought by J. Moss Hunton.
Tuesday.
BjoTnstjerne Bjornson, famous Nor
wegian writer, died in Paris.
The dark, damp weather drew the
frost out OF the plants without killing
them.
a prince of China was entertained
in Chicago on his trip around the
world.
Former President Roosevelt inspect
ed flying machines at Paris and mar
yeled at the progress of invention.
Twenty-one American republics join
ed in the dedication of the new Wash
ingtOn home of the bureau of Ameri-
can republics
W. S. Fielding, Canadas minister of
finance, was given a fund of $4,000
in recognition of his services for the
last thirteen years.
Senator Clapp in a speech in the
Senate replied to Understands Chi
cago address and defied the admins
tration to read any set of men out of
the party.
Wednesday.
Paulhan won a $4,000 prize for an
aerial flight from London to Manches-
ter
Senator Dolliver said he will fight
for reform from inside the Republican
party, not as ally of Democrats, i
both big parties are ruled by interests.
Oscar Hammerstein quilted the field
of grand opera owing to the exactions
of songbirds
The trial judge in Kansas City re-
voked the 100000 bond of DR.. Hyde
and ordered the alleged murderer re-
moved to jail as evidence appeared to
turn against him.
Thursday.
J. w. Kern was nominated for Uni
ted States Senator by the Indiana
Democrats in State convention.
Scientists were called enemies of re
ligion in an address before the alumni
of St. Ignatius College in Chicago.
The Belgian king and Roosevelt
drove and dined together; warm wei
come was extended to the eX-President.
Insurgents in the Senate and House
attack administration railroad bill,
evtdencing resentment at Wickersham.
Contesting the 1925, 600 Western In.
diana Railroad award, John c. Fetzer
threatened exposures in connection
with house bill III"
w. E. D. Stokes, Jr., boy in short
trousers, appeared before the Senate
committee and denounced the Depew
wireless bill as stock jobbing"
scheme.
Friday.
Holland welcomed Theodore Roose-
welt to the home of his ancestors and
made him feel like one of the family.
Two thousand five hundred Jewish
families were brutally expelled from
Kieff Russia, despite Stolypin's prom
Uses.
Insurgents in the Senate were de,
feated when the Cummins substitute
in relation to part of the administra,
tion rail bill was lost 50 to 30
A schedule showing higher freight
rates from the western territory to the
Atlantic to take effect June / will be
fled with the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The district attorney bought four
girls as white slaves in the open mar
ket in New York as the result OF
months of investigating in which two
college women assisted.
Saturday.
Mobs in China renewed rioting;
United States cruiser arrived at Han
kow; other nations sending ships.
Henry w. Hoyt resigned at attorney
general of Porto Rico as a result of
his testimony in the Pinchot-Ballinger
inquiry.
Roosevelt in a Sorbonne lecture de-
clared the average citizen is the main
stay of a republic and warned his
hearers against race suicide.
President Needham. of George
Washington University, told the House
committee on the District of Columbia
that only $4,000 remains of the S192
coo Corcoran endowment fund
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