Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
Monday.

IN the proposition being made to the
union which It is believed will end
strike
Monday.
President Taft defended the Payne
Aldrich tariff law at Providence, r. /.
Arthur Zimmerman, married to
twenty-four women, was sentenced to
prison in New York
grand jury indicted forty pres
ent and former members of the Pitts
burg council as grafters, and ten made
confessions.
Forty-fve were killed and forty in
jured in the wreck of Rock Island
train running over Great Western
tracks IN Iowa.
Tuesday.
Nine more councilmanic grafters
confessed in Pittsburg.
The French Senate passed an old
age pension bill applying to all work
ers.
Eugene N. Foss, Democrat, was
elected to Congress in Massachusetts
on the tariff and high prices issue,
overcoming a Republican plurality OF
14,250.
In response to a cabled request
from Theodore Roosevelt, Clifford Pin
chot departed for Europe and will
meet the former President probably in
Naples.
The English House of Lords re
nounced a hereditary principle by
adopting Lord Roseberys third reso-
luton providing for the reconstruction
of the house.
Charging the United States Steel
Corporation with being a ''monopolis-
tic oppressor of labor" the American
Federation of Labor filed bitter ar
raignment against the company with
President Taft.
Wednesday,
Mount Aetna is again active and
violent shocks caused panic at Mes
sina.
A big railroad strike in the West
was averted by an agreement between
the managers and enginemen.
The Arkansas land congress met
and laid plans to induce millions of
homeseekers to take farms in that
state.
4 Southerner. killed the conductor
and porter on the B. and o. train
and was slain after an hours duel with
police.
Six regulars were elected members
Of the rules committee of the house
by the Republican caucus which was
marked by harmony.
Thursday.
The Cairo, Ill., grand jury indicted
twelve men as would-be lynchers.
Ex-Vice President Fairbanks was
given a welcome home after his trip
around the world
Twenty persons were hurt in the
wrecking of a funeral train in the
Illinois Central yards in Chicago.
The Arkansas Land Congress began
a movement to bring 100000 new set
tiers into that state during the year.
Theodore Roosevelt was given an
audience with the khedive in Cairo
and spent the day in the Egyptian cap
ital
After a hard fight in the Senate the
appropriation for $500 yearly for
masseur in the new Office building was
defeated.
Grave fears are entertained as TO
the results of the violent eruption of
Etna. which beIches a stream of lava
1000 feet wide.
Friday.
Mount Etna was laundering from
fifteen craters.
The Cars son. aged s, ran away and
wa found three miles from the palace.
The widow of the late President
Faure of France is crazed by the Stein
hill scandal
Twelve persons persisted in the burn
ing Of the furniture factory of L. Fish
& Co. is Chicago.
Lieut.. Shackleton said shortage in
food was all that prevented him from
reaching the south pole.
A commission urged the United
States to protect Liberia from the
perils of a European nation.
The question of a wet or dry Chica-
90 cannot be voted upon April ;, the
election board declaring the petition
invaiidated by irregular and fictitious
signatures.
Saturday.
Charles Frohman founded a roper
tory theater in London.
The Roosevelt party visited the AS
souan dam and ancient temples and
tombs.
A Toxic official said that American
hostility to Japanese immigrants is
caused by the latJer's exclusiveness.
Speaker Cannon was removed from
the rules committee of the House, but
his foes allowed him the speakership.
The constitutional crisis in England
developed rapidly, with the lords still
opposed to any reform plan that is sat
isfactOry to the liberals
John Mitchell. formerly president Of
the miners. is in favor of an apne3I
from the Circuit Court of Appeals 10
the Supreme Court in the matter OF the
permanent injunction granted to the
Hitchman Coai and Coke Company of
West Virginia because II abOIiSbaS ~,