The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-05-07
Big News Events of the
Coming Week.

Washington. ID. c., May 7:-Presi-
dent Taft win go TO New York to at
tend the opening of the great Actors
Fund Fair in that city Monday after
noon. In commemoration Of the oc-
cassion the President will be given
handsome gold medal. William III.
Crane, the dean of American actors,
will make the presentation speech
The three million Poles who have
chosen the United States for their ad-
optive country are looking forward
With eagerness TO the celebration to be
held in Washington on Wednesday,
Kosciuszko and Casimir Pulaski are
to be unveiled. The monument to Pull
aski has been erected by the federal
government as a token of the appre-
citation which is felt for his services
under George Washington, while the
companion statue is a gift to the peo-
pie of the United States from the Po-
lish National Alliance. The unveiling
of the memorials will be made the
occasion of impressive ceremonies in
which President Taft. the Secretary of
War and other notables will take part.
II his other engagements permit
President Taft will probably take an
other hurried trip to New York to at
tend the launching of the battleship
rIArf1a Of ha nrnn1xlxyn Ward
Thursday. The Florida is one of the
super -Dreadnoughts of the navy and
will have displacement of 21,000
tons. She is the first big ship built in
a government yard since the 10000
ton Connecticut was turned out at
Brooklyn.
Important court cases scheduled for
the week include the trial of the
wardlaw sisters at Newark, indicted
for murder in connection with the
death of Ocey NJ Snead who was
found dead in bathtub in East Or
ange, N. j., last November. Tuesday |
is the date set for the trial to begin in
New York of Charles r. Heike. for
mer secretary of the American Sugar
company and five other for
mer employees of the company on
charges OF conspiracy in connection
with underweighing of sugar shipments
At Cairo, Ill, the trial is to be held or
twelve men indicted for participating
I'm the attack on the Jail there last
February. during which one man I'm
the mob was killed and several injur-
ed by the sheriff's special deputies.
Former President Roosevelt will
reach another stage of his European
tour Monday night when he arrives In
Berlin for n stay of one week. During
the first three days he will be the
guest OF the American ambassador
and during the latter half of the week
he will be entertained by the Emperor
II the Palace on Thursday he will
deliver lecture upon an historical
topic before the University of Berlin.
other events that will figure more
,r less prominently in the news of the
week will be the melting of the South
ern Baptist Convention in Baltimore.
The biennial convention of the Gener-
III Federation of Women's Clubs in
the assembling of the
Louisiana legislature in regular bien-
nial session. a two days meeting of the
National Federation of Religious Lii
Derals in Philadelphia, the annual
meeting OF the Southern Newspaper
Publishers association in Mobile. the
of the Brotherhood of Lo-
Engineers i'm Detroit. and
big celebration at the University OF
California in honor of the institutions
golden jubilee.
In three hundred balloon ascents