Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-05-19

OUO,O00 IN foreign securities.
United States Senator Warren, of
Wyoming, iii charges made to Con-
gTess was accused of fencing large
tracts of government lands.
Fifteen persons were killed, fifty in
jured and several reported missing in
an explosion which wrecked the Cen
eraI Explosives Company plant at Hull.
Quebec.
Monday.
Heralds proclaimed George V. rul-
ing sovereign of Great Britain.
Two of three indictments against F.
Augustus Heinze were removed
Herbert Booth, youngest son of Gen.
Booth, quilted the Salvation army.
President Taft, in a speech, express
ed hs confidence that the rail and 9th
er administration measures will pass.
Tuesday.
The House passed the emasculated
administration railroad bill by vote
of 200 to 126.
Two thousand club women gathered
in Cincinnati for the opening Of the
general federation convention.
King George objects to an offensive
reference to the Catholic belief in the
kingly declaration and an amending
bill is planned by the government.
Joseph T. TaIbert, former Chicago
banker in an address before the Tex
as Bankers Association declared ex-
troy Sc Of 20
greatest vices.
Wednesday.
The contest over the oath which
King George of England shall take
grew more heated.
Emperor William hailed Colonel
Roosevelt as my friend" in an unex-
ampled scene before his army.
Forest fires in Wisconsin and Min
nesota still ragged, menacing several
towns, half of one village being de-
stroyed
Mayor Whitlock of Toledo in a re-
markable reply to charges made by
the Federation of Churches fayed the
puritanicaI idea.
The court instructed the jury in
Kansas City that the Hyde trial YER
dict must be guilty of murder in the
first degree or acquittaI
New York corporations, according
to returns, will pay $3,274,748, equal
almost to 81 a head for the citys pop
ulation, Chicago being second with
S2,2S6,786.
Thursday.
An explosion in a coal mine in En-
gland killed 1877 men.
A Minnesota settler with a family
of eight won a desperate five-day fight
in forest fires.
Six girls and two boys, all high
school students in Huntington, Pa,
drowned while out boating
Express companies were accused of
realizing from AZ to 115 per cent
profit by the New York Merchants As
sociation.
The battle ship Florida, biggest of
American Dreadnoughts built thus
far, was launched at the Brooklyn
navy yard.
Mrs Lewis K Torbet was elected
regent of Daughters of the American
Revolution, defeating Mrs. Frank R.
McMullin, 81 to 81.
F. Augustus Heinze was acquitted
by jury of the charge of misapply-
ing funds of the Mercantile National
Bank in New York.
Serene E. Payne made a careful de-
Tense of the new tariff law before the
House, insisting that the Republican
party has kept its promises.
Friday.
Edward B. Garriott, chief weather
forecaster of the United States, is dead.
Pueblo Indians rose up in New Mex
leo and massacre of settlers was
feared.
A dramatic scene was enacted when
Mrs. Keppel met Queen Alexandra at
the bier of King Edward.
Ex-Gov. Rollins of New Hampshire,
wife and son were charged by New
York customs officers with smuggling.
Prof Munsterberg gave a demonstra-
ton of the psychological method of de-
tecting a crime by reading the minds
of girls at Radcliffe College.
Col. Roosevelt issued a denial at Ber-
lin that he ever wrote a letter saying
that he would not again be a candidate
for the presidency and indorsing Taft
After scenes of remarkable bitter
ness the Senate reached a compromise
on the long and short haul clause of
the interstate commerce bill which |
united the insurgents and the regu-
lars