Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16


big stick" in a speech at London
press supper.
Chief Justice Harry Olson Of Illinois,
speaking at the Augustana jubilee in
Rock Island, urged reform in the Hi
nois court system.
Tuesday.
Oxford University conferred a degree
on Theodore Roosevelt.
Professor Goodwin Smith, famous
educator and writer, died in Toronto.
Richard Parr, discoverer of sugar
customs frauds, will get 100000 for
the work
Formal charges questioning the right
of William LOrimer to his seat we're
filed before the United States Senate,
Clifford w. Barnes, of Chicago, making
the sworn statement
The commander of an American gun
boat threatened to lombard Bluefields
if the Nicaraguan general, who is defy
ing the United States, attempts to keep
American vessels from the harbor.
President Taft and the heads of
Eastern railways reached an agree
ment that the rate increases shall wait
till the new law goes into effect; the
House sent the rail bill to conference.
Many were reported killed and thou
sands made homeless by a severe earth
quake in central and southern Italy.
Wednesday.
Mrs. Charles W. Allen, of Kenosha,
Wis, admitted smuggling in New
York and vas fined $1O0.
Governor Carroll, staIwart, was re-
nominated by so small a majority in
Iowa as to constitute a progressive
victory.
A plan to end Chicagos traction tan
gle and open the way for a merger of
all traction lines was adopted at a con-
ference in New York and will be given
final consideration at meeting in
Chicago June Is.
Congress was appealed to by the
Railway Business Association to aid
a quick ruling by the interstate com
merce commission on the necessity OF
the proposed rate increase, declaring
delay will peril the nations commerce
Thursday.
The postal savings bank bill was
passed by the House, 1875 to 101.
Sir George Newnes, publisher, Lib
eralist, and sportsman, died in Lon
don.
The board of trustees of Princeton
University announced gifts of $1,15G,
600.
Finger prints on a window pane are
the only clew in the murder of a WON
an at Leavenworth, Kan.
The Importers Protective Union de-
clared $1000O,0O0 worth of diamonds
are smuggled into the United States
every year.
President Taft, indignant at a speech
made in Congress by Representative
Francis Burton Harrison of New York,
refused to receive him when he called
at the White House by appointment.
Chancellor Won -Hollweg
save notice that the German govern
ment has taken up the pope's recent
encycIical, which is denounced as hurt
ing religious, national and moral feel
ings.
Friday.
Roosevelt sailed from Southampton
for the United States.
The body Of Mrs. Mary Scott Castle,
divorced wife of a San Francisco law
yer, was found in a trunk drawn from
Lake Como, Italy, by fishermen.
The secretary of the American Su-
gar Company and one other high Off
cial were convicted of defrauding the
government in underweights on i'm
ports
The Continental National Bank is
to absorb the Commercial National
thereby giving Chicago the second
largest financial institution in the
country.
Saturday.
Governors of many States favor a
sane Fourth.
A Massachusetts mother appealed &c
Taft to save her boy taken as a rebel
by Madriz in Nicaragua.
A blunder in arranging his route
East nearly took Taft into Canada fol
seven hours, during which he would Nc
longer be President
President Taft. speaking in Micht
gan, warned against Socialism, which
he declared, is the greatest problem
the nation has to solve.
DR.. E. W. LANCE in a signed state
ment described the experience by
which he discovered a process for the
transmutation of base metals into sill
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