Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

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Sunday.
Troops joined Chinese rioters and
burned missions; all foreigners fed in
boats from Chapg-Sha.
Disclosure was made of the use of
helpless babies for research tests by
physicians in Philadelphia hospital
The liner Mfnnehaha, bound for Lon
don from New York, went on the rocks
OF Sicily islands; passengers and crew
are safe.
Monday.
A storm played havoc with the fruit
crop of Iowa and Indiana
A Federal inquiry into the cotton
pool is to be started in New York.
Senator Hale Of Maine will quit at
the end of mis- present term; Aldrich
confirmed the news of his retirement.
DR.. Twyman, accounted the States
most important witness in the muir
der trial OF Dr. Hyde, died at Kansas
City.
William J. Bryan, in New York
after his South American tour, pre-
dicted big commerce between that con-
tinert and the United States.
Tuesday.
Roosevelt left Hungary for Paris,
receiving a great sendoff
Congressman Frank o. Lowden of
Illinois announced that he will quit
public life.
Many Illinois towns voted on the
wet or dry issue, both sides expert
encing gains and losses.
A Democrat won on the tariff re-
form issue in big landslide in the
Thirty-second New York Congression-
al District
Wednesday.
Yerkes' New York mansion and art
gallery was sold to Robert E. Bowling
for $1,239,OOO.
The international Harvester Com
pany's annual report shows $14,892,-
$40 earned in 1909
Directors of the Illinois Central met
in New York, but said graft charges
were not considered.
The cotton firm of knight, Yancey
& Co, with many offices in the South,
failed with $4.000,OO0 in liabilities.
According to census enumerators,
the population of New York City now
is 100000, doubling in twenty
years.
The natives of the Sicily Islands
reaped harvest when the cargo of
the liner Minnehaha was thrown over
board
Prices for rubber goods, owing to
the advance in crude material, are go
ing higher than ever, the demand for
auto tires being one of the main rea-
sons.
Prof. Marion Talbot, of the Chicago
University, in her new book pictured
colleges as promoters of race suicide
and college students as careless NOR
alists
Thursday.
Paris gave Theodore Roosevelt a
most enthusiastic greeting.
Mark Twain died of a broken heart,
smoking in pantomime as end drew
near.
The Illinois Supreme Court sustain
ed the union of the Presbyterian and
Cumberland Presbyterian Churches.
The attorney general is conducting
an investigation into the Chicago board
OF trades methods of making prices.
William ]. Calhoun, the new Ameri-
can minister to China, presented his
credentials to the prince regent in Pc
king.
The fortune of H. H. Rogers proved
to be only $50, 100000 instead of more
than $1OO,OOOOO0. as generally sup
posed.
Friday.
His publisher said that Mark
Twain's writing had earned 100000
for him.
Thirty-fve students were injured in
a Northwestern University class riot
in Evanston, III.
Forged bills Of lading on cotton
causing millions loss were revealed
by an Alabama failure
Albert Wolter must die in the cleo.
tric chair for numbering a 15-year-old
New York stenographer
Chinese rioters forced women and
children to flee from Chang-Sha and
threatened all foreigners.
The misuse of 100000 of funds of
George Washington University was
charged by a former dean.
The Merriam commission heard that
the city of Chicago has lost $50, 900 in
twenty months in fire department coal
contracts
The nurse said that a week after
DR.. Hyde gave the Swope girl a box
If candy the recipient developed ty-
phoid fever.
Saturday.
An Illinois man confessed that he
threw his wife over Niagara falls.
Midshipman Earl Wilson died of a
broken neck received in a football
game on Oct 16.
Poet John Carter's prison sentence
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