Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-22
Items from All Parts Of the World
Carefully Selected from the
Press kilograms.
A Weekly Digest Of the Most important
Facts and Happenings for Busy
Readers.
Sunday.

sunday.
Postal strike in Paris was declared
practically dead by the government Of.
ncials.
Tables issued by government showed
enormous increase in worlds supply
Of gold.
John fngle, unique character. bought
up whole town Of Ina, Ind, and will
become mayor.
Fifteen hundred persons attended
the unwilling of the tablet imbedded In
the Marquette and Joliet memorial
cross at Robey street and the river In
Chicago.
Monday.
George Meredith. the famous novel.
LIST. died In London. at the age of so.
Tracy & Co., brokerage firm with
many branches, was placed In receiv.
er's hands In New York.
Hedge A. Hangar, president Of State
Bank Of Chicago. died suddenly from
third attack OF heart failure within
week.
Captain Peter c. Hams was sen.
fenced at Flushing, n. Y. to from
eight to sixteen years at hard labor
for the killing OF ". 4. Annis last
summer.
Tuesday.
Charles W. Eliot was succeeded as
president OF Harvard University by
Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
The Car released from prison Gen
eral Stoessel and Admiral Nebagatoff.
sentenced for surrendering to Japan
csc.
The cabinet In Washington decided
against the proposed change In the
government clocks as requested for
more daylight"
Jacob II. Schiff and Israel Zangwill
were reported In New York TO have
united to aid the effort to COLOMBO the
Jews In Mesopotamia.
Rear end collision on Northwestern
elevated road In Chicago. In which
twenty-three were injured. was de-
clared by President Starring to be due
to the carelessness OF the mot0rman on
an express train.
Wednesday.
Michigan Legislature adjourned
sine die.
Henry II. Rogers, noted oil mag
nate, died In New York.
Steamer Monaghan. with 800 or
board. was tight In Ice near st. Johns
Newfoundland.
Admiral Dewey said American nav!
Is peer of any in ships, officers and
men; criticism held as unjust.
Chicago charter hopes slaughtered
by both houses of the Illinois Legis
lature when consolidation bill was de
feated.
President Taft praised soldier dead
OF the Union and Confederate armies
In his address during exercises al
Petersburg battle-ground.
BY a single vote the "wets" defeated
the "drys" In the Illinois House wheI
bill was passed which the Anti-Sa
loon Leaguers say utilities the loca
option law.
Thursday.
Annual FIRE losses In United States
are over quarter billion dollars.
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puge
Sound Railway Company filed for rec
ord mortgage for $l00,0O0,000.
J. ]. Hill. after a visit to the White
House, complained that the continued
tariff agitation Is hampering business
French chamber of deputies In riot
ous session voted confidence In govern
ment on strike issue; cause OF tn
| workers made little Roadway.
Friday.
TornadOes In Kansas. Oklahoma an
Missouri caused death, injury an
damage.
Johnson OF Minnesota has starte
out to get delegates for the presider
tial nomination In 1912.
Senator Root was mercilessly score
for "lecturing" the Senate and al
tempting to rush the tarif bill; Bale
charged with plotting with Aldrich t
railroad measure through.
Saturday.
First week OF carriage drivers strlk
caused loss OF from $4,000 to $4,000
South Bend ball player killed moth
err and self while under influence O
drug.
Missouri Legislature passed Are In
surance rate regulation law more dras
tic than that of Kansas.
Denver preacher got divorce o.
grounds of mental cruelty, saying b
had courted his wife fourteen years 4
vain
President Taft wrote Governo
Stubs of Kansas that he will not pei
nit himself to be used In any politica
factional contest and he withdrew
nomination made at the Governor
suggestion.