Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-11
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A Weekly Digest Of the Most important
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Sunday.

Expert agriculturistS conferred at
Washington on means of securing
farmers cooperation in taking of cen.
sus.
The King of Denmark dined DR..
Cook after his story of finding the
pole was scrutinized and approved by
government experts.
A big spring wheat crop is now com.
ing on market in which urgent wants
have all been filed. Supply and de-
mand situation in provisions Is unus-
ual and promises interesting develop.
ments.
Monday.
E. II. Hartman suffered relapse
and his condition Is critical.
Ninety persons were saved in ship
wreck of the steamer Saurentian.
Benjamin Rose. salesman. was slain
In his bedroom In New York; the po-
lice seek young man who had visited
, him.
The torso of girl about 20 years
old was discovered in Ecorse Creek.
near Detroit. Mich, and murder Is sus.
pected.
Examinations for 5000 clerks to
work on thirteenth decennial census
are to be held in various cities of the
United States, beginning Oct. 20.
News of the discovery of the north
pole by Commander Peary, eleven
months and fifteen days after DR..
Cooks achievement. was cabled in Ia.
comic messages from the veteran en-
plorer. American scientists accepting 1t
unequivocally.
Tuesday.
+. Lefebvre. French aviator. was
killed when his aeroplane fell in Paris.
DIR. d. X. Pearsons. Of Chicago, offer.
ed Berea College 100000 provided 1t
raises 100000 additional.
DR.. Cook made a poor showing In
his Copenhagen lecture and doubt Of
his feat began to creep In.
Rear Admiral Melville. expecting a
controversy between Cook and Peary
may result. suggested arbitration.
The torso found In Ecorse Creek.
Detroit. was identified as that Of Miss
Mabel Millman Of Ann Arbor. There
Is no clew to the slayer.
Men OF high standing In the bust
ness world were arrested In New York
on Federal indictments charging them
with conspiracy to secure valuable coal
lands in Wyoming by dummy entries.
Wednesday.
Fourteen national banks In Chica.
90 reported $4O2, 100000 deposits.
Mrs. Peter Van Vlissingen of Chi.
cago sued her husband, a convict In
the Joliet penitentiary, for divorce.
Peary, on the steamer Roosevelt,
sailed from Battle Harbor for Point
Am0rer, Labrador. He was delayed
by lack of fuel.
Government crop report for septem
Der shows that August heat and
drought reduced the corn crop prom
Use by 33S,000.OOO bushels: spring
wheat, oats and hay also show losses
DR.. George A. Fritch Of Detroit was
arrested on suspicion in connection
with the death of Mabel Millman OF
Ann ArbOr, whose dismembered body
was found In EcOrse creek, near De
trOit.
Commander Peary wired the direct
charge that DR.. Cook Is an impostol
In his claim of having reached the
pole. Plans for welcoming the eX
plorers In New York are held up by
the controversy.
Thursday.
The liner Lusitania reached New
York from Queenstown in days II
hours and AZ minutes.
| Quebec Is expected to follow Ontar.
los example In prohibiting exports to
United States of manufactured wood
pulp from crown lands.
The United States minister of Copen-
hagen wired that Danish inspector in
North Greenland corroborates DR..
Cooks discovery of the pole.
Friday.
| Business men OF the racine coast
and Japanese commissioners formed a
trade compact.
Russias persistence in trying to
force participation in the Chinese loan
may middle the international agree
ment.
The village of Scordia, Sicily, was
almost entirely destroyed by cyclone
and hundreds are believed to be in
jured.
Saturday.
Clyde Fitch, the American play.
wright, died of appendicitis in France
DR.. Frederick A. Cook reached Co.
penhagen and was given a royal recep
ton, being welcomed by the king and
foreign ministers. Captain of vessel
and explorers, who examined his rec,
ords. say they prove discovery Of pole
Bloodhounds trailed the wreckers Of
o B. & O. train near New Castle, Pa
three are dead, and seventeen hurt
The cigarette Ia the dead mouse II
the wall OF the tobacco shop.