Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-20
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.
The ministers OF Cairo (lll.) church.
es palliated the lynching Of negro and
white man.
Steamer La Seyne sank after col.
lision with the Onda off Singapore and
ninety-three lives were lost.
Volunteers descended the shaft Of
the mine at Cherry. Ill.,. bMt found no
life; over 900 persons were missing.
The Department Of Commerce and
Labor. in a special bulletin. called at.
tention to the opportunities In China
for American capital and enterprise.
Monday.
President Taft named Thursday,
Nov rs. as Thanksgiving day.
Wall street expected a new billion
dollar copper merger would be an.
nounced soon.
TIE former treasurer Of the Big
Four Railroad at Cincinnati was In.
dicted for $643.000 embezzlement.
Secretary Knox announced that the
recent treaties between China and
Japan do not endanger the "open
door" policy, and no protest will be
made.
Certain farmers In the West fur.
nished the Senate committee on irri.
cation with sensational information
concerning alleged graft In the In.
terror Department
Fire broke out anew In the mine
at Cherry. ILL.,; the shafts were again
sealed and all hope OF rescuing the
men Is gone: the mine likely to col.
lapse, making II impossible to recover
the bodies.
Tuesday.
Pope Plus X. celebrated his Jubilee.
holding mass and meeting church OH.
Gals.
Charles N. Crittenton. founder Of
many rescue homes for girls. died in
San Francisco.
The adjutant general Of the regular
army reported an alarming increase
Of assertions for the past fiscal year.
A German writer accused Alice
Roosevelt Of having insulted the EN-.
peror Of China during her visit to his
court.
The famous Hope diamond was re.
ported to have gone to the bottom Of
the sea with It's owner In the ocean
wreck.
The Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany passed from the control of the
Goulds. the new owner being the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company.
Troops were ordered 10 the scene
Of the Cherry (Ill.) mine horror; riot
Ing was feared. as miners were bitter
In their feeling toward the operators
and the officials; the pit was kept
sealed
Wednesday.
The British government delivered
an ultimatum on the budget.
A former emrloye revealed the loss
| Of 100000 In duties on lemons by
fraud.
All classes of property In Illinois are
worth .476.095 $50, according to the
State Board of Equalization.
General Frederick Dent Grant and
his wife had a narrow escape In an
early morning fire In Chicago.
John Mitchell stirred the A. F. Of
l.. convention by defiant speech up
holding the boycott and saying he will
continue to exercise the right of free
speech.
| Thursday.
A mob ut Cairo. Ill.,. lynched two
men, one a negro. VIII James, self.con
fessed murderer. and the other Henry
Salzner. a white man. who admitted
that he had killed his wife.
A single robber killed the cashier
OF bank at New Albany, Ind, wound
ed the president and a chauffeur. but
the bravery OF the bank officials pre-.
vented his securing any money. and
he was caught In motor boat chase
and a lynching narrowly averted.
Friday.
Railroad brotherhoods raised a fund
Of 100000 to fight proposed cleo
IRRIGATION ordinance in Chicago.
Commander Peary delivered his first
lecture OH the north pole to a distin'
guished audience at Washington. He
did not attack Cook.
A youth who robbed the Eud0ra
(Kan.) bank Oct II raided 1t again
with l5.year-old accomplice; cor
nered. he shot himself.
The Illinois National Guard ended
mob rule at Cairo and rushed the sus
pect. Alexander. north toward Kanka
kee; politics and miscarriages of JUS
tice are blamed for the lynchings.
Saturday.
The boy bandit, who shot himself
after the Eudora (Kan.) robbery, died
Raymond Patterson, of the Chicago
Tribune. died Of apoplexy in his Wash
ington home.
Four hundred men met their death
In fire and explosion In the st, Paul
Company's mine at Cherry. Ill,