Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-25
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.

ed by man.
The newly appointed tariff board
was ready to begin the work Of col.
Letting data from foreign countries 20
aid the President.
Dr. Cook. branding Peary's charges
as an unfortunate disclosure Of char
actcr." demanded that the public de.
eide the polar controversy.
Rioting is begun in the Omaha
street car strike. Cars we're wrecked
by mobs and crews attacked. Business
men volunteered for police duty.
Swept from the yacht Of James o.
Heyworth, of Racine. DR.. Joseph Will
lam Wassall, thirty.hve years den
fist In Chicago, drowned before res.
cners could save him.
Monday.
Governor John IA. johnson o! Min.
nesota dies after surgical operation.
The Northwestern Railway reported
no passengers killed for a whole year.
CLAWS. ousted from the land Office,
wrote President Taft that he will make
public all the facts In the Alaska sean.
dal
Benjamin W. Porter. missing Chica.
go insurance collector. was found at
South Haven; he told weird tale of
being kidnapped.
A tropical storm struck several
Southern States. causing extensive
damage; communication with New Or.
leans was cut off, no casualties were
reported.
An airship line was financed In Ber-
lin to carry passengers between the
German capital and other cities. The
company expects to be In operation by
May. 1910.
Tuesday.
Score OF Jews were killed and hun.
dreds wounded in riotlng at Kler.
The death OF Gov. Johnson OF Min.
nesota was mourned by whole nation.
II was rumored that Mr.. and Mrs. W.
X. Vanderbilt, Jr.. have agreed to part.
Commander Peary and PARTY reach.
ed sydney. n. s.. on the Roosevelt and
were given an ovation.
President Taft In his Denver speech
praised the corporation tax as the most
equitable duty that could be imposed.
DIR. Cook reached New York and was
given wild welcome there and In
Brooklyn. He promised to prove his
claims by his Eskimos and by scientific
data.
Wednesday.
President Taft, In a speech at Colo.
RADIO Springs, pledged himself to the
Roosevelt policies.
Robert Hoe. head Of the printing
press firm OF r. Hoe & Co.. died In
London after brief illness.
Southern hurricane death list was
fifty-six and growing hourly; crop
and property loss was enormous.
Seventy.hve thousand persons view.
ed the body Of Governor johnson ly.
Ing In state at the Minnesota capitol.
Commander Peary left Truro. N. g.,
for Portland; he declined to make
further statements on the polar con.
troversy.
Secretary of War Dickinson told
the Daughters Of the Confederacy that
the south's sincerity In the Civil War
no longer is questioned In the North
Thursday.
Chicago street car men voted to &C
cept the latest wage offer Of the COM
panies.
Death toll In the 1909 July I cele.
bration was 2l5. the largest In five
years. according to the American Med
ical Association Journal.
Chicago, with receptions. parades,
mass meeting. baseball game, and
ball. gave President Taft a rousins
send,off on his l3,OOO'm!le journey.
Friday.
Charles II. Treat resigned as Treas
urer of the United States.
President Mitten of City Railway
Company In Chicago signed three
year contract with his men and put
an end to the wage controversy.
Prof. s. W. Durham of the Yerkes
Observatory. Williams Bay. Wis, was
the first to view Halley's comet
through the telescope. after its seven
ty-four years absence.
President Taft In speech at WI
mona, Mimi, sounded the real "key
note" of his tour of the West by de
tending the Payne tariff bill as tn,
best In history. asserting that revision
has been mainly downward and tina
his partys pledges have been fulfilled
Saturday.
Omaha and Council Bluffs stree
car lines were tied up by a strike
four men remained at work.
| Vancouver. b. c., has been made tn,
clearing house Of Chinese entering tn
United States by way OF Canada.
/ A delegate returning from the Blu
dapest medical congress said tina
American doctors lead the world.
Taft met an enthusiastic reception
In st. Paul and Minneapolis, which
however, was tempered by grief o
the people over the illness of Gov
Johnson.
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