Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-04-16
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.

The Louisiana rice crop rapidly "
becoming one Of the most important
In the South.
DR.. Aked's New York congregation
pledged $16s,O0O for new church ut
Sunday service.
Six men were injured when a Balti.
more and Ohio locomotive hit stree.
car in South Chicago.
The interstate commerce commission
ordered the reduction of Pullman car
rates; the upper berth Is to be cheaper
than the lower.
Monday.
Thirty.one more bodies were recoy.
cred at Cherry. ILL.,; In belt on one
was found S1,40O.
James r. Keene offered to settle
with one New York firm wrecked In
the Hooking pool crash.
The selection Of a jury to try DR.. b.
c. Hyde for the alleged murder Of Col.
onel Swope began at Kansas City.
Postmaster General thinks postal
deficit will be reduced over $l0.0O0.000
at the close Of the first year Of admin
istration.
Mrs. Lucy Sayler and DR.. r. w. Nil.
Ter at Watseka. ILL.,, were found guilty
Of murder; the widow gets three years
and the doctor twelve.
Governor Hughes In special mes.
sage to the New York Assembly H..
manded an immediate and unsparing"
inquiry into legislative corruption.
Tuesday.
Quebec will prohibit the expectation
Of pulp wood to the United States. the
premier announced.
The Vatican gave slap at Roose.
welt in rebuking an abbot who called
upon him In Rome.
Governor Hughes proposed legisla.
tive corruption probe, caused conster.
nation among corporations.
Members Of a Fairbanks expedition
claim to have reached the top Of
Mount Mckinley. finding no Cook
proofs.
Senator LaFollette, in q savage at.
tack on Taft's railroad bill, said the
title Of the act deceives the public. He
dashed Morgan and detied Wickersham.
Wednesday.
The total receipts OF the Yerkes art
auction were $2.2O7. S6610.
The Pope struck the names OF all
Americans from the list Of candidates
for the cardinalate.
Employees of the United States Steel
Corporation were given an increase in
wages equal to about 9 per cent.
Col. Cooper. convicted of part In
the Staying of Senator Carmack, was
granted an unconditional pardon.
The International Harvester Com
pany adopted plan to insure $4,000
employees against accident without cost.
Revelations concerning the Parnel.
lism and crime letters OF 1887 led the
Irish to demand that Sir Robert An.
derson be deprived Of his pension.
Thursday.
Secretaries Knox and MacVeagh
may quit Taft's cabinet.
The bank In Coal City. ILL.,. was
robbed Of $4,000 by Chicago saloon
loafers.
Attorney General Wlckersham or.
dered the Elgin Board Of Trade In.
vestigatsd.
Senator Lodge introduced bill In
the Senate putting limit Of one year
on the Geld storage OF foodstutfs.
Two brokers, brothers. ruined by
speculation, ended their lives together
In lonely spot on the river bank near
Kansas City.
Friday.
Canada's revenues increase faster
than the ordinary expenditures.
Thomas +. Walsh. multimillionaire
mining man. died In Washington.
Ths House OF Representatives voted
two colliers and four submarines.
New Jersey pastors demanded an In.
vestigation OF the drunken orgy at the
closing session Of the lower house OF
the legislature.
| The Turkish forces were reported to
have lost 200 killed or wounded IT.
battle with clansmen who were
threatening Pristina.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
were Obliged to abandon their senti
mental drive from Spezia to Genoa by
the crowds Of admiring people.
On charges of woman stenogra.
pher six men were arrested In Indi.
annapolis. charged with conspiring tc
fleece the city and two hotels out OF
hundreds of thousands OF dollars In
coal graft.
Saturday.
That the Payne law has vindicate,l
itself by returning q surplus instead
OF a deficit is the contention OF Messrs.
Payne. Dalzell and Boutell.
Sir Robert Anderson's confession of
having written the Parnell letters IN
1887 has caused a sensation.
| A newly discovered elixir OF life"
was offered for test by American ply
sicians by Dr. Doyen of France.
The Sayler murder case went to the
Jury and rumOrs Of mob violence We're
heard In case of verdict of acquittal
Philander Chase Knox. Jr,, who
eloped. has won unconditional surren