Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-03-26
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.
Monday.

FTesluent Iatt detended the Payne'
Aldrlch tariff law at Providence. r. l..
Arthur Zimmerman, married to
twenty four women. was sentenced to
prison In New York.
A Massillon. Ohio. girl of 16 was
arrested on the charge of killing her
sister because she envied her clothes.
A grand Jury indicted forty pres.
ent and former members of the Pitts.
burg council as grafters. and ten made
confessions.
Forty.five were killed and forty In.
jured In the wreck Of Rock Island
train running over Great Western
tracks In Iowa.
Tuesday.
Nine more councilmanic grafters
confessed In Pittsburg.
The French Senate passed an old
age pension bill applying to oil work.
ers.
Eugene N. Foss. Democrat, was
elected to Congress in Massac huset.s
on the tariff and high prices issue.
overcoming q Republican plurality OF
1880.
In response to a cabled request
from Theodore Roosevelt, Clifford Pin.
chot departed for Europe and will
meet the former President probably In
Naples.
The English House of Lords re.
n0unced hereditary principle by
adopting Lord Rosebery's third reso.
luton providing for the reconstruction
Of the house.
Charging the United States Steel
Corporation with being a "monopolis.
tic oppressor Of labor" the American
Federation ut Labor fled bitter ar.
!aignment against the company with
President Taft.
Wednesday.
Mount Aetna IL again active and
violent shocks caused panic at Mes.
sina.
A big railroad strike In the West
was averted BY an agreement between
the managers and enginemen.
The Arkansas land congress met
and laid plans to induce millions Of
homeseekers to take farms In that
state.
A Southerner killed the conductor
and porter on the b. and o. train
and was slain after an hours duel with
police.
Six regulars were elected members
Of the rules committee OF the house
by the Republican caucus which was
marked by. harmony.
Seventy.fve per cent OF the Repub.
lean editors OF New England states
oppose the tariff bill. according to a
canvass made by the Chicago Tribune.
Thursday.
Arguments were begun before the
United States Supreme Court on the
corporation tax law.
A New York art dealer has reaped a
fortune from made.to.order "old mas.
ters." witness In lawsuit declared.
President Taft, spending the day In
Chicago. was feted from morn until
midnight and made eight speeches on
varied subjects.
The packers told the Senate inves.
tigating committee they are not to
blame for the high cost of food and &C.
cused the farmers.
The insurgents sprung coup and
almost succeeded In destroying Can.
mons power; regulars filibustered until
absentees can rush to Washington.
Friday.
Speaker Cannon. bafiled in a twenty.
six hour fight In the House, treated
for peace.
The Chesapeake and Ohio and the
Lake Shore roads have bought the
Hooking Railroad.
Alleged butterine frauds amounting
to $500 daily led to the arrest of four
at Hoboken IN. j. factory.
A scientist says he has found the
earliest version of the food In Nip
pur; it bears out the Bible story.
President Taft announced tariff
agreement with France and invited
| Canada's Minister of Finance to meet
/
maintain peaceful trade relations.
Saturday.
Charles Frohman founded a roper.
tory theater In London,
The Roosevelt party visited the As.
souan dam and ancient temples and
tombs.
A Toxic ofiicial said that American
hostility to Japanese immigrants Ia
caused by the latter's exclusiveness.
Speaker Cannon was removed from
the rules committee OF the House. but
his foes allowed him the speakership.
The constitutional crisis in England
developed rapidly. with the lords st!ll
opposed to any reform plan that 10 sat
isiActory to the lihereli.
The government has thrown open for
/ entry 10000 aCraa NJ irriUatod land