Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-04-23
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.

DOats from Chang.Sha.
The declarations Of Taft which were
taken to mean that he wants only one
term aroused interest In Washington.
Disclosure was made of the Use Of
helpless babies for research tests by
physicians In Philadelphia hospital.
Two masked bandits held up mail
train in California and fed into the
hills and canyons; posses were in pur.
suit.
The liner Minnehaha, bound for Lon.
don from New York, went on the rocks
Of Sicily islands; passengers and crew
are safe.
Monday.
Suffragists presented a petition to
Congress asking votes.
A storm played havoc with the fruit
crop Of Iowa and Indiana.
A Federal inquiry into the cotton
pool Is to be started In New York.
Roosevelt received welcome in
Budapest and visited the national
Hungarian hero.
Senator Hale of Maine will quit at
the end Of his present term; Aldrich
confirmed the news Of his retirement.
DR.. Twyman. accounted the States
most important witness In the muir.
der trial OF DR.. Hyde. died at Kansas
City.
William J. Bryan, in New York
after his South American tour, pre-.
dicted big commerce between that con.
tinent and the United States.
Tuesday.
Roosevelt left Hungary for Paris,
receiving great sendoff.
Congressman Frank o. Lowden Of
Illinois announced that he will quit
public life.
Many Illinois towns voted on the
wet or dry issue. both sides expert.
encing gains and losses.
A Democrat won on the tariff re.
form Issue In a big landslide In the
Thirty.second New York Compression.
al District.
Miss Marjorie Gould became the
bride of Anthony J. Drexel. Jr.;
women stormed st. Bartholomew
Church. New York, and almost ruined
the decorations.
Wednesday.
Yerkes' New York mansion and art
gallery was sold to Robert T.. Bowling
for $l.239.OO0.
The International Harvester Com.
pany's annual report shows $l4,S92,.
740 earned In 1909.
Directors OF the Illinois Central met
In New York. but said graft charges
were not considered.
The cotton Arm OF Knight, Yancey
4 Co.. with many offices In the South.
failed with 100000 In liabilities.
According to census enumerators.
the population of New York City now
Is 100000, doubling In twenty
years.
The natives OF the Scilly Islands
reaped harvest when the cargo of
the liner Minnehaha was thrown over
board.
Prices for rubber goods. owing to
the advance In crude material. are 20.
Ing higher than ever. the demand for
auto tires being one Of the main rea.
sons.
Prof. Marion Talbot. of the Chicago
University. In her new book pictured
colleges as promoters of race suicide
and college students as careless nor.
alists.
Thursday.
Mark Twain arrived home from Der.
muda too III to walk.
A committee of carmen voted to set.
tie the Philadelphia strike.
Irate women Kissed President Taft
during his talk to suffrage conven.
ton.
f. II. Gary confirmed an advance In
wages Of 22S.S77 employees of the Unit.
ed States Steel Corporation. adding
100000 to the annual pay roll.
Friday.
Two hundred thousand employees In
the building trades in Germany have
been locked out.
Chinese rioters wrecked the Ameri.
can missions at Changsha; two Ameri.
cans were In peril.
The United States Steel Corporation
announced a plan for providing relief
for all employees injured.
The suffragiSt convention In Wash.
ington apologized because the Presi.
dent was Kissed while speaking.
Aldrich is to leave the Senate next
March and In the interim, to give up
comMittee work and devote his time
to the monetary commission.
Saturday.
An Illinois man confessed that he
threw his wife over Niagara falls.
Midshipman Earl Wilson died Of a
broken neck received In q football
game ON Oct 10.
Poet John Carter's prison sentence
was committed by the Minnesota State
BOARD of Pardons.
President Harahan of the Illinois
| Central gained confession OF big
conspiracy to defraud the company.
President Taft. In letter. accepted
the apology from the suifragists for
| the interruption Of his speech and told
Y the women to FORGET the incident.