The Ekalaka eagle., 1911-04-21

The employers compensation act
was passed in the Illinois senate
Stanley Robson. owner of the St..
Louis National league baseball team,
is dead.
commission is ready to begin the pur
chase of lands.
Finance Minister Limantour con-
fesSod conditions in Mexico were
worse than he supposed.
Oklahoma-K Kansas bandits held up
and robbed an Iron Mountain train OF
an amount said to be $4,000.
China has decided to unreservedly
acuuiesce to the demands of Russia
concerning the treaty of 1881.
The New York Legislature will make
strenuous efforts to get Il senator be-
fore the extra congress convenes.
Annual reports shows the gross
revenue collected by the Bell tele-
phone system in 1910 was s165, ,0OO.-
600.
New Workers. held Il mass meeting
in the interest Of more adequate pro-
lection OF so-called tirc-proof build
ines.
Selection of 4 president of tho Mis-
souri, Pacific to succeed George J.
Gould will not be made for several
weeks.
The New York senate judiciary
committee voted, to 3. against re-
porting two woman suffrage resolu.
tions.
The Iowa senate. at the close of an
exciting debate. defeated the resolu-
ton for woman suffrage by vote of
y to 81.
The International American Purity
federation has decided to hold it's
next congress in Columbus, O., Octo-
Der 23-27
The Red Cross will collect funds
tor relief of families who lost rela-
tivcs in the New York skirt factory
ronila grafton.
Mrs. Austin NJ. Knight. wife of Cap
ain Knight of the United States navy,
lied following an operation for inter
nal complications.
Thousands visited the morgue in
New York to identify the remains of
relatives who were killed in the big
fire late Saturday afternoon.
The executors of the estate of Ce-
ell Grace. the aviator who lost his
life while attempting an across chan
mel flight. were granted leave to pre-
sumo his death. His body has never
been found,
Counsel for the indicted Chicago
meat packers appeared before Judge
George A. Carpenter in the United
States district court and were given
one week to file demurrer to the
action.
One hundred and fifty lives, mostly
women and girls, were lost in a fire
1T a skirt factory in New York City.
Operatives were entrapped and most
of them lost their lives by jumping
from great height. Property loss
IN the building is less than 100000.
II. B. Cohn, a prominent Omaha
business man, was aSsassinated as he
was on his way home late at night in
Omaha. Two men were concealed in
IS he was crossing the same. Two
arrests under suspicion have been
made.
AS result of a settlement agreed
upon at a conference between officials
Di the brotherhood of locomotive en-
5ineers and officials of the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad, $50 engineers of
hat system will receive an increase
If per cent in wages, better working
rules and contract for a year.
At Los Angeles, after swallowing
poison and cutting his throat Wesley
Churchill, forty years DID, leaped from
the top Of the eleven story building.
He landed in an alley and was man.
5led into q shapeless mass. Churchill
had lost his position because of poor
health. He had a large family.
DR.. Kelly, q young physician, grad
uatc Of an Omaha medical college,
killed two men in Des Moines, one
of them deputy sheriff of Pottawat-
tamie county, while on his way to the
inebrate hospital at Knoxville, to
which he had been sentenced. The
deputy sheriff, a lifelong friend of
the murderer. had him in charge. The
other man killed was a saloon keeper
Of Des Noines who had refused to
sell a drink to the frenZied doctor.
The great Importance to human
health and the great economic import
ance of control of tuberculosis in cat
tie and hogs, and especially in cattle,
is emphasized in a bulletin on the sub
iect which has just been put out by
Secretary Wilson and prepared under