The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-08-18

%Insurgent republicans and demo
Gratis of the senate have formed 4
lew combine to force tariff legisla-
lion.
A civil suit against the alleged
magazine trust was filed at New York.
Lieutenant de Malherbe. a French
military aviator, flew from Paris to
Sedan.
Norman Macleod & Co., Philadel-
phia. stockholders, made an assign
ment.
The Cunningham Alaska coal land
claims were disallowed by the interior
department.
Senatorial reports of crop damage
in the northwest made the Chicago
market go skyward.
There was a stormy time in the ILL
nois senate when savel rule put to
death the waterway bill.
John y. Spreckles told how his faith
er and H. o. Havemeyer entered into
a sugar producing combine.
A meeting of the republicans and
socialists at Madrid passed resolu-
tons condemning Spain'S military Op-
erations in Morocco.
Fourteen secretaries OF retail UIn
Der dealers associations were indict-
ed by a Chicago grand jury.
President Taft Sent a message to
congress urging amendment to the
pure food and drugs act.
Under orders from Washington
many mail cars are now being hauled
behind the baggage cars.
The house refused to concur in the
senate amendment on direct election
Of United States senators.
The senate is in such an ugly snar
that the fate Of the reciprocity bill
is hanging in the balance.
Anselmo Braamcamp vas elected
president OF the republic Of Portugal
by the constituent assembly.
Testimony at the sugar hearing dis
closed that Havemeyer was a silent
partner of the Mormon church.
In an address at the Yale alumni
luncheon the president spoke in
praise of recent supreme cour de-
cisions.
Rear Admiral Hugo 0sterhaus has
succeeded to the command of the At.
lantic fleet, taking the place Of Adj
miral Schroeder.
Ferdinand Edmund Duez, receiver
for the dissolved religious congrega-
tons of France, was convicted by a
jury of embezzling $4,000 0.
Mrs. Mary l.. Cox. formerly of Day.
ton, O., was granted a divorce from
Congressman James NJ. Cox, newspa-
per publisher and fnancier Of that
city.
Governor Wilson gave out a state.
ment expressing his pleasure over
tine success Of the commission gov
eminent movement in Trenton. n. J.
Approximately 10000, 900 gallons Of
liquors are shipped by express,
principally from mail order houses di-
rect to consumers in prohibition
states.
The great hurricane which devasted
the coast Of Chile a few days 6 eX-
tended from Pisagua in the north to
Antofagasta on the south. T%orrential
rains have followed.
L. H. Engwersen of Chicago was
elected president of the National Live
Stock exchange in convention in Chi
cagO. Portland. Ore. gets the next
meeting, although Chicago also was
a bidder.
Reliable adyices have been received
at Vienna from Albania that the stu
alton there is growing decidedly criti-
cal. Turkey has massed fifty thous-
and troops within a days march OF
the Montenegrin frontier.
Edward II. Harriman's billion-dollar
merger of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads, with their
allied properties, is upheld by the
United States circuit court of appeals,
in a decision handed down in St.
Louis.
Philadelphia financial circle, re.
ceived a disagreeable shock when it
became known that the liabilities OF
the stock brokerage firm OF Norman
Macleod & Co, which suspended re.
Gently, aggregate Sl,lS2,173, while
the assets are given as S41O,SS4.
Edward Valentine Lee, under ar
rest at Buffalo, charged with the
theft of $4,000 from the p~aymaster's
safe While serving as a clerk on the
battleship Georgia at Havana last
February, married Miss Audrey +.
Kelsey Of Washington. After the
ceremony he returned to his cell.
A wave of economy is sweeping the
country according to figures of the