Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-28
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Important
News Events
of the World
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Domestic

Domestic
Joe MOreSchi president of the Hold
Carriers and Building Laborers' execu-
tive council at Chicago, was indicted
by the special building grand jury for
accepting $1,000 graft.
Mrs Eff" Potter Stillman at New
York has received an offer of 100000
to appear in the movies. Negotiations
between Mrs. Stillman and motion pic
ture interests are in the preliminary
stage.
A. S. Embree, self-acknOWledged /.
w. w. leader, was sentenced from
one to ten years in the state peniten-
tiary at Wallace, Idaho, after having
been found guilty of criminal syndical-
ism by jury.
Jewelry and other valuables said to
be worth $4,000 were stolen from the
home of NJ. 2. Ryan, a st. Paul real es
tate man, while the family was absent
for about two hours.
Although $4,000 volts of electricity
passed through his body at Walla Wal
la, Wash, George Henry, an electri-
clan, is alive and is expected to re-
cover from the heavy shock.
Miss Della NJ Carpenter, for 10 years
the stenOgrapher of J. r. Collins of
Morris, was left 100000 by his will,
which was offered at Joliet H., for
probate.
Abolition of Sunday baseball, Sun
day movies, Sunday theaters and I'M
necessary Sunday business is advocat-
ed in the annual report of a Presby-
terrain committee at Winona Lake, Ind.
A reward of $500 was offered by the
American Express company at Chi
cagO, for the arrest and conviction Of
the bandits who robbed one of their
wagons and shot a messenger of the
company.
Bernard COyne, said to be the tallest
man in the world, died at Otto, Iowa.
COyne was known at the youthful
giant" his height was s feet L inch
and he weighed 300 pounds.
Mrs Anna Irene Hopkins was found
guilty Of assault by a jury in the SUI
perior court at Prescott, Ariz. Mrs.
Hopkins was convicted of having
thrown acid into the face of Miss Lu-
ellie Gallagher
Several guests had narrow escapes
from a fire which destroyed the Ray
hotel and damaged adjoining property
at Dallas, Tex The loss is estimated
at S5OOOOO.
Leroy NJ. Warner, warrant officer Of
Chanute field, shot and killed himself
at Rantoul, III. The reason is I'M
known. He came here last year from
Fort Smelling, Mimi, and was a men,
Der of the Masonic order.
Twelve hundred more Mexicans left
Fort Worth, Tex, on a special train
to be returned to Mexico, it was an
nounced by Consul Garcia. Another
train will start for the border on Sat
urday.
Lieut.. William Coats and Mrs. John
Brady of Paterson, n. J., were killed
instantly when a wing Of the airplane
in which they were flying collapsed.
A $4,000 theft from registered mail
en- route from Chicago to Grand Ha-
ven, Mich, was made known by postal
authorities at Chicago. For two weeks
the loss was kept secret.
Albany, n Y, is again patrOlled by
state police following riOting during
the night, the worst since the incep-
ton of the strike on the United Trac-
ton Company lines five months ago.
A Charleston dispatch says that
martial law has been declared in
West Virginia.
Flying over Paterson, n. j., probab-
ly will be prohibited as a result of the
deaths of Lieut.. William Coates and
Mrs. John Brady, who fell 1000 feet
i'm an airplane at the Preakness field.