The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-20
The flood situation in Nebraska 10
and sthe.1yorst is believed

improved, and the worst is believed
to be .over F.
The, Kankakee river is out Of Its
banks in Indiana and miles of ter-
ritory have been flooded.
Metal workers employed in q of
the largest shops in Chicago have
gone on strike.
President Roosevelt hopes to leave
Washington about the end of the
month for a western tour. -:
The wabash railroad has filed q
bill of exceptions in St.. Louis to the
employees answer in the injunction
proceedings.
Joseph H. Gibbs killed his wife and
himself at St.. Paris, O.. Domestic
trouble was the cause
All Mississippi river flood records
probably will be broken this spring,
according to New Orleans officials.
White ruche in a widows bonnet
~advertises that she is looking for an
other husband, according to Nine.
Hunt, president of the National Mil
liners association.
President Roosevelt has been in
vited to attend the thirty-seventh
annual national encampment of the
G. A. r., to be held in San Fran
cisco next August.
Twenty-Five per cent. reduction in
short haul freight rates on all ILL
nois railroads has been ordered by
the state railroad commissioners.
Striking Kansas City teamsters
were defied by Mrs. George B. Evans,
who took her husbands place, drove
the .',Swafford company's wagon
through the streets, and defended
herself with a whip.
Judge Adams, of St. Louis, who H.
sued the Wabash injunction, was
hanged in efigy at Kansas City, Mo.
In the Missouri house by a vote of
IS to 70 the separate railroad coach
for colored people bill failed of final
passage.
MRS. Arthur Pencil, who was in
jured in. the automobile accident in
which her husband lost his life, died
in Buffalo, N. Y, without regaining
consciousness.
Mrs. Seth T. Paine, wanted by Buff
falo On. W police as a witness at
the Burdick murder inquest, is miss
ing from the city.
Tents from the Illinois state arsen-
al have been sent to flood refugees at
S~hawneetown. Metropolis factories
have been forced to close.
Twelve indictments against West
Virginia coal miners have been re-
turned by the Charleston federal
grand jury as a result of the Atkins
vile riot.
Adolph Krauss, a farmer rcar St.
Louis, Mo-, while insane killed his
wife and six children with a sledge
hammer and fatally injured himself.
Waterbury (Conn.) business men
decided to take the city's government
away from Mayor Kilduff and chief
of police and operate it independ-
emily unless lawlessness stops.
Eight men we're killed and a large
number wounded in a fight between
the hands of rival turpentine camps
near Orange Springs, Va.
An Injunction against the Is per
Cent cut in freight rates ordered by
Illinois commissioners will be asked
by railroads.
President Roosevelt has been ap-
pealed to for protection by Organ
izer James H. Wood, of the Cigar
makers International union, who has
been notified by a Tampa ella. yigi-
lance committee to leave under pain
of DEATH" - ''' "
Gen. James A. Dumont has re-
signed as chief of the steamboat in
spection service.
The Missouri legislature has passed
a bill making chicken stealing a fell
ony.
Two men cracked the safe in the
State bank Of Kasota, MINI, secured
$500 and escaped: ~
Frank c.. Pingree, who was presi-
dent of the wrecked City savings
bank in Detroit, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy. His liabilities are
$s25,0oo; assets, $124,0 600. ~ .~~. e.