The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-03-25

| All lllNtSll9dllol llltU tHt dudiIS y
the United Home Protectors fraternity
of Port Huron. Mich. ended with the
i announcement that Supreme Secre
tary w. l.. Wilson is short sum il
excess of $4,000. and his arrest or
the charge of embezzlement.
Orders for 1876 new locomotives ant
$4,000 tons of steel rails have been
placed by the New York Central Rail
| road company.
At Kattowitz. Prussian Silesia. dur
| ing a fire drill in the city school
| there was stampede among the chill
| dren which resulted in ten of the lit
tie ones being trampled by their com
rades until they were unconscious. No
lives We're lost.
King Haakon approved the new
Norwegian cabinet, Gunnar knudsen
being the premier and finance min
lister.
Miss Wilhelmina Crawford. 80 years
old, Lowell, Mass, has adopted as her
son James Butler, who is 46. He was
brought up in her fathers family
When the American battleship fleet
reaches San Francisco next May, Rear
Admiral Thomas will succeed Rear
Admiral Evans as its commander.
Evans will be relieved at his personal
request on account of his i'll health.
Rear Admiral Sperry will bring the
vessels back to the Atlantic.
The Republican state convention of
Iowa elected four delegates atlarge
to the national convention. instructed
them to vote for William H. Taft, in
dorsed Senator William E. Allison by
vote of 672 1924 to 507 1924. and ap-
proved the plank of the Ohio platform
calling for revision of the tariff at a
special session of congress.
W. r. Day, former state treasurer
of Kentucky, was sentenced to one
year in prison for forgery
The government of the African re-
public of Liberia has appealed to
America to protect her territorial in
tegrity against France.
Gov. Wilson of Kentucky signed
the anti-poolroom bill making it law
full to sell pools on race tracks dur
ing race meetings, but not otherwise.
The great cantilever structure over
East river at New York, known as
Blackwells Island bridge, which was
constructed at cost of nearly $685.,
100000, was opened to pedestrians.
Lieut.. Gen. Smirnoff was probably
fatally wounded in a duel fought in st.
Petersburg with Lieut.. Gen. Fock
whose bravery he had questioned in
memorandum on the defense of Port
Arthur.
The old warship Monongahela
burned to the waters edge at her
station at Guatanamo bay. No one
was injured.
The plant of the ]. ]. Newman Lum-
Der company at Hattiesburg, Miss,
the largest sawmill in the state, burned
to the ground with 50,O00,0OO feet of
lumber. The loss will approximate
100000.
The New Jersey Methodist Episco-
pal conference adopted a resolution
asking the United States senate to
close the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposi-
ton on Sundays.
The emperor of Russia confirmed
the death sentence passed upon Lieut..
Gen. Stoessel, and also the courts rec
ommendatiOn for Communication of the
sentence to ten years Imprisonment.
Secretary of War Taft told large
audience in Plymouth church, Brook
Ign. that he believed the colored race
in America would continue to progress
in intellect. learning and industry, and
that it's future was bright.
BY division of to the supreme
court of the United States affirmed the
decision of the United States circuit
court of appeals for the Eighth circuit,
imposing fines on the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy Railway company for
granting, and the packers of Kansas
City, Kan, for accepting rebates on
shipments of packers products intend
ed for export.
Mrs. Selma MattsoI, charged with
killing her husband, Mikoli Mattson,
at Chisholm, Mimi, January IA last,
by sinking double-bitted ak into his
skull, was acquitted by jury.
The litigation over the disposal OF
the London Times was ended by a
court order sanctioning the agree
ment under which a company will be
formed privately to take over the
newspaper and the business connected
with it.
Many Illinois religious and educa-
tional institutions, profit by the will
of the late Wesley B. Harvey, a
wealthy resident of Tazewell county.
Illinois Wesleyan university of Bloom
ington gets 100000, Grand Prairie
seminary at Onarga gets land worth
$4,000 and the central Illinois con.
ference of the Methodist church re.
ceives land valued at $4,000.
Two thousand University of Michi-
gan students wrecked theater in
Ann Arbor which had offended one of
their number twenty-five of the
boys We're arrested.
Largely out of consideration for the
feelings of Japan, the Notifications
budget has been cut down to $S,210,.
Gil from the s3s,443,945 asked by the
war department. The bill was re.
ported by Chairman Smith ST the sub
| committee, to the house committee on
appropriations.
OBITUARY..
William Pinckney Whyte. United