The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-12-30
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w. I. Buchanan was sent to Vene.
zuela to conduct negotiations for a re.
newal of diplomatic relation.
In Whan Chang, the Korean who
killed Durham White Stevens, the
American diplomat and adviser to the
Korean emperor, in San Francisco,
was found guilty of murder in the Sec
ond degree.
Harvey Hazel, the 17-year-old boy,
charged with murder in the first de-
gree for the killing of his mother in
Toledo, o., was found guilty of MUIR
der in the second degree.
More than 1000 persons were made
homeless and 100000 worth of prop
erty was destroyed in a fire which
burned out an entire block of apart.
ment houses in Brooklyn.
The board of trade at Little Rock,
Ark, was destroyed by fire, the loss
being 100000.
A new cabinet was formed in Por-
| trgal with Senior Antonio Azevedo as
premier.
E. H. Harrimans secretary, Albert
G. Welts, denied reports that the phys
ical condition of the financier was
serious.
The Salvation Army prepared Christ.
mas dinners for about 100000 poor
people throughout the country.
President Castro of Venezuela is
charged with forming a conspiracy to
assassinate Acting President Gomez,
who arrested the ringleaders single
handed. Castro's letter of credit was
cancelled. Gomez suspended the Will
lemstad decree and took steps to set
tie all Venezuela's quarrels with other
nations. 1t was believed Castro would
never return from Europe.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas pardoned John
Collins, serving life sentence in the
Kansas state penitentiary for the MUIR
der of his father, ]. S. Collins, a we'll
TODD real estate and insurance man of
Topeka, in 1898. One of the witnesses
against Collins has admitted his testi-
mony was perjured.
The United States Steel Corporation
is planning to build $1O,OO0,O00 town
at the head of Lake Superior, about
six miles from Superior and Duluth,
similar to Gary, Ind.
Fire partly wrecked the Herald
Square theater in New York. The
flames broke out before the perform
ance was over, but through the cool
ness and bravery of the actors and en-
ployes the audience was got out with
out knowing of it's peril.
Leonard Smith, son of Chief of Po-
lice Smith, Charlie Moore and his
brother, Virgil Moore, were killed and
Policeman Cain Walters fatally wound
ed in four-cornered pistol battle
fought in Ocilla, Ga.
Federal authorities began an investi-
cation of the packing industry in Chi
cago.
Dora Fair, 16 years old. and Lewis
Rogers, 20 years old, Cherokee Indians
who eloped from Chouteau, Okla, were
arrested in Kansas City, Mo.
Six severe earthquake shocks threw
the people of Virginia City into a
panic.
Ebert Hubbard, author and lecturer,
was badly crushed by a falling tree
near East Aurora, N. Y.
Acting President Gomez of Vene-
zuela ousted all the members of Cas-
tro's cabinet and formed a new min
istry.
On charges of bribery and con-
spiracy, President William Brand of
the common council or Pittsburg, Pa,
six members of the finance committees
of the common and select councils,
and w. M. Ramsey president, and A.
A. Vilsack, cashier, of the German Ma
tional, one of Pittsburg's leading !
banks, were arrested.
Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne of |
Chicago completed the payment of |
$152,S20 to the government and has
possession of the valuable tapestries
and art works seized by customs Of
ficials when they We're imported from
England last July.
A. B. Stickney, president and one
of the receivers of the Chicago Great
Western railway, resigned his receiver
ship of that road and H. G.. Burt was
appointed to the place.
Seized with sinking spell while
driving an electric automobile, Mrs
Clara Courtwright, aged GO years, of
Waterloo, Ia, fell from the machine
and was run over by it and killed
The Frankfurter Zeitung learns from
a reliable source that Austria Hungary
is prepared to grant Turkey S20,000,.
900 as compensation for the annexa-
ton of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The jury in the case of state against
James H. Parrish, an Greensboro (Ky)
banker charged with receiving a de.
post when his bank, the Owensboro
Savings Bank and Trust Company,
was insolvent, reported that it could
not agree, and was discharged.
Father James A. Kelly of Paterson,
N. j., on his way to Ireland, fell or
jumped overheard from the steamer
Arabic and was drowned.
John Robb Murdoch, member of a
prominent Pittsburg, Pa, family, COM
mtted suicide in hospital.
M. Matter, the public prosecutor in
his conclusion to the Paris
court in the suit involving the custody
of the CaStellane children recon- |