The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-12-15


Federal and local authorities at
Leechburg, Pa, are seeking alleged
Black Hand members who have
threatened the life of ex-Congressman
Beale.
Inquiry by the coroner's jury into
the causes of the st. Paul mine dis
aster at Cherry, ILL.,, came to an alb.
rupt close without a verdict being
reached or any steps being made to
fix the responsibility for the attending
loss of life. The jurors refused to con-
slider the finding of a verdict until two
missing witnesses were produced.
Adam Pietrzyk. aged 25 years, has
confessed to the Milwaukee police
! that he murdered Hattie linda, IA
years old, on November IL and impli-
Gated Karl Wojciechowski, who is
also under arrest.
Thirty-fve passengers on a street
| car were injured, none fatally, and
few seriously, when the car was
struck by an inbound Pennsylvania
passenger train at an Indianapolis
street crossing and hurled 80 feet.
Given carbolic acid by her daughter
oy mistake for brandy, Mrs. William
Tate of Toledo, O., i'll with tubercu-
losls. died before medical aid could
reach her.
George Preston Sheldon, deposed
president of the Phenix Fire Insurance
Company of Brooklyn lying at deaths
door at his Greenwich Comm home,
was indicted for larceny in the first
degree by the grand jury in New York
Tor alleged misrepresentation of funds
of the company, of which he was the
head for % years.
William Crandall, on trial for the
killing of his wife at Battle Creek,
Mich, last August, was found guilty
OF murder in the first degree by jury
at Marshall Mich. Crandall cut his
wife's throat
Ex-President Cardenas of Nicara-
qua, who was overthrow by Zelaya
in 1891, has taken the field against
his old enemy and is heading an ex-
petition from Costa RIGA into Mica
ragua, according to advices received
at New Orleans by the sympathizers
OF the revolutionary movement in the
latter country.
The New York Times printed the re-
markable narrative of two men, made
under oath, declaring that they were
employed by DR. Frederick A. Cook to
fabricate astronomical and other OBJ.
servatlons for submission to the Uni.
Verslty OF Copenhagen, which is about
TO pass upon DR.. Cooks assertion that
he discovered the north pole on April
III, 1913. The men are George H.
Dunkle, an Insurance broker of New
York, and Capt. August Wedel Loose,
a sea captain of Brooklyn. For their
labors they were to have received
Jointly from DR.. Cook $4,000. They
say that DR.. Cook had paid them only
$3.50 when he disappeared on the eve
OF the dispatch of his records" to
Copenhagen, and his failure to pay
the sum remaining due them, they
freely acknowledged to be their mo-
tive for coming forward with the
story.
For the first time in the history of
American banking, statements show
ing in detail the condition of practical
ly every banking institution in the
United States at given hour have
been obtained by the national none
tary commission. Report was made at
the close of business April %, 1909 The
total resources of all establishments
reach $21, 100,O 100000; loans, $685.
100000; investments in bonds, etc.,
$4,614, O00,000; due from banks, $780,
100000; cash on hand, including $780,
100000 in gold coin and certificates,
81 ,432, 100000; other resources, $1,O94,-
100000; capital, $1,000 100000; surplus
and profits, $1,S35, 100000; due to
banks, $2,4S4, 10000; deposits, includ.
Ing government deposits, $14,106,000,-
300; other liabilities. $87,000,OOO.
$2,500,000 hospital for the treat
ment Of New York sufferers from tu-
oerculosis will be completed during
he coming year. The hospital will
provide for more than 1000 patients.
The firebrand of war has again been
hurled against the 1907 Root peace
compact with Central American gov
'rnmcnts and the Nicaragauan situa-
ion rendered more acute. The repub-
ic of Honduras has declared martial
aw In order to repel an invasion head
I'd by the former president, Manuel
3onilla.
After refusing for % days to eat,
saying he would wait till God ordered
him to take food, William Tippin of
Rome, Ga, broke his fast when he
discovered that members of his fam
ly had placed whites of eggs in the
water he drank.
Thirtythree American steel firms
and individual agents for steel COM
oanies were found not guilty of collu-
sive bidding for city steel contracts, in
he superior court at Boston, after an
II weeks trial.
Six women fell to the floor fainting
and exhausted during the twenty
fourth and twenty-fifth hours of the
n rat hon danca at Rutto To,+