The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-02-24

United States army, says America is
more in danger of war than 1t ever has
been in the past and urges that the
country be prepared for conflict.
Statements which President-elect
Taft has made to persons who had the
privilege of limited discussion with
him of his cabinet plans, led to the
conclusion that it is as good as settled
that Judge Jacob M. Dickinson of
Chicago and Tennessee will be secre-
tary of war.
&C. M. Garnet" who attempted to
blackmail Lawrence M. Jones, Kan
sas City (Mo.) merchant, out OF $1,000
by threatening to blow him to atoms
with bomb, confessed that he is
Robert Benjamin Bledsoe and that he
lived on farm five miles north of Dali
las, Tex. He has wife and two chill
dren.
Woman's suffrage legislation is out
Of the question in Oklahoma for two
years. The senate by vote of 81 to
Is sustained the unfavorable report of
the committee on the bill granting
suffrage to both sexes.
The house of representatives of
Montana by a vote of 80 to "a re-
jected the senate miscegenation bill
which forbids intermarriage between
Caucasians and Africans, Mongolians
and persons of African or Monaghan
descent.
Delegates to the tariff convention
in Indianapolis were unanimous in
their denunciation of the present sys-
tenn and speeches demanding reforms
were made at the opening session.
Planning an attack on parliament
from an airship, Miss Muriel Matters,
a suffragette, made an ascension in
London, but feeble motor spoiled the
aerial voyage and she did not reach
Westminster where she intended to
drop the literature of her organization.
The police were guarding the square
which prevented access other than by
airship.
Three lives were lost in the wreck
OF an Illinois Central train near Muir
physboro, ILL.,, and about thirty per-
sons were hurt. A broken rail caused
the crash.
Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria were
visited by an earthquake which caused
100 deaths in Sivas, Turkey, and de-
stroyed the city. Other towns were
damaged and the people terror
stricken.
Consul Moorehead telegraphed to
the state department at Washington
that no Americans lost their lives in
the fire which killed 800 persons at
Acapulco, Mex.
The Racine police arrested Jimmy"
Morgan. one of the most notorious
bank sneaks in the country for the
theft Of $4,000 from the First Ma
uonal bank in Milwaukee, He con-
fessed saying he had four accomplices
Capt. Mogg and five men who set
out IA months ago to explore the arc.
tic regions and were given up as lost,
have been heard from. They are at
Point Barrow, according to message
received at Port Townsend.
After sensational filibuster, lasting
several days, it appears that Prohibi-
ton has been killed in South Caro-
lima. The senate has a majority of
four for local option and the house is
equally as close.
The lives of many guests who were
asleep in the Hotel Clarendon at Sea
Breeze, Fla, were saved by the night
clerk who warned them of the danger
of fire which destroyed the hostelry
and burned ten cottages nearby.
Niagara falls, for the third time
in history, is nearly dry. A gale has
clogged the ice in the river until the
American side is only tiny rivulet
and but little water is running on the
Canadian side.
The Anti-Saloon league and other
temperance forces want special ses-
sion of the legislature called in Ken
lucky to aid them in their battle to
make the state, which stands second
in the production of whisky, dry.
With the wind blowing a gale and
driving sleet in their faces, Toledo (O)
firemen carried Is women down lad
ders to safety when a blaze routed out
the tenants in four-story apartment
house.
Fifty-two bodies have been recov-
cred from the wrecked steamer Pen.
gum of the Union Steamship Company
of Wellington, which went on the
rocks off Cape Terawhiti Six of those
aboard the Penguin are unaccounted
for.
Replies were made in the house at
Washington to Representative Raineys
attack on the purchase of the Pana-
ma canal route. President-elect' Taft,
his brother Charles P. Taft and Will
liam Nelson Cromwell were defended
by Mr.. Lowering.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
left Berlin where they have been Wis.
iting Kaiser Wilhelm for four days.
Attorney General Major of Missouri
asked the state supreme court to make
effective it's decision ousting the
Standard Oil Company. The company
paid the $4,000 fine and recently Of
fered to take the state into partner
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