The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24

after the enginemen had leapeO IRON
the locomotive to escape scalding,
crashed into the Montreal station,
killed four persons and injured 80.
John w. Gates, according to re-
port, is behind a merger of several
steel companies which will fight the
big trust. The new concern IS 10
have $SO0,O0O,0OO capital.
Reports from Rome say the police
of the whole country are making every
effort to arrest the slayers of Lieut..
Petrosino of the New York police de-
partment.
President Taft has accepted an in.
vitation to attend the annual spring
dinner of the Gridiron club April II.
A bust of former ~ e-President
Fairbanks has been placed in the SEN
ate chamber. 1t was given place In
the reserve gallery on the Democratic
side alongside of the bust of the late
Vice-President Hobart.
John w. Wallace and D. w. Lazelle
who have been engaged in a card-play
ing contest for 20 years at Mancelona,
Mich, have played their last game,
Wallace finally winning ten times in
succession. which was the condition
under which they played.
The Japanese naval training squad
ron, consisting of the armored cruiser
Aso and the protected cruiser Soya,
has sailed for Honolulu under COM
mand of Capt. Isoji. The ships carry
$50 cadets of the Japan navy. They
will visit San Francisco and Seattle.
Senior Espinoza, minister from Mic
aragua, told Secretary Knox his coun-
try had no intention of attacking any
of her sister republics and wants
peace.
A general cut of ten per cent. in
wages in all departments of the Penn
sylvania Steel Company's plant at
North Lebanon is announced for
April l. 1t affects all local employees,
numbering about 600.
Secretary of War j. M. Dickinson
has written to the New Orleans Prog.
ressive Union accepting the invitation
of that body to stop over in New Or
leans on his way to visit the Panama
canal.
Saying his conscience hurt him so
badly as to force him to surrender,
E. R. May, wanted for forgery at
Mountain Grove, Mo-, walked into the
sheriff's Office at Alexandria, La, and
gave himself up. He was taken back
to Missouri.
A dog sent to find Joseph Small
wood at Indianapolis returned and led
the mans wife to his dead body. He
had committed suicide.
In debate in parliament fear was
expressed that Germany will soon
outstrip England in naval strength
and be able to wrest the rule of the
seas from Great Britain.
The plan of reorganization of the
Chicago & Great Western railway has
been completed. 1t provides for the
authorization of $60,OO0,OO0 first mort
gage four per cent. bonds, of which
$17,00O,OO0 will be reserved to retire
outstanding divisional bonds.
Peter Augustus Jay, secretary of the
American embassy at Tokyo, and
Miss Susan Alexander McCook, daugh.
ter of Col. John J. McCook, were mar
ried in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church in New York.
Indians in the Mackenzie river dis.
trict of the Hudson's Bay Company are
dying from grip.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has decided that railroads have
been discriminating against Indianapo
lis in favor of Chicago.
Robert Strawser a rural mail car
rier at Flora, ILL.,, killed his three chill
dren and then ended his own life.
Reports received in st. Petersburg
say Persian soldiers are Staying de
fenceless peasants and pillaging vii
lagos.
Joseph Mccarthy, who has been sen
fenced at Danville, ILL.,, to the peniten
tiary, says he will be an evangelis
when he leaves the prison.
The liabilities of Marie Dressler, thu
American actress, who recently re
opened the Aldwych theater in Lon
don, but was compelled to abandon
the enterprise within a few days
amount to $4,000, and the assets tt
$4,000, according to estimates pre-
sented at meeting of the creditors.
Two men were killed and thirt
was seriously injured by the explosion
of the boiler of the Rich icehouse o
the American Ice Company at Farm
ingdale, Me.
Fenton R. McCreery, the American
f minister to Santo Domingo, has ez
, tended the invitation of the Unite
States to the Dominican government
to send a delegate to the Internationa
Congress on the Conservation of M
r tural Resources to meet at The Hagu
3 next September. The invitation probs
; bly, will be accepted.
S BY the arrest of three negroes, on
of whom pawned the dead man
J., watch, the Washington police believ
e they will solve the mystery of tn
e murder of Walter F. Shultz of Oh
e cago, slain near Alexandria, Va.
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