The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-17

| Urry Jones, who was on trial fol
murder in Muscatine, Ia, committed
suicide in Jail a few hours before the
time set for him to take the witness
stand in his own behalf.
Col Davidson. equerry to King Ed
ward, denied the report that the Brit
-, ish ruler is seriously i'll.
Gov. Carroll of Iowa says John
Junken, the negro slayer of Clara
Rosen at Ottumwa, shall not pc
| lynched if it takes all the militia IN
the state to protect him.
Plans We're made at a meeting IN
| Chicago for the entertainment of 49,
900 visitors when the peace conference
is held May and 5.
| March 80 has been set as the date
| for the trial in Kansas City of James
| Sharp, known as adam God,' and
| Melissa Sharp, his wife, religious fana-
| tics, charged with the murder OF Po-
liceman Michael P. Mullane.
A bill to enact the initiative and ref
erendum was defeated in the Nebraska
senate by vote of II to 16.
The New York assembly ways and
means committee gave little encour-
agement to the representatives of eth
| ical societies, charity organizations,
trade unions and New York city
churches, who appeared in favor Of the
Bales bill providing for an investiga-
ton into the condition of the unem-
ployed.
Should the miners in the anthracite
fields continue their demands for an
eight-hour day and other concessions,
it is believed a strike is certain to
follow.
The Standard Oil Company of Indi-
ana and the Republic Oil Company
have lost their cases in the Missouri
supreme court and must give up their
business in that state.
In his address to the jury in the
Cooper-C armack murder case at Nash
vile, Tenn, Gen. Meeks of counsel for
the defense pleaded the unwritten law
Seven students of the Eastern Illi-
nois Normal school at Charleston were
arrested on charges Of rioting, made
by the father of young man whom
they ducked.
Kingdom Gould, son Of George Gould,
was elected director of the Missouri
Pacific Railway Company, which is
controlled by his father.
Officers were elected by delegates
to the convention of the United Mine
Workers of America, district No. H.,
convention at Terre Haute, Ind. w. P.
Rollins of Linton is president.
More than thirty persons, fourteen
of whom were white, were killed and
sixty were injured by tornado which
destroyed Brinkley, Ark.
The chamber of deputies of France
passed the income tax bill by 407 votes
to 1865.
Former Gov. Frederick Holbrook of
Vermont, one of the three surviving
war governors and the oldest ex-
governor in the United States, is dan.
gerously ill with bronchitis at his
old.
Opposition to President Tafts sug
gestion of a federal inheritance tax
as a means of raising revenue, has ap
peared in the Connecticut general as
sembly.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua, it il
reported, has called another confer
ence between his own country, Hon
duras, Guatemala, Salvador and Costa
RIGA, with the view of arranging per
manent peace for Central America.
Convicted bankers, who are prison
ers in the Western penitentiary O.
Pennsylvania, have found a discrep
, ancy of $4,000 in the accounts of the
prison on which they were put to worl
to make an investigation.
, Nine persons lost their lives in /;
tornado which swept several countie!
in Arkansas. The ruins of Brinkle,
caught fire after the wind had don,
it's damage.
Capt. Fitzhugh, one of counsel TO
fore the jury and bitterly denounce'
the slayers of former Senator Car
mack.
Joseph B. Healing, United States
district attorney at Indianapolis, rath
er than assist in the prosecution o
Delavan Smith and Charles R. vii
liams, indicted in connection with tn,
Panama libel case, has resigned.
That the tide of immigration Il
: again on the flood was apparently in
: Dictated when 1900 immigrants arrive,
7 in Boston on the steamer Romani
5 from Mediterranean ports. This is tn
largest number landing from an
). steamer at Boston for 16 months.
S On mis- first Sunday as chief exec,
2 tive President Taft walked to the I'm
, tartan church. At Oyster Bay, Thee
dore Roosevelt, whom he succeeded
|, did the same thing.
k A man believed to be Walter I
o Schultz of Chicago was found dead
o Alexandria, Va, across the river fro1
e Washington. 1t is believed he wa
murdered.
J. In January last there was fallin
d off of about $5O,OOO,OOO in the tot;
l. value Of the country's exports as con
n pared with those of January, 1905