The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-05-25

TRULY, the station agent, was loading
baggage on to train.
| Assistant Attorney General Oscar
Lawler admitted under cross-examina.
til by Attorney Brandeis in the Bal
linger-Pinchot investigation that three
years ago L. r. CLAWS cast reflections
on his competency to conduct the
prosecution of certain land fraud
cases while he was United States at
torney for the southern district of Cal
ifornia. He said it had been dem
onstrated then that CLAWS was un.
truthful.
Steel manufacturing concerns In
Pennsylvania We're characterized as
human slaughter houses" and it was
charged that in the hospitals "wilful
murder" was committed on the theory
that dead men were less expensive
, than cripples, at hearing before the
senate committee on public health, by
Arthur E. Holder, legislative agent Of
the American Federation of Labor.
Rev. Charles Little of Wabash, Ind,
was elected moderator of the Presby-
terrain general assembly of the United
States at Atlantic City, N. ].
With one hand John A. Hall, for
years treasurer of the South Bridge
Savings bank, Worcester, Mass,
reached into the banks funds and
stole large sums of money. With the
other hand he disbursed the stolen
cash to charity and religion. In the
last 20 years, Hall says he has appro-
prated $4,000.
The Elgin butter trust either has
melted away or has slipped through
the fingers of the government trust
busters, according to information that
came out of the department of justice
at Washington.
The sessions of the thirty-sixth an.
ual meeting of the National Conference
of Charities and Correction attracted
hundreds Of philanthropists, social
economists and social workers to st.
Louis.
Thousands of persons marching in
double file or either side of the cata-
falque on which rests the coffin of Ed.
ward VII. passed through Westminster
hall, and when the doors were closed
at night there were seemingly miles of
them still in line.
Two almost simultaneous explosions
of dynamite, supposed to consist of
5000 pounds, completely demolished
the rural guard barracks in the city of
Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Fully hundred
persons were killed and nearly as
many were wounded.
The excursion steamer Uncle Sam
collided with sand barge in the Mis-
souri, river, at the foot of Grand ave-
nue., Kansas City, and sank. One hun
dred and fifty passengers, Is of them
women. had narrow escapes from
death.
The steamer Faustin foundered in
the Detroit river, one mile east of Bar
Point lightship. The crew of seven
men took to small boats and were
picked up and taken to Amherstburg,
Ont.
A jury which tried DR.. Guessing Ha-
tired Chase Jordan, who administered
"yarbs" to the Swope family, on
charge of practising medicine without
a license, disagreed at Kansas City,
Kan.
Lieut.. B. D. Foulois has been expert
menting with the army's Wright aero
plane at Fort Sam Houston, Tex, by
placing the rudder of the aeroplane in
front and constructing a new rudder
for the rear. Two flights were made
with this change and the speed of the
machine was increased about ten miles
an hour.
Martin Hughes Gerry, fleet engineer
under Admiral David Farragut at the
battle of Mobile bay, died at his home
in Minneapolis, MINI. Mr.. Gerry made
an enviable record in the United
States navy in the civil war and served
in the Spanish-American war.
Bart Mae, special officer, and David
Allison fought out an old feud in the
midst of the centennial celebration
throng at San Bernardino, Cal. Allison
fell dead with four bullets through the
body.
Forty-seven workmen were drowned
through the upsetting of a boat in
which party of "a laborers was be.
ing carried across the River Dnieper,
near Alexandrovsky, Russia.
The National German Press Club as.
ISOLATION began a celebration of its
twenty-1ifth anniversary in New York.
The biggest convention of Socialists
ever held in the United States opened
in Chicago with delegates present
from every state and territory and
from Europe.
Mrs. Grace Hartenstein, wife of
Frederick Hartenstein, superintendent
of the Long Island railroad, commit
ted suicide in her apartments at New
York by taking poison.
Large attendance marked the open
ing of the National Conference of Jew
ish Charities in st. Louis.
William Powers was released from
the Missouri penitentiary at Jefferson
City, where he has been serving a
two-year sentence, on his promise to
marry Miss Mamie Snann of CAN'T