The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-05-11

their ways into the criminal courtroom
Mrs. Logan d. Swope went on the wi
ness stand and, generally speaking
calmly gave a synopsis of the Swop
tragedies. With Mrs. Swope's test
mony in the state rested it's case.
President Taft gave vigorous dc
nunciation of William J. Bryan for tn
letters of criticism of the appointment
OF Gov. Charles E. Hughes of New
York as associate justice of the Unite,
States Supreme court. Mr.. Taft de
cried the cant of the demagogue" an,
the disposition of public journals" t.
make unjust charges against men IL
public life. "All I am speaking fol
Is justice and square DEAL" he said
mot especially for myself, for, indeed
l am In position where I can gel
! along better than some OF the rest
without 1t. But am appealing for
justice in dealing with all classes"
Mr.. Taft was speaking at luncheon
given by the Business Mems league
in st. Louis.
Recent rioting in Chang-Sha prov.
1nce, China, has placed that country
In an embarrassing position regarding
the proposed Hankow-Canton railway
loan, and it is believed that the dis
order was planned previously by de-
signing persons.
Fired by Greek verse recited by the
poet Spiros Matsoukas, 1000 men,
bers of the Greek colony at Man.
chester, N. H., have subscribed $780,
600 toward an American fund for
Greek battleship, to be christened the
New Generation.
An experiment carried out in Lon.
don shows it is possible to diagnose
heart troubles by telephone, dis.
lance of 100 miles. Physicians, using
an ordinary telephone, on the 1sle-of-
Wight, listened interestedly to the
beating Of woman's heart in London.
While circus elephant was on
rampant at Marietta, o., William
Evans, who had taken refuge on a
wagon, fell and was killed. Samuel
was trampled by the ami
NAL and fatally hurt.
Isaac Quigno, the famous old Indian
chief Of Hartford, Mich, will soon
take the trail" for Washington to
consult President Taft about the Chi
'ago lake front, which is claimed by
The Pottawatomie tribe.
Syracuse IN. W police are search.
ng for clever thief, who. hatless and
,oatless, robbed the First National
bank there of $1,000 while the pres.
dent, Charles w. Snow, was in an.
other department.
The administration railroad bill
virtually was ripped to pieces in the
senate. The slashing was not confined
% the upper branch alone, for the
house bored several big holes in the
measure. When the dismantling proc.
ass was halted by adjournment the
Taft measure was so badly disfgured
hat Attorney General Wickersham,
who drafted it under the eye of the
president, would have found 1t diff.
cult to recognize it.
Edgar Street Cooke of Chicago, who
las been much in the limelight during
he last several months, was indicted
~ the Hamilton county (Ohio) grand
ury on a charge of stealing $4,000
rom the funds of the Big Four rail.
DAD.
Grand jury investigation of the legis-
alive bribery scandal was temporarily
alted at Chicago by the absence of =
tate's Attorney Wayman, who went ,,
orth supposedly in search of evidence !,
corroborate the story of Repre-
Charles A. White.
The funeral of Bjornstjerne Bjorn.
On, the Norwegian writer, who died 9
gently in Paris, was held at Chris.
anla with imposing ceremonies. It .
as attended by the king and queen, r
e members of the various legations :
I'd many high officials. :
The decree of the supreme court of =
ousting the Standard Oil =
of Kentucky from doing =
siness in the state of Tennessee,
as affirmed by the Supreme court of
e United States.
A formal protest against the con-
nation of Charles E. Hughes as an
soc1ate justice of the United States =
preme court was filed with the sen. !,
e judiciary committee at Washington =
the American Antitrust league. :.
President Taft ended his two days -
ay in Pittsburg with speech at the :,
ant day dinner in which he paid a :,
r1king tribute to the secretary Of !,
ate, Mr.. Knox. He vigorously de- :,
nded and justified the secretary's -
caraguan policy, flayed those who -
vented the phrase dollar diploma :
)" with the idea of bringing con- =
npt to policy in which he said the :.
ton is vitality interested and con- =
lded with the declaration that the -
cord of the state department during !"
first year of the present admins. a