The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-11-03
Allan R. Hawley and Augustus Post

are alive and we'll, and are the cham
| pion balloonists of the world. Word
came from them from the hamlet OF
st. Ambrose, province of Quebec, to
| the effect that their balloon, which
started in the race from st. Louis on
October II, had landed two days later
in the untraversed wilds Of the Chi
coutimi district, about 300 miles
northwest of Quebec.
After having been abandoned by his
crew of seven men and refused, or at
least not furnished food or water,
Capt. E. E. Walls of the schooner Hol-
liswood was picked up 100 miles off
the Campechy banks on October 20,
by the steamship Parkwood, which
brought the wrecked schooner with
about 100000 feet of cypress lumber
Proposed advances in live stock
rates between Missouri river transfers
and Mississippi river transfers and
Chicago were suspended by the inter-
state commerce commission pending
an investigation of their reasonable
ness.
Department of commerce and labor
statistics for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1910, show that United States
imports of wood pulp from all coun-
tries aggregated in value $11, 76S,01A.
After voyage in which many per-
lis, including storms and fires, were
endured, the British steamer Kaisen-
ga has arrived at Boston with car
60 valued at $2,5O0,000 from the far
east.
Economies already introduced in the
administration of the national govern
ment by President Taft and his cab
met ministers amount to more than
$15,000,000 year, according to fig
ures obtained from the treasury de-
partment.
Direct evidence thai Senator STAN
ton G. Pemberton, Senator David w.
Holstlaw and Representative Joseph
s. Clark wanted money for letting the
contract for legislative chamber furni-
ture was brought out on the conspir-
acy case of Pemberton and Clark in
the Sangamon circuit court, Spring
field, ILL.,, when J. w. Knox of Chi
cago, sales agent of the Derby Desk
company, testified.
One hundred lives were blotted out
at Cetara, Italy, and vicinity and prop
erty damage estimated in the hun
dreds of thousands was wrought
along the coasts of the Bay of Naples
and the Gulf of Salerno and on the
islands Of Ischia and Procida by a
peculiar combination of cyclone,
cloudburst, tidal wave and violent
eruptions from Mount Vesuvius and
Mount Epomeo on the island of
1schia.
Plans for extending the federal con-
troll Of food and drug labels to cover
newspaper advertising were discussed
at a conference of officials of the ag-
ricultural department in Washington.
Police Of Chicago are searching for
sneak thieves who robbed j. G. Fos-
ter, travelling agent for D. L. Aud &
Co., manufacturing jewelers., Colum-
bus, o., of $4,000 worth of gems. Eos
ter placed his suit case beside chair
in the Great Northern hotel and STEP
ped up to the resk to register. When
he turned around to pick up the suit
case 1t was missing.
While rain fell in torrents, adding
gloom to the already sorrowful oc
casion, the body of Senator Jonathan
P. Dolliver was laid to rest in Oak
dale cemetery on a hillside overlook
ing the city of Fort Dodge, a. Fol
lowing the ritualistic services of the
church, eulogies were delivered by
Rev. Charles M. Stuart, Chicago; Gov
ernor Carroll of Iowa, Senator Cum
Minis; Bishop William Fraser Mellow.
ell of Chicago.
Great Britain has proposed that all
the powers recognize the Republic OF
Portugal at the same time. Germany
replied approving the suggestion.
One hundred or more lawyers, rep.
resenting every important railroad in
the United States, are holding a secret
meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria, New
York city, discussing the new Mann
Elkins railroad act. They are seeking
for some clause which may be at
tackled on the ground of unconstitu
tionality.
John K Tener, Republican candi
date for governor of Pennsylvania,
swore out warrant for the arrest of
e. A. Van Valkenberg, editor and pres.
ident of the North American company
of Philadelphia, charging him with
criminal libel. The warrant is based
on an attack begun by the North
American on October Is against Mr..
Tener's business integrity.
Neil Wilson, right halfback of the
Wabash Ond.) college football team
is dead and two st. Louis boys are in
jured as a result Of playing reformed
football. All the accidents happened
in mass plays"
With the gradual restoration of
communication along the Florida
coast south of St. Augustine the ex.
tent of the devastation wrought by
tho Moc+ Indian burricano }s hoipo