The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-08-04
Following the purchase Of the So

. called Pearson syndicate's holdings {
securities in the Rock Island, Lehig
valley, Wabash, Denver and Ri
: Grande and Western Pacific SYSTEM
the new combine, made up chiefly {
American interests, will soon put int
operation the coast to coast railroad
< This scheme in transportation involve
) over 10000 miles of railroad and tota
} capital aggregating $3,000.000,0
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville Brooks an,
} Mrs. c. H. Thoring were killed a mill
] east OF Etna Green, Ind, when fas
Pennsylvania freight train, east-bound
J struck the automobile in which the!
were riding. Mr.. Thoring was severe
~, but not dangerously, hurt.
The Keystone party was formed Al
Philadelphia to oppose the nominees
OF both the Republican and Democrat
1c parties in Pennsylvania. The con
! vention, composed of 1T delegates
from So counties, denounced both the
old parties as being under the domino
ton Of the liquor industries. William
II. Berry was nominated for governor
While Governor Harmon fastened
to Columbus, o., to take charge of a
menaclng situation in the street car
strike, officers of the Ohio state guard
took over the virtual government of
the city and the streets bristled with
armed men marshaled to prevent an
outbreak which has threatened for
several days.
President Taft sent the following
dispatch to Warren G. Harding, Re-
publican nominee for governor Of
Ohio: Il sincerely congratulate you
on your nomination and earnestly
hope that you will be elected"
Thirty passengers of st. Clair ave-
nue. car were near death when the
Plttsburg flyer on the Pennsylvania
railroad crashed int othe car on
grade crossing in Cleveland, o. Twen-
ty were injured, several fatally.
The fact that the Pinkerton detec.
tives, hired to ferret out the supposed
slayer of Ira G. Rawn, president Of
the Monon railroad, who met his death
in mysterious manner at his Winnet-
ka Qll) home on July 20, after inves-
tlgating the case, came to the conclu-
sion that the case was one of suicide,
not murder, was the most significant
fact brought out at the first session
OIL the coroner's inquest into the death
OF the railroad magnate.
Nebraska Democrats at the conven-
ton minimized the action of the dele
gates in repudiating w. ]. Bryan's
county option plank. They say the
action was not reputation of Bryan
as leader, but was merely a turn
ing down of one of the issues which
Bryan advocated. They add that the
plank referred only to local conditions
and that Bryan's standing is un-
shaken.
That conditions in the west are bet
ter than they have been for years,
that the crops, in spite of the droughts,
are going to show excellent returns
for the farmers, are some of the con-
illusions reached by President w. G.
Brown of the New York Central rail-
road, after ten days of personal OBJ
servation in Iowa, Minnesota, the two
After bitter wrangle in the resolu-
tons committee, the Iowa Democratic
state convention adopted local op-
lion plank, thereby putting the liquor
question which has been thorn in
me flesh of both parties for years,
'quarely up to the people.
A sweeping general strike order, in.
'olving SO locals and $4,000 men en-
gagged in the building trades was is
sued by the business agents of the
Chicago Building Trades council aft
sr long conference.
Consul Miller at Tampico, Mexico,
las telegraphed to the state depart
nent at Washington that the British
steamship Madawaska has reported
eefng in latitude 1898, longitude 69.56,
greenwich west, water-logged bark,
famed Come. with the stern stove in.
A Washington ID. CO. dispatch says
hat newspapers in Hankow, Papeh
rovince. China, are opposing the for
ign loan of $40,000,000 and advise the
eople to subscribe for the amount
themselves. The loan is for railroad
uilding.
The platform convention of the Re- i,
ublican party of Nebraska at Lincoln =
aopted the platform strongly in =
orsing the administration of Presi-
emit Taft, expressing unalterable op. .
osition to the system known as Can. :
onism" and hearty sympathy with the
movement in and out of con. \
ress.
Not single complaint by the police Y
the illegal sale of liquor in New =,
ork city on Sunday was recorded q
lring the twenty-four hours ending :
midnight. This condition is unpre. +
,dented and is the climax to three
onths of the operation of Mayor !
aynor's plan for enforcement of the
;cise law.
Chief of Police Steward has placed
10 Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures un- Il