The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-29

affairs Of the island republic by Feb
ruary.
Two hundred and eighty-eight col
Ners lost their lives in an explosion
in the Little Hutton colliery of the
Hutton Colliery company, just outside
of Bolton, Eng. Ten were taken out
alive, all in serious conditions from
gases.
The Illinois supreme court held the
legislative primary act providing for
the nomination of members of the low
er house of the legislature valid in a
decision handed down. Three opin-
ions were handed down by the court,
as the members are divided as to the
Interpretation of the act.
Fire destroyed the recently con
structed cornmeal mill and package
department of the Great Western
Cereal company at Fort Dodge, a. The
loss Is $4,000, partly covered by in.
surance.
Mrs. Carrie Kersh, charged with
murder in connection with the death
of w. A. Johnson, whose body was
found in a trunk, was found guilty OF
manslaughter at Portland, Ore.
Joseph Hoffman, the young farmer
who attacked Miss Mazo Clark, a
teacher, at Big Hollow, ILL.,, November
1, was found guilty at Peoria and sen.
fenced to Is years in prison.
One woman was drowned and Ave
men narrowly escaped death in the
waters of the old basin canal, New Or
leans, when an automobile in which
Jessie Smith and four male compan'
ions were riding plunged over the
embankment into 20 feet of water.
Burns received when her dress
caught fire as she was showing her
christmas shopping" to her little SIS
ter caused the death in New York Of
eight-year-old Ethel O'Connor, daugh-
ter Of Judge K. O'Connor of the mu-
nicipal court.
Relations between western railroad
managers and the Brotherhood Of Lo.
connective Engineers are becoming so
strained that an open rupture may
take place within the next few days.
In spite of conciliatory efforts Of La.
Dor Commissioner DR.. G. P. Neill
at Chicago neither side has conceded
a single point nor evinced desire to-
yield little to preserve peace.
John D. Rockefeller has given the
University of Chicago another $780,
100000. Announcement of this fact
was made at the university convoca-
ton by Martin A. Ryerson, chairman
of the board of trustees. In making
the gift Mr.. Rockefeller said that he
retired from all connection with the
university and would give it nothing
more. His total gifts in FL years ag-
gregate $35,000,00o.
Frank Wilson was slain in New York
with a jagged slivered stick made
from broken broom handle. The po-
lice have arrested Mr.. and Mrs. Au-
gust Miller, owners of the house in
which Wilson lived.
Forty members of sect having
headquarters at Benton Harbor, Mich,
ignoring tenet in their faith which
forbids marriage, were welded. Thir-
teen of the couples were united at one
ceremony.
A. Gilbert Wheeler, seventy years
old, consul for the republic of Panama
and, decade ago, a professor in chem
istry in the University of Chicago, was
arrested at Chicago on orders from
Assistant United States District
Attorney Hubert, charged with mis-
branding and adulterating headache
powders.
8. Cahen, twenty-six years old, son
of F. Cahen, a well-to-do retired mer-
chant, was beaten to death by three
men with clubs in vacant lot at Los
Angeles, Cal.
Forty-two wounded government SOL
diers have been brought in at Chihua-
hua, Mexico. confirming reports that
the troop train which left there De-
cember II was shot to pieces in the
trap known as Malpaso,
few miles east of Pedernales. The Of
fetal report states that the federals
lost FL killed and that ten are missing
and AZ wounded.
Italians of Newburg, N. Y, have re-
ceived circulars from Erie, Pa, in
which they are invited to buy special
territory for the distribution of coun-
terfeit 81, IS and $40 notes.
The general British elections have
come to close, with every indication
of a net gain of one for the govern
ment coalition. The elections have
upset entirely the calculations of the
who had seriously expected
to gain not less than 20 seats. On the
contrary, the unionists are likely in
the end to suffer net loss of one.
The heart of New York was shaken
by terrible explosion of Illuminating
gas in the auxiliary power house of
the Grand Central station. Nine per-
sons, two of them women, were kill
I'd. four others who are missing are be-
ieved to be dead, 1875 were injured and
property damaged to the extent OF
100000
Col Theodore Roosevelt's travelling
expense while president are to be in
vestigated by special committee of
he hDuSp for the nurnOSa Of ascertain.