The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-09-08

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rates within the state of Illinois were
made at Springfield by the Illinois
railroad and warehouse commission
Existing tariffs were slashed in two
in many instances and on small pack
ages the reduction is in excess OF 81
per cent. The reduction is made ef
fective October Is, and the companies
are preparing for a finish fight.
The audit of the $42,500 election ex'
pense account Of Joseph G. Sibley, Re-
publican nominee for congress from
Pennsylvania, has been postponed un-
til September 10.
Harry M. Daugherty of Columbus is-
! sued formal statement declaring his
candidacy for the United States sena-
torship from Ohio.
The Roosevelt, Commander Robert
E. Peary's ship of discovery, narrow
| ly escaped serious injury from fire at
Weehawken, N. J.
Scientists on the leper island in the
Hawaiian group, 1t is reported, have
discovered a bacillus that will soon
cure the disease.
The Kansas insurgent Republicans
had good working majority in the
party council at Topeka and carried
everything by storm. The standpat.
tiers, realizing the overwhelming vote
OF the primary, decided not to make
any effort to oppose the insurgents
senator Curtis was the only one who
even made an attempt to stem the
tide He tried to get an unqualified
endorsement of President Taft into
the platform, but failed
Charles A. White was recalled to
the stand in the Lee O'Neil Browne
trial at Chicago in an effort of the de-
tense to lay the foundation for i'm
parchment of his testimony He was
asked one question and was followed
immediately by witness who de-
clared that Whites reply was false.
The Central Boxboard company
plant, owned by Armour & Co. at Ster-
ling, H. was destroyed by fire with a
loss of $150.00O.
At New York the bull leaders in
the cotton market have issued a state
ment predicting the greatest cotton
famine the country has known since
the civil war, a crop of not more than
l2,oooO0O bales. and 20-cent cotton.
August cotton sold at 20 cents a
pound on the New York cotton ex-
change, establishing a new high record
for the staple, not only for this move
ment, but also marking the highest
price at which cotton has been sold
since 1873.
mob of 1000 people battled with
the Columbus, O., police and militia
when street car rioting broke out with
fresh fury. Struck down by the clubs
of policemen, four were seriously in
jured, one, deputy sheriff, mistaken
for rioter, may die. Fifty rioters
were arrested and locked in the city
prison.
Vice-President James S. Sherman,
in an address at Decatur, Ill.,, on "The
Gospel of Republicanism," failed to
follow the lead Of President Taft in
advocating a gradual revision of the
tariff in accordance with recommends.
tons of the tariff commission.
Salt Palace, structure built on
salt, and one of the scenic features of
Salt Lake City, Utah, was DESTROYED
by fire, entailing an uninsured loss of
$4,000. Defective wiring was the
cause of the blaze
With three companies of state mi
lltla under personal command of Adjt
Gen. Elliott on guard and machine
gun in front of the county Jail at
Huntington, w. Va, no further rioting
is anticipated by the mobs which for
two successive nights stormed the
jail in an effort to lynch John Wayne
and Charles Clyburn, alleged negro
murderers
A letter from Godhaven, Greenland,
received at Copenhagen, says it is
certain that DR.. Frederick A. Cook is
on his way to find the records which
he claims to have left near the North
Pole. The letter says everybody in
Greenland still believes that DR.. Cook
reached the North Pole and that some
day he will return with the proofs.
Hawley II. Crippen, the American
dentist, and Ethel Glare Leneve, his
typist, were accused of the murder of
Belle Elmore, the formers wife, in the
formal charge read to them in the
Bow street police court, London. After
the Introduction of some evidence
they were remanded until September
6, without having pleaded.
Neighbors discovered that burglars
had ransacked the home of Harry
Morris, in Putnam avenue, Brooklyn,
while he was on vacation. One of the
thieves wore silk hat and frock coat.
The police were notified
President Taft's keynote letter ad.
dressed to William B. Mckinley of
Illinois, chairman of the Republican
congressional committee, and was
given out by the New York headquar-
tiers of the committee. In it the presi-
dent defends the Payne tariff law, but
acknowledges that there are parts of
ii which may be amenable to change.
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