The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-23

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carried in to be sworn as member
of the new parliament.
Japanese commercial interests al
Tokyo are pleased with the action oil
the United States in granting that
country minimum tariff rates, but
they express the hope that the Amer
lean congress will not pass the Hayes
exclusion bill.
That more than million persons In
New York are strangers to the bath
tub is the report Of Lawrence WELLER
director of the tenement-house COM
mittee of the Charity Organization SO.
ciety.
A tragedy was narrowly averted at
Uniontown, Pa, when the shaft Of q
sleigh drawn by a runaway horse
caught Miss Helen Shaneberger BY
her high couture and dragged her
more than hundred yards.
Shooting over his shoulder with a
revolver taken from a table drawer,
Jacob Bzdek killed robber in his real
estate office at Chicago. and was him
self seriously wounded in the head
from a shot fired by the dying man as|
he fell.
Because he refused to give a trans
fer to passenger on his car Herman,
Bierman, conductor on the Kankakee
line, Is dead at his home in Harvey,
ILL.,, with bullet in his brain. Joseph
Schmell, young Austrian, who shot
B1erman, fought two policemen and
the motorman an unequal duel in the
car before he was overpowered.
| How the American Bridge Company
set aside money with which to pur-
chase legislation and also the defeat
OF legislation in the New York general
assembly was coolly recited by Sen
ator Conger In the Aids bribery in
vestigation at Albany, N. Y.
The forces Of President Madriz have
again taken possession of Matagalpa,
which on February 10 was occupied by
Gen. Chamorro, one of the insurgent
leaders. The government forces had
heavy guns on the hills, but the in
surgents were without means to reply
at long range. Chamorro therefore
deemed it advisable to retreat. and
under cover of darkness evacuated
Matagalpa. !
locomotive on the Tionesta Valley
railroad toppled over on John Abram-
son near OIL City, Pa, but he escaped
death when the engines fall was
stopped by the heavily packed snow.
Two children of Clifford Piersee,
four years and one year old, were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed the Piersee home, near Center
vile, la.
The Battle Creek sanitarium is lost
to Battle Creek, Mich. Judge Parkin.
son handed down a decision of I'M
conditional custer for nonpayment of
taxes.
The Paris Figaro announces that
President Fallieres will give grand
fete at the Elysee palace on the occa-
here.
The Pacific Navigation Company's
steamer Lima Is ashore on one Of the
islands of the Huamblin Passage of
the Straits of Magellan, and will prob
ably be total loss. The chief pilot
and SO passengers we're drowned. Two
hundred and five persons were saved i
by the steamer strahurst, but S8 peo-
pie were left aboard the Lima, their
rescue being impossible.
A 14-year-old daughter of Perry
Tedder was found stabbed to death in
the yard of her parents home at Glen
wood, Fla. A posse is hunting negro
suspect.
Judge Dana Of the United States
district court at Topeka, Kan, held
that Attorney General Jackson had
failed to make a case against the in
surance companies in Kansas whom
he charged some time ago with being
in trust
Seven men were severely scalded,
two of them probably fatally burned,
as result of the explosion of
boiler tube in the forward fireroom of
the torpedo boat destroyer Hopkins.
commanded by Lieut. E. Fredericks, at
San Diego, Cal.
Marked advance of the merit sys-
tenn in the government service is
shown by the twenty-sixth annual re-
port of the United States civil service
commission. submitted to President
Taft.
That former President Roosevelt
may lead the antarctic expedition to
be sent from the United States was
the statement made by Prof Donald
Mcmillan, the scientific member of
Commander Peary's successful north
pole party.
A small tornado, which passed over
the country about Griffin, Fla, un-
rooted several houses and slightly in.
jured number Of persons.
Under cross-examination by Attor.
ney John J. Vertrees, at the Ballinger-
Pinchot inquiry. Louis R. CLAWS
summed up the specific acts of wrong
1oing which he charges against Secre-
tary Ballinger and declared that he
vas convinced the secretary was "un.
faithful to his trust and unfit for his