The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-01-26

neeS, taken Off the list OF the members
Of that committee. Also the "insur
gent" Republicans won half victory
They succeeded in keeping on the
committee Mr.. James of Kentucky, tt
whom the president also objected.
Four girls and one man leaped to
their death in a panic caused by a
fire in the four-story factory building
at Philadelphia. Five others received
probably fatal injuries and many more
were less seriously hurt. Nearly all
of the dead and severely injured were
employed in the shirtwaist factory of
Joseph Chachkin.
| Revolving conditions of white
! slavery" among Chinese restaurant
and laundry men of Michigan have
been revealed through the arrest of
two young Battle Creek girls in a
Chinese joint at Ann Arbor. One war
rant, for Lem 10y of Saginaw, was
issued, while others will follow. Both
girls have confessed to depravity so
disgusting as to be unprintable.
Speculative manipulation in the
stock of the Columbus & Hooking
Coal & Iron Company, overreached it.
self with the result that two strong
financial houses, Lathrop, Haskins &
Co., and j. M. Fiske & Co., were
forced to the wall and at least one, if
not three others are tottering on the
brink of ruin. The failure of the two
firms means loss estimated at from
100000 to 100000 to the men,
bers of the firms and their customers.
A bill was filed in the circuit court
alleging that John G. Fetzer, prom
inent Chicago financier; Benjamin
Thomas, former president of the Chi
cago & Western Indiana Railroad
Company, and Charles r. Kappes,
former real estate agent of the COM
pany, had defrauded, through the
manipulation of a series of real es-
tate deals, the Chicago & Western In
diana Railroad Company out of $780,
900.
Even behind the bars in the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth the pow
erful influences that kept John R.
Walsh out of cell for two years aft
er he was proved a felon have pre-
vailed. John r. Walsh, convict No.
6.S61, is enjoying practically every
luxury that was enjoyed by Walsh
the possessor of $40,000,000 and an
income that could satisfy the wishes
of any human being.
The Northern Pacific coast train No.
7, West-bound, left the track a mile
and half west of New Salem, N. D.,
and piled in the ditch. Fourteen per-
sons were injured seriously.
-Four thousand families in the low
er Allegheny river valley and on the
lower north side of Pittsburg left their
homes for the night when warned by
the United States weather bureau
that the ice gorge at Freeport would
surely break.
Italy, Spain, Turkey, Switzerland
and some parts of the British empire
are favored as trade customers of the
United States in proclamations issued
under the Payne tariff law by Presi-
dent Taft. Germany and France are
on the outside.
John r. Walsh, 70 years old, bank
president, railroad magnate and pub
Usher whose name was once a
synonym of all that is powerful and
influential in the business world, en-
tered the federal prison at Fort Leav-
enworth, Kan. exchanged his name
for numeral, and took his place
among the thousand convicts there.
he lost In his long battle for free
dom in the final legal skirmish when
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals denied his application for a new
trial.
President Taft received the govern.
ors OF 30 states, who have gathered
at Washington to discuss problems of
state and national interest. at the
White House.
The Lumber Carriers association of
the Great Lakes held it's annual meet.
ing in Detroit.
Inc Argentine naval commission
has advised the government to author
lie the construction of two Dread.
nought battle ships of $4,000 tons each.
Inc proposed vessels are to have a
speed of % knots an hour and will
carry IL guns of twelve-inch caliber.
A step toward the deportation of
Japanese insane in California institu.
lions, sending them to Japan to be.
come charges of their own govern.
ment, has been taken by Consul Cen
eral Nagai at San Francisco.
Subway franchises passed as the
last act of Tom L. Johnson's admin
stratlon as mayor were repealed by
the city council on strict party vote.
The plan for $75,000,00o subway sys.
tenn was included
Edwin D. Faber, constable from
Mendoza, ILL.,, shot and probably fatal
ly wounded Miss Sadie Tauser In
crowded cafe at La Sale and then
killed himself, falling dead over her
body.
For the third time tho bo,oo ~ NO.