The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-01-05


death and three persons perhaps fatal.
ly injured when fire, followed BY an
explosion of powder, destroyedf'the
home of Stephen Bronosky, miner,
at Sykesville, Pa.
While the police searched for
George A. Capron, the defaultfng cash.
Ter of the Englewood branch of the
United States Express Company at
Chicago, accountants in checking the
records of the local Office learned that
in addition to absconding with $4,000
of the company's money, gold bullion
and government currency to the
amount of $4,000 was taken from the
company's safes.
With tons upon tons Of ice piled
high against the piers of bridges span
ming the Ohio river at Pittsburg and
at points below, river traffic has been
entirely abandoned and river men are
prepared to cope with one OF the
worst ice packs ever experienced.
There will be no new issues Of In
terest bearing obligations by the
treasury department before early IN
March. This statement was made on
the authority of high official of the
government.
President Taft has put the final
touches to a special message to con-
gress dealing with the amendments
which he believes are necessary IN
the interstate commerce and Sherman
antitrust acts. Recent reports to the
contrary Notwithstanding, it is known
that the president will take up the
antitrust act and deal with it at great
| length.
| Five woman passengers and the
| motorman and conductor on trolley
car of the New York & Long Island
| Traction Company were imprisoned
| for nearly twenty-four hours in
snowdrift on Long Island during the
| recent storm.
! Coroner Hamburger has reported to
| the police and excise department that
wood alcohol is again being sold as
a beverage in New York city, with
death instead of stimulation for the
tipplers who pay five cents drink.
The old Cunard liner Umbria, which
gave the New York water front a
thrill when she came over for the
first time in 1884, will arrive here on
Saturday on what will be her last
transatlantic voyage.
James F. Roach, Memphis (Tenn.)
youth, after shooting his mother, held
at bay, intrenched in an abandoned
house, posse sent to arrest him.
When the posse entered the house
Roach had escaped.
When the steamer Phyllis arrived
at Colon her cargo was discharged
with care" It consisted of over
100000 pounds of dynamite for use
on the Panama canal.
D Mason and E. Renon, French
aeroplane experts, are in New York en-
route to Los Angeles to participate in
the January aviation contests. Renon
will be Paulhan's chief assistant
Mason will attempt flights in mono
plane of his own invention.
Nearly the entire detective force Of
Pittsburg is seeking solution of the
death of James Lawrence Friel, IA
year-old boy, whose body was found
in an abandoned house on the North
side frozen and with the throat LAGER
ated with a knife.
William E. Ritter and wife, aged 70
were found dead in their farm house
near Washington, Ind. The furniture
was disarranged and evidence points
to foul play. The Ritters are known
to have kept large sums Of money al
their home.
Angelina Schiavone, 17-year-old Grip
pied daughter of rasquale Schiavone
an Italian banker of Chicago, declared
in her testimony as witness for thu
) state in her fathers prosecution o
her uncle and relatives, who are Of
trial charged with inducing her t.
steal money, that she had taken near
ly 100000 from her fathers bank tt
pay to the defendants on their promis
that her cousin, Michael. also a Grip
pie, would marry her.
The breach between the striking
switchmen and the railroads Of tn
northwest was widened instead OF
settlement Of the strike being effecte
; as result of the conference between
representatives of the union and tn
roads Although the men seem t
have the worst of the clash so far, an
1000 of the $500 who quit work hav
!, resumed their posts, President Hav
ley and other union leaders are tall
ing about general strike by all {
the allied orders belonging to the raj
way branch of the American FEEDERS
ton of Labor.
That the people Of the Unite
y States have been the complacent VII
tins of a system of plumber of tn
> public forests-crimes often perp'
trated by men of high station in con
; mercial and social life-was the ope
declaration of Chief United State
Forester Clifford Pinchot in an al
dress before a number of promine1
, publishers at the University club {
y New York.
A startling market movement O
,, the New York stock exchange ths