The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-10-12

with prominent cotton growers.
Albert Edwards, who left lndianap
oils, Ind, September 4, pushing q
wheelbarrow, has reached Fulton. Mo
Edwards will receive $4,000 If be
visits every state capital and gets back
to indianapolis September 4, 1914.
George Johnston twenty-five years
old, of Excelsior Springs, Mo-, a vet
Urinary student, was murdered by a
gang of about twelve drunken negroes
at Kansas City.
Five men lost their lives at the LIE.
high Valley Coal company mine at
Drifton, Pa, when stack suddenly
collapsed and the fine coal refuse
started to run into the mine opening
like quicksand, drew the men into a
vortex and precipitated them 70 feet
into the mine.
The entire Third regiment, Missis-
sippi National Guard, has been sent
to McComb City, Miss, to suppress
rioting due to the strike of shopmen
on the Illinois Central railroad.
George Schmitt, an aviator, fell 400
feet with his biplane into q swamp at
Danbury, Conn.,, and escaped injury.
He was unconscious under his ma
chine when rescuers reached him. but
recovered shortly afterward.
Unrecognized by single person IN
the curious throng that rushed to MS
aid, Rear Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley, United States navy, the hero
of the battle Of Santiago. fell dead
in the street in New York city. Inc
sudden death Is attributed to cerebra!
hemorrhage.
Mrs. Mary Eckenrod of Bakersfield,
Cal, was killed, her daughter, Alice,
was injured and Harry Briscow,
chauffeur, was probably fatally hurt
when their automobile ran off noun
tain road near Bakersfield.
Fire of incendlary origin swept
through the business section OF Scott.
date, Pa, causing loss of S125,00O.
Fifty guests were driven from the
Central hotel before that structure
was destroyed.
Tho ooct of r,ppipo Nou Work citv
in 1910 was more than the combined
expenditures of the next fifteen larg-
est cities of the United States. The
years payments were s451, 100000. @
Erskine S. Walker shot and prob.
ably fatally injured Miss Magdalena
Komp, a telephone girl, at Rock Is
land, Ill.,, and then killed himself.
David Crockett, a confederate hero
of the Civil war, cousin of the famous
Texan of that time, died at his home
near Columbus, Mo-, aged seventy-five.
During the border warfare in Mis-.
souri, Crockett was hanged to a tree
by Union soldiers and rescued at the
point Of death by his comrades.
Alfred Lee Manierre, Prohibition
candidate for governor OF New York
in 1902 and for many years chief legal
adviser of the party, died in New
York. He was fifty years old.
1t has been announced at Washing
ton that the Sacs and Foxes OF the
Mississippi tribe Of Indians in Iowa
and Oklahoma were to receive their
full pro rata share OF the $1,020,000
trust funds now in the treasury to
their credit as soon as they assume
citizenship.
The Muscatine Iowa) union button
workers have voted in favor Of a
general strike, which may tie up the
industry.
Personal
Ethel Barrymore, the actress, was
taken suddenly i'll and is in crit
ical condition at South Bend, Ind,
and is threatened with peritonitis.
Her engagements have been Cancelled.
After an illness of several weeks
John Bascom, professor emeritus of
political economy at Williams college
and former president of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin,, died at his home
at Williamstown, Mass. He was
eighty-four years old.
BY her marriage to Archibold M.
McCrea of Pittsburg, Mrs. David Dun.
lop, Sr., of Baltimore, forfeits $780,
900. When Mr.. Dunlop died ten
years ago he left fortune of about