The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-02-16

ceived at Paris from the French go,
ernor general there.
Father Gerhard, a missionary, wa
killed, road superintendent wer
hacked to pieces and nine German
were shot to death on Ponape island
Carolinas, in rising over punishment
of native workman.
Fire, caused by blazing SCOT from ,
chimney falling on the roof of the ole
sulphuric acid plant of the STANDARD
OH company at Point Richmond, Cal.
destroyed that plant and a tank con
tanning 100000 gallons of crude oil
and damaged the $1,00O,0O0 new aci6
plant.
Many million dollars worth Of prop
erty in the heart of the business sec.
ton of Brooklyn was threatened by a
fire which destroyed the flve-story fac.
tory of the F. Bischoff Cocoa and
Chocolate company on Ashland place.
The loss was 100000.
The Montana house killed the WON.
ans suffrage bill by refusing to recon.
slider the veto by which 1t failed of
a two-thirds majority
Favorable action of the house OF
representatives on the Canadian reel
procity agreement was assured when
the caucus of Democratic members
formally pledged the party to vote
for the agreement
Seventeen residents of Pekin, Pc,
orla, Eureka and Bloomington. ILL.,,
were injured when two passenger mo.
tors on the Peoria electric terminal
railway collided on an open switch, al
South Bartonville. A broken switch
device was the cause.
Resistance to the uttermost to the
attempts to transfer from congress tc
the various state legislatures the con
troll of the time and manner of elect
ing United States senators, as pro
posed by the resolution providing fol-
their election by direct vote of the
people, was advocated by Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts in speech
In the United States senate.
An explosion of dynamite at the
mills of the Piute Powder company
three miles south of Ishpeming, Mich,
killed ten men and seriously injured
another. The nitric acid house was
wrecked, and the Office building bad.
ly damaged.
In a gas explosion at the Wilburn
house at Carpentersville, ILL.,, Howard
Mann and Adam Oberst were killed
and 20 others injured, four fatally
The hotel was wrecked. Carpenters
vile is small town six miles north
of Elgin.
Chicago's fierce blizzard, which was
countrywide and held sway for nearly
So hours, claimed toll of five lives
caused much suffering, and entailed
a heavy financial loss.
An aeroplane patrol along the Ric
Grande river is to be established by
the war department to aid in main.
neutrality. This will be the
nrst appearance of the aviator in &C.
tual military service in this country
Frank Slosson, aged sixty-three, one
OF the most prominent men of Keno
sha, Wis, and widely known among
throughout the coun
try, died from an operation for per |
foration of the stomach.
Two thousand citizens gave John p |
newly elected president of the
United Mine Workers, rousing recep
ton when he arrived at his home i1
Oskaloosa, la.
Dr. Herman Cary Bumpus, business
of the University of Wiscon
sin, has been awarded the grand cross
o1 the commander of the Order of the
Crown by the king of Roumania TO,
ais eminent services to science.
San1-Ed-Dowleh, Persian minister o,
finance, was shot and killed In the
street at Teheran, Persia. The assas
sins, two Armenians, escaped. The,
also killed two policemen.
BY series of parliamentary tactics
IN which progressive Republicans and
Democrats outgeneraled the Republic.
IN old guard, the resolution on the
subject of direct vote of senators has
become the unfinished business of the
senate.
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he police after an all-night celebra.
ion of the completion of the midyea1
Twenty students were
injured.
The machinery of the National
Grange. an organization of 100000 |
farmers in 30 states, has been started
to defeat the ratification by congress
Of the Canadian reciprocity treaty.
The constitutional amendment for i
the submission of the question of WON.
an suffrage to popular vote was
passed by the California assembly. 65
to 6. The amendment already had
passed the senate.
A condition of ineff1ciency, insubor.
lination and Encouragement has been
developed in the operation of the rail.
way mail service that is likely to re.
'ult in an upheaval and perhaps
reorganization of the entire service.
postmaster Hitchcock is incensed
'ver the situation as it has been dis.
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