The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-01-26

| speech IN the senate at washington
defending the right of Senator Lori
mer to his seat in the senate.
One hundred and fifty-five panic.
stricken children, aged from three to
ten, were saved from death by the
promptness Of attendants and firemen
when the Susquehanna Valley home
at Binghamton, N. Y, burned.
The Japanese supreme court pub
liciy sentenced at Tokyo twenty-three
men and zone woman to death who
were charged with conspiring against
the throne and with forming a plot to
ment officials of the empire.
A playground institute for the mid.
die west, covering the state of Michi.
gan, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky
and Missouri, was opened In Detroit
under the auspices Of the Playground
Association of America
Senator Nelson w. Aldrich's plan
for revision of national banking legis-
lation," as he calls@it, was made pub
lie at Washington. 1t does not con-
template the establishment of cen
trail bank. Mr.. Aldrich proposes the
establishment and chartering of the
Reserve Association of America
with $S00,000,00o capital, representing
what might be called a federation of
local associations formed by rational
banks.
A scathing attack was made on the
western railroads by Louis D. Bran
deis in his argument before the inter-
state commerce commission at Wash
ington against the proposed rate in
crease. He declared that the Increase
is unnecessary at this time and as
serted that the railroads were raising
rates to rob their patrons and pay
dividends
Champ Clark and Joseph A. Bailey
of Texas came into direct conflict at
the big Democratic conference at
Baltimore, and on the vital issue of
the tariff. Clark unqualifiedly de-
clared in favor Of tariff revision by
schedule. With equal insistence,
Bailey demanded straightforward
and complete revision in one compre-
neHSlN6 measure.
Governor Hay of Washington has
ben notified by Secretary of State
Knox that the action of the Spokane
council in passing an ordinance bar
ring aliens from employment on pub
lie work is in conflict with a treaty
between the United States and Italy.
The Callan automobile law, which
provides that person who runs down
another with an automobile must stop
and give his name and address, is I'M
constitutional, according to ruling
by Justice Grain in New York.
Declaring that he is unable to. sup
port his family of four on clergy
mans salary, Rev. r. w Mclean of
Mount Clemens, Mich, has decided to
resign the passionate of the First Bap-
fist church.
Oral arguments were concluded be-
fore the Supreme court In the pro-
posed dissolution of the Standard Oil
company. Attorney General Wicker
sham and John C. Johnson, chief coun-
sci for the oil corporation, were the
final pleaders.
The sixth annual National Western
Live Stock show opened in Denver
with a parade through the business
section of the city Prominent among
the visitors Is party of Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Iowa packers and stock
growers who arrived in two special
sleepers as guests of one of the pack
ing companies
d A man describing himself as Harry
Miller, an American, twcnty-eight
years of age, was found bound to a
Pont, six miles east of Paris, Franco.
He said robbers had tied him after ia
king $1,000 from him.
This is the year for the seventeen
year locusts to appear They are due
along the Atlantic seaboard from Vir-
ginia to New York, but Dr. Raymond
l.. Ditmars, curator of the Bronx zoo,
said that he believed the Hudson
river would check the pest.
1t having been reported to the state
department that President Cabrera of
Guatemala has allowed armed bands
to cross the frontier into Honduras to
help destroy the government of Presi-
dent Dayilla, Secretary Knox tele-
graphed the United States minister at
Guatemala City that Guatemala must
observe the agreement which provides
against the aiding of one republic by
tilibusters from another republic.
The three daughters of Peter Bu-
bee. aged one, four and six years, were
burned to death in their home at
Knife River Mimi, by the explosion of
a gasoline stove
Speaker Cannon came out loser In
a new battle over the rules. AS a re-
suit of the clash many of the stirring
scenes of the famous fight of last
March were re-enacted, Insurgents and
Democrats showing a united front to
the Republican regulars. BY vote
of 145 to 1875 the combined forces raj
lied to the support of Mr.. Fitzgerald
!. (Dem., ~ W and sustained him In
his appeal from the speakers ruling
Railroad communication throughout
the republic of Portugal Is practically
paralyzed as a result of the strike of
employees Portugal is cut off by land
from the rest of Europe.
Constantine J. Erdman, author of
the arbitration labor war, which has
been called into play during several
important strikes in the past ten
years, died at his home at Allentown.