The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-16

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ing villages, according to advices re
ceived at Paris from the French gov
ernor general there.
Father Gebhard, missionary, wal
killed, road superintendent. wer,
hacked to pieces and nine Germans
were shot to death on Ponape island
Carolinas, in rising oyer punishment
of native workman.
Fire, caused by blazing SCOT from 9
4 chimney falling on the roof of the ole
sulphuric acid plant of the Standard
Oil company at Point Richmond, Cal.
destroyed that plant and tank con
tanning 100000 gallons of crude oil
and damaged the $1,0o0,000 new acid
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 fiye-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
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
oria, Eureka and Bloomington, ILL.,,
were injured when two passenger mo
tors on the Peoria electric terminal
railway collided on an open switch, at
South Bartonville. A broken switch
device was the cause
Resistance to the uttermost to the
attempts to transfer from congress to
the various state legislatures the con
troll of the time and manner of elect
ing United States senator's, as pro
posed by the resolution providing for
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 Pluto 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, H., 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
36 hours, claimed a toll of five lives,
caused much suffering, and entailed
a heavy financial loss.
. An aeropfane patfbl along the Rio
Grande river is to be established by
the war department to aid in main
tanning neutrality This will be the
first appearance Of the aviator IN ac-
tual military service in this country.
Frank -Slosson, aged sixty.three, one
of the most prominent men of Kenu-
sha, Wis, and widely known among
manufacturers throughout the coun-
try, died from an operation for per-
foration of the stomach.
Two thousand citizens gave John P.
White, newly elected president Of the
United Mine Workers, rousing recep-
ton when he arrived at his home in
Oskaloosa, la.
DR.. Herman Cary Bumpus, business
manager Of the University of Wiscon-
sin, has been awarded the grand cross
OF the commander of the Order of the
Crown by the king of%Roumania for |
his eminent services to science.
SAM Ed-Dowleh, Persian minister of
was shot and killed in the
street at Teheran, Persia. The assas-
sins, two Armenians, escaped. They
also killed two policemen
BY series of parliamentary tactics
in which progressive Republicans and
Democrats outgeneraled the Republic
an old guard, the resolution on the
subject of direct vote of senators has
become the unfinished business of the
senate
Cornell students had clash with
the police after an allnight celebra-
ton of the completion of the midyear |
examinations. Twenty students were
injured.
The machinery of the National
Grange, an organization of 1000, 900 |
farmers in 30 states, has been started |
to defeat the ratification by congress
of the Canadian reciprocity treaty.
The constitutional amendment for
the submission of the question of wom-
an suffrage to a popular vote was
passed by the California assembly, 65
to s. The amendment already had |
passed the senate.
condition of tnefficiency, insubor-
iination and Encouragement has been |
developed in the operation of the rail- |
way mail service that is likely to re-
suit in an upheaval and perhaps |
reorganization of the entire service. |
Postmaster Hitchcock is incensed |
over the situation as it has been dis |
closed.
Secretary of State Knox has writ
ten Chairman Payne of the ways and
means committee of the house that I
an amendment to the wood pulp or
paper sections of the Canada trade |
agreement would not necessarily de-
lay its ratification.
Owing to the prevalence OF scarlet
fever the schools of Petersburg, Ill,
were ordered closed and all churches,
social and other public gatherings |