The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-02-23
Failure of the Canadian reciprocity


session Of congress. as the admins.
'tration is determined to press the
agreement. This declaration was
made by Senator Smoot OF Utah after
a conference with the president at
the White House over pending legisla-
ton. Senators Lodge and Root were
present also.
After drifting in the waterlogged
schooner Edward r. West without
food or water for four days, the crew
of the vessel were rescued on the Pa
c1f1c and taken to Seattle.
Burglars who attempted to rob the
bank at Stillman Valley, Ill.,, fled
when citizens were awakened by the
explosion. Shots were fired after the
robbers and one was wounded, but all
escaped.
Mrs. Joseph Vitoli died at Rockford,
ILL.,, from injuries received when a
bomb was exploded on window sill
OF her home. A "black hand" organ
ization is blamed for placing the
bomb.
From authoritative sources 1t was
learned that the death of Commander
Frank Marble, U. s. N, of the Naval
War college staff on February IA at
Newport, r. l., was a case of suicide,
and that death was not caused by
apoplexy, as at first reported.
Premier Asquith, during the prelim-
mary debate on home rule In the Brit
ish house Of commons, declared that
as soon as the veto bill" was out of
the way the government would apply
itself to the task of granting policy
of full self-government to ireland.
Five thousand Haitian troops, COM
manded by President Simon, are In
the northern provinces Of Haiti and
with fire and sword are crushing out
the rebellion. Two thousand men cap
tured Juana Mendez, reducing the city
to ashes.
Mrs. Mary Louise Snyder, wife of
Charles P. Snyder, head of a stove
manufacturing corporation at Masil-
lon, Ohio. was probably fatally injured
at Los Angeles, CAL, by an automo-
bile which ran over her as she was
CRUISING a street.
Two mail pouches which contained
checks and other bank paper valued
at 100000 were stolen at Thalmia,
Ca, where the Atlanta, Birmingham
& Atlantic railway crosses the Sea-
board Air line.
Many million dollars worth of prop
erty in the heart Of the business Sec
ton of Brooklyn was threatened by
fire which destroyed the two-story fac
tory of the F. Bischoff Cocoa and
Chocolate company on Ashland place.
The loss was 100000.
President Lewis of the United Mine
Workers says 5000, not 100000, men
are involved in the threatened strike
in the Tuscaranas (Ohio) district He
says the story of the larger number
was given out to boost the selling
price of coal.
When Gov. B. F. Carroll appends his
to the Oregon plan election
bill, passed by the senate, it will be-
come law In Iowa. The bill passed
the house of representatives by vote
Of two to one and 1t passed the senate
by vote of 81 to 16.
President Taft's reciprocity agree
ment with Canada was ratified in the
national house of representatives
through the support of an almost solid
Democratic vote. The Mccall bill car
rying the agreement into effect was
passed 221 to 81.
fo,,fonont Orwell hos ovh;bi+o1 a.
Vienna university new Photographic
apparatus which photographs objects
at great distances, but which at the
same time indicates the distance of
the object from the camera by means
Of parallel lines on the plate.
Information has reached Galveston,
Tex, that Mexican government troops
shot to death a prominent Pueblo
who was acting as treas.
urer for the revolutionists, and his
family and looted his house of ST.
100000 in gold and securities.
Three hundred and thirty-eight of
the $50 students at the State School
Of Mines went on strike because Pres
ident Anderson refused to grant them
a day so that they might celebrate
the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
Five men were killed and two in
jured as the result of an explosion in
a Grand Trunk Pacific tunnel at Kit
zelas, B. G. The men were working
at the far end of the tunnel when
box of powder, left to thaw out, be-
came overheated and exploded.
The supreme court of Kansas holds
the new liquor law constitutional. The
law prohibits the sale of liquor for
medicinal or mechanical purposes. The
court holds that the legislature has the
right to prohibit the sale of liquor for
any purpose whatever.
William H. Murray was arrested in
a dugout hut he had constructed an
the bank of Spring river, six miles
north of Carthage, Mo-, when Deputy
Sherin Weaver raided the place and
seized a complete counterfeiting plant.
Rockefeller Institute for Medical
pacoorch hoo announced +ho+ tho A.