The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-23

| INC ISpSltluH. Two thousand men cap
tured Juana Mendez. reducing the cit,
to ashes,
Mrs. Mary Louise Snyder, wife d
Charles P. Snyder. head of stoye
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
crossing street.
Two mail pouches which contained
checks and other bank paper valued
at 100000 were stolen at ThaImia,
Ga, where the Atlanta, Birmingham
| & Atlantic railway crosses the Sea,
board Air line.
John McCoombs, who dubbed his
wife to death at their home, near
West Lebanon January 80, hanged
himself In his cell at the Indiana
| (Pennsylvania) county Jail.
| Many million dollars worth OF prop
| erty In the heart of the business sec
| ton of Brooklyn was threatened by a
i 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
signature to the Oregon plan electtoA.
bill, passed by the senate, 1t will be-
come law In Iowa The bill passed
the house of representatives by vote
OF two to one and it 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 80.
Lieutenant Orrell has exhibited at
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
merchant, 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 80 that they might celebrate
the birth Of Abraham Lincoln,
Five men were killed and two in
1ured as the result of an explosion in
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.
Christian Scientists received blow |
when Magistrate Freschi in New York
city held for trial in special sessions
William Vernon Cole, charged with |
medicine without a license. /
Cole was arrested after he had treated
e woman
A family of seven persons, including
the father, mother and five children.
were killed by Illuminating gas in |
their home at Philadelphia by the ac-
cidental lossening of rubber gas tube
from gas pipe running across the
main living room.
The bodies of Harry Cambran, J. B.
Laxague. Peter Erramuspe and B. In
diano. wealthy cattlemen of Reno
New, who have been missing for %
days, have been found 1t is thought
the men were ambushed by cattle
/. JuareZ, Mexico, is under martial
law. General Navarro has taken pos
session of the exico-Northwestern
railway, closed every business house,
saloon and gambling places and is in
full control of the city
Many eminent educators and others
met by Invitation in a conference in I
New York to discuss the moral phases
Of public education.
Efforts to enforce sanitary regula-
tons against the plague caused fight
between Russian soldiers and Chinese
at Vladigostok, in which six
persons were killed and 20 others
wounded
The aviator Busson made a new
record for speed in monoplane with
a passenger at Rheims. He flew about
sixty-two miles in one hour and one
Twenty voters of Menard county,
ILL.,, several Of them residents of Pc
tersburg, were indicted by the Menard
county grand jury on charges of sell
Ing their votes in the election last fall
DR.. Albert w. Ferris, president of
the New York state lunacy commits
sion, says church bells in a city are
not only useless and nuisance, but
are contributing cause in many
cases Of insanity.
Three sacred sheep OF Tibet the IA
nous Karkule, have been imported In
to Colorado by r. A. Tawney of Grand
Junction. and will be used to improve
ha horde of tho To