The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-01-19

600 year, and would not need to ad
vance their freight rates, as they ask
and which win bring them only SGT,
100000 yearN
The New York State Jersey Cattle
Breeders association will give four
pairs of Jersey heifers and bulls to
the four boys who attend the next
state fair and write the best descrip-
tive essays on their visits.
Gottlieb' Santel, well-to-do Ger
man merchant, leading the good
night" dance with his daughter at her
coming out party In New York, sank
to the floor and died.
A bill limiting a tip to a waiter to
rs cents was introduced in the New
Jersey legislature Messenger boys
and bellboys' gratuities are to be lin
tied to five cents.
A fire which will probably exceed
$1,00O,000 in the value of the property
cinnati Chamber Of Commerce build
Ing
: In a scathing review of the testi-
mony taken by the senate committee
on privileges and election in the case
of William Lorimer OF Illinois, who is
charged with having obtained his seat
in the United States senate by cor
rupt practices, Senator Crawford of
South Dakota pledged himself to vote
to unseat Lorimer on the ground that
his election was illegal and void.
Loot valued at $4,000 was found by
the New York police in a midnight
raid in the. basement of fat house in
the Bronx. Five prisoners were ta-
ken, who are believed to be the lead
ers of gang of burglars.
Almost "a per cent OF the increase
in population of Illinois the last ten
years was contributed by the NUM-
cipalities having a population in ex-
cess of 5000, they having increased
almost 100000, compared with the
states total of S17,041.
Only persons who have at some
time attempted to commit suicide are
eligible for club chartered In New
ton, N. j. under the formidable title
THE Society for the Uplift of De-
spondent Fellow Men" The club has
forty members.
Fire Of incendiary origin, believed to
have been the work of night riders,
destroyed the tobacco barn and 10000
pounds OF tobacco Of w. w. Kyle, a
grower, living near Weston, Mo.
The island of Crete appealed to Pres.
ident Taft, through committee which
called upon him, to take up with the
protecting powers of Great Britain,
France, Russia and Italy the question
of terminating Turkish rule in the
island.
featherweight, after whirlwind finish
In the ninth and tenth rounds of the
ten-round bout at Brooklyn, which
went the limit earned the decision
over Abe Attel, the featherweight
champion Of the world.
The senate passed bill introduced
in December by Senator Cullom OF I'LL
nois, providing for the erection of a
| magnificent memorial or monument to
Abraham Lincoln at cost not to ex
coed $2.00o,o00. The memorial will
be erected at Washington.
President Taft decided that Com,
mander w. 8. Sims. the United States
naval officer who, at. a recent dinner
given in London by the lord mayor OF
that city, declared that II Great Brit
ain ever were seriously threatened,
she could depend on every man. ev.
cry dollar, every drop of blood" In
this country, should be publicly rep
rimanded
A quarantine for nursery stock i'm
ported into the United States and a
prohibition against the importation of
shrubs or trees from infected districts
is Endorsed by the house committee on
agriculture.
BY holding that the packers indicted
by the grand Jury last summer might
be tried for violation of the federal
statutes as well as on a charge of VIC
lating the injunction issued by Judge
Grosscup in 1902, Judge Carpenter in
the United Estates district court,
brought about the third defeat of the
defendants at the hands of the govern
ment:
President Sherman and party
of his friends were held up by Mary
land officers just beyond the District
of Columbia line because their auto
mobile was not provided with Mary
land license for 1911.
Governor Colquitt of Texas well
coined to Fort Worth the members of
the American National Livestock asso-
citation when their fourteenth annual
meeting opened.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh by introduction of business
methods will save the government
over SO, 900 during the four years
he is at the head of the department.
Engineer John Shields, Fireman O..
NJ Earn and Brakeman w. T. LAS
were killed when passenger train No.
Is on the Santa Fe railroad was
wrecked on curve mise and half
south of Mulvane, Kan.
Egg price records were smashed In
New York when Rufus Deiafieid of
South Plainfield. N j.. consented to ac-
.cept $125 for half-dozen laid at his
poultry. establishment
The ''parlor" match ordinarily used
in the United States is to be pro-
hibited, If bill introduced by Rep
resentative Mann Of Chicago becomes
a law.