The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-05-04
On his plea of nolle contendere, W

| VERNON bOOLn, former Qre6lueuI VI "A
Booth & Co., the fish trust" was
fined $4,000 by Judge Kavanagh al
Chicago. Booth was charged with con
spiracy to defraud the Continental Ma
tional bank Of 100000. A similar
charge against Frederick r. Robbins
formerly secretary-treasurer Of the
same company, was nolle pressed.
A sensation was sprung before the
Helm committee at Springfield, ILL.,,
when w. H. Cook Of Duluth testified
that he was in room in the Grand
Pacific In Chicago last May when Ed
ward Hines telephoned to Springfield
to person he believed to be Governor
Deneen, and had said that everything
was all fixed at Washington and that
the governor was to leave no stone
unturned to elect Mr.. Lorimer, and
that he (Hines) would be down with
all the money necessary.
! Big taxicab companies In control Of
the hotel and theater business in New
York have served notice on the public
that they will raise their rates ten
per cent. beginning May /.
The roundhouse, repair shops and
several big new locomotives of the
New Haven railroad at Danbury,
Conn.,, were destroyed by fire, with a
loss of $15O,O00.
The State bank of Gilsner, Neb.,
Was robbed, both safe and building
being badly wrecked. The robbers Sc
cured between $1,000 and $1,40o.
Miss Annie Natusek of South Oma-
ha, Neb., poisoned her two children,
two and four years old, and took a
dose herself, following a quarrel with
her husband The children are both
dead and the mother cannot live.
Work will begin in New York with.
IN the next few weeks on a $1,000,000
home for the needy, the gift of Henry
j. Braker, drug importer who died
two years ago leaving large for
tune.
Walter Drew. counsel for the Erec.
tors association; w. ]. Ford, assist
ant district attorney of Los Angeles,
and Frank Fox, chauffeur were ar.
rested at indianapolis on affidavits
charging them with having kidnapped
j. j. Mcnamara, secretary-treasurer
of the International Association of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers.
The grand jury began an inyestiga-
ton of the "wrecking" operations
charged to men of the Structural Iron
Workers union.
The famous Gutenberg Bible, sold In
the sale of the library of the late Rob.
ert Hoe at the Anderson auction
rooms, New York city, brought $780,
900. That is the highest price given
for any book at any sale in the his.
tory OF the world. Henry e. Hunting.
ton of California, nephew Of the late
Coils P. Huntington, gained the honor
of giving it.
President Taft at All Saints Uni.
tartan church, Washington. made a
plea for Washington principal
church" and urged Unitarians to stand |
forth in aid of their faith.
committee of the D. A. r. ap.
pointed to protest against the &C.
ceptance of silver service from Utah
bearing the portrait of Brigham
Young for use on the battle ship
Utah, will be informed by Secretary
Meyer that the navy department is
powerless to prevent the acceptance
Thomas F. Curley, who calls himself
the champion big eater of Massachu.
sets, has offered to wager $500 that
he can eat more than any other man
in the United States.
Mrs. Gertrude Payne, wife of Rep
resentative Serene E. Payne of Au.
burn, N. Y, author of the Payne tarih
law, died at the Burlington, in Wash
ington, of heart disease. She was
sixty-six years old.
Sporting
With torrent of crushing blows
administered SO fast that no count
of them could be kept, Ad. Wolgast,
the lightweight champion, checked
the aspirations of "One Round" Ho
gan to win the title by technically
knocking out the California boxer in
the second round of what was sched'
uled to be q ten-round bout at the
Madison Athletic club at New York