The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-04-27

eudWeI6u ware, charged ny Tue gov
eminent with violating the Sherman
antitrust act, was advantageous to
jobbers and consumers was testified
to by prominent manufacturers from
various parts Of the country at the
bathtub trust hearing.
The long-expected strike Of the
furniture workers Of Grand Rapids
Mich, which has been hanging fire
for several weeks, was officially de-
clared on. Between 5000 and 1000
union men in nearly sixty furniture
factories. including woodworking
shops, packed up their tools ard
walked out.
Seven American citizens were
wounded in Douglas, Ariz., by Next.
can bullets during an all-day battle be-
tween federal troops and rebels around
Aqua Prieta, Mex, in which $50 fed
erals were killed and many wounded.
The rebels had 80 killed and so wound
ed. The insurrectos were victorious.
At the municipal elections held in
Illinois several cities named officials
under the commission plan of govern
ment for the first time. In every in
stance an unusually large vote was
polled, showing an increase in inter
est in civic affairs by the citizens.
Another feature was the election of
four Socialist mayors-at Granite
City, Grafton. O'Fallon and Davis.
United States authorities will prob
ably have to start European hunt
to find the officers and crew of the
Greek steamship Athinai, who were
indicted for smuggling undesirable
aliens into this country. The men
gave bail amounting to $4,000, but
when the ship arrived at New York 1t
was manned by new officers and men.
Homer Little, a farmer near Con-
way, Kan, was shot and killed when
his baby tripped over and discharged
loaded shotgun, the charge taking
effect in Little's left leg.
The battle of Aqua Prieta, Mexico,
which ragged almost without internais.
sion for nearly twenty-four hours, was
won by the Mexican federal forces.
The rebels, their supply of ammuni-
ton and provisions exhausted, left an
hour before the government troops &C.
cupied the town.
Personal
William A. Day was elected presi-
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
society by the board of trustees at
New York city.
Edward A. Moseley, secretary of
the interstate commerce commission
and originator of much labor legisla-
ton, died in Washington after long
illness. He was sixty-fve years old.
Senator Hitchcock Of Nebraska, who
was stricken with vertigo at the pen
sion office and was taken to a hos
pital, has sufficiently recovered to re-
turn to his hotel in Washington.
DR.. c. G.. Abbott, director of as
trophysical observation in the Smith
sonian institution, was presented with
the Draper medal in Washington for
making the discovery that the sun is
variable body and that it's heat and
light vary.
Setting forth her own experiences
in the divorce court and creating a
character like that of her former hus-
band, it is said, Edna Goodrich, who
until her recent divorce was the fourth
Mrs. Nat Goodwin, has written book
called "The Deynard Divorce"
Former President Roosevelt re.
turned to New York from a seven
weeks tour Of the west and middle
west. AS he stepped from a train
from Chicago he came into contact
with crowd of outgoing Easter Wis.
itors, many of whom greeted him with
cheers
Rev. Charles Taze Russell, known
as Pastor Russell" Of the Brooklyn
tabernacle, Brooklyn, N. Y, has &C.
cepted the pastorate of the London
tabernacle, Paddington.
Sporting
Packey Mcfarland, the Chicago
boxer, had the better of his ten-round
bout with Harlem" Tommy Murphy
before the Paramount Athletic club at
New York city. 1t was case of speed
and cleverness against a man of the