The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-02-09

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sidy bill in the senate. ]. The vote wal
80 to &c. 1t provides for bounty O
81 and So mile respectively to Ameri
can ships of the second and third class
operating between American ports and
ports Of China, Japan, Australia and
South American ports south Of the
equator. ss s'
The American Breeders association
devoted to lettering the breed OF
plants, domestic animals and the hui
man race, began its seventh annual
meeting in Columbus, O., as the
guest of the National Corn exposi-
ton.
! At least score of persons were
killed, $50 or more injured and prop
erty damaged to the extent of $780,
900 when Is tons of dynamite ex-
ploded at pier close to the Central
railroad Of New jerseys passenger
ferry slip at Communipaw, N. ].
In an out-of-the-way cabbage field
three miles north of Kenosha, Wis,
G. J. Jacobson, a farmer, found the
dead body of Mary Zahon, twenty
four years old, the daughter of Paul
Zahon, farmer in the town of Som
ers. Miss Zahon disappeared from the
residence of her parents on the night
Of January 8.
Retractions Of statements charging
the Standard Oil company with re-
sponsibility for the sale of poisoned
candy to children in Philadelphia,
made in an article written by Cleve-
land Moffett and published in the
February number of Hampton's Maya
zine, were made public. Suits for
$350,000 damages. alleging libel, had
been instituted by the Standard Oil
company.
Seventy-f1ve revolutionists and
twelve soldiers we're killed in battle
at Sierra Monija, near San Lorenzo
Chihuahua, January 20, according to
an official telegram received in Mex
leo City.
Prince Tsai Chun, brother of the
prince regent Of China, will pass
through the United States on his way
to London to attend the coronation of
King George V. The prince will leave
China in May.
The kaiser and the twenty-five other
ruling sovereigns in Germany will not
have to pay the new tax on the un-
earned increment from land. When
the reichstag read the bill for the
third time it restored the exempt.
clause.
Trapped like rats, twelve workmen,
all negroes, were suffocated at New.
ark, N. j., in a caisson in the Passaic
river It is understood that the acct.
dent was caused by the dropping of
huge metal bucket loaded with mud
and stone.
Champaign county's grand jury in.
vestigation of alleged voting by Uni.
versity of Illinois students f1zZled out
completely when the inquisltors adj
journed without taking action.
The United Mine Workers of Amer
lea convention at Columbus, O., adopt |
ed by vote Of 1918 to OCT an amend.
ment to the constitution expelling |
any member of the organization who
belongs to the American Civic fedora
ton. John Mitchell, an officer in the
federation, Is given until April l to
withdraw from one organization or
the other.
The executive committee of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
roads at New York voted to complete
double tracking of the lines from the
Missouri river to San Francisco. They
will also double track the Oregon
Short Line, a total Of 1873 miles. The
cost of the double tracking will ag.
gregate upward of $75,000,O00, which
will be distributed over a period of
five years.
Relatives and attorneys who have
been searching for Dorothy Arnold,
the pretty New York heiress, who has
been missing Sor nearly two months,
have practically given up the search
for her and announce that 1t is their
belief that she has met with foul play.
Joseph G.. Robin, the New York
bank wrecker, whose latest conten-
ton Is that he Is the second son OF
Alexander II. OF Russia, was declared
sane by jury in the face of the tes-
tfmony OF notable array of alienists
that he is insane.
San Francisco won great victory |
in the national house when the reso-
luton declaring in favor of the Cali
fornia city as the place of holding the |
exposition to celebrate the opening of |
the Panama canal in 1915 was passed |
by vote of 259 to 434. The resolu-
ton must be passed by the senate be.
fore the struggle is ended
President Alfaro and President-elect |
Estrada of Ecuador, bowling to the will
of the people, announced the aban.
donment of the governments pro-
posal to lease the Galapagos islands
to the United States for naval base
or other purposes.
BY the joint gift of $15O,O00 by |