The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-29

burg, Frank Trout and Archibald B.
Johnson We're freed from the bribery
charges arising from alleged transac-
tions in the forty-sixth general assem-.
bly,, after States Attorney Edmund
Burke nolled all the cases in the cir
cult court at Springfield, Ill.
Chaplain Charles NJ. Brewer of the
Sixth field artillery, stationed at Fort
Riley, Kan, has been dismissed on
the charge of intoxication. by order
of the war department.
The Italian steamer Duca Delgi
Abruzzi, In New York from Genoa
Naples and Madeira. Is detained at
quarantine with 701 passengers to
await the investigation of suspicious
cases of illness on board. On the
voyage a steerage passenger died OF
meningitis.
Although seventy years old, Mrs.
Alice Lafflin routed Is employees of the
electric company when they started
her Niagara Falls home.
BY federal orders man said to be
Bartlett Richards, a Nebraska cattle.
man sentenced for alleged land fraud
last fall, has been transferred from
the prison at Hastings, Neb., to Roch.
ester, Mimi, for an operation.
Judge Carpenter In the United
States district court at Chicago, in six
words brushed aside the latest plea
of j. Ogden Armour and eight other
meat packers for rehearing of their
petition to quash the indictments
charging them with violating the
Sherman antitrust law through re-
straint of trade. Judge. Carpenter
simply said: THE motion for rehear-
ing is denied"
Captain Lambert, In charge of
boat on the White river, Arkansas,
was slain and robbed of $500 as he lay
asleep on his craft. 1t is believed
that the killing was done by a negro
laborer employed on the boat
Personal
Former Senator Henry Gassaway
Davis Of West Virginia has announced
the engagement of his granddaughter,
katherine Brown, to Lieut.. Chester
p. Barnett, Fifteenth cavalry, U. s. A.
f. o. Melcher of Chicago, vice-presi.
dent of the Rock Island, and his
twelve-year-old daughter were slightly
hurt and Mrs. Melcher was seriously
but not fatally injured by the derail.
ment of Mr. Melcher's special car near
MacFarland, Kan.
Fred A. Allen, fifty-two years old,
said to be the oldest phone operator
in the world, is dead at New Haven,
Conn.
President and Mrs. Taft celebrated
the silver anniversary of their wed.
ding, entertaining fifty boyhood
friends of Mr.. Taft from Cincinnati
y
Senator Luke Lea Of Tennessee and
his young wife are patients in George
town (Va.) university hospital, the
latter in a serious condition from an
operation, while the senator is in a
weakened condition due to the trans.
fusion of blood from his veins to
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to have been a successful effort to
save her life.
The Baptist World alliance began a
weeks session in Philadelphia, John
Clifford of England presiding.
James Proctor Knott of Kentucky
and prominent for many years in con.
gress, died at his residence in Leb.
anon, KY. He was eighty-one years
old and had been enfeebled for sew
eral years.
Foreign
George V. was crowned king OF
England in Westminster Abbey in Lon.
don and the ceremony for which the
empire has been so long preparing was
performed with a brilliance never sur.
passed at any previous coronation in
the historic old abbey. The gorgeous
spectacle was witnessed by about
1000 distinguished men and women,
while massed in the streets were hun
dreds of thousands.
Anselmo Braamcamp was elected
president of the republic of Portugal
by the constitutional assembly.