The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-02

eminent. The first two rejected IT.
while Kewanee adopted it.
Revelation OF several attempts to
buy the editorial support of the New
York Journal of Commerce in favor
Of the ship subsidy legislation was
made to the house ship subsidy inyes-
tigating committee by Alfred W. Dods-
worth, business manager of the jour
nal of Commerce and Commercial Bull
letin.
To defend the memory of their pro-
genitor from the attacks provoked by
the use of his portrait on the silver
service of the battle ship Utah, de-
scendants of Brigham Young met at
Salt Lake City, Utah, and appointed
committee to see Governor Spry.
In an explosion of a large tank con
tanning ammonia in the Locust laun-
dry at Philadelphia, two women We're
killed, is to 20 girls were slightly in.
jured and $50 other employees, mostly
young women, were thrown into a
wild panic
Ceiba, Honduras, fell into the hands
Of the Bonilla revolutionists after
day of infantry and artillery fighting,
in which ten were killed and many
wounded General Lee Christmas,
chief, and the provisional president
of Honduras, is in control of the town
and his soldiers are guarding those
streets not occupied by American
and British bluejackets.
Orders have been issued by the war
department to move United States
troops, with pack trains, from Fort
Sam Houston to Brownsville, Laredo.
Eagle Pass and Del Rio, to patrol the
Mexican border and prevent further
shipments Of arms and ammunition
to the Mexican revolutionists from
their agents IN the United States.
A permanent tariff board OF five
members to investigate all questions
for the benefit Of congress is pro-
vided for in bill unanimously
agreed upon by the house committee
on ways and means. The bill, effec-
tive July / contains substantially the
provisions of the Longworth and Dal-
zell bills.
two clothing shops were, wrecked
new walkout of several hundred gar
ment workers and an addition of
more than 81, 900 to the strikers cam
paign funds. the Chicago garment
workers strike broke out again with
greater bitterness than has been dis
played at any time sincerthe begin
ming of the long controversy.
Svendens, the Danish aviator, while
flying at Copenhagen in a Voisin aero
plain. discovered when at a consider
able height that his machine was on
fire. Descending as quickly as posi-
BILE, he reached the earth just iii time
to avoid serious injury.
The health of William Sprague, for
mer governor of Rhode Island, who is
in Paris, Is such that his death would
not be a surprise to his family, al
though his physicians say that he may
live many months.
Charles j. Barth, one of Denver's
wealthiest men, is authority for the
statement that Former Senator Thorn
as M. Patterson has sold the Rocky
Mountain News of Denver to Senator
Simon Guggenheim
Following quarrel, John Drost,
twenty-five years old, shot and killed
his father. Peter Drost, fifty-five years
old and wounded his nineteen-year-
old sister, Phoebe, on their farm near
Northbend, Wash.
Mexican soldiers numbering 200 men
were ambushed by rebels in the noun
tains between Ojinaga and Cuchillio
Parade, Mexico, and more than 100 of
them were killed. Only forty Of them
escaped, so far as Is known.
Another American aviator broke an
other American record when Philip
o. Parmalee, in Wright biplane, re-
manned in the air nearly four hours
at San Francisco. Parmalee was up
3:39:49 1-5
The war department does not view
with favor the project for a joint en-
campment of the. National Guard of
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Okla
homa, and possibly of Iowa, in Sep
TENDER next at Lake Contrary, near
st. Joseph. Mo.
Senator Gamble OF South Dakota de-
| livered a long speech in defense of the
! findings Of the investigating commit
| tee in the Lorimer case He declared
that the evidence did not show that
| Lortmer had any personal knowledge
of bribery having been practiced in his
behalf Therefore Mr.. Lorimer's right
| to his seat could not be questioned.
| Five millions of Americans have
| hook worm. This Is the fact of pri-
| mary importance disclosed through
| the investigation of the origin and
| progress of the disease by the crops
| of experts of the Rockefeller commits
| sion.
Officers of Canadian and American
| express companies, after a conference
| at New York, announced reduction
| in through rates soon to take effect
between all Offices of the United States
1 and many of Canada.
/ State Bank Examiner c. A. Glazier
of Utah has assumed charge of the af-
fairs of the Utah Banking company s
! banks at Lehigh and American Fork.
Coal and coke exports from the
United States in 1910 aggregated $45,-
! 100000 in value and in addition to
this more than $20,000,0O0 worth was
supplied TO vessels engaged in the
foreign trade.
Organization of the Republican Pro-
gressive league by progressive Repub-