The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-11-21
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Politics
Chairman William F. McCombs
turned over his desk at the New York
headquarters of the Democratic ma
tional committee to his assistant and
began vacation to which he has been
looking forward eagerly since election
night. He will pass a month resting
and recuperating in South Carolina.
Complete unofficial returns from the
entire state of California give Roose-
welt a plurality of As votes over Will
son. The result may be changed by
the official count.
Washington
The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy met in Washington and laid
the corner stone of the Confederate
monument in Arlington cemetery.
Charles Page Bryan, United States
ambassador to Japan, rendered his
resignation to President Taft who re-
luctantly accepted it. Mr.. Bryan gave
i'll health, brought on by carriage &C
cident in Japan, as the reason for his
resignation. He is now at his home
In Elmhurst, ILL.,, receiving medical
treatment.
A man claiming to be Jesse Dow
dell of Sherwood, Ind, who insisted
on seeing President Taft to get him
to lower the cost of living, was taken
into custody at the White House. He
was unarmed and will be examined as
to his sanity.
Postmaster General Hitchcock an
nounced that approximately s28000.-
600 had been deposited to date in post
al savings repositories by 100000 in
dividuals, averaging 500 per depositor.
The system is now operated in 12,773
post offices and 1857 banks have quail
fed to receive postal savings funds.
James Bryce, British ambassador to
the United States, has rendered hts
resignation and will return to Eng
land.
Domestic
Mrs. J. Rape Myers, wife of the
proprietor of the Rape hotel Green's
burg, Pa, was shot by her daughter
Gladys in mistake for burglar in a
sleeping car on a Pennsylvania rail-
road train bound for New York, She
died a short time later in Trenton
IN. J.) hospital.
Sixteen persons were killed and as
many more were injured when the
Monon railroads "Cincinnati Limited"
running on the tracks of the Cincin-
natl Hamilton & Dayton railroad, ran
into an open switch and smashed into
freight train at Irvington, a southern
suburb of Indianapolis, Ind.
Upon Mrs. Helen Dwelle Jenkins
testimony that she has no real estate
and that nearly all her personal ef
fects were turned over to Deputy Sur
veyor Parr for loans made to her, JUS
tice Schmuck, in New York, appointed
Philip J. Dunn receiver of her prop
erty.
Mrs Florence Dietz, $50 East One
Hundred and Fifteenth street. Cleve-
land, o., bride of three months, is
lying at deaths door at Provident hos
pital, a victim of hydrcphobia. Her
husband is frantic with grief. He gave
her the puppy whose bite it is feared
will prove fatal.
There will be no special session of
the Forty-seventh Illinois general as.
sembly to elect two United States
senators, one to fill William Lorimers
unexpired term and the other to sue
coed retiring Senator Cullom. Attor-
ney General Stead held that a special
session would not be legal unless new
Neglected members of the legislature
were seated.
A two hundred and fifty thousand
house of the western plant of the
Standard Steel Car foundry in Ham
mond, Ind. Four thousand men were
thrown out of employment indefinitely,
1T costs 100000 a year to supply
bread and butter to each of the lead.
ing hotels of America" said Lyman T
Hay, retiring president of the Nilsson.
ri-Kansas Oklahoma Hotelmens asso.
citation, addressing the annual conyen.
ton of the organization at St. Louis
Personal taxes on the Astor estate
were sworn off in New York. Repre-
sentatives of the estate declared that
October ! the estate had in cash 49,.
100000. against which there was
chargeable 100000 in obligations
including the inheritance tax.