The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-01-04
At HOME AND ABROAD
Happenings That Are Making History
-information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
Washington

For the third time President Taft
has denied pardon to Charles W..
Morse, the New York banker now
serving ffteen-year sentence in the
federal prison at Atlanta.
President Taft signed the Lodge res
olution giving force and effect to his
abrogation Of the Russian treaty OF
1882. The treaty will continue in ef-
feet automatically until January J..
1918 Meanwhile efforts will be made
to negotiate a new treaty eliminating
the cause Of friction which led to the
termination of the old one.
Domestic
A posse at Cairo, ILL.,, conducted an
unsuccessful search for a negro who
attacked the wife of Turner Johnson.
q negro section hand, and Johnson's
twelve-year-old daughter.
A trolley car carrying IS passen-
gers, nearly all of whom were proml-
nent residents Of Schuylkill Haven,
Pa, on their way to Pottsville to at
tend the performance Of a comic
opera, jumped Black bridge into the
Schuylkill river here, injuring every
person on board, some Of whom 1t is
feared, will die.
Adrian c. cap" Arson, hero Of
many a baseball game, distinguished
himself as a life saver in Jackson
park lagoon in Chicago, when he
saved two young boys from drowning.
One had gone down a second time
and 1t was necessary for Arson and
a companion to work over him an
hour before life was restored.
A runaway trolley car on King
street at Toronto killed one woman.
Injured seven persons seriously and
badly bruised 80 others. The motor
man, James Moore, lost control Of the
car and 1t ran at terrific speed until
1t struck switch, where 1t toppled
over. The motorman was arrested.
The real hope of universal peace
lies in an inevitable refusal of the
masses to be led to war over such pre-
texts as the ancient one Of beauti.
ful woman's face, declared Bishop
Charles d. Williams in a sermon at
st. Paul's Protestant Episcopal ca
thedral in Detroit Mich
A special committee of the St. Louis
board of education has decided that
penny" lunch-rooms in the schools
are self-sustaining and profitable and
they will be established in all the
Pleas OF guilty were made by Shell
ton G. Burr, president; Eugene h..
Burr, secretary-treasurer; Charles II.
Tobey. vice-president. and Edwin
Wesley Preston, an official OF the
Burr Brothers. Inc, stock promoters
at New York. Their offices here were
raided November 20. 1910. by the pos.
tai authorities, the men being charged
with using the mails in a scheme to
defraud investors.
Alderman Walter Gibson Of Gary,
Ind. charged with soliciting and &C.
cepting a bride In the passage Of the
Dean heating franchise in Gary, was
found guilty by jury in the Lake cir.
cult court at Crown Point after the
panel had been out but fifteen min
utes. Only one ballot was taken.
Overruled by Judge Carpenter on
every objection they had raised. coun.
eel for the Chicago packers in the gov
ernment's prosecution were forced to
proceed with their defense without
further delay. Replying to the govern.
ment's araignment, George T. Buck.
ingham, in an address to the jury, dis
closed, for the first time. the full out
lima Of the defense.
A music score was transmitted by
wire for the first time in the history
of telegraphy at Toronto, Ont 1t was
sent from New York city at an enor-
nous cost, which purchased the con-
troll of a direct wire for the space of
several hours.
A third member of the household
may die as the result OF the poison
ing of the family of Thomas Register
at Henderson, Ky. Three members of
the family and two negro servants
became suddenly ia after drinking
beer.