The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-11-07
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Washington
Alarmed at the growth of the revo-
luton in Santo Domingo, President
Taft ordered the cruiser Baltimore
and the tender Yankton to Santo Do
mingo Immediately.
Contributions totaling 1891, 032 and
expenditures Of s55S,311 in the Repub-
1lcan campaign fund were disclosed
in the financial statement of the Re-
publican national committee, filed
with the clerk Of the house of repre-
sentatives. Charles p, Taft, brother
of the president, appeared as the
largest contributor. He gave $4,000
Politics
Chairman Hilles of the Republican
national committee has called meet
ing of the national committee for NO.
vember 10 in Chicago to select a sue
cessor to James S. Sherman as the
Republican candidate for vice-pres'-
dent. y
More than $4,000 men, women and
children greeted Col. Theodore Roose-
welt at Madison Square garden when
he made his first public address since
the attempt on his life on October IA
at Milwaukee. When he took his place
at the speakers stand the crowd
cheered him for fully forty minutes.
Domestic
The German Crown Prince Freder-
lex Wilhelm was injured about the
head and face in hunting accident
near Vienna and is confined to his res
idence. He was participating IN
draghunt in company with Grown
Princess Cecilie. when his horse fell
and threw him.
Former Police Lieutenant Charles
Becker of New York is in the death
house" at Sing Sing prison under SEN
tence to die in the electric chair dur
ing the week of December 8, as the
convicted murderer OF the gambler,
Herman Rosenthal. Becker's execu-
ton will be stayed, however, by the
filing of notice Of appeal.
Eight persons, six of them nuns and
two children, lost their lives in a fire
which destroyed st. Johns Orphan
asylum at San Antonio, Texas. An
other sister is dying. There were 81
children in the orphanage.
George G. Thompson, division
freight agent of the Southern railway,
was shot and killed in Greensboro, N.
c. by w. r. Blair, his former priv
alto secretary, whom he had dis
charged.
Twenty-Five leading American archi-
tects are preparing plans for New
York city's civil courthouse, which is
to be erected near the criminal court.
house and the Tombs, thus forming a
civic center. The total cost of the new
building will be more than $30,000,OO0,
and it will be the finest structure OF
It's kind in the world. 1t is hoped to
select the plans by January 1.
The story of a company OF Amerl
can sailors who, when ordered to stay
off the firing line because of their
white uniforms, stained their clothing
with mud and shoe polish and Joined
the marines In the daring charge up
Coyatepe hill, Nicaragua, was told In
New York by officers of the steamship
Cristobal.
The American people are drinking
more whisky and beer and smoking
more cigars and cigarettes than ever
before in history, according to tax re-
turns received by Royal E. Cabell, fed
eral commissioner of internal revenue.
Alvin Roehr, a young farmer living
near Sheboygan, Wis, shot and killed
his father-in-law, Phillip ]. OFT, Mrs.
OFT and Mrs. Otis father, Fred Haut,
eighty years of age, when he was re-
fused permission to see his wife, from
whom he had been separated. Roehr's
body was later found hanging to a
tree in the woods. Mrs. Roehr and
her baby escaped by hiding for three
hours.
The plant of the Peshtigo Lumber
company, at Peshtigo, Wis, was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at 100000. The mill was said to be
the largest lumber factory in Wiscon-
sin.
The arbitration committee which
has been considering the demands for
increased wages made by the en-
gineers on so railroads in the east
met In New York after an adjourn
ment of a month.