The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-01-11
Brought before United States Circuit


fessed that they had forged notes
in the name of the bank and of the
Cook Manufacturing company, OF
which the elder bearing was presl'
dent and the younger bearing mana
ger, to the sum of $144,00O.
Two young women were probably
fatally injured and four other persons
were hurt in fire which partly de-
stroyed the Commercial hotel at Col
linsyille, Ill. Kate Zeppia. a waitress,
jumped from the second story and
her spinal column was broken. Ruth
Shaw, a chambermaid, was burned
terribly.
The anti-tipping crusade received
stalwart recruit when P. r. DOVE,
president of the Commercial Travel
ers' National league, came out with
the announcement that his organ1za.
ton will combat the practice OF Civ
ing gratuities to employees Of hotels,
restaurants, barber shops and Pull
man cars.
A. E. Stillwell, president Of the
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient rail-
way, has been sued by James Edward
Buckley, railway promoter OF Chi
cago, who asks $1,00O,000 actual and
$250,000 as punitive damages for the
alleged breach OF contract in connec'
ton with a proposed railway in Co
lombia, South America.
Foreign
A magnificent new cathedral erect
ed in memory of the famous General
Gordon in Khartoum, Egypt, was con.
secrated by the bishop Of London.
The mutiny of four thousand Chi
nese imperial troops at Chin Wang
Toa, the treaty port of the Gulf OF
Lao Tang, removes one Of the few
remaining props on which the Man.
chu dynasty has been basing its
claims to honorable peace terms.
Arrangements have been completed
in London for big combination OF
that city's traction systems, according
to the New York Sun. The effect OF
the merger will be to put into the
hands of the new company control OF
traction in London and the suburbs.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen took the oath of Of
oio1 nf a
nese republic at Marking. The cere.
mony was simple but dignified. His
first official act was to change the Chi
nese calendar.
Sixteen Persians were hanged at
Tabriz, Persia, by order of the Russian
cOurtmartial in connection with the re-
cent attack on the Russian troops. The
Russian court-martial is exacting
heavy toll for the casualties suffered
by the Russia ntroops.
President Tafts efforts to secure the
ratification of arbitration treaties with
France and Great Britain was the spe-
cial theme OF an official speech made
by President Fallieres at the reception
to the diplomatic corps at the Elysee
palace
The Dowager Marquise MacMahon.
niece OF the former president OF
France, is dead. She played a promt;
nent role in politics and encouraged
the "camelote du roi" with money and
in other ways. During demonstra.
lions by the camelots she always was
in the front ranks.
Personal
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, U.
S. NJ, retired, affectionately known as
Fighting Bob" Evans, one of the
navy's most brilliant officers and the
man, who as commander-in chief, pi-
loted the famous American feet
around Cape Horn and up the Pacific
to San Francisco, died suddenly at his
home in Washington of heart failure,
superinduced by an attack of acute
indigestion.
Miss Helen Kimbrough, foster
daughter OF Judge E. r. E. KIM
brough of the Vermilion county ull.)
circuit court, who presided in the eel
ebrated vote-buying cases, and one
of the wealthiest heiresses in Dan
Vile, is missing from home and the
Danville detective department has
been called upon to find her.
To induce Thomas A. Edison to at
tend it's banquet in Chicago the West
ern Electrical association sent a spe-
cial Pullman car to Orange, N. j., to
transport the inventor to Chicago. Mr..
Edison, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, will arrive in Chicago Fri
day.
The knights Of Zion in the final
session OF two days convention at
Detroit elected the following office. 8
for the next wear. Max Schnlman