The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-07-11

with cramps and sunk suddenly.
Washington
The hearing on Senator Marines
resolution in the senate at Washing
ton on the proposal to buy Thomas
Jefferson's home, Monticello, for the
government has been postponed till
after the Democratic convention.
President Taft sent to the senate
in Washington the nomination of Will.
liam Marshall Bullitt of Louisville,
KY, to be solicitor general of the
United States to succeed Frederick w.
Lehman of st. Louis, resigned.
In the United States district court in
Washington Ed. Schneider, Jr., of
Newark and Gabriel Hole of Paterson
were called upon to plead to charge
of using the United States mails for
forming baseball pools in violation OF
the anti-lottery laws. They pleaded
not guilty.
In answer to attacks upon Speaker
Clark in the Baltimore convention, the
house of representatives at Washing.
ton adopted resolution announcing
its entire faith in it's presiding Off
GER The resolution was offered by a
Republican, Representative Austin of
Tennessee.
The thanks of congress are con-
veyed to Capt. Arthur H. Rostron and
the officers and crew of the liner Car
pathia for their rescue of 704 sur
vivors of the Titanic in a senate bill
passed by the house. The bill pro-
vides for a $1,000 gold medal for Cap
tain Rostron.
Opponents of Mai. Gen. Leonard
Wood met defeat in their plan to leg
islate him out of office when Chair
man Hay of the house military affairs
committee reintroduced the army ap-
priations bill without the clause re-
stricting those officers who may serve
as chief-of-staff.
William Marshall Bullitt of Ken.
lucky was nominated by President
Taft to be solicitor general to succeed
Frederick w. Lehman, who resigned
recently. The president also nomin-
ated Lyle A. Dickey of Hawaii to be
Judge of the circuit court, Fifth cir
cult, Hawaii; Homer N. Boardman,
Oklahoma, to be United States attor-
ney for the western district of Okla
homa; Marcus 8. Baker, to be post
master at Savannah, Ca, and Joseph
w. Morrow at Charlestown, Ind.
The federal government closed the
fiscal year with surplus Of $32,000,-
900, according to estimates based upon
incomplete returns from the various
sources OF revenue the country over.
This amount far exceeded the most
sanguine expectations Of Secretary
MacVeagh, who months ago estimated
that the surplus would be $10,250. 900.
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Baby girls were born to Mrs. Charles
Wright and her daughter, Mrs. Ben
jamin Able, within six hours of each
other in Rochester, N. Y.
A grand festival concert participate.
ed in by the thousands of members Of
societies constituting the Northeast.
ern Saengerbund, with President and
Mrs. Taft as the guests of honor,
was the browning event of the TWEEN.
ty-third saengerfest at Philadelphia.
Thomas F. Coleman, sixty-f1ve years
old, q retired capitalist and relative of
the Du Points, the powder magnates
of Delaware, was struck and killed by
an automobile near Louisville. KY.
Cuban ReUOlt
Gen. Evaristo Estenoz, the Cuban
rebel leader, was killed at Vega Bel.
laco by government troops, after
battle in which 100 insurgents per-
ished.
Foreign
C. II. Laurier, who says he is the son
of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, former premier
of Canada, reported to the police IN
San Francisco that he had been robbed
Of $500.
The death list as a result of the
cyclone that struck Regina, Sask., will
probably not exceed fifty. Thirty-six
bodies have been recovered from the
ruins. The militia has been recalled
from it's annual encampment and Ia In
charge of the city.
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