The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-12-19
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Washington
Representative Roddenbery of Geor
gia on the floor of the house of rep
resentatives scathingly arraignet
Jack Johnson, the negro prize fighter
for his recent marriage to Lucille
Cameron white girl, in Chicago
He declared the action of the state OF
Illinois in permitting the marriage
was 'damning," and said the contin.
uance of the practice would plunge the
United States into bloody war.
Great Britain's formal note Of pro-
test against that section of the Pana-
ma canal act which exempts Ameri-
can coastwise shipping from payment
of tolls for passing through the Pana-
ma canal, a document written by Sir
Edward Grey, British minister for for
eign affairs, was presented to Secre-
tary Of State Knox by British Ambas-
sador Bryce
The common towel was ordered
abolished from railroad cars, vessels,
all other interstate vehicles and from
stations, by Secretary MacVeagh of
the treasury department., in an
amendment to the interstate quaran-
tine regulations.
President Taft and Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wilson have decided on the
appointment of DR.. Carl Alsberg, a
chemist, In the bureau of drugs and
plants, as chief of the bureau of chem
istry, position that has been vacant
since the resignation Of DR.. Harvey
W. Wiley.
In speech to twentysix governors
in Washington, President Taft urged
the adoption of uniform state legisla-
ton to make possible the adoption of
a system of rural credits and low in
terest bearing loans to farmers. He
favored system similar to that in
vogue in many European countries.
Unsparing condemnation of those
who would from misplaced senti-
mentality or lazy self-interest," cast
the Filipinos upon the world in a
state of helplessness and before they
had acquired the full benefits of Amer
lean civilization, is strong feature
In the annual report of Secretary of
War Henry l.. Stimson.
DO1ne.Sfic
George W. Perkins won a complete
triumph over all opposition in the
meeting of the Progressive national
committee In Chicago. He had the
national headquarters removed to New
York, put through his plan for branch
bureaus and then announced that the
next official business of the Progress
I've party would be at meeting of
his executive committee in New York
city, December IS.
Two hundred striking Italian coal
handlers of the Susquehanna railroad,
armed with revolvers, shotguns and
rifles, charged a force of Erie railroad
special police at Shadyside, near Edge
water, N. j., killing two of the police
and wounding eight others. two or
three of whom may die.
Senator Benjamin F. Shively of In
diana had one of the toes CT his right
foot cut off in Washington hospital.
The toe had become irritated and
blood poisoning was feared. Senator
Snively refused to take ether or chlor-
form. During the operation he smoked
a cigar.
Kinney Bergman, train bandit and
craftsman, was killed and three other
bandits who have terrorized the train
men and robbed banks and postoff1ces
throughout the southwest in the last
two years. were captured in raid by
local detectives in lonely hut in the
south part Of Memphis, Tenn.
Richard H. Townley, retired
naval officer and at one time state
comptroller of Nebraska, accidently
shot and killed himself in cleaning a
gun preparatory to a hunting trip. In
recent years he had been superinten-
dent of the Lincoln hospital in New
York city.
William II. Quigley, business agent
of the carpenters union at Detroit,
witness for the defense in the dyna-
mite conspiracy case at Indianapolis,
was arrested f0r perjury, and ordered
held to await an investigation by the
federal grand jury.
Miss Leona Sherer, st. Louis, was
stabbed and probably fatally wounded
by V. Metis on Wabash passenger
t.. ain near Centralia, Mo. Metis then
stabbed himself, intlicting wounds
that will prove fatal. The motive for
his attack is unexplained.