The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-02-29
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Washington
President Taft has decided to an
swer the Columbus speech of Colonel
Roosevelt on his coming trip.
President Taft in a message to con
gress opposes the recommendation OF
the postmaster general for govern
ment ownership of the telegraph.
Execution on the gallows annuls q
criminals life insurance policies. &C.
oording to Supreme court decision
holding that the four infant children
Of James s. McCue, once mayor OF
Charlottesville, Va, who was executed
in 1905 for wife murder, were not en-
titled to $4,000 insurance money
from the Northwestern Mutual Life of
Milwaukee.
The Supreme court Of the United
States declined to annul as unconsti-
tutional the initiative and referendum
method Of legislation in the states. It
decided that it has no jurisdiction over
the form Of government in the states,
that being political question for con-
4ress to deal with.
President Taft sent to the senate the
report Of the employers liability and
workmen's compensation commission
and in the message accompanying 1t
the president expresses the hope that
the disability bill recommended by the
commission will become a law.
Declaring that to give Senator steph-
enson of Wisconsin a clear right to his
seat, Is ito notify the world that we
are careless as to to whether seats
in this body are to be bought and sold
as SO much merchandise to the man
with the largest purse" five senators
presented q minority report in the
United States senate against Stephen
son and brought sQuarely before that
body the issue of his reelection.
President Taft has nominated julius
N. Mayer Of New York city as Judge
of the United States district court for
southern New York and Ferdinand A.
Geiger of Milwaukee, to be Judge Of
the eastern district Of Wisconsin.
Domestic
Because his wife kept IS cats in
their home Samuel W. Odell, seventy
four years old, Civil war veteran,
has won divorce at Kansas City,
Kan.
Mayor Lambert of Rockport, KY,
met an incoming steamer at that
town with a revolver in each hand,
said his daughter, who eloped with
Charles Pruitt, was on board and de-
clared he intended to kill Pruitt. The
couple, warned Of trouble, had taken
passage on another boat
Rutgers students who did the ''tur-
key trot" and like dances at the
Junior prom" at New Brunswick, N.
j., will be excluded from attendance at
all future college dances. A woman
member Of the faculty circle is quoted
as declaring that the dance she saw
was not Objectionable.
A 96-m1le gale caused great destruc
ton of property along the Atlant1,
coast.
Fire in q coal mine In Oklahoma
caused the loss Of several lives.
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Thirty officials and employees of the
National Cash Register company have
been indicted for criminal violation OF
the antitrust law by federal grand
Jury at Cincinnati.
For the first time in many years the
University Of Chicago and Iowa uni.
versity football teams have arranged a
match which will be played next fall
In Chicago. The tentative date set for
the game is October 10.
The coroner's jury, investigating the
death Of John J. Rickels and his IA
year-old stepdaughter near Topeka
Kan. brought in verdict that the
man murdered the girl by shooting
her to death and then shot himself.
Enamored with the "grizzly bear
which he saw danced for the first time
at the firemen's ball, Lewis Kline, 6
GAINESVILLE (Minn.) fireman, at
tempted to show friends the prope,
glide" with the result that ne fell
and broke his leg.
Louis La France, wealthy Brooklyn
lawyer, was run down by trolley
car and killed, while Mrs. Lena Born.
kamp, shopkeeper, was killed by q
physician's automobile. In a fog and
raiustorm.