The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-04-11


Of Columbus announced that $3S6.OOQ
Of a 100000 endowment fund for the
Catholic university In Washington ID
in hand.
Word has been received by Jesuit
priests in New York that distin'
guished member Of their society, Pere
1sidore Dupuy, has been stricken with
leprosy and Is at present confined IN
the leper colony at Carana, in NADIA.
gascar. He Is the tenth missionary
priest to be stricken with the disease
during the past fifty years.
Responsibility for the Kinmundy
wreck on the Illinois Central railroad
January %, which caused the death
of ]. T. Harahan and three other rail-
road officials, is placed on the crew
of the train. according to a report
made to the Interstate commerce com.
mission by Chief Inspector Of Safety
Appliances Belknap.
Announcement was made In New
York Of the purchase of a controlling
interest in the Editor and Publisher,
a newspaper publication, by James
Wright Brown, general manager Of
the Fourth Estate.
Results OF local option elections in
Illinois included several decisive vic.
tories for the liquor interests. The
most notable of these were at Gales.
burg, Monmouth, Marengo, Taylorville
and Carmi, where the VETS" reversed
the previous situation. The greatest
victory for the "drys' was at Rock.
ford, where saloons were voted out OF
existence after having had a two-year
lease OF life.
A thousand women from all parts OF
Illinois met in Chicago in a conven.
roads.
DR.. Gerhard A. Bading. former
health commissioner and son OF Lu-
theran preacher, defeated Emil Seidel,
the pattern-maker Socialist and pres
ent incumbent, for mayor Of Milwau-
kee by total vote OF 43,177 to 10000.
Bading ran on a non-partisan ticket.
or the thirty-three aldermen elected
twenty-six were nonpartisan and seven
We're Socialists.
With only two exceptions the sus-
pension In the coal mining industry OF
the country, which went into effect
when the wage contracts between
members OF the United Mine Workers
Of America and the bituminous and
anthracite coal operators expired, was
general. Approximately 100000 are
idle.
The floods in Missouri, Illinois and
Kentucky are the worst on record.
Property loss already has run into
the millions.
Judge Cross of the United States dis
trict court, in suit of the Westing-
house Air Brake company against the
New York Air Brake company for in
decided in favor of the Westinghouse
company, sustaining the patent cover.
ing the quick-service brake apparatus
known as the type "K" triple valve.
The First National and Capitol Ma
rf
date under the name of the First Ma
tionai with combined resources Of $685.
100000.
The Jury in the case Of John E.
Parsons, Washington B. Thomas.
George H. Frazier and Arthur Bonner,
charged with violating the criminal
clause of the Sherman antitrust law,
while directors of the American Sugar
Refining company, reported dis
agreement in the United States dis
trict court
Governor Deneen affixed his sigma.
ture to the presidential preference pri-
mary bill which had been passed by
both branches Of the Illinois legisla-
ture. This action by the governor fin
ished the proceedings necessary to
make the law effective Immediately
The presidential primaries will be
held throughout the state on April g.
Foreign
Fifty passengers and eighty mem
bers of the crew of the British steam
er Koombana persisted in the wreck OF