The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-31
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES Of A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN lTEMlZEO
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into a Few Lines for the
PerusaI Of the Busy Man.
Latest Personal In.
formation.
Washington

Washington
Desiring to seek his senate sea
free from criticism Of money faint Of
corruption, Albert ]. Beverage Of In
diana returned unused in the 1904
campaign s57,50O, which had been
donated to him by George w. Perkins,
Edward Mclean and Clifford Pinchot,
from testimony given by 1ndianians
before the Clapp campaign and in.
vestigating committee in Washington.
C. F. Adams OF Chicago, the negro
assistant registrar of the treasury, re-
signed to become connected with the
Republican campaign headquarters in
New York. President Taft has APP
pointed j. P. Strickland, negro, of
Arkansas, to succeed Adams.
Commissioner Denett of the general
land office ordered that 49,0S0 acres Of
unappropriated land, excluded from
the Humboldt national forest in Ne
vada last June, be subject to home
stead settlement December 80, and
that 26,6S0 acres be open to entry
January 20 at Carson City. The lands
are in Elko county, Nevada
The Latin-American division of the
state department is observing closely
export trade from the United States
to South American countries on the
Pacific coast with view to determin-
ing the probable volume of such traf
fic through the Panama canal.
The total amount of internal rev.
enue collected in the Philippine
islands last year was about $10,600,-
900, an increase of nearly $1,000,000
over the collection for 1911. The
Philippine collector of customs re-
ported an increase Of $625,OOO in i'm
port duties
Regulations to further restrict the
size and limit the weight of personal
baggage of travellers, adopted by sub
stantially all railroads in the United
States, was suspended by the inter
state commerce commission until
April 20.
Elihu Root at Washington has &C.
cepted the honorary presidency Of the
American Institute of international
Law, formed to promote friendly re-
lations among the Latin-American
states. A provisional bureau has been
opened, with James Brown Scott sec
rotary of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, as president;
Alexandra Alvarez, counselor to the
minister of foreign affairs of Chile,
as secretary general, and Louis An
derson Of Costa RIGA, treasurer.
Domestic
The proposition submitted to the
voters of East st. Louis to establish
a commission form of government was
defeated by a vote of 1864 to 4,61s.
]. K. Walton Of Anna, ILL.,, has been
expelled and V. H. Halperin of Chi
cago has been suspended for year
by the University of Illinois as re-
suit of riot at Champaign.
W. H. Morrisey, a former city at
torney of Jacksonville, ILL.,, died at
Chester penitentiary. Morrisey was
serving a term after conviction for
embeZzling and withholding city
funds. The shortage in his books
found by auditors after his term of
office expired amounted to nearly
$4,000.
The insurgent faction of the Mod
ern Wocdmen of America scored
victory in their first attempt to pre-
vent the putting into effect of new
and higher schedule Of rates adopted
by the head camp when Judge Brad
shaw Of the equity division of the dis
trict court at Des Moines, a., handed
down decision, holding the proposed
change to be null and void.
Several persons were injured, some
seriously, when spreading rails wreck
ed the Denver express on the Chicago
& Alton railroad, one mile west of
Hopedale, Ill.
The trial of Clarence S. barrow.
the Chicago lawyer who defended the
Mcnamara brothers, was set at Los
Angeles for November 25, on the in.
dictment charging him with the
bribery of Robert g. Bain juror in
the Mcnamara trial.
Passengers, crew and life-sayers.
who had been Drawing fire on board
the Merchants and Miners steamer
Berkshire for sc hours, were taken
off the burning liner by the revenue
cutter Seminole, in Lookout cove,
North Carolina.