The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-07-24
EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO 4
FEW LINES.
late EVENTS BOILED Down
Personal, Political, Foreign and Other
intelligence Interesting to the
General Readers.
Domestic.

OullCO OldNCo III May 4AAPO1 ION fA'
11E,037 worth of uncut gems mostly
diamonds.
Last year the Pennsylvania road
carried 101,755O61 passengers with
only four fatalities.
Charles r. Heike, former secretary
Of the American sugar trust, is dead
at Seabright, N. J.
Secretary Bryan has practically
completed the preparation OF the
State departments reply to the Sec
ond and third Japanese note OF pro-
tests against the California alien land
law.
The wife of Representative Crisp ls
an acknowledged authority on parlia.
mentary law in Washington. She gains
her knowledge from her husband, who
was parliamentarian under Speaker
Clark.
The Rev. Arthur J. Francis, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church OF
Englewood, a suberb of Chicago, de-
fed church tradition recently by ap-
pearing in the pulpit dressed entirely
in white.
Stones are found in Nevada which,
when placed apart, begin to travel
toward a common center. The pres
ence of lodestone or magnetic iron
ore is the explanation of the phe-
nomenon.
Controversy over the postofice at
Gainesville, Ca, was settled when
the senate confirmed the nomination
of Mrs. w. J. Ham to succeed Mrs.
Helen D. Longstreet, widow Of the
confederate general
Misuse by Industrial Workers Of the
World Of funds contributed for relief
of strikers and their families during
the great textile struggle at Law
man of Chicago.
The total importations from the
United States into London in 1912
aggregated in value $92,427,361, of
which amount $S3,960,40O represent
ed non-dutiable goods and $8,466,965
dutiable merchandise.
Preparations have been begun at
the Brooklyn navy yard for laying the
keel of the latest United States bat.
tleship, designated for the present!
as No. 80, for which there is an ap.
preparation of $16,000,000.
For quickly raising to the surface
of the water disabled submarine, an
Englishman has invented a buoy to
be released from the boat, carrying
up hose through which air can be
pumped to fill and lift the craft.
A bronze tablet marking the spot
where General Braddock camped with
his army en- route to Fort Duquense
during the French and Indian war has
been unveiled by committee of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton at Washington.
Representative of railroad com
panies and trainmen's brotherhoods
will call on President Wilson to urge
that he aid in preventing the threat
ened strike of 100000 employees of
eastern railroads by advocating i'm.
mediate passage of pending amend
ments to the Erdman act.
By decision of the California rail-
road commission made public the
state takes unto itself the power to
regulate the rates Of steamship COM
panies plying over regular routes
from one California port to another,
even though the ships making such
trips traverse the high seas.
Claude Ball of Montgomery, Mo-,
has telegraphed Speaker Clark his
acceptance OF the appointment of at
torney general to the territory of
Hawaii. Ball was Champ Clarks op-
ponent for congress last year and
Withdrew after the speaker failed to
be nominated for the presidency.
search begun year ago for Will
liam Sand, aged 13 years, who mys-
teriously disappeared from his home
In Germantown Pa, has Just been
brought to successful close in
South American country, according to
advices received by the boys parents.
George D. Hayes has been declared
by the state supreme court to be the
democratic nominee for governor Of
Arkansas.
The final hearing of the govern.
ment suit for the dissolution of the
international Harvester company Of
America, VIII De held in St. Paul on
November 10.
The Imperial Tobacco company,
the so-called tobacco trust in Ken.
lucky, has pauperized hitherto pros.
porous towns in the tobacco belt, &C.
cording to testimony of A. B. Garvis
before the congressional tobacco com.
mission at Washington.
Since January l, Chicago thieves
have stolen $40 automobiles, valued
at 100000. In 1912 over 1900 ma.
chimes were stolen.
Wages, working conditions and va.
cations on pay are involved in a
strike vote now being taken among
the 1897 telegraph operators on the
Northern Pacific lines.