The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-04-24
GENERAL.

The twenty-second annual conven-
ton of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution has just closed in
Washington.
Addison C. Brown, from 1881 to
1901 Judge Of the United States dis
trict court for the southern district
of New York, died at his home in
New York of paralysis.
Fumes from a vat OF boiling bluing
suffocated William Woertz in Chicago
and overcome three of his fellow en-
ployes, who are not expected to re-
cover.
The directors Of the Pennsylvania
railroad at meetin in Philadelphia
passed a resolution authorizing a 10
per cent stock issue amounting to
about $43,oOO,O00.
Mary Webb, 10 years old, sister of
Robert Webb, the most daring of the
automobile bandits who terroriZed
Chicago last winter, will enter con-
vent as atonement for the crimes of
her brother.
The average condition of winter
wheat on April / was GIG per cent
of normal compared with SOG last
year, 1913 in 1911 and 1868 the ten
year average. There was a decline of
1.6 points from December to April
!, compared with an average decline
OF sc in the past ten years.
After having hung in an isolated
colonial mansion of Maryland for
more than a century, portrait of
George Washington, painted in 1894
or 1895, by Gilbert Stuart. has been
sold to a wealthy New York collec-
tor. The price paid is said to have
been between $4,000 and $4,000.
Labor unions the country over
have focused their attention and eff
forts on Sioux City, Ia, to make it
closed shop town, asserts c. r. Dott,
secretary of the Sioux City Indus
trial association, an organization of
business men having for it's purpose
the opposition of this movement.
Twelve persons We're injured, none
fatally, when two coaches and the
mail car on northbound passenger
train No. 10. on the st. Louis & San
Francisco railroad, left the tracks and
turned over two miles north of Lock
wood, Mo. Spreading rails was the
cause
Hundreds Of corporations will be
relieved from paying the federal cor
poration tax by decision of the SUI
preme court to the effect that corpo
rations leasing all their property
and having no income except that
yielded by the lease, are not doing
business" and therefore are not sub,
ject to the tax.
Three congressional Investigations
have been proposed. Representative
Lobeck asked for an investigation Of
the 'e&tortionate prices the govern
ment is compelled to pay for eleva-
tors in the various government build
ings. Representative Clark OF Flor
ida asked for the appointment of a
special committee to probe various
special commissions and make recon-
mendations to abolish them. Repre-
sentative Austin proposed an inyesti-
cation of the stemming district to-
bacco associations with headquarters
at Henderson, "as alleged combina-
ton in restraint of trade"
Hundreds of Turkish soldiers who
survived the siege of A6rianople are
dying of exhaustion, dysentery and
cholera in the concentration camp in
that city, according to the CORE
spondent of the London Daily Tele
graph
Three attempts are believed to have
been made within the last ten days to
burn the Young Mems Christian asso
citation building at Council Bluffs, la.
Two sailors Of the United States
cruiser California We're killed and
three others wounded in a street fight
at Mazatlan, Pacific coast port in
Mexico.