The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-01-30

sums from borrowers under the gulSt
of payments for expenses incurred in
drawing up of papers and examining
titles to property.
Fire which destroyed a large part
Of the business section of Larned
Kan. caused loss of $4,000. Seven
buildings in the main street were de.
strOyed.
Mrs. Bette Horton, a negress, said
| to have been one hundred and six
years old, was found dead in bed by
her granddaughter, Mrs. Lena Blue, at
Springfield, Ill.
| An agreement by which the wages
of 1000 employees in the shops of the
Wabash railroad are increased six to
ten per cent. was reached at con-
ference held between E. E. Needham.
superintendent of locomotives and
cars of the Wabash, and other officials
of the road and committee represent
ing the shopmen at Springfield, Ill.
Within seven hours after he had
shot and killed Chief of Police Charles
Dickey at Gulfport, Miss Percy New
kirk, negro, who had been trapped
by the officer in the act of robbing a
store, was indicted, tried on charge
of murder, convicted and sentenced to
be hanged In one month
William Coogan, laborer, fell down
an elevator shaft from the twenty-ninth
floor of the Union Central building at
Cincinnati and died nine hours later.
Col. Schuyler Crosby, veteran of
the Civil war and former governor OF
Montana and a noted Indian fighter,
narrowly escaped death in New York,
when he was attacked by S. Iwamoge,
his Japanese valet, whose mind is said
to be affected. Colonel Crosby, who
is recovering from a short illness,
leaped from his bed when the valet
rushed at him with large knife.
h0eOSCASO L CCC4 L4elA y VI ShASes6o
was shot through the heart and killed
by man identified as Robert
("Teddy") Webb, whom he was seek
ing to arrest as an automobile bandit
The shooting occurred in flat where
the detective had gone to obtain in
formation about the bandit.
A lone bandit rifled the mail car Of
Southern railway passenger train No.
u, near Riverside, Ala and escaped
with what is said to be valuable regis
tered packages.
A riot took place in the house of
representatives of the Wyoming 1egis~
lature with Speaker Pratt and Speak"
er Pro Tenn. Wood both claiming to
preside. A violent fight, interrupted
by members, took place between the
two officers. Scenes of violence last
ed fully three-quarters of an hour.
The final chapter in the celebrated
Schenk case was written when Judge
KeTsey at Wheeling, W. Va, handed
down decision giving John G.
Schenk an absolute divorce from his
wife, Laura Farnsworth Schenk.
Schenk also was given the custody of
Rev. H. Percy Silver lacked two
votes Of enough to confirm his ap-
pointment as bishop coadjutor Of Kan
sas, 1t is announced by Rev. Daniel S.
futile, presiding bishop OF che Protes-
tant Episcopal church of America, and
the diocese of Kansas may call the
election null and proceed to new
choice.
Governor Oddie in his message to
the Nevada legislature recommends
the abolition of the Reno divorce col
ony by amending the law to make
legal residence In the state one year.
instead Of six months. He also recon-
mends abolition of present prize fight
statute allowing finish fights, fixing
limit as to number of rounds.
Politics
The Rhode Island legislature elect
ed LIE Baron B. Colt, judge of the
United States court of appeals for the
First judicial district, to the United
States senate, to succeed George Pea
body Wetmore.
George w. Norris, congressman from
the Fifth district, was elected United |
States senator by the unanimous vote |
Of the Nebraska legislature.
The Minnesota legislature returned
knute Nelson to the United States
senate.
United States Senator William 8.
Kenyon was reelected on the Joint
ballot of the Iowa legislature.
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