The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-01-09
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Postmaster General Hitchcock per-
sonally inaugurated the parcels post
system in the United States with the
advent of the new year. He mailed
the first package at the Washington
post office. To whom the package was
sent was not disclosed
Webster Morton, colored messenger
for the Washington and Southern
bank of Washington, d. c., disap-
peared with $4,000 in bills given to
him to take to the treasury depart
ment to be changed.
Silver cups awarded annually in the
Asiatic fleets for the highest aggfe-
gate score in small arms practice
have been won this year by the gun
boat Helena of the Asiatic fleet and
the cruiser South Dakota of the Pa
cific fleet
Five members of the foreign colony
at Washington, D. c., are ill. The
minister from Chile, Senior Don Ed
uardo Suarez; the minister from
Cuba, Senior Lodo Don Antonio Mar
tin-Rivero; DR.. Don Carlos M. de
Pena, minister from Uruguay, and Co.
lombia's diplomatic representative,
Senior Don Julio Retancourt, all are
confined to their residence. Count
ess Won Bernstorff, wife of the Ger
man ambassador, also is among the
invalids.
Charges that Martin B. Madden of
Chicago obtained his reelection to
congress from the First Illinois dis
trict by expenditures in violation OF
the law were made in notice OF con-
test filed with the house of represent
atives by Andrew Donovan, Demo
cratic and Progressive candidate from
that district.
Manuel L. Quezon and NJ. Earn
shaw, delegates to congress from the
Philippines, who will renew fight for
the independence of the Philippines,
are en- route to Washington. There
are in the Philippines 100000 ma
tives," they said, land of these less
than 100000 are uncivilized."
Domestic
Dr. William B. Craig, dean of the
Indiana Veterinary college and Alon-
20 NJ Ragsdale, undertaken, men we'll
known in the business and profession
al life of Indianapolis, were indicted
by the grand jury and placed under
arrest in connection with the murder
of DR.. Helene Knabe on the night OF
October 90, 1911.
Henry j. Horn of Boston, vice-presi-
dent; Benjamin R. Pollock, general
manager, and Charles N. Woodward,
general superintendent of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad,
were arrested in Bridgeport, Conn,
on bench warrants issued by the Grim
inal court on the charge of manslaugh-
ter in causing the death of passengers
in the wreck of passenger train at
Westport, October 3.
Seven were killed and more in
1ured when heavy Chesapeake &
Ohio freight train broke through the
bridge which spans the Guyandotte
river at Guyandotte station, only a
few miles from Huntington, W. Va.
Thirty men were at work on the struc-
ture putting on a double track when
the accident occurred
Popular election of United States
senators was the recommendation
made by Governor Sulzer in his first
message to the legislature. The PEG.
pie can and ought to be trusted"
said the governor. They have dem.
onstrated their ability for self-gov-
eminent"
Eugene Dahl, travelling representa-
tive of the Grand Trunk railroad and
vice-president of the Transportation
club of Cincinnati, O., and his six
year-old son Lawrence, were instant
ly killed while walking the c., l.. &
n. trestle at Norwood, o. Mrs. Dahl
who was with her husband and son,
escaped.
Mrs. Alice Mcmillan, aged SIS, a
wealthy Ore county, northern Califor-
MIA widow, is lost in terrific blizzard
at Chambers Lake, near the crest of
the continental divide rs miles west
Of Fort Collins, and there is no hope
of finding !isr alive
Carl Gross, some members of the
board of directors of the c., H. & D.
railroad, and William York were in
dicted at Indianapolis for involuntary
manslaughter as a result of the grand
jurys investigation of the c., H. & D.
wreck In 1rvingtou November IL.