The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-01-16

ence committee in New York the man
ayers of the railroads rejected the fire
mems proposal to arbitrate under the
Erdman law their demands for in
creased pay and other concessions.
The much-discussed project of a
bridge across the Hudson was revived
at a mass meeting at Hacllensack, N.
j., under the auspices of several Or
CARNATIONS interested in the scheme
when it was announced that behring's
were started in the river bed and
along shore to test foundation posi-
bilites.
The annual woman suffrage hearing
| before the legislature which has been
an annual feature in Albany, N. Y, for
years, probably will be abandoned this
year. Both the senate and assembly
| judiciary committees have reported
favorably the Wagner-Goldberg wom-
an suffrage constitutional amendment
Frank Leroy Chance, former man
ager of the Chicago Cubs, has signed
a contract to manage the New York
American league team for /; period of
three years at reported salary OF
$4,000 year.
Moving picture theaters in Des
Moines Ia, must remain closed until
noon every Sunday. Orders to that
effect We're issued by J, w. Jenney,
chief of police. He said his action was
I the result of protests from ministers,
who said the movies kept children
away from Sunday school.
ter. the tank steamer Rosecrans once
a United States army transport, was
lost on Peacock Spit just beyond the
| bar, near Astoria, Ore in a gale that
drove it on the rocks. Thirty lone OF
the crew of thirty-five men persisted
when the ship sank.
Loose trucks on the baggage car OF
west-bound Big Four passenger train
No. Is caused a bad wreck at Rex,
Ind, twelve miles south of Lafayette.
One person was killed and fourteen
others were more or less severely in
jured.
Michael Angelo McGinnis. whose
ability as mathematician has attract
ed wide attention among educators,
was released from the Missouri state
penitentiary at Jefferson City on par
ole, after serving six years of a ten
year sentence for forgery
Approximately 100000 rounds of
ammunition have been shipped from
tra]ity proclamation was issued by
President Taft last spring, according
to testimony given before Senator Will
liam Alden Smith, chairman of the
senate committee Investigating the
Mexican situation at New Orleans.
An address by c. P. Cary, state ST.
pegintendent of public instruction, was
the opening feature of the annual con-
vention of the State Horticultural So
ciety, which began in the Free Library
building at Madison, Wis. Interesting
things on the program are a speaking
contest by horticultural students of
the university, an illustrated lecture
on birds, cooking school and extern
sive exhibits of fruit and orchard &C
cessOries.
The latest estimates Of the popula-
ton of continental United States
places the figure at SO, 496,050, Janu-
airy 2, 1918. This figure was used by
the United States treasury depart
; ment experts in determining the total
money in circulation in the country
on that date, $780, $780, the
amount per capita was $34.73.
The widespread crusade against
poclrooms in San Francisco collapsed
when five of the six poolroom pro
prietors and all of the 100 visitors
arrested in the general raid were re
leased for want of evidence. No one
, will accept the responsibility of hay
ing ordered the raid.
N. S. Keith, former secretary, ant
2 F R. Williams, formerly treasurer o.
, the Cincinnati Trust company, O.
which George B. Cox was president
gave $4,000 bonds each in Cincinnati
after being indicted on charges of mis-
application of more than $4,000 O.
f the company's funds.
i Foreign
S Paraguay, South America, which TO-
s eight years past has been without an,
U diplomat representative to the United
States, has chosen DR.. Hector Velas
quez to be minister at Washington, &C
e cording to advices received at tn
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