davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01

Albany, N. Y, Dec. 29-Owen T
Kearney, formerly section superinten.
dent of the state canal system, testi.
fled at the Osborne investigation into
state highway affairs he had received
approximately $4,000 from canal work.
men in contributions during the DO
litical campaign Of 1912. These con.
tributions represented assessments of
practically five per cent of their pay
on all Workmen within his territory
for a period OF five months.
w. G. Elmendorff, a foreman OF
canal shops, testified he received from
another subordinate of Kearney, Harry
Bcgue, list of the workmen and the
amounts each had been assessed,
These amounts were deducted from
their pay.
Kearney attempted to explain that
the assessments we're made by an or.
ganization known as the Jefferson
club, but admitted that all employees,
irrespective of political affiliations,
were required to meet the assess.
ments. Of the funds so collected 1914
went to Walter G.. Robinson, the canal
division superintendent, and the rest
to two officers of the Jefferson club,
he said.
The witness understanding was the
money paid to Robinson went to the
Democratic state committee.
When James D. Mcclure, former
mayor of Syracuse, was called as a
witness Commissioner Osborne pro.
duced a letter from District Attorney
Whitman of New York City, advising
that Mcclure be not permitted to tes"
tify unless he would waive immunity.
AS the witness, through his counsel.
refused to do this on the ground that
he was under indictment, Commission
err Osborne ruled no question could be
asked relating to the soliciting or pro-
curing of campaign funds from cor.
porations which formed the base of his
Indictment. This limited the inquiry
to details of the furnishing of asphalt
to the state for paving purposes.
It was definitely announced that
Commissioner Osborne would continue
the investigation ordered by Governor
Glynn into alleged abuses in various
highway departments.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
Flies High Over the Alps.

Berne, Switzerland, Dec. 27.-Osca1
Bider, a Swiss aviator, made a sue
cessful flight across the Alps, though
for several hours he was unable to
see his way because of the heavy fog
which hung over the mountains. The
airman arrived here at 2:15 O'Clock
after a journey from Buc, from which
place he started at a. m. Bider said
that after leaving the French aero.
drome he was forced to maintain an
altitude of $500 feet almost constant
ly in order to avoid the fog.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
Six Stitches in Mans HeSrt.

New York, Dec. 27.--With six stitch
es taken in his heart, Vincenzo Lauro,
victim of staDbing ARRAY, is expect,
ed to live. When taken to a hospital
in Brooklyn the surgeons decided that
the rare operation was necessary. Be.
cause of the weakened condition Of
the patient no anaesthetic was given,
but cocaine was used locally, the ribs
above the heart were cut through and
six stitches taken in the heart tissue.
The patient is improving so fast that
the surgeons expect his recovery.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
Indians Making Imitation Dollars.

Aberdeen, Wash, Dec. 27.---Frank
Walton, Cleveland jackson and Lind
ley Fowler, all Indians, were arrest.
ed Wednesday night at Tahola, capi.
tai of the Quiniault reservation.
charged with counterfeiting. They
have been brought here and bound
over by United States commission.
bail being fixed at $4,000 for each.
The Indians, it is alleged by govern.
ment officials, were manufacturing
counterfeit silver dollars of fair dual.
tty.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
Comet Is Seen in Minnesota.

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 29.-Obser-
vations of Delavan's comet by Prof.
Fl. G. Wilson of Mortified, Mimi, and
by Prof. Prof. A. O. Louschner of Berk-
eley, Cal, were reported in kilograms
received at Harvard university. Ac-
cording to the elements of the comet,
computed by Einarsson and Nicholson
of Berkeley from observations on Dec.
II, IS and 19, the perihelion passage
will occur on the night OF June %,
The elements are described as ex-
remedy uncertain.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
Historians Meet in Charleston

Charleston, S. c., Dec. 20. - The
American Historical association open.
ed it's tWenty-ninth annual meeting
here today with President William A..
Cunning of New York in the chair
and large attendance of members.
After session of the executive coun-
Gil there were number of confer.
ences or section meetings, and late in
the afternoon there was a reception
nd exhibit OF historical materials
his evening j. W. Barnwell, presi.
mt Of the State Historical society,
/ welcome the visitors.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
WILSON PLAYS ROLE
OF FIRE FIGHTER
PRESIDENT MAKES HIT BY DIS.
COVERING BLAZE AND ACT
ING QUICKLY.
NEW HERO OF GULF COAST
Chief Executive Enjoying Complete
Rest in SouthIand-Weather Mod
crates and Air Becomes
BaImy Again.

Pass Christian, Miss, Dec. 90
President Wilson finds himself the
hero of the gulf coast.
Word spread far and wide that the
watchful eye of the chief executive OF
the United States had spied blaze
that threatened to destroy one of the
handsome homes of the southern
shore and that he had acted the vol
unteer fire chief in manner that long
will be remembered in this region.
The incident created stir in the 9TH
erwise quiet life of the gulf section.
Saw Roof Abaze.
The president was returning from a
game of golf toward noon and, on
passing through Gulfport, eight miles
from here. saw blaze on the roof of
big house. 1t was the home of Judge
j. H. Neville. who won fame in 1891
by prosecuting John l.. Sullivan for
a prize fight with Jake Kilrain at Rich
burg, Miss. Mrs. Neville, who was
alone in the building, had run to the
window to watch the president go
by when, suddenly, the two machines
stopped and the president alighted.
He darted up the front steps, fol-
lowed by DR.. Cary D. Grayson, U. S.
~, the secret service men and chat
feurs, who had unstrapped the fire ex.
tinguishers from their machines, and
awaited the presidents orders. Mrs
Neville was confused.
President Pacifes Woman.
Don't be alarmed" said the presi.
dent, coolly, "your house is afire, but
these men will put it out quickly if
you will show them the way to the
attic"
Mrs. Neville fastened to comply and
in few minutes the fire fighters de.
scended with the report that little
damage had been done and that the
blaze was out
"Well DONE" said the president, and
the entire party left the house for the
automobile. The chief of the local fire
department was just arriving with his
hook and ladder and other apparatus.
"The fires over" announced the
president. and added with a proud
smile, "My men have just put it OUT
Judge Neville and his son came run
ming up at that moment and a crowd
collected. The Judge was profuse in
his thanks.
Weather Warns Up.
The president enjoyed the change in
the temperature and was enthusiastic
about the links, which lie along the
shore of the gulf of Mexico, and were
warmed by balnly sunshine instead Of
being swept by chilly winds.
The president dictated few letters
and read scores of kilograms that had
poured in, as they have for the last
few days, congratulating him on the
enactment Of the currency bill. He
took a nap during the afternoon and
again spent the evening with his fam.
lily.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
FOREIGN.

AS result Of the anti-Colombia
demonstration in Panama, when sew
eral houses occupied by Colombians
were stoned, Sanchez Rambirez, the
confidential agent of the Colombian
government in the city of Panama,
sailed for home for reasons of safety.
Gen. Francisco Villa made public at
Chihuahua a note which he delivered
to United States Consul Marion Let
cher in reference to the reported de.
tention in Chihuahua by the rebel
forces of Mexican women and child.
rem. The note was in reply to an in.
quiry sent by the department of state
at Washington.
Advices received in Juarez say that
the Federal army now at Ojinaga, on
the border, will soon march west to
cut Gen. Francisco Villas rebel army
off at Chihuahua. At some point
south of Juarez, it was said, the fed.
eral commanders plan to destroy the
telegraph and railroad lines and thus
leave Villa shut in a pocket
A large section of the business quar-
ter of Georgetown, British Guiana,
which is known also as Demerara, has
been destroyed by fire. Twenty per.
sons were killed and many injured.
Scores were rendered homeless. A
vast amount of sugar for expectation
was burned and warehouse and
many other Buildings were destroyed.
Before the Academy Of Science Of
Paris DR.. Robinson reported a case
in Which life was sustained when a
great part of the brain had been de.
stroyed. The case was that of a. man
62 years of age, whom he had treated
for a year for an apparently slight
wound of the occiput. During this time
the patient showed no signs of brain
trouble but the autopsy revealed the
presense of an abscess which had re.
duced the brain tissue to a mere shell
The production of potato flour in
Holland Increases rapidly from year
to year and the product is also stead.
lily finding markets abroad. The total
production is now not less than 275.
100000 pounds annually.
Dispatches from Madrid say that
Francisco Rodriguez, the newly elect.
ed mayor of that city, has announced
that he will turn over all of his salary
to some charitable institution. He 10
one Of the wealthiest residents of tho
Spanish capital and he will 20 into
office on the LIST of January.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
Cathedral Fund is Completed.

Helena, Mont, Dec. 27.-Thomas
Cruise, a banker, gave 100000 as a
Christmas present to Bishop Carroll
this city. This makes total of $780,
600 Mr. Cruise has contributed toward
the cathedral. He also announced he
would give pipe organ on completion
of the building.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
Woman to Head Department.

New York, Dec. 29,-This city, for
the first time in it's history, is to have
a woman at the head of one of it's most
important departments, according to
those in close touch with the plans of
Mayor-elect John Purroy Mitchell, for
filling the many city offices. The wom-
an, it was understood, is DR.. Katherine
B. Davis, superintendent of the Bed.
ford Reformatory for Girls, and the Of
flee that of commissioner of correc,
ton. The salary is $500 per year
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01

Nebraska's 1912 mineral outpu'
was valued at $1,490,5Sz.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has re-
turned hole recently from ler trip to
South America.
Robert A. Taft, SON of the former
president, was among class OF SIX
ty-fOur young men who were sworn
in in the Ohio supreme court as prac-
ticing attorneys.
Americans should stop spending
$30,000,000 year for chewing gum
and $2,000,000,0O0 for intoXicants, and
build 200 battleships with the money
said Hudson Maxim at y peace SER
vice" in New York.
Roman Schubert Of Milwaukee, 70
years old and wealthy, has been found
guilty of murder in the fourth degree
municipal court for running down and
killing Mabel Lehman, 4 years old.
with an automobile.
Life insurance taken out in Geor
gia is void if the policy holder in his
application has stated any material
fact untruthfully, even unknoWlngly.
Such decision by the supreme court
of Georgia was sustained in effect by
the supreme court.
Mrs. Helen w. Stearns, a success
full candidate for De Waltham, Mass,
school boardi, has filed statement Of
her campaign expenses. She disbursed
1886 for advertising, $1.25 for car
fares and $1.52 for crackers, cheese
and hot coffee.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, who is now
past so years of age, is one of tie
most active women in the suffrage
movement in this country. Besides
she is the only woman who has ever
been a candidate for president of the
United States.
Nearly a thousand employees of the
William S. Taubel hosiery mills in
Kensington, Pa, most of them girls,
have gone on strike. Notices an.
nouncing a 2 per cent reduction in
wages after January 1 was said to
have caused the walkout.
A. Kenfuckian has the distinction
of being the oldest living pensioner.
His name is Patrick Gibbons, 102
years old. He lives at Reedyville,
Butler county, Pennsylvania. The Of
fetal records at the War department
slow that Gibbons was so years old
at the outbreak of the civil war.
Il
Difficulties experienced by postal Of
ficials in teaching the people to "save
and economic" are set forth by
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Dockery in his annual report. To
minimize this problem, Mr. Dockery
recommends the Inauguration of
campaign of education.
X
Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chi
cago, refused to receive delegation
in support of John D. Shoop, present
school superintendent of Chicago. The
men, most of them prominent in the
commercial life of the city, presented
petition of $4,000 names asking for
the retention of the present Lead OF
the schools.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
STRIKE HEAD IS DEpoRTED
EX-HEAD TESTIFIES ABOUT CAM.
PAlGN CONTRIBUTIONS,
Osborne Investigation Will Proceed.
Despite Rumors, 1t Is Said, to Go
Further With Probe.
BULLETIN,

Chicago. - Charles H. Meyer,
beaten and shot and run out Of
Hancock, Mich, by mob, arrived
here. He was taken to a hotel, but
later in the day was removed to
a hospital where surgeon will
probe for the bullet in the muscles
Of his left shoulder.
~ was attacked by about twen-
ty-five men in my room at the
Scott hotel in Hancock, Mich,
struck over the head with the butt
of a revolver, shot in the back,
dragged through the hotel and
streets and put on train and told
to leave that country forever"
said Meyer.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
FOR THE BUSY MAN
NEWS EPlTOME THAT CAN SOON
Be COMPRISED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Homo and Foreign Intelligence Con.
dansed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs,
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
Tie senate has passed bill to pre-
vent the removal from state courts OF
suits against railroads for damages to
merchandise when the amount involv-
ed is not more than $4,000.
Investigation to disclose whether
lobby exists to influence appropriation
and legislation for the District of Co.
lumbia and business corporations OF
that city, was proposed in resolu-
ton by Representative Prouty of New
York
Senator Ashurst told the senate
that his bill for barbed-wire fence
along the Mexican border was not de-
signed to stop incursions OF rebels
into American territory, but to Keep
put Mexican cattle infected with ticks.
The bill relieving miners on gold
and placer claims in the Dam creek
region of Alaska from the required
amount of assessment work on their
claims this year, because OF ruin
caused by recent floods, has been
passed by the senate.
A constitutional amendment to pro-
Aibit polygamy was proposed by Sena-
tor Weeks of Massachusetts, at the
request, he said, of many citizens OF
his state who believed polygamy
exists. The judiciary committee will
give hearing.
Secretary Houston has issued an
order continuing the quarantine put
temporarily into effect September 70,
forbidding potato importations from
the British Isles. Canada and all con-
tinental Europe
resolution already adopted by the
house expressing the regret of con-
gress at the death of Lieutenant
Colonel Davis Du B. Gaillard, 18TH
main canal commissioner and appro-
priating $4,000, the annual salary OF
q commissioner for Mrs. Gaillard.
Declaring that the Hetch Hetchy
water grant to the city of San Fran
cisco was passed "by the most insid-
lous lobby ever assembled in Wash
lngton." Senator Works has intro
duced bill to repeal it, President
Wilson signed the bill making the
grant only last week.
Seattle, Wash, won a victory in the
supreme court when Justice Holmes
announced dismissal of the appeal of
the Seattle, Benton and Southern Rail-
way company from a decision of the
state supreme court, requiring the
capitol to issue transfer to the Seattle
Electric company ON a so per cent
basis.
To carry out his plans previously
announced for the concentration of
marines Ut important centers in con-
tinental United States, Secretary
Daniels soon will order home all the
marines in the insular possessions.
except small details needed for the
police duty. No change will be made
In the details of marines to the battle
ships.
Marquis Cusani Confalonieri, the
italian ambassador, has protested to
the state department against a pro-
vision in the pending immigration bill
proposing to place American commits
sioners on Italian immigrant ships.
While he did not lodge a formal pro-
test in behalf of his government he
reiterated views he presented on TIE
same subject when a similar bill was
pending previously,
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
Detroit Depot Burned,

Detroit, Mich, Dec pa spectacu-
lar fire, starting from cause undeter.
mined, swept through the main depot
Of the Michigan Central railroad com,
pany here.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
COM ESTjC.

Bru7e Wyman, professor of law at
Harvard, who testified before the pub
lie service commission as to work for
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroads, has sent letter of
resignation to Pres. Lowell of Harvard
Almost 1000 more people visited
he Yellowstone park in 1913 than dur
Ing the season of 1912, according to
the report of the superintendent re-
Gently made to Secretary Lane. The
tourist has increased As per cent
since 1906, and was heavier in 1913
of 1909.
Ben F. Moffatt, a promoter of Chi
cago was fined $1,000 and sentenced
10 one year and a day in the federal
prison at LeayenWorth, Kan, by the
United States district court at St.
Louis.
E. l.. Fannin and E. W. Hickman,
former president and vice president
If the Choctaw Commercial bank that
failed at Spiro, Okla, last February,
pleaded guilty at Stigler, Okla, to ac-
cepting deposits when the bank was
sasolvent. They were each fined
$1,000 and costs of the prosecution.
Or. Henry Wishard, through whose
efforts the first order for the removal
of sick and wounded soldiers to north.
ern homes was issued by President
Lincoln during the civil war, died at
indianapolis. He was 81 years old.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01

Tie senate has passed bill to pre-
vent the removal from state courts OF
suits against railroads for damages to
merchandise when the amount involv-
ed is not more than $4,000.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-01
House Is Humble.

The house where the president is
fiving is a humble contrast to the
raany handsome homes which border
the gulf coast, but is picturesquely set
overlooking the still waters of the Mis-
sissippi sound and somewhat hidden
by a cluster of live oaks, ferns, palms
and pines.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-11-21
PNEUMONIA CLAIMS FAMOUS
BRITISH FIELD MhRSAHL
WHILE VISITING TROOPS
AT THE FRONT.
FOUGHT FOR THE BRITISH ARMS
FOR MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS
Born In An Indian Military Camp, HIS
Career Embraced Long Series Of
Victories, eliminating In Sur
render Of the Boer GEN
eral Piet cronje.

London.-Field Marshal Earl Rob
erts died last Saturday night in
France from pneumonia.
Field Marshal Roberts, who was
colonel in chief OF the Indian troops,
had gone to France to give them his
greeting. Soon after his arrival he
became seriously ILL., lie suffered from
severe chill and pneumonia rapidly
developed. His great age, So years,
initiated against his recovery.
Lord Roberts was the most popular
military figure in Great Britain and a
national here without rival. Despite
his years. he has never ceased hard
work since his nominsi retirement
and as he had often remarked. he lived
rigid abstemious life that he might
preserve his strength for the service
Of his country.
During the past FIVE or six years,
when the German war cloud had been
growing he prosecuted an active cam
paign to persuade the nation to adopt
compulsory military service. His be-
lief was that Great Britain required
The training OF the whole male popu-
lation in arms. rather on the plan of
Switzerland than the longer terms of
conscriptlon enforced in the case of
continental military nations.
Lord Roberts was born in 1892 In
cawnpore, India, where his father
General Hirabram Roberts was serv.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-11-21

ing. II was in the Indian service that
the gallant and efficient Irish soldier
achieved his first and lasting fame.
II was in South Africa, in his later
years, that this was supplemented and
magnifed by his achievements in the
victorious campaign against the Beers.
Lord Roberts military education be-
gan early in life. While an infant in
arms he was taken to England to re.
cciye an education In the warlike art.
The age Of 10 saw him back in India
serving under his father. a distin.
guished general OF the Victorian pc
rIod. For more than forty years he
seryed in that oriental empire.
When the Afghan war, in which
Lord Roberts was to win lasting fame,
broke out, he had risen to the rank of
major general. As n major in the Az
ghanstan campaign against the tribes
men the brlliance of the British gen.
erals strategy commanded the atten-
lion OF the worlds great sold 'ers. The
Two years war came to n elimination
with "Bob's" famous march through a
tangled wilderness and his dashing
assault of Kandabar. resulting in the
dispersal OF the Ameer's army.
Victory In South Africa.
Lord Roberts reached the age OF 6S
years when the second great episode
in his career began. Called to sus.
tain the waning British sovereignty
IN South Africa, Lord Roberts sailed
,or the scene OF war with n sad heart.
Tor his only son had fallen at the
rugela. But the veteran OF India
plunged with his old determination
into the fray on South African soil,
and In a wrirlwind campaign brought
The Boer war to an end, victorious TO
British arms. Inspired by his person.
Atty, the British relief armies pressed
back the Boer lines and relieved the
garrisons OF Kimberly and Ladysmith
Not long afterward Lord Roberts
fought his way into Pretoria and there
received the surrender OF General
Cronje.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-11-21
Fighting Continues.

Mexico City.-A general order is.
sued Thursday by the military com.
mandant In the capital informed all
officers to be ready from Thursday
on to call their men to quarters and
to hold them in readiness for any
emergency.
Fighting I'm the outskirts OF this
city continues. The constitutionallsts
are holding the attackers in check
everywhere along the line.
II Is reported here that General
Gutierrez has solicited a personal in.
tsrview with Carranza.
From Pueba comes the report that
25'OOO followers Of Emilano Zapat9
are stlll threatening the city.