The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-04-16

Pittsburgh this year will spenA
900 for new school buildings,
Springfield, Mo-, has for the second
time within a year defeated commls'
sion government proposition.
Foreclosure proceedings against the
Pere Marquette railroad, which de-
faulted in the payment of its semi
annual interest of $5,000,00o bonds,
have begun in Detroit federal court
The price of gasoline IN st. Louis
was cut to Is cents a gallon by the
Standard Oil company. This cut IS
the fifth made by the Standard Oil
company since November 4, when It
began a fight. is is said, against other
dealers in the St. Louis field.
Wellesley college at Wellesley
Mass, received a gift of $75O.00o from
the Rockefeller foundation toward res
toration CT facilities lost in the recent
destruction OF College hall by hre.
! conditional upon the raising OF ~
| 100000 before the first of next janu'
airy.
The Rockefeller institute for medl'
! cal research in New York has an
nounced that John D. Rockefeller has
added $1,000,00O to the general en-
/. dowment fund Of the institution. to
| be devoted to the study of animal dis
eases, and that James j. Hill has
pledged $4,000 to be used specifically
for the investigation of hog cholera.
Charges that Z. f. Green, former
president of the Pacific Coast Casual
ty company of San Francisco, en-
bezzled at least 100000 from his COM
pany and tied up approximately S2o''
600 more by questionable transactions
were made to the San Francisco dis
trict attorneys office by E. G. COOPER
California state insurance commls'
sioner.
A movement seeking a pardon Tor
members OF the structural bridge ana
iron workers convicted at Indianapo-
lis of illegally transporting dynamite
in interstate commerce has begun at
Chicago. Petitions to President Will
son, charging that the men were rush
ed through their trials, were clrculaL-
ed at the meeting of the Chicago FED
GRAFTON of Labor.
Unless dissatisfaction with action OF
scale committee OF United Nine
Workers in withdrawing demands FOR
higher wages should Unexpectedly de-
velop among the ranks of the miners
and the referendum vote to be taken
April IA should repudiate that action,
high officials at the mine workers.
headquarters at indianapolis believe
the other differences between the
miners and operators in the bitumin'
ons fields will be amicably adjusted,
with the possible exception of Ohio.
FOREIGN.
The widow of Thomas Henry Hux'
ley, the celebrated English biologist,
died at East Bourne, England
Paul Johann Ludwig Won Heyse,
German poet and novelist, died in his
eighty-ffth year. He was awarded
the Noble prize for literature in 1910.
The Italian chamber Of deputies
and senate has reassembled. The
new cabinet under the premiership OF
Signor Salandra made known to both
houses it's legislative program.
May Richardson, the militant stuff
ragitte, who was sentenced to SIX
months Imprisonment on March II
for damaging VeseasqueZ' ''Rockeby
Venus" in the national gallery. Was
released from Holloway Jail at Lon
1 don to undergo an operation for ap
pendicitis.
Wireless transatlantic service un
der the system developed by DR.. Val
. demar Poulsen of Copenhagen will be
open early in June. The station ii
Canada is ready for service and the
station at Bally-bunan, in Ireland, il
nearing completion under the direc
ton of an American engineer
Last week closed with two impo1
tant political events in England, bot
: of which tended to clear the air ant
3 show where the two great partie
/ stand on the home rule issue. TIL
e prime minister, Mr.. Asquith, opene
S his campaign for reelection with
r speech at the village of Ladybanl
/ Scotland, while many thousands Q
unionists of London and the province
assembled in Hyde park for demon