The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-06-17
GENERAL NEWS.

bling bills We're passed by the New
York senate by the constitutional ma
jority of rs to 25 and were at once
signed by Gov. Hughes.
A jury in Pontiac. Mich. decided
that Henry Clay Ward of that city, a
millionaire whose eccentric actions
led 10 his family's applying to have
a guardian appointed for him, was
asmpetent to manage his own affairs.
Mulai Hafid, the usurping sultan of
Morocco, entered Fee at the head of
large army.
Ten robbers, heavily armed. invaded
fhe customs Office at Tiflis and killed
the. official in charge and his four as
sistAnts. decamping with $4,000. The
police pursued the robbers, killing
three.
After a campaign of extraordinary
bitterness the voters of Sedala. Mo-.
rolled up majority of S4S against
local option.
Patrick O'Hare of Pittsburg, Pa,
fatally shot his wife and child and cut
his own throat.
Flood conditions in Missouri and
Kansas were much improved, though
there were three drownings at Kan
sas City.
Two children of Fall River, Kan,
were found suffocated in a. trunk in
which they had hidden. ....
The Lusitania beat the Mauretania's
record on the western passage by
seven minutes.
For the third time in as many days
an entire square of dwelling. houses
was burned in New Orleans.
Before the brewers convention ad-
journed at Milwaukee it was decided
to raise 100000 to wage war against
the spread of prohibition
Thieves smashed a window in the
jewelry store OF Hyman. Berg & Co.,
State and Washington Streets Chi
cago, and escaped with SO gold
watches and jewelry valued at $4,000
AS the result of the local option
elections held in Oregon. county pro-
hibition will prevail in q of the 90
counties after July.
David B. Hill of New York, on sail
ing for Europe, scored William j.
Bryan, declared there was no longer
Democratic party. and commended
the candidacy of Gov. johnson of Min
nesota.
AS the result of a political quarrel
at Stanberry, Mo. r. H. Duncan.
lawyer and candidate for prosecuting
attorney, shot and killed Charles f.
Butler, city marshal.
A pouch of registered mail from
Los Angeles for New York, containing
upwards Of $4,000, was stolen after
reaching Kansas City.
The United States Brewers asso-
citation at its closing session in Mil
waukee adopted a platform of prin-
ciples in which it pledges itself to the
abolition of the immoral saloon and
to the cause OF temperance in the use
of intoXicants in the broadcast sense.
The great elevator of the Tri-State
Grain company at hammond, Ind. and
100000 bushels of corn were DESTROYED
by fire.
George w. Arndt, secretary of the
Los Angeles Chamber of Mines, com.
mitted suicide by shooting.
After holding the police at bav for
SIX hours Dr. Joseph Pospiseil, an en-
ploye of the pension office at Wash.
ington, shot himself through the brain
while insane.
Secretary Metcalf announced that
the two new battleships authorized at
the last session of congress would be
named Florida and Utah
Adolph Spreckels. the millionaire
yachtsman, married Miss Elsa de
Brettville, daughter of an old resident
OF San Francisco. in Philadelphia
Miss Mabel Cutler daughter of the
governor of Utah. eloDed with and
married Thomas Z. Butler, driver of a
delivery wagon.
Oregon's Democratic convention in.
structed its delegates for BRYAN,
Flames destroyed about a block Of
dwellings in New Orleans.
One man was killed and a score in.
jured when a crowded st. Louis street
car jumped the track.
The Russian duma by vote of 1874
to IS, administered a crushing defeat
to the ministry in rejecting the pro
posed expenditure OF Sc, 500, 900 to Law
the keels OF four new battleships