The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-12-02

disease in western New York has
caused the federal and state officials
to quarantine Pennsylvania and New
York. The East Buffalo stock yards
were closed.
| Several children at Danville, Pa,
! were reported to have contracted the
| foot and mouth disease, an outbreak
of which among cattle caused the
states of New York and Pennsylvania
to be quarantined.
Several cattle infected with the foot
and mouth disease were found in
Philadelphia and ordered killed.
Herds of cattle infected with foot
and mouth disease were found on five
farms near Detroit, Mich, and after a
conference between Secretary Wilson
and other officials the state was quar-
antined.
Three firemen were seriously in
jured and ten others overcome by
smoke during a fire at the new Hotel
Monroe in Butler, Pa.
The hospital ship Relief is several
days overdue at Manila and some con-
Germ is felt for her safety.
Mrs. Georgianna Sampson of Pal
myra, N. Y, widow of Harry Samp-
| son, nephew of the late Admiral
Sampson, was arrested charged with
| the murder of her husband, whose
death was at first said to be suicide.
DR.. 0. S. Mills, house physician at
the Columbus CO., insane asylum,
committed suicide at Gallipolis, O., by
shooting.
Two tornadoes worked havoc in
western Arkansas. About thirty lives
were lost and vast amount of prop
erty in many towns destroyed.
Reports from Pittsburg say that
Theodore N. Barnsdall and associates
have practically obtained control Of
all gas territory west of the Missis-
sippi river, having recently acquired,
it is rumored, control Of the gas fields
of the states of Oklahoma and Kan
sas.
While playing duel, Robert Warren,
Is years old, of Marquette, Mich, was
shot and killed by Robert Miller, Is
years old
Gov. Joseph w. Folk decided that,
under the Missouri statute, all the
electoral votes of the state should go
to William H. Taft.
Fire damaged the Star block in the
heart of the business district of Rock
Island, ILL.,, to the extent of $4,000.
S. B. Tremble, a Chicago bond
broker, was accidentally shot and
killed By Dr. Frank Stuart of Marshall
Mich, while they were hunting near
Ellsworth, Kan.
Gross misrepresentation of values
and Justification of accounts on the
part of the management of A. Booth
& Co. of Chicago, are indicated clear
ly in the condensed report of the char
tered accountants who have made an
examination of the companys books
and its business affairs.
Following a neighborhood quarrel at
Carona, Kan, Hezekiah Stradler,
carpenter aged 20 years, slashed Mrs.
Butts, his next-door neighbor, with a
razor, cutting her head entirely off.
Speaking in the house of lords,
Field Marshal Lord Roberts declared
that the lack of military force sufIi-
cient to make hopeless the attempt of
an invasion would in all probability
be the cause of the loss of Great Brit
aims supremacy at sea. In a studied
speech he pointed out the comparative
ease with which Germany could land
an army on the shores of England.
Under the present conditions England
would be forced, he said, to submit to
most humiliating demands.
Henry M. Flagler ana Samuel C. T.
Todd We're the men who really created
the great Standard Oil trust, according
to John, d. Rockefeller, whose cross
examination in the suit to dissolve the
combine was continued
Sensational reports were in circula-
ton in Panama to the effect that what
is known as the south toe of the
Gatun dam of the Panama canal had
sunk
Miss Lillian Mckee, supervisor of
art in the North Side high school of
Pittsburg, and w. S. Bell, well-known
and wealthy photographer, were run
down by passenger train, Miss Nc
kee being killed and Mr. Bell badly
injured.
Glrth Spencer, a young farmer of
Owen, Ind, was accidentally shot and
killed by Miss Ida Reinhart to whom
he was engaged to be married Christ
mas day, at the girls home in Louis
vile, KY.
United States Judge Taylor at Cleve-
land, o., granted an injunction against
the American Telephone & Telegraph
Company (Bell long-dstance system)
and the Central Union Telephone Com
pany (Bell company operating in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois), restraining them
from interfering with the business of
the independent companies operating
in those and adjoining states.
The bank of Sweet Springs, at
Sweet Springs, Mo-, was robbed of
$500 in currency by professional
craftsmen who blew open the vault
| with dynamite.
Conveying to the American govern
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