The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-08-19


Charles Foresman and Henry Rose,
young boys, were drowned near Mar.
quette, Mich.
rhe isthmian canal zone has a
plague of dogs and ukase has gone
forth that all dogs at large must be
muzzlcd.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
begun an active crusade for the cleo
ton of a speaker who will allow con-
gress to vote en- the interstate liquor
shipment bill"
Six persons were killed and IS in.
jured in a gun explosion aboard the
French gunnery school ship Couronne
off Les Salins d'Hyeres.
Charles E. Higbee, aged So years,
of Denver, one of the worlds most
noted tunnel builders, was almost in.
stantly killed by an accident at Shes
hone. IL miles east of Glenwood
Springs, Col.
The American Federation of Catho.
lie societies finished it's seventh an.
nual convention in Boston by re-
electing Edward Feeney of Brooklyn
president and selecting Pittsburg for
next years meeting.
Six men were severely injured when
a Grand Trunk passenger train struck
street car in Detroit in binding
rain storm.
The Colorado Federation of Labor,
in convention at Denver. by viva
voce vote Endorsed the Democratic
party in the national campaign.
With her feet tightly bound to-
gether and stocking stuffed down
her throat, Mrs. Adeline M. Miller of
St. Louis was found dead by her hus-
band, mail clerk.
One thousand Chinese soldiers sta
toned at konghau, near Wuchow,
mutinied, murdered their commander,
his clerk and secretary and then at
tackled camp of soldiers at Onyung.
Wilbur Wright made splendid
flight with his aeroplane at LIE Mans,
France, circling the field five times
and remaining in the air 6 minutes
IS 2-5 seconds.
E. j. Lewis, treasurer of the Savings
Life Insurance company OF Peoria,
committed suicide by taking poison.
He was a thirty-second degree Mason
The decree of divorce granted in
February to the Countess of Var
mouth, sister of Harry Thaw, was
made absolute by the British court
At Trinidad, Col, Abe w. Cohn
was shot and killed by Charles w.
oh 70 pifV
in company with Mrs. Moore on a
Colorado & Southern train.
J. Montgomery Sears, a young mill
ionaire of Boston, was killed when his
automobile plunged over an embank-
ment. He was candidate for the
massachusetts senate.
Republicans of Texas nominated a
ticket, headed by Col. ]. L. Simpson
of Dallas for governor
Wilbur Wright of Dayton, o., made
| the longest and most successful flight
of the series of aeroplane trials which
he is conducting at Lemans, France,
remaining in the air three minutes
and forty-four seconds. The machine
circled the field three times at the
| rate of Sc miles an hour.
Fifteen workmen were held up and
robbed in relays of their months pay
near Stirling City, Cal.
| A messengers pouch containing
United States government pay checks
for nearly $4,000 was stolen from in
front of the building occupied by the
department of commerce and labor in
| Washington.
| AS result of an explosion of fire.
damp in the Dudweiler mine, five
miles from Saarbruekin, Germany,
Is persons were killed and six badly
hurt.
Bandits robbed railway stations at
Crown Point and Griffith, Ind, of
nearly $1,000 in money and tickets.
Miss May Williams of Kansas City
Mo-, who won prize last spring as
the most beautiful girl in Missouri
committed suicide because her prof
vented by her removal to an industrial
school.
Fire destroyed the mining camp Of
Ripetown, New, the loss being 500,
600.
The railroad commission of Texas
filed formal complaint with the in
terstate commerce commission agains
67 railroads and other common car
riers, alleging a conspiracy on thu
part of the defendants through thu
Southwestern Traffic association TO
the suppression of competition ant
restraint of trade in the recent actor
increasing freight rates to common
points in Texas.
Eight men were killed, nearly
score of others more or less seriousl,
, injured and thousands of dollars
worth of property damaged by the eS
; plosion of a boiler in the York pa.
/ rolling mill.
Four children lost their lives an
five persons were seriously Injuries i
. fire which practically destroyed
, flve-story tenement building in Me-
York.
During riot at camp of Austrian
. near the smelter town of Garfield
f Utah, Constable Ben Culley and Sar
Nekis were shot and baby wa
? killed.
! Two police officers of Methuel
= Mass, were found beaten to dealt
presumably by chicken thieves.
, Three persons were killed and man
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