The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-07-15

cert, rendering American and German
folk songs.
The iurymen in the Humbert libel
case against the Paris Matin are suing
that journal for $4,000 damages on ac-
count of the article printed the day
after the trial, in which their verdict
was criticised.
In a gun and knife fight at a pro.
tracted meeting near Backusburg, KY,
Wayne Lawrence shot and killed
Annie Bannister and was himself per-
haps fatally stabbed.
Forest fires in Maine burned over
large areas and threatened several
towns with destruction.
A new bridge under construction
over the Rhine at Cologne fell in and
20 or more workmen lost their lives.
Two persons were killed and
dozen injured by gas explosion and
fire in a Boston tenement house.
The roof of an unfinished house in
st. Petersburg collapsed, ten workmen
being killed and 40 injured.
MIR. and Mrs Edmund Smith, who
lived on a farm two miles east OF
North Rose, n. Y, were burned to
death in fire which destroyed their
residence.
Having thrown a 5000 bank certifi-
cate of deposit into stove, Joe Wal
insky thinking he could not get the
money on it, committed suicide by
drowning in IS inches Of water at Mo-
line III.
The Republican national committee,
in session at Hot Springs, Va, elected
Frank II. Hitchcock of Massachusetts
it's chairman and made him manager
of the presidential campaign. George
R. Sheldon of New York was chosen
treasurer and Arthur I. Vorys was
given charge of the Ohio Republican
headquarters at Cincinnati.
Fire on the harbor front of East
Boston destroyed piers and ware
houses and an elevator, the property
loss being about $1,5O0,000. A watch
man was reported missing.
A loss estimated at nearly 100000
was suffered at College Point, l.. l., by
fire which destroyed Zehden's hotel
and casino, Dondera's casino and a
number of small buildings.
A fire that threatened to sweep over
much of Coney Island burned several
hotels and other structures, the loss
being $150,000
Armed revolutionists from Salvador,
after capturing the town of Gracias, in
Honduras, attacked Choluteca. The
residents strongly resisted, holding
back the revolutionists for three days.
The two-masted schooner Acacia,
owned and captained by William Sim
mons of Kingston, went ashore on
Bull Rock point near Sackett's Har-
Dor, and the crew of eight was rescued
by S. Gibble.
Richard Alexander, treasurer and a
member of the board of governors of
| the real estate board of brokers Of
New York, shot himself twice at Dex-
ter, Me-, and probably will die.
Reports that Frank j. Gould and his
wife have become reconciled were Cir
culated following the striking from the
court calendar of an action entitled
Gould versus Could"
Count Boni de Castellane, whose
| former wife was married in London
to Prince Helie de Sagan, the counts
cousin, has opened what promises to
be sensational legal battle for the
possession of his three children, the
offspring of his marriage with Miss
Anna Gould.
Three military prisoners serving
from u to 2A years for desertion, es-
capped from the prison at Fort Hamil-
ton by saving off some of the bars.
William M. 1ngraham, Jr., of Wav-
erly, N. Y. has begun contest of the
will of his father, a lawyer of Brook
Ign, who died June Z, leaving an es-
tate of more than 100000.
Loot valued at $4,000 was secured
by safeblowers, who drilled their way
through a 20-inch brick wall into the
offices of the Diamond Point Pen COM
pany in New York.
Emil Sandoza, well-known stock
man of Pine Creek, Neb. was killed
by +. e. Newman, hired man on a
neighboring ranch.
President Roosevelt and party, un.
der the guidance of Commander Peary
inspected the Arctic steamer Roose'
welt at Oyster Bay, after which the
vessel sailed for Sydney, Cape Breton
Fifteen battleships of the Atlantic
fleet sailed from San Francisco on
their round-the-w trip. The Ne
braska was delayed by an outbreak OF
scarlet fever among the crew.
The printers strike started in the
job offices Of Hartford, Conn, Septem
Der IA, 1905, was ended because the
strike benefits ceased.
Nicholas Cherry "a years old, shot
and severely wounded his sweetheart
Anna Weingartz 20 years old, at Ne
ponset, ILL.,, and then killed himself
Mrs. Ada Reichars of Dallas, Tex.
was murdered by unknown persons al
Hot Springs, Ark.
The United States consul at Tampi
co, Mex, has reported that the OF
fields between Tampico, on the Gulf Of
Mexico, and Tuxpan are burning anC
that the blaze is visible for hundred
miles on the gulf.
Fire in Carnegie, Pa, destroyed sew
eral business houses, the loss beinf
100000. :.
Mrs. Arle M. Heaton shot aq9
killed her divorced husband, Clint M
Heaton, in his restaurant in Iola Kan