The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-10-21

WHICH lie is pIoSlueul.
Baseball writer's connected with the
leading daily papers Of every major
league city excepting Brooklyn formed
, an organization to be known as the
Baseball Writer'S Association of Amer
lea.
Government chemists were said to
| have solved the problem of making
| paper from cornstalks
President Roosevelt issued an execu-
tive order that extends the classified
civil service to numerous government
offices, future appointments to which
must be made under civil service
rules.
Fire in Davenport, Ia, destroyed a
grain elevator and other property, the
loss being $15O,000.
The silver jubilee of Archbishop
P. w. Riordan was celebrated by the
Catholics of California.
Owing to the pacific condition of
the country, full martial law has been
raised in all the provinces of Poland
which the great industrial center of
LOdZ is located.
The American balloon st. Louis, in
the international race, descended in
the North sea in the night and its
pilots, N. II. Arnold and H. J. Hewitt,
narrowly escaped death, being rescued
by lifeboat. The America H., piloted
by Capt. Mccoy, landed in tree top
a few feet from the steep cliffs on the
shore of the Baltic.
A ten-pound note Of the English col
ony OF New York, issued February 49,,
1771, has been presented to Comp
troller Metz of New York with a re-
quest for payment. It's redemption,
with interest, would cost the city about
$4,000.
John and Peter Bohli, brothers, of
ingalls, Crossing, N. Y, were MUIR
dered by robbers.
In the fourth game of the worlds
baseball championship series, Chicago
defeated Detroit, 8 to 0.
The Pacific fleet, towing torpedo
| boat destroyers, arrived at Honolulu
from Samoa.
A mob of many thousands of per-
sons, called together by the suffra-
gettes, besieged parliament and kept
5000 London police busy for hours.
The federal court at Pittsburg or
dered the Matteawan asylum authori.
ties to produce Harry Thaw in the
bankruptcy proceedings in the former
city.
| A large part Of the town of Settler,
Alberta, was destroyed by fire, the
loss being $250,O00.
William Writ, aged SO, well-known
resident of Youngstown, O., was bun
koed out of $1,000 by two swindlers.
The large Jenkins lumber mills at
Blaine, Wash, were burned, the loss
being about $500,00O
Chancellor Andrews of the Univer-
sity Of Nebraska forbade class fights
and other students FRANKS on pain of
expulsion.
county, New York, threatened to close
all the courts in his jurisdiction be-
cause the funds at his disposal were
exhausted
Putnam county, Ohio, voted to re-
tain saloons.
Albert E. Tucker of Warsaw Ind,
married the divorced wife of his son.
twenty-five members of the "Ilchin-
hoi," the pro-Japanese society Of
Korea, were killed by Japanese gend-
armes.
Two Chicago men fought duel with
knives for woman's love and both
were fatally wounded.
Capt. Monroe and five of the crew
of the British schooner Sirocco, who
were supposed to have been lost when
their vessel was wrecked off the Flori-
da coast on October /, were landed at
Boston by the fruit steamer Hora-
thus.
With all nine justices present, the
supreme court of the United States
went to work again after vacation of
more than four months. 1t will con-
tinue in session until June of next
year
A. Holland Forbes and Augustus
Post, American aeronauts, had an es-
cape from horrible death that was lit
W.
in the International balloon race from
Schmargendorf, near Berlin, and at a
height of 1000 feet their balloon, the
Conqueror, burst. For 1000 feet it
shot down like bullet, and then the
torn silk bag assumed the shape of a
parachute, and the rapidity of the de.
scent was checked, the men landing
on house-top, little injured.
Luman Mann, the son of Orville c.
Mann, prominent and wealthy citi
zen Of Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago
is locked up on the charge of being
the murderer Of Mrs. Fanny Thomp
son, who was found strangled and
bound hand and foot with a clothes
line in a rooming house at 1912 Mich
igan avenue July I.
Approximately 10000 deaths from
cholera in the Philippine islands since
January l of this year are announced
in a detailed report made to the pub
lie health service by Chief Quaran
tine Officer McClintic at Manila.
All the great events of Philadel
! Dhia'S 225 wears were set forth in q