The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-10-28

ly in Detroit and elsewhere.
The verified known death list result
ing from the forest fires in Presque
Isle and Alpena counties, Michigan
stands at A. with several people still
reported missing and growing prob
ability of severe loss of life in North
ern Pulawski and Krakow townships
in Pressure Isle county.
Forest fires driven by high winds
were reported to be raging fiercely il
the Adirondacks.
fire from end to end. Near Detou,
several towns were surrounded by for
est fires.
Fires in Vincennes Ind, destroyed
the grain elevators of Bartlett, Kuhn
4 Co. and the plant of the Empire Pa
per Company
DIR. Irving j. Cook of New York, &C
cused of causing the death of a young
woman, committed suicide in the Wal.
dorf-Astoria hotel.
Torrential rains caused serious
floods in San Salvador, Guatemala and
Honduras.
The officers of the American battle
ships were entertained at a fine dinner
and ball by Premier Katsura at his
residence in Tokyo.
Col. Zachary Taylor escaped from
the mob that murdered Capt. Quentin
Rankin at Reelfoot lake, Tenn, by a
bold dash in rain of bullets. He was
unhurt
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commits
acts of bravery and gave about $4,000
cash to some of them.
Belated reports at Manila indicate
that the storm Of October IL in the
Cagayan valley was the worst and
most destructive within the memory
of living inhabitants of the valley. 1t
is believed 300 lives were lost.
AS result of ptomaine poisoning
three children Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Hackert of Schenectady, N. Y, are
dead, the father is critically i'll, one
son and three daughters are less seri-
ously affected.
grand jury at Coalgate, Okla,
exonerated the officials of the Bank of
Coalgate and recommended the remov-
al Of H. H. Smock, the examiner who
had closed the bank.
Frank G. Marin, formerly a we'll
known Brooklyn lawyer who was con-
victed of swindling Mrs Caroline
Barry, a widow, out of $4,000, was
sentenced to from Is to 20 years in
states prison.
Three burglars blew the safe of the
post office at Mayville, Mich, but were
driven away empty handed by citi.
zens.
Mrs. Nels Ingvarhorn and her two
children were killed by the explosion
OF a gasoline stove at Sisseton, S. D.
William P. Dillingham; and Carroll
S. Page were formally elected to rep
resent Vermont in the United States
senate, at joint session of the gener.
al assembly.
John W. Kern, Democratic vice.
presidential candidate, was called
home from his campaign tour by the
serious illness of his little son in Indi-
annapolis.
An incendiary fire destroyed the ele-
vator of the Hungarian Mills Com
pany at Denver, the loss being $780,
900.
The timely Intervention of a physi-
clan who was not satisfied with the
appearance of the body prevented the
burial alive of Mrs. Thomas Chapman,
wife of one of the best-known citizens
of Ellis, Kan.
A grandstand at Savannah. Mo-, was
blown down by tornado and 23 high
school boys were injured, one of them
fatally.
Congress will be asked to make an
appropriation of $35 100000 for carry
ing on the work on the isthmian canal
during 1910.
By the terms of the will of Gregory
koering, filed in probate court at st.
Paul, Mimi, $4,000 is left in trust to
pay for masses to be held in the
Catholic church.
The steamer New York of the AL
bany line was burned at her pier in
New York and four colored walters
were believed to have perished
A bank at Hurst, Ill.,, was robbed of
81 800 by safe blowers
Sidney G. Tapp of Atlanta, Ca,
dominated for president of the United |
States at a convention of the Liberal
party held at Chattanooga, Tenn, was
notified at Chicago.
Servians were enraged because an
envoy from Montenegro to Belgrade
was arrested by Austrians at Agram,
searched and detained for many hours.
About three thousand persons lost
their lives in the recent typhoon on |
the China coast.
The Kentucky racing commission re-
Voked the license of the Latonia
Jockey club, because the club violated
the rules of the commission
Edward Mcdonald of New York shot
and killed himself and his fiancee,
Nellie Walden, attempted to drown
herself.
Catholics of St. Louis laid the cor
ner-StOne of the great now catbadrol