The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-08-12

at Puget Sound, Wash, setting new
coaiing record.
Three German military balloonists
who landed near Warsaw were arrest
ed by the Russian authorities.
Count Zeppelin's monster dirigible
balloon blew up and was ruined at
Echterdingen, where it was being re-
paired after nearly completing Won
derful flight from Friedrichshafen to
Mayence and return.
About 10000 mechanics of the Cana
dian Pacific railway went On strike,
every shop in the system being closed
The hacked legs and mutilated tor
so of boy We're found in Chicago
and the police believe the case one OF
atrocious murder.
William F. Downing member Of
the old Stiles-Alvord band of outlaws
who operated in southern Arizona, was
killed in his saloon at Wilcox by Ari-
IONA Ranger William Speed
The crack rifle team of the National
Guard of Hawaii sailed on the steamer
Alameda to participate in the national
rifle competition at Camp Ferry, O.
A farmer of North Mianus, Conn.,,
tried to fly with paper wings and was
nearly drowned.
Fire in Midway, KY, destroyed four
great bonded whisky warehouses and
damaged two others. The loss was
100000.
r. ]. Hume, wife and child of Eau
Claire, Wis, were drowned in Lake
Nebagamon, Wis, while attempting to
cross the lake in duckboat.
The suspension of the firm OF East
man & Co., stock brokers, was an
nounced on the floor of the CONSOLE
dated stock exchange in New York.
Capt. a. II. Guthrie of the schooner
Frank A. Williams of New York COM
mitted suicide by jumping overheard
eight miles northwest of Cape Look
out.
Philadelphia aldermen defeated Mil
waukee city fathers in game of base
ball for charity.
Said Pasha, the grand viZier, and
the newly formed Turkish ministry re-
signed and the sultan invited Jemalle-
din Effendi, the Sheik-ul-Islam, and
Kiamil Pasha to form new cabinet.
1t was reported that the sultan was
stabbed in the breast by a minor pal
ace official, but that his vest of mail
turned the point of the weapon.
Charles w. Westerfeld, an assistant
bookkeeper of the Produce Exchange
bank Of New York, committed suicide
by shooting in the book room of the
bank just as two worthless checks,
bearing his signature, were presented
at the paying teller's window.
Several persons were killed and
much damage done to property by a
violent earthquake at Constantine,
Algeria.
Representatives of most of the lead
ing Italian societies of New York,
many of them Italian bankers and inn
porters, met to organize society for
the suppression of violence, particu-
larly by members of the Black Hand.
The International Brotherhood OF
Transfers rejected the overtures of
the United Transfers of America to
amalgamate the two organizations.
After II months of litigation, the
insurance companies have been de-
feated in their attempts to resist pay
ment of the insurance claims resulting
from the damage caused by the fire
of January IA, 1907, when Kingston,
Jamaica, was visited by severe
earthquake.
Ten thousand members of the uni
form rank, Knights of Pythias, parad-
ed in Boston.
Archie and Bert McMaster and their
wives, of Chicago, were drowned at
Galena, ILL.,, while bathing.
The steel f1reboat Illinois was
crushed and sunk by the falling wall
of burned elevator in Chicago.
Lightning during a severe storm at
Grand Rapids, Mich, caused a score
of destructive fires.
United States District Attorney
Baker of Washington, his bride and
several friends plunged over 300.
foot precipi0 in an automobile near
Liberty, N. Y, but escaped with their
lives.
The Bank of Austin, New, one of the
Oldest in that city, has closed its
doors.
Later advices from the fire-swept
region around Fernie, B. c., placed the
probable number of deaths at 200 or
more and the property losses at over
| $10,0C0,O0O. The refugees were re.
ported in great need of food and relief
trains started from many cities.
Fire in Chicago destroyed Armour
elevators, Burlington freight sheds
and cars and other property, the loss
being nearly 100000. Many fire.
men were injured.
One life was lost and much property
destroyed in a cloudburst at Verdi
New.
James Ryan, one of the most noted
pickpockets of the country, was killed
by tram car at Pratt City, Ala.
At least 100 lives were lost, the
towns of Fernie, Coal Creek, Hosmer
and Michel, B. c., wiped out, three
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