The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-09-23

riots in Springfield, ILL.,, was convicte
and sentenced to death.
When Judge Gerard in the suprem
court granted Miss Helen Maloney
daughter of Martin Maloney, Phila
delphia millionaire and papal marquis
a decree annulling the marriage cere
mony which she went through will
Arthur Herbert Osborne, yount
broker. on the afternoon of December
25, 1905. it came to light that the
young woman was influenced into TAX
| ing the step by the fear that she was
| to be forced into marriage with one
of two titled foreigners known to hel
parents.
The Bay Shore hotel, at Green
Springs, Ia, one of the largest hotels
on the west coast, was totally de-
stroyed by fire, 40 guests having mar.
row escapes.
Fire in the library of Johns Hopkins
university, Baltimore, did inestimable
damage to ancient papyri and parch.
ments.
John Cook. aged IS years, farmer
living near Philo. ILL.,, shot and killed
Mrs. Edna McClelland and attempted
suicide.
Dense fog in Chicago caused ac-
cidents on steam and street railways
that resulted in the death of two
men and the injury of many others.
The nterparliamentary union met
in Berlin to discuss anew the peace
of the world and how to maintain it
through arbitration.
The itinerary for Mr.. Taft's first cam.
was announced.
A powder magazine near McAlester,
Okla, was struck by lightning, the ex-
rlosion killing one miner and seriously
lnjuring eight others.
Police Commissioner Bingham of
New York publicly retracted his re.
cent statement in a magazine article
that half the criminals in New York
were Jews.
The New York stock exchange house
of e. r. Chapman & Co. was victim
lied to the extent of 100000 by means
of fraudulent checks.
w. w. Reamer of East st. Louis
tried to burn his house and family and
then made two attempts at suicide.
Lured to lonely spot in Oklahoma
City, Okla. Mrs. Harry Pearson was
shot and killed by Harry Parker,
grain inspector from lola, Kan, be.
cause she wouldn't elope with him.
DR.. George Morton of New York
was arrested in Philadelphia on a flu.
gitive warrant from New York, charg.
ing him with securing 100000 by
means of fraudulent notes.
The American battleships Maine and
Alabama, the vanguard of the Ameri-
can fleet on it's round-the-world voy-
age, arrived at Naples.
The average wages per hour in the
manufacturing and mechani-
cal industries of the country were 81 |
per cent. higher in 1907 than in 1906, |
while retail prices of food were AZ
ger cent. higher, according to the July
'eport of the bureau of labor.
John and Wilbur Patterson, charged |
With holding up street car near Bos-
on, Pa, last May and robbing II pas
'engers and the conductor, were con-
victed in the criminal court at
Six persons were killed and 30 in.
ured, four of whom are not expected
% live, as the result of an explosion
If car of black powder at Windsor,
Mo.
A white man named Monker and six
indians, are believed to have persisted
n the forest fire near Grand Marais,
Mimi. They went to save homestead.
RS at hester and were cut off by the
lanes.
Umpire Jack Sheridan of the Ameri.
AN Baseball league was attacked by
lngry baseball enthusiasts in st.
louis.
The United States circuit court of
Lppeals at Richmond, Va, sustained
he opinion of Judge J. C. Pritchard
n the famous case of the Flieschmann
Company and others against the South
carolina dispensary commission, hold
ng in effect that a state cannot con-
uct liquor traffic, that being private
BUSINESS.
The Utah Federation of Labor re-
used to indorse Samuel Gompers' cir
ular urging laboring men to vote for
Bryan.
Suit for the recovery of 100000
amages, alleged to have been sus-
aimed because of a boycott, has been
egun against the United Hatters of
america by d. E. Loewe & Co., of Dan
Jury, Conn.
An attempt to assassinate Gov. Fort
+ New Jersey has been thwarted by
he watchfulness of post office EN-.
loyes who discovered an Internal ma
hine addressed to him in the mails.
For convicts escaped from the state
rison at lonia, Mich, and two from
ne penitentiary at Chester III.
Sixty students of Armour institute,
hicago, were arrested after 20 fresh
len had been partly stripped and
larooned on a scow in the lake.
Denial of any intentional contempt
court was the burden of John
litchelps testimony when the former
cad OF the miners took the stand be-
IRE Examiner Harper in the case
herein the American Federation of
abor officials are accused of con-
'mpt in the matter of the Bucks Stove
Range Company
Whisky and other liquors must have