The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-04-22
The greatest fire that has scourged

many of the city's best structures
Three persons lost their lives ant
about SO were injured. The fire start
ed at 10:40 a. m. and was not undel
control until nine o'clock in the even
ing, notwithstanding that half of the
Boston fire departments strength ant
steamers from dozen other cities anC
towns went to the aid of the Chelses
brigade. The loss was estimated a
fully $10,000,O0O. About 1900 familie:
are homeless. Among the structures
destroyed were Is churches, two hos
pitfalls, the public library, city hall
five schoolhouses, 20 business blocks
nearly a score of factories and up
wards of 300 tenements and dwelling
houses.
Prompt measures were taken In
Boston for the relief of the Chelsea
fire sufferers. The loss was estimated
at $5,575,000, with s3,500,00O insur
ance.
Many persons were hurt at Chester
Pa. when striking street car men at
tackled the state police.
The remains of three more victims
of the fire in Chelsea, Mass, were
found. making a death list of six.
ship fleet paraded in San Diego and
a gold key and a sword for Admiral
Evans were presented to Admiral
Thomas.
Robert N. Harper, president of the
Washington chamber of commerce
drug manufacturer, and one of the
best-known business men in Washing
ton, was sentenced by Judge Kimball
In the police court to pay fine of 500
for violating the pure food law.
The ministers of the 1900 Presby'
terrain churches throughout the
United States were requested by the
department of church and labor to OBJ
serve labor Sunday, May 10.
The city Of Danville, Va, voted
against licensing saloons.
The home of the late President Nc.
Kinley in Canton, O., was sold to Mrs
Rose G. Klorer Of Canton, the price
being $4,000.
President Roosevelt will again
nominate John w. Jackson to be post.
master at Columbia, Tenn, the post
master general having recommended
that the nomination, which was with
drawn from the senate on March 30,
be again sent to that body.
Clifford Vernon, the ten-year-old son
of Thompson Vernon, hanged himself
self in his fathers barn near Mount
Vernon, o.
Five distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Milford, Utah.
The battleship feet arrived at San
Diego, was welcomed by Gov. Gillett
and city officials and four days of en-
tertainment began.
Despondent over business troubles,
Charles F. Leland, formerly president
of the Commercial bank of Duluth,
Mimi. shot and killed himself.
Hauser lake dam across the Mis-
souri, river, Is miles below Helena,
gave way with great crash and pre-
cipitated from rs to 30 feet of water
over the dismembered structure.
Three serious prairie fires destroyed
much farm property in South Dakota.
The Delaware state Democratic con.
vention instructed its delegates to the
national convention for George Gray,
despite his refusal to have his name
presented.
Bryanites were defeated in the
New York state convention, the com.
mittee on resolutions adopting a reso.
luton for an uninstructed delegation.
Joseph M. Giordani, an agent of the
Firmin revolutionists, in the United
States. was sentenced to six months
at hard labor in Sing Sing prison for
having counterfeit Haytiel money in
his possession.
Jean Rull and three of his accom-
plices have been found guilty of at
tempts to assassinate King Alfonso.
Rull was sentenced to death and the
others to Imprisonment
The historic garrison church in the
Neue Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, dating
from 17O3, was completely burned 0ut,
together with numerous ancient rea.
mental shot-torn flags carried in vari-
GUS wars.
The old Van Wart mansion at
Youngs Corners, N. Y, was destroyed
by fire. 1t contained many revolu-
tionary relics.
About 1000 persons persisted in
floods at Hankow. China.
Mrs. Kate Pelter was found strangled
to death and Vito Debello with his
throat cut, in New York fiat. Charles
Berger, who was stabbed seriously,
was put under arrest.
Under the direction of William F..
Hazen, former chief of the secret serv-
ice, a concerted movement was started
to rid the country of alien criminals
and anarchists.
Windows were smashed and houses
for distance of ten miles were
shaken when 400 pounds OF nitro.
glycerin exploded and scattered the
splinters of a separator mill of the
Aetna Powder company at Aetna, Ind
over quarter of a mile.
Massachusetts Republicans elected
an uninstructed delegation to the ma
tional convention, but plank in the
platform admitted Taft was the choice
of majority in the state convention