The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-06-24


Shelby Steel Tube company at Shelby
O., owned by the United States Stee
! corporation. Loss was $2,00O,OOO
Several persons were injured, on
perhaps fatally, two houses and a hal
dozen barns We're destroyed by
tornado which struck the eastern out
skirts of Sioux City.
Domingo Schiappa Petra filed {
suit against the heirs of the late Leo
pold P1etra of Los Angeles, asking fo
one-half of an estate valued at $4,000,
oo0, alleging that she is the common
law wife of FREDERICK Petra. an Ital
ian immigrant, who laid a foundation
TOR the immense fortune.
AS officers, carrying warrant charg
ing him with misrepresentation of the
funds of the Aberdeen CO., Banking
company. were breaking down the
doors of his barricaded home to place
MIN under arrest, d. H. Fawcett, pres
ldent of the bank, placed revolver
10 his head and fired a bullet into his
| brain.
Martin Finn of Salisbury, N. Y.
was killed in his sleep by his wife
who then took poison.
Mrs. A. L. Stairs of Sandy Creek
w. Va, while temporarily insane
killed her two little children and her.
self.
Lazarus Levy. the 65-yearold head
OF the banking firm of l.. Levy & Co.,
was sued at New York by Susie A.
Merrill. 30 years his junior, for $780,
OO0 damages for breach of promise.
The federal grand jury at New
York found a third Indictment against
Alfred H. Curtis, president, and
Charles w. Morse, vice-president Ma
t1onal Bank of North America, charg-
ing them with making false entries in
reports to the comptroller of the cur
rency and the misapplication of funds
for speculative purposes, amounting
to about $1,250,0OO.
The president of the Russian revo-
lutionary republic was sentenced to Is
years at hard labor.
Three Black Hand members were
Killed and a fourth wounded by
wealthy Italian merchant of New Or
leans from whom they had attempted
to extort money.
The Cunarder Lusitania was stopped
for 20 minutes in the narrows at New
York because the great guns of Forts
Hadsworth and Hamilton were being
fired in the war game"
The Democratic state convention of
Mississippi instructed the delegates to
vote first and last for the selection of
William j. Bryan as the presidential
nominee.
DR.. w. F. King, for 40 years presi-
dent of Cornell college at Mount Yer
non. Ia, resigned on account of i'll
health. Prof. James Harlan was
chosen president.
Four hundred feet of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway embankment,
which served as levee protecting St.
Charles county (Mo.) farms from the
Missouri river, gave way and 1000
acres of farm lands were inundated.
Miss Miriam Frances Bloomer,
daughter of James F. Bloomer of Gin
cinnati. drank poison by mistake in
New York and died.
Thomas Hagen, marine, was killed
by blow over the heart in a boxing
bout on the battleship Mississippi at
Philadelphia.
Two hundred lives We're endangered
by an incendiary attempt to burn a
tenement house in New York
Joseph Fangele, wealthy merchant
and brewer Of Gallitzin, Pa, commit
ed suicide.
The Lemoine diamond case came to
sudden end in Paris with the flight
If Lemoine and the discovery that his
'ormula for making diamonds is
antastic farce
The Imperial hotel at Petoskey, |
Mich, was destroyed by fire, the loss
)eing $4,000. 1t had not been opened |
or the season.
w. H. Stewart, an editor of Sails
Jury, N. c.. killed Frank Smith, col
red, who was trying to rob Stewards
lome.
The thirty-second national saenger-
est of the North American Saenger-
'und opened in indianapolis, Ind
Three men attempted to hold up and
OBJ New Orleans street car, and one
# them and the motorman were
hot.
The governments suit for iniunc-
ion against seven coal carrying rail
Dads that transport anthracite from
heir own mines was argued in Phila.
elphia
Three men at Enid, Okla, accused
I lynching negro, were acquitted by
jury.
Mrs. j. d. Tuthill of Brooklyn, N. Y,
lister of J. S. Pomeroy. cashier of the
ecurity National bank, Minneapolis
suicide by jumping into
AXE Minnetonka at Breezy Point.
Mrs Mary Stuart Coffin, the only
racticing woman lawyer in Detroit,
Itch, committer suicide by taking
ludanum.
The plant of the Royal Coal Mine
ompany at Argentine, Pa, was de.
troyed by dynamite, the loss being
10000.
The worlds centennial congress
ED exercises at the grave in Glens
alls, N. Y, of William J. Clark,
'under of the temperance movement
! America.
The physicians of Gov. William M.
Dawson of West Virginia have in.
'rmed him that he has developed tn.
arculOsiS.