The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-06-17

The United Confederate Veteran!
elected Gen. Clement A. Evans o
| Georgia commandments and de
cided to meet next year in Memphis
W. F. Burns of Jackson county,
c., while on bridal trip across
Panther mountain, in Greenville coun
ty, was robbed of his pretty youn,
wife by gang of six men, after hi
had been bound. beaten and robbed.
According to the school census. Chi
cago now has population Of abou
2,14O, 900. ASa
Joseph Letter of Chicago and Wash
ington and Miss Juliette Williams OF
Washington were married at the home
of the brides parents.
l. Miss Margaret Sargent Of Sioux
| City. Ia. found her mother and man
in their heads
Archbishop Nixon. exarch of Geor.
| gia, was assassinated in Tiflis by rev.
olntionists.
| A monumental the Russian dead at
Port Arthur. erected by Japan, was
unveiled.
An 11-year-old boy at St. Joseph,
| Mo, wrecked a freight train to obtain
coal
The Montclair On. J) council adopt
ed an ordinance providing five dol
| lar fine for the owner of every dog
that barks after p. m.
The Republican national committee
seated both the lilly white" and "blacls
and tan" delegates from Louisiana
with half vote each. The latter
agreed to vote for Taft. Six contests
in Mississippi and one in Missouri
were decided in favor of Taft.
Edward VII, king of England, and
Emperor Nicholas exchanged royal
visits on the waters of the Bay of
Reval in the Gulf of Finland. 1t was
a notable meeting and one which may
have far-reaching effect in the world
policies of the futue.
Property damage to the extent of
100000 was done in Guthrie, Okla, by
a violent wind and rain storm.
Representatives Of the large steel
interests agreed on general reduc-
ton in prices of finished steel prod
ucts.
Three hundred persons, including
Marquis de Dion, were poisoned by
ptomaines at a banquet of the Auto
mobile club of Paris. One person is
dead and many others are in serious
condition.
Fire in the business district of En-
mis-. Tex. did $15O,OOO damage.
\ Mrs. Thomas Murrll of Breathitt
county, Kentucky, killed Miss Mary
her.
Two persons were killed and five
others injured when an apartment
house in course of construction in
Washington collapsed.
Sam T. Stevenson, former secre-
tary of New Orleans Local No. II,
Typographical union, was arrested in
that city with $4,000 of the unions
funds.
Nine persons were killed and 65 in
jured by rear-end collision of a
freight with passenger train at Roc.
capietra, Italy.
Twelve people were injured, two
probably fatally, in street car col
lision in Chicago. =.
Secretary Taft was given 16 more
contested seats by the national com
mittee and his managers refused to
consider proposition that opposing
delegates from Louisiana be seated
with half a vote each.
Roy A. Gormley, a Detroit grain
broker, ended weeks debauch by
committing suicide in his apartment
at the Auditorium Annex, Chicago.
Incendiaries set fire to the old st.
Paulus church at Berlin while 1,SOO
famous Dominican monk Bonaventuri.
Only the GOODNESS of the clergy pre-.
vented holocaust
On claims aggregating $S,791, O47
due the National Car Wheel company
of New York, the Wheeling & Lake
Erie railroad was thrown into the
hands of receiver at Toledo, O.
One man was killed and one woman
and two children badly injured, and
damage estimated at $150,0OO was
done in Port Huron, Mich, and vi
cinity by severe wind and electrical
storm
The Hotel Gramatan at Bronxville,
N. " and the new Cliff hotel at New
port. r.. l., We're destroyed by flames
Nine hotel keepers and business
men of Galesburg. ILL.,, were arrested
for violating the local option law.
For kindness shown his wife in her
sickness Giles Gilbert, a Duluth pi-
oneer who died a few weeks ago, left
$4,000 to Miss Edith Balm, a music
teacher of Chicago.
Mrs, Hugh Mclaughlin, widow of
the Democratic leader of Kings coun-
ty, New York, received notice from
Rome that the pope had conferred
upon her the title of marchioness in
the papal nobility.
The schooner yacht Dervish, owned
by Commodore Henry Morss of the
Corinthian Yacht club, won the ocean
race from Marblehead to Hamilton in
Class B.
Two of the seamen hurt by the
bursting of steam pipe on the cruis-
er Tennessee died of their injuries,
making the number of fatalities six.
OBITUARY..
William Davis Ely, the oldest alum.