The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-07-29

| r. f. Walker of South Africa won
the 1O0-meter dash at the Olympic
games, defeating ]. A. Rector of the
University of Virginia. A worlds rec
ord, by c. ]. Bacon of the Irish-Ameri
can A. c.. in the 400-meter hurdling
which he won in So seconds an
Olympic record of "a feet 61s inches
by F. c. Irons of the Chicago A. A., in
the running broad jump; and the vic
tory of G.. S. Dole of Yale, in the
featherweight wrestling, We're the win.
nings of the Americans.
| American athletes won two more
gold medals in the Olympic games at
London. NJ. w. Sheppard won the
S00-meter run and Harry F. Porter
the high jump. both setting new
| olympic records.
American athletes captured three
more gold medals in the Olympia
games at London, winning the 100
meter swim, the broad jump and the
bantam wrestling finals.
Safe-blowers robbed the post office
at Bardolph. ILL.,, of $780,
August Eberhard, arrested at Pater-
son, N. j., confessed that he lured his
aunt from Vienna, murdered her and
robbed her body of $4,000 which he
needed to marry New York girl.
Two children were burned to death
in a fire that destroyed the dwelling
Of James Jarasky near Cleveland, o.
In an opinion bristling with caustic
comment and criticism the United
States court of appeals in Chicago
unanimously reversed the decision of
Judge Lands imposing fine Of $780,
100000 upon the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana for accepting conces-
sions from the Chicago G. Alton rail-
road, and remanded the case for re-
hearing.
Desperadoes "shot up Jamaica
Plain surburb of Boston, in trying to
escape the police, and killed one per-
son and wounded dozen others.
President Roosevelt delivered
spirited and characteristic address at
Newport, r. l., before an important
conference of American naval officers.
The purpose of the meeting was to dis
cuss the battleships which the United
States is to build in the future, and
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke warmly in favor
of hard-hitting navy, as good as any
in the world, and capable of finding
the enemy and "hammering him into
quits"
The Atlantic battleship fleet sailed
11111 20
While swimming in Lake Norman,
near Norman, Okla, John w. Holland,
a prominent business man, and for Is
years a preacher in the Methodist
church, was drowned.
Miss Evelyn Walsh, daughter of
Thomas Walsh of Colorado, was secret
ly married to Edward Mclean, man.
aging editor of the Washington Post.
Santo Purquo of Chicago killed his
wife and wounded a man whom he
found in her company.
President Castro has expelled ]. H.
de Reus, the minister resident of the
Netherlands, from Venezuela.
pretty young woman was found
shot and killed in a tool shed in Will
liamsburg, N. Y.
Three bandits held up saloon in
Jamaica Plain, a suburb of Boston,
and killed one man and shot two
others.
William Pohlman somnambulist, |
cut his throat in his sleep at St. Louis |
and only prompt work by physicians |
saved his life.
Typhoid fever is epidemic in Man.
Sato, Mimi, about $500 cases being |
reported.
In view of more than hundred per-
sons in the ballroom of the Fort |
-owrey hotel at Bath Beach, L. l.,
John Hanna shot 16-year-old Augusta
Nalz, with whom he was in love, and |
Ralph MANI with whom she was dane
ng, and killed himself.
The Minneapolis, Red Lake e Mani |
oba Railroad company served notice |
IN the Minnesota railroad and ware
house commission that beginning AuI
gust l it would charge passenger
are of three cents mile, thus ig- |
loring the two-cent fare law.
William Winter, the veteran dra.
matte critic, was taken to a Los An |
seles hospital in critical condition.
The Pennsylvania Democratic state |
recognized Col. James M. |
Iuffey Of Pittsburg as the leader of |
he Democracy of Pennsylvania, de- |
spite the fact that he was ousted from |
he state craftsmanship at Denver, Col |
Honduras officials denied that war
Vas imminent between their country |
md Nicaragua.
Two men We're killed and a third |
seriously hurt by an explosion in the |
Red Dog mine at Webb City, Mo.
immigration to the United States |
rom all countries, particularly Russia
md Japan, showed marked falling |
IF for the month of June as compared |
With the same month of 1907, accord |
ng to figures made public by the bu-
eau of immigration and naturaliza-
ion. The total immigration aggregated
i ,947, compared with 154,734 in 1907.
Despondent because of ill-health and
earful of the fate which might await
Ter two little children if they were
eft alone to face the world, Mrs Gus
lie Benson drowned them and herself |
It New York.
BY unanimous vote of the national
Committeeman of the states west of |
he Missouri river Chicago was chosen
g the main haadn,1artarc from which