The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-07-22
Martin 7. Sheridan of the Irish

discus throwing and Rose was first In
putting the shot.
The third day Of the Olympic games
Great Britain won two gold medals
and France and Sweden one each.
America won second place in team
race.
American athletes captured two gold
medals on the second day OF the
Olympic games in London. John }.
Flanagan won the hammer throw,
breaking the Olympic record, and M.
w. Sheppard won the 1,50O-meter run.
Count Boni de Castellane filed suit
for such revision of the decree OF d.
vorce obtained against him by MS
wife, who was Miss Anna Gould of
New York, as will give him the Gus
| tody of his three children.
Circuit Judge Reynolds of st. Louis
ruled that steam laundries may go
as far as they like in combining to
maintain prices, as owing to other
methods of washing clothes, such
combination would not be in restraint
Of trade.
Seven mine workers were killed and
ten others injured by terrific ex-
plosion of gas in the Williamstown
Pa.) colliery of the Summit Branch
Mining company. The mine was
wrecked and set on fire.
Republican Chairman Hitchcock
called conference of party leaders at
Colorado Springs, Col, for the opening
of the campaign in the west.
BY the burning of a one-story frame
building in St. Paul. Mimi, the struc-
ture in which the first volunteer for
the union armies enlisted in 1851 was
destroyed.
The shriners at St. Paul elected E. 1.
Alderman of Marion, Ia, imperial
potentate and decided to hold next
years conclave in Louisville.
One man was killed and Is or 30
others were injured, some perhaps
fatally, when trolley car on the
Johnstown (Pa.) Passenger Railway
company, after striking traction en-
CINE at a crossing a mile from here,
started backwards and went over a
steep embankment.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
IL. f. Wilson, w. de C. Ravenel of the
National museum and w. M. Geddes of
treasury department were appointed
by the president as a United States
government board of managers of the
Alaskan-Yukon exposition at Seattle,
Wash.
Five workmen were killed by the
cave-in of a new sewer in Youngs-
town, O..
Fire in the business district of Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, destroyed 100000
of property.
Sheriff Riley of Nowata, Okla,
burned a roadhouse and saloon, in &C
cordance with the Oklahoma liquor
law.
James Phillips, farmer, committed
suicide in Oskaloosa, Ia, by drinking
carbolic acid in olive oil.
James Guyot and his son were killed
by lightning near Clay City, III.
Fire in the town of circuit, Cal, in
the Santa Maria oil fields, destroyed
property valued at 100000.
Frank H. Montgomery, leading
physician of Chicago, and his stenog
while sailing in White lake, Michigan
Mrs. Catherine Bruha, aged Is, ant
her grandson, aged IA, were probably
fatally burned in a mysterious ex
plosion in La Crosse, Wis.
Lightning struck and destroyed the
, beautiful summer home of George w
Elllins at Ogontz, a suburb of Phila
, delphia.
A plot against the car of Russia
was discovered at Sosnowice, Russian
, Poland, and many arrests were made
H. l.. Palmer, president of thu
t Northwestern Life Insurance company
{ retired after so years service with the
| company.
The Democratic national committee
adopted a resolution, dictated b,
, Bryan, declaring for publication o
, campaign contributions, limiting then
to $4,000 and declaring none woul'
f be accepted from corporations.
The National Deposit bank of Phila
delphia was closed by direction of tn
comptroller of the currency because
it had not kept it's reserve up to re
, quirements.
Standing within a few feet of tn
) spot where, a little more than tw'
| years ago, he shot and killed his ia
ther.in-law, DR.. James Weddell Simp
son, dentist of New York, was sho
!. and perhaps mortally wounded a
: Northport, N. Y, by his mother-in-law
t Mrs. BARLEY T. Horner, the woman h
. made widow
4 Four persons were drowned throug
an explosion on board 45-foot launc
S off Marion Mass They were Rolan
e Worthington of Boston, John T. Tru
2 of Woburn, Joseph S. Beal of Milton
and George Savory of Marbleheat
l. A. P. Tarbell of Marblehead and &c
! ward Pecker of Boston were rescue
t after being in the water II hours.
l. Samuel Gompers, president of tn
American Federation of Labor Can
l. inferentially the head of 100000
g voters of organized labor affiliate
a with the federation) promised to SUI
J. port William J. Bryan in the pres
dental campaign.
n Homer L. Castle of Pittsburg, Pa,
l. former Prohibition candidate for gov
n ernor of Pennsylvania; Charles Hun
err, Philadelphia; D. c. Washington
It Collingswood, N. j.; Arthur F. Wi
t. liams, Chicago, and H. F. Aspinwal
NJ =