The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-08-18


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Becoming seasick, William Sterne
was forced to abandon his attempt to
swim across the English channel.
A tariff issue has arisen in Kansas
City over a consignment OF n car
loads of zinc ore from Mexico. The
shipment crossed the Mexican frontier
five hours before the tariff bill was
signed. The importers claim it should
be admitted free.
The Georgia senate has passed a
bill to impose a 1000 license tax on
wholesale dealers in near beer" and
one of $500 on retailers.
Fire which destroyed So buildings.
including several large hotels, at
Monticello, N. Y, a summer resort,
caused a loss of 100000.
Sergt Arthur Todd of the United
States Marine corps is quoted in an
interview at Boston with saying he
saw Lieut. James Sutton shot by fell
low officers.
M. Spelterine, a French aeronaut
and three companions, succeeded IN
flying over the Alps in balloon, at
tanning a height of more than three
miles as they were above Mount
Blanc.
The report, which reached London,
that Count Zeppelin, the German
aeronaut had died, proved to be un-
true.
While driving along road near
Nashville, Ind, Mrs. Charles Daley
was shot from ambush and seriously
wounded.
When a dog bit one of II elephants
on the heel the whole herd of pachy-
derms bolted in a circus parade at
Clay Center, Kan, knocked down
many persons and created a panic
the town will not forget in years.
Thirty-two skeletons, supposed to be
those of early settlers slain by saw
ages, have been unearthed by railroad
excavators near Piedmont, Tex.
After evading pursuers for a week,
shooting one man and creating con-
sternation in two states, R. E. Dun
nington, an escaped maniac, walked
into the office of Gov Brown of Geor-
gia and sought an interview with the
executive. He fed when the police
were summoned.
So large is the salmon catch in the
state of Washington that it is i'm
possible for the canneries to handle
all of it.
A picture bearing the inscription,
"Cummins for President IN 1872" was
carried through the streets of Des
PLANES when the senator was greeted
by thousands upon his return from
Washington.
Fifty-two dray loads of liquors have
been moved from points in Alabama
to Columbus, Ca, in an effort to de-
feat the Alabama liquor law.
Mayor Earle of Niles, Mich, says
he will sue the Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern Railroad Company for
100000 for the killing of his son near
South Bend. Ind.
President Tafts itinerary has been
changed to include visit to Milwau-
kee on the morning Of September II.
John Simpson, farmer near Scots
vile, KY, was called to his door by six
masked men and murdered
Mrs. Robert w. Chambers, wife of
the novelist, was thrown from her
horse near Broad Albin, N. Y, and
the animal reached home alone. The
rider was found by searching party.
She was only slightly hurt.
A Cleveland judge has ruled that a
husband need not wash the dishes in
his home. His ruling was given on
the complaint of wife that her hus.
band beat her. The husband said he
was the injured party and the trouble
started because he would not wash
the dishes.
The treasury department in Wash
ington is planning for the issue of
new paper money The same portraits
and emblems will appear on bills of
the same denomination.
After practicing for &C years, DR..
Jesse Cope Green of Westchester, Pa,
probably the Oldest dentist in the Uni
ted States, retired at the age of 80
years.
Archbishop John Joseph Keane of
Dubuque, Ia, will retire and a coad-
jutor is to be suggested at meeting
OF irremovable rectors and consultors
OF the archdiocese in the Iowa town
August IS.
Philip Spizzirri and his wife fought
a duel with pistols in their home in
Chicago, the woman being slain and
her husband mortally wounded.
Six foreigners lost their lives in a
fire which destroyed 20 frame build.
ings near the steel plant In South
Chicago.
The government estimate of wheat,
corn, oats, rye and barley for 1909
is 1881 100000 bushels, valued at
$780, 100000 and the commercial in.
terests expect the most widespread
boom the country has ever known.
The mother of Lieut.. Sutton of the
United States marine corps, whose