Fair play., 1900-09-01
A WEEKS RECORD.
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DoMES
A tornado at Sheboygan, Wis,
wrecked eight large buildings and eco
small houses, the loss being upwards of
$500, 900.
William NJ. johnson. of Hackensack.
\. j.. has accepted the office OF first
assistant postmaster general. made va
cant by the resignation of Perry Heath.
Wild West showmen are reported to
have killed three citizens and injured
seven in riots at Prarie du Chen. Wis.
Theodore Wallart. a farmer near Ar
lington. Mimi, killed his wife and
three children and escaped. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
The census gives Chicago a popula-
tion of 1.69S.51l, gain of 59s,725 in
ten years.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
49.76l 900 bushels: corn. 9.lO2.o eco bush
els; oats. 7.02i,G 900 bushels: rye. 6sl 900
bushels: barley. 3s9.o bushels.
Ellen Young. Saiina Newhouser and
Albert J. Schwab, all of Philadelphia,
We're drowned at Cape May, n. j.,
while bathing.
In street duel at Hundred, ". Va.
three brothers named Banuy were IA
tally shot and nine other persons were
wounded.
DR.. s. Harrington while drunk at
Farley. Mo-. killed James Wallace. his
uncle: Mrs. William Wallace. his
mother-in-law. and J. p. Dillingham;.
sheriff. who tried to arrest him, and
was in turn shot dead by the sheriff's
son.
In a picnic riot AT Doolittle Mills.
Wis. so persons were hurt, six prob
ably fatally.
Seven persons were killed by 4 rear
end collision between freight trains on
= the New York Central road at kensi-
60. y. Y.
Deputy sherifTS discovered counter
feiters' mint in a cave at Sodus. Mich.
and captured three men, two of whom
confessed.
Five miners were smothered 10 death
In coal mine at Isaquah. Wash.
The census bureau announced the
population of Minneapolis as e02.1ls
and St. Paul l63.632. a gain in the
former place of $3.50 and in the lat
ter S0.4.6.
At Guthrie. o. T. six men lost their
lives by the caving in Of a well.
Colorado and Wyoming forests have
been damaged Slo. .C9O, 900 by fire.
Authority has been given TO Gen.
Randall to send back at government
expense the several thousand sick and
destitute persons now al Cape Nome
\ new treaty between Spain and the
United States has been signed, restor>
ing the relations broken off by the late
war.
An explosion of dynamite wrecked
The courthouse at Medina. o.
The farmers national congress met
in twentieth annual convention AT Col
orado Springs, Col. 23 states being rep
resented.
Big eastern newspapers have started
a fight against the paper trust.
a mob of 1900 surrounded the jai!
at Akron. o.. clamoring for negro
accused of n serious crime. The officers
fired and two persons were killed anc
many wounded The mob burned Co.
lumbia hall and blew up the city build
ing. Gov. Nash ordered a regiment to
the scene of trouble.
The official census gives Philadelphia
n population of 1,293.697, a gain of 246,-
1913 in ten years.
Frank Wallace. farmer near Poplar
Bluff. Mo-, killed his wife and himself
while insane.
The transport Stra,hgyle sailed from
San Francisco for China with &c:
horses for the use of the army.
\ monument 10 the late Senator
=. Vance WAS unveiled at Raleigh. y. C.
Post Office officials in Chicago passed
rule barring employment t" an, boy
Who j. addicted TO the use OF cigarettes.
Tbs prot'uction of iron ore in the
United States for the year 1899 amount
e. to 2i.6s3.l73 tons. breaking all rec
urds.
Mrs. Charles Gloeckner's baby GieG
of starvation in courtroom in Chi
cago while the mother was testifyins
against her husband for aban6 Comment
Reports of the revival of agricultural
industries in southeastern Cuba are en-
couraging.
Sam Fields. a young negro. was shot
to death bv mob of white men foI
attemptfng 10 assault Mrs. Peter Roche
q white woman. near Whitehall, La.
William NJ. johnson. the newly-ap
pointed first assistant postmaster gen
e f.~fEn
The steamer Tacoma arrived at Pori
Townsend. Wash. with $600.G0O in dust
and $50 passengers from Nome.
Cashier Balch. of the Omaha nationa
bank. was assaulted in a sleeping caI
on the Northwestern near Boone, la.
and robbed of $50.
Harry Davis. an aeronaut, was killed
by falling while making balloon as
cension at DelphosO.
The census office gave Cleveland 3S1,
76s population. gain o: 120.415; Gin.
cinnati, .25.sG2 Il gain of 2s.994; Oma>
ha, 1O2 .555, Il decrease of 37,s97.
Judge Cantrili ovcrruled the Hotior
at Georgetown, KY. for a new trial ir
the case of Caleb Powers. convicted az
an az. omplice in the murder of VIII
liam Goebel
The three free employment agencies
in Chicago have found work for ovss
$4,000 peopls within the year.