The Tomahawk., 1903-04-16

INDIANAPOLIS convention that 12H
cents a ton wage increase will be de-
manded and strike ordered if neces-
sary. The convention adjourned.
Further progress has been made
by Minister Bowen in negotiations
with allies for settlement with Ven-
ezuela and raising of the blockade is
expected soon.
Twenty-Five person were killed and
dozens hurt, many fatally, in col
lision on the Central Railroad OF
New Jersey near Westfeld.
The "get coal' convention in Wash
ton decided that enforcement OF
present laws will correct evils.
The Kansas legislature passed bill
authorizing the use of voting machines
in the state.
Ariens Mcclure, 90 years old, builder
of the first courthouse in Laporte
county, was found dead in bed at La
porte, Ind.
John T. Fiddler, proprietor of the
Forest hotel at Marionville, Pa, killed
his wife and himself.
Lucille Colbert, Bear Creek (W1s.)
milliner, was arrested on the charge
of setting fire to her shop and burning
up nearly the entire town.
In a train collision near Vailsburg,
Ariz., 20 persons were killed and II
more perished in blazing cars.
Charles Coe, B. Lane, A. A. Amey and
J. Peterson, Iowa stockmen, were
killed in a railway wreck near La Fox,
III.
President Harper announces that the
University Of Chicago has absorbed
Illinois college at Jacksonville, one OF
the oldest colleges in the west.
Exercises in memory of the late
Thomas 3. Reed were held in joint
convention of both branches OF the
Maine legislature.
President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers has declined a place on
the Illinois state board of arbitration.
Representatives of the allied powers
held a conference with Mr.. Bowen and
are said to have raisd serious hitch IN
Venezuelan negotiations by demanding
that their claims be settled before
-
The question of responsibility for the
limitation of the hard coal production
was the issue before the anthracite
coal strike commission in Philadel-
phia, and operators may be called as
witnesses.
A concerted movement is on foot to
retire Miss Clara Barton from the
presidency of the American Red cross
and to reorganize the society,"
The president and Mrs. Roosevelt en-
tertained at the white house in honor
of the supreme court.
John r. McDonough, formerly secre-
tary of state of New York, has accept
ed the appointment OF justice OF the su-
preme court of the Philippines.
William Garland fatally shot Mrs.
F. B. Neal, of Warrensburg, Mo-, and
killed himself at Clifton, Ari.
While en- route to funeral Benja~
min Gillen and Thomas Crisman were
run down and killed by train at a
crossing at Darlington, Ind.
Yard conductors and yard brake
men over the entire Erie railway sys-
tenn have been granted an average
increase in wages of II per cent.
Further reports from Tucson, Ari..
say that probably so persons lost
their lives in the railway collision
near there.
John Foltz, Fred Matthews, Henry
Piepenbrink and Conrad Miller were
killed in an explosion at packing
plant at Fort Wayne, Ind.
A resolution introduced in the Kan
sas legislature amends the state elec-
ton laws so as to exclude all negroes
from voting.
The president has renominated
George Il. Roberts, of Iowa, as direct
or of the mint.
A bill to suppress prize fights and
boxing in Illinois with militia and
without call from the sheriff has been
introduced in the Illinois legislature.
The time of the coal strike COM
mission in Philadelphia was occupied
in listening to representatives of the
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron
company, the last of the large coal
companies to put it's case to the COM
mission.
Levi Ankeny, millionaire banker of
Walla Walla, has been elected United
States senator from Washington.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Unified States senators have been