The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1903-08-06
A WEEKS RECORD
All 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
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
DR.. A. A. Ames, former mayor of Min
neapolis, Mimi, now under indictment
for bribery, has made application for
pension on account of disabilities in
Cured during the civil war.
County rural free delivery in Mclean
county, ILL.,, has been ordered to COM
mence September Is. The service will
be the most extensive of any one county
in the United States. There will be 70
separate routes.
A rag pickers' union has been or
ganized in New York.
The treaty between the United States
and Denmark for purchase of the Dan
ish West Indies has expired, and it is
not probable that new one will be en-
tered into.
Talbot J. Taylor & Co. and w. L.
Stow & Co., big Wall street brokerage
the constant decline in stocks. The
head of Taylor house Is son-in-law
of James R. Keene. Millions of dollars
are involved in the failures.
Trade reviews report unusually good
business in nearly every section of the
country, collections are better than
usual in midsummer, and trade and Ia
Dor troubles are being settled.
Mrs. Anna Bailey and Mrs. Mary
Woods, of Lake City, Col, were shot
from ambush near there. Mrs. Bailey
was MORALLY wounded and Mrs. Woods
seriously hurt.
Two youths were hanged at Lexing-
ton. KY, for the murder of A. B.
Chinn, wealthy merchant.
Benjamin G. Hill, who killed his wife
last November at their home in Wash
ington, D. c., was hanged at the United
States Jail.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the Goth we're: Pittsburg, .671;
Chicago, 59S; New York, 1896; Cincin-
natl, .512; Brooklyn, 800; Boston, .423;
st. Louis, 1893; Philadelphia, .317.
The fifty-sixth anniversary of the first
negro church organization in the west
was celebrated at Quinn chapel, Chicago.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the American league for the week
ended on the 26th were: Boston, .642;
Philadelphia, .585; Clevland, 1888; De-
troit, SOC; New York, 493; Chicago, ass;
st. Louis, .434; Washington, 1888.
!. D. Mayfeld( colored) was taken
from Jail in Danville, ILL.,, and lynched by
mob for killing Henry Gatterman, aud
troops were sent to quell the riot, In
which % persons were injured.
The post office at Rudd, Ia. was
robbed of stamps, cash and money orders
to the amount Of $500.
Miss Frances Greer, of Chicago, was
killed and 4S persons injured in a col
iision of electric cars in Shrewsbury,
Mass.
Judge Tuley, of Chicago, advised a
husband in a divorce case to defend HIM
self with his fists if attacked by his wife,
Jennie Steers, a negro woman, was
lynched near Shreveport, La. for the al
legged poisoning of young girl.
The body of a beautiful young wom-
an, evidently murdered, was found In
a sewer pipe at Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Four persons were killed and 80 in
jured in a collision of Great Western
railroad trains near Dodge Center, Ia.
Robert j. Burdette preached his first
sermon as pastor of the Los Angeles
(Cal) Baptist church.
The battleship Kearsarge reached Bar
Harbor, Me-, after a record breaking trip
from England, the 5000 miles being COW
cred in nine days four and a quarter
hours.
The Colorado legislature adjourned
after having passed a general appropri-
alton bill, for which the session was
called.
Near New London, Conn, Mrs. c. T.
Thorpe, Miss Annabel Rogers and Sam
uel Gohel were drowned by the capsizing
OF boat.
The first transcontinental automobile
trip was completed by DR.. H. N. Jackson
aud Sewall L. Croker, who reached New
York after ga days run from San Fran
cisco.
Postmaster General Payne notified
the department that he would resume
his duties August 8.
Senator Tillman in q debate with Sem
ctor Burton at Monona Lake, Wis, bid
defiance to northern defenders Of the
hegro, and said the south would never
permit the blacks to vote.