The Tomahawk., 1903-11-13

Chief of Police George Airey, Of Nor
gan Park, Chicago suburb, was shot
and killed by colored man whom he
had arrested for playing Halloween
pranks.
The silver statue of Ada Rehan,
which formed the Montana exhibit at
the Chicago worlds fair in 1893, has
been taken to an Omaha smelter TO be
reduced to bullion.
Two persons were killed, many IN
jured, 500 made homeless and property
worth 100000 destroyed as the -e-
suit of a fire which swept the BoWeIy
at Coney Island.
Sheriff W. H. Miller and three In
dians are reported killed and three
deputies wounded during fight IN
eastern Wyoming caused by an at
tempt to arrest the redskins.
Crestline CO., citizens were panic
stricken, church doors were blown IN
and $50 railroad cars wrecked by the
explosion Of two cars of dynamite in
the Pennsylvania railroad yards there.
Appeal to the United States against
Russia's encroachment in Manchuria
has been made by China. A protest Is
declared by Secretary Hay to be i'm
possible until treaty is signed.
Minister to Colombia Beaupre has
been practically withdrawn by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to show his disapproval
Of the Panama treaty rejection.
A call has been issued for national
convention Of building contractors
councils and contractors associations,
to be held in Chicago Dec. 10, to form
a national association.
Announcement Is made at New York
that suit will be brought at once
against Charles M. Schwab and the
Bethlehem steel plant as result OF the
disclosures as to the financing OF the
Shipbuilding company.
In q private letter President Roose-
velt makes it plain that political con-
siderations will not have any bearing
on his investigation and stamping out
Of wrongs in the public service.
The grand jury at Believille. ILL.,, In
dicted II men believed to have particl-
pated in the lynching of the negro school
teacher, David Wyatt, last June.
E. II. Beneath, of Minneapolis, shot
and killed his wife and then took poison.
A savings bank for negroes, with a
colored woman for it's president, has
begun business in Richmond, Va.
The explosion of car of dynamite on
a track at Crestline, O.. caused finan-
cial loss of 100000
The total circulation of national bank
notes October 81 was $419,610 ,6S3, an in
crease for the year of $39, 1874 ,349.
The government receipts In October
were s46,963 ,123, and expenditures $751;
9O1 ,47S, leaving a deficit for the month
of 4,947 ,265.
The total coinage executed at the mints
of the United States during October was
$3,s72.22O.
Frank Anderson (white) was shot to
death and Henry Johnson (negro) was
lynched during race riot at Lake Viii
lage, Ark.
The town of Basin. Mont, was prac-
ticalIy destroyed by fire.
Fire which started on the Citizens
steamboat line pier at Troy, N. Y,
caused loss Of 81 100000.
Prize fighting within the limits of the
city of Los Angeles has been prohibited
Twelve shots were fired in Lexington
KY, at Capt. r. J. Even. the star wit
ness in the feud cases recently tried in
Breathitt county, but he escaped unin-
jured.
Gov. Yates has proclaimed November
bo~ ~1- CIV IN, I11irHjS
Lieut.. Albert NJ. Beecher. ordnance
officer on the battleship Maine. fell from
the forward turret, distance of 40 feet,
at Newport. r. l., and was killed.
Election day in Kentucky was married
by scenes of violence, several men be-
ing murdered and others fatally wound
ed in clashes at the polls.
Twenty-four Chicago state banks and
trust companies report for October Is
an increase of deposits Of SIS 5,595 900 over
August IL.
BY majority Of 175.000 the voters of
New York state declare in favor Of
deepening the Erie canal to admit I .00O-
ton barges, at cost Of $101 100000.
Six trainloads of John A. Dowie's fol-
lowers arrived in Chicago from New
York and declared the crusade practical
ly failure.
Nine men were arrested at Belleville,
ILL.,, for alleged implication in negro
lynching on June 6.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
The president appointed Sanford B.
Dole, governor of Hawaii, judge of The
United States district court of the ter
ritory; to succeed the late Morris M.
Estee. George r. Carter, secretary of
Hawaii, was appointed governor. to
succeed Gov. Dole.
Funeral services over the remains Of
the late Emma Booth-Tucker we're
held in Carnegie hall, New York.
Prof. Theodore Mommsen. the his
torian, died at Charlottenburg, Ger