The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1903-08-13
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
DOMESTIC.


Three persons were drowned by the
collapse of bridge at Portland, Ore,
and rs others were injured.
There were 100 business failures in
the United States during the seven
days ended on the 31st ult, against
1913 the same week in 1902.
Alex. Means and Will Satarks, two
negroes, were hanged at Montgomery,
Ala, for the murder of Fleming Foster,
a negro, near LIE Grande.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the seven days ended on the 31st ult.
aggregated $2,O5S, POI, 1923. The de-
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of last year was 49,
Albert Skibbe, wife and daughter
meet instant death at grade crossing
in Chicago, being struck by fast
Burlington train.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the I'd were: Pittsburg, .6S2;
Chicago, .585; New York, .581; Gin
cinnati, SIG; Brooklyn, .4S2; Boston,
.429; st. Louis, 1867; Philadelphia, 1852.
Twelve thousand people attended the
twenty-fifth anniversary celebration OF
the Atchison (KanD Globe.
Sidney King, negro. was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala. He killed Ocie
Byron, a negro convict, in Coalburg
prison.
Inventor Edison almost lost his sight
and his assistant suffered amputation
of an arm as the result of experiments
with X-rays.
DR.. Wiley, chief chemist of the agri>
cultural department, says the new pure
food law is producing splendid results.
At Cridersville, O., George slein, a
middle-aged farmer, shot and killed his
wife and himself. Jealousy was the
cause.
The circulation of national bank notes
at the close Of business July 81 was
SALT ,346,487, an increase for the year
Of $58362,2O3.
The town of Halsey, Ore, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire.
In July $4,000 immigrants arrived in
New York, gain of 5000 over the same
month year ago.
The Northern Securities merger was
sustained by Judge Lochren, of the
United States court at St. Paul, in a
suit brought by the state of Minnesota.
An Eldorado county (Cal.) sheriff's
posse was ambushed near Placerville
by escaped convicts from Folsom prison
and three deputies were killed, one
wounded and one was missing.
ha %oJ % h4 10
of the United States for the government
during the month of July shows total
of $370,637.
Three men were killed, another was
missing and a fifth was dangerously
hurt in freight wreck on the Wabash
railroad at Pony Creek. Ia.
The government receipts in July were
$4S,611 ,575, and the disbursements $685.
3S8,1SS, showing deficit of $7,776,613.
Trains collided on the Indianapolis
& Martinsville Interurban road near
Mooresville, Ind, and 80 persons were
injured, two fatally.
Eight persons were killed in head
on collision between freight trains near
Cumberland Falls, Tenn.
"A new five-dollar counterfeit has been
discovered on the Fourth national bank
of Boston. check letter A, series of 1882,
Tillman register, Morgan treasurer.
Postmaster General Payne returned
to Washington, and following confer
ence with Assistant Bristow said the
postal inquiry would be pushed
An order issued by the Building
league at Pittsburg will have the effect
of locking out Is 900 men.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the American league for the week
ended on the I'd were: Boston, .632;
Philadelphia, .591; Cleveland, .523;
New York, SOC; Detroit, 500; Chicago,
.464; st. Louis, .452; Washington, 1929.
The public debt statement issued on
the list shows that the debt increased
$5,011 ,671 during the month of July.
Cash in the treasury, $37s. 291 ,444 To-
tai debt, less cash in the treasury, ST.
3OS,314.752.
In an address at Bloomington, ILL.,,
Rev. Sam Jones defended lynching, say
ing that in many cases it is like shoot
ing mad dog.
Officials Of the navy department say
that experience proves negroes do not
give satisfaction in the navy.
In fit of jealous rage Lou" Heine,
gypsy, shot and killed his wife in
Philadelphia and then fatally shot
young man named George Roberts.
Charles Medworth, of Mount Ayr,
Ind, was murdered by farm hand,
name unknown, who then set fire to
the house, in the ruins Of which their
bodies were found.
Arvid Rodelius, of Chicago, and Lille
and Agnes Rodelius and Arthur Lin
Qufst, of Moline, H., all children, we're
drowned in the river at Moline.
Three hundred of New Jerseys
state convicts at Trenton have donned
their new uniforms for the first time,
the stripes having been abolished for
suits of light gray.
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