The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1903-08-13
G. NJ schwab has resigned as presi-

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dent and director of the United States
Steel trust, according to the announce
ment of director at Philadelphia.
Curtis Jet testified in his own de-
Tense in the j. B. Marcum murder trial
at Cynthiana, KY, and declared he did
not kill Marcum.
To the twentieth child of William A..
Signet, of McKeesport, Pa, President
Roosevelt sent $500. The baby is named
Theodore Roosevelt Signet.
Sixteen persons, the majority OF them
from Chicago and Logansport, were
seriously injured in railway wreck
at Hartford City, Ind.
Engineer Simonton was fatally in
jured and Is others hurt in a railway
collision at East Portsmouth, O.
Antonio Turckewski, a Pole, was put
to death in the electric chair at Sing
Sing IN. Y.) prison.
AS result Of the Builders league
lockout $4,000 men are out of employ
ment in Pittsburg, Pa.
Harry Siple was fatally burned and
his wife and ten-year-old son Elwood
are dead as the result of fire at their
home in Washington, Pa.
Trains collided at Laura, O., killing
Conductor Devlin, of Indianapolis, and
probably fatally injuring the engineer
fireman and baggageman.
Fire destroyed the mosque, the 9TH
er public buildings, 400 shops and 60
houses at Armenek, Asia Minor.
The government may take possession
of the Merchants bridge at St. Louis
if it is shown that consolidation has
been formed.
Indianapolis was flooded with circu-
lars calling upon white people to sub
ordinate negroes to themselves.
Armed citizens of Bartholomew
county, Ind, pursued William Garrett,
a negro, and chased him into Flat Rock
river, where he was drowned.
The Vassar Swiss Underwear COM
pany, employing $50 women, has been
forced to leave Chicago because of con-
slant labor disputes.
Two thousand Rock Island railroad
conductors and trainmen voted to
strike unless better pay and working
conditions are granted them.
The steamers City of South Haven
and the Eastland raced across the lake
from Chicago, the former winning and
breaking the record for the course.
The twenty-sixth annual convention
of the National Association of Photog-
raphers opened at Indianapolis with
nearly 1000 members present. Gov.
Durbin welcomed the visitors.
Express companies doing business in
Missouri have increased their rates IS
per cent.
The sixth annual convention of the
National Association of Postmasters
began in Boston.
Heavy rains caused streams to over
flow at Mason City and other places in
Iowa, and great damage was done to
property.
A fire which destroyed the Pitts
burg plate glass plant in Cincinnati
caused loss of $3.50, 900.
A Mckinley memorial lighthouse at
the entrance of Honolulu harbor is pro-
posed by residents of that city.
Maj Gen. Henry G. Corbin will re-
linquish his duties as adjutant general
of the army when the general staff law
goes into effect on August Is.
The thirty-third national convention
Of the Catholic Total Abstinence union
began in Pittsburg with 500 delegates
present.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
Hotel Lippencott at Fox Lake, ILL.,, and
escaped with $4,000.
John Millikin, negro preacher, and
John Hunter, his son-in-law, were killed
by whitecappers at Lewisburg, Tenn.
No cause is known for the killing.
The governments weekly crop report
shows temperature too low in northern
states, but rains ample in central Mis-
sissippi valley.
Lightning killed David Walsh and
his cousin, James Walsh, at Fox Lake,
Ill.,
The Roman Catholic church at Mi
nooka, ILL.,, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground.
The Union Pacific has sold the famous
Lincoln car for exhibition at the st.
Louis exposition.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Col. Edward M. Brown, veteran