Fair play., 1903-07-25
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.
Justice Brewer, of the federal SUI
preme court. in Milwaukee interview
declared lypching and burning of ne.
groes is murder in the eyes of the law,
no matter what the incentive is.
A cloudburst and heavy windstorm
DESTROYED several buildings at Newport
Neb.
One hundred and thirteen deaths
from lockjaw, caused by Fourth of July
accidents, have occurred in various
cities.
An answer to the Illinois and Michi-
gan canal injunction suit filed by the
commissioners at Springfield, ILL.,, dc
clares the state constitution in force
80 years is invalid
Illinois Central railroad conductors
and tranmen have been granted a wage
increase totaling $500 600 yearly.
Eight thousand Christian Endcayor-
crs were thrown into a panic and near
ly score were injured by the fall of a
tent in which the international cOnYeu-
lion is being held at Denver
rested at Bloomington, ILL.,. for the al
legged murder of her two-year-old sister.
Three men were drowned near Pen
sacola, Fla. by Che wrecking of a
iisEing smack
The Exchange bank at Caro- Mich,
'losed its doors
Assistant Secretary Of War W. c.
Sanger has resigned and will be sue
:eeded,b Gen. Robert Shaw Oliver, Of
Albany. N. Y.
Three men were killed and two in
ured by an explosion at the Lailin
powder works near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Comptroller of the Currency Ridge
~, in an interview, declared the bank
ing situation good in view of shrink
age in securities.
The batteship Kearsarge was ordered
to he ready for speed trial from Ports
mouth. England, to Frenchman's Bay
Maine.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles rode 90 miles on
horseback to prove he is still hale on
the eve OF his retirement at 81. The Jour
ney was made from Fort Sill, Okla, to
Fort El Reno.
Ed Claus, a negro, was lynChed near
Eastman. Ga, in the presence Of Miss
Susie Johnson. his victim.
The foreign commerce of the United
States for the last fiscal year aggregates
s2.+45, SIC, All, being the highest on rec
ord. and an increase of $3.50, so OGS over
the previous year.
1t is announced by the state depart
ment at Washington that anarchists
cannot be naturai2ed under the immi-
grafton laws of March g. 1903
An attempt by President Curran. Of
the freight handler5' union, to precip'-
tate a general strike against Chicago
railroads failed.
Fred o. Fischer was hanged at San
Quentin, Cal, for the murder of his wife
April 90, 1903. at Riverside
A warning has been issued to tobacco
dealers not to expose for sale any goods
separated from an internal revenue
tax stamp.
In n collision between a Wabash pas
senger and freight train one mile west
Of Tolleston, Ind, Engineer Waters
was fatally hurt and a score of Other
persons were injured.
A strike insurance company growing
ont Of the discussions at the recent
meeting of the Manufacturers associa-
tion In New Orleans Las commenced
business in Louisville, Ky.
Rufus Young, considered the most ac-
complished horse thief in New England
died in Rutland, Vt. of wounds received
In a battle with q sheriff
Twenty-Five Chinese restaurants out
of 81 in Chicago have been absorbed by
a Chinese trust.
A Jewish delegation conferred with
President Roosevelt regarding a petition
10 the Russian government, and there is
strong intimation that the paper may
not be sent.
The governments weekly crop report
says that corn generally is making good
growth, but backward
To avoid arrest for eloping with a Is
year-Old girl known az Blossom" =" A. A.
Earl shot and killed the girl and then
himself at Baker City, Ore.
The quarantine placed upon cattle in
Massachusetts last November because
of the outbreak of foot and mouth dis
case has been removed
Postmaster General Payne left Wash
ington ON the revenue cutter Onandaga
tor cruise along the coast on Ten days
outing
twenty-five policemen were attacked
by mob near the Kellogg Switchboard
plant in Chicago, where there is a strike
In progress, and several persons were
injured by flying bricks,
A boat race between -four crews from
the naval yacht Sylvia was witnessed
by President Roosevelt and fawily at
Oyster Bay. The idea originate with
the Roosevelt children.
Enraged at the courts, n mob woke
into the FleminFshurR Kyl ial and
hanged William Thac, o.. a white man
who had hocn given a iilc sentence
for the murder of John Gordon
Director Of the Mint Roberts sees no
cause for anxiety in gold exports ex,
rlainiDg it on the ground that the
United States Is producing gold while
foreign countries are not
Freight trains collided near Amana
a.. and Joseph DusCk, George daynes
L1d an Unknown man were Killed,