The Tomahawk., 1903-10-23

the Union Veterans union began in Lou
isville, KY.
Word has been received at the white
house from Gov. Taft thatfhe will be
ready to assume his new duties as secre-
tary of war in January.
The transport Sheridan arrived in San
Francisco from Manila with 600 men OF
the First, Fifth and Sixth cavalry and
200 mariners.
Miss Annie Ball has the distinction OF
being the first woman in Chicago to
pass the examination for stationary en-
gineers and to get license.
Despondent because of continued Ill
health, Bernhard Schultz and his wife
committed suicide in Milwaukee by IN
haling gas.
Earl Ellsworth, of Woodstock, ILL.,, is
said to have confessed to the murder OF
his father, mother and bOarder two
years ago.
Gov Peabody, of Colorado, has been
advised by President Roosevelt to re-
duce his militia guard at Cripple Creek.
Seven Indians were killed in quarrel
following drinking bout on the Black
foot reservation in Montana
The Farmers Cooperative Shipping
association, commonly called the far
mers' trust, has incorporated in Ne
braska.
The Hetzlor summer resort hotel at
Cedar Lake, Ind, was burned and VIII
liam Potter and wife perished in the
flames. The couple had just been mar
ried.
Ten monuments erected on Antietam
battlefield by the state of Ohio, including
the one to the memory Of President NC
Kinley, were dedicated.
Frederick Crawford, of Oshkosh, shot
and killed his wife in Menasha, Wis,
| wounded man named L. J. Jourdaln.
and blew out his own brains.
Johnson Chase Hull, the oldest letter
carrier in the country, fell dead while
| standing beside the coffin containing the
body of his brother in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The water in the flooded districts OF
Paterson and Passaic, N. j., is receding
and no apprehension of further damage is
felt.
Miss Mae C. Wood, who alleges that
Senator T. c. Platt, of New York, de-
serted her to marry Mrs. Janeway, has
sued him for $4,000.
The Boston baseball team, champions
of the American league, won the worlds
championship by defeating Pittsburg,
leader in the National league.
| In a faith healing case the New York
court of appeals declared that failure to
| proyide a physician in case of sickness
was criminal neglect.
Nine of the largest wholesale bakery
| firms in Chicago have combined, it is
said, to control the bread market.
The Office Of the Journal at Kensal,
N. D., was wrecked by gang composed
of the lawless element which Editor Al
len had attacked.
John Kenahan and John Wilson were
convicted of murder at Glenville, Mont,
and sentenced to so years in prison.
The United States supreme court has
convened for the October term.
Esau Jeffries and William Rice. SOL
diers at Fort Morgan, Ala, were
drowned by the overturning of yacht.
The former was from Tennessee and the
latter from Illinois.
The Panama canal route has not been
abandoned by President Roosevelt, who
believes Colombia will agree to new pro-
posals.
A crusade against gambling by clerks
| and bookkeepers has been begun by Chi
cago business houses.
Bishop Fowler, in an address to the
Methodist Episcopal convention at Phila-
delphia, Pa, said that encroachment OF
Russia in the east threatened the whole
world.
The trial of Daniel V. Miller, former as
sistant attorney general, and Joseph N.
Johns, of Rockville, Ind, was begun at
Cincinnati for alleged postal department
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