The Tomahawk., 1903-10-23
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI 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.

The funeral of Wilson S. Bissell, for
mer postmaster general, took place at
Buffalo, N. Y. All the courts in the city
adjourned as a mark of respect. The
body was cremated.
The federal grand jury at ST. Louis
returned indictments against w. A.
Morrow, assistant private secretary to
Gov. A. X Dockery, and Thomas E.
Barrett, formerly marshal of the st.
Louis court of appeals, for aiding and
abetting fraudulent naturalization.
A receiver has been appointed for
julius Myer, Sons & Co., department
store firm in st. Louis. The total
acknowledged Indebtedness is $160.O39.
Announcement of the resignation of
II. A. Castle, auditor for the post office
department, is made.
e. X. Dye, one of the best known law
yers in southern Indiana, shot and
killed himself at Bedford. The family
thinks he was temporarily deranged by
i'll health.
The principal topic Of discussion at
the cabinet session was the post Office
investigation, which was considered at
considerable length, especially with ref
erence to the trial of the cases now
pending before the courts.
A plan for union Of 1000, 900 men to
control the building trades Of the coun-
try was adopted at the Indianapolis
Ind.) conference of national trades OFF,
cials. Arbitration was favored.
Administration officials are planning
to secure revised ,eXtradition treaties
with England, France and other coun-
tries, whereby bribers and embezzlers
may be taken. It is hoped to make them
retroactive.
Withdrawal Of 5000, 1000, 900 bank de-
posits by unions and their members is
threatened by Thomas !. Kidd. Vice
president of the American Federation
of Labor, unless employers stop suing
unions for damages.
Business in New York city was nearly
stopped by rainstorm, which flooded
some streets two feet deep. Paterson
IN. J.) factories were forced to close
One convict was shot to death at Salt
capped after fight with guards. One at
the latter and one spectator was hurt.
r. G. Dun's weekly review shows rail-
road earnings 81 per cent. over 1902;
exports for the week $1,1SS,646 under
1902. Irregular trade, conditions are
shown by Bradstreet's.
William Jones, whose real name was
James Mealey, was hanged at Danville,
Va, for the murder of Jacob Lee last No
vember. He admitted three murders,
but said he was innocent of Lees death
New records were made by Lou Dill
lon and Major Delmar, trotting to
wagons at Lexington, the former going
the distance in 2:01% and the latter in
2:O3A.
in connection with the shipbuilding
combine, 1t is said, Charles NJ. Schwab
is to be sued for millions and a receiver
asked for his Bethlehem steel plant
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a
reception to the Honorable Artillery Of
London and the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company of Boston.
The official crop report shows thatthe
corn condition at the present time Is
about normal and shade better than
usual in October.
Twenty-three additional deaths are
reported at various eastern points due
to the storms. Immense property dam
age has resulted in New York, New Jer-
sey and Maryland.
Edward Doheny, pitcher for the Pitts
burg National Baseball league champion
team, has been adjudged insane and COM
mitted to the asylum at Danvers, Mass
Mrs. A. ]. Smetena, wife of the night
jailer in police headquarters, Cedar
Rapids, Ia, hung her one-year-old
daughter and then hung herself. 1nsan-
ity caused by i'll health was the cause.
George P. Gubbins, of Chicago, presi-
dent of the bricklayers' union, was
elected head of the new international
,union Of building trades at Indianapo-
hs.
! Residents of Paterson, N. j., were still
at the mercy of the floods in the Passaic
river. Five hundred families were made
homeless and the damage to property
would run into the millions.
The Paterson IN. J) flood damage is
estimated at 81 200, 900. The danger was
past and the water was receding there
and at Passaic.
j. w. Butman, a retired capitalist,
dropped dead in Decatur, ILL.,, from heart
disease. He was 80 years old.
Violations of the naturalization law
.ere discovered in Chicago and elsewhere
by c. D. c. Vandusen, government agent.
The bank at Foxhome, Mimi, a private
institution conducted by Standring
Brothers, closed its doors.
The livery stable of L. Leavitt, with
contents, including % horses, was de-
strcye1 by fire at Sioux Falls, S. D.
A break in the Ramapo river sent a
wall OF water 20 feet high down the
Ramapo valley, in New York state, de
stroying everything for distance OF
ten miles. Residents of the district es-
capped 10 the hills.