The Tomahawk., 1903-07-02

turned in connection with postal
frauds, former Postmaster Lorenz
and wife, of Toledo, being charged
with conspiracy.
BY an explosion of gas in a mine OF
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation com
pany near Tamaqua, Pa, six men
were fatally burned.
George F. Baer has been reelected
president Of the Reading railroad.
St. Stanislaus college at Bay st.
Louis, Miss, was destroyed by fire.
Within less than month in Massa-
chusetts there have been at least
four deaths from CHAMBERS in human
beings.
George White, negro who as
saulted and murdered 17-year-old
Helen Bishop was taken from the
Wilmington (Del.) prison by a mob OF
1000 and burned at the stake.
Judge D. H. Mcmillan, of the New
Mexico supreme court, has been re-
moved by President Roosevelt for
immortality, and Judge Clement e..
Smith, of Hastings, Mich, has been
appointed his successor.
Four men were killed in a railway
wreck at Cole Junction, Mo.
A runaway train wrecked several
houses in Spokane, Wash, and killed
four persons. #
The mansion of Alfred Peats, valued
at 100000, was destroyed by fire at
Greenwich, Conn, and his little daugh-
ter was burned to- death.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has
returned to Washington from a
months absence in Iowa.
The Illinois supreme court holds
that bay windows overhanging side
walks are illegal and that ordinances
authorizing their construction are
void
One hundred and seventy-seven
bodies have been recovered from the
flood ruins at Heppner, Ore, and IS
persons are still missing.
Rev. C. H. Thomas, of Belleville, ILL.,,
in an address to negroes in Chicago
urged blacks to arm unless lynchlng
and burning is stopped.
A mob at Peoria, Ill.,, attempted to
lynch VIII McCray, a negro who muir
dered Detective Murphy, but was
foiled by the determined attitude of
the sheriff.
Negro slavery in Sumter county, Ca,
is held by planters an economic neces-
sity, although admitted to be illegal.
Run down by the propeller Chemung,
the tug o. w. Cheney sank seven miles
outside Buffalo harbor and three of
the crew were drowned.
A negro woman and white woman
were assaulted by a negro near East
St. Louis, ILL.,, and left for dead.
The state legislature of Georgia con-
vened at the state capitol for the sum-
mer session, which is expected to last
so days. s&.sl ii
Lamkin & Foster, wholesalers and
manufacturers of boots, shoes and
rubbars in Boston, failed for 100000.
George Kincaid, negro who shot
two white men at Nashville, Miss, five
years ago, was hanged in the woods by
mob.
The governments weekly crop re-
port shows corn improved in the CEN
trail valleys, winter wheat harvest maxi
Ing SOOu SlCoo, anu ping "hSoI 80
the Dakotas suffering for rain.
The post office department has en-
ployed special counsel to prosecute Of
ficials indicted for frauds.
Secretary Hay is still fighting to
maintain American commercial rights
in Manchuria against Russian schem-
ing. 4stHn 5a4. H
Fo11 of CT T
in report says the record of hood
ling in the last Missouri legislature
shows members received cash brides
of $22O,S00. IL. l,
The people of Wilmington, Del, APP
prove the burning of the negro who
killed Miss Helen Bishop. The lynch
ing is believed to have been melted by
a sermon.
Troops were called out at Richmond,
Va, to aid in maintaining order against
street car strikers and their sympa-
thizers.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. f.
Grover Cleveland says it is absurd to
suppose he desires to reenter public
life. E ga B.
William c.. Van Benthuysen, of the
editorial staff Of the World, is dead
in New York.
Judge. Oliver P. Shiras, of the
United States court for the northern
district of Iowa, announces that he
will retire from the bench Novem-
Der 1, next. He will be 70 years old
in October. s-t g
In an interview in Cleveland, o.,
Senator Hanna reiterated his recent
statement that he was not and would
not be a candidate for the vice pres
idency.