The Tomahawk., 1903-06-11
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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


at Jackson, where Jett and White, al
legged murderers of J. B. .Marcum, are
imprisoned, but were repulsed by mi
litia i'1
Statistics on 1884 suicides in the
United States show 31a males to one
female, and that two-thirds are be-
tween 20 and so years old.
Several post Office department sub
ordinates are threatened with dis
missal because of corruption leading
to A. W.Machen's arrest.
Jerry Hannigan, former member OF
the St. Louis house of delegates, was
found guilty of boodling and SEN
tenced to serve five years in the pen1-
tentiary. This makes II boodlers con-
victed. ~
The Presbyterian general assembly
at Los Angeles unanimously adopted
the revision of the confession Of faith.
The prospective visit of the Euro
pean squadron to Kiel is especially or
dered by the president as compli-
ment to Emperor William, and the
American sailors will be guests of
honor.
The flood at Des Moines, Ia, sub
merged the powerhouse, cutting off all
electric lights in the city and tying up
street cars.
Investigation of Ala bama negro slav'
cry disclosed one death due to i'll treat
ment; f. M. Pruett, Montgomery liv-
eryman, arrested for alleged plot to
A.. sell prisoners.
James E. Burke, blacksmith, has
& been declared 10 be elected mayor of
Burlington, vt.
All of the nine Ashland (Wis.) saw
mills closed down rather than grant
demand of employes-for an increase in
wages.
A national freight handlers move
ment for 25 per cent. wage increase has
been planned in Chicago, strikes to be
declared in one city at time.
Revised estimates of deaths by food
and fire at North Topeka, Kan, place
the number at $50. Over 5000 persons
are homeless and the property loss is
over S4,0O0,O00. In Kansas City, Kan,
and Kansas City, Mo-, ~ square miles
of territory are flooded, nearly 10000
people are homeless and the loss to
property is over $16,O00,OO0.
President Roosevelt visited Salt Lake
and Ogden, Utah, and Laramie and
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Des Moines Ua.) citizens are threat
ened with pneumonia epidemic from
exposure and with food famine because
of interrupted train service on account
of Nfood; seven deaths reported.
One negro was killed, two fatally shot
and third beaten, and three white
boys wounded in riot at the Pittsburg
Pa.) ball park.
The expectation of manufactures in
April was larger than in any preced-
ing month in the history of the trade
q with two eXceptiors-March and May
1900.
Mormonism was denounced and the
United States senate urged by the
Presbyterian general assembly at Los
Angeles to expel Apostle Reed Smoot.
Forty persons were injured, some
seriously, in the wreck of an overland
train near Santa Barbara, Cal.
Two thousand acres of woodland
has been bought by the state of In
diana as n forest reserve.
The Montgomery (Ala.) grand
jury was told by negro that he
worked over one year on a chain
gang to pay a six-dollar debt, and
that woman was killed by hanging
from her wrists.
Curtis Jett and Tom White have
been placed on trial at Jackson, Ky,
for the alleged murder of James B..
\ Marcum.
Many post office employees through
out the country will suffer reduced
salaries because of scandal disclos-
urcs.
Bradstreet's reports wholesale
trade waiting on crop and labor de-
velopments.
Ralph M. Easley, secretary of the
National Civic Federation. in a Chi
cagos interview declared that IS per
cent. of the country's labor troubles
had been settled in the last 50 days.
The public debt statement issued
. on the 1st shows that the debt de-
creased $3,247,3s5 during the month of
May. Cash in the treasury, $375, ,16s, ,so7.
Total debt, less cash in the treasury.
s S1.310,s56,930.
Ninety thousand textile workers
struck at Philadelphia, closing i5o3
mills.
Thet total receipts of the government
in May were S44,113,969, and the dis
bursements $40, $780, ,996, leaving sur
plus for the month of S3, ,526,973
The body of Superintendent E. f.
Egan, of the Great Northern railroad.
who was lost in Montana mountains
On November while hunting. has been
discovered by searchers near Bolton.
Kansas City. Mo-, is without gas,
electric lights s6r water service, the
railroads are blocked and a food famine
is threatened. The death list is prob
ably so.