The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1903-08-20
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.

THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.
Willard S. Allen, of Boston, treasurer
of the Preachers Aid Society OF New
England Methodists, confessed short
age of over $4,000.
A special train ran from New York to
Los Angeles, Cal, in 20 hours and Il
minutes, breaking all railway records.
At Birmingham, Ala. Will Hudson
and Will Jones, negroes, convicted on
charges of highway robbery, were exc
cuted in the county jail yard.
The law passed by the last legislature
of Washington making the conducting OF
q gambling resort or game felony has
been declared constitutional by the state
supreme court.
Trains carrying Wallace Brothers
circus collided at Durand, Mich, and 70
men were killed and dozen others In
cured, some fatally.
Frank Robertson (colored) was
hanged at Jacksonville, Fla. for the
murder OF Deputy Sheriff Sadler at
Pablo Beach four years ago.
Trade advices from nearly every sec
ton continue to show as favorable con-
ditions as year ago, and in many Tines
che volume of transactions has been in
creased.
A hailstorm in northern Colorado
did damage to crops to the extent OF
100000.
There were 179 business failures In
the United States during the seven
days ended on the 7th, against 100 the
same week In 1902.
Ambassador Won Sternburg. of Ger
many, presented his credentials to Pres
ldent Roosevelt at Oyster Bay.
Plans for the merger of score or
stock oil companies are on foot at
Lima, o.
For sciences sake Dr. F. s. Goodman,
of the government service, will suffer
the bite of real malaria bearing mos
quito.
At the convention of the National AS
ISOLATION of Postmasters in Boston Free
man B. Dickerson, of Detroit, was elect
ed president.
Burglars blew open the post office safe
at Devon, Ia, and took 500 and some
stamps.
Nine persons were killed, at least IL
fatally injured, and fully 800 seriously
hurt by the fall of a walk at the Phila-
delphia National league baseball park.
Five Italians were drowned at Vulcan,
Mich, by the capsizing Of boat.
Michael McMullen and Mrs. Antoine
1.l11 VIC
injured, and enormous damage was done
to property by storm near Pittsburg,
Kan.
Henry K. Crocker, Frank F. Veazie,
Raymond G. Hall and Charles W.
Holmes were drowned near Rockland,
Me.
Lizzie Aiken, negro woman, 40 years
old, was placed in Jail at Columbia, s. c..
for beheading her two daughters, three
and five years old.
The transport Logan arrived at San
Francisco from Manila with the Twen-
ty-sixth U. s. infantry.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 9th were: Pittsburg, .656;
New York, .6O4; Chicago, 1893; Cincin-
natl. .531; Brooklyn, .47S; Boston, .432;
st. Louis, 1868; Philadelphia, 1897.
Admiral Melville, engineer-in-chief
of the navy, has retired, leaving behind
him an unusually fine record.
The naval war game came to an end
of Bar Harbor, Me-, with detection OF
the "enemy's" fleet trying to raid the
coast.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
In the American league for the week
ended on the 9th were: Boston, $50;
Philadelphia, ISL; New York, .523; De-
troit, .511; Cleveland, .511; Chicago,
.462; st. Louis, 1852; Washington, 49,
At Hattiesburg, Miss, Amos Jones, a
negro, was hanged by mob for fatally
shooting Jailer M. M. Sexton.
A small model Of Prof. Langley's
aeroplane made a short fight and fell
into the Potomac river near Washing
ton.
Cantrell, liking OF the ghouls," made
q confession Of his part In number of
murders at Indianapolis.
A terrific hailstorm visited north
western Iowa and corn was beaten to
the ground and live stock was killed.
James Coghill, 40 years old, who had
lived three and half years with
broker back, died in Holyoke. Mass.