The Tomahawk., 1903-05-21
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.

DOMESTIC.
Postmaster General Payne has dis
missed A. w. Machen, superintendent
of the free delivery system, and ap-
pointed NJ. S. Fosnes to the position.
Charles Matherson shot Deputy Sher
iff J. C. Baker, of Council Bluffs, Ia,
causing fatal wounds, when the officer
tried to arrest him.
Presbyterian creed revision ap-
pears to be near at hand, after pro-
longed struggle in that church.
Joseph Lamp, pioneer and million
aire lumberman, fell and broke his
neck while experimenting repairs on
his residence at Princeton, Wis.
Ed Pickett, a Des Moines Gowa)
horse trader, was arrested for the MUIR
der of Aleck Youcker, a travelling horse
trader.
A total of $15,359, ,9o5.5O was appro-
priated for state expenditure during
the next two years by the forty-third
general assembly of Illinois.
An Internal machine containing 100
pounds of dynamite was found in the
baggage of the liner, Umbria at New
York pier. A letter of warning by
which hundreds of lives were saved told
of "Mafia" plot against all British
vessels.
Explosion of gas in the home of Her
man NJ. Blasdell, at North Collins, N.
Y, burned him and his wife SO badly
that both died.
The capture of Curtis Jett, charged
with the assassination of j. B. Mar
cum in Jackson, KY, was accomplished
without bloodshed at his mothers
home near Jackson's Ferry, Ky.
The silver jubilee in honor of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the con-
secration of Francis Silas Chatard, Ro-
man Catholic bishop of Indianapolis,
began in that city Sunday afternoon.
Strikes and consequent locllouts tie
up SIS, 100000 and involve 100000 work
ingmen in Greater New York and i'm
mediate neighborhood.
The Wisconsin assembly passed a
bill to prohibit bucket-shops or bucket
shopping in the state.
The Bookbinders' union of Chicago
is made defendant in suits for $4,000
damages growing out of strikes.
A. D. Davidson, of Duluth, and his
associates have closed a deal FOR 3,00O.
900 acres of Canada land, paying $12,-
100000.
Conductor Frank Faulkes, Fireman
Yerden and John T. Glynn, a newsboy,
were killed in Mohawk and Malone
railroad wreck near Malone, N. Y.
o,,1 81 hn n
class of the high school at Dixon, ILL.,,
died from injuries received by being
struck with discus while practicing
for field meet.
The Chicago, Indiana and Michigan
Traction company, capital $5o0,00O,
was incorporated at Indianapolis. An
independent trolley line with Chicago
as its terminus is being built.
Labor unions of Yonkers, N. Y, ac-
cept the challenge of John c. Have
meyer for joint discussion of issues
relating to unionism.
Lynching of three negroes at Ere
mont. O., for the murder of Otto
Mischke and wounding of Albert
Gommoll was prevented by Sheriff
Mason, who for two hours defied a
mob at the Jail doors.
Financial legislation is likely to be
the first and most important thing
considered by the extra session of
congress.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 18th were: New
York. IT'S; Chicago. .636; Pittsburg,
500; Brooklyn, 500; Boston, 800; Gin
cinnati. .476; ST. Louis, .273: Philadel-
phia. $50.
President Roosevelt, in speech at
San Jose, CAL, rebuked citizens for
desecration of big trees with advertis-
ing cards. Prediction made that con-
troll of the Pacific will pass to the
United States in the present century.
Three Saginaw (Mich.) aldermen. six
ex-aldermen and four other persons
were indicted for alleged bribery, or
selling liquor without a license.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the American league for the
week ended on the 11th were: Chicago.
.647; Philadelphia, .632; New York,
500; Boston, 500; st. Louis. 500; Cleve-
land, .429; Detroit, .41s; Washington,
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