The Tomahawk., 1903-10-01
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
The worst flood in years submerged
thousands of acres of farm lands along
the river in the vicinity of La Crosse,
Wis, sweeping away stacks of hay and
grain and drowning live stock in field.
Edward Elliott, a clammer at Clin-
ton, Ia., found a pearl weighing 120
grains and valued at $4,000 in the
Mississippi.
The National Association of Marble
Dealers decided to lock out it's union
employees and to run open shops in the
future. Forty plants in all sections Of
the United States are affected.
Steamship companies in New Or
leans have locked out all union men
because longshoremen broke their
agreement.
Congressman Vincent Boreing, Of the
Eleventh Kentucky district, the only
republican in the Kentucky delegation,
died at his home in London, aged "a.
The Daily News and the Evening
Press at St. Joseph, Mo-, have consoli-
dated.
Dispatches say President Roosevelt
has declared he will rot be dictated to
or intimidated by the labor unions In
the case of Bookbinder Miller, now at
work in the government printing Of
fice
The steamship Texan has started on
a worlds record voyage of 900 miles
without stop, sailing from Tacoma to
Philadelphia.
Myrtle Bell, of Hancock, Mich, over
come with shame because Of her arrest
for drunkenness, hanged herself in
Jail.
The report of Gen. Macarthur shows
that nearly one-fifth of the entire force
IN the department of California deserted.
Cyrus I. Stark was declared champion
plowman of America in plowing con-
test held in Wheatland township, VIII
county, III.
Negroes overpowered the sheriff al
Luxora, Ark, took out negro named
HELEN and hanged him for criminally
assaulting two little negro girls.
The percentages Of the BASEBALL clubs
in the American league for the week
ended on the goth were: Boston. .667;
Cleveland, .545; Philadelphia, $40; New
York, .52S; Detroit, .4S0; St. Louis, .4S4;
Chicago, .43S; Washington. .318.
Harry Tredor, a three weeks old baby,
was christened in den of 27 lions at
Coney Island. N. Y.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
In the National league for the week end
edon the Goth were: Pittsburg, .672; New
York, sos; Chicago, .b94; Cincinnati,
Sal; Brooklyn, .5O4; Boston. .41s; Phila-
delphia, .344; St. Louis, .316.
The frost injury over the northern
corn belt did not prove as serious as ex-
pected.
The officers and crew Of the battleship
Indiana claim to have surpassed the
record of the battleship Alabama in tar
get practice.
The Mountain Top hotel on the sum-
NIT Of the Blue Ridge mountains in
Virginia, where Washington and JEFF
ferson perfected their university plans.
has been destroyed by fire.
The immigration bureau has decided
that no person coming to the United
states from any port in the Philippine
islands is subject to head tax.
H. H. Rand, confidential secretary of
Postmaster General Payne, has been
dismissed because of using his position
to sell stocks.
John Alexander Dowie, Of Zion City,
ILL.,, secured $4,000 to aid the move
ment for the invasion of New York
city by Zion hosts.
The Consolidated Lake Superior
company, which operated industries at
the American and Canadian "Soos."
and which was capitalized for $780,
100000, has been wrecked.
+. The University of Chicago has added
100000 worth of property to it's
holdings
Gov. Yates has issued letter to all
Illinois sheriffs advising them to have
the jails equipped with riot guns in
order to be prepared to meet mobs.
Dimple, Daisy and Dot Redden,
known as the prettiest triplets in the
world, celebrated their twenty-first
birthday at Buchanan, Mich.
The annual convention of the Sover-
Sign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows began
n Baltimore. The membership is ,329,-
D56
Communication by wire with Nome
arf ST. Michaels has been established.