The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-27
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=: New York-Mabel Bouton: the actress, is Sc
riously i'll in Flower hospital t~.e.-: @'as.-
Kokomo, Ind.-For thrashing his wife because
she did not Instantly join in family prayer, John
Newdick was fined in the mayors court.
New Orleans, La.-John Thomas, negro,
who, shot and killed Sheriff Benjamin +: Dry,
Of st. Charles parish, near here, was killed by
mob and his body burned
New York-Hundrcds Of persons witnessed the
death yesterday from the center span of the new
East river bridge Of Patrick McDermott, an iron
worker. McDernott fell 1855 feet.
Chicago-Martin Howe, who forfeited his
bond while awaiting retrial for the murder OF
James +. Harry, Sept. 8, 1901, was arrested at
Shawnee, an obscure village in Oklahoma.
fered Manhattan $4,000 for a public library
upon the usual condition.: A fund of $4,000,
enough to maintain the library four years, has
already been raised ~ '-&~.i@ 49,
New York-Mrs. Elizabeth B: Fajardo, the
widow and administrative Of Theodore H. Fa-
jardo who was killed in the accident in the
Grand Central raj tunnel on jan 1eo2 received
New York-The missionary society of the
Methodist Episcopal church has shipped from
New York twenty.seven cases OF hospital and
medical goods for the equipment of hospital at
Old Umla Mission station, in Rhodesia, East
Africa.
Chicago-The department store Of A. Lederer
& Co., occupying nearly the entire block between
Sixty second and Sixty-third streets, on Halsted
street, was damaged by fire to the extent Of
100000 Nearly the entire loss was on the
stock.
Durango. Col.-The Navajo Indians on their
reservation in New Mexico, sixty or seventy
miles from here, starving. Last season q
drought left the Indians without crops and when
the rivers and streams dried up their stock
pershed ~
Winnipeg-News has reached Edmonton from
Fort Resolution, 600 miles north, Of many deaths
among Indians from some strange epidemic.
Forty eight deaths occurred at Fore Rae, while
at Providence twelve children of the school and
thirty-six Indians were buried during few
weeks.
Marion. Ind.--Mrs. Anna Stewart, formerly the
wife Of John d. Carey, deceased, United States
district attorney for California and widow OF
Chief Surgeon Stewart of the Big Four railroad,
was found In cheap rooming house in. this city
in destitute circumstances and unconscious. She
was resuscitated and said she took drug to
allay pain.
Washington-At a mass meeting OF negroes
resolutions were adopted heartily indorsing the
course of President Roosevelt with relation to
the appointment of negro offceholders, and 8
| number of speakers threatened that u4less in the
south there was an early change inVthe treat
ment of the colored generally The blacks
would resort to the torch and the sword.
San Francisco-Wi1fam Owen Smith. who rep
resents the commercial bodies of the territory OF
Hawaii. has arrived here route to Washington
He is going to the national capital to vigorously
protest against the representations of the senate
| committee on Hawaiian affairs on the question
Of establishing federal land laws in the territory
and the proposition of making the leprosy settle
| ment at Moiokai general leper asylum for thu
whole country, a.. -.. : -.