Fair play., 1904-01-09
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 ALI THE WORLD


land coast Five men are drowned.
Twenty-Five persons are killed and
% injured in a head-on collision on the
Pere Marquette road six miles east OF
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Announcement is made from Wash.
ington that bids for the new Philippine
frar land purchase loan of $4,000 0OO
will be received up TO three p m. Jan
uary II. Allotments will be made Feb
ruary 7, 1904.
Jewish citizens Of New York sent
cablegram to the czar of Russia ask.
ing him to stop preparations for
Christmas massacre at Kishineff
The tallest building in the world will
be erected in lower Broadway, New
York 1t will be 40 stories high, with a
60 foot tower; total height, Gl5 feet
Desperate bank robbers blew up the
Kiowa Bank in Indian Territory and
stole or destroyed s2,SO0 in currency
after a battle with citizens.
Figures on exports and imports for
the year 1903 show an increase in all
branches OF United States commerce.
A play written by Rev A. f, StergcI
was presented as a moral lesson in the
Baltimore (Md) Lutheran church, OF
which he is pastor. Ten cents admis-
sion was charged.
John NJ Glover, a former congress
man from Missouri, defed the military
strike orders in Cripple Creek, Col, tc
surrender his arms and was wounded by
soldiers.
The advance in price of cotton breaks
all records of the season. and ii is esti
mated that the south will receive more
than 800 OO0O. 600 for this years crop.
Fire destroyed Tiliman & Oleson's
livery stable at Porter, Ind, and Ia
horses We're cremated
Seven thousand sheep were burned tc
death at the East Buffalo (N. " stock
yards.
Senator Hale, chairman of the com
mittee on naval affairs, says that it is the
intention to make provision for another
liberal addition to the navy during the
present session of congress,
Robbers secured $500 in cash from
the bank at Kiowa, |, T
The Filty-third annual meeting of tie
American Association for the Advance.
ment of Science began in St. Louis.
Ann Tyler, blind negro woman 81
years old, and James Turner, a negro
S5 years old, were burned to death in
Sedala, Mo
The United States cruiser New York
sailed from San Francisco for Panama,
Within the past eight days Minneap-
oils mills have booked almost 100000
barrels of -four for export TO Japan.
Secretary Hay will go to Thomasville
Ga. to recuperate his health as soon as
he has recovered sufficiently to endure
the fatigue of the journey.
j. Ed, Grillo, OF Cincinnati, has been
elected president of the American Base.
ball association,
The corn crop for 1903 is announced
al Washington as 2,244 l76,925 bushels
valued at 1852, ,S6S SOL; winter wheat
399, SCI, $50 bushels, worth 1886 242 $40
The United States trust and savings
bank, with 81 100000 capital and $3.50, :,
600 surplus will be started in Chicago
The lynching of George Williams anG
Nicely Zimmerman, negroes accused
of assault, was attempted al Council
Bluffs, la. The jail door was broken in
hut the militia was called out in time
1t was the sentiment of the cabinet at
meeting in Washington that the
Colombian question could not be sub
mitted to The Hague, as this was an
issue which no other nation could set
tie for the United States
Another warship al San Domingo
three revolutions are in progress there
Jerome Sykes, star comedian of THE
Millionaire" died OF pneumonia con
tTacted during a Christmas party given
for his company in Chicago.
It is said that the control of the steel
trust is now in the hands of John d
Rockefeller and II. c. Frick
Two little girls burned to death In
Chicago when their mother, Mrs Mich
ael Kondas, left them locked in the
house to play with their Christmas toys
Frederick Lindstrom, trusted EN-
plOye of Chicago wholesale house, con
fessed TO embezzling $4,000, which h,
lost in the poolrooms.
The car barn bandits trial will begin
in Chicago on January g.
Girl students at Rosemary hall
Greenwich, Conn, handled stone for 6
new chapel which they have resolved
10 construct with their own hands.
j. A McBeth, his wife and five-year
old daughter, and his hrother-in-law
Bert West, were burned 10 death in
fire al Ballinger, Tex.
Young Corbett" defeated Eddie Han
lon in the sixteenth round in a fight II
San Francisco for the featberweigh
championship of the world
Chicago iverymen rejected propose
to arbitrate made by the livery driver
and declared they would fight to the end
Bonds are unlikely TO be issued in pay
ment of the Panama canal. Plans fol-
cash transfer are being made to avoit
market disturbance.
The worlds book crop" ior 1903 II
estimated by Rev, Lloyd Jones,of Chi
cago, at 900 volumes Germany il
first and the United States sixth