The Tomahawk., 1904-05-19
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.

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burg to visit relatives, fell under the
wheels of train at Vincennes, Ind.
and was killed.
Five miners are entombed and be-
lieved to be dead as a result OF fierce
fire which is burning in the Locust
Gap coliery of the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal & Iron company.
Extensive damage is being done
throughout the upper peninsula of
steaders have been burned out of their
homes with loss of all their possess
SionS.
Senior Bishop Stephen Merrill, of the
M. E. church, rendered his resignation
to the general conference at Los An
gees Bishop Merrill is in his seventy
ninth year, and his ministry has ex-
tended over a period of So years.
James J. Hill, the railroad president
and his wife, have given $1.50000O 10
the Roman Catholic church toward
the construction of a $3,000O00 ca
thedral at st. Paul.
Trade reviews show an improvement
for the week anl less trouble than
usually results from May day strikes
Mayor Crolius, of Joliet, ILL.,, two po-
licemen and former city emptOye have
been indicted on the charge of criminal
conspiracy at the recent election.
Andrew McNally, head of Rand, Nc
Nally & Co., the weIl-known Chicago
publishers, died in California of pneu-
monia after two days illness.
Jubilee exercises of the University OF
Wisconsin to be held during the week
beginning Sunday, June S. include the
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary OF
the graduation of the first class in 1854.
w. A. ]. Sparks, former congressman,
who for many years was prominent in
Missouri and Illinois politics, died in st.
Louis. During President Cleveland's S
administration Mr.. Sparks was commits
sioner of the general land office.
Labor Commissioner Wright has is
sued bulletin showing that the average
price of all commodities in the United
States in 1903 was the highest in the last
13 years.
Mrs Mary A. Powell was convicted
at Dover, Del, of the murder of Estelle
Albin. the jury fixing the punishment
at Imprisonment for life.
Brig. Gen. Stephen W. Groesbeck, u.
S. A. (retired), died Sunday Of pneu-
monia at the home of his brother-in-law
in st. Louis.
William r. Jones died of heart failure
while seated in chair in his home in
Chilicothe, O., laughing at funny story
in a Welsh paper.
Seventeen business places and ten
dwellings were destroyed in a fire which
wiped out half of tue village of Utica,
Mich. Loss, 100000.
An attempt to Institute the use OF
individual communion cups caused a
furry in the Methodist conference.
DR.. o. r. Brewer. an expert, said in
n Chicago court that he considered Dr.
Dowie and Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy in
sane. Ass
A labor organizer found Rockford.
H.. too busy with religious revival
to pay any attention to the labor move
ment
E. A. McCalla, a wholesale produce
dealer at Columbus, o., shot and killed
James Brady, an eX-convict, whom Nc
Gala caught in his chicken yard.
Two robbers held up Kinsley's res
taurant in Chicago with revolvers and
compelled the cashier to give up $1,000.
The Interchurch conference, through
peal to Christian people as the first
move in it's campaign of education
against the evil of divorce.
The body of Edward l.. Wentz. the
missing young millionaire of Philadel
phls. has been found in the mountains
of Tennessee. He had been killed, in
stead of being held for ransom, as was
supposed.
Four men were drowned while attempt
ing to cross Big Sandy river near Zelda,
ten miles north of Louisa, Ky. A small
boat containing these and two other
men capSiZed.
Edward A. Gott. well-known lawyer
of Detroit, Mich, formerly connected
with the Wabash legal staff. committed
suicide
/, The seal fishery for 1904 has ended.
The total catch was 2S4, ,470 seals, the
weight of which was 5.7S6 tons, and the
value $394. 4.4S5. Last year the catch was
317 .562, the weight 6,275 tons, and the
value s449, 9,692.
A rear-end collision between two
trains on the Third avenue elevated road
in New York killed motorman and in
jured five passengers.
While fording the Chikaska river, one
mile north of Milan, Kan. wagon con-
tanning w. Hanlan, wife and five chill
dren was overturned. The woman and
three children were drowned.
Howard Fogle died attLaporte, Ind,
in terrible agony from meningitis,
brought on by excessive drinking of pop.
eating popcorn and smoking cigarettes.
He was Is years old.