The Tomahawk., 1904-07-28
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.

CdSO were broken OH anu long anu
bitter struggle seems probable.
At divers construction camp, near
Manchester station, Ind, Sarah Sim
mons, aged TO-, colored, fatally shot
James Smith, 30 years old, also col
ored. After the shooting the woman
dressed herself in male attire and at
tempted to escape, but was arrested.
J. A. Cook, the Benton Harbor,
Mich, manufacturer. killed Burton
Grissold by striking him with his fist.
The grand jury, which has been in
vestigating the murder Of Miss Sarah
Schafer, at Bedford, Ind, found no in
dictment.
Fire completely destroyed the plant
of the Alabama Rift Flooring COM
pany, at Montgomery, Ala, entailing
loss of $2OO,OO0.
The post Office safe at Calhoun, Ga,
was blown open by unknown parties,
and about 5000 in money and $500
worth of stamps taken.
New York bank figures show big
gain in surplus reserves, deposits and
bank holdings
Justin Snyder, business man of
Morrison, ILL.,, was drowned while
swimming in deep hole one mile east
Of Fulton, Ill.
Karl Kirschner, aged seven years,
died at Terre Haute, Ind, OF lockJaw
the result of toy pistol wound the
Fourth of July.
Fire at Cleveland, O.. partially de-
stroyed the plant of the Forest City
Bedstead company, causing a loss Of
100000.
Henry Yetter and his son Arthur,
aged ten, we're drowned in the canal
near Grand Rapids, O., Sunday. The
boy was seized with cramps while
bathing, and the father jumped in to
save him. The father had a cork les
and this proved such an impediment
that he was unable to control his own
movements, and both were drowned.
Seven men we're injured in fights be-
tween nonunion employees Of the Chi
cago stock yards and strike sympathiz-
erS.
Several thousand Christian Scientists
assembled at Concord, N. H., to assist in
the dedication of the church in honor of
Mrs. Eddy, founder Of the faith.
The price of all kinds of meats was
raised at Rochester, N. Y, from $1.50 to
SO hundred pounds at wholesale houses.
The village of Kimball, Mich, includ-
ing the Kimball & Clark mill, large
stock of lumber and nearly every build
ing in the village was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated to be 5000
Edgar T. Washburn member Of the
grain firm of Heathfield & Washburn, on
the Buffalo, N. Y, board of trade, killed
his wife, his daughter and himself while
Temporarily insane.
At Mount Holly, N. j., Aaron Timbers,
Jonas Sims and William Austin, three
negroes who confessed to assaulting Mrs.
Elsie Biddle, of Burlington, were SEN
fenced to 49 years each in state prison.
Four hundred thousand dollars worth
of property was destroyed by fire at the
Omaha docks and warehousesin Duluth,
MINI.
The first payment of $5O0,oOO on the
government loan of $4,6O0,OO0 to the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition company
has been deposited in the subtreasury in
St. Louis.
The weekly review of trade by Dun and
Bradstreet show general conditions more
encouraging.
Boston steamship interests are appre-
hensive of heavy losses if the packing
house strike continues, as the trouble
is likely to interfere with the shipment of
cattle quite as much as with packing
house products.
Byron and Ross Clutter, aged respec-
lively % and IA years, were struck by
lightning and instantly killed during
severe storm at st. Mary's, w. Va.
Gen. Davis, governor general of the
Panama canal strip, has advised the
100000 yards of wire gauze to prevent
mosquito invasion of the zone.
Insane from jealousy, Toliff Anderson.
a wealthy retired farmer, living at Linn
Grove, Buena Vista county, Iowa, shot
his wife through the head, killing her
instantly and then sent bullet. through
his own head. ~
torney George Dawson, of Chicago, was
drowned IN Bass lake, near PenLWatef,
Mich, while sailing in frail craft of his
own construction.
Charles D. Rogers, of Chicago. who
was injured in an automobile accident at
Pennington, Conn.,, is dead. His skull
was fractured and he did not recover
consciousness after the accident.
Under decision of the supreme court
New York city will have to pay taxes on
$4,000, 600 assessment on it's reservoirs
and watershed property in Westchester
and Putnam counties.
A moonshine whisky still was found
in the rear of New York grocery store
by revenue .officers, and the proprietor
pleaded that he was driven to the manu-
facture of illicit spirits by poverty.