The Tomahawk., 1904-08-04
4 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.

DOMESTIC.
The Ancient Order of Hibernans in
convention in St. Louis protests
against stage caricatures of 1rishme1
and ridicule of the race in the funny
pages Of newspapers.
Weekly trade reviews report that
the midsummer quiet is intensified by
labor troubles, but that the country
buying for the fall season is active.
Fay Templeton brought suit in New
York for $4,000 damages against a
cigarette firm which used her photo
graph for advertising purposes.
DR.. Silas c. Swallow, Of Harrisburg,
Pa, and George w. Carroll, Of Texas,
prohibition candidates for president and
vice president of the United States, were
formally notified at indianapolis. Ind,
of their nominations. Both accepted.
The Knickerbocker Steamboat COM
pany, of New York, have begun action
In the district court to limit it's liabil-
ity fora damages arising from the Slo-
cum disaster.
Fire which started on the river front III
the Handy Bros. Manufacturing COM
pany's lumber yard, Bay City, Mich,
caused $4,000 loss.
Mrs. Mary Nixon, Of Bryan Mawr, a
suburb of Philadelphia, who last Christ
mas celebrated her one hundred and
third birthday, is dead.
The strike of the walters at the world g
fair, inaugurated July 4, has been de-
clared off.
A missing hotel clerk of Boston is
supposed to have taken $4,000 depos-
tied in the safe by guests.
Abe Kruse, negro strike-breaher,
was assaulted by pickets near the pack
ing plant of Swift C Co. at st. Joseph,
Mo, and fired into crowd ofassailants,
wounding five.
Railway lines east and west are suf-
ferng big loss in traffic because of the
stock yards strike.
Authorities in Boston are taking pre-
cautions to keep out dangerous anarch
lists who are said to be endeavoring to
gain entrance to the United States dis
guised as members of the Salvation
Army.
The Inland Steel company at Indiana
Harbor, Ind, gave notice to its en-
ployes that their services will not be
required after August 1, as the sheet
mills are to be shut down owing to de-
mands Of the union
In Chicago James Merigan threw acid
in the face of sister-in-faw, shot his
wife fatally, swallowed acid, and shot
himself, dying instantly.
Lawrence Rexstrew, aged 13, son or
Lawrence Rexstrew Of Chicago,
drowned in sight of 1000 persons at
( st. Joseph, Mich.
In fit of anger Chester McCreary,
aged ten, shot and instantly killed his
brother William, aged IL, near North
Lewisburg, o.
Fire in an immoral resort at Nash
waulk, on the Minnesota iron range,
burned three persons to death
Bishop J. J. Fox was consecrated
bishop of Green Bay diocese of the
Catholic church at St. Francis Xavier
Catholic cathedral in Green Bay, Wis
{. collision between two freight
trains on the Pennsylvania railroad
near Delevan, N. Y, Fireman Fred
Mccarthy, Engineer Frank Bedford
and Brakeman Winslow Cullinan were
killed.
Advices received by the commission
er of the general land Office show that
the total registration for the Rosebud
Indian lands, which ended at six
o'clock Saturday night, reached 106,326.
There are only $500 selections to be
made.
Two persons were killed and IL in
jured in a collision between a Big Four
passenger train and an electric car at
Washington and Missouri streets, In
dianapolis, Ind.
A farmer named Kive, living near
New York Mills, Mimi, shot and killed
his son and then committed suicide.
Haley Gipe, held at Newcastle, Ind,
in connection with the death of Mrs.
William Starbuck and her baby, has
told the officers of plot to rob the
Starbuck home, in which he duplicates
William Lockridge, who is also being
held as suspect, and friend whose
name he refuses to divulge.
The Turkey Red Dye works, at Belle
font, near Providence, r. L., were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is conserva-
lively estimated at $200,000
The president of a Lancaster, O.,
bank made 4O-mile trip with $4,000
in gold in an auto, to meet a run on
the bank.
The St. Louis run of the American
Automobile association was begun in
New York, Boston and other eastern
cities.
A sympathetic strike was called in
the Chicago packing houses, involving
members of the allied trades. The
peace effort of the teamsters failed and
both sides announce that negotiations
are at an end.
Thomas Taggart, of Indiana, has been
unanimously elected chairman OF the
democratic national committee. Urey
Woodson, of Kentucky, was elected Sec
retary.