The Tomahawk., 1904-05-26
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

The Day Lumber company's sawmill.
the Mullnomah truck and box factory and
the building of the Ira F. Powers Manu-
featuring company, at Portland. Ore,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $25O,OOO.
Tie Washington monument. at the ma
tional capital, was struck by lightning,
but was not greatly damaged.
Testimony was begun in the trial at
Rising Sun, Ind. of James Gillespie, Mrs.
Belle Seward and Mr.. and Mrs. Barbour,
for the murder of Elizabeth Gillespie,
twin sister of the first-named defendant.
John Brown is under arrest at Dick
son. N. D., charged with the murder OF
his 12-year-old son while in fit OF an
ger. The father buried the boy imme-
diately.
The steamer Doric, arriving at San
Francisco from the orient brought ST.
25OOOO gold from Japan.
Ernest A. Roeber. butcher in Col
wyn, suburb of Chester. Pa. has re-
ceived check for $25 900 from the estate
of Mrs. Martha Dobbs, who was a
wealthy resident of Pittsburg. Roeber
saved her life in runaway accident Is
years ago.
The firm of Whitney. Pousland & Co.,
leading commission merchants of Bos-
ton. filed voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy with liabilities of Sill .90S and as
sets of $463.
Claiming that he had become finan-
cially involved for $165 900 through deals
in cotton, a man supposed to be Charles
Small. or Smell, broker of New York,
jumped overheard from steamer be-
tween Cleveland and Buffalo and was
drowned
The official roster Of the American
derby entries shows 119 nominations
including seven derby winners.
Lon Bristow, Iowa horse dealer. was
robbed of $10750 in Chicago.
Harry G.. Sefridge. of the firm OF
Marshall Field & Co., OF Chicago,
has purchased the entire business,
stock and building of Schlesinger d
Mayer for S5,0C9,0O0.
William Johnson. known in two con-
tinents as "Steeple Jack, committed
suicide in Chicago by hanging in the
beifry of Emmanuel Baptist church.
The Southern Baptists' convention
at Nashville, Tenn, received contribu-
tions aggregating $52991 for the en-
dowment fund of the theological! semi
nary at Louisville.
Bishops Andrews. Foss. Walden.
Mallalieu and Vincent are to be retired
by the Methodist general conference.
The naval inspection board at Wash
ington has reported that the Missouri
passed successful test on 4S-hour
trip at sea.
Mrs. Jennie Owens was sentenced
at Steubenville, o., to Imprisonment IN
the Ohio penitentiary for life for the
murder of her husband six months
ago. Owens was found dead in an at
tic with a gunshot wound in his side
BY the breaking of one of the spans
of the suspension tramway across the
Truckee river at LawtOn Springs. live
miles west of Reno, New. four young
people were thrown into the water and
drowned
E. e. Limbecker, professional
aeronaut, made a parachute leap al
Van Buren, Ark, alighted in the Ark
ansas river and was drowned.
The Cunard steamship Campania ar
rived in New York, having been in
constant touch with the land by wire
less telegraph during the entire voy-
age.
At St. Louis the convention Of the Ma
tional and International Good Roads as
sociation opened. The delegates pres
ent represent various organizations, in
cluding agricultural societies. indus
trial commissions, railways and busi-
ness mems leagues.
The nineteenth annual convention OF
the National Editorial association, COM
prising 500 delegates representing the
state press organizations of the United
States, convened in st. Louis.
Reports from many points in Ohio
show that more or less damage to yege-
tables and fruits was caused by frost.
The United States supreme court sus-
tanned the action of the immigration au-
thorities at the port of New York in or
dering the deportation OF the English
man Turner, alleged TO be an anarchist
Jimmy Britt and Young Corbett have
been matched for the featherweighl
championship of the world. The. fight
will take place in San Francisco, but the
date has no. haau set.