The Tomahawk., 1904-06-09
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI 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 United States government is In
vited to send a delegate to the second IN
ternational congress for the general his
tory of religion to meet in Basle, SWlt-
zerland. August 30th next.
United States Senator M. S. Quay
died at his home at Beaver, Pa, sur
rounded by his family.
At Batson, Tex, Graham Jones was
shot and killed by his wife. who fired
four bullets into his back and one IN
the wrist
Seven freight and coal piers of the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
railroad in Jersey City were destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated at
$1.0Oo,OOO.
DR.. H. J. Hutchinson, who had just
graduated in medicine at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, was drowned in the
St. Croix river in Wisconsin.
The comptroller of the currency has
been notified by Bank Examiner Stur-
tevant that he closed the Elk City ma
tional bank, of Elk City, Okla. The
capital stock of the bank was $4,000
Mrs. Laura Joyce Bell, the comic
opera singer and wife of Digby Bell,
died at her home in New York, aged
4G years.
After deliberating AZ hours without
coming to an agreement. Judge Dow
ney discharged the jury in the Giles
pie case at Rising Sun, Ind.
Frank Krause and an unknown COM
panion net death by drowning while
nix
in Wisconsin.
The Methodist general conference at
Los Angeles, Cal, has reached final
adjournment.
Teachers are so scarce in Chicago
the board has been forced to advertise.
DR.. Ralph Nelson Isham, for nearly
half a century leading surgeon in
Chicago, died from cancer.
The Presbyterian general assembly
memorialized the United States senate
to expel Reed Smoot.
Rather than submit to arrest on a
charge of wife-beating, Robert Geske.
a Kingsburg county rs. d. farmer,
placed the muzzle of a shotgun to his
mouth, pressed the trigger with his
toe and blew the left side of his head
off.
BY an explosion of dynamite in rock
cut near Warwick, Tenn, four men
were killed and two fatally injured.
George F. Clewell, former secretary
and treasurer of the Federal Trust
company, IF Cleveland, O., was indict-
ed for embezzling $4,000 of the banks
funds.
The United States government re-
fused the demands of Bandit Rasouilc
for the release of Perdicaris as impos-
sible, and American warships will
hasten to Tangier.
Fire among the Lackawanna piers at
Jersey City caused loss of $5,OO0,0OO
A foot bridge over the Arkansas river
at Salida, Col, collapsed during Memo
rial day exercises. Four persons were
drowned and several are missing.
The livery stable Of Ray Beggs and It's
contents, including 45 horses and num-
Der of carriages, were destroyed by fire
at Waukesha, Wis. The loss is about
$4,000.
A race riot between white and colored
persons occurred in Philadelphia and
five persons were seriously hurt and
score of others were more or less roughly
handled.
Gov. Bliss and staff, of Michigan, con-
sisting of the monument commission
and special committees from the senate
and house of that state. unveiled the
Michigan monument at Andersonvllle,
Ga.
A statue of the late Gov. Pingree was
unveiled in Detroit on Memorial day.
Mayor Robert M. McLane, of Balti-
more, Md, shot and killed himself at
his residence in that city. Overwork
and adverse criticism by his political
opponents are supposed to have caused
temporary alteration of the mind. He
leaves bride, to whom he was married
only two weeks ago..
An imposing monument to the mem
ory of the Union Veterans legion of that
city was dedicated at Walnut Hill ceme-
terry, Council Bluffs, Ia, in the presence
of 5000 people.
After eating can Of green peas few
days ago an entire family, consisting
of five persons, were taken III in New
York. Two of them have already died,
and third cannot recover.