The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-01-27
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Washington

| abandoned their plan to increase de-
murrage charges, it was learned from
the interstate commerce commission.
Washington-The legislative, execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill
carrying approximately $113,O00,0oo
| was passed by the house and sent to
| the senate.
Washington-The house received
from Secretary of the Treasury D. F..
Houston additional estimates of 3d.
$4,000 for hospital buildings under
the public service at vorious points
throughout the country.
Washington-A request that federal
troops be sent into the coal mine strike
district in Alabama to replace the Ala
bama National Guard has been receiy-
ed at the White House from the Uni
ted Mine workers Of Alabama.
Washington-A walking stick made
from wood cut out of the heart Of a
native Bots Dare tree planted in Tex
as in 1870, was presented to Presi-
dent Wilson by Representative L. w.
Parrish of Texas, on behalf of the
democrats of Wise county, Texas.
Washington-Death penalty for per-
sons convicted of committing crimes
by the use of weapons was proposed
by Representative Summers of Texas
as a means of checking the present
day crime wave. Action is necessary
to make human life more secure, he
said.
Washington-The great dirigible
R-38, building in England for the
American navy will be completed in
March and probably will start across
the Atlantic early in July, the House
naval committee was informed by
Captain T. D. Craven, director of
naval aviation.
Washington-Captain Emmett Kill
patrick, American Red Cross worker,
who was reported last November to
have been killed by the bolsheviki, is
in Jail at Moscow, advices to the state
department said. It was added that he
was captured Oct. 20 while engaged in
relief work along the front occupied
by the Wrangel forces in the Crimea.
Sporting.
apolis-Leonard Frank, Uni
versity of Minnesota track coach, will
tutor the 1921 squad, it was announced
by the athletic board of control.
Chicago-John H. Farrell of Auburn
N. Y, for 20 years secretary of the
National Association of Minor Leagues,
is slated to become secretary to Fed
eral Judge K. M. Lands, commission
er of organized baseball.
Dodge, Neb.-Joe 'Stecher, former
worlds champion heavyweight wrest.
Ter, arrived at his home here from an
Omaha hospital where he has been un-
der treatment for partial paralysis.
Physicians declare that his ailment
was due to bad teeth which have been
removed.
New York-In a spectacular bout
which was stopped by the referee in
the sixth round at Madison Square
Garden, Benny Leonard, world light
weight champion, scored a technical
knockout over Richie Mitchell Of Mil
waukee, who, despite his defeat, proved
himself a worthy challenger. The
bout was the main attraction at a
benefit given devastated France.
Domestic
Chicago-Carl Wanderers trial for
the murder of the ragged stranger was
set for March 1.
Bayonne, N. 1.-Two persons were
killed and more than 10 injured in ian
explosion and fire in the plant of the
Bellows Film company here.
Jefferson City, Mo.-A bill 10 make
automobile theft capital offense pun.
ishable by hanging or life imprison.
ment, was introduced in the house.
Detroit-After celebrating "a hours
the jury in the trial of Albert Sher'
man, deputy sheriff, charged with kill.
ing Walter Gilday and Maurice Draul-
lard, returned a verdict of not guilty.
The trial was the result of a gun bat
tie.
San Diego-An attempt to establish
new transcontinental airplane speed
| record from San Diego to Jacksonville,
Fla, will be made Feb. 81, according
to announcement made by Lieutenant
w. B. Coney, of the 91st Aero Squad.
! ron, stationed at Rockwell field.
Detroit-A ruling by the United
States treasury department at Wash
| ington that manufacturers of home
brewed beer are subject to penalty
| Of $1,000 was received by John NJ.
Grogan, collector of internal revenue
for the eastern Michigan district.
Russelville, Ky.-Five persons, in
Guiding Engineer William Howe of
Evansville, Ind, and Pilot L. Lockhart
Of Paris, Tenn, were injured, probably
! fatally, when a special Louisville, Hen
| derson, & St. Louis passenger train
met a Louisville &; Nashville freight
| train head-on near here.
! Hartford, nn.-What is claimed to
be world record for civilian wireless
transmission was made when a mes
sage from the Hartford Courant to the
LOS Angeles Times was relayed across
the continent by the station Of Hiram
Percy Maxim The reply came in !
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