The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-08-25
Big Happenings Of the Week
Condensed for Benefit Of
Busy Readers.
TOLD IN A few WORDS
Kernels Cuiled From News Of Moment
In All Parts Of the WorId-of
Interest to All the People
Everywhere.
WASHINGTON

| WaSnlngtOn-lne war department.
announced the strength of the army Is
now approximately $4,000 men, due to
recent discharges.
Washington-By vote Of 159 to 81
the house passed and sent to the SEN
ate the bill carrying $4S,500.000 for ex-
penses Of the shipping. board until
next Jan. 1.
Washington-The date, amount and
ratio of any further offerings of farm
loan bonds have not been considered
by the farm loan board, Secretary An
brew Mellon announced.
Washington-By a vote Of 1856 to SO
tho house passed the Graham bill to
impose 80 per cont ad valorem duty
on reimportations Of supplies sold by
| the American army abroad.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of O. H.
P. Shelley of Helena, as federal pro-
hibition director for Montana, succeed
ing L. K. Deblin, was announced by
the internal revenue bureau.
Washington-A bill appropriating
$5,00O,0OO to be used by the president
in extending relief to famine stricken
Russians, was introduced in the SEN
ate by Senator w. H. King of Utah.
Washington-Presiden Harding DE-
clined an invitation to the interna-
tional press conference this fall in
Hawaii. He told a committee of pub
fishers that public business would not
permit him to go.
Washington-Major General Leon
ard Wood was authoritatively stated to
have been selected by President Hard
ing for governor general of the Phil
ippines and to have expressed his will
ingness to accept the post.
hington-Henry Cabot Lodge,
chairman of the senate foreign rela-
lions committee, has been definitely
selected by President Harding as
member of the American delegation to
the disarmament conference.
Washington-Preside Harding was
formally notified that he had been
elected to the presidency of the Amer
lean Red Cross, position traditionally
occupied by chief executives Of the ma
ton, and from which former President
Wilson recently resigned.
Washington-The Department of
Agriculture has 12,500,00O pounds Of
salvaged comparatively safe" war ex-
plosives to give to farmers for land
clearing. Farmers are advised ito
treat it with respect, for the records
are filled with stories of men, who for
got this precaution in handling dyna-
mite and other dangerous things"
Sporting
Coffeyville, Kan.-By breaking ev-
cry target in the 100 doubles event
Fred r. Etcher, a local trapshooter,
established new worlds record. The
previous record for doubles was g.
Santa Rosa, Calif-Eddie' Hearne
won the 150-mile automobile race on
the Cotati speedway, near here. His
time was one hour, twenty-one min
utes, 10 is seconds. Roscoe Sarles
was second and Tommy Milton third.
Jersey City-Aiming its guns at the
Wilson Downey bout, to be staged here
Labor day by Tex Richard, the Inter-
national Reform bureau met here to
start a campaign to stop the fight. DR..
Wilbur Crafts will conduct the cam
paign.
Domestic
New Characterization Hunt, aged
IS, former congressman and dean of
the Louisiana law fraternity, is dead
here of apoplexy. - "I:. .
Chicago-Thomas E. Wilson was re-
elected president of the Institute Of
the annual meeting.
81, Chicago-Lack Of work and short
age of houses have combined to de-
crease the number Of marriages in Chi
cago, according to Louis G. Legner,
chief clerk in the marriage license bu.
reau. ffEr.- ,,,.>...t: e&..
New York-Joseph Silo was report
ed by the police to be dying with
sealed lips-a victim of a bootlegger
war in the Italian quarter which has
rolled up casualty list of 20 in the
last three months. ~ .>F:...
Wheeling, w. Va.-Sixteen residents
and five business houses, including the
towns telephone exchange, have been
destroyed by fire reported raging in
Richmond, Nicholas county Aid has
been sent from other towns.
Philadelphia-Four persons were
killed, two are dying and score in
jured as the result of a fire which
broke out in the Point Breeze Oil
works of the Atlantic Refining COM
pany. The damage already done was
estimated at $1,000,000. E'...@'r .
San Francisco - Rear Admiral
George Fink Kutz, U. S. n, retired,
said to be the second oldest living near
admiral in the navy, Is dead here.
San Francisco-At least SO persons
lost their lives in the sinking of the
steamer Alaska near Eureka, Calf, it
appeared certain after the lists Of
missing and dead were checked. ~
Chicago-The committee of Is ap-
pointed by the American Farm Bureau
federation announced that a co-opera-
tive livestock commission house would
be established ct East st. Louis. This
4 is the first tangible result Of the study
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