The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-01-19


mails to defraud with a ''get rich Guick >
scheme. Complaints indicate that he
mas swlndled people who bit out of at
least 100000.
Surplus reserve in New York banks
has increased $5,000,0OO. The excess
over legal requirements now stands at
6,1O7, $50, greater than the banks
nave reported since June "a. Most of it
came from the interior.
Thirty prisoners in the st. Clair coun-
ty, Illinois, jail seized the turnkey and
took his pistol. Sheriff Barniskal heard
MS cries. When he appeared Ed. Rively
shot him in the arm, but he shot Rively
twice and killed him. The riot was
quelled.
Colonel Kobbe of the Thirty-fifth vol
unteers, recruited at Vancouver. bas
been promoted to brigadier general of
volunteers. Lieutenant Colonel F.. H.
RUNNER, who organized the regiment.
has been made colonel, and Major Luhn
made lieutenant colonel
Secretary of State Hay said that the
British government had released the
american goods on the Dutch vessel
Maria and that they were now in Della
goa bay. The goods consist of flour
and other provisions which the English
authorities seized as contraband of war.
intended for the use of the Transvaal
troops.
The receipts from internal revenue for
the month OF November last we're $24.-
4ol 1865, an increase as compared with
the corresponding month in the preced
Ing year of $2,052,959. The receipts
Tor the five months ended November 80,
1899, show an increase of Sll,431 .267'
compared with the corresponding five
months in the preceding year.
Senator Hanna says Mckinley has a
clnch Tor denomination, but that there
VIII be fight for second place. He saws
the national issues will be the prosperity
OF the working people and the retention
OF the Philippines, and that the republi-
can party IS IN pressing need of funds to
meet the labor agitators of the demo-
Gratis at work in the west and the cam.
paign must be begun without delay.
Sunday, January ID.
Indiana republican chairman says the
party will surely carry the state.
Some OF the manufacturing concerns
in the Schuylkill valley, Pa, shut down
because they couldn't get coal.
A daring hold-up man held up two
restaurants in Kansas City one after
the other and got away with $3.50.
Two work trains collided head on in
tunnel on the Southern Pacific near
West Fork, Oregon. One man was
killed.
Rod mill workers at Cleveland, Ohio.
decided to strike in the four mills of the
American Steel & Wire Company for a
substantial increase in wages. 1t will
affect 1000 men.
George W. Lamoreau, clerk of Ada
county, Idaho, is $4,000 short. His
bondsmen supplied it and placed another
mani IN charge OF the cash. A woman
not his wife was the cause of it all.
Mrs. c. NJ. Foote, aged rs, of Los
Angeles was taking her husbands body
to Seattle for burial, when she fell dead
IN car near Ashland, Oregon. Her re-
mains were placed in a baggage car be-
side her husbands and sent on to Seattle.
At East st. Louis an undertaken was
preparing to inject embalming fluid in
the supposed dead body of Mrs. C.. A.
Hlrth, when an eye weight fell off and
he noticed a slight movement of the
eyelld. The woman was resuscitated
and said she knew all about what was
being done.
Monday, January Is.
John II. Whallen and Chas. Fl. Ryan
were indicted at Frankfort, Ky., for at
tempted bribery OF State Senator S. B.
Harrel.
Honolulu has had % cases of bubonic
plague to date. But one was a white
person-Ethel johnson, a Swede girl OF
IA. The entire judicial district Is under
quarantine.
Chas. Joyce, proprietor of San Fran
cisco saloon, was shot and killed by
Thos. Dillon, recently retired from the
police force, in quarrel over payment
for a drink. Dillon was shot in the
cheek.
James Welch was beaten in damage
case against the Northern Pacific at St.
Paul, and then tried to shoot Judge VIM.
LOchran OF the federal court in his
chambers, but was knocked down by the
court crler. He then jumped from a sec.
ond story window, but was captured.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill, the first OF the important bills for
the government, reported to the house
by Chairman Cannon today carries $56,-
l27 ,S4l, of which ST, 1922 is reap
propriated for the military and naval
establishments and $685., 500 are dis
trict appropriations.
Tuesday, January 16.
The total of the Lawton fund row
amounts to over 100000.
James Gear was reelected United
States senator from Iowa.
Gen. Joe Wheeler is to start home
from Manila within week.
Increase in the visible supply sent
wheat down at Chicago. Quotations
for January, 621S; May, 652. Portland,
cash, so; Tacoma, 81.
In desperate duel in the lobby of the
Capitol hotel at Frankfort, KY, between
ex-COngressman David G. Colson and
Lieutenant Ethelbert Scott, Scott was
shot six times and killed; Luther W.
Demarre, bystander, was shot three
times and killed; Charles Julian, by
stander, was shot in the leg and bed
to death; Captain B. B. Golden was shot
in the back and is expected to die;
Harry McEwing was shot in the foot,
and W. o. Ridpatch of Chicago had q
leg broke by dead man falling against
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