The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-08-24

u CyClOue dU Harold, >. D., destroyed
an elevator and several smaller build
ings.
Sunday, August 10.
The Commercial bank of Chicago
shipped package of paper money con
tanning $4,000 to Burlington, Iowa. 1t
was stolen, and the package which ar
rived was made up Of brown paper.
There is no clue.
Senor Quesada, in charge of the Cuban
exhibit at the Paris exposition. cabled
Secretary of War Root: "Great sue
cess. Cuba obtains 40 prizes. Please
convey to president and cabinet Cuba's
gratitude for interest and support in
giving us opportunity to show our re-
sources and progress"
A Fargo, North Dakota, dispatch saws:
heavy electrical storm began at Dick
lnson and was still raging at midnight.
1t was accompanied by high wind and
serious results are feared. At Aberdeen,
South Dakota, a severe rain and wind
storm is raging. At Columbia consider
able damage was done. The spre of the
Congregational church was blown off
aud numerous barns and other buildings
unroOfed. Extensive damage to grain
in the shock is reported.
Captain Collins Burnham, while drunk
attacked his son, James n. Burnham,
with butcher knife at WymOre, Neb.
When cOrnered, the son shot his father
through the heart. The old man had
often threatened to kill all members OF
his family.
Earthquakes were felt from Skagway
all the way down the Yukon.
Sergeant "Buck" Taylor cowboy and
gallant rough rider with Roosevelt, died
from consumption at Washington.
Monday, August 20.
Only Minister Conger and Congress
mon DOlliver are before IOwa's governor
for appointment to the place of the late
Senator Gear.
this was the eleventh day Of 100 de-
gree and above weather about Abilene,
Kansas, and the temperature rose to
are badly burned.
At Farley, Mo-, DR.. Sturley Harring-
ton drove with his 12-year-old daughter
about the country and murdered his
uncle, James Wallace and motherin-law,
Mrs. VIM. Wallace, at their homes. He
also killed Sheriff James Dillingham;, who
followed him with a posse, and was in
turn shot to death by Harry Dillingham;,
the Sherif's son.
A cyclone struck Sheboygan, Wis, de-
mOlishing IS houses and a few business
blocks, but killing no one. Property
loss, 100000. 1t was as dark as night
when the storm struck at p. m.
The entire lower peninsula of Michigan
was swept by a severe electrical storm.
The damage to crops was immense.
From all parts of the peninsula come
reports of standing grain being beaten
to the ground and practically ruined.
Scores of barns were struck by lightning
and burned, with their contents, so the
loss to the farmers is very heavy. In
Detroit the wind attained a velocity of
36 miles an hour and hundreds of trees
were blown down.
Census returns give Chicago 1,69S,5
people.
Senator Stewart of Nevada, leading
silver man, announces that he will sup
port Mckinley because OF the anti-ex-
pansion fight made upon him.
The Kansas City fremen, in a class
created at the Paris exposition for paid
tiremen, won the worlds championship
cup. The officers received gold medals
and silver medals and the money prize,
600 francs, was divided among the
officers and men.
VIM. NJ. johnson of New Jersey was
appointed assistant postmaster general.
An extraordinary heavy food of water
continues to come down from northern
central Arizona and the Salt river is still
rising. There is a foot of water running
over the great dams at the Arizona
canal head and all irrigation canals are
full. The rise is worth many hundreds
of thousands OF dollars in the Verde and
Salt valleys.
At Palestine, Texas, Walter Wilker-
son was convicted of participation in
the Humphries' lynching, which occurred
in Henderson county in May, 1899, and
was sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
| Three others have been sentenced for the
offense.
In a four-handed duel in Potuk
county, Texas, resulting from a quarrel
over family affairs, Gabe and Cicero
| Copeland we're instantly killed, and John
and Charles Baker probably fatally
wounded. The men battled at twenty
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