The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-03-16
NEWS OF THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains Of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, March =


Washington.
-Four thousand employees Of the Ma
tlonal Tube company at Mckeesport,
pennsylvania, were notified Of a 10 per
cent advance in wages, to date from
April L.
Georgia republicans, in state conven-
tlOn, endorsed the Mckinley administra-
tlon and renewed allegiance to the St.
Louis platform. Governors Bradley and
Taylor of Kentucky are presented for
vice presidential candidates and the
north and south were appealed to to
sustain and encourage republcanism in
the south by selecting one of these two
republicans for the vice presidency.
Thursday, March 8.
BY vote Of 10 to the house ship
ping bill was finally ordered reported
and Representative Grosvenor, chairman
OF the committee, was authorized to
submit the report.
BY direction of Acting Secretary of
war MelkleiOhn instructions have been
sent to Major General Otis to return to
the United States some time in Nav one
battalion each of the Fourteenth.
Eighteenth and Twenty-third infantry.
1t Is stated by intimate friends Of Gen
eral Harrison that he is chagrined that
his name should be SO freely used in the
newspapers OF the country in connection
with public questions now under con-
sIderatlOn. Efforts to make it appear
that he is planning to step forward as
an antl-administratiOn leader with the
hope that he may be called on to become
a candidate t0r president, are especially
distasteful.
Under heavy police guard over 800
nOn-uniOn wOrkmen were today given
work by contractors engaged in erecting
various downtown buildings at Chicago.
This was the first serious attempt on
the part OF the contractors to resume
the work interrupted by the strike of the
unions affiliated with the Buildings
Trades Council. AS a result of the labor
troubles, VIM. SCHNEIDER was shot and
probably fatally wounded and six Others
injured in a riot.
An official report made to the Kinds
county Mississippi, board OF supervisors
reveals an appalling state of affairs in
the JonesviIle neighborhood in the
southern part of the county. The com
munity is literally honeycombed With
smallpox OF the most virulent form. ana
deaths have occurred. On some days
the death rate has been so large that it
was impossible to secure cOfiins and
rude caskets were made from rails.
Whole families were wiped out of exist
ence and OF several large families only
one or two children are left. Many of
the patients who are now in a critical
condition are without medical attention
and are dying at the rate Of from three
to five per day. The death rate exceeds
70 per cent and the entire lower portion
OF the county is demoralzed.
Friday, March 8.
Hospital ship Soace arrived at San
Francisco from Manila. On board were
Lieut.. Gilmore, the sailor who was SO
long a captive Of the Filipinos, and 175
sailors, most of whom participated in
the naval battle of Manila bay.
Edward &. Grimmell, formerly a clerk
In the government disbursing office at
San Francisco, decamped in December
with 400 OF the engraved checks, used
and has passed $4,000 of them in the
east and south. The secret service has
him now.
Representative Hepburn OF Iowa in
troduced bill providing that no picture
or any description of any prize fight or
puglllstlc encounter, nor proposal of bet
ting on fight shall be transmitted in
the mails or by any common carrier en-
gagged IN Interstate commerce, whether
IN newspaper or periodical or in any
other form, under $1,000 penalty.
Saturday, March 10.
The entire Indian population OF the
United States is shown by reports of
Indian agents to be 297, ,9O5. Deaths
for the year were 5253 and births 4237.
The March report of the statstician
OF the department of agriculture will
show the amount of wheat remaining in
farmers hands on March l to have been
about 15S, 100000 bushels, or 20 per
cent. OF last years crop, as compared
with 1913, 100000 bushels, or %. Der
cent. of the crop of 1898 in hand March,
1899.
Trouble bobbed up in Kentucky again.
when the democratic forces undertook to
arrest Secretary of State Caleb Powers
and Captain j. W. Davis for alleged
completely in the murder of Goebel.
Governor Taylor's militia refused the
peace officers access to the capitol build
ing to make the arrests. The men es-
capped aud were captured at Lexington.
Both sides are organizing militia.
Fifty thousand Chicago workmen. idle
because OF the big strike in the building
trades, are dependent for their daily
bread on what money they have saved
or weekly allowance per capita of So,
which come out of the treasures of their
unions. The situation is rapidly ap-
preaching a critical point. The idle
carpenters, according to good authority,
have been drawing their So each week
for the last four weeks.
The remains of Abraham Lincoln were
transferred from the crypt OF the national
Lincoln monument at Sprintield, Ill.,, to
temporary vault just north of the
monument and on the brow of the hill
overlooking Oak Ridge cemetery. The
removal OF the body was made necessary
by the demolition of the monument pre-
paratory to its entire reconstruction on
different plan, for which 100000 was
appropriated by the Illinois legislature
Commissioner Wilson of the internal
revenue department decided to proceed
against manufacturers of tobacco and
cigarettes who violate section 10 of the
| act OF July "a, 1897. This section pro-
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