The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-07-20
NEWS Oh THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information OF
Busy Readers.
WeGnesdaY. July Ii.

Typhoid fever and smallpox are Great.
ing crouble at Nome.
Nebraska populsts are sore over
TOwne's defeat for the vice presidency
They make demands for nearly every
place on the fusion ticket.
The bodies recovered SO far from the
great dock fire at Hoboken, n. j. mum
Der 167.
County Commissioner Campbell o
Spokane county was killed by train
near Latah. while attempting to cross
the track.
Thursday, July IL.
Democrats and populists effected fu
sion in South Dakota.
Reciprocity treaty between the United
States and Germany was signed by Sec,
retary of State Hay and the German
ambassador. 1t affects import duties
on certain products Of each country.
President Mckinley and Governor
Roosevelt we're formally notified OF their
nominations by the committees. Both
made speeches.
Fusion OF democrats, silver republi-
cans and pOpulists was effected in Ne
braska. The pOpulists dominated.
Five more victims of the Hoboken
dock fire were found, making the total
172.
Friday, July I3.
The transport Hancock arrived at
San Francisco, a days from Manila.
She brought 101 general passengers and
547 soldiers. Five deaths and two
suicides occurred on the voyage
Captain Healy Of the revenue cutter
McCulloch was brought to Port Towns
end from sea insane and ordered com
mitted to an asylum.
Trial Of Caleb Powers, former Ken
lucky secretary Of state, for completely
in murder OF Goebel, opened at George
| town, Ky. There are eleven democrats
and one republican on the jury.
Edgar Marshall was acquitted of the
| murder OF Mrs. Georgia Creech at Butte,
Montana. The verdict aroused general
indignation, as the killing was the result
OF an attempt to kill the woman's hus-
band.
North Dakota mid-road populists de-
clded to put state ticket in the field.
Saturday, July IL
uuuGERTOI0u
men at the United Verde mine, at Jerome.
Ariz., and an increase Of Is per cent n
wages for miners in certain portions OF
the mine were announced.
Prescott, Arizona, was almost de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $1,0OO,0OO.
Ccroner's jury laid the blame OF the
street car accident at Tacoma July 4,
by which 43 persons were killed and so
injured upon MotOrman BOehm and the
company.
E. A. West Of Boise, Idaho, suicided
at Seattle
Wyatt carp, who refereed the famous
Fitzsimmons-Sharkey fight at San
Francisco, is reported shot, but still
alive at Nome.
United States Senator John H. Gear
Of Iowa died suddenly at Washington.
A committee of gold democrats issued
a call for q meeting July IS to devise
the best method of placing in nomina-
tiOn a third ticket for president and
vice president upon a platform "de-
nouncing and combating the falacies
and unusual creeds Of both of the old
parties" The call is signed by gold
democrats OF New York, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Colorado.
Population OF the District of Columbia
is given by the new census at 278,718
and increase since 1890 of 2O9S per
cent.
Sunday, July 15.
Natalie Mayer, daughter of Theodore
Havemeyer, killed herself with a pistol
near Railway, n. j.
A tornado struck Llano. Texas, q
town of 200 inhabitants, demolishing
the depot and several houses. MANY
persons received injuries. Northern
Texas has been deIuged by rains for
more than II hours and the Indications
are that the storm has only begun. The
downpOur at Dallas was terrific.
Streams are swollen and trains are de-
layed because of washOuts.
st. Louis street car strikers dyna-
mited car and hurt four passengers.
Hurry orders are being filled at the
Midvale Steel works, Pennsylvania, for
shells for warships. The Frankford
arsenal will begin full time tomorrow.
The order from the war department in
cluded cartridges for the Krag- g-J Jorgensen
rifles and the late improved Springfelds.
While preaching at Pasadena, Calf,
Rev. Il. Z. Brauer dropped dead from
heart disease.
Monday, July 16
A cloudburst near Coleman, Texas,
did immense damage and killed at least
Is persons.
Twenty persons we're Frustrated by
heat at New York.
A heavy three days rain about La
Crosse, Wis, did immense damage to
crops.
Hail, heat, hurricane and rain struck
various portions of Chicago Sunday and
gave the city one OF the most fantastic
days from meteorological point OF view
the weather bureau has ever encountered
Tuesday, July II.
Troubles in China hurt Pacific coast
-four trade. 1t is said 100000 sacks
of -four are piled up in Hongkong which
cannot be sold in the interior.
Governor Mount telegraphed President
Mckinley Offering the services of three
regiments and three batteries of Indiana
artillery for the protection OF Americans
in China.
Thirty-three prostrations and sly
deaths resulted from heat at New York
The secretary of war at Washington