The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-03-23

-" '.hVliSI IoNe DIS IHe negro VINO aE6alled
her IN lonely spot, John Bailey was
shot to death by mob at the Jail at
Marietta, Georgia.
George White attempted to start q
IRE with gasoline at the home of James
weaver at Columbus, Ohio. The result
Is that four of the Weavers and White
himself were burned to death, Alice
Weaver is fatally and James Weaver
seriously burned.
President O'COnnel Of the IRterna-
tlonal Machinists' Union, declares that
100000 machinists in all parts of the
United States and Canada will be order
ed on strike within the coming month,
as the result of a disagreement between
the manufacturers and machinists, who
closed Joint conference in Chicago.
Sunday, March 1S.
Frank Cass, aged IS, was killed in a
boxing bout with Bert Whidden at
Santa Cruz, California.
A military commission at BayOmbOng,
Luzon, has sentenced to be hanged 30
natives, who have been found guilty of
numbering their countrymen.
Thomas POOley a Butte, Montana.
saloonkeeper, killed his daughter and
her husband, Thomas Littlejohn. There
had been trouble ever since the marriage
OF the couple.
Louis BillOw was found guilty of MUIR
der in the first degree for killing Jocob
Hess, father of his sweetheart, several
years ago at Fremont, Nebraska. He
was arrested in the state of Washington.
After the conference between the Inter
national Association of Machinists and
the administrative council of the Ma
tiOnal Metal Trades Association, Pres-
dent James O'COnnell of the union de-
clared that strikes would be called i'm
mediately in all parts of the United
States and Canada. Such strikes would
involve 100000 men and cause to be
shut down for an indefinite time plants
having an aggregate earning capacity
OF millions of dollars. Chicago labor
troubles are responsible for the disagree
meat which is expected to precipitate
the general machinists' strike.
Monday, March 10.
Jealous Mrs. Leonard Wagner killed
her husband and herself at Sandusky,
Ohio.
Hon. John A. Bingham, who sentenced
Mrs. Surrat for conspiracy in the murder
OF Lincoln, died at Cadiz, Ohio.
F. Wharton Golden is said to have
confessed the name Of the slayer of GOe-
bel in Kentucky and that he is muIat-
to, now hidden in mountain county.
Elizabeth T. Struble, editor of tie
Nautilus, Christian Science newspaper
at Sioux Falls, S. D., pleaded guilty in
% fp6n tD
erature through the mails and was fined
$500. Mrs. Struble refused to pay the
fine and was taken to Jail.
All grades Of refined sugars were ad-
vanced cents per 100 pounds by the
American Sugar Refining company.
There was also an advance in the price
OF raw sugars. The advance is said to
have resulted from the increased demand
for the product during the past week.
In the supreme court OF the United
States an opinion was handed down in
the case of the Waters Pierce Oil Com
pany, involving its right to do business
in the state of Texas, contrary to the
provisions Of the state antitrust laws
of 1889 and 1895. 1t was charged,
among other things, that the Waters
Pierce Oil Company was member of the
Standard Oil trust as organized in 1882,
and various other allegations were made,
but the court did not enter upon a gen
eral discussion Of trusts, cOntenting it.
self with a discussion of the Texas law
as applicable to this case. The opinion
sustained the decisions of the state court
to the extent of affirming them, and was
thus opposed to the contentious of the
oil company, but it did this upon the
ground that the state laws impose a
condition which the oil company had
accepted, and hence was without ground
of complaint.
Tuesday, March 90.
While drunk, George Finch made a
murderous attack upon his wife at Chi
cago and was shot and killed by his
son, 16 years old.
The senate committee decided that
Nathan B. Scott had been duly elected
to that body from West Virginia and is
entitled to his seat.
City council of Astoria, Oregon, pass
ed an ordinance granting a bounty of
five cents each for all dead rats delivered
to the chief OF police. 1t is a plague
precautiOn.
Arkansas republicans held a state
convention and strongly endorsed the
denomination of President Mckinley.
The platform opposes trusts and favors
the Nicaraguan canal and the prOtec-
tive tariff.
The amount of bonds received at the
treasury today for exchange for the new
2s was $1O,O0O,000, making a total to
date of $89,000,00O. OF this amount
$5, 100000 came from persons or insti-
tutiOns other than national banks.
Acting Secretary of War Meikeiohn
has recommended to congress an apprO-
priation of $917S6 to reimburse the
state of Idaho for ordnance stores used
in protecting government property en-
dangered by the riotOus condition in
1894 incident to the movements OF
Coxey's industrial army.
March wheat at Chicago, 65I; May,
662s. Portland, cash. 53 to 54. Ia
coma, 5013. The official statistics OF
the wheat crop in Victoria colony, Aus
tralia, show only 100000 bushels,
instead of 21,000,O0O bushels, which
was the estimate before the harvest.
The exportable surplus will be G, 6,650,000
bushels, instead OF 100000 bushels.
Standard Oil Dividends.
New York, March 15.-The Standard
| Oil Company today disbursed $20,000,-
| OO0 in dividends. 1t was the regular
quarterly dividend of 3 per cent and II
/ nor rent pytra 20 Sb 1ividand This nrOh