The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-10-26

kota out of the doubtful column and
placed it safely republican. He per
sonaily believes Nebraska will 90 for
Mckinley.
While defending a young woman from
an attack of thug on a Chicago street
|. j. Griffith, shipping clerk, was shot
dead.
A tornado struck near Lodi, Texas,
ana killed six cOlored people.
Monday, October %.
John Sherman, the venerable Ohio
statesman, and one of Americas great
men, died at Washington in his 18th
year.
Reliable advices from Copenhagen as
sert that the sale Of the Danish Antilles
to the United States will soon be effected.
Next Thursday the Danish minister at
Washington, Max Burix, will start for
the United States, bearing full details OF
the sale. A bill authorizing the transfer
at the price fixed by the present cabinet,
Sl,OOO,O0O, will reach the riksdag in a
lew days.
Chicago registration is 400, 1888.
President Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers says the end of the strike is
not lar away.
Frank Algood, sentenced at Wichita,
Kansas, to three years in the peniten-
tlary for horse stealing, was baptised
into the Christian church. His hands
and feet were shackled and he had to be
carried to the baptistry.
George Stone, chairman Of the Cali
fornla republican state committee, sent
the following telegram to Senator NJ. A.
hanna: MANY business men of this
city having seen reports that Chairman
Jones OF the democratic committee and
Mayor Phelan of this city state that
California will 60 for Bryan, desire it
announced that any part of 100000
Is offered at odds Of two to one that
California will give its full electoral vote
Tor Mckinley-mOney ready"
Tuesday, October 23.
People living along the banks OF Can
yOn creek n the COeur d'Alenee, Idaho,
blew up an 0. R, & n. railroad bridge,
claiming it obstructed the flooded stream
and was inundating their homes.
Charles Dudley Warner, famous
author, died at Hartford, Conn.
President Mitchell says he expects the
big coal strike to end by next Monday
At Jefferson, Oregon, Lulu Jones, a
l6yearold school girl, was called from
the school room by Clyde Vaughn, Is
years old, who is the jaDitor of the
school building. The girl not returning,
another scholar was sent to look for her
and found her in the basement almost
dead from a terrific blow on the head
from an ak, which had crushed the
frontal bone. She will probably not re-
cover. Vaughn was captured by the
sheriff three miles from Jefferson. He
admitted that he committed the assault
on the young woman, and gave as his
reason that he was violently in love with
her, but that she gave him no en-
cOuragement.
The new Russian battleship Retvisan
was launched at Cramps shipyards at
Philadelphia.
At San Francisco military head
quarters it is stated the first Install
ment OF the volunteer army in the
Philippines will leave Manila November 1.
The transports will bring home about
%, 600 men at the rate of 5000 month.
The sick will, if possible, be shipped on
earlier transports, that they may travel
without crOwding.
Liquidation by discouraged longs, in
fuenced mostly by a l Id decline at
Liverpool, ruled in the Chicago wheat
pit throughout the session. The heavy
movement, favorable weather and a
slow cash demand added to the bull de-
moralization. Some export business
was accomplished at the decline, but
there was not enough OF it to check the
bull rout. October options, tx. Port
land, cash, SPY