The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-12-07
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, November %.


Rear Admiral Frederick G.. McNair
died from apoplexy at Washington. He
wac ranking rear admiral of the navy
and the officer next in line to Admiral
| Dewey.
Sixty modern railway carriages are
being exported from the United States
to New Zealand.
The shorts caught in Phillips corn
corner at Chicago settled at SO cents
Philips profits were 100000.
Mckinley's Utah majority is officially
announced as 2140.
The sale of Standard Oil shares in the
| open market aggregated 157 shares at
800, new high record for the stock.
Official vote OF Wisconsin shows 1O6.-
5Sl republican plurality.
Thursday, November 20.
Two dozen smallpox cases we're dis
covered at New York.
Four or FIVE hundred men and bows
crowded on the roof of the Pacific Glass
Works at San Francisco to witness q
football game. The roof fell from the
weight, precipitating many upon she
merry furnaces below. About % were
killed and roasted and three times as
many injured.
Geo. Grittiths, for 13 years clerk of che
Cincinnati school board, died. He was
found 100000 short.
Beers captured 400 British at Dewets.
dorp.
Robert Winstel, assistant bookkeeper
OF the wrecked German National Bank
at Newport, KY, was arrested, charged
with being an accOmplice of Frank
Brown, who was short $196,OOO. Brown
has not been apprehended.
Friday, November 80.
Six men, ,One negro and two Italians,
were drowned at Spokane. They were
part OF bridge gang of 1S crossing the
river on a ferry barge which was swamped
by floating log. The others had narrow
escapes.
Mrs. Emma Van Liewah. wife OF
wealthy banker at Vanwert, Ohio. was
sent to prison for ten years. She threw
vitriol in the face of Miss Alice HammeI.
from the effects of which the girl died.
December options on wheat at Chicago
dropped to 694.
Saturday, December 1.
Thousands participated in the funeral
rites over the remains of the late Senator
Davis Of Minnesota
The old prison walls at Nashville.
Tenn, fell and killed four convicts.
Several Others were injured.
Resolutions were reported bv the com
mittee to the Galveston HarbOr cOnyen-
tiOn today to the effect that the nation
and state should join in the restoration
OF the port Of Galveston
The house committee on rivers and
harbOrs continued work on the river and
harbOT bill. The discussion of the vari
Gus items is proceeding upon the theory
that the bill is to aggregate in the
neighborhOOd of $25, 100000. ONLY a
lew OF the items have been definitely de-
clded upon. 1t is not probable that the
bill will be completed for two weeks.
The vote of Texas was 10000 short
OF that OF four years ago; yet Bryan re-
celyed the comforting plurality OF 49,
259. DOnnelly carried 81 100 votes.
Senator Stewart of Nevada has had
his name placed on the republican caucus
list. lie has been silver party man for
the last eight years.
The United States mint executed dur
ing November - 355, 900 coins, valued
at $2,254, ,458 IA. OF this $116. 1854
was gold for the government of Costa
Rica. The rest was in American silver,
nickel and copper. The value of silver
coins was 81 ,908, 900 and of base metal
$3.50, ,120.
A San Francisco dispatch says: The
price OF salt to the trade will jump from
80 cents to s. bag. The Federal Salt
company has acquired complete control
of the salt industry in Alameda county
and OF the entire output west of the
Rocky mountains. Negotiations have
been carried on quietly for several weeks.
Sunday, December 2.
At Mitchell, South Dakota, the Jury in
the case of Editor Mcbride, who sued 40
citizens for $4,000 damages for the