The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-06-08


PIKE company, in California, carrying 81
neh ana i've women. Two United States
regular cavalrymen were also in the
holdup.
Inc bank of New Lisbon, Wis, was
roboed early today of several thousand
dollars. The safe was blown up with
niCroglyceri1e and the building partially
wrecked. There is no clue to the per
petrators.
Sunday, June 8.
The Boer ENJOYS arrived at Cleveland
Ohlo' and were met by big reception
committee.
STRIKE sympathizers at st. Louis
stoned a street car, and a bullet sent in
return fatally wounded a boy. The
cable conduit and switches were blown
up. Street car sympathizers vented
their wrath upon two defenseless young
women, tearing their clothes and other
wise maltreating them because they had
ridden on street cars.
At Louisville, KY, the last exercises
connected with the reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans occurred TODAY,
When the ninety second anniversary of
the birth of Jefferson Davis was observed
at Reunion hall with services in memory
OF Mr.. Davis, Winnie Davis, the "daugh-
ter OF the confederacy," and the con-
tederate dead. Five thousand persons
attended the exercises.
Monday, June 4.
Another advance of 1-6 of a cent a.
pound was made in price of raw sugar.
Robbers stopped a train near Prices
switch, 80 miles south of LOngview.
texas, but were beaten off by Express
Messenger Rutherford.
The house agreed to the senate amend
ment to the sundry civil bill appropriat-
ing $5,OO0,0O0 for the Louisiana pur-
chase exposition at st. Louis.
General Macarthur reports the known
Filipino losses since the beginning Of the
war to be 1O,7SO killed; 2O24 wounded:
lO,424 surrendered and captured.
Chicago police, on complaint of Joseph
DeBarth of Baker City, Oregon, raided
the metropolitan Medical College, a con-
Germ which has been selling bogus diplo-
mas.
Congress is in the last gapes OF the
long session, and it's expiration appar-
emily is to be quite perfunctory. Unless
something extraordinary occurs no
further general legislation of national
Importance will be enacted before the
final adjournment.
Tuesday, June 5
Geo. c. Perry OF Dubuque, Iowa was
United States marshal for
Alaska.
The president nominated Brigadier
General Joe Wheeler, L. S. v, to be
brigadier general, U. s. A.
New York democrats sent a Bryan del
egation, but the platform fails to reaf-
firm the Chicago platform.
The senate today confirmed the nom
inetioD of Brigadier General Elwell S.
CTS. i. S. A., to be major general.
: June wheat at Chicago, 661s July, G7.
Portland 81 to so; Tacoma, 81 for
club, "a for bluestem, both for export.
House committee on military affairs.
after an investigation of three months,
endorsed the actions of Gov. Steunen-
berg OF Idaho in suppression OF the
COeur d'Alene riots and justified the
president in all he has done.
Negotiations between the strikers and
the st. Louis Transit company, looking
to a settlement of the strike, are off for
the present, and probably will not be
until the strikers agree not to
demand the discharge of men now in the
employ Of the company in order that
they may regain the positions they gave
up when the strike was declared. Two
men were set upon and brutally beaten
by crowd this afternoon because they
rode on Transit Company car
The secretary OF the navy received the
cablegram from Admiral
Kempff, commanding the Newark, lying
at the Taku forts at the mouth of Pei
Ho river, dated Taku, June 3: Engage
ment has commenced. Have landed a
force of so seamen more, battalion of
The cipher message is not
legible and it is supposed at the navy
department that the admiral means
that he has landed so seamen. The
break in the admiraPs cabegram is
caused by an illegible group of figures.
it in one light it would seem
that the Newark has landed so sailors
to reinforce the marines already ashore
and in another aspect the gap might be
read to state that so sailors had been
landed with another battalion OF marines.
However that may be, the admiraPs
news is regarded as of the utmost
gravity.
NO FUSION IN WHITMAN.