The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-05-31

route for Pacific coast wheat to Eng
iahd. A steamer will sail each month
rom Puget Sound on this line.
FLOOD damage in North Carolina is
estimated by Gov. Aycock at several
millions of dollars.
Two electric cars racing in opposite
directions for a switch at 40 miles an
hour collided at Albany, n. Y. iniuring
over ~ prominent people, some fatally.
tIVe were killed, both mOtormen among
them
At Cincinnati the past week II small
manufacturers out of the 20 shops in
ihis city have signed the new scale de-
Elanded by the machinists and 800 men
have returned to work. There are sti,l
ABOUT 5000 machiniets out and ahOut
ohe same number of laborers still out.
Henry Lutgerth, d Norwegian butcher.
VINO formerly roomed at the home of the
:; mliy, was arrested for murder of little
robert Hislop at San Francisco.
Monday, May 27.
Mrs, |. I. Osborn, in an attempt to
save her young son from their burning
nome, was caught by the falling roof
and both perished, at HALEY, Idaho.
AT Dunkirk, N. Y, the strike of the
machlnists employed by the Brooks Lo
c0motlve works was settled. All who
struck are to be taken back without dis
examination. Fifty-tive hours will con
sGltute weeks work A straight in
crease OF 10 per cent in wages is granted.
These are substantially the demands
made by the machnists.
Twenty-One men were killed in a coal
mine dust explosion at Dayton, Tenn.
Several Others were fatally burned, only
four escaping with slight injuries.
At Chicago Albert Dove, proprietor of
the Fertile Valley Creamery company.
was fined $4,000 and sentenced to six
months in the county Jail by Judge
kohlsaat in the federal court. Dove ia
said to have cheated the government
out of $4,000 in revenue payment
which he evaded. This is said to be the
heaviest fine ever imposed in a federal
court.
At the beginning of the second week of
the machinists' strike the situation in
Philadelphia is as follows: Sixty-seven
firms out OF $50 have gone from the 10
hour to the nine hour day basis without
a reduction in wages. Thus 2SOO ma
chlnists out of 1000 in the city are work
ing nine hours a day; the machinists
employed by Al firms, numbering 2OOO,
continue on strike for a nine hour day.
Tuesday, May %.
General Macarthur reports that the
last of the volunteer regiments in the
Philippines will have sailed from Manila
homo i I hno
law requiring their disbandment by
July l.
At San Francisco the striking ma
chlnists report that % shops in the
city have signed the union agreement.
Several OF the strikers have purchased a
small shop and began business on their
cwA account. The machinists generally
express themselves as confident that an
adjustment Of the differences with their
former employers will soon be pf-
fected.
The Platt amendment was accepted
by the Cuban constitutional convention
by vote of 15 to IA.
The convention of United Confederate
Veterans was called to order at Memphis
by General George W. Gordon, who
Ahppeu HIS ue5k WIFI h RdVel maze from
wood taken from a tree which shaded
the favOrite seat of Jefferson Davis at
BeauvOir, Miss. Gen. j. b. Gordon,
commander in-chief, was greeted with
round after round of the rebel yell
May and July wheat at Chicago, "A.
Portland, cash, SO to 60: Tacoma, 59h.
Faith Healer Dowie Arrested
Chicago, May 24.-John Alexander
DOwie, the faith healer" was placed un-
der arrest here today pursuant to the
action of the corOner's jury which yes
terday declared him ''criminally RESPONSE
BILE" for the death of Mrs Emma Lucy
Judd. II. WOrthingtOn Judd, disciple
OF DOwie, and husband of the victim,
was also placed under arrest. Both men
were taken before Judge Tuley, who ad.
mitted them to bail in $4,000 each
Henrika Bratsch and Mary P Speicher,
maternity; nurses, who were at Mrs
Judd 8 bedside when she died, were ar
rested last night and later released under
$5 900 bonds Mrs. Judd died a week
ago after sixteen hours of suffering. Her
infant also died. She was a member of
DOwie's congregation, and it is claimed
she received no medical attention. Death
was due to bursting of a blood vessel,
which a simple operation would have
remedied.