The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-07-05
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, June 20.

Senator Mark Hanna has given $50,
900 to Kenyon college at Gambler, Ohio
for a new dormitory, which, at his
request, will be called the politicians
Barracks" During the past year q
100000 endowment for the college
has been raised.
There is no longer any doubt that the
list OF dead, the result of the recent food
IN west Virginia, will exceed 100.
Thursday, June 27.
AS the result of the breaking of the
temporary platform built on a scaffold-
ing and bridging the top of mOnstrOus
tank IN the eastern elevator at Buffalo,
SIX men fell a distance of 80 feet and
were killed.
The Forty-third regiment the last of
the volunteers to leave the PHILIPPINES,
arrived at San Francisco on the trans
port Fitzpatrick, 33 days from Manila.
The Fortysecond infantry was mustered
out.
Jessie Morrison, who cut the throat of
Mrs. DIN Castle, an eight day bride, at
EldoradO, Kansas, was fund guilty upon
third trial, of manslaughter, the penalty
lOr which is three to five years in prison.
The jury was out 80 hours.
Yale beat Harvard in a rowing race
by 8 seconds in four miles.
Friday, June %.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, is suffer
ing from slight conclusion of the brain,
with possible skull fracture. The
injury was received while aIighting from
a street car at Washington city.
Judge William Woods of the United
States circuit court died suddenly at
Indianapolis.
Six masked men entered the summer
residence of Jacob l.. White at Brothers
Station, just over the PENNSYLVANIA line,
IN west Virginia, OverpOwered, bound
and gagged the seven occupants of the
house and ransacked it. They secured
$3OOO IN money and as much more in
Iewelry. Mr.. White and his aged wife
ana daughter were tortured by having
hghted matches applied to their bodies
ana their skin lacerated by needles.
"hlte Is millionaire oil operator.
The Seventh National Bank of New
York failed. Along with them went
Marquand & Co., brokers, but the
failures do not affect others.
Saturday, June 20.
.. Steamer { nae M .Ms4to.hhawk, With 700 employees
struck rock off Glenn island and sank
in few minutes. All were saved by
other excursion boats.
The Anchor line steamer Armenia ran
ashore in fog on her way to St. John,
n. B., from New York, and all hopes of
saving the vessel are abandoned.
The City National Bank OF Buffalo,
went under, owing to iniudcious loans
It's condition is serious.
. Lulu Prince-kennedy was sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment for murder of
her husband at Kansas City.
Sunday, June 80.
Prof. Francis j. Birtwell, ornithologist
was strangled to death near Albeuqner
que, New Mexico, while descending from
a tree, where he had been looking at
birds nest. A rope became iooped over
his neck. His bride of month stood at
the foot OF the tree and witnessed the
tragedy.
General Shafter was put on the re-
tired list at San Francisco and was sue
ceeded by General S. B. M. Young. At
the same time the Forty fourth, Forty
ninth, Forty-eighth and Thirty eighth
regiments of volunteers we're mustered
out.
Mrs. Mckinley g condition is fayorable.
She took a short drive.