The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-10-25
Saturday, October 10.

yves OF the cotton operatives of Fall
hlVer. Mass, and the executive commit.
Zee OF the manufacturers association
was held, during which time the demand
LOT per cent advance in wages was re-
newed and again declined by the manu-.
facturers.
The Pacific mail steamer Siberia. the
largest vessel ever constructed in Ameri-
ca, was successfully launched at the
newport News Shipbuilding Company q
YARDS The Siberia's length is approx
1nateIy 600 feet and displacement about
$4,000 tons.
The Globe Navigation Company OF
seattle, at meeting at Syracuse, n. Y,
voted to build three vessels for use on
the Pacific ocean, in addition to two
now under construction.
President Roosevelt approved the
death sentence imposed in the case of
Prlvate William Wines, Company |,
IWenty-fOurth (cOlOred) infantry, found
guilty OF murder in Panganasin, Philip
pines, and sentenced to be hanged. In
the case OF Private Michael Robinson,
Company +, Twenty fourth (colored) l.,
convicted OF desertion, also in the Philip
pines and also sentenced to be hanged.
the president has commuted the sentence
to dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of
all pay and allowance and confinement
at hard labor for life.
Sunday, October 20.
George A. Raymond, an American,
and formerly private in the Forty first
volunteer Infantry, was tried by military
commission in the Philippines on the
triple charge OF murder, criminal assault
and robbery and sentenced to be hanged.
John Gray was arrested at Middles-
boro, KY, on charge of numbering Fl il.
L. Coigan, coal mine paymaster, and
robbing him. George Eaton was ar
rested as an accomplice. He made a
partial confession, duplicating three
other men and woman.
The Chicago Federation of Labor en-
listed IN the cause of the Allis- Chalmers
machinist strikers and decided to fight
Judge KOhlsaat's Injunction through
the courts. The federation decided not
only to secure able lawyers for the legal
struggle, but to begin a crusade against
federal Judges whose action they resent
The speakers were bitter in their de-
nunciation.
Commander in Chief Eli Torrance of
the Il. A. K. gave out the following ap =
pOintmeDts: Judge advocate general,
Judge Henry NJ. Duffield, Detroit: chief
OF staff, Major Noel A. Blackman, Mount
Vernon, n. Y.
General c. A. Walker, ex-member OF
congress from Virginia, formerly a
brigadier general in the confederate
army and at one time commander of
StOnewall Jackson's old brigade, died at
his home in Wytheville, Va.
Monday, October 81.
Sir Thomas Upton announces that he
will build new yacht and again chal
lenge America next year to sail for the
cup.
The officials of the United States are
still without news from the missionaries
VINO are seeking to make arrangements
with the abductOrs OF Miss Stone and
her companion on the border of Turkey
and Bulgaria.
The Montana grand jury returned no
indictments against members of the
mob who recently lynched James Brady
in the streets of Helena.
The Lowell, Mass, National bank has
lost $115,OOO through stealings of AL
bert G. Smith, teller, and Lewis Swift.
bOOkkeeper.
In street duel at Waco, Texas, W. T.
Harris, former sheriff, and his son we're
killed by DR.. Lovelace and his stepson,
n. |. Reynolds. Young Harris opened
the fight with a shotgun, but missed.
Warden Meade of Auburn prison and
State Superintendent of Prisons Collins
have arranged all details for the execu-
tion of Czolgoez, murderer of President
Mckinley. There will be but 26 witness
es, the law limiting the number, though
1900 requests for invitations have been
received. The execution is to take place
within the week beginning October %.
Tuesday, October %.
Explosion of a polyscope, for throw
ing pictures on canvas, in a Louisville,
KY, theater created q fire panic among
the crowd. Those in the gallery jumped
down upon those below. The crowd
rolled down the stairs and in the jam
men, women and children were trampIed
under foot. Five were dangerously
hurt and Is or 90 Others more or less
injured. There was no fire, only flash
from the blowing out OF fuse
e. Czolgosz, assassin of President Nc
Kinley, was visited by Rev. T. S. Szar-
dinski, Polish priest, at the prisoners
request. During the interview CzOlgOsz
said that he had been baptized in the
Roman Catholic faith in the Polish
church in Detroit. He had abandoned
the church early in life, and lost all faith
in its teachings. Father Szardinski
urged him to renounce his belief in
anarchism and return to the faith OF his
earlier years. Czolgosz declared his in
ability to do SO, and he was informed
that unless he could the consolation Of
the church would be denied him.
October wheat at Chicago, 69h; De-
cember, 70g. Portland, cash, 55 to ssh;
Tacoma, 54h,
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