The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-05-03

m "P0Itoi, steppeu onto the track
Inc same engine was backing down and
STRUCK him, killing him instantly.
Aionzo b. Cutler, at Chicago, a board
U! Lrade broker, was awarded a verdict
OF So4, 900 against c. W. Partridge. The
amount OF the verdict represents losses
winch Mr.. Partridge was accused of re-
luslng to pay on the ground that they
were gambling debts, having resulted
from speculation on the board of trade.
grain elevator and contents at
Chicago, valued at 100000, burned.
The committee of graduates of Harry
ard representing those opposed to hav-
ing the university grant a degree of
LII ID. to President Mckinley, began
mailing 1000 copies of the protest
framed by certain of the alumni, and it
Is expected answers will begin to come
IN next week.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
1erkes, in pursuance of the action of the
united States supreme court in declaring
the tax OF 10 cents on export bills of
ladlng unconstitutional, has informed
lnQulTers that the amount paid for the
stamps will be refunded on claims of the
value OF ~ or over. 1t is estimated
that about $S00,OOO has been collected
under this tax since it went into effect.
There is a general impression among
those who have been in close touch with
the Cuban delegates that they will
recommend the acceptance of the Platt
amendment by the constitutional con-
ventlon when they return to Havana.
Secretary Root has made it plain to
| them that the amendment is the United
States policy.
Sunday, April %.
Light, life and air broke in onto the
| i've entombed miners at Aurora. Mo.
Two were rescued alive, one was found
| dead and the other two are supposed to
be lifeless. Grant Shard was maDgled
by falling rocks and earth and died in
stantly.
John Cohrpping wife and three chill
dren perished in residence and livery
stable fire at Houston, Texas, which a
negro is accused of setting. In the ruins
7ere found the bodies of the victims,
mOng them being an infant which had
Ieen born to Mrs COhrpping during the
progress of the fire.
Twenty lives are reported lost in a
nowslde at Sunrise City, Alaska, on
Cooks inlet.
Mrs. Nation went to Lewisburg, Kas..
ito attend the funeral of her brother,
Charles Moore. She was released from
the Wichita jail on her own recOgnizance
with the understanding that she is to
return to jail as soon as the funeral
ceremony is over.
Thirty-One billion dollars is the aggre-
gate of national debts of the world at
the close of the nineteenth century. This
is ten times as much as in the closing
years of the eighteenth century, accord
ing to expert statisticians of the treas
GEy bureau devoted to this work. This
bureau has just issued a statement on
the subject, it apparently being suggest
ed by the recent announcement of the
new British loan of $3OO,OOO,OOO.
Carefully compiled statistics show
that the gold production of the Cripple
Creek district up to the close of the
present month makes a grand total of
over 100000, 600. Gold was fret dis
covered in this camp in 1889.
The Ohio river registers A. feet and
will be falling before morning The
greatest damage is to farms 1t is
stated that 100000 acres of wheat be-
tween Evansville, Ind, and Paducah,
KY, are destroyed. The loss to houses
ia 100000. Over half a million bush
els of corn were destroyed in the crib
The lumbermen along Green river esti-
mate their loss at 100000.
Two more oil gushers were struck near
Beaumont, Texas.
Ex-senator Pettigrew is said to have
confded to friends that he has cleaned
up million dollars speculating in stocks
in the past thirty days.
Monday, April 20
The special grand jury at Wallace,
Idaho, found no true bills in the recent
shooting cases at Mullan and Gem.
The business portion of Wautoma,
the county seat of Wausha county, Wis,
was totally destroyed by fire. Loss,
100000; insurance, $4,000.
Transactions on the New York stock
exchange today were by far the largest
in the history of that institution. the
total being estimated at 2,760,000
shares.
A ship building trust, with a capital
ization of $60,00O,0O0, is said to be
projected.
David Nation, husband OF Carrie, was
robbed of $78 cash, some jewelry and
return railroad ticket while visiting
dog show at Marion, Indiana.
Tuesday, April 80.
Robert A. Maxey's term as city treas
urer of Arkansas City, Kansas, expired
today. He worked all night posting his
books to date and then suicided
$3646 ST short.
J. Pierpont Morgan, representing
American capital, purchased in England
the Leyland line of steamships, the
| greatest in the world. Britishers are
worked up over the deal.
On the New York stock exchange there
is no precedent by which to be guided in
formation of judgment regarding the
present stock market Each day of
trading leaves some former record be-
hind and not infrequently all previous
records go by the board as a result OF a
days business. The aggregate sales of
all stocks today went ahead of yester-
days hitherto unprecedented total,
rising to 1922, 100 shares.
A reduction of one cent was an
nounced in Ohio and Indiana oils.
Arrangements have been made for the
shipment of $1,000,0OO in gold from
New York to Europe.
The Chicago wheat market onened