The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-08-09

AT Graham, Texas, Orland Watkin
ana Roger Davenport, well known Young
men, were shot and killed by William
hothWell, who had been suffering from
mental arrangement for several weeks.
At Colorado Springs during the ath-
letlc contests attendant upon the quarto-
centennial celebration, Candiras De Foya.
Ote Indian, broke the worlds running
record Tor 100 yards, making the dis.
tance IN seconds fiat. The professional
record was 3 3, and the amateur
record 40. Another Ute Indian made
IL ln 10, but there is some dispute as
10 measurement.
OF South Carolina addressed a large
audience at Milwaukee, Wis, on the race
question from a southern standpoint.
One OF the features of his remarks was
pea IN justification of lynching. I'm
wisconsin you have 5000 black men. -
SAID be. why don't you try the
bleaching process and exterminate them
oy lntermarriage? The idea is repug-
nant to to you. La South Carolina we
nave 10000 blacks and $50, 900 whites.
The biggest ship in the world, the
Celtic, reached dock at New York on her
leisurel y maiden voyage from Liverpool.
Inc ship is so high that her steerage
deck is above the entrance to the pier.
According to kilograms the United
states will not interfere in the trouble
between Venezuela and Colombia, out
slde OF protecting American interests.
A dispatch from Caracas SAYS that 5000
TevOlutiOnists were defeated after 30
hours lighting July 20 and 80, with a
loss OF 800 men, the government loss
being 800.
Monday, August 5.
A terrific explosion in a block of six
buildings on Locust street near Tenth.
Philadelphia, wrecked five of the struc-
lures and caused the death of from 10
to 20 or more persons. Over two score
OF others were more or less seriously in
jured.
Teddy Roosevelt is in Colorado after
coyotes.
John M. Wilson, patient at the Utah
asylum Tor insane, threw himself head
first into the open door of furnace
de was badly burned before being pulled
out. While bandages were being pre-
pared Wilson broke away and again
threw himself into the furnace, this time
being SO badly burned that he died
within short time
At Tampa, Florida, 100 business men.
in order to end the strike of La Resis-
tencia union, searched the streets of
Tampa and seized a number of strike
leaders, and, it is rumOred, that thev
were sent out to vessel outside the bar
and taken to the gulf. Excitement pre-
vailed but no riOting occurred.
Tuesday, August g.
Maryland republicans nominated a.
state ticket and adopted a platform
denouncing German as a fuctuater, but
always in control of the democratic
machine, and. laughing at the "nigger
bogey."
The only development OF Importance
IN the labor situation at San Francisco
so far as the extension OF strikes is con
cerned, was the walkout of more than
400 union bOxmakers who had been en-
plOyed at the various box factories of
the city. The men claim that they were
so often urged to sign an agreement
which meant their resignation from the
union that they decided to no longer
brook the attitude of their employers
and to join the forces of the idle.
Chicago wheat: August 69h; Septem-
Der, 70h; December, 72%. Portland,
cash, Sc to 56h; Tacoma, Sc for club,
bluestem SIX; Colfax, fl.