The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-03-29

| VI 0He htcld mine at Butte, Mon
taha, and escaped without a broken
| bone.
Attorney General Griggs handed his
resignation to the president, to take
effect March 81.
captain Moses Dillon, the collector Of
customs at Ell PasO, Texas, was ar
rested by the United States marshal on
warrants charging him with soliciting
ana receiving money from treasury de.
partment employees for campaign pur-
poses and with having divulged to GER
tain civil service applicants the ques-
Cons and answers to be used at an ex-
animation to be held.
AT Birmingham, Alabama. another
advance OF % cents per ton has been
made on pig iron, making the total ad-
vance $l.25 since November and 81
| within the past month. The sales bv
the local manufacturers were heavy, the
purchases being for immediate consump-
| ton.
Mrs. Nathan Townsend poisoned her
sell and two little children near Cass
City, Mich. All are dead. Family
troubles.
Sunday, March 24.
Near Toledo, Ohio, Mrs. G. Brun-
schneider, with pair of scissors, cut off
all the toes of her foot, both her ears
close to the head, and about an inch of
her nose. She then cut out portion of
her right cheek, inflicted five gashes in
the left cheek and removed every vestige
OF skin of her left forearm. She also
lacerated the right arm in a horrible
manner.
W. j. Gilbert, formerly mayor Of Niles.
Mich, suicided. He was friend of Chas,
A: johnson, defauIting cashier of the
Niles bank.
Nelson Jones, aged %, is under arrest
at ShOreham, Vermont, on a charge of
sending a poisoned letter to Ida Fos-
burgh, which killed her.
W. T. Evans, a rolling mill proprietor
OF Versailles, KY, was found dead
stretched on the floor of his room at
the. Palace hotel, at Lexington He
had broken his neck and the coroner
pronounced the injury due to a fall.
through wreck OF an oil train of 16
tank cars, on high ground on the edge
OF the village of Glengarden, n. J., a
river OF flaming oil was poured down the
main street while the inhabitants were
asleep. Eleven buildings were burned
ana many people narrowly escaped,
having been awakened in time by the
noise OF explosions of the tanks.
Heavy snow fell in Nebraska.
Mrs. Sophia OlesOn was awarded So
900 damages, the full amount asked, in
breach OF promise suit against John F.
Anderson at Fort Dodge, Iowa.
"hidnapers and dynamters' is the
signature to letter received by Joseph
Schneider at Nashville, Tenn. The
letter informed Mr.. Schneider tha5 un-
less he placed $500 at certain spot in
Cumberland park by Saturday afternoon
one OF his children would be kidnapped or
his house blown up with dynamite. No
harm has yet come to the Schneider
home, although the demands were not
complied with.
Twelve men assaulted in a year, in
Chicago, for no other reason than that
they are Jews, with a record of one death
a year growing out of these assaults
were figures presented at an Indignation
meeting of Jewish pedlers The police
the speakers declared, make little effort
to protect members of their race from
the attacks of hoodlums In several
instances it was said the police had
looked on while such attacks were being
A heavy storm prevailed all over Colo
radO, IN some places reaching blizzard
proportions, with snow from three to
ten inches.
Monday, March 20.
Senator Hanna is reported as having
said: $50 far as | am personally con-
cerned | am opposed to the eIecting OF
United States senators by the direct
vote OF the people. Still, | can see that
an amendment to the constitution pro-
vlding for the popular election of sena-
tors will be encouraged by obstinate
deadIOcks in legislatures, as in Nebraska
and Delaware. We should be very con-
servative in tinkering with the constitu-
ton. The trouble with the present
method of electing members of the United
States senate is that the will of the peo-
pie as expressed at the polls is some
times delayed or held up indefinitely"
Mrs. j. E. TOUman died and her hus-
band and child are seriously i'll at
Missoula, Mont. They were stricken
soon after eating celery soup at dinner
A servant girl is suspected of poisoning
the dish.
A severe windstorm passed over the
western part of Erie county, Ohio, un-
IOOHnS many houses at Cne settlement
OF Mustach on Sandusky bay. Numer-
Gus trains are snowbOund in western
Nebraska. Western Kansas and east
ern Colorado are in the throes of
blizzard, with trains stalled. A tornado
did much damage and killed a negro
child at Buena Vista, Ga. The hamlet
OF Doubleday, Texas, was struck by a
cyclone. A woman and 7-year-old girl
were killed and three others injured.
Six men raided a bank at Somerset.
Ohio, blew up the safe, secured $500
in cash and a large amount in bonds
and escaped
On the Chicago exchange the corn
crowd came into the pit in a buIlsh
frame of mind and at once began the
strenuous activity which made the coarse
cereal the feature of trading. May
opened Bc higher at 414@41%c, and ad-
vanced early to 42c with but slight op-
position. New ground being broken.
bears offered what looked like the whole
crop but the ranks of bull professionals
alarmed shorts and a goodly force OF
out of town traders labsorbed every
thing. May climbed to 42h@421ac and
| closed strong, %@4c over yesterday at
424c. Wheat opened firm on higher
cables and moderate worlds shipments,
and was sparingly offered during the
| first hOur A strong nOutinOont Of