The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-06-07
NEWS Oh THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.

at lne Stdke on t0e scene OF his crime,
which was within 100 yards of the main
thOroughfare of the town
Oil gushers were struck 20 miles north
OF jamestown. Tenn, on the Kentucky
line, and Is miles southeast of Houma,
La, within 40 miles of New Orleans.
Steamer Islander arrived at Van
couVer, B. G., from Skagway, bringing
news that the Yukon river is at last
open to navigation.
At New York May smashed all rain
records, 6,97 inches falling in 80 days.
A windstOrm which swept over north
ern Trinity, county, California, de-
strOyed a million dollars worth of
timber and chOked up roads with fallen
trees.
The hlacksmiths, machinists and
bOilermakers employed at the shop of
the Union Pacific railroad in Kansas
City, Kan, have received notice from
the company to the effect that they are
to be given, beginning on the first of
next month, raise in wages amounting
to about 10 per cent.
At Fardin, Oklahoma, a party OF
society young ladies and gentlemen went
ii
ing made of the group Miss Nora Wolf
rum asked Miss Bishop to point a rife
at her, to add to the romance of the
scene. Miss Bishop did go. The
rifle was discharged accidentally
and Miss Wolfrum was killed in
stantly, the bullet piercing her heart.
Miss Bishop has gone insane.
Fifteen claims we're filed with the
Spanish claims commission on behalf of
survivors of the Maine disaster and the
families of the victims, The aggregate
of damages asked is $27O,O0O, the sum
for injuries to each OF three survivors
being placed at $4,000, and that for
each Of IL families of those who persisted
at $4,000.
Thursday, May 80.
Alexander j. Winton and Charles B.
Shanks Of Cleveland, Ohio, have aband-
oned the attempt to cross the continent
in an automobile. Their machine stalled
in sand hiIl0ck near Winnemucca, Ne
vada, and they we're unable to go further
The tourists left for Cleveland.
President McKinley's train reached
Washington, with Mrs Mckinley slightly
improving.
The murder OF Young Robert Hislop
continues to mystify the police authori-
ties at San Francisco. Herman Lud-
berth, the Norwegian suspected of hav-
ng some knowledge of the crime, re-
mains in custody though there seems
slight probability Of connecting him
with the murder. The only clue upon
which the police have to work is the
blood stained hatchet discovered near
the HisIop residence, and which has not
as yet been identified.
Eight young men and women, while
rowing on the SchuyIkill river, near
Philadelphia, we're swept over Flat Rock
dam and all but one, John Moore, we're
drowned.
Friday, May 81.
Five men were lynched at Lookout.
Modoc county, California. The victims
were Calvin Hall, y years old, his three
hafbreed sons, Frank, James and Mar
tin, aged respectively 26, 19 and Is and
B. D. Yantis, aged 27. They we're sus-
pected OF petty thieving.
A heavy rain and hail storm, covering
a wide area about Houston, Texas, did
great damage to crops, especially fruit
At Wilkeson, Wash, Stella Bruigis,
aged 19, and bride OF three days, at
tempted to poison her husband with
carbOlic acid in wine. The attempt was
unsuccessful and the woman has fed.
At the annual convention of the
Western Federation OF Miners and the
Western Labor Union at Salt Lake it
was decided to go into politics and take
such steps politically as to completely
separate as political body from all
parties controlled by the capitalist class.
Nineteen Of rs Filipinos on their way
to the Buffalo exposition we're refused
landing at San Francisco because al
fiicted with loathsome and contagious
diseases.
Saturday, June 4.
W. FL. Klusmire was arrested at Kan
sas City for the murder of his wife at
Holton, Kansas, whose body was found
buried in a shallow trench 100 yards
from her home. He maintains that she
suicided and he buried her to prevent
the children learning she had suicided.
Brigadier General Frederick Funston
has been assigned to command the
Fourth division of the department OF
Northern LuZon, with headquarters at
San Isidro.
The machinists' helpers, blacksmiths
and boilermakers of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton railroad shops Pc
titiOned about two weeks ago for an
advance in wages and received notice an
increase OF 5 per cent had been granted.
The Republic Steel company voluntarily
advanced the wages of all laborers at
it's Bonnie Bell and Valley plants at
Youngstown, Ohio, 10 cents per day.
The advance affects 800 men.
Eight hundred discharged soldiers of
the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth regi-
ments demolished a saloon near the Pre-
sidio in which they suspected a comrade
had been drugged.
Sunday, June z.
Mrs Mckinley condition is gradually
growing worse and she is slowly losing
strength.
The first agnostic marriage in this
country occurred and formed the closing
feature OF the Agnostic Sunday school
that has been established at Cincinnati.
The contracting parties were Frederick
Federless and Martha Seaman. Justice
Alexander Roobling performed the legal
part OF the ceremony, after which, both