The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-03-22
NEWS OF THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, March 1S.


were implicated in the raid on the Mill
wood saloon last month, guilty of the
murder of Mrs. Rosa Hudson, in the
first degree as charged. Bail was set at
$1,000 for Wilburn and Turner. $4,000
for Wilson and $4,000 for ThOrnberg.
Alderman Cherry fell six stories in 6
Denver building and was killed.
disastrous storm ragged along the
Lake Michigan coast north Of Grand
Rapids All railroads were blocked. The
blizzard was SO strong that windows OF
coaches and cabs of engines were broken.
In Wisconsin the blizzard was the worst
in years.
Thursday, March IL.
Mrs. COrdelia Botkin, convicted three
years ago at San Francisco of mailing
poisoned candy to Mrs. John P Dun
ming at Dover, Del, and causing her
death, was granted new trial.
Chas. ". Ryan, cashier of a Halifax.
"a, bank, was shot to death by two
men attempting to rob the bank. Both
were captured.
The president has approved the sent
ence OF the court martial in the case OF
Captain Samuel K. Schwenk, .. S. A.,
retired, and be has been dismissed from
the military service on the charge of
duplicating his pay accounts. He was a
veteran OF the civil war and was retired
in 1876.
Frank E. Corbett, speaker of the Mon
tana house of representatives, died.
The Maine house of representatives.
refused to submit to the people of Maine
the prOhibiUOry amendment of the con-
| stitutiOn.
The bursting of a natural gas pipe
started fire which destroyed the great
er part Of Cloverport, Ky. The loss is
| hall a million and a thousand people
were left homeless and destitute. Not a.
store was left. The American Tobacco
Company lost two large stemmeries and
million pounds of tobacco.
Friday, March 15.
Three lives sacrificed, nearly a dozen
men more or less injured and MANY
| thousands of dollars of damage we're
the results of a fierce fire in the Daily
| Advertiser and Record seven story front
building in Newspaper Row at Boston.
| The three dead were all proofreaders OF
q newspaper.
Secretary Long, upon recommends
tiOn OF the board of construction. has
| decided that only the six protected cruis-
ers OF the entire number of vessels
authorized by the two preceding naval
appropriation acts shah be sheathed
and coppered.
Congressman Brosius OF Pennsylvania
| died.
An order was sent to General Chaffee
for the evacuation of China by Ameri-
can troops, leaving only a legation
guard of $50 men. The troops will be
removed from China the last of April.
Twenty eighth infantry and a com
pany OF the Tenth sailed from San Fran
cisco for the Philippines.
Saturday, March 16.
Pennsylvania coal miners threaten an
other big strike unless the operators
recognize the union.
Blanche Bates, a 16 year-old school
girl at Lagrande, Oregon, suicided with
carbolic acid because of a reprimand
she had received.
Indians on the Flathead reservation
in Montana are said to be dying rapidly
from diphtheria and smallpox
All the coal miners at Lick Fork and
Logan mines in West Virginia are out
on strike.
Gen. Trias, the leading insurgent COM
mander in Southern LuzOn, surrendered
nine officers and 1919 well armed men to
the Americans.
}. H. Richards, who has been fasting
since January at Guthrie, Oklahoma,
is dying. He will taste nothing but the
juice OF one orange. He was afflicted
with stomach troubles and a travelling
doctor told him he could be relieved by
fasting.
Captain Bowman McCalla, now in
command of the Newark in Asiatic
waters, has been assigned to the COM
mand OF the new kearsarge.
War revenue stamps not used after
July 1 will be redeemed by the govern
ment.
A negro schoolhouse at Corbet, Texas,
has been burned by incendiaries. The
| negroes in that neighborhood we're
warned to leave in 4S hours.
In quarrel, VIM Wagner, aged 20,
| killed John Schlieff, his sweethearts 8
father, at Shamokin, Pa.
Sunday, March II.
One nremdn was Killed and three
Others badly hurt by live wire falling
on the nozzle of a hose they were hand
ling at fire at Pittsburg, Pa.
John Bryant, one of the pioneer team
sters of the plains, died at Kansas City,
aged n. He made 66 trips across the
plains, two or three of them to Cali
| fOrnia.
Frank Monroe was run to earth at
Helena, Mont, for robbing registered
mail containing Christmas packages
He was detected by his giving away an
elk's tooth which was in one of the
packages.
Andrew Carnegie offered $4,000 for a
library at kewanee, Ill, and $4,000
for another at Windsor, Ontario.
Rev. Elijah Kellogg, author and
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