The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-05-30
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The Important News of Week
i'm Condensed Form.
Happenings and Matters of Interest
Reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, May Fl.

For three hours, ending at midnight,
earthquake shocks were felt at St
Augustine, Fla, accompanied by short
out distinct reports, seemingly from far
out at sea.
Jeffries and Fitzsimmons agree to a
light IN San Francisco, under the
auspices of the San Francisco club.
President Roosevelt unveiled the mem
orial shaft erected at Arlington by the
National Society of Colonial Danes, in
memory of the soldiers who fell in the
late war with Spain.
Later discoveries at the Coal Greek,
| Tenn, coal mine increase the number
killed by the gas explosion to 226. Let
tiers found with several bodies show that
some of the miners lived several hours
after the explosion, being gradually
strangled to death by the foul air.
Tornado victims at Goliad, Texas,
Now number 130.
The highest price for Texas cattle in
the history of the Chicago stockyards,
$6.85 per hundred, was paid today.
Alfred S. Moore of Beaver, Pa, has
been nominated by the president for
Judge OF the Second district of Alaska to
succeed Judge Noyes.
Thursday, May 22.
A negro who assaulted the wife of a
railroad section foreman at Lansing.
Texas, was captured after several days
hHnt, identified by his victim, and CON
fessed to the crime and was burned at
the stake with slow torture, his eyes be-
ing first burned out and burning tim
bers being held to his neck and other
parts of his body. The match was ap-
piled to the fagots by the husband of
the woman assaulted. Many women
were in the crowd which witnessed the
awful sight.
ii. Ii. MattesOn, former cashier of the
First National bank of Great Falls, was
indicted on 80 counts on the charge of
embezzling $19S, 900 while cashier of the
bank.
Representatives of Japan are in the
United States for the purpose of ne
gotiating loan of 500. 100000 with
which to build ships and railways, and
to carry on mining operations in Japan.
Furniture manufacturers of the coun-
try met in Chicago and formed a com
bine or pool to control output and regu-
late prices.
The general assembly OF the Presby-
terian church adopted the creed re-
vision committee report making changes
in the confession of faith, which cham es
will now go to the various presbyteries
for ratification.
Friday, May 23.
An explosion in the lower levels OF the
Coal Crt tx mines near Fernie. B. c.,
killed $50 miners. The cause of the ex-
plosion will probably never be known,
all the miners in the vicinity of it being
killed.
Tommy NoOnan died at Chelsea,
Mass, from the effects of blow on the
jaw from Eddie Dixon of Chicago in a
boxing contest.
A luncheon in honor of President
Roosevelt was given on board the
French battlesbip Gaulois at Annapolis.
The ship brought eminent French SOL
diers and sailors to take part in the un-
yelling of the ROchambeau monument at
Washington.
Jeffries and Fitzsimmons have agreed
upon the details for their fight at San
Francisco on July 25. Seventy per cent
OF the gross receipts will go to the fight
ers, OF which the winner will receive 60
and the loser 40 per cent.
Mrs. c. P. Huntington has offered
$1,000 to the General Grant memorial
hospital at New York for the treatment
OF cancer and allied diseases for patho-
logical pursuits.
Because Richard Mansfield criticised
her acting, Isabel Irving cancelled her
contract at Denver and left for her home
in New Jersey.
Saturday, May "a.
Lord Pauncefote, British ambassador
to the United States, died at Washing
ton from asthma and rheumatic gout,
aged IA years.
A general strike of all the miners in
Virginia and West Virginia, to begin
June Z and last until the demand for a
10 per cent increase in wages is granted,
has been ordered by the United Nine
workers. If the strike is called, 10000
miners and laborers will be involved.
The general conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, in session
at Dallas, Texas, has included circuses
in the list of worldly amusements that
| the church membership shall not indulge
in.
The battleship Wisconsin sailed from
San Francisco for Puget sound to go in
to drydOck at Bremerton.
Major General Lloyd Wheaton was re-
lieved from command of the depart
ment of north Philippines to give him a
short vacation before being retired on
account of age July Is.
The Anglo-Alaskan Construction com
pany, to contract for the construction
and equipment of railroads in Alaska,
with capital of $3,5O0,000, was in
corporated at Trenton, n j.
The president today joined with tbe
official representatives of the French re-
public in unveiling the statue of Mar
shall de Rochambeau, the compatriot oil
Washington and the commander in
chief of the French forces in America
during the revolutionary war.
The statistician of the department o.
agriculture has issued the estimate o.
the cereal crop for this year as follows:
Corn, 81, ,349, 1928 acres, 1922, ,519, ,S91
bushels, of the value of 1921, ,555, 76S
wheat, 1885, ,0O4 acres, 748, ,460,2
bushels, OF the value of $467 1901
Sunday, May 20.
The members of the French mission
which came to Washington to attent
the ceremonies incident to the unveilinf