The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-05-02
ALL OVER THE union
The Important News of a Week
i'm Condensed Form.
Happenings and Matters of Interest
Reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, April 23.


BY direction of President Roosevelt
the secretary OF war has sent a letter to
General Frederick Funston asking him
to cease further public discussion of the
situation in the Philippines, and also to
express his regret that he should have
made senator of the United States the
subject OF discussion and criticism. The
general says that in future his public
utterances will be free from any reference
to the Philippines, intimating that the
published reports of his speeches were, as
rule, full of misstatements and very
badly garbled.
Secretary of State Hay, for the United
States, and Minister Concha, for Co.
lumbla, signed a treaty providing for
the transfer to the United States of the
rights incident to the construction of
the proposed Panama canal. This
treaty is similar to the protocol recent
ly signed.
Every fireman and deckhand in the
employ OF the Great Lakes Towing COM
pany, were ordered to join in strike to
assist the deckhands and firemens' as
sociatiOn at Duluth in their demands for
higher wages. The strike will amount
to an embargo on navigation at Chi
cago.
Captain Charles E. Clark has declined
the appointment as special naval repre-
sentative at the coronation of King Ed
ward, and the president has named Rear
Admiral Watson for that mission.
The temperature at Philadelphia was
80 degrees, the hottest April weather for
20 years.
Thursday, April "a.
Archbishop Corrigan is seriously i'll
with pneumonia. He is at the archi-
episcopal palace in New York.
A postoffice fraud involving the issue
and circulation of postal cards was
brought to light in Chicago. Louis
Smith was arrested and the postal in.
spector believes that he must have made
millions of the cards, and that be sold
all he made to all parts Of the country.
The Daughters of the Revolution are
assembled in national convention at
Denver, Col.
The board OF directors of the united
railroads of San Francisco considered
the demands OF the striking streetcar
employees, and the indications are that
settlement will be reached.
Furious forest fires are raging in
central Pennsylvania. The village of
Marionville, Forest county, was over
half destroyed.
About 5000 confederate veterans are
in attendance at a reunion at Dallas,
Texas.
Friday, April %.
Joplin, Mo-, was visited by the most
destructive storm in it's history, during
which two persons we're killed, six fatally
injured, score or more fatally hurt and
S3OO,OOO worth of property destroyed.
The storm extended to neighboring
states, much damage being done at
Sioux City, Iowa, and Omaha and Lin
coin, Neb.
Tests OF the new government system
OF wireless telegraphy were made at
Roanoke island, Pamlico sound, before
a number of naval experts. The tests
were in charge of Professor Reginald
Fessenden of Allegheny, Pa, who is the
inventor of the system. 1t is acknowl-
edged that the practicability of sending
wireless telegraphic messages at sea
quickly and accurately by the new
system has been demonstrated beyond
doubt. The experiments were conducted
from Cape Hatteras to Roanoke island,
a distance of 60 miles, by an entirely
salt water route.
A heavy and much needed rain has
prevailed in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and
Nebraska. Crops will be greatly bene-
fitted by it.
The condition of Archbishop Corrigan
is encouraging, although his physicians
consider him seriously ill.
Saturday, April. 20.
The strike on the street railway sys-
tenn OF San Francisco, which went into
effect last Saturday night, was officially
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