The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-05-23
ALL OVER THR Union
The Important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
Happenings and Matters of Interest
Reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, May IA.

to grant any of the miners demands,
and the strike will likely be voted.
The Interstate commerce commission
Will investigate live stock rates at Chi
cago. The investigation has TO deal
with the alleged payment of rebates by
the railroads. IN q way which is detri
mental to cattle shippers and which un-
duly 1aVors Omaha and other Missouri
river packers. The rate on live stock
is SAID to be prOpOrtiOnately higher
than the dressed beef rate, which gives
an advantage to the packers nearest the
eource OF supply.
Lewis Nixon, leader OF Tammany
Hail. resigned because his candidate for
grand sachem was not elected. He de-
cllned to permit a vote of confidence,
abruptly leaving the room.
banquet attended by about 100 men
prominent in politics, finance and Jour
nalIsm from all sections of the country,
was held at New York. Whitelaw Reid,
who will be special ambassador of the
United States at the coronation OF King
Edward, was the guest of honor.
Thursday, May Is
The general assembly of the Presby-
terlan church met in New York for a Is
day session, at which the report of the
committee on revision of the confession
OF falth will be disposed Of DR.. Henry
Van Dyke, professor of literature at
Princeton university, was elected moder-
atOr,
John F. Gaynor and W. D. Greene.
charged with defrauding the government
OF immense sums of money on contracts
carried out by former Captain OberliD
carter in Georgia, and who forfeited
their bail and fled to Canada. we're cap
tured IN Quebec, where extraditiOn ia
difficult, and taken to Montreal for hear
ing. The program was planned at
Washington and executed so swiftly
that the proceeding could not be stopped
by the friends of the men.
The anthracite miners, in convention
at HazIetOn, Pa, voted to continue the
strike OF the 145, 900 men who quit work
Monday pending the decision now
reached. 1t is thought that the strike
may extend to other fields of industry.
Three inches of rain fell in four hours
at Great Falls, Mont, flooding things
generally.
Esther DoWie, daughter of DR.. Alex
ander DOwie, proprietor of "Zion," died
OF burns, having suffered for hours while
Elijah H." prayed over her.
Eastern Montana stockmen saw the
range condition is the worst in 30 Years.
drying up because of drouth.
Friday, May 10.
The anthracite coal miners will en-
deavOr to have the bituminous workers
involved in the strike, and if successful
the strike would directly affect nearly
hall million men, besides interfering
with business in the country at large.
The explosion of three tanks filed
with boiling lard in the lard refinery of
Armour & Co., at Chicago, started a fire
which destroyed the building, causing
loss OF about 100000. There was no
loss OF life, but large number of spec
tators were injured, several fatally, by
the collapse of a hog runway, upon
which they had gathered to watch the
fire.
For smashing bar fixtures stored in
barn in Topeka, Kan, in February.
1901, Mrs. Carrie Nation was sentenced
in the district court to 80 days in iail
and to pay fine of 500. She will not
appeal the case and has gone to jail.
The University of California baseball
team starts a six weeks tour of the
northwestern cities. Their itinerary in
cludes Portland, Everett, Seattle, Taco
ma, Vancouver, Spokane, Butte and
Helena.
Bradstreet's reports that the anthra-
cite coal strike has already had a damp
enlng effect upon business in the east.
Saturday, May II.
In the language of President Mitchell
OF the mineworkers, "The operators
have refused our demands, we have quit
work, and 1T is now up to the other side "
Admiral SIMPSONS will, filed in Wash
lngton, leaves everything to the widow
save $4,000 of life insurance, which
goes to four daughters. He had stocks
and securities valued at $500, and land
at Manchester, N. Y, valued at $4,000.
His family is reported to look askance
upon any movement to erect public
testimonial to his memory.
The Danish rigsdag has set aside the
island sale question until after the Sep
tember elections, when the government
hopes to have majority, therefore Sec
retary Hay and the Danish minister at
Washington will prepare for submission
to the senate a protocol extending the
time allowed for ratification of the
treaty.
Women butchers at the Chicago stock
yards, who are employed as meat trim
mers in the packing houses, have organ
lied a union, starting with 200 mem
bers.
Four white men and three negroes
dead, five white men and one negro
wounded, and an entire block of build
lngs burned, is the result of conflict in
the suburbs of Atlanta, Ca, between the
police and five negroes who resisted ar
rest. The white men killed were all shot
by the leader of the negro gang, who
kept store, from the inside OF which he
fired with true aim whenever one of the
party OF officers showed himself. The
fire which burned the block of buildings,
nearly all negro houses, was set by the
officers to dislodge the leader, who pre-
| ferred to perish in the flames.
With imposing ceremonies the remains
| OF Major General William Starke Rose
Grams were reinterred in Arlington ceme-
terry under the direction of the society of
the Army OF the Cumberland.
Sunday, May 18
In New York 500 east side Hebrw men
and women met and formed an anti-beef