The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-03-07
NEWS Oh THE STATES
gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
iou Down As It Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers
Wednesday, February 20.

80 called merger of the Northern Pa
enc and Great Northern railroads was
passed.
OHVer Cooper, a blind itinerant
preacher, probably fatally shot himself
on train near Middleton, Idaho.
Secretary Root, in conformity with
assurances recently made to various
committees of congress, has arranged
| Tor gradual reduction of the military
| iorce IN the Philippines to about 80 900
! men,
! The war department received from
| Generai Chaffee at Manila news of the
capture OF General Lukban, the insur-
gent leader of the island of Samar, and
Mm. Dunston, a deserter from the
Eighth infantry, who had Joined the in
sufgents and was engaged in the manu-
facture OF ammunition.
The president announced the dismissal
| from office OF Judge Noyes of the Second
district of Alaska.
Dudley johnson, white, and Ben
Foster, cOlOred, were legally banged at
AsneVllle, n. T., for burglary at night,
which is capital offense in that state.
Thursday, February II.
- On0 vi Uuo OlR O-IucH OIL RLS1erS a {
Beaumont, Texas, was being exhibited,
When 1t blew out the section of the pipe
connecting the gate valve and went wild.
throwing solid stream of oil, which ia
oelng blown over neighboring fields by a
high wind
A week OF warm weather has seriously
at1ected the logging business in northern
Minnesota and hundreds of men are laid
on because of disappearance OF snow.
The loss to lumbeTmen is estimated at
$4,000, 900, and many of the smaller
operators will be ruined.
The trial of James W. Brown, the first
TO De tried OF many indicted by a grand
Jury IN MOdOc county, California, for
iynchlng OF four men and boy who
were charged with petty .thievery last
year, resulted in acquittal.
In the city court at Leavenworth.
Kansas, Manager De Courcey of a street
car company was fined $50 for dismissal
OF a union Pmploye. 1t was the first
conviction under new state law.
Wages were advanced 10 per cent in
four cotton mills at Fall River, Mass.
meeting all union demands in these
houses, owned by NJ. G. B. Borden.
Other mills in the city have decided to
grant an increase of 6 per cent.
Friday, February %
Floods overwhelmed pirtrhurg, Pa,
and neighboring country, cauolcg great
damage.
Prince Henry's visit to the national
capital had a fitting elimination in
splendid dinner at the German embassy.
and later a tremendous outburst uF
popular enthusiasm from the German
residents at Washington as the imperial
visitor was about to start for his south
ern and western tour.
Fourteen dead, as many more injured
and score or more missing are the re-
suit, so far as known, of a series of snow
slides which occurred in the immediate
vicinity OF the Liberty Bell mine on
Smuggler mountain, three and a half
miles north OF Telluride, Colorado
Bay City, Mich, says: Nearly 800
fisherman are in peril tonight, adrift on
an immense ice foe in Saginaw bav.
Their unstable support broke loose from
the shore.
Saturday, March 1.
The fourth floor of bakery at Cleve-
land, Ohio, fell beneath the weight of
flour and crashed through three lower
stories, -Four girls and a man we're
killed and dozen injured.
The United States court of appeals af-
tirmed the verdict in Judge Kohlsatt's
court at Chicago, by which the Penn
sylvania road was awarded $2792 from
the city OF Chicago for damages to it's
property by riots in the strike OF 1894
The verdict was granted under the state
statute holding the city responsible for
damages from rioters. There are claims
aggregating over $1,500,000 pending
against the city for damages growing
out OF this strike. All OF the cases which
have been tried have been decided ad-
versely to the municipality and it has
practically been admitted the city was
liable
Representatives from II assembly dis
tricts have reOrganized the Young Mems
Democracy of New York.
The Nashville, Tenn, Chronicle says J.
Pierpont Morgan has given 100000
to the University of the South at
Sewanee, Tenn.
Sunday, March 2
Two piers OF the famous old Camel
DoCh dCIOSb Guc CuSuu0DdQ0a
river on the Harrisburg, Pa. side of the
river were washed away by foods. The
bridge was built in 1916.
M Pittsburg and Allegheny, Pa, so far
recovered from the food as to resume
ordinary traffic, but the Delaware river
in New Jersey is at it's greatest height
and full Of ice. The lowlands on both
the New Jersey and Pennsylvania sides
are overfowed and railroads so far
under water as to stop trains.
Paterson, n. j., swept by fire three
weeks ago to the extent of $4,000, 900,
is now overwhelmed by foods which
have driven hundreds of families from
the homes left by fire. Floods through
out New York and Pennsylvania caused
great loss.
Prince Henry of Prussia ascended
Lookout mountain in Tennessee and
viewed the great battlefields around
Chattanooga. He fitted from there
through Kentucky to Indiana and
turned west tn St. Louis
| Senator Tillman Of South Carolina
said the American government is aping
| the royalty OF Europe.