The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-04-18
ALL OVER THE union
The Important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
Reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, April @.

Wednesday, April 9.
Over 1000 homeseekers, most of them
! tlcketed to coast states, passed through
st. Paul yesterday and today There is
no prospect that the movement will de-
crease during April.
Mrs. Minnie Grady of Butte, Mont, il
suspected OF poisoning her husband and
son, who died very suddenly, to secure
the insurance carried by them.
Announcement is made of the cOnsoli.
dation OF the great hardware iobbing
interests OF the. country, embracing 81
or 30 houses representing nearly every
| important trade center, with a capital
OF $l2O, 100000. General headquarters
for buying, selling and transporting
| goods will be at st. Louis.
President Roosevelt was the guest oi
| the Charleston exposition today and
was greeted by enthusiastic thousands.
He made a notable speech and presented
beautiful sword to Major Micah Jen-
kins, who was a rough rider.
Colonel E. S. Scruder OF the war de-
partment is investigating the alleged
British army camp in Louisiana.
The production of open hearth steel
| in the United States in 1901 was 4 1885,
800 gross tons, an increase of about 40
per cent over 1900.
Wooden mill strikers at Providence, r.
l., refuse to deal with the Civic Fedora
tiOn's arbitration committee.
A new embalming fluid, tested at Bat
tie Creek, Mich, on a negro, will, accord
ing to the experimenter, preserve a body
for centuries. After siA months the
body of the negro has the consistency
of vulcanized rubber and is hard enough
to take polish.
Thursday, April 10.
Robert J. Wynne, the Washington
correspondent of New York Newspa-
per, has accepted the appointment of
first assistant postmaster general.
The Northern Pacific Railway com
pany has donated to the University of
Montana 40 acres OF land for an OBJ
servat0ry site
Miss Ellen M. Stone, missionary and
late brigand captive, arrived in New
York.
The late Philip D Armour's estate in
Chicago and New York inventoried at
$14, Isl, ,1O5.
Representatives OF 60 leading manu-.
featuring and other industrial establish
ments of the United States met at Chi
cagO as the national reciprocity con-
gress. W. [. Stanley, governor of the
state OF Kansas, was elected president
The object of the organization, which is
nonpartizan, is to wage a campaign Of
education concerning the urgent need
OF reciprocity trade relations with
foreign nations"
According to the report of the torpedo
boat board, the building of 26 torpedo
boats for the United States cost the con-
tractors something over 100000
more than the price they received from
the government. The builders them
selves declare that their losses aggregate
over $3,O0O,0OO, which they want con-
gress to make good.
Friday, April IL.
General Schofeld, retired, formerly
commanding general of the army, in his
testimony before the senate committee
on military affairs, announced that he
felt sorry for General Miles, but that he
believed in changing to the general
staff system.
General Wade Hampton, a noted
South CarOlinian, died at Columbia. s.
c., aged "a years.
The appellate division of the supreme
court of New York affirms the conviction
of Johann Most, anarchist, for printing
ID his newspaper an improper article on
murder about the time President Me-
Kinley was assassinated. Most was
sentenced to years imprisonment.
San Francisco has been chosen as the
landing place of the Pacific cable.
Eugene F. Ware, lawyer of Topeka.
Kansas, has been selected by the presi,
dent to succeed Henry Clay Evans as
commissioner OF pensions. The presi-
dent desired to appoint a man whom
he knew and did not consult the Kan
sas delegation, but it is understood that
the appointment will be satisfactory.
President Roosevelt has informed
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw by letter
that there must be a complete change
made in the bureaO of immigration. In
response to a request, Commissioner
Powderly has rendered his resignation.
Saturday, April. 12
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, the noted
Presbyterian clergyman, died at his
home in Washington, the immediate
cause OF death being Inflammation OF
the brain. Interment will be at Brook
lyn.