The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-01-03
NEWS OF THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, December 2o.

wednesday, December 20.
Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw of Iowa ac-
cepts the presidents tender of the secre-
taryship OF the treasury. His appoint
ment will give Iowa two members of the
cabinet, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
being also an IOwan.
After trial lasting two weeks in the
United States court at Helena, Mont,
Robert E. Lee and Samuel Garvin were
convicted OF stealing 700 cattle from
the Indians on the Crow reservation.
The Salvation Army gave Christmas
dinner to 5000people at Cleveland, Ohio.
General Alger has safely passed the
first and most critical stage after the
operation performed upon him and is
improving.
The cashier of bank at Akron, Ohio,
is killed by an electric shock through
handling the socket of an incandescent
lamp and opening the vault door at the
same time, thus forming fatal current
At Cheyenne, Wyoming, 80 members
OF Company F, Eighteenth infantry,
were poisoned while eating breakfast and
for time half of them were in danger
of death. The surgeon thinks that the
poison was in the beef
in. McClintOn, preacher and farmer
living near Deport, Mo-, was called to
his door at an early hour this morning
and shot to death by a crowd of men.
His dying statement implicated two
persons, one of whom, Howard McGill,
a farmer, has been arrested.
Thursday, December 20
Andrew Carnegie gives $4,000 for a
library at Kalispell, Mont, the city to
provide $1,000 year for maintenance
Edgar S. Maclay, the alleged historian
who started the Schley controversy, ls
advised by the civil service commission
that his removal by order of the presi-
dent, after refusal to resign, is regular
and proper.
Before the tetanus court of inquiry at
st. Louis today Henry r. Taylor, jani-
tor for the chemical and ARCHAEOLOGICAL
divisions OF the health department, and
assistant to the consulting city bac-
teriOlOgist, admitted under oath that he
issued for public use the toxic anti
diphtheritic serum which caused the re-
cent deaths OF l3 children from tetanus.
lie distributed the walls, properly label
ed, he stated, because the supply of
dlphtherla anti-toxine had been ex-
hausted early in October and he did not
| believe that the serum was "bad enough
| to kill children" Taylor is a negro
and has held city positions for mary
| years.
Internal revenue receipts for the first
five months of the fiscal year we're S1O,-
| 625, 1892 less than for the corresponding
period OF 1900, due to the decrease in
the rate of taxation under the bill pass
ed at the last session of congress.
The navy department has taken the
initial steps toward the adoption of
wireless telegraphy as a means OF signal
ing between warships at sea.
The 125th anniversary of the battle
OF Trenton was elabOrately celebrated at
Trenton, n. j., today, immense crowds
witnessing the sham battle and the pa
rade in the afternoon.
President Charles S. Mellen of the
Northern Pacific makes a plain state
ment that he had not resigned and does
not contemplate resigning. The state
ment, by inference, sets at rest the re-
ports OF antagOnism on the part of ]. I.
Hill.
The new constitution of the Methodist
Episcopal church, which gives women
the right to sit as delegates in the gen.
eral conference, has been approved by
the necessary three -fourths vote.
Friday, December q.
Southern California is visited by the
most disastrous wind and sandstOrm
known in over 80 years. The storm
came from the desert at 40-mile gait.
carrying clouds of sand which settled,
in some places, to the depth OF 20 and
30 inches, doing great damage.
The annual report of the Union Pacific
railway shows gross receipts Of $43,-
53S, 1S1 and net income, after deducting
operating expenses and taxes, of $22,-
172 ,O01. The Southern Pa.ifc earned
SIT ,284, ,48S and operating expenses
and taxes amounted to $5O,879, ,O13.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
declares a dividend of per cent, the
first since 1894.
United States Senator William J.
Sewell OF New Jersey died today at his
home in Camden.
The peach crop of southwestern Mich
igan has been ruined by the cold wave.
Robert Patterson of Dwight school,
one OF the most prominent schoolbOy
athletes OF this country, says a New
York dispatch, has sailed for England
to arrange the details OF an internationl
athletic meet between the young Britons
and the American boys.
Captain Richard P. Leary, .. S. n,
the first governor of Guam after the
island came into possession of the
United States, died today at Chelsea.
Mass.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany, Arbuckle Brothers and B. F.
Howell, Son & Co., today advanced all
grades of refined sugar 10 points.
Saturday, December %
Mayor Phelan of San Francisco has
requested the county attorney to furnish
him with statement OF the Cases where
judgments we're recovered against the
city for damages accruing from the
riotous acts of soldiers during the past
four years. 1t is the mayors intention
to present claim through congress.
At Denver, Colo, the grand jury is re-
turning indictments against stock
broking concerns on the charge oil
operating bucket shops, in violation O
the state gambling laws.
Suits in quo warranto were brought
today in Crawford and Logan counties
Ohio, to revoke the charters of five rail
7 road companies for violation of tht