The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-10-02

weeks 10 'bi0w the property of the com
pany on the map" as expressed in the
/ ultimatum.
1t has developed that an attempt was
made TO kidnap the year old daughter
OF Governor Mackay of Nebraska. 1t is
thought that cOnvicts recently released
from the penitentiary are responsible.
lhey desire revenge because the governor
would not interfere with the hanging OF
murderer
Thousands of visitors to Coney Island.
n. l., were thrown into a panic by the
escape from an amusement park of a
hon, which ran through the crowded
streets, pursued by police and animal
trainers, until he was driven into a
corner and secured.
Two more -four mills in Minneapolis
have started and mill men say they are
gradually getting men tn take the place
OF strikers.
Another general shut down of the
building operations in New York City,
directly involving more than 100. 900
employees, is possibility, owing to the
refusal OF the journeymen stonecutters
TO either sign the arbitration agreement
or work with members of new unions
formed under the auspices of the Build
ing Trades association.
The condition of Mrs. Jefferson Davis
who ls very i'll at Castle Inn. Buffalo, n
I is unchanged. Four physicians are
IN attendance and the patient is in a
critical condition
Sunday, September 81.
Plttsburg, Cleveland, Buffalo and
wheeling delegates, representing 10000
men, have decided to withdraw from the
international Association OF Structural
Iron Bridge workers, in the event of
the continued dominance of Samuel
Parks, the New York walking delegate
IN the annual convention being held in
Kansas City.
Yellow fever seems to be on the in
crease IN Laredo, Texas, and points
along The Mexican coast. 1t is psti.
mated that 1000 people have fed from
Laredo alone.
Every packing house plant in the
United States is threatened with q tie IN
by a general strike OF butchers and
affiliated wOrkmen for the first time in
history unless the owners yield to the
Amalgamated Meatcutters & Butchers
WOrkmen Of America.
No arrest has been made in cOnnec.
ton with the attempt to kidnap the
daughter OF Governor Mackay of Ne
braska, but the police are pursuing
quest which it is thought will result in
the capture Of two suspects within 4S
hours.
While running at high rate of speed
last mail train on the Southern rail
road jumped from a trestle 20 feet high.
north of DanviIlp, ". Va, and was al
most demolished OF crew of 16 men,
nine were killed and seven injured
C. K q. Billings, owner OF Lou Dillon,
the fast trOtter, has announced that she
will not be allowed to go into a contest
with another horse, but will race only
against time.
Monday, September 2S.
The attempt to bnckmail the North
ern Pacific out Of $4,000 Ia Montana
continues to be the absorbing topic in
Helena. The railroad company has
posted reward OF $25O0, the state of
Montana offers d reward OF $4,000 and
Park county a reward of $500, making
a total of $4,000 for the capture of the
dynamiters.
The Cincinnati Southern passenger
train ran'intO COW at Glenmery, Tenn,
and the engine, two mail cars, baggage
and express cars left the tracks and
rolled down the steep embankment. The
engineer was instantly killed and seven
men badly injured.
Alter an absence of 13 weeks, spent at
Oyster Bay, President Roosevelt has re
turned to Washington, accompanied
by his family and Private Secretary
Loeb.
Henry Allgeyer was probably fatally
injured aud four Others hurt by jumping
from windows to escape death from fire
in building in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ten persons were injured. two seri-
Ously, in an accident on the Halstead
street cable line in Chicago Two
wagons we're struck by the runaway
train before it could be stopped
An attempt has been made to burn
the agricultural building at the worlds
fair grounds in st. Louis 1t is one of
the largest in course OF erection.
Tuesday. September %
Former Lieutenant Governor James
II. IIllman. who Ia charged with the
murder of n. q. Gonzales in South Caro-
lima, is on trial for that crime The evi
dence SO far looks black for Tillman.
Marie Jordan, a handsome brunette,
was shot dead on the streets of San
Francisco by Edward D. La Brousse,
who then fired shot into his own head
inficting a wound which will probably
prove fatal. Jealousy was the cause.
The Victor (Colo) Daily Record, the
official organ of the miners union, has
been raided by pOstoffice inspectors, the
editorial force arrested and the paper
closed on the charge OF publishing and
sending seditiOus articles through the
mails.
The executive committee of the Mime
sofa State Federation of Labor has de-
cided to raise 100000 for the benefit
of the -four mill strikers
In fire at DR.. Rolls Kansas City
sanitorium, g. g. Carey of Wichita was
burned to death and Mrs Anna Strobe
was hurt.
Major Samuel w Hay was killed by
falling through an elevator shalt from
the fourth story Of the ArrOtt building
in Pittsburg, Pa.
Only a Very Few Published.
It is not Dosaiblp for the DrOnriPtOra