The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-10-30


Deputy Sheriff Wallace Of New York
City has received an attachment for
Slo0O against the property of John
Alexander Dowie in favor of Robert =
farley OF West Plains. n. Y. The at
Cachment is for legal services performed
which have not been paid for.
Joseph W. Folk, prosecuting attorney
OF st. Louis, has announced his candi
dacy for the democratic nomination for
governor of Missouri at one of the
largesr political meetings ever held in
st. Louis.
Sunday. October 20
Pesse Mcclure, farm hand, murdered
MS Wo sons, aged and 7 years, near
Franklin, Ind, because his wife refused
to see him. Later Mcclure drove to
town and surrendered.
Mediation is now proposed by busi.
ness men as means toward settling
!he disputes which have caused the clos
ing OF the plants of the AmaIgamatpd
copper Company in Montana, which
throws out OF work Il. 900 to 10000
men and threatens to inflict terrible
suffering upon innocent people.
While temporarily insane, Mrs. Louis
lversOn, wife of a Salinas, Calf. ma
chlnlst, murdered three Of her fonr chill
dren at Pacific Grove, at the dictation
she said, OF "a supreme power" Mrs
lversOn had been i'll several months and
had hown symptoms OF mental deraDge-
ment.
Ten people were killed and four badly
injured by the cave in of the roof and
walls OF the New York subway tunnel.
The Illinois Steel Company has laid
on 1000 labOrers in it's mills in South
Chicago
All OF the I25 roomers in the Shores
block, which was burned at Ashland
Wis, escaped with their lives. Several
marvellous rescues were made during the
IRE. which caused damage of SI25..
600.
The usual fall hOmeseekers' movement
Is on again and all of the westbound
trains from st. Paul are crowded The
largest percentage Of the settlers are
destined Tor the state of Washington.
Monday, October 20.
There seems to be no chance for an
immediate settlement OF the Amalpa.
mated Copper Company's trouble in
Montana. As yet there has been no
disorder in Butte.
John Alexander DOwie told the great
secret OF bis life before vast audience
at Madison Square garden in New York
lie sObbed many time during the con-
fessiOn.
Two men were killed and two fatally
injured by an explosion of a freight
locomotive on the Pennsylvania road
near ROhrerstOwD, Pa.
The banking house of Scroggins &
Workman at Sheridan, Ore, was entered
by robbers, the safe blown open and
$1,000 in coin stolen. The robbers made
their escape,
Harry Egbert, wanted in Nevada for
murder, was captured at ROckland. |
Idaho, after a severe conflict with
officers
The board of aldermen of Boston.
Mass, has ordered the Western Union
Telegraph Company to remove all of it's
pol les now within the city limits within |
90 days
Tuesday, October ~.
The second section of the Chicago
limited, Southern Pacific eastbOund |
C'hldCb WIN q "OIh Train near HHlIHHdP. |
New. Seven section men we're killed and
ten passengers injured
A report has reached Richmond. Va.
that the body OF E. L. Wentz, the Young
Philadelphia millionaire, who disap- |
peared about ten days ago, had been
found in Wise county, Va.
Six persons were seriously injured. one
OF whom may die, by the failure of the
to drop the lever 10 passing a
cable vault on a Chicago cable line.
President Roosevelt celebrated bis
forty fifth birthday today and MANY
beautiful and touching reminders of the |
event came to him from every part of |
the country.
Three men were killed and one fright |
fully injured in railroad wreck near
Salida, Colo. The wreck was caused by |
a leaky air hose which made it impOs |
sible to control the train.
The American Dressed Beef Company.
organized to fight the alleged "beef |
trust" has been chartered at Guthrie. |
Okla, which place will be its head
quarters.