The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-11-27
ALL OVER THB Union
The Important News of a Week
In Condensed Form.
happenings and Matters of Interest,"
Reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, November 1S.

Wednesday, November 1S.
In a panic in the Roman Catholic
church at La Puente, n NJ, caused bv
wax taper setting fire to altar trim
mlnRs, two children we're trampIed to
death and so adults were hurt.
lhe prospects for a speedy settlement
OIL the strike of the employees of the Chi
cago City Railway Company are not as
nOpeIui as heretofore. The company re-
fuses to arbitrate the "clOsed shop"
question.
Five wOrkmen have been almost boiled
alive by the collapse of hugh lard reud-
ing vat IN New York establishment.
Gus Olson crushed the sculIs of his
vile and two small children with a
hatchet and then shot himself twice with
revolver and once with shotgun. at Chey
enne, Wyo. He is believed to have been
insane.
A child was found frozen to death
near Newport, Kentucky The tempera
ture reached 13 degrees above zero dur
ing the night.
1t Is announced that the quarantine
on account of yellow fever at Laredo.
Texas, will be raised this week.
The mercury hovers around the zero
mark in most of the middle western and
number OF southern states.
The Northern Pacific and Great North
ern railway companies are reducing their
working force in the repair sho DIS. All
shops east of the Rocky mountains are
affected.
Thursday, November 10
The lower house of congress by q
, nj = fn IL.
to make effective the Cuban reciprocity
treaty.
Thirty-One men were killed and al
least 10 injured in head end collision
| between a west bound freight and a
work train on the Cleveland Cincinnati, |
| Chicago 4 st. Louis railroad between
/ Mackinaw and fremont, Iii.
A serious riot occurred in Chicago be- |
! tween union and nOnuniOn men who |
met on the Chicago City Railway Com |
pany's property.
| Tom Horn, the convicted murderer OF |
| Willie NicOl at Cheyenne, Wyo., and the |
reputed slayer of half dozen men.
realizing that all hope was gone, called |
| Tor minister and said he desired to |
prepare TO meet his God.
| Carrie Nation called at the White |
/ House to see the president, but was not
e7nitted. When refused, the temper
ance reformer few into a rage and lee
| tured everybody in sight from Secretary
Loeb to the sentry who guards the side
walk.
John Alexander Dowie has com
manded all of his followers to dispose of
their possessions and bring the cash to
Zion City. near Chicago. He needs
$2,O00,00O he says.
Friday, November 20.
Tom Horn, the convicted COW boy
murderer, was hanged at cheyenne,
WyO., game to the last and smiling. His
neck was broken by the fall OF the trap.
No effort was made TO rescue him, as
was feared.
Peter Mortensen, the slayer OF James
R. Hay. was shot to death in the peni-
tentiary yard at Salt Lake, Utah. Five
rifle balls pierced his heart.
Compelled to remain in their homes
under threat of being shot, the residents
OF the village of Green Mountain, Iowa
witnessed an explosion which wrecked |
the bank in that town. The robbers Sc
cured $1,000
But two points now prevent peace |
able adjustment of the Chicago City |
Railway Company strike, and the indi |
cations are that these obstacles will |
finally be overcome.
The senate committee on military |
affairs is investigating the charges made |
against General Leonard Wood that he |
accepted bribe while governor of Cuba. |
President J. J. Hill is in Philadelphia
| giving his personal attention to the de- |
tails of the Northern Surpties Company
appeal to the supreme court. 1t is |
understood that the big corporation
proposes to surrender a number of
points voluntarily.
Saturday, November Fl.
Chas. Mccormick, superintendent of
the indicator mine at Cripple Creek,
/ and Melvin ii. Beck, miner, were killed
! by an explosion in the sixth level of the
mine. An Internal machine, placed by
unknown hands, did the work.
The Chicago street car strike has
settled down, for the time being at least,
20 bargaining proposition. NegOtia-
tions are now in progress.
There were two street car hOldups in
the Richmond district of San Francisco.
A lone highwayman accomplished both
tricks
The miners of the northern Colorado
coal fields have for the second time
voted to reject the proposition OF the
operators for settlement of the strike
in that district.
News -of another exceedingly rich gold
strike made in the TopOnah, Nevada,
district is reported ledge Is feet
across and assaying 5000 per ton has
been uncovered.
The residence of Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, the founder OF Christian Science,
located at Concord. Conn, has been
entered by a burglar and numerous
articles stolen.