The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-04-10

settled. The officials of the brother.
hood declare that the settlement ia q
sweeping victory for organized labor. A
II and 10 per cent raise in wages is an.
nOunced.
Six days have passed since the in.
augnraton OF the general suspension oil
the Lowell, Mass, cotton mills, and the
resultant ldleness of $4,000 operatives
and no disturbances of any kind have
developed. So far as outsiders are able
to learn Of the drift of things, a struggle
OF months is in progress.
The grievance committees of the
engineers and firemen of the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad have been in session
with the officers of that system and it is
expected that an amicable settlement OF
all differences will be effected and a strike
averted.
Sunday, April 5.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her children, who
nave been on cruise on the MayhoWer
0oWn the PatOmac river and on the
chesapeake bay, have returned to Wash
lngtOn. All of the family are we'll and
seem greatly benefited by the week s
outing.
John Stephens was shot and fatally
injured and Ben P. Edens was shot and
dangerously wounded during a battle
with hlgbwaymen in the western limits
OF huntington, W. Va. Stephens had
his skull fractured by blow and Edens
ieaped into stream and escaped. The
h'ghWaymen escaped without securing
any money.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt spent the day
quietly at Sioux Falls, S. d., ATTENDING
church both in the morning and in the
evening. In the afternoon the president
enjoyed a horseback ride with Seth Bull
lock, superintendent of the Black Hills
forest reserve.
The lockout of brewery workers has
spread from Columbus. O., to Cincinneti
In three breweries in the latter city 60
men have been dropped and notices is-
sueo 70 IOO more that they would not
be wanted within day or two.
The anthracite strike commission
award with reference to the engineers
has gone into effect in the coal regions
OF Pennsylvania. The new order gives
the engineers a holiday on SUNDAYS,
which was observed today thrOught the
region for the first time in the history of
coal mining.
For the first time since the union
stamp agreement was signed between
the shoe manufacturers and the boot
and shoe workers union at Hayerbill
Mass, arbitration by the state board
has been invoked and has resulted in a
victory for the cutters, who had asked
Tor an Increase in their wages Nearly
500 cutters in local union stamp factor
les will be benefited.
Monday, April
President Roosevelt is traversinp Sonth
Dakota today and has made II speeches.
He began in the morning with two
speeches in Sioux Falls and ended his
twelfI b in Aberdeen. His subjects we're
confined to the tariff and prosperity.
Mayor Hinkle (iemocrat) is to be sue
ceeded by Robert H, Jeffy (republican)
as mayor OF Columbus. Ohio. The re
publlcans claim control OF Cincinnati
and the democrats OF Cleveland. Samuel
M. Jones was elected as an Independent
for the fourth time as mayor OF Toledo,
A compromise has been agreed to bv
both sides of the litigation to break the
will of the late W. S. Stratton. By it's
terms Harry StrattOn, who is contesting
the will, receives $35O,O0O. This sum in
cludes the $4,000 bequest gwen him in
the will by his father.
Admiral Walker, General Haines and
Major Black, the latter two of the CORDS
OF engineers, are to leave New York soon
Tor Colon for the purpose of appraising
the value OF the work now in progress
on the canal and which will be prosecut.
ed by the French company up to the
moment when the great property comes
into the actual possession of the United
States.
John Turner, colored, was lynched at
Warren, Ark, for an attempted assault
upon Mrs. W. ID. Neeley, a white woman
who lives about seven mics from that
town. The attempt occurred last Friday
and the negro was arrested Saturday
and taken before Mrs. Neeley who posi-
lively Identified him. He denied his
guilt until the last.
Tuesday April Z.
By tomorrow night between 5000 and
5000 migrants will pass through St.
Paul for the northwest The Chicago
roads report that about 1000 we're trans
ferred there today. Fully 1000 arrived
in st. Paul and from the south tomor.
row will come as many more.
President Roosevelt and party are at
Bismarck, n. D., today, where be was
greeted by immense throngs of people.
While standing in the private office of
Governor White the president received
the greeting OF the big Sioux chiefs.
Twenty OF the most distinguished chief
tians of the tribes had gathered to meet
the president.
Admiral Walkers estimate of the
number OF men to be employed on the
Panama canal when the United States
shall have formally entered upon the
project is 10000. The local labor sup
ply is said to be insufficient to meet the
demands.
A body of policemen, marching in
solid front from curb to curb, drove
thousand noisy mill workers through
the streets of Lowell, Mass, for nearly
mile and prevented what might have de-
veloped into a riot growing out of the
return to work OF a number of ring
spinners on the Lawrence hosiery, who
left work week ago in sympathy with
the strike order
An attachment amounting to 81 1,OOO,.
900 has been served on the United Shoe
Machinery company of Boston in suit
instituted by Harry E. Cilley of that
city in the United States district court.
Cilley claims damages for infringement
of patent.
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