The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-10-16
ALL over THE Union
The Important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
happenings and Matters of Interest,"
reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, IOctober :.

Il "iuustOrn Whlcn struck the eastern
part of Omaha, blew down a brick wall
at the north end of the Union Pacific
SHOPS, burying four men, one OF whom
was killed.
Inc submarine torpedo boat Shark,
during trial at Greenport, L. l.,
rammed the torpedo boat Dablpren
which with her crew of seven men. barely
escaped sinking.
The Northern Pacific railroad com.
pany has increased the reward offered
ior the capture Of the Montana dyna.
miters from $25OO to $4,000. This
makes the total reward $1O,5OO.
1t has been found at the New York
navy yard that the battleship Massa.
chusetts, which ran on the rocks at Bar
HarbOr, Me-, during naval maneuvers.
not only broke some of the plates in her
forward compartments, but seriously
damaged the after end of her keel.
Three persons were killed outright two
fatally injured and IA others more or
less severely hurt, besides enormous
property damage, rs the result of tor
nadoes that prevailed in Greenwood
county, Kansas.
An unsuccessful attempt has been
made at Tidewater, Va, to launch the
Langley flying machine. 1t went about
100 yards and is a complete wreck.
The defense in the case of former Lieu
tenant Governor James H. Tillman of
South Carolina, who is beirg tried for
the murder of Editor Gonzales, is now
introducing testimony. The state has
rested.
Five hundred glove makers EMPLOYED
in four factories in Chicago are on strike
because the employers refused to grant
demands for increased wages. The
plants will remain closed until the EN-
pi0yes are ready to return to work.
Thursday, October s.
Leading representatives of the ma
tiOnal and international organizations
OF building and repairing trades are in
meeting in Indianapolis for the purpose
OF bringing their respective organiza-
tiOns into an International federation,
having for it's object the adjusting of
building trades affairs.
Adjutant General Sherman Bell has
stated that if courtmartial is not or
dered by the governor OF Colorado, he
will demand one for himself in order to
clear up the charges of irregularities in
the cOmmissary and quartermaster's de
partments of the Colorado National
guard, of which he is the head.
In o battle between three highwaymen
and two policemen in Aurora. ILL.,, one OF
the robbers was killed and another
wounded The wounded man and his
uniriured companion escaped
Discrepancies amounting to more than
$10O,00O have been found in the ac
counts OF William B. Given, president OF
the l.. G, R & L. company Of Lancaster.
Pa. Mr.. Given has resigned and will
probably be arrested.
James H. Tilman has taken the stand
in his own behalf before the Jury which
is trying him for the murder of Editor
Gonzales OF Columbus, South Carolina.
The special election held in San Fran
cisco for the purpose of deciding upon
an issue of $4,000 municipal bonds
for the purchase of the Geary street
railway, was defeated.
A west bound Chelsea trolIv car in
Kansas City struck a wagon containing
IA persons, ten Of whom we're more or
less severely injured by the collision.
The wagon was dem mOlished.
Friday, October o.
As the result of a we'll organized and
partly successful attempt at a wholesale
delivery of prisoners at the Utah peni-
tentiary at Salt Lake. one prisoner was
killed, one guard was shot. another
beaten almost into insensibility, three
prisoners wounded and two Others under
death sentence escaped.
Torrential rains have, been falling in
New York City and vicinity. Over ten
inches Of water fell in about ten hours.
Cellars are flooded, trolley lines are tied
up and railway service crippled.
Three two m8sted schoODers are re
ported blown ashore off Ocean View on
Chesapeake bay. A sixty mile gale is
raging along the Virginia. North Caro-
lima coast from Cape Henry to Kitty
Hawk.
At Saltwater. Okla, Ivory Rogers, the
boy who confessed to the murder of
Mary Prokash, 13 year old girl living
near that place, has been sentenced to
prison for life.
The four glove factories in Chicago,
which were closed by strike on Wednes
day, have resumed operations with non
union help.
An attempC has been made to poison
the water in the garrison OF the Colo
RADIO national guard on service at
Cripple Greek. Many miitiamen have
been taken violently i'll after drinking
the water.
The organization of the building
trades OF the United States and Canada
will be known as the Structural Building
Trades Alliance OF America The Organi-
cation, it ia announced, will follow close
ly that OF the American Federation of
Labor.
Saturday, October 10.
The food situation at Patterson. n j..
is very grave. The damage to the CITY
is.estimated at 100000. Five bridges
have gone down in the city Crowds
hourly expect the great Dundee dam on
the Passaic river to give way Should
such break start the gatehouse will be
blown up with dynamite so as to turn
the waters into the chasm of Psssaic
falls. Many people have been driven
from their homes and every street is
flooded.
The mine operators and hoisting en-
gineers of Illinois, who have been in
joint session at Peoria, have adjourned
without reaching an agreement, and the
engineers will strike on November LIST.