The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-11-06
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.
w Wednesday, October %

An agreement betwee the Northern Pa
clhc and its engineers has been signed
The requests of the men were nearly all
granted by the company.
Mrs. BoOth,Tucker was fatally injured
IN a train wreck on the Santa Fe at
Dean Lake, Mo-, and died a half hour
iater rive persons were seriously in
Iured IN the same disaster.
Twenty thousand Colorado coal
miners will go on strike unless the
operators concede to their demands,
The Colorado miners are said to have
received authority from President
Mitchell.
The miners unions and labor organi-
cations OF Montana are petitiOning Gov.
TOole to call an extra session Of the
legislature for the purpose of passing
laws to open the mines.
The sheathed protected cruiser Ia
coma has been given contractors trial
at San francisco and exceeded all gov
ernment requirements.
The bOilermakers on the entire system
OF the Erie railroad have gone or strike
because OF the discharge of certain shop
men.
Drivers of all st. Louis express com
panies, to the number of 400. have gone
on strike because the demands OF the
Pacific Express COmpany's employees for
a wage Increase Of 10 per cent has not
been granted.
The audiences which now greet John
Alexander DOwie at Madison Square
| Garden, New York, are dwinding in
size. 1t is said the last few meetings
have been very tame affairs.
Thursday, October %.
| A great mass meeting was held at the
auditorium 10 Butte under the auspices
of the Silver Bow Trades and Labor
association. The meeting was called to
consider the desperate condition OF af-
fairs that cOnfrOnts the work men Of that
city.
The conference for the purpose of
forming a national federation of en-
plOyers' association to cope with labor
problems voted in Chicago to adopt the
name "Citizens Industrial Association
OF America" The organization will in
clude both employers and citizens al
liances.
The great strike OF coal miners pend
ing in Colorado has been officially called
y.
all coal miners in the states OF Colorado.
Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming. will
quit work and remain in idleness until
their wages are adjusted.
Former Senator George Turner. ac-
companied by Mrs Turner, arrived in
New York on the steamer Sedric from
London, Mr.. and Mrs. Lodge and Mr..
and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie we're also
among the passengers.
Movement OF merchandise bv rail ont
of New York continues so large that the
leading trunk lines have issued urgent
calls for the speedy return of cars from
the west.
Packing house Gamers walked out at
Chicago, joining the striking sausage
makers and increasing the number of
idle men at the stockyards to 2400.
Friday, October 80.
Negotiations have been begun in Chi
cago which in all probability will result
IN preventing the threatened general
strike Of all packing house employees
throughout the country. A conference
is being arranged.
Yellow fever is still epidemic in Laredo
and other Texas towns. There have
been 6l2 cases up to date and 56
deaths. The state authorities are
exerting every effort to stamp out the
plague.
With the election of d. M. Parry of
indianapolis as its president, the forma-
ton of the Citizens Industrial Associa
tiOn of America has been completed in
Chicago. Delegates from 81 cities from
New York to San Francisco were pres
ent.
For the second time within two
months Sam Parks, the notorious walk
ing delegate OF New York, has been con-
victed OF the crime of eXtOrtiOn in the
court OF gensral sessions.
Three OF the oldest and most cOnserva-
tive national banks in Pittsburg, Pa,
have decided to merge their interests in
to one great financial institution.
Wal! street is figuring on Carnegie's
income. He says he owns $24O. 200, 900
OF steel trust bonds yielding $12OOO,-
600 yearly.
One person dead, and possibly two, a
dozen persons injured and a property
ss of more than 100000 is the result
of a fire in Philadelphia.
Thirty persons were injured in a wreck
on the Denver, Colorado Springs & Pu-
eblO railroad branch of the Santa Fe at
at bridge 35 miles east OF Pueblo,
Colo.
Saturday, October 81.
Orders have been received to bank all
the furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany in the Youngstown, Ohio, district.
Lack OF orders is given as the cause
Fire in a New York tenement, known
as 1.-The House of All Nations" caused
the death of about 20 persons. Most of
them died from suffocation.
The labor situation remains practi-
cally unchanged in Montana, neither the
AmalgamaIed Copper Company or F.
Augustus Heinze being willing to con-
cede any points.
President Roosevelt has issued the an
nual Thanksgiving day proclamation,
designating Thursdav, November 26, as
the day to be observed
Many miners are leaving Montana for
Utah, Colorado, Washington, British
Columbia and California, because of the
shut down OF the Amalgamated Copper
Company's property in Butte
President Roosevelt has appointed
Sanford B. Dole to be United States dis
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