The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-12-11
SUMMARY 81 NEWS By WIRE

shot and mortally wounded William
| HoWardson, an alleged outlaw at
Ihacker, W. Va, Miss ROuburgh is
telegraph operator for the n. & W. Ry
and was attending her duties when How
ardson came into her office and attempt
ed TO embrace her.
Antoine Contario shot and killed God.
trey Mcneil, a boy IA years old. at
Butte, Mont, because the latter wonld
not give him a cigarette paper. Con
tarlo has been arrested.
There is a bad epidemic of typhoid
fever at Butler, Pa. Up to date there
nave been 1856 cases aud 33 deaths.
The Hubbard Shovel Works at Pitts
burg, Pa, one of the largest concerns of
the KIND In the country, has been al
most destroyed by fire. The loss was
about 100000, with out little insur-
ance
The Restaurant Keepers Association
OF San Francisco has decided that they
VIII not reopen their places of business un-
I'll the labor difficulties are adjusted
Inc restaurants are opposing the de-
mands OF the cooks aud walters unions.
Monday, Dec. :.
In statement which places his assets
more than four times as much a. his
liabilities, John Alexander Dowie, at
meeting attended by maioritv Of his
creditors, submitted a'prOposal by which
| II Is believed the financial t8ngle at ZION
Clty will be Strengthened in a satisfac
tory manner.
The First National Bank of Aleghanpy
City, Pa, which closed it's doors recently,
has again reOpened for business. The
bank resumed with a capital Of $500
900 and surplus of $4,000 after hav
ing charged off every dollar OF bad or
doubtful debts.
The bodies OF five men who we're killed
by the explosion OF gas in the Hanna.
WyO., mines on June 3, and who were
reported to be lost, have been recovered
They were the last bodies in the mine.
Conferences are being held between
GOV. Wells OF Utah and representatives.
OF the striking coal miners in an EN-
deavor to reach basis of agreement for
| a settlement of the strike
Six miles south of Oklahoma CITY.
Oscar Lethridge killed Oscar Smith, his
brother in law and probably fatally
wounded the latter's brother. j. Z
Smith
Serious results were narrowly averted
IN panic at Madison Square garden,
New York, when crimnal.y careless
Practical Joker lit paner under a sleepy
mans chair and shouted fire" A mum
Der OF persons were seriously injured 10
the crush.
Tuesday, Dec \
oh
troll OF Zion City and all its industries
the court having upon DOwie's showing
OF solvency discharged the receivers
Pupils in country school near Sulli-
van, Ind, took Miss Errlene Sinclair.
their teacher, to a pond, cut a hole in
the ice and placed her in the water in
such a manner that she could not extri.
cate herself and then deserted her.
When found by passing farmers the
young lady was almost froze.
Four strikers we're shot in a battle
which took place at Trinidad, Colo,
between striking miners and guards in
the employ OF the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company. One is dead, another
will probably die and two others are in
a serious condition.
The Utah Fuel Company has posted
notice at its mines at Sunnyside giving
the striking coal miners twenty four
hours IN which to apply for work. After
that time the company will negotiate no
further.
}. c. W. Beckham, the first Kentucky
governor to take the oath of Office for
the third time, has been sworn in before
$4,000 people at Frankfort. Political
enemies of the governor turned loose 20
skunks to annoy the crowd.